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1970 |
Britain put together a classified “War Book,” featuring a doomsday scenario, with a step-by-step guide for dealing with a crisis, from the first stages of conflict to "R hour," the designation for the release of all Britain's nuclear weapons. The 1970 version was declassified in 2009. A 1964 version printed just 96 copies. Links: Britain, Doomsday 
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1986 |
Herbert W. Armstrong (93), doomsday evangelist, died. In 1933 he began his radio broadcasts in Salem, Ore., and published his 1st Plain Truth magazine in 1934. In 1947 he moved to Pasadena where his "Worldwide Church of God," a radio and TV ministry featured "The World Tomorrow" programs. He excommunicated his son Garner Armstrong (d.2003 at 73) in 1978 for doctrinal disagreements and sexual misconduct. Armstrong rejected the Trinity, regarded Christmas and Easter as pagan holidays and held that Anglo-Saxons are lineal descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. Links: USA, Religion, Doomsday
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1993 Oct 2 |
In Son La, Vietnam, 53 members of the Thai minority died in a mass suicide organized by Ca Van Lieng, leader of a doomsday cult. Links: Vietnam, Thailand, Suicide, Doomsday
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1994 Oct 5 |
48 members of a secret religious doomsday cult were found dead in apparent murder-suicides carried out simultaneously in two Swiss villages; five other bodies were found in a sect apartment in Montreal, Canada. Links: Canada, Doomsday
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1994 Oct 5 |
In Switzerland 48 members of a secret religious doomsday cult were found dead in apparent murder-suicides carried out simultaneously in two villages; five other bodies were found in a sect apartment in Montreal, Canada. Links: Canada, Switzerland, Doomsday
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1995 Dec 23 |
The charred bodies of 16 members of a doomsday cult, the Order of the Solar Temple, were found outside Grenoble, France. The same cult lost 53 members in 1994 in ritual killings in Switzerland and Canada. Links: France, Suicide, Doomsday
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2000 Jan 1 |
The arrival of 2000 saw no terrorist attacks, Y2K meltdowns or mass suicides among doomsday cults, but instead saw seven continents stepping joyously and peacefully into the New Year. Links: Disaster, Doomsday
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2000 Mar 29 |
In Uganda the doomsday sect body count reached 644. Links: Uganda, Tragedy, Doomsday
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2000 Mar 30 |
In Uganda 80 more bodies were unearthed in Rushojwa. This brought the doomsday sect body count to 724. Links: Uganda, Tragedy, Doomsday
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2000 Mar 31 |
In Uganda police revised the number of deaths linked to the doomsday cult to 924. Links: Uganda, Tragedy, Doomsday
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2000 Apr 6 |
In Uganda authorities issued 6 arrest warrants for the prominent figures of the doomsday sect: Joseph Kibwetere, Credonia Mwerinde, Dominic Kataribabo, Joseph Kasapurari, John Kamagara, and Ursula Komuhangi. All were charged with 10 counts of murder, representing the first 10 identified victims of 924 corpses. Links: Uganda, Tragedy, Doomsday
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2004 May 28 |
The Tokyo High Court sentenced Yoshihiro Inoue (34), a former doomsday cult member, to death for a 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways, overturning a lower court ruling condemning him to life in prison. Links: Japan, Doomsday
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2006 Jan 11 |
The British weekly New Scientist said Norway is to build a "doomsday vault" in a mountain close to the North Pole that will house a vast seed bank to ensure food supplies in the event of catastrophic climate change, nuclear war or rising sea levels. Links: Environment, Norway, Doomsday
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2007 Jan 17 |
The Doomsday Clock, created in 1947 and run by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, was nudged forward to 11:55 due to moves by Iran and North Korea. It reached 11:58 in 1953 and moved back to 11:43 in 1991. Links: USA, Nuclear, Doomsday
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2007 |
Fred Buller authored “The Doomsday Book of Giant Salmon: A Record of the Largest Atlantic Salmon Ever Caught.” Links: USA, Fish, Books, Doomsday
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2008 Feb 26 |
A "doomsday" seed vault, built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters, opened deep within an Arctic mountain in the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. Links: Food, Norway, Agriculture, Doomsday
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2008 Apr 2 |
Pyotr Kuznetsov, leader of a Russian doomsday cult, apparently tried to kill himself after most of his followers abandoned a bunker where they had been awaiting the end of the world for five months. The last 9 of 35 cult members emerged on May 16. Links: Russia, Mad Man, Religion, Doomsday
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2010 Jan 14 |
The Doomsday Clock, set up in 1947, was set back 1 minute for the first time in its 63-year history. In moving the clock from 5 minutes before midnight to 6 minutes before midnight, scientists expressed optimism for humanity's future. The actual clock is housed at the Bulletin of Atomic Sciences (BAS) office in Chicago, Ill. Links: USA, Chicago, Sociology, Doomsday
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2010 |
Michael Lewis authored “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine,” an account of the professional investors who foresaw the 2007-2008 financial debacle and profited from it. Links: USA, Books, Big Money, Doomsday
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2011 Jun 11 |
It was reported that Harold Camping (89), the doomsday preacher who had recently predicted that the world would end on May 21, suffered a stroke. The radio evangelist was expected to recover, but the stroke might end his Family Radio ministry, since he was suffering from slurred speech. Links: USA, SF Bay Area, Whacko, Doomsday
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2011 Dec 31 |
In Japan Makoto Hirata (46), a senior member of the doomsday cult behind the 1995 nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways, surrendered to police. Akemi Saito, also a member of Aum Shinrikyo, was arrested on Jan 10, 2012, for helping him evade police for nearly 17 years. On Jan 20 Hirata was indicted for his role in the abduction and confinement of a follower's relative in 1995. Links: Japan, Doomsday
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2012 Jan 10 |
The Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that it has moved its "Doomsday Clock" one minute ahead to five minutes to midnight. Links: Chicago, Time, Nuclear, Doomsday
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2012 Jun 15 |
In Japan Katsuya Takahashi (54), the last fugitive suspected in a doomsday cult's deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subways in 1995, was caught at a comic book cafe, closing a chapter on Japan's worst terrorist attack. Links: Japan, Doomsday
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2015 Jan 22 |
The Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences moved its famous “Doomsday Clock” ahead two minutes placing it three minutes from a catastrophic midnight due to global warming and nuclear weaponry. Links: USA, Environment, Nuclear, Doomsday
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2015 |
William McCants authored “”The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State.” Links: Syria, Books, Doomsday
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2016 Mar 28 |
Montenegro authorities deported 58 foreigners, including 43 Russians, associated with a religious cult. Local media reported that they are members of Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese doomsday cult that carried out a deadly nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway in 1995. