Editing TIMELINE (section)

==2005==
===[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2005 December 2005]===
* '''December 30''': the Main Cast, Vivian Janell and Vernon Marks gather at the Blue Gin to enjoy a relaxing evening.  Jack's young friend Dermot appears, with heroin, and reveals himself to be Milos' son.  Milos and Jack's brother Patrick arrive to take Jack away.
* '''December 24''': The Congress of the United States rejected Condoleezza Rice's request to restore $50 million in aid to the African Union.  <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Arthur Redford battles Godlike masked wrestler "El Cuchillo" on Pay-Per-View.
* '''December 22''': Vice President Brian Jaffe meets with the Ambassador from North Korea to discuss that country's proposed "Godlike Program."  <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Former(?) Progeny member, Mongrel, takes Brian Jaffe's mother hostage in Maine.
* '''December 21''': &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;DCFD Engine #16 hosts its annual Christmas BBQ.  The Main Cast are in attendance, as are Mandy's brother Gabe and his fiancee [http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/Emma_Woodhull Ockham]!   Heavy fire greeted D.C.'s bravest as they arrived at the scene of a row house blaze on Wednesday night. Flames were shooting from all windows on the first floor of the home at 535 Irving Street N.W. Even as the first handlines were being placed in operation, fire swept upstairs to engulf the floor above in the two-story middle of the row dwelling. Engine 16 was involved in a minor accident as they were arriving on the scene.  [http://www.dcfd.com/ for more...]. 
* '''December 18''': U.S. Vice President Brian Jaffe is on a trip to various countries including Oman, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He made a surprise stop to Iraq today. 
* '''December 17''': Condoleezza Rice and the African Union request additional funds to enable the A.U.'s peacekeeping mission in Darfur, Sudan to continue. Without additional aid, the African peacekeeping force will run out of funds in four months. Violence in the region has resurged recently.     
* '''December 16''': Senator John McCain persuades President Dick Cheney to accept a ban on cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees; The United States House of Representatives has requested that the Cheney administration give Congress details on any secret detention facilities overseas; The United States Senate rejects the extension of the PATRIOT Act; United States President Dick Cheney refuses to comment on whether the National Security Agency spied on American citizens without a legal warrant.  
* '''December 15''': Brian Jaffe has a private dinner with Monica Amen Asia to discuss her parents' situation.
* '''December 14''': U.S. President Dick Cheney says that the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 was the result of faulty intelligence, and accepts responsibility for that decision. He maintains that his decision was still justified.
* '''December 13''': The President of the United States, Dick Cheney, acknowledges the deaths of approximately 30,000 Iraqi civilians since the commencement of the Iraq War.

===[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2005 November 2005]===
* '''November 25''': The [[Main Cast]] departs for Seattle, at the request of President Cheney and Washington Governor Grigoire. 
* '''November 24''': Thanksgiving.  The [[Main Cast]] and their close family and friends share a festive dinner at Brian's townhouse.  
* '''November 21''': As more than one million Zambians face severe food shortages due to drought, President Levy Mwanawasa declares a national disaster and appealed for international food aid.
* ''November 17''': A state of emergency and widespread rioting ends in France, 
first sparked by the accidental deaths of two Muslim boys.
* '''November 2''': The Washington Post reports that the CIA has been operating, perhaps illegally, a covert network of "black site" prisons for terrorist suspects in eight foreign countries, including Afghanistan, Thailand, and several Eastern European democracies for the last four years, with little or no oversight from the United States Congress.
* '''November 1''': U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and his fellow Democrats force a closed session of the Senate over misinformed intelligence that led to the Iraq war and evasion of a congressional inquiry.  This is considered a coup by the media and dirty pool by Senate Republicans. 

