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2001: September 11 - The nation state of the United States of America is attacked by terrorists
who use airplanes as their weapons. The attacks resulted in the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York
City and damage to part of the US Defense Department building, known as the Pentagon.
2002: Voyager 2 leaves Earth's solar system.
2003: February 1 - America's Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates while returning to
Earth. Among the crew of seven astronauts was Ilan Ramon, an Air Force Colonel and the first citizen from the
nation-state of Is
2005: July 26 - Space Shuttle Discovery, OV-104, launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida
USA. The event marks the beginning of America's "Return to Space". Discovery remained in orbit for nearly 14
days, landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California on August 9.
2018: The Dax symbiont is born on Trill.
2026: Joe DiMaggio's hitting record is broken by Buck Bokai, a shortstop from the London Kings.
Rising tensions over the issues of genetic manipulation and enhancement escalate into nuclear holocaust and genocidal
war, beginning World War III.
2032: Despite, or because of, the fact that WWIII was occurring; the International Space Agency
with assistance from NASA launches the Ares mission to Mars, with Ares IV arriving in mid-October.
October 19 - Mars probe Ares IV disappears in Martian orbit, stranding two astronauts on the surface until a
rescue vessel arrives from Earth.
2053: A peace treaty is signed in San Francisco ending Earth's devastating World War III. At
its' end, many of the world's major governments and cities are destroyed and 600 million people are dead.
2061: Zefram Cochrane invents faster-than-light travel using subspace; a spatial continuum with
significantly different properties from normal space. He also invents the first engine that is capable of
faster-than-light travel.
2063: April 5 - Zefram Cochrane pilots the first space vehicle equipped with warp drive. The
development of the faster-than-light drive is a crucial milestone in human history. Later that day a Vulcan
spacecraft lands on Earth, establishing humankind's first official contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence.
2065: S.S. Valiant is lost near the edge of the galaxy.
2079: Earth continues to recover from the post atomic horror, a recovery spawned by Cochrane's
flight.
2088: Future Enterprise (NX-01) science officer T'Pol is born on Vulcan.
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