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I dusted this one off after posting it several months, ago I made some changes this is the world from 1968-2000 after Richard Nixon is shot and killed, it needs a little bit more work, and I have a few ideas what will happen between 2001-2010, but I am not there quite yet.
June 1968: Richard Nixon is killed in Chicago when a bomb explodes near him, it was discovered Bill Ayers, an anti-war left wing militant was responsible. Ayers was arrested by the FBI trying to flee to Canada and sentenced to life in prison. Nixon’s death occurred within weeks of Robert Kennedy’s.
5-8 August 1968: The Republican National Convention in Miami nominates Nelson Rockefeller as the Presidential candidate and Charles Percy as his running mate
31 October 1968: Citing progress in the Paris peace talks, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.
5 November 1968: Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey defeats Republican Nelson Rockefeller and American Independent George Wallace in the Presidential Election.
12 January 1969: The Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Jets in Super Bowl III 21-16, making Jets QB Joe Namath eat his words for promising a victory.
20 January 1969: Hubert Humphrey succeeds Lyndon Johnson as the 37th US President
30 January 1969: The Beatles give their last live performance on the roof top of Apple Records in London
1 April 1969: Former US General and President Dwight Eisenhower dies at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC
12 April 1969: President Charles de Gaulle of France dies of a massive heart attack in Paris
5 May 1969: Socialist Francois Mitterand is elected President of France
June 1969: Nicholas Katzenbach is nominated to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
July 1969: The Beatles release Abbey Road, John Lennon announces shortly after the albums release the end of the Beatles partnership at a press conference in London, earning the ire of band mates Paul McCartney and George Harrison.
9 August 1969: Actress Sharon Tate goes into labor and is rushed to the hospital and gives birth to a baby boy. Due to being in the hospital, Tate was not at home when followers of Charles Manson arrived; caretaker William Garretson and his friend Steven Parent are murdered instead. Tate refuses to return to the house she once described as a dream home, she moves into a penthouse in downtown LA.
10 August 1969: Leno and Rosemary LaBianca are murdered by the followers of Charles Manson. Manson himself supervises the murders.
August 1969: Former Beatle George Harrison joins Eric Clapton, Rich Grech and Ginger Baker to form Blind Faith. Harrison was able to join after Steve Winwood dropped out.
August 1969: Susan Atkins admits to participating in the LaBianca-Parent-Garretson murders and unwittingly implicated Manson and other members of the family in the murders.
October 1969: The Chicago Cubs hold off a hot New York Mets team to win the National League East title. The Cubs sweep the Atlanta Braves in the NLCS to earn their first trip to the World Series since 1945. The Cubs however lose the World Series to the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 1.
November 1969: The United States and USSR signs the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty in Helsinki.
15 December 1969: Glyn Johns was finally able release the long delayed Beatles album Get Back
January 1970: Former Beatle Paul McCartney announces the formation of his new band, Wings joining him is former Rolling Stones lead guitarist Brian Jones, drummer Jimmy Nichols, and ex-Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine.
June 1970: The voting age in the U.S. is lowered to 18
September 1970: The Black September crisis in Jordan sees the Egyptian-Iraqi backed PLO overthrow King Hussein of Jordan. Jordan is renamed the Republic of East Palestine with Yasser Arafat as the first President.
September 1970: Janis Joplin collapses from a drug overdose while on stage in LA, she is resuscitated by paramedics. Joplin claims this event turned her on to Christianity, which helped her kick the drug habit. Joplin becomes a powerful and active voice for the Christian Left.
November 1970: A small charter plane crashes near Huntington, WV killing the entire Marshall University football team and coaching staff. The University discontinues the football program until it is revived in 1986.
March 1971: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in the “Fight of the Century” at Madison Square Garden after Fifteenth Rounds, becoming the undisputed Heavy Weight Champion
March 1971: Bangladesh declares independence from Pakistan.
June 1971: The Vietnam War ends with the signing of the Paris Armistice Treaty. The US agrees to withdraw all but 15,000 troops, mostly Air Force and Army Personnel.
July 1971: Sharon Tate divorces Roman Polanski after she catches him in bed with another woman.
11 August 1971: The Doors lead singer Jim Morrison is found dead in his Hotel Room. An autopsy later reveals he died from an overdose of heroin.
October 1971: President Humphrey nominates Thomas Lynch and Stephen Young to the Supreme Court
October 1971: The Republic of China is kicked out of the U.N. in favor of the Peoples Republic of China
November 1971: CBS sells the New York Yankees to a group of investors including Lester Crown, E. Michael Burke, John DeLorean, Nelson Bunker Hunt, and Roy Bowe
February 1972: Actress Sharon Tate appears in the nude for Playboy Magazine it is her first of three appearances for Playboy the last coming in February 1978
15 May 1972: George C. Wallace is assassinated by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md.
July 1972: Republican National Convention is held in Cleveland, nominating California Governor Ronald Reagan as the Presidential nominee and James Rhodes of Ohio as his running mate.
4 July 1972: Hogan’s Heroes is given a proper finale when allied troops liberate Stalag 13. The series finale stars Don Knotts as US Army Colonel Foster a part reminiscent of his earlier role of Barney Fife.
16 August 1972: The Moroccan Royal Air Force accidentally shoots down King Fassan II’s plane, killing him and his family in the process. Prince Moulay Abdallah, Hassan II’s brother is crowned King Moulay I in Rabat
5 September 1972: The Munich Massacre does not occur as members of Black September are fighting pro-monarchists in Amman.
October 1972: George Steinbrenner buys the Cleveland Indians and commits the team to winning.
7 November 1972: Ronald Reagan crushes Hubert Humphrey in the election, with Humphrey winning only Minnesota, DC, and Maine.
31 December 1972: Roberto Clemente’s plane lands safely in Nicaragua as the baseball legend begins a humanitarian effort to give aid following an Earthquake
20 January 1973: Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the Thirty-eighth President of the United States
24 January 1973: Former US Presidents Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson dies on the same day. An obviously stunned nation is soothed by as incumbent President Ronald Reagan and former President Hubert H. Humphrey give a joint address from the White House.
4 April 1973: The World Trade Center opens in New York
1 June 1973: The Greek military junta restores the monarchy
July 1973: After four disappointing seasons, the Buffalo Bills running back O.J. Simpson is sold to the San Francisco 49ers
8 August 1973: South Korean politician Kim Dae-jung is killed in a kidnapping attempt by South Korean intelligence
August 1973: Roberto Clemente suffers a severe break of his ankle sliding into third base at Three Rivers Stadium, effectively ending his career.
15 August 1973: The Rock Opera Jesus Christ Superstar is released amidst controversy. The movie stars Carl Anderson as Judas, Janis Joplin as Mary Magdalene and John Lennon as Jesus (controversial in regards to his 1966 remarks about the Beatles being larger than Jesus)
6-28 October 1973: The Yom Kippur War is fought between Israel, Egypt, Syria and East Palestine. The war ends with affirmation of Israel’s control over the Sinai, Golan Heights and the West Bank.
December 1973: Wings lead guitarist Brian Jones quits the band claiming Paul McCartney is impossible to work with. He is replaced in the band by Jimmy McCulloch.
1 November 1973: With President Reagan’s backing; Israel announces its intention of annexing the Sinai, Golan Heights and West Bank.
February 1974: The San Diego Padres baseball team is purchased by Joseph Danzansky and moved to Washington D.C. where they are renamed the Washington Capitals and play their home games in RFK Stadium.
March 1974: Former Rolling Stones and Wings guitarist Brian Jones heads up his own band simply called the Brian Jones band. Members include guitarist Henry McCullough, drummer Geoff Britton and bassist Alan Spenner. Jones is the lead guitarist and vocalist of the group.
8 May 1974: Former Beatle John Lennon and his estranged wife Yoko Ono are deported to the United Kingdom after failing to obtain a green card.
19 May 1974: Francois Mitterand is reelected President of France defeating Gaullist Georges Pompidou.
23 July 1974: The Greek military junta collapses, civilian rule is restored
8 September 1974: Daredevil Evel Knievel drowns when his attempt to rocket across the Snake River in Idaho fails
10 October 1974: The British Conservative Party wins a narrow general election with Enoch Powell at the helm. Shortly after becoming Prime Minister the special relationship between the United States and Great Britain begins to suffer. President Reagan and Prime Minister Powell develop a lifelong disdain for one another.
15 October 1974: US Air Force F-4 Phantoms bomb what President Reagan claims to be North Vietnamese military outposts in South Vietnam. He announces his intention of increasing the number of troops in South Vietnam to 40,000 and orders the 7th fleet into the Gulf of Tonkin.
5 November 1974: Democrats claim control of the House of Representatives and expand their control of the Senate as fears of a second Vietnam War grips the nation after the previous month’s air strikes.
21 November 1974: Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger is found dead in his bath tub, a victim of a speed ball.
14 February 1975: Actress Sharon Tate marries Jay Sebring in Venice, Italy
4 April 1975: Bill Gates founds Microsoft
May 1975: The first of three Sino-Soviet rapprochement summits is held in Pyongyang
5 August 1975: President Ronald Reagan posthumously pardons Robert E. Lee
August 1975: John Lennon marries Chinese-American May Pang in London, now a US citizen, Lennon moves back to New York.
September 1975: California Governor Jerry Brown is assassinated by Sara Jane Moore
October 1975: The Oakland Athletics are purchased by McDonalds owner Ray Kroc and moved to San Diego where they are renamed the San Diego Clippers.
18 January 1976: Led by running back OJ Simpson and quarterback Joe Gilliam the 49ers win their first super bowl defeating the heavily favored Pittsburgh Steelers.
19 January 1976: Former Vice President Edmund Muskie wins the Iowa Democratic Caucus
February 1976: Democratic Presidential hopeful Jimmy Carter drops out of the race
1 April 1976: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computers
April 1976: The Portuguese public votes narrowly to restore the monarchy
June 1976: NBA and ABA agree on a merger with six ABA teams joining the NBA, the final six chosen were the Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, Kentucky Colonels, Spirits of St Louis, San Antonio Spurs, and the Utah Stars.
3 July 1976: The US Supreme Court rules that the death penalty is unconstitutional
15 July 1976: Senator Henry Jackson wins the Democratic Presidential nomination over former Vice President Edmund Muskie. Senator Walter Mondale of Minnesota is selected as his running mate.
17 July 1976: The Summer Olympics opens in Montreal
18 August 1976: The Axe Murder incident on the DMZ inflame tensions between the two Koreas, the United States and China, while leaving two US soldiers dead.
19 August 1976: Ronald Reagan easily secures the Republican nomination for President with only Harold Stassen challenging him although Stassen was never a serious threat to take the GOP nomination
9 September 1976: Chairman Mao Zedong dies in Beijing
6 October 1976: The Gang of Four succeed in their coup to replace Mao in China
25 October 1976: The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Boston Red Sox in seven games at Veterans Stadium
2 November 1976: Ronald Reagan defeats Henry Jackson to win re-election, the same election Dan White is elected to the California House of Representatives.
20 January 1977: Ronald Reagan is sworn in for a second term
25 May 1977: Star Wars opens in theaters becoming the highest grossing film of all time. The movie stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Jodie Foster
5 June 1977: Apple II computers go on sale
22 July 1977: Chinese Communist Leader Deng Xiaoping is killed in the Great Party Purge initiated Jiang Qing
16 August 1977: Elvis Presley is found laying unconscious at his Graceland home, he is rushed to the hospital where he is listed as critical but stable. Elvis spent the next two years in rehab helping him kick his addiction to prescription drugs, he briefly returns to Gospel Music in the early 1980s.
