2008-Stock Markets around the world crash due to the US banking system floundering.
A series of tornadoes savage the Southern United States, leaving more than 60 dead. IWO agents report that this is fallout from the Chinese weather controller’s damage, and to expect worse weather as the Earth recovers.
Terrorists severely damage the wooden pagoda atop the Sungnyemun, in Seoul.
A suicide bomber detonated in a lecture hall in Northern Illinois University. 24 people were killed and more than a hundred were injured.
Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia and petitioned the U.N. for admittance.
Fidel Castro retires.
Upon the government returning to Thailand, the Prime Minister is arrested on corruption charges.
Armenian police forces violently break up a group of protesters, peacefully protesting the recent election. Eight protesters are killed. U.N. peacekeepers are deployed to ensure human rights are protected.
Bhutan’s first general election ends with it officially becoming a democracy.
IST Houston assists in the raid on the YFZ Ranch in Texas. More than 500 women and children are taken into protective custody.
Mynamar is hit by Cyclone Nargis. Even with the IWO reducing the strength of the cyclone, more than 100,000 people are killed and millions are rendered homeless. The Blue Demon appears, raising the death toll by another 30,000 before it vanishes ten days later.
The Chaiten Volcano, in Chile, erupts. More than 4,500 people are evacuated, but less than 10 are killed.
A massive (8.0) earth quake in Sichuan, China devastates the surrounding area and kills nearly 70,000 people. The Blue Demon appears having only vanished from Mynamar hours ago. The large concentration of IST Peacekeepers in the area drives the beast off before it can wreak too much havoc.
Nepal officially becomes a republic, ending the 240-year Shah Dynasty.
A military junta in Mauritania overthrows President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi. General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz asks the U.N. to administer the country in the interim and arrange for presidential elections.
Georgia prepares to launch an attack against Tskhinvali, the capital of the breakaway nation South Ossetia to reclaim the area. The U.N. immediately recognizes both South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent nations and offers them full U.N. and IST support. Control of the Russian troops defending the areas is willingly handed over to U.N. peacekeeping duties. Georgia files several complaints, but backs down from aggression.
The US Government nationalizes Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two, largest, mortgage companies in the US.
(At CERN, in Geneva Switzerland, the LHC is powered up for the first time)-Really need to do something with that!
The IWO manages to disperse Hurricane Ike before it strikes Galveston Island, Texas.
The first, privately-owned spacecraft, Falcon 1, is launched into Earth Orbit by SpaceX.
Following further collapse in the American banking market, international stock markets continue to fall. Meeranon groups and the U.N. together bail the market out with an astounding one-trillion-dollar bailout.
Ten suicide bombers detonate in Mumbai, India, killing more than 400. The Blue Demon appears.
Thailand’s new Prime Minister resigns amid political crisis.
---ETA: The CERN statment, while being a complete sentence was not the complete sentence it was supposed to be.
A series of tornadoes savage the Southern United States, leaving more than 60 dead. IWO agents report that this is fallout from the Chinese weather controller’s damage, and to expect worse weather as the Earth recovers.
Terrorists severely damage the wooden pagoda atop the Sungnyemun, in Seoul.
A suicide bomber detonated in a lecture hall in Northern Illinois University. 24 people were killed and more than a hundred were injured.
Kosovo declared its independence from Serbia and petitioned the U.N. for admittance.
Fidel Castro retires.
Upon the government returning to Thailand, the Prime Minister is arrested on corruption charges.
Armenian police forces violently break up a group of protesters, peacefully protesting the recent election. Eight protesters are killed. U.N. peacekeepers are deployed to ensure human rights are protected.
Bhutan’s first general election ends with it officially becoming a democracy.
IST Houston assists in the raid on the YFZ Ranch in Texas. More than 500 women and children are taken into protective custody.
Mynamar is hit by Cyclone Nargis. Even with the IWO reducing the strength of the cyclone, more than 100,000 people are killed and millions are rendered homeless. The Blue Demon appears, raising the death toll by another 30,000 before it vanishes ten days later.
The Chaiten Volcano, in Chile, erupts. More than 4,500 people are evacuated, but less than 10 are killed.
A massive (8.0) earth quake in Sichuan, China devastates the surrounding area and kills nearly 70,000 people. The Blue Demon appears having only vanished from Mynamar hours ago. The large concentration of IST Peacekeepers in the area drives the beast off before it can wreak too much havoc.
Nepal officially becomes a republic, ending the 240-year Shah Dynasty.
A military junta in Mauritania overthrows President Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi. General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz asks the U.N. to administer the country in the interim and arrange for presidential elections.
Georgia prepares to launch an attack against Tskhinvali, the capital of the breakaway nation South Ossetia to reclaim the area. The U.N. immediately recognizes both South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent nations and offers them full U.N. and IST support. Control of the Russian troops defending the areas is willingly handed over to U.N. peacekeeping duties. Georgia files several complaints, but backs down from aggression.
The US Government nationalizes Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two, largest, mortgage companies in the US.
(At CERN, in Geneva Switzerland, the LHC is powered up for the first time)-Really need to do something with that!
The IWO manages to disperse Hurricane Ike before it strikes Galveston Island, Texas.
The first, privately-owned spacecraft, Falcon 1, is launched into Earth Orbit by SpaceX.
Following further collapse in the American banking market, international stock markets continue to fall. Meeranon groups and the U.N. together bail the market out with an astounding one-trillion-dollar bailout.
Ten suicide bombers detonate in Mumbai, India, killing more than 400. The Blue Demon appears.
Thailand’s new Prime Minister resigns amid political crisis.
---ETA: The CERN statment, while being a complete sentence was not the complete sentence it was supposed to be.