===[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2005 October 2005]===
* '''October 29''': [[The Hopewell Foundation]]'s first charity banquet.
* '''October 20''': The Barbara Walters Special featuring [[Brian Jaffe|Brian]] is filmed and aired; [[Milos Wiazowski]] appears as a surprise (to Brian) guest. <br> [[Jack Bennett|Jack]] and [[Arthur Redford|Arthur]] leave Pakistan on a secret mission to rescue [[Zaida binte Shouk|Zaida]] from [[No Man's Land]]; all does not go according to plan and the [[Main Cast]] soon finds themselves targets of military attention.
* '''October 19''': The [[Main Cast]] is on-hand to respond to the largest of the Kashmiri earthquake's aftershocks and their quick thinking and vast power directly saves nearly 200 lives.  A team from King Farm is there as well and, despite misgivings, the two teams are able to work together in the clean up project over the next week.
* '''October 18''': Lead by [[Mandy Smith|Mandy]], [[The Hopewell Foundation]]'s rescue team leaves for Kashmir to help with earthquake cleanup.
* '''October 15''': [[Arthur Redford|Arthur]] and the rest of the [[Main Cast]] battle The Reaper in Potomac Park.  Though the physical fight ends quickly in our heroes' favor, the emotional score is not so settled as The Reaper is revealed to be their friend, [[Harley Carlson|Harley]].
* '''October 13''': [[Khalid Atta]], the last surviving hijacker of [[AA_283_Flight_Manifest|American Airlines flight 283]], arrives at the office of [[The Hopewell Foundation]], requesting asylum.  After a small scuffle, [[Arthur Redford|Arthur]] and [[Brian Jaffe|Brian]] bring him to the office of Amnesty International in New York. <br> Several other [[AA_283_Flight_Manifest|Survivors]] arrive at the Hopewell Office, asking for help on a variety of issues.
* '''October 12''': The [[Main Cast]] has a brief altercation with [[Milos Wiazowski]], [[Daniel Young]] and several of Milos' Godlike colleagues outside of the Young family's home in Virgina over custody of [[Maggie Young|Maggie]] and [[Alex Young|Alex]].  Unprepared to encounter other people as powerful as they, the Main Cast are defeated, but not before [[Brian Jaffe|Brian]] wreaks unintentional, but severe, property damage in the neighborhood with his powers. Later that evening, Milos arrives at the Hopewell Foundation office to give a 24 hour ultimatum for their submission to his will. <br> A group called [[The Human Foundation]] airs a commercial in prime time, containing footage of Survivor-caused destruction (even some from the fight at the Young's house that very afternoon), asking how the public can not fear the power of the Godlike.
* '''October 11''': In giving "the Godlike Convocation," [[Milos Wiazowski]] announces the opening of King Farm as a gated community for the Survivors. <br> [[Arthur Redford|Arthur]] races [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Earnhardt_Jr. Dale Earnhardt Jr.], a horse and a cheetah; unsurprisingly, he wins.  The crowd's first response is silence, followed by a deafening cheer. <br> [[Brian Jaffe|Brian]] meets with [[Zaida binte Shouk]] at the U.S. Government's facility in Hopewell, NJ.  The meeting ends with no one satisfied.
* '''October 9''': [[Mandy Smith|Mandy]] and brother [[Mikky Smith|Mikky]] are two of the Engine #16 team that responds to an alarm in a Washington, D.C. restaurant.  They save the only two people inside before the building collapses.


===[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2005 September 2005]===
* '''September 29''': John Roberts is ratified by Congress as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
* '''September 23''': President George W. Bush is expected to ratifiy the list of bases to be closed as part of BRAC 2005.
* '''September 18''': [[Maggie Young|Maggie Young's]] birthday party.  [[Daniel Young]] returns early from a business trip and hits his wife, [[Julie Young|Julie]], over the pressence of "freaks" in his home.  [[Arthur Redford|Arthur's]] response is aggressive and Julie says that she no longer wants to talk to him.
* '''September 12''': Michael Brown, head of FEMA since January, 2003, resigns after FEMAs poor response to Hurricane Katrina leads to allegations that he falsified his resume.
* '''September 11''': Fourth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks.  The [[Main Cast]], and attendants, return from a seemingly one-day jaunt to the disasterous possible future of 2056 to discover that they have missed nearly 4 months of time.