18 October 1977: Reggie Jackson leads his San Diego Clippers to a World Series win against the favored Los Angeles Dodgers
20 October 1977: A plane carrying members of the Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd makes an emergency landing in Gillsburg, Mississippi. Band members are shaken up but otherwise alright.
13 January 1978: Former US President Hubert H. Humphrey dies at his home in Waverly, Minnesota leaving the United States with no living ex-Presidents.
February 1978: Star Trek: Phase II airs in the United States and Canada. Phase II is very popular among Trekkies and lasts for five season (ultimately butter flying away TNG)
15 February 1978: Ted Bundy is captured in Sarasota, Florida. He is later tried and found guilty of numerous murders and sentenced to life in prison.
March 1978: The second of three Sino-Soviet rapprochement summits is held in Beijing.
6 March 1978: Porn publisher Larry Flynt is shot and killed in Lawrenceville, Georgia
18 April 1978: The US Senate rejects returning the Panama Canal to Panama by a vote of 52-48
26 May 1978: The first legal casino on the east coast of the US opens at Atlantic City
June 1978: The NBA Buffalo Braves is purchased by Arthur Imperatore and relocated to the New Jersey Meadowlands where they are renamed the New Jersey Devils.
6 August 1978: Pope Paul VI dies in Rome
30 August 1978: Paola Marella is elected Pope; he takes the Papal name Pius XIII
17 October 1978: The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Kansas City Royals in the World Series
22 October 1978: John Lennon and May Pang celebrate the birth of their daughter Julia
18 November 1978: The Jonestown Massacre occurs claiming the lives of 968 followers, including nearly 300 children and US Congressman Leo Ryan. The Massacre inspires Ronald Reagan to establish the Rhodes Commission on the Occult led by Vice President James Rhodes.
6 December 1978: The Spanish Constitution officially restores democracy in Spain
1 February 1979: A plot hatched by the CIA and carried out by the Iranian military succeeds in assassinating Ayatollah Khomeini touching off two weeks of rioting.
10 February 1979: The Iranian military seizes power over the Shah, allowing the monarch to leave for exile in the United Kingdom.
13 March 1979: The Republic of Iran is officially established by the Military Junta
June 1979: Utah Stars owner James Edwin Doyle purchases the NHL franchise the Colorado Rockies and relocates the club to Salt Lake City renaming the team the Utah Buzz.
16 July 1979: Saddam Hussein seizes power in Iraq
27 August 1979: Lord Mountbatten survives his trip when a small radio controlled bomb fails to detonate. He will live another 11 years until dying of a heart attack in 1990.
16 October 1979: The New York Yankees win their first world series of the decade defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates; it is the Yankees first title since 1962.
1 November 1979: Yoko Ono, ex-wife of former Beatle John Lennon is killed in a car accident in Tokyo. Lennon lists her death as the inspiration for his hit song When We Were in Love
7 November 1979: Senator Ted Kennedy announces his plans to run for the Presidency in 1980
December 1979: New Orleans sports entrepreneur David Dixon buys the New Orleans Jazz to prevent the team from relocating to San Diego.
22 January 1980: The Rhodes Commission on the Occult releases its findings to Congress and the President.
March 1980: The final of three Sino-Soviet rapprochement summits is held in Moscow.
March 1980: Rivalries between Utah’s two professional teams; and Salt Lake City’s obvious favoritism towards the Buzz forces Ned Doyle to sell his NBA club to Don Carter who moved the Stars to Dallas and renamed the team the Dallas Mavericks.
30 April 1980: Queen Juliana of the Netherlands abdicates, her daughter Beatrix succeeds her
4 May 1980: Longtime Yugoslavian ironman Josip Tito dies
21 May 1980: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is released in theaters. The movie is radically different portraying Han rejecting a teenaged Leia in favor of an old flame Mon Mothma who is now the Baroness Administrator of Cloud City, Mothma was portrayed by Karen Allen. Billy Dee Williams is introduced as legendary Rebel Commander Lando Calrissian.
3 June 1980: Ted Kennedy all but secures the Democratic nomination on Super Tuesday forcing out challengers Jimmy Carter, Frank Church, Henry Jackson and Walter Mondale. Kennedy’s only challenge comes from West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd.
June 1980: Al Davis successfully persuades the City of Oakland and Alameda County to make improvements to the Oakland Coliseum. Construction will start in spring 1981 and will include luxury boxes.
25 June 1980: Syrian President Hafez al-Assad is killed in an assassination attempt by the Muslim Brotherhood, the government responds with military force. He is succeeded by his brother Rifaat al-Assad.
16 July 1980: Vice President James Rhodes wins the Republican nomination and selects John Connelly as his running mate.
27 July 1980: Exiled Shah Reza Pahlavi dies in London
14 August 1980: Ted Kennedy is confirmed as the Democratic nominee for President, John Glenn is chosen as his running mate
21 October 1980: The New York Yankees win their second consecutive World Series defeating the San Francisco Giants
28 October 1980: Ted Kennedy and James Rhodes debate on live television, with both candidates virtually even in the polls. Kennedy is widely believed to be the winner and surges ahead in the polls.
4 November 1980: Ted Kennedy defeats James Rhodes in the Presidential Election
22 November 1980: President-elect Ted Kennedy survives an assassination attempt at Arlington National Cemetery shortly after laying a reef at the grave of his brothers. The would be assassin is identified as Mark David Chapman
20 January 1981: Ted Kennedy is sworn in as the Thirty Ninth President of the United States
23 February 1981: An attempted coup to restore the Fascist regime to power in Spain fails
30 March 1981: President Theodore Kennedy is shot and killed after addressing an AFL-CIO meeting in Washington D.C. by John Warnock Hinkley Jr. Later that evening Vice President John Glenn is sworn in as the fortieth President of the United States by Chief Justice Byron White. His first act as President is to address the shocked nation in a television broadcast. Upon hearing of the assassination of his bitter political rival, former President Ronald Reagan was quoted “Today we are all Democrats”
1 April 1981: John Warnock Hinkley, Jr. dies from wounds he received from the Secret Service during the assassination of President Kennedy.
4 April 1981: The body of slain President Theodore Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery near his older brothers John and Robert.
22 April 1981: Senator Lloyd Bentsen is asked by President Glenn to serve as his Vice President. Bentsen has little trouble being passed through both houses
28 April 1981: Lloyd Bentsen is sworn in as Vice President by Thurgood Marshall
30 April 1981: Texas Governor Bill Clements appoints George H.W. Bush to succeed Bentsen in the Senate
10 May 1981: Jacques Chirac wins the French Presidential Election defeating incumbent François Mitterrand.
13 May 1981: Pope Pius XIII is shot and killed by Turkish militant Mehmet Ali Agca
12 June 1981: Due to the assassination of President Kennedy, MLB owners and the players union agree on a temporary settlement that will allow the 1981 season to continue undisturbed.
June 1981: Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Arc is released, the only significant change is Carrie Fisher portraying Marion Ravenwood.
25 June 1981: Polish Cardinal Karol Jozef Wojtyla is elected Pope, taking the name Pius XIV
27 June 1981: President Glenn nominates Griffin Bell to the Supreme Court
15 October 1981: Legendary 70’s band Blind Faith announces their break up, with Eric Clapton and George Harrison more interested in concentrating on solo careers
10 December 1981: Spain joins NATO
January 1982: Unemployment reaches the 3,000,000 mark in Great Britain
February 1982: The M*A*S*H series finale airs after 10 seasons
26 March 1982: A ground-breaking ceremony is opened by President Glenn on the Washington National Mall for the Vietnam Memorial Wall
2 April 1982: The Falklands War begins once the Republic of Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
17 April 1982: Prince of Wales Charles marries Amanda Knatchbull
May 1982: President John Glenn makes an unprecedented trip to the Peoples Republic of China
12 June 1982: A rally against Nuclear Weapons draws 750,000 people to New York’s Central Park. Amongst those attending are Bruce Springsteen, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Keith Richards and John Lennon.
14 June 1982: The Argentine government concedes defeat to the British ending the Falkland War
3 August 1982: The Soviet Union invades Poland to end the two year strikes led by Solidarity leader Lech Walesa. Walesa is smuggled out of Poland to the safety of Finland and is granted Political Asylum in Great Britain.
28 October 1982: Longtime Soviet dictator Leonid Brezhnev dies in Moscow; he is succeeded three days later by KGB director Yuri Andropov.
13 November 1982: The Vietnam Memorial Wall is dedicated in Washington D.C.
30 November 1982: Michael Jackson releases Thriller
February 1983: Times Beach, Missouri is evacuated by the Environmental Protection Agency due to dioxin contamination
24 March 1983: Just one day after introducing the world to the Moonwalk, Michael Jackson is killed when his charter plane crashes shortly after take off in Detroit, Michigan
25 May 1983: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi comes out in theaters featuring a Wookiee army, the return of Anakin Skywalker and establishing the romance between Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker
7 July 1983: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith flies to the USSR at the invitation of Premier Andropov.
August 1983: Edmonton Oiler fans are stunned to learn Wayne Gretzky had been traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs
30 October 1983: Free elections are held in Argentina after years of military rule
2 November 1983: President Glenn signs a bill establishing Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday
11 December 1983: Prince of Wales Charles and his wife Princess Amanda announce the birth of their first child Prince George.
9 February 1984: Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov dies and is succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko
March 1984: John Lennon gives his first solo concert at Madison Square Garden, he does not perform any Beatle songs
March 1984: Former Vice President James Rhodes drops out of the race for the Republican nomination after failing to secure enough votes
May 1984: Bob Irsay attempts to move the Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis only to see his team seized by the state of Maryland through eminent domain. Irsay sues the city of Baltimore, the state of Maryland and the NFL. An agreement is eventually reached between the NFL and Irsay, allowing the former Colts owner to take ownership of an expansion team located in Indianapolis (Stallions) and to begin play in 1985. Maryland and Baltimore eventually settles with Irsay for an undisclosed sum. Former owner of the USFL Philadelphia Stars Myles Tanenbaum quickly sold his team to purchase the Baltimore Colts.
June 1984: Another USFL owner jumps over to the NFL when Arizona Wranglers owner Ted Diethrich announces he has been awarded an NFL expansion club and plans on retaining the Wranglers name and colors. As speculated the Indianapolis Stallions were placed in the AFC Central and the Wranglers in the NFC West.
July 1984: Senator George H.W. Bush won the Republican nomination for President; Governor Dick Cheney of Wyoming was selected as his running mate
26 September 1984: The Peoples Republic of China and Great Britain sign a treaty to return Hong Kong in 1997
31 October 1984: Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated
6 November 1984: President John Glenn defeats challenger Senator George Bush to win the Presidential Election.
20 January 1985: John Glenn is sworn in publicly in a much more celebratory atmosphere than in 1981.
February 1985: The United States officially recognizes the Peoples Republic of China after decades of holding out.
10 March 1985: Soviet Premier Konstantin Chernenko dies he is succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev
23 April 1985: Coca-Cola introduces New Coke
18 May 1985: Princess Catherine the oldest daughter of Prince of Wales Charles and Princess Amanda is born
June 1985: New York City real estate developer Donald Trump becomes the owner of the last place New York Yankees
July 1985: The United States launches the largest ever Space Station, Skylab V
25 August 1985: Samantha Smith’s plane lands safely after its pilot executes a Missed Approach and successfully attempts a second landing.
4 September 1985: The wreckage of the RMS Titanic is discovered
18 October 1985: The Nintendo is released in North America
1 January 1986: Portugal and Spain joins the European Community
24 January 1986: Soviet troops end their occupation of Poland, leaving behind deep resentment and mistrust amongst the Polish population
28 January 1986: The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 78 seconds after take off
19 February 1986: The USSR launches the Mir Space Station in an attempt to keep up with the US Space Program
13 April 1986: The cast of the Andy Griffith Show reunite for the TV movie Return to Mayberry, the movie was such a hit with fans that a TV series Return to Mayberry began to air in the fall. Andy Griffith rejected the role of Matlock in favor of Mayberry.
21 April 1986: Geraldo Rivera hosts Opening Al Capone’s Vault, the special ends with great disappointment and only a single bottle of Moonshine inside
26 April 1986: The Chernobyl disaster kills 56 and renders parts of the Ukraine and Belarus inhabitable
4 July 1986: The Statue of Liberty reopens after extensive refurbishing
27 October 1986: The Boston Red Sox led by first baseman Tony Perez defeat the Washington Capitals for their first World Series title since World War One.
4 November 1986: The popular series Matlock airs in North America starring TV legend Dick Van Dyke in the title role.
December 1986: The United States Football League announces it will cease all operations, and declare bankruptcy.
11 January 1987: The Cleveland Browns defeat the Denver Broncos to earn their first trip to the Super Bowl
25 January 1987: The New York Giants defeat the Cleveland Browns 17-14 in the first Super Bowl to go to overtime. It is the Giants first title since 1956.
19 April 1987: The Simpsons first appear on the Tracey Ullman show
8 May 1987: The Reverend Jessie Jackson announces his intention to seek the Democratic nomination in 1988
11 June 1987: Neil Kinnocks Labour Party wins election in Great Britain over Enoch Powell’s Conservatives
17 August 1987: Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess commits suicide in prison at the age of 93
1 December 1987: Construction on the Channel Tunnel is initiated
8 March 1988: Bob Dole defeats Jack Kemp, George Bush and Dick Cheney to win the Republican nomination on Super Tuesday.
26 March 1988: Jessie Jackson, Vice President Bentsen’s main opponent for the Democratic nomination of President drops out of the race after a poor showing in the polls.
28 April 1988: Premier Mikhail Gorbachev announces the Soviet Union will no longer interfere in the domestic policies of the Warsaw Pact nations
21 July 1988: Lloyd Bentsen is confirmed as the Democratic nominee for President, former Kentucky Governor Martha Layne Collins is selected as his running mate, making her the first female candidate on a major party ticket.
18 August 1988: Bob Dole wins the 1988 Republican Nomination for President; Pierre du Pont is selected as his running mate
5 September 1988: The September Fifth Uprising in Hungary leads to the Communist Regime’s collapse by the months end, and the establishment of the democratic government in Budapest. The fall of the Hungarian regime would be a huge feather in the cap for Vice President Bentsen during the campaign season.
September 1988: Peace Activist Samantha Smith is reported missing. Her mother became concerned after she didn’t return from school. A nation wide search for Smith commences and dominates the news for three weeks.
10 October 1988: Nelson Mandela is released from prison
8 November 1988: Lloyd Bentsen defeats Bob Dole in the Presidential election
30 December 1988: The Showa Period ends with the death of Japanese Emperor Hirohito after a reign of 62 years and 6 days. He is succeeded by his son Akihito
18 January 1989: The Polish Communist Party votes to legalize Solidarity, however Martial Law is still in place
20 January 1989: Lloyd Bentsen is sworn in as the Forty first President of the United States, Martha Layne Collins is sworn as the Forty Third Vice President and the first female Vice President.
17 April 1989: The Communist Government of Poland collapses after popular anti-government demonstrations in every major city. Solidarity leader Lech Walesa returns from Britain to head up the provisional Polish Government
21 April 1989: The Tiananmen Square Revolution begins in Beijing. Within a week the communist government of the Peoples Republic of China collapses when large numbers of troops defected to join the students in the Tiananmen Square Revolution. The Revolution was much better organized than the Communist government had previously thought, with democrats, socialists and reformers united together in an anti-government alliance. Revolts soon flared up all across China, resulting in the collapse of the government still led by the increasingly unpopular gang of four.
30 May 1989: The Goddess of Democracy is unveiled in Beijing
5 June 1989: Chinese demonstrators barge in on a politburo meeting, marking the end of the Peoples Republic of China. Reformer Zhao Ziyang becomes the Chairman of the Chinese Provisional Government
27 June 1989: Tibet declares its independence from the Chinese Provisional government. India almost immediately recognizes the independent Tibet, the USSR, United States, Great Britain and France follow suit.
18 July 1989: Uighuristan declares independence from China; foreign recognition is slower with the USSR the first to recognize the new republic two days later.
1 August 1989: The Chinese Constitution is signed into law establishing the Federal Republic of China. In tradition of past regime changes in China, the new government moved its capital to Xi’an.
2 September 1989: Trials begin in Xi’an for the Gang of Four, de-Maoisation begins across the nation
6 September 1989: After months of demonstrations across South Africa, the pro-Apartheid Nationalist Party loses the election to Nelson Mandela’s African Nationalist Congress
10 October 1989: The Baltimore Orioles become the first baseball team in history to go from last place to first place in the span of one season defeating the Kansas City Royals to earn a trip to the World Series. The Orioles magic ended however and the San Francisco Giants win the Series in five games. It is the first Giants championship since their move west in 1958.
7 November 1989: The Communist Government of East Germany resigns
10 November 1989: Germans from both sides of the border begin to tear down the Berlin Wall
17 November 1989: Police beat back demonstrating students in Prague, sparking a massive riot. By the months end the Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power and hold free elections.
1 December 1989: The East German Parliament abolishes the constitutional provision which gives the Communists monopoly over German politics. Erich Honecker and the remaining members of his Politburo resigned four days later. Hans Modrow becomes the temporary Chief of State and begins to call for a unification of the two German nations.
11 December 1989: Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega orders the invasion of the Panama Canal. Minimal US military forces in the area are overwhelmed in spite of holding their own. President Bentsen orders a military intervention to take back the Canal beginning the Panama War.
19 December 1989: Manuel Noriega is captured by the US military in Panama City; the Canal reopens under US military administration. Discussions about annexing the Panama Canal Zone become a hot button issue in the US Senate.
3 January 1990: Princess Mary Grace the youngest child of Prince of Wales Charles and Princess Amanda is born
22 January 1990: Bulgarian Communist leader Todor Zhivkov and his deputies are removed from power leaving only Romania and the Soviet Union as the last two Warsaw Pact nations still ruled by the Communist Party
13 February 1990: An agreement is reached between the two German nations for reunification. The triumvirate of France, Britain and the USSR attempt to prevent reunification of the two German nations, the United States is alone of the former wartime allies to express its support (although China sides with the US in the UN). In the end the United States got its way and the two German nations became one, as a result the Federal Republic of Germany is often considered the United States closest ally in Europe.
11 March 1990: Lithuania declares independence from the USSR only to have the Red Army crush the demonstrations and restore order in the Soviet Republic
15 March 1990: The North Vietnamese Army seizes power from the Communist Party
23 March 1990: Blockbuster movie Pretty Woman is released starring Christopher Reeve and Molly Ringwald in the two starring roles.
1 April 1990: Namibia is granted independence from South Africa
25 April 1990: Mass demonstrators and military defections cause the collapse of the Communist Party in Romania. Leader Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena flee the angry mobs and are granted political asylum in the Soviet Union.
22 May 1990: North and South Yemen merge becoming the Arab Republic of Yemen
August 1990: Slobodan Milošević attempts to prevent the collapse of Yugoslavia orders a military crackdown in Croatia, and Slovenia. President Bentsen extends US recognition of both secessionist states. A coalition of European nations including Britain, Norway, Italy and Greece joins the United States in demanding the Serbian President backs down.
1 October 1990: East and West Germany merge to become the Federal Republic of Germany
3 October 1990: The capital of the Federal Republic of Germany is moved to Berlin
21 November 1990: The UN Security Council resolution 678 authorizing military intervention to force Slobodan Milošević to withdraw from Croatia and Slovenia is passed by the UN Security Council after the Soviet Union and France abstain.
January 1991: Coalition Air Forces begin operations over Yugoslavia
February 1991: Coalition Ground Forces liberate the capitals of Slovenia and Croatia.
March 1991: Serbian forces give the American led coalition a month of tough fighting 430 Coalition troops of which 220 Americans are killed in Bosnia. Bentsen’s popularity drops.
30 March 1991: Coalition tanks and paratroopers reach the outskirts of Belgrade. The already devastated Serbian army arrests Slobodan Milošević and negotiates a cease fire with the Coalition.
31 March 1991: Albania holds its first free elections
April 1991: The Yugoslavian remnant is occupied by Coalition forces. British Prime Minister Neil Kinnock announces the Coalition will hold referendums in each of the Yugoslav Republics for Union or Independence in August
2 May 1991: The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved
5 May 1991: The United States Congress approves an aid package for the Balkans
13 July 1991: Former child peace activist Samantha Smith is found in eastern Kentucky having been abducted by Robert John Bardo at knife point and forced into sexual servitude. Bardo had taken Smith to a local hospital to give birth, Smith informed a nurse and the police took Bardo into custody. Smith later gave birth to a daughter Alicia Smith and was reunited with her parents. Bardo is sentenced to fifty years in prison for unlawful imprisonment and rape.
4 August 1991: The union of Yugoslavia is dissolved with Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Slovenia and Montenegro voting for independence, only Serbia approved a new confederation. Following the dissolution of Yugoslavia voters in both Serbia and Montenegro approved the restoration of their respective monarchies.
1 October 1991: Senator John McCain of Arizona announces he will seek the GOP nomination for President in 1992
27 October 1991: The Atlanta Braves defeats the Minnesota Twins in what is considered to be the Greatest World Series ever
3 November 1991: White Supremacist and Republican candidate for Governor of Louisiana David Duke is shot and killed while campaigning by an out of work black man. The 5 November elections are postponed until late December. Former Republican Governor David C. Treen accepted the GOP nomination and defeated Edwin Edwards in December
1 December 1991: Queen lead singer Freddy Mercury dies due to complications of AIDS, just 48 hours after revealing to the world that he suffers from the virus.
1 January 1992: The Soviet Union dissolves
10 February 1992: North Vietnam and South Vietnam hold the first summit discussing the possibility of reunification in the ancient city of Hue. The two Vietnamese nations peacefully unite in 2003 with a restoration of the monarchy. The United States closes Saigon Air Force Base, the last military facility in Vietnam in 2007.
9 April 1992: The British Conservative Party wins the general election making Michael Heseltine Prime Minister
15 April 1992: EuroDisney officially opens in Rome
19 May 1992: Presidential hopeful, Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana gives his famous Murphy Brown speech, effectively ending his chances at winning the nomination
22 May 1992: Johnny Carson retires from the Tonight Show after thirty years; he is replaced on the show by comedian David Letterman
22 June 1992: The remains of Tsar Nikolai II, his wife Alexandra and three of his daughters are found. The remains of his son is not amongst them, and it is speculated whether the missing daughter is Anastasia or her older sister Maria.
1 July 1992: Volgograd becomes known once again as Stalingrad
13 July 1992: Yitzhak Rabin becomes Prime Minister of Israel
11 August 1992: The Mall of America opens in Minnesota
August 1992: Senator John McCain wins the Republican nomination for President; his running mate is Lamar Alexander.
3 September 1992: It is reported on CNN that the husband of Democratic Vice President Martha Collins was involved in a scandal involved in extorting campaign funds. Although no guilt could be traced back to Collins the scandal ended her political career and was a crushing blow to the Bentsen reelection campaign.
4 September 1992: Martha Collins resigns the Vice Presidency as a result of the scandal her husband caused. She removes her name from the political ring, causing the Bentsen campaign to scramble in finding a new running mate.
10 September: Lloyd Bentsen introduces his new running mate Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland. It is criticized by the McCain campaign and the media as a ploy to keep women voters that may have been lost by the Collins scandal.
September 1992: Return to Mayberry is cancelled in spite of putting up decent ratings numbers
24 October 1992: The Atlanta Braves win their second World Series title defeating the Boston Red Sox
3 November 1992: Republican Challenger John McCain defeats incumbent Democrat Lloyd Bentsen to win the Presidential election and ending 12 years of Democratic rule in the White House. With the election lost Lloyd Bentsen serves the rest of his term without a Vice President.
31 December 1992: Czechoslovakia is dissolved in the Velvet Divorce giving birth to two nations the Republic of Slovakia and the Republic of Czechia
20 January 1993: John McCain is sworn in as the Forty Second President of the US
30 April 1993: The World Wide Web is launched
24 May 1993: Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia
4 August 1993: North and South Vietnam unite to form the Republic of Vietnam with its capital in Saigon
26 September 1993: After ten years of diplomacy which began under the Glenn Administration, Israel and Syria sign a peace accord in Washington D.C. recognizing each others right to exist.
25 October 1993: Kim Campbell becomes Canada’s first female Prime Minister
26 October 1993: The NFL announces its will add expansion teams to Charlotte, NC and San Antonio, TX in 1995 as part of a reorganization of the league.
14 January 1994: President McCain and President Yeltsin of the Russian Federation sign the Kremlin Accords which stop pre-programmed aiming of nuclear missiles at each others country
3 February 1994: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr reunite to film a special about the Beatles and to record a new album together, called the Beatles Today.
19 May 1994: Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis dies
2 June 1994: The Beatles give their last ever live performance at Shea Stadium in New York
12 August 1994: An 11th hour deal signed by the owners and MLB players union prevents a strike. The deal is brokered by Commissioner George W. Bush. The 1994 season sees baseball return to previously unfathomable heights with Tony Gwynn of the Pittsburgh Pirates finishing the season with a .400 batting average (sitting out the final three games to retain it) and Matt Williams of the San Francisco Giants hitting 63 homeruns.
14 September 1994: Coneheads makes the jump from the Big Screen to the TV Screen with a new series on NBC. Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke and Chris Farley appear as the main cast and picks up where the movie left off. The series is very popular with teenagers.
27 October 1994: The Washington Capitals win their first World Series defeating the heavily favored Chicago White Sox.
5 November 1994: Ronald Reagan makes public that he is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease
8 November 1994: Dick Gephardt leads the Democrats into taking back the House of Representatives becoming Speaker of the House
15 February 1995: After failing to reach an agreement on reunification, Taiwan declares independence from China.
21 February 1995: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il agrees to meet with Secretary of State George H.W. Bush at Panmunjom. In spite of Bush’s best efforts, the North Korean delegation was uninterested in what the American ambassador had to say and stormed out of the meeting after two and a half hours.
25 February 1995: Shortly after the departure of George H.W. Bush from Seoul, North Korea launches a Scud missile attack directed at Seoul. 250,000 South Korean citizens are murdered in the event. Heavy fighting around the DMZ erupts with ROK and US troops forced to retreat by the overwhelming North Korean assault.
26 February 1995: President McCain addresses Congress and becomes the first President since Franklin Roosevelt to request a declaration of war. With massive casualties in Seoul and over 200 American troops dead he has little trouble receiving it.
2 March 1995: President McCain forms a massive coalition of nations to assist in the war against North Korea including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Britain, Vietnam, India, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Poland, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand and China. The Russian Federation remains neutral but gives its support to the Coalition.
3 March 1995: South Korean, Australian, British and American Air Forces begin a massive aerial campaign against North Korea destroying most of the North Korean Air Force on the ground in the first 48 hours and swatting the rest out of the sky within the first week to have total air domination.
5 March 1995: 150,000 US Marines and Army Paratroopers are deployed to South Korea
15 March 1995: The Battle of Seoul begins with well entrenched ROK and American forcess facing the North Koreans in the mostly abandoned city
19 March 1995: Fresh American tanks, soldiers and supplies pour into Seoul
22 March 1995: North Korea begins to retreat from Seoul their first major defeat of the Second Korean War
28 March 1995: 110,000 North Korean soldiers surrender to the coalition forces. Air Superiority had cut off their supply lines and constant fighting had exhausted their ammunition.
4 April 1995: The Chinese Army of the Republic begins its invasion of North Korea. With a total strength of 1,000,000 troops it is the third largest force in the war behind the two Korea’s.
11 April 1995: The North Korean Army having to divide its forces loses traction in the south, Panmunjom falls to the Coalition Forces, it is a major morale boost for the Coalition.
19 April 1995: Kim Jong-Il commits suicide to prevent his capture by the Coalition Forces he is succeeded by Kim Yong-Nam. Yong-Nam vows to continue the fight until all of the capitalist pigs are out of Korea
30 April 1995: China surrounds the North Korean capital Pyongyang and demands the surrender of Kim Yong-Nam; the North Korean dictator refuses to surrender. He is captured trying to flee the city disguised as a woman.
31 April 1995: Pak Pong-Ju is recognized by the remnant of the North Korean government as the official leader
3 May 1995: North Korea requests a cease-fire, coalition forces take the opportunity to strengthen its positions
7 May 1995: North Korea surrenders when its ambassador in the Russian Federation met with the American ambassador at the Kremlin
9 May 1995: Pak Pong-Ju leaves Pyongyang as per the agreement with the coalition forces for political asylum in Russia. The Korean War is officially over, although guerilla warfare and terrorist cells continue in operation to present day.
28 May 1995: The two Korea’s are formally united. The Korean peninsula will remain under Martial Law for an undetermined amount of time.
20 June 1995: Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr. plays his 2131st consecutive at Camden Yards against the New York Yankees. Ripken went 1 for three with a double and walk in the Orioles 3-0 win.
24 August 1995: Microsoft releases Windows ‘95
September 1995: Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton announces his intention of seeking the Democratic nomination
30 October 1995: Quebec votes to secede from the Federal Republic of Canada by a margin 58.53% to 41.47%. The Second Korean War is cited as the main reason most Quebecers voted for secession as French Canada was less supportive of the war than the other provinces.
4 February 1996: King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies, his brother Abdullah becomes the ruler of the desert nation
6 March 1996: Chechen uprising begins in Russia
22 March 1996: Canada and Quebec reach an agreement in Quebec secession which allows some parts of Quebec to remain with Canada. Quebec is officially granted independence.
24 April 1996: A peace treaty is signed between the Republic of East Palestine and Israel in Geneva. President Yasser Arafat announces that the Republic of East Palestine will now be the Republic of Palestine.
28 May 1996: Quebec joins the United Nations
August 1996: Senator Joe Biden of Delaware wins the Democratic nomination for President with Bill Clinton as his running mate.
5 November 1996: President McCain staves off a hard charging Joe Biden to retain the Presidency
12 February 1997: Former Vice Presidential candidate Bill Clinton and his wife Hilary announce they are divorcing. Bill Clinton returns to Arkansas and is elected mayor of his hometown of Hot Springs while Hilary was elected to the US House of Representatives representing the tenth district of Illinois in 1998. Hilary Clinton’s official address is in Buffalo Grove, Ill and she had gained custody of her daughter during the divorce.
March 1997: The Republic of Quebec joins NAFTA
1 May 1997: Labour Party led by Margaret Beckett wins the General Election in the UK
30 June 1997: Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone is released becoming an international sensation
1 July 1997: Hong Kong becomes a part of the Federal Republic of China
8 July 1997: NATO invites Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Quebec to join the alliance in 1999, all four nations accept.
11 September 1997: Scotland votes to form its own Parliament after 290 years of union with England
18 September 1997: Wales votes in favor of creating its own National Assembly
28 October 1997: Former Rolling Stone and Wings guitarist Brian Jones is found dead of a drug over dose in San Francisco. He had been preparing for a concert kicking off a solo world tour after the release of his album the Life of Brian Jones. The album was critically panned.
19 December 1997: The movie Titanic is released becoming a Hollywood Blockbuster and starring Kate Winslet and Stephen Dorff. The movie was directed by James Cameron.
16 January 1998: NASA announces it will send former President John Glenn back into space
April 1998: The Monarchy of Laos is restored with the crowning of Soulivong Savang ending thirty years of Communist rule.
7 May 1998: The TV Series Coneheads ends it’s run with a rather unremarkable series finale
21 May 1998: Suharto resigns after 32 years as President of Indonesia
25 June 1998: Microsoft releases Windows ‘98
31 August 1998: Martial Law is partially lifted in the Republic of Korea more than three years after the Second Korean War ended.
3 November 1998: Former Wrestler and actor Jessie Ventura is elected Governor of Minnesota running as an independent
31 December 1998: The pro-western military junta in Cambodia restores the monarchy, ending a generation of military rule
1 January 1999: The Euro is established
12 January 1999: Long time Egyptian President Anwar Sadat dies of a heart attack in Cairo, he is succeeded by Safwat El-Sherif
12 March 1999: Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Quebec are officially part of NATO
19 May 1999: Star Wars – The Phantom Menace is released, the first Star Wars movie after a 16 year absence from the Silver Screen. The movie stars Haley Joel Osment, Ewan McGreggor, Liam Neeson and Keira Knightley.
19 June 1999: Horror writer Stephen King is hit buy a van driven by Bryan Smith, King dies the following day from internal bleeding.
12 October 1999: General Pervez Musharraf leads a military junta in Pakistan
November 1999: Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts suffers a stroke
6 November 1999: Australians vote to become a Republic
21 November 1999: Elian Gonzalez and his mother arrive in Miami after selling from Cuba on an aluminum boat. The mother is dehydrated but otherwise fine. The event becomes controversial due to Elian’s father demanding his sons return. In the end President Dole’s administration refused to send the boy back to Cuba. Elian, his mother and her boyfriend were granted asylum in the United States.
31 December 1999: President Boris Yeltsin surrenders his powers to Vladimir Putin, ushering in a new age in the Russian Federation.
1 January 2000: Australia officially becomes the Republic of Australia with former Liberal Party leader Alexander Downer serving as the first President and John Howard continuing as Prime Minister.
15 February 2000: Charles M. Schulz dies
17 February 2000: Microsoft releases Windows 2000
7 March 2000: Vice President Lamar Alexander emerges victorious in the Republican Primaries, the same day Democrat Evan Bayh clinches the Democratic nomination.
22 April 2000: Elian Gonzales’ father attempts to kidnap his son and return him to Cuba. He is caught darting in and out of traffic by the Miami Police Department and spends the next six years in jail before being returned to Cuba, Elian is returned to his mother where he lives with her in a Miami ghetto. In a 2006 interview a 13 year old Elian expressed no interest in returning to Cuba or to see his father again. “America is my home now”
31 July 2000: The Republican Convention begins at Candem Yards in Baltimore confirming Lamar Alexander as their nominee for President and Phil Gramm as his running mate.
14 August 2000: The Democratic Convention in Los Angeles reaffirms Evan Bayh as the DNC nominee and Senator Bob Graham of Florida as his running mate.
7 November 2000: Governor Bayh of Indiana defeats Donald Rumsfeld to return the Democrats to the White House. The electoral map is almost exactly the same as OTL 2000 except Bayh wins Indiana, Florida, New Hampshire and West Virginia
June 1968: Richard Nixon is killed in Chicago when a bomb explodes near him, it was discovered Bill Ayers, an anti-war left wing militant was responsible. Ayers was arrested by the FBI trying to flee to Canada and sentenced to life in prison. Nixon’s death occurred within weeks of Robert Kennedy’s.
