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Summary: 46 Events.

1918 Flu Epidemic

• Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic by Gina Kolata

1996 Everest Disaster

• Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster by Jon Krakauer

Apocalypse

• The Road (Oprah's Book Club) by Cormac McCarthy

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Attack on Pearl Harbor

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1941)

Battle of Artemisium

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (August (or September) 480 B.C.E.)

Battle of Midway

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1942)

The Battle of Mycale

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (June 479 B.C.E.)

The Battle of Plataea

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (June 479 B.C.E.)

The Battle of Salamis

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (September 480 B.C.E.)

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Battle of Thermopylae

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (August (or September) 480 B.C.E.)

Bombing of Dresden

• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut ([1945])

Butlerian Jihad

• Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert (mentioned)

Cold War

• UNDERWORLD: A NOVEL by Don DeLillo

Cuban Missil Crisis

• UNDERWORLD: A NOVEL by Don DeLillo (1962)

Destruction of Earth

• Hitchhikers's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (fictitious)

Ebola Reston discovery

• The Hot Zone : A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston (1989)

End of the World

• Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Ford Day

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Greco-Persian Wars

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (499-449 B.C.E.)

Guadalcanal Campaign

• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1942-1943)

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

Ionian Revolt

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (499–493 B.C.E.)

Irish Potato Famine

• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan

Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West (Lewis & Clark Expediti by Stephen E. Ambrose (1806)

Manhattan Project

• 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman

Mint 400

• Fear and loathing in Las Vegas : a savage journey to the heart of the American dream by Hunter S. Thompson

Nine Years War

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

nuclear winter

• The Road (Oprah's Book Club) by Cormac McCarthy

Partition of India

• Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

The Rebellion

• Animal Farm by George Orwell

Russian Revolution

• Animal Farm by George Orwell (1917)

Screaming Fist

• Neuromancer (Remembering Tomorrow) by William Gibson

Second Persian Invasion of Greece

• Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield (480-479 B.C.E.)

September 11 Attacks

• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (2001-09-11)

Slow Food Movement

• Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan

Superflu epidemic

• The Stand by Stephen King

Tour de France

• It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong

U.S. Embassy Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania

• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (1998-08-07)

USS Cole Bombing in Yemen

• The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright (2000-10-12)

World Series

• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
• Eight Men Out : The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series) by Eliot Asinof (1919)

World war I

• Flu: The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic by Gina Kolata

World War II

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman (1945)
• Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (1945)
• Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson (1939-1945)

World War III

• 1984 by George Orwell

World War Terminus

• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick