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Summary: 20 Events.

Assassination of John F. Kennedy

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving ([1963])

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

• Cat's cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Battle of the Bulge

• Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Book 5) by J.K. Rowling (1995)

The Big Bang

• Stephen Hawking's Universe: The Cosmos Explained by David Filkin
• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (c. 14,000,000,000 BCE)

Bombing of Dresden

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

Broad Street cholera outbreak

• The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson (1854)

Christmas

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

End of the World

• Cat's cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

The Inquisition

• The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) by Philip Pullman

Iran-Contra Affair

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving ([1985] ∙ [1990])

Iranian Revolution

• Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi (1979)

the killing of Danny Hansford

• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt (1981)

President's Day Massacre

• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Revolution to overthrow the US Government

• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Slow Food Movement

• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan

The Tri-Wizard Tournament

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) by J.K. Rowling

Vietnam War

• A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving ([1959] ∙ [1975])

The War on Drugs

• The Beach by Alex Garland (1971-?)

World War II

• Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut