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August 29, 1997

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(idea) by Reverend Raven (2.4 y) (print)   ?   I like it! Mon Jun 14 2004 at 1:11:15

August 29, 1997 was Michael Jackson's 40th birthday. In the universe of The Terminator films, August 29, 1997 was the day that Skynet became self-aware, launched US nuclear missles at their targets in Russia (and between the Russians retalitory strike against US targets and the original US strike snuffed out a total of three billion human lives) and started what would later be called "The War Against The Machines". As noted by Sarah Connor in the historical recreation of this possibility, the survivors of August 29, 1997 would term this day "Judgement Day".

However, due to some temporal mucking about, Judgement Day was postponed. This was equated to being unable to truly stop fate. In this timeline Judgement Day was pushed back to July 24, 2004 at approx 6:18 PM.

The date and time of the "revised" Judgement Day comes from the watch Arnold sees in T3, in addition to his dialogue in the same film. We partied once in celebration of the mock destruction of humanity, now we can do it again! Rock on! Oh, on a side note..any other fictional dates for the end of the world?

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Terminator 2: Judgement Day March 27, 1997 Judgement Day Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
July 24, 2004 August 29, 2000 The population bottleneck, supervolcanoes and the coming end of the world Howard the Duck
T-1000 December 23, 2012 T2 Sarah Connor
Skynet Terminator the final battle between Megatron and Optimus Prime You noders still fucking suck, but your needing my wisdoms bad
August 31, 2002 Is your teenager concerned about inequality and pollution? Call a drug counselor. Arnold Schwarzenegger November 14, 1999
May 1, 2004 July 14, 2003 Anaïs Nin November 13, 1999
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