===[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2005 August 2005]===
* '''August 29''': Hurricane Katrina makes landfall a second and third time, on the Gulf Coast and in Mississippi, as a Category 4 Hurricane.  Most of the city of New Orleans is flooded, thousands of lives are lost and hundreds of millions of dollars in damages accrue.  FEMA and the Bush administration are widely criticized for their percieved failure to better prepare for and respond to the disaster; especially relevant are issues of race and class.
* '''August 25''': Hurricane Katrina makes landfall just north of Miami, Florida, as a Category 1 Hurricane.
* '''August 10''': Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launches. 
* '''August 9''': Though its landing is moved from Cape Canaveral, Florida, to Edwards Air Force Base, California, due to inclement weather, successfully Space Shuttle Discovery returns safely home at 0511 PDT, completing STS-114, "Return to Flight." <br> Rep. Curt Weldon, R-PA. and vice chairman of the House Armed Services and Homeland Security committees, claims that the Department of Defense had identified Mohammed Atta and 3 other 9/11 terrorists as members of Al Qaeda in 1999, through the actions of a classified military intelligence unit known as "Able Danger," but did not share this information with the FBI. [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/09/politics/09intel.html? article]
* '''August 7''': During a Congressional recess, President Bush appoints hotly contested nominee John Bolton as the United States' ambassador to the U.N., side-stepping the need to have him approved by the Senate. <br> Saudi Arabia's King Fahd dies; the new king, King Abdullah, is seen as a moderate who will not make many changes to the country. <br> Republican Senators John McCain, John Warner and Lindsey Graham propose a Bill to expressly prohibit cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment of detainees in U.S. custody.  McCain states that the issue of torture is "not about who they are.  It's about who we are."  The Bill frustrates the White House and ammendments force it to be tabled until the Senate reconvenes in September.
* '''August 1''': NASA's MESSENGER probe to Mercury makes an Earth flyby. 


===[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2005 July 2005]===
* '''July 26''' - Launch for Space Shuttle Discovery return to flight mission STS-114. This is the first Space Shuttle flight in nearly two and a half years since the breakup of Columbia on its return from mission STS-107.
* '''July 24''' - Lance Armstrong wins a record seventh straight Tour de France before his scheduled retirement.
* '''July 21''' - A terrorist attack on London, similar to the July 7 attacks, includes 4 attempted bomb attacks on 3 Underground trains and a London bus. The bombs failed to explode properly, and only one injury was reported.
* '''July 19''' - President Bush nominates Appeals Court Judge John G. Roberts, Jr. to the United States Supreme Court, following the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor.
* '''July 16''' - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince released.
* '''July 10''' - Hurricane Dennis strikes near Navarre Beach, Florida as a Category 3 storm killing 10 people, after killing over 50 people in the Caribbean. Dennis caused 2-5 billion dollars damage in the United States.
* '''July 7''' - Four explosions rock the transport network in London, with three explosions reported on the London Underground and one on a bus. Over 50 deaths were reported, and over 200 injured. <br> Al-Qaeda admits to the killing of Egypt's Ambassador, Ihab al-Sherif.
* '''July 6''' - The International Olympic Committee awards the 2012 Olympic Games to London, defeating the favorite Paris in the final round.


===[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_2005 June 2005]===
* '''June 21''' - Volna booster rocket carrying the first light sail spacecraft (a joint Russian-United States project) failed 83 seconds after its launch, destroying the spacecraft.
* '''June 17''' - A 6.7 aftershock,which followed a 5.3 earthquake the previous day, hits California making it the fourth earthquake since June 12 in California.
* '''June 13''' - Singer Michael Jackson is acquitted of all charges of harming children.
* '''June 5''' - Switzerland votes to join the Schengen area and to allow same-sex partnerships.