5-8 August 1968: The Republican National Convention in Miami nominates Nelson Rockefeller as the Presidential candidate and Charles Percy as his running mate
31 October 1968: Citing progress in the Paris peace talks, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces to the nation that he has ordered a complete cessation of "all air, naval, and artillery bombardment of North Vietnam" effective November 1.
5 November 1968: Democrat Hubert H. Humphrey defeats Republican Nelson Rockefeller and American Independent George Wallace in the Presidential Election.
12 January 1969: The Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Jets in Super Bowl III 21-16, making Jets QB Joe Namath eat his words for promising a victory.
20 January 1969: Hubert Humphrey succeeds Lyndon Johnson as the 37th US President
30 January 1969: The Beatles give their last live performance on the roof top of Apple Records in London
1 April 1969: Former US General and President Dwight Eisenhower dies at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC
12 April 1969: President Charles de Gaulle of France dies of a massive heart attack in Paris
5 May 1969: Socialist Francois Mitterand is elected President of France
June 1969: Nicholas Katzenbach is nominated to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court
July 1969: The Beatles release Abbey Road, John Lennon announces shortly after the albums release the end of the Beatles partnership at a press conference in London, earning the ire of band mates Paul McCartney and George Harrison.
9 August 1969: Actress Sharon Tate goes into labor and is rushed to the hospital and gives birth to a baby boy. Due to being in the hospital, Tate was not at home when followers of Charles Manson arrived; caretaker William Garretson and his friend Steven Parent are murdered instead. Tate refuses to return to the house she once described as a dream home, she moves into a penthouse in downtown LA.
10 August 1969: Leno and Rosemary LaBianca are murdered by the followers of Charles Manson. Manson himself supervises the murders.
August 1969: Former Beatle George Harrison joins Eric Clapton, Rich Grech and Ginger Baker to form Blind Faith. Harrison was able to join after Steve Winwood dropped out.
August 1969: Susan Atkins admits to participating in the LaBianca-Parent-Garretson murders and unwittingly implicated Manson and other members of the family in the murders.
October 1969: The Chicago Cubs hold off a hot New York Mets team to win the National League East title. The Cubs sweep the Atlanta Braves in the NLCS to earn their first trip to the World Series since 1945. The Cubs however lose the World Series to the heavily favored Baltimore Orioles 4 games to 1.
November 1969: The United States and USSR signs the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty in Helsinki.
15 December 1969: Glyn Johns was finally able release the long delayed Beatles album Get Back
January 1970: Former Beatle Paul McCartney announces the formation of his new band, Wings joining him is former Rolling Stones lead guitarist Brian Jones, drummer Jimmy Nichols, and ex-Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine.
June 1970: The voting age in the U.S. is lowered to 18
September 1970: The Black September crisis in Jordan sees the Egyptian-Iraqi backed PLO overthrow King Hussein of Jordan. Jordan is renamed the Republic of East Palestine with Yasser Arafat as the first President.
September 1970: Janis Joplin collapses from a drug overdose while on stage in LA, she is resuscitated by paramedics. Joplin claims this event turned her on to Christianity, which helped her kick the drug habit. Joplin becomes a powerful and active voice for the Christian Left.
November 1970: A small charter plane crashes near Huntington, WV killing the entire Marshall University football team and coaching staff. The University discontinues the football program until it is revived in 1986.
March 1971: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in the “Fight of the Century” at Madison Square Garden after Fifteenth Rounds, becoming the undisputed Heavy Weight Champion
March 1971: Bangladesh declares independence from Pakistan.
June 1971: The Vietnam War ends with the signing of the Paris Armistice Treaty. The US agrees to withdraw all but 15,000 troops, mostly Air Force and Army Personnel.
July 1971: Sharon Tate divorces Roman Polanski after she catches him in bed with another woman.
11 August 1971: The Doors lead singer Jim Morrison is found dead in his Hotel Room. An autopsy later reveals he died from an overdose of heroin.
October 1971: President Humphrey nominates Thomas Lynch and Stephen Young to the Supreme Court
October 1971: The Republic of China is kicked out of the U.N. in favor of the Peoples Republic of China
November 1971: CBS sells the New York Yankees to a group of investors including Lester Crown, E. Michael Burke, John DeLorean, Nelson Bunker Hunt, and Roy Bowe
February 1972: Actress Sharon Tate appears in the nude for Playboy Magazine it is her first of three appearances for Playboy the last coming in February 1978
15 May 1972: George C. Wallace is assassinated by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md.
July 1972: Republican National Convention is held in Cleveland, nominating California Governor Ronald Reagan as the Presidential nominee and James Rhodes of Ohio as his running mate.
4 July 1972: Hogan’s Heroes is given a proper finale when allied troops liberate Stalag 13. The series finale stars Don Knotts as US Army Colonel Foster a part reminiscent of his earlier role of Barney Fife.
16 August 1972: The Moroccan Royal Air Force accidentally shoots down King Fassan II’s plane, killing him and his family in the process. Prince Moulay Abdallah, Hassan II’s brother is crowned King Moulay I in Rabat
5 September 1972: The Munich Massacre does not occur as members of Black September are fighting pro-monarchists in Amman.
October 1972: George Steinbrenner buys the Cleveland Indians and commits the team to winning.
7 November 1972: Ronald Reagan crushes Hubert Humphrey in the election, with Humphrey winning only Minnesota, DC, and Maine.
31 December 1972: Roberto Clemente’s plane lands safely in Nicaragua as the baseball legend begins a humanitarian effort to give aid following an Earthquake
20 January 1973: Ronald Reagan is sworn in as the Thirty-eighth President of the United States
24 January 1973: Former US Presidents Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson dies on the same day. An obviously stunned nation is soothed by as incumbent President Ronald Reagan and former President Hubert H. Humphrey give a joint address from the White House.
4 April 1973: The World Trade Center opens in New York
1 June 1973: The Greek military junta restores the monarchy
July 1973: After four disappointing seasons, the Buffalo Bills running back O.J. Simpson is sold to the San Francisco 49ers
8 August 1973: South Korean politician Kim Dae-jung is killed in a kidnapping attempt by South Korean intelligence
August 1973: Roberto Clemente suffers a severe break of his ankle sliding into third base at Three Rivers Stadium, effectively ending his career.
15 August 1973: The Rock Opera Jesus Christ Superstar is released amidst controversy. The movie stars Carl Anderson as Judas, Janis Joplin as Mary Magdalene and John Lennon as Jesus (controversial in regards to his 1966 remarks about the Beatles being larger than Jesus)
6-28 October 1973: The Yom Kippur War is fought between Israel, Egypt, Syria and East Palestine. The war ends with affirmation of Israel’s control over the Sinai, Golan Heights and the West Bank.
December 1973: Wings lead guitarist Brian Jones quits the band claiming Paul McCartney is impossible to work with. He is replaced in the band by Jimmy McCulloch.
1 November 1973: With President Reagan’s backing; Israel announces its intention of annexing the Sinai, Golan Heights and West Bank.
February 1974: The San Diego Padres baseball team is purchased by Joseph Danzansky and moved to Washington D.C. where they are renamed the Washington Capitals and play their home games in RFK Stadium.
March 1974: Former Rolling Stones and Wings guitarist Brian Jones heads up his own band simply called the Brian Jones band. Members include guitarist Henry McCullough, drummer Geoff Britton and bassist Alan Spenner. Jones is the lead guitarist and vocalist of the group.
8 May 1974: Former Beatle John Lennon and his estranged wife Yoko Ono are deported to the United Kingdom after failing to obtain a green card.
19 May 1974: Francois Mitterand is reelected President of France defeating Gaullist Georges Pompidou.
23 July 1974: The Greek military junta collapses, civilian rule is restored
8 September 1974: Daredevil Evel Knievel drowns when his attempt to rocket across the Snake River in Idaho fails
10 October 1974: The British Conservative Party wins a narrow general election with Enoch Powell at the helm. Shortly after becoming Prime Minister the special relationship between the United States and Great Britain begins to suffer. President Reagan and Prime Minister Powell develop a lifelong disdain for one another.
15 October 1974: US Air Force F-4 Phantoms bomb what President Reagan claims to be North Vietnamese military outposts in South Vietnam. He announces his intention of increasing the number of troops in South Vietnam to 40,000 and orders the 7th fleet into the Gulf of Tonkin.
5 November 1974: Democrats claim control of the House of Representatives and expand their control of the Senate as fears of a second Vietnam War grips the nation after the previous month’s air strikes.
21 November 1974: Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger is found dead in his bath tub, a victim of a speed ball.
14 February 1975: Actress Sharon Tate marries Jay Sebring in Venice, Italy
4 April 1975: Bill Gates founds Microsoft
May 1975: The first of three Sino-Soviet rapprochement summits is held in Pyongyang
5 August 1975: President Ronald Reagan posthumously pardons Robert E. Lee
August 1975: John Lennon marries Chinese-American May Pang in London, now a US citizen, Lennon moves back to New York.
September 1975: California Governor Jerry Brown is assassinated by Sara Jane Moore
October 1975: The Oakland Athletics are purchased by McDonalds owner Ray Kroc and moved to San Diego where they are renamed the San Diego Clippers.
18 January 1976: Led by running back OJ Simpson and quarterback Joe Gilliam the 49ers win their first super bowl defeating the heavily favored Pittsburgh Steelers.
19 January 1976: Former Vice President Edmund Muskie wins the Iowa Democratic Caucus
February 1976: Democratic Presidential hopeful Jimmy Carter drops out of the race
1 April 1976: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak found Apple Computers
April 1976: The Portuguese public votes narrowly to restore the monarchy
June 1976: NBA and ABA agree on a merger with six ABA teams joining the NBA, the final six chosen were the Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, Kentucky Colonels, Spirits of St Louis, San Antonio Spurs, and the Utah Stars.
3 July 1976: The US Supreme Court rules that the death penalty is unconstitutional
15 July 1976: Senator Henry Jackson wins the Democratic Presidential nomination over former Vice President Edmund Muskie. Senator Walter Mondale of Minnesota is selected as his running mate.
17 July 1976: The Summer Olympics opens in Montreal
18 August 1976: The Axe Murder incident on the DMZ inflame tensions between the two Koreas, the United States and China, while leaving two US soldiers dead.
19 August 1976: Ronald Reagan easily secures the Republican nomination for President with only Harold Stassen challenging him although Stassen was never a serious threat to take the GOP nomination
9 September 1976: Chairman Mao Zedong dies in Beijing
6 October 1976: The Gang of Four succeed in their coup to replace Mao in China
25 October 1976: The Philadelphia Phillies defeat the Boston Red Sox in seven games at Veterans Stadium
2 November 1976: Ronald Reagan defeats Henry Jackson to win re-election, the same election Dan White is elected to the California House of Representatives.
20 January 1977: Ronald Reagan is sworn in for a second term
25 May 1977: Star Wars opens in theaters becoming the highest grossing film of all time. The movie stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Jodie Foster
5 June 1977: Apple II computers go on sale
22 July 1977: Chinese Communist Leader Deng Xiaoping is killed in the Great Party Purge initiated Jiang Qing
16 August 1977: Elvis Presley is found laying unconscious at his Graceland home, he is rushed to the hospital where he is listed as critical but stable. Elvis spent the next two years in rehab helping him kick his addiction to prescription drugs, he briefly returns to Gospel Music in the early 1980s.
18 October 1977: Reggie Jackson leads his San Diego Clippers to a World Series win against the favored Los Angeles Dodgers
20 October 1977: A plane carrying members of the Rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd makes an emergency landing in Gillsburg, Mississippi. Band members are shaken up but otherwise alright.
