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| May 20, 1862 |
President Lincoln passes the Homestead Act, allowing farmers can take over large areas of land recently seized from Native Americans. As a result, Mystery X's ancestors relocate from the Deep South to Kansas, establishing farms on what was recently the homeland of America's indigenous people; X lives on a patch of the original free land handout. He still hears the voices of angry Native Americans in the wind.
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| January 1, 1889 |
Wovoka has his vision of the resurrection Paiute dead and the removal of whites from North America, leading him to teach his people of the Ghost Dance.
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| August 30, 1868 |
Leonard "Live-Forever" Jones dies.
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| March 25, 1916 |
"Mr. Ishi", last member of the Yahi tribe of Northern California, known as the "last wild Indian", dies.
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| January 20, 1920 |
Guo Moruo completes his first draft of "Nirvana of the Phoenix"; the final version would be completed by January 3, 1928.
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| March 13, 1921 |
Roman Ungern von Sternberg proclaims Mongolia an independent monarchy under his rule. His regime exists for six months, ending with his ouster and hand over to the Red Army on August 21, 1921, and his execution on September 15, 1921.
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| July 16, 1945 |
"Now we are all sons of bitches." Trinity conducted by USARMY in the Jornada del Muerto desert, about 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, New Mexico, at the White Sands Proving Ground.
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| October 4, 1957 |
Sputnik 1 (Спутник-1) is launched into an elliptical low earth orbit by the Soviet Union.
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| November 30, 2006 |
Buddy Johnson passed through on his way to parts unknown.
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| December 21, 2012 |
timeclnder brak dawn; fly, you pyramids, fly.
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| 20?? |
The Gas Wars are fought, culminating in the final hollowing and collapse of the nations.
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| 2-A5 |
Water wars escalate into open conflict as a large-scale, intercorporate battle is fought across the Scrapyards to control all potable water supplies. Ice pirates, cloud stealers, and desalinization plants become the watch-words.
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| 2-C8 |
Air Wars and the flight into Deep Space by Those Able.
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| B-0 |
Aliens perform the Heavenly Purification rites on Earth.
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| B-0-1 |
The Garbage Planet.
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| 2-13-850 |
Singularity dissolved by Retrogressives.
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