===[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2005 May 2005]===
* '''May 31''' - W. Mark Felt is confirmed to be Deep Throat.
* '''May 19''' - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith released, effectively completing the Star Wars movie saga begun by George Lucas in 1977.
* '''May 17''' - Kuwaiti women gain the right to vote.
* '''May 15''' - A passenger ferry capsizes and sinks in strong winds in the Bura Gauranga River in Bangladesh, leaving over 100 people missing.
* '''May 10''' - A live hand grenade lands about 100 feet from United States President George W. Bush while he is giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, but malfunctions and does not detonate. <br> The United States Department of Defense issues a list of bases to be closed as part of the Base Realignment and Closure process (BRAC 2005).
* '''May 4''' - In one of the largest insurgent attacks in Iraq to date, at least 60 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bombing at a Kurdish police recruitment center in Irbil, northern Iraq.
* '''May 1''' - A suicide attack targets a Kurdish funeral in the northern Iraqi town of Talafar, near Mosul, which leaves at least 25 people dead and injured more than 30 others.  Earlier, at least five policemen and four civilians were killed in two separate attacks in Baghdad.


===[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2005 April 2005]===
* '''April 25''': A passenger train derails in Amagasaki Hyogo Prefecture Japan killing 107 people and injuring another 456.
* '''April 20''': At least 46 workers have been killed and several others injured in a blast at an explosives factory in Zambia. <br> 56 hurt as earthquake hits Fukuoka and Kasuga, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. The earthquake measured a magnitude of 5.8 on the Richter scale.
* '''April 19''' - Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.
* '''April 15''' - At least 21 people died and around 50 people were injured in a devastating fire at a hotel in central Paris.
* '''April 9''': The marriage of The Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles takes place.
* '''April 2''': Pope John Paul II, dies.


===[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2005 March 2005]===
* '''March 28''' - The 2005 Sumatran earthquake struck off Sumatra, 3 months after the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake.  At a magnitude of 8.7 it is the second largest earthquake since 1965.
* '''March 21''' - In Red Lake, Minnesota, 10 are killed in a school shooting, the worst since the Columbine High School massacre.
* '''March 20''' - At least 250 people in Japan are injured and at least one killed by when a magnitude 7 earthquake struck west of Kyushu Island, just 9km (5.5 miles) below the ocean floor.
* '''March 19''' - A suspected suicide bomber in Doha, Qatar, kills one Briton and injured about 12 other people. <br> A time bomb explodes in a Muslim shrine in Quetta, southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 29 people and wounding 40. <br> A mine blast occurrs at the Xishui coal mine in Shuozhou and rocks nearby Kangjiayao coal mine. The death toll is up to 59.
* '''March 10''' - [[Jack Bennett|Jack]] goes onto the operating table at Genzyme in an effort to remove a microscopic computer chip of unknown origin from his lower back.  The [[Main Cast]], [[Vivian Janell|Vivian]] and three Genzyme doctors are present and the entire group finds themselves swept into the future as a strange side-effect of [[Arthur Redford|Arthur's]] powers.
* '''March 7''' - [[Carrie Ann Sellers]] dies, but her "Godlike energy" lingers on inside her body and escapes from John Hopkins Hospital, only to be stopped by Arthur and carried away by Brian.
* '''March 1''' - The US Supreme Court rules the death penalty unconstitutional for juveniles who committed their crimes under age 18.