13 January 1978: Former US President Hubert H. Humphrey dies at his home in Waverly, Minnesota leaving the United States with no living ex-Presidents.
February 1978: Star Trek: Phase II airs in the United States and Canada. Phase II is very popular among Trekkies and lasts for five season (ultimately butter flying away TNG)
15 February 1978: Ted Bundy is captured in Sarasota, Florida. He is later tried and found guilty of numerous murders and sentenced to life in prison.
March 1978: The second of three Sino-Soviet rapprochement summits is held in Beijing.
6 March 1978: Porn publisher Larry Flynt is shot and killed in Lawrenceville, Georgia
18 April 1978: The US Senate rejects returning the Panama Canal to Panama by a vote of 52-48
26 May 1978: The first legal casino on the east coast of the US opens at Atlantic City
June 1978: The NBA Buffalo Braves is purchased by Arthur Imperatore and relocated to the New Jersey Meadowlands where they are renamed the New Jersey Devils.
6 August 1978: Pope Paul VI dies in Rome
30 August 1978: Paola Marella is elected Pope; he takes the Papal name Pius XIII
17 October 1978: The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat the Kansas City Royals in the World Series
22 October 1978: John Lennon and May Pang celebrate the birth of their daughter Julia
18 November 1978: The Jonestown Massacre occurs claiming the lives of 968 followers, including nearly 300 children and US Congressman Leo Ryan. The Massacre inspires Ronald Reagan to establish the Rhodes Commission on the Occult led by Vice President James Rhodes.
6 December 1978: The Spanish Constitution officially restores democracy in Spain
1 February 1979: A plot hatched by the CIA and carried out by the Iranian military succeeds in assassinating Ayatollah Khomeini touching off two weeks of rioting.
10 February 1979: The Iranian military seizes power over the Shah, allowing the monarch to leave for exile in the United Kingdom.
13 March 1979: The Republic of Iran is officially established by the Military Junta
June 1979: Utah Stars owner James Edwin Doyle purchases the NHL franchise the Colorado Rockies and relocates the club to Salt Lake City renaming the team the Utah Buzz.
16 July 1979: Saddam Hussein seizes power in Iraq
27 August 1979: Lord Mountbatten survives his trip when a small radio controlled bomb fails to detonate. He will live another 11 years until dying of a heart attack in 1990.
16 October 1979: The New York Yankees win their first world series of the decade defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates; it is the Yankees first title since 1962.
1 November 1979: Yoko Ono, ex-wife of former Beatle John Lennon is killed in a car accident in Tokyo. Lennon lists her death as the inspiration for his hit song When We Were in Love
7 November 1979: Senator Ted Kennedy announces his plans to run for the Presidency in 1980
December 1979: New Orleans sports entrepreneur David Dixon buys the New Orleans Jazz to prevent the team from relocating to San Diego.
22 January 1980: The Rhodes Commission on the Occult releases its findings to Congress and the President.
March 1980: The final of three Sino-Soviet rapprochement summits is held in Moscow.
March 1980: Rivalries between Utah’s two professional teams; and Salt Lake City’s obvious favoritism towards the Buzz forces Ned Doyle to sell his NBA club to Don Carter who moved the Stars to Dallas and renamed the team the Dallas Mavericks.
30 April 1980: Queen Juliana of the Netherlands abdicates, her daughter Beatrix succeeds her
4 May 1980: Longtime Yugoslavian ironman Josip Tito dies
21 May 1980: Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back is released in theaters. The movie is radically different portraying Han rejecting a teenaged Leia in favor of an old flame Mon Mothma who is now the Baroness Administrator of Cloud City, Mothma was portrayed by Karen Allen. Billy Dee Williams is introduced as legendary Rebel Commander Lando Calrissian.
3 June 1980: Ted Kennedy all but secures the Democratic nomination on Super Tuesday forcing out challengers Jimmy Carter, Frank Church, Henry Jackson and Walter Mondale. Kennedy’s only challenge comes from West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd.
June 1980: Al Davis successfully persuades the City of Oakland and Alameda County to make improvements to the Oakland Coliseum. Construction will start in spring 1981 and will include luxury boxes.
25 June 1980: Syrian President Hafez al-Assad is killed in an assassination attempt by the Muslim Brotherhood, the government responds with military force. He is succeeded by his brother Rifaat al-Assad.
16 July 1980: Vice President James Rhodes wins the Republican nomination and selects John Connelly as his running mate.
27 July 1980: Exiled Shah Reza Pahlavi dies in London
14 August 1980: Ted Kennedy is confirmed as the Democratic nominee for President, John Glenn is chosen as his running mate
21 October 1980: The New York Yankees win their second consecutive World Series defeating the San Francisco Giants
28 October 1980: Ted Kennedy and James Rhodes debate on live television, with both candidates virtually even in the polls. Kennedy is widely believed to be the winner and surges ahead in the polls.
4 November 1980: Ted Kennedy defeats James Rhodes in the Presidential Election
22 November 1980: President-elect Ted Kennedy survives an assassination attempt at Arlington National Cemetery shortly after laying a reef at the grave of his brothers. The would be assassin is identified as Mark David Chapman
20 January 1981: Ted Kennedy is sworn in as the Thirty Ninth President of the United States
23 February 1981: An attempted coup to restore the Fascist regime to power in Spain fails
30 March 1981: President Theodore Kennedy is shot and killed after addressing an AFL-CIO meeting in Washington D.C. by John Warnock Hinkley Jr. Later that evening Vice President John Glenn is sworn in as the fortieth President of the United States by Chief Justice Byron White. His first act as President is to address the shocked nation in a television broadcast. Upon hearing of the assassination of his bitter political rival, former President Ronald Reagan was quoted “Today we are all Democrats”
1 April 1981: John Warnock Hinkley, Jr. dies from wounds he received from the Secret Service during the assassination of President Kennedy.
4 April 1981: The body of slain President Theodore Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery near his older brothers John and Robert.
22 April 1981: Senator Lloyd Bentsen is asked by President Glenn to serve as his Vice President. Bentsen has little trouble being passed through both houses
28 April 1981: Lloyd Bentsen is sworn in as Vice President by Thurgood Marshall
30 April 1981: Texas Governor Bill Clements appoints George H.W. Bush to succeed Bentsen in the Senate
10 May 1981: Jacques Chirac wins the French Presidential Election defeating incumbent François Mitterrand.
13 May 1981: Pope Pius XIII is shot and killed by Turkish militant Mehmet Ali Agca
12 June 1981: Due to the assassination of President Kennedy, MLB owners and the players union agree on a temporary settlement that will allow the 1981 season to continue undisturbed.
June 1981: Indiana Jones and Raiders of the Lost Arc is released, the only significant change is Carrie Fisher portraying Marion Ravenwood.
25 June 1981: Polish Cardinal Karol Jozef Wojtyla is elected Pope, taking the name Pius XIV
27 June 1981: President Glenn nominates Griffin Bell to the Supreme Court
15 October 1981: Legendary 70’s band Blind Faith announces their break up, with Eric Clapton and George Harrison more interested in concentrating on solo careers
10 December 1981: Spain joins NATO
January 1982: Unemployment reaches the 3,000,000 mark in Great Britain
February 1982: The M*A*S*H series finale airs after 10 seasons
26 March 1982: A ground-breaking ceremony is opened by President Glenn on the Washington National Mall for the Vietnam Memorial Wall
2 April 1982: The Falklands War begins once the Republic of Argentina invades the Falkland Islands.
17 April 1982: Prince of Wales Charles marries Amanda Knatchbull
May 1982: President John Glenn makes an unprecedented trip to the Peoples Republic of China
12 June 1982: A rally against Nuclear Weapons draws 750,000 people to New York’s Central Park. Amongst those attending are Bruce Springsteen, Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Keith Richards and John Lennon.
14 June 1982: The Argentine government concedes defeat to the British ending the Falkland War
3 August 1982: The Soviet Union invades Poland to end the two year strikes led by Solidarity leader Lech Walesa. Walesa is smuggled out of Poland to the safety of Finland and is granted Political Asylum in Great Britain.
28 October 1982: Longtime Soviet dictator Leonid Brezhnev dies in Moscow; he is succeeded three days later by KGB director Yuri Andropov.
13 November 1982: The Vietnam Memorial Wall is dedicated in Washington D.C.
30 November 1982: Michael Jackson releases Thriller
February 1983: Times Beach, Missouri is evacuated by the Environmental Protection Agency due to dioxin contamination
24 March 1983: Just one day after introducing the world to the Moonwalk, Michael Jackson is killed when his charter plane crashes shortly after take off in Detroit, Michigan
25 May 1983: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi comes out in theaters featuring a Wookiee army, the return of Anakin Skywalker and establishing the romance between Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker
7 July 1983: American schoolgirl Samantha Smith flies to the USSR at the invitation of Premier Andropov.
August 1983: Edmonton Oiler fans are stunned to learn Wayne Gretzky had been traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs
30 October 1983: Free elections are held in Argentina after years of military rule
2 November 1983: President Glenn signs a bill establishing Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday
11 December 1983: Prince of Wales Charles and his wife Princess Amanda announce the birth of their first child Prince George.
9 February 1984: Soviet Premier Yuri Andropov dies and is succeeded by Konstantin Chernenko
March 1984: John Lennon gives his first solo concert at Madison Square Garden, he does not perform any Beatle songs
March 1984: Former Vice President James Rhodes drops out of the race for the Republican nomination after failing to secure enough votes
May 1984: Bob Irsay attempts to move the Baltimore Colts to Indianapolis only to see his team seized by the state of Maryland through eminent domain. Irsay sues the city of Baltimore, the state of Maryland and the NFL. An agreement is eventually reached between the NFL and Irsay, allowing the former Colts owner to take ownership of an expansion team located in Indianapolis (Stallions) and to begin play in 1985. Maryland and Baltimore eventually settles with Irsay for an undisclosed sum. Former owner of the USFL Philadelphia Stars Myles Tanenbaum quickly sold his team to purchase the Baltimore Colts.
June 1984: Another USFL owner jumps over to the NFL when Arizona Wranglers owner Ted Diethrich announces he has been awarded an NFL expansion club and plans on retaining the Wranglers name and colors. As speculated the Indianapolis Stallions were placed in the AFC Central and the Wranglers in the NFC West.
July 1984: Senator George H.W. Bush won the Republican nomination for President; Governor Dick Cheney of Wyoming was selected as his running mate
26 September 1984: The Peoples Republic of China and Great Britain sign a treaty to return Hong Kong in 1997
31 October 1984: Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated
6 November 1984: President John Glenn defeats challenger Senator George Bush to win the Presidential Election.
20 January 1985: John Glenn is sworn in publicly in a much more celebratory atmosphere than in 1981.
February 1985: The United States officially recognizes the Peoples Republic of China after decades of holding out.
10 March 1985: Soviet Premier Konstantin Chernenko dies he is succeeded by Mikhail Gorbachev
23 April 1985: Coca-Cola introduces New Coke
18 May 1985: Princess Catherine the oldest daughter of Prince of Wales Charles and Princess Amanda is born
June 1985: New York City real estate developer Donald Trump becomes the owner of the last place New York Yankees
July 1985: The United States launches the largest ever Space Station, Skylab V
25 August 1985: Samantha Smith’s plane lands safely after its pilot executes a Missed Approach and successfully attempts a second landing.
4 September 1985: The wreckage of the RMS Titanic is discovered
18 October 1985: The Nintendo is released in North America
1 January 1986: Portugal and Spain joins the European Community
24 January 1986: Soviet troops end their occupation of Poland, leaving behind deep resentment and mistrust amongst the Polish population
28 January 1986: The Space Shuttle Challenger explodes 78 seconds after take off
19 February 1986: The USSR launches the Mir Space Station in an attempt to keep up with the US Space Program
13 April 1986: The cast of the Andy Griffith Show reunite for the TV movie Return to Mayberry, the movie was such a hit with fans that a TV series Return to Mayberry began to air in the fall. Andy Griffith rejected the role of Matlock in favor of Mayberry.
