==Events==
(* ''none yet'March 13')'' – A geomagnetic storm causes the collapse of the Hydro-Québec power grid. <br> 6,000,000 people are left without power for nine hours. Some areas in the northeastern U.S. and in Sweden also lose power, and aurorae are seen as far as Texas. * "Transhumanism:" [[Augment|Genetic modification]] of ''adult'' [[human]] beings is tried for the first time, by way of a gene tagging trial. * '''October 9''' - An official news agency in the Soviet Union reports the landing of a UFO in Voronezh. * '''November 9''' - Fall of the Berlin Wall: East [[Germany]] opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, which was constructed to divide the country in half after [[World War II|WWII]]. <br> Citizens are allowed to travel freely to West Germany for the first time in decades, and in the coming days, the same citizens physically tear the wall down. * The "Solar Maximum Mission" scientific research satellite, launched in [[1980]] to study solar flares, crashes back to [[Earth]].
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