===[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2005 February 2005]===
* '''February 22'''  -  More than 500 people are killed and over 1,000 injured after entire villages are flattened in an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale in Zarand region of Kerman province in southern Iran. 
* '''February 16'''  -  The National Hockey League cancels its 2004-2005 season becoming the first North American professional league to cancel a season due to a labour dispute. 
* '''February 15'''  -  More than 200 people are killed by a blast at a mine in Fuxin, north-east China. 
* '''February 14'''  -  A massive suicide bomb blast in central Beirut kills Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri and at least 15 other people. At least 135 other people were also hurt. <br> Around 59 people are killed and 200 injured in a fire at mosque in Tehran, Iran. 
* '''February 12'''  -  Fire devastates the Windsor Building, a 32 story office block, in Madrid. 
* '''February 10'''  -  Mandy stands for arraignment in an Athens, Georgia court for the murder of [[Jesse Trundel]], but due to the unasked for influence of [[Milos Wiazowski]], the charges are soon dropped.  <br> North Korea announces that it possesses nuclear weapons as a protection against the hostility it feels from the United States. <br> Saudi Arabia holds its first ever elections for municipal authorities, in which only men are allowed to vote. 
* '''February 7'''  -  Athens Banner-Herald reports "[[Godlike charged with Murder]]."   
* '''February 7 | ALTERNATE (e)''': An 87 year old [[Arthur Redford|Arthur]] from an alternate future timeline visits the present, "main" Athur while the later sleeps and, at super speed, tells him the story of his possible, horrific futures. 
*  '''February 6'''  - The [[Main Cast]], [[Mary Beth Manley|Beth]], [[Vivian Janell|Vivian]], [[Julie Young|Julie]], [[Julia Lee]], [[Harley Carlson|Harley]] and [[Agent Vernon Marks]] have their "reunion" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.  Marks arrests Mandy for her crime in Georgia and in the brief chaos that follows [[Jack Bennett|Jack]] is laid low by sniper fire.  <br> In Jacksonville, the New England Patriots defeated the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX, 24-21. The victory claimed the Patriots' third NFL league title in four years. 
* '''February 3'''  - The Washington Post reports Vigilante Strikes Again.
* '''February 2''' - The [[AA_283_Flight_Manifest|Survivors]] have their identities returned, their accounts and licenses restored and their legal status switched from "deceased" back to "living."
* '''February 1'''  - The Washington Post reports that a "Mysterious Vigilante Stops Robbery."  