21 April 1986: Geraldo Rivera hosts Opening Al Capone’s Vault, the special ends with great disappointment and only a single bottle of Moonshine inside
26 April 1986: The Chernobyl disaster kills 56 and renders parts of the Ukraine and Belarus inhabitable
4 July 1986: The Statue of Liberty reopens after extensive refurbishing
27 October 1986: The Boston Red Sox led by first baseman Tony Perez defeat the Washington Capitals for their first World Series title since World War One.
4 November 1986: The popular series Matlock airs in North America starring TV legend Dick Van Dyke in the title role.
December 1986: The United States Football League announces it will cease all operations, and declare bankruptcy.
11 January 1987: The Cleveland Browns defeat the Denver Broncos to earn their first trip to the Super Bowl
25 January 1987: The New York Giants defeat the Cleveland Browns 17-14 in the first Super Bowl to go to overtime. It is the Giants first title since 1956.
19 April 1987: The Simpsons first appear on the Tracey Ullman show
8 May 1987: The Reverend Jessie Jackson announces his intention to seek the Democratic nomination in 1988
11 June 1987: Neil Kinnocks Labour Party wins election in Great Britain over Enoch Powell’s Conservatives
17 August 1987: Nazi war criminal Rudolf Hess commits suicide in prison at the age of 93
1 December 1987: Construction on the Channel Tunnel is initiated
8 March 1988: Bob Dole defeats Jack Kemp, George Bush and Dick Cheney to win the Republican nomination on Super Tuesday.
26 March 1988: Jessie Jackson, Vice President Bentsen’s main opponent for the Democratic nomination of President drops out of the race after a poor showing in the polls.
28 April 1988: Premier Mikhail Gorbachev announces the Soviet Union will no longer interfere in the domestic policies of the Warsaw Pact nations
21 July 1988: Lloyd Bentsen is confirmed as the Democratic nominee for President, former Kentucky Governor Martha Layne Collins is selected as his running mate, making her the first female candidate on a major party ticket.
18 August 1988: Bob Dole wins the 1988 Republican Nomination for President; Pierre du Pont is selected as his running mate
5 September 1988: The September Fifth Uprising in Hungary leads to the Communist Regime’s collapse by the months end, and the establishment of the democratic government in Budapest. The fall of the Hungarian regime would be a huge feather in the cap for Vice President Bentsen during the campaign season.
September 1988: Peace Activist Samantha Smith is reported missing. Her mother became concerned after she didn’t return from school. A nation wide search for Smith commences and dominates the news for three weeks.
10 October 1988: Nelson Mandela is released from prison
8 November 1988: Lloyd Bentsen defeats Bob Dole in the Presidential election
30 December 1988: The Showa Period ends with the death of Japanese Emperor Hirohito after a reign of 62 years and 6 days. He is succeeded by his son Akihito
18 January 1989: The Polish Communist Party votes to legalize Solidarity, however Martial Law is still in place
20 January 1989: Lloyd Bentsen is sworn in as the Forty first President of the United States, Martha Layne Collins is sworn as the Forty Third Vice President and the first female Vice President.
17 April 1989: The Communist Government of Poland collapses after popular anti-government demonstrations in every major city. Solidarity leader Lech Walesa returns from Britain to head up the provisional Polish Government
21 April 1989: The Tiananmen Square Revolution begins in Beijing. Within a week the communist government of the Peoples Republic of China collapses when large numbers of troops defected to join the students in the Tiananmen Square Revolution. The Revolution was much better organized than the Communist government had previously thought, with democrats, socialists and reformers united together in an anti-government alliance. Revolts soon flared up all across China, resulting in the collapse of the government still led by the increasingly unpopular gang of four.
30 May 1989: The Goddess of Democracy is unveiled in Beijing
5 June 1989: Chinese demonstrators barge in on a politburo meeting, marking the end of the Peoples Republic of China. Reformer Zhao Ziyang becomes the Chairman of the Chinese Provisional Government
27 June 1989: Tibet declares its independence from the Chinese Provisional government. India almost immediately recognizes the independent Tibet, the USSR, United States, Great Britain and France follow suit.
18 July 1989: Uighuristan declares independence from China; foreign recognition is slower with the USSR the first to recognize the new republic two days later.
1 August 1989: The Chinese Constitution is signed into law establishing the Federal Republic of China. In tradition of past regime changes in China, the new government moved its capital to Xi’an.
2 September 1989: Trials begin in Xi’an for the Gang of Four, de-Maoisation begins across the nation
6 September 1989: After months of demonstrations across South Africa, the pro-Apartheid Nationalist Party loses the election to Nelson Mandela’s African Nationalist Congress
10 October 1989: The Baltimore Orioles become the first baseball team in history to go from last place to first place in the span of one season defeating the Kansas City Royals to earn a trip to the World Series. The Orioles magic ended however and the San Francisco Giants win the Series in five games. It is the first Giants championship since their move west in 1958.
7 November 1989: The Communist Government of East Germany resigns
10 November 1989: Germans from both sides of the border begin to tear down the Berlin Wall
17 November 1989: Police beat back demonstrating students in Prague, sparking a massive riot. By the months end the Communist Party agrees to give up its monopoly on power and hold free elections.
1 December 1989: The East German Parliament abolishes the constitutional provision which gives the Communists monopoly over German politics. Erich Honecker and the remaining members of his Politburo resigned four days later. Hans Modrow becomes the temporary Chief of State and begins to call for a unification of the two German nations.
11 December 1989: Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega orders the invasion of the Panama Canal. Minimal US military forces in the area are overwhelmed in spite of holding their own. President Bentsen orders a military intervention to take back the Canal beginning the Panama War.
19 December 1989: Manuel Noriega is captured by the US military in Panama City; the Canal reopens under US military administration. Discussions about annexing the Panama Canal Zone become a hot button issue in the US Senate.
3 January 1990: Princess Mary Grace the youngest child of Prince of Wales Charles and Princess Amanda is born
22 January 1990: Bulgarian Communist leader Todor Zhivkov and his deputies are removed from power leaving only Romania and the Soviet Union as the last two Warsaw Pact nations still ruled by the Communist Party
13 February 1990: An agreement is reached between the two German nations for reunification. The triumvirate of France, Britain and the USSR attempt to prevent reunification of the two German nations, the United States is alone of the former wartime allies to express its support (although China sides with the US in the UN). In the end the United States got its way and the two German nations became one, as a result the Federal Republic of Germany is often considered the United States closest ally in Europe.
11 March 1990: Lithuania declares independence from the USSR only to have the Red Army crush the demonstrations and restore order in the Soviet Republic
15 March 1990: The North Vietnamese Army seizes power from the Communist Party
23 March 1990: Blockbuster movie Pretty Woman is released starring Christopher Reeve and Molly Ringwald in the two starring roles.
1 April 1990: Namibia is granted independence from South Africa
25 April 1990: Mass demonstrators and military defections cause the collapse of the Communist Party in Romania. Leader Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena flee the angry mobs and are granted political asylum in the Soviet Union.
22 May 1990: North and South Yemen merge becoming the Arab Republic of Yemen
August 1990: Slobodan Milošević attempts to prevent the collapse of Yugoslavia orders a military crackdown in Croatia, and Slovenia. President Bentsen extends US recognition of both secessionist states. A coalition of European nations including Britain, Norway, Italy and Greece joins the United States in demanding the Serbian President backs down.
1 October 1990: East and West Germany merge to become the Federal Republic of Germany
3 October 1990: The capital of the Federal Republic of Germany is moved to Berlin
21 November 1990: The UN Security Council resolution 678 authorizing military intervention to force Slobodan Milošević to withdraw from Croatia and Slovenia is passed by the UN Security Council after the Soviet Union and France abstain.
January 1991: Coalition Air Forces begin operations over Yugoslavia
February 1991: Coalition Ground Forces liberate the capitals of Slovenia and Croatia.
March 1991: Serbian forces give the American led coalition a month of tough fighting 430 Coalition troops of which 220 Americans are killed in Bosnia. Bentsen’s popularity drops.
30 March 1991: Coalition tanks and paratroopers reach the outskirts of Belgrade. The already devastated Serbian army arrests Slobodan Milošević and negotiates a cease fire with the Coalition.
31 March 1991: Albania holds its first free elections
April 1991: The Yugoslavian remnant is occupied by Coalition forces. British Prime Minister Neil Kinnock announces the Coalition will hold referendums in each of the Yugoslav Republics for Union or Independence in August
2 May 1991: The Warsaw Pact is officially dissolved
5 May 1991: The United States Congress approves an aid package for the Balkans
13 July 1991: Former child peace activist Samantha Smith is found in eastern Kentucky having been abducted by Robert John Bardo at knife point and forced into sexual servitude. Bardo had taken Smith to a local hospital to give birth, Smith informed a nurse and the police took Bardo into custody. Smith later gave birth to a daughter Alicia Smith and was reunited with her parents. Bardo is sentenced to fifty years in prison for unlawful imprisonment and rape.
4 August 1991: The union of Yugoslavia is dissolved with Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Slovenia and Montenegro voting for independence, only Serbia approved a new confederation. Following the dissolution of Yugoslavia voters in both Serbia and Montenegro approved the restoration of their respective monarchies.
1 October 1991: Senator John McCain of Arizona announces he will seek the GOP nomination for President in 1992
27 October 1991: The Atlanta Braves defeats the Minnesota Twins in what is considered to be the Greatest World Series ever
3 November 1991: White Supremacist and Republican candidate for Governor of Louisiana David Duke is shot and killed while campaigning by an out of work black man. The 5 November elections are postponed until late December. Former Republican Governor David C. Treen accepted the GOP nomination and defeated Edwin Edwards in December
1 December 1991: Queen lead singer Freddy Mercury dies due to complications of AIDS, just 48 hours after revealing to the world that he suffers from the virus.
1 January 1992: The Soviet Union dissolves
10 February 1992: North Vietnam and South Vietnam hold the first summit discussing the possibility of reunification in the ancient city of Hue. The two Vietnamese nations peacefully unite in 2003 with a restoration of the monarchy. The United States closes Saigon Air Force Base, the last military facility in Vietnam in 2007.
9 April 1992: The British Conservative Party wins the general election making Michael Heseltine Prime Minister
15 April 1992: EuroDisney officially opens in Rome
19 May 1992: Presidential hopeful, Senator Dan Quayle of Indiana gives his famous Murphy Brown speech, effectively ending his chances at winning the nomination
22 May 1992: Johnny Carson retires from the Tonight Show after thirty years; he is replaced on the show by comedian David Letterman
22 June 1992: The remains of Tsar Nikolai II, his wife Alexandra and three of his daughters are found. The remains of his son is not amongst them, and it is speculated whether the missing daughter is Anastasia or her older sister Maria.
1 July 1992: Volgograd becomes known once again as Stalingrad
13 July 1992: Yitzhak Rabin becomes Prime Minister of Israel
11 August 1992: The Mall of America opens in Minnesota
August 1992: Senator John McCain wins the Republican nomination for President; his running mate is Lamar Alexander.
3 September 1992: It is reported on CNN that the husband of Democratic Vice President Martha Collins was involved in a scandal involved in extorting campaign funds. Although no guilt could be traced back to Collins the scandal ended her political career and was a crushing blow to the Bentsen reelection campaign.
4 September 1992: Martha Collins resigns the Vice Presidency as a result of the scandal her husband caused. She removes her name from the political ring, causing the Bentsen campaign to scramble in finding a new running mate.
10 September: Lloyd Bentsen introduces his new running mate Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland. It is criticized by the McCain campaign and the media as a ploy to keep women voters that may have been lost by the Collins scandal.
September 1992: Return to Mayberry is cancelled in spite of putting up decent ratings numbers
24 October 1992: The Atlanta Braves win their second World Series title defeating the Boston Red Sox
3 November 1992: Republican Challenger John McCain defeats incumbent Democrat Lloyd Bentsen to win the Presidential election and ending 12 years of Democratic rule in the White House. With the election lost Lloyd Bentsen serves the rest of his term without a Vice President.
31 December 1992: Czechoslovakia is dissolved in the Velvet Divorce giving birth to two nations the Republic of Slovakia and the Republic of Czechia
20 January 1993: John McCain is sworn in as the Forty Second President of the US
30 April 1993: The World Wide Web is launched
24 May 1993: Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia
4 August 1993: North and South Vietnam unite to form the Republic of Vietnam with its capital in Saigon
26 September 1993: After ten years of diplomacy which began under the Glenn Administration, Israel and Syria sign a peace accord in Washington D.C. recognizing each others right to exist.
25 October 1993: Kim Campbell becomes Canada’s first female Prime Minister
26 October 1993: The NFL announces its will add expansion teams to Charlotte, NC and San Antonio, TX in 1995 as part of a reorganization of the league.
14 January 1994: President McCain and President Yeltsin of the Russian Federation sign the Kremlin Accords which stop pre-programmed aiming of nuclear missiles at each others country
3 February 1994: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr reunite to film a special about the Beatles and to record a new album together, called the Beatles Today.
19 May 1994: Former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis dies
2 June 1994: The Beatles give their last ever live performance at Shea Stadium in New York
12 August 1994: An 11th hour deal signed by the owners and MLB players union prevents a strike. The deal is brokered by Commissioner George W. Bush. The 1994 season sees baseball return to previously unfathomable heights with Tony Gwynn of the Pittsburgh Pirates finishing the season with a .400 batting average (sitting out the final three games to retain it) and Matt Williams of the San Francisco Giants hitting 63 homeruns.
14 September 1994: Coneheads makes the jump from the Big Screen to the TV Screen with a new series on NBC. Dan Aykroyd, Jane Curtin, Michelle Burke and Chris Farley appear as the main cast and picks up where the movie left off. The series is very popular with teenagers.
27 October 1994: The Washington Capitals win their first World Series defeating the heavily favored Chicago White Sox.
5 November 1994: Ronald Reagan makes public that he is suffering from Alzheimer’s disease
8 November 1994: Dick Gephardt leads the Democrats into taking back the House of Representatives becoming Speaker of the House
15 February 1995: After failing to reach an agreement on reunification, Taiwan declares independence from China.
21 February 1995: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il agrees to meet with Secretary of State George H.W. Bush at Panmunjom. In spite of Bush’s best efforts, the North Korean delegation was uninterested in what the American ambassador had to say and stormed out of the meeting after two and a half hours.
25 February 1995: Shortly after the departure of George H.W. Bush from Seoul, North Korea launches a Scud missile attack directed at Seoul. 250,000 South Korean citizens are murdered in the event. Heavy fighting around the DMZ erupts with ROK and US troops forced to retreat by the overwhelming North Korean assault.
26 February 1995: President McCain addresses Congress and becomes the first President since Franklin Roosevelt to request a declaration of war. With massive casualties in Seoul and over 200 American troops dead he has little trouble receiving it.
2 March 1995: President McCain forms a massive coalition of nations to assist in the war against North Korea including Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Britain, Vietnam, India, Iran, Turkey, Greece, Poland, Japan, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand and China. The Russian Federation remains neutral but gives its support to the Coalition.
3 March 1995: South Korean, Australian, British and American Air Forces begin a massive aerial campaign against North Korea destroying most of the North Korean Air Force on the ground in the first 48 hours and swatting the rest out of the sky within the first week to have total air domination.
5 March 1995: 150,000 US Marines and Army Paratroopers are deployed to South Korea
15 March 1995: The Battle of Seoul begins with well entrenched ROK and American forcess facing the North Koreans in the mostly abandoned city
19 March 1995: Fresh American tanks, soldiers and supplies pour into Seoul
22 March 1995: North Korea begins to retreat from Seoul their first major defeat of the Second Korean War
28 March 1995: 110,000 North Korean soldiers surrender to the coalition forces. Air Superiority had cut off their supply lines and constant fighting had exhausted their ammunition.
4 April 1995: The Chinese Army of the Republic begins its invasion of North Korea. With a total strength of 1,000,000 troops it is the third largest force in the war behind the two Korea’s.
11 April 1995: The North Korean Army having to divide its forces loses traction in the south, Panmunjom falls to the Coalition Forces, it is a major morale boost for the Coalition.
19 April 1995: Kim Jong-Il commits suicide to prevent his capture by the Coalition Forces he is succeeded by Kim Yong-Nam. Yong-Nam vows to continue the fight until all of the capitalist pigs are out of Korea
30 April 1995: China surrounds the North Korean capital Pyongyang and demands the surrender of Kim Yong-Nam; the North Korean dictator refuses to surrender. He is captured trying to flee the city disguised as a woman.
31 April 1995: Pak Pong-Ju is recognized by the remnant of the North Korean government as the official leader
3 May 1995: North Korea requests a cease-fire, coalition forces take the opportunity to strengthen its positions
7 May 1995: North Korea surrenders when its ambassador in the Russian Federation met with the American ambassador at the Kremlin
9 May 1995: Pak Pong-Ju leaves Pyongyang as per the agreement with the coalition forces for political asylum in Russia. The Korean War is officially over, although guerilla warfare and terrorist cells continue in operation to present day.
28 May 1995: The two Korea’s are formally united. The Korean peninsula will remain under Martial Law for an undetermined amount of time.
20 June 1995: Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr. plays his 2131st consecutive at Camden Yards against the New York Yankees. Ripken went 1 for three with a double and walk in the Orioles 3-0 win.
24 August 1995: Microsoft releases Windows ‘95
September 1995: Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton announces his intention of seeking the Democratic nomination
30 October 1995: Quebec votes to secede from the Federal Republic of Canada by a margin 58.53% to 41.47%. The Second Korean War is cited as the main reason most Quebecers voted for secession as French Canada was less supportive of the war than the other provinces.
4 February 1996: King Fahd of Saudi Arabia dies, his brother Abdullah becomes the ruler of the desert nation
6 March 1996: Chechen uprising begins in Russia
22 March 1996: Canada and Quebec reach an agreement in Quebec secession which allows some parts of Quebec to remain with Canada. Quebec is officially granted independence.
24 April 1996: A peace treaty is signed between the Republic of East Palestine and Israel in Geneva. President Yasser Arafat announces that the Republic of East Palestine will now be the Republic of Palestine.
28 May 1996: Quebec joins the United Nations
August 1996: Senator Joe Biden of Delaware wins the Democratic nomination for President with Bill Clinton as his running mate.
5 November 1996: President McCain staves off a hard charging Joe Biden to retain the Presidency
12 February 1997: Former Vice Presidential candidate Bill Clinton and his wife Hilary announce they are divorcing. Bill Clinton returns to Arkansas and is elected mayor of his hometown of Hot Springs while Hilary was elected to the US House of Representatives representing the tenth district of Illinois in 1998. Hilary Clinton’s official address is in Buffalo Grove, Ill and she had gained custody of her daughter during the divorce.
March 1997: The Republic of Quebec joins NAFTA
1 May 1997: Labour Party led by Margaret Beckett wins the General Election in the UK
30 June 1997: Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone is released becoming an international sensation
1 July 1997: Hong Kong becomes a part of the Federal Republic of China
8 July 1997: NATO invites Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Quebec to join the alliance in 1999, all four nations accept.
11 September 1997: Scotland votes to form its own Parliament after 290 years of union with England
18 September 1997: Wales votes in favor of creating its own National Assembly
28 October 1997: Former Rolling Stone and Wings guitarist Brian Jones is found dead of a drug over dose in San Francisco. He had been preparing for a concert kicking off a solo world tour after the release of his album the Life of Brian Jones. The album was critically panned.
19 December 1997: The movie Titanic is released becoming a Hollywood Blockbuster and starring Kate Winslet and Stephen Dorff. The movie was directed by James Cameron.
16 January 1998: NASA announces it will send former President John Glenn back into space
April 1998: The Monarchy of Laos is restored with the crowning of Soulivong Savang ending thirty years of Communist rule.
7 May 1998: The TV Series Coneheads ends it’s run with a rather unremarkable series finale
21 May 1998: Suharto resigns after 32 years as President of Indonesia
25 June 1998: Microsoft releases Windows ‘98
31 August 1998: Martial Law is partially lifted in the Republic of Korea more than three years after the Second Korean War ended.
3 November 1998: Former Wrestler and actor Jessie Ventura is elected Governor of Minnesota running as an independent
31 December 1998: The pro-western military junta in Cambodia restores the monarchy, ending a generation of military rule
1 January 1999: The Euro is established
12 January 1999: Long time Egyptian President Anwar Sadat dies of a heart attack in Cairo, he is succeeded by Safwat El-Sherif
12 March 1999: Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Quebec are officially part of NATO
19 May 1999: Star Wars – The Phantom Menace is released, the first Star Wars movie after a 16 year absence from the Silver Screen. The movie stars Haley Joel Osment, Ewan McGreggor, Liam Neeson and Keira Knightley.
19 June 1999: Horror writer Stephen King is hit buy a van driven by Bryan Smith, King dies the following day from internal bleeding.
12 October 1999: General Pervez Musharraf leads a military junta in Pakistan
November 1999: Charles M. Schulz, the creator of Peanuts suffers a stroke
6 November 1999: Australians vote to become a Republic
21 November 1999: Elian Gonzalez and his mother arrive in Miami after selling from Cuba on an aluminum boat. The mother is dehydrated but otherwise fine. The event becomes controversial due to Elian’s father demanding his sons return. In the end President Dole’s administration refused to send the boy back to Cuba. Elian, his mother and her boyfriend were granted asylum in the United States.
31 December 1999: President Boris Yeltsin surrenders his powers to Vladimir Putin, ushering in a new age in the Russian Federation.
1 January 2000: Australia officially becomes the Republic of Australia with former Liberal Party leader Alexander Downer serving as the first President and John Howard continuing as Prime Minister.
15 February 2000: Charles M. Schulz dies
17 February 2000: Microsoft releases Windows 2000
7 March 2000: Vice President Lamar Alexander emerges victorious in the Republican Primaries, the same day Democrat Evan Bayh clinches the Democratic nomination.
22 April 2000: Elian Gonzales’ father attempts to kidnap his son and return him to Cuba. He is caught darting in and out of traffic by the Miami Police Department and spends the next six years in jail before being returned to Cuba, Elian is returned to his mother where he lives with her in a Miami ghetto. In a 2006 interview a 13 year old Elian expressed no interest in returning to Cuba or to see his father again. “America is my home now”
31 July 2000: The Republican Convention begins at Candem Yards in Baltimore confirming Lamar Alexander as their nominee for President and Phil Gramm as his running mate.
14 August 2000: The Democratic Convention in Los Angeles reaffirms Evan Bayh as the DNC nominee and Senator Bob Graham of Florida as his running mate.
7 November 2000: Governor Bayh of Indiana defeats Donald Rumsfeld to return the Democrats to the White House. The electoral map is almost exactly the same as OTL 2000 except Bayh wins Indiana, Florida, New Hampshire and West Virginia