===[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2005 January 2005]===
* '''January 31''' - [[Arthur Redford|Arthur]] seeks to save the life of [[Carrie Ann Sellers]] by going back in time and pulling her into the present before her burns can get too bad.  He apparently succeeds and places her in the care of his friend [[Dr. Ramon Naranjo]]. <br>  [[Mandy Smith|Mandy]] rides along with Engine #16 to a box alarm fire at the Park Monroe highrise apartment.
* '''January 30''' - The first Parliamentary elections in Iraq since the overthrow of the Ba'ath Party government led by Saddam Hussein take place. <br>  Jack re-locates the abandonned Subway Station that he and friends had found years before.  He soon brings Arhtur to visit the site, which he has dubbed [[Jack's Contingency|Contingency]]. 
* '''January 28''' - Condoleeza Rice is confirmed as the new U.S. Secretary of State. <br> [[Mandy Smith|Mandy]] finds and begins her relationship with Washington, D.C.'s Engine Company #16.
* '''January 27'''  -  The [[Main Cast]], [[Harold Redford|Harold]] and [[Mary Beth Manly|Beth]] return from West Virginia to Washington, D.C. 
* '''January 26''' - [[Jack Bennett|Jack]] arrives in West Virginia with a van full of equipment and [[Mary Beth Manly|Beth]]. <br> A helicopter crash in eastern Iraq kills 31 United States soldiers. <br> Athens Banner-Herald reports on the death of Jessie Trundel and disappearance of Carrie Sellers.   
* '''January 25''' -  [[Brian Jaffe|Brian]] returns to earth, landing in St. Louis, Missouri just before dawn, and quickly heads back east, in a nervous attempt to find his friends following his experience in space. <br> Shortly after noon [[Mandy Smith|Mandy]] reaches Athens, Georgia and waits for the attack she witnessed in her vision to occur.  She is soon met by Brian and they find [[Carrie Ann Sellers]] and her pursuers.  Mandy kills [[Jessie Trunde]] and Carrie goes missing.  (It's worth noting, though, that Mandy's vision of the event showed it being nighttime when it happened.  It is also worth noting that Carrie Sellers DIED the "first time" this event happened and [[Arthur Redford|Arthur]] later "reconstructed" the event) <br>  [[Arthur Redford|Arthur]] and [[Harold Redford|Harold]] arrive in Clarksburg around noon, while Brian and Mandy arrive an hour later due to Brian's leaping powers. <br> [[Joelle Millar]] begins her diplomatic relations with the U.S. Government on behalf of the Sudan in the case of imprisoned Survivor 17 year old [[Zaida binte Shouk]].
* '''January 24''' -  [[Brian Jaffe|Brian]] accidentally leaps into orbit during the President's speech and quickly comes back to earth, causing an earthquake in Hartford, Connecticut (41.76° North longitude, 72.69° West latitude) and its [http://grad.icmc.usp.br/~cipriani/bighole.php?lang=en antipode] in the Indian Ocean to the west of Australia.  The quake measures 7.4 on the Richter scale and its effects are felt as far away as  Washington, D.C.  Although no deaths are caused directly, more than 500 people are injured up and down the New England coast. Brian meets with his father a few hours later and then leaps again, intentionally heading for space and now achieving a trans-Lunar orbit. <br> President Bush pre-empts prime time television programs to deliver his full [[The American Gods Address]]. <br> [[Mandy Smith|Mandy]] witnesses and intervenes (anonomously) in a robbery in a small convenience store in downtown Washington, D.C.  She sets herself on fire and severely injures one of the robbers, sparking many rumors in the area.  After this encounter, Mandy has a vision of a lynching by fire in Georgia and steals a car in hopes of getting there in time to prevent the attack. <br> Late at night, [[Arthur Redford|Arthur]] and his father, [[Harold Redford|Harold]], leave for the privacy of a hunting camp in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
* '''January 23''' - Johnny Carson dies.  The [[Main Cast]] depart for their individual homes to visit family and friends who thought them dead.
* '''January 22''' - [[Ashton Sawyer]] dies of heart failure at 4:23am EST. <br> The [[Main Cast]] and friends make a surprise appearance at a U.S. Government/Celera organized press conference and [[Brian Jaffe]] delivers a speech to announce the existence of the [[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/AA_283_Flight_Manifest|Survivors]]. <br> President Bush makes weekly radio address (about freedom, anti-terror and the beginings of his "American Gods" speech).
* '''January 21''' - The [[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/AA_283_Flight_Manifest|Survivors]] leave Seattle by air for a [[Celera]] facility outside of Washington, D.C., under the power of [[Ashton Sawyer]].  Upon arrival, most Survivors scatter, paniced, for parts unknown. <br> Late in the evening the [[Main Cast]] rescues [[Julie Young]] and her children, as well as the passengers of a city bus, from the wreckage of an accident in Georgetown.  [[Jack Bennett|Jack]] collapses as the concentrated use of "Godlike power" pulls his "spirit" out of his body.  A bystander captures footage of [[Brian Jaffe]] lifting the bus above his head.  
* '''January 20''' - The [[http://wiki.rpg.net/index.php/AA_283_Flight_Manifest|Survivors]] wake up from their "comas" at a [[Celera]] aligned facility near Seattle.  <br> George W. Bush is inaugurated in Washington D.C. for his second term as 43rd President of the United States.
* '''January 19''' - President Bush attends "Celebration of Freedom" concert for military.
* '''January 18''' -   President Bush attends "Saluting Those Who Serve" event.
* '''January 14''' - The Huygens probe lands on Titan, largest moon of planet Saturn.
* '''January 12''' - Deep Impact (space mission) is launched from Cape Canaveral by a Delta 2 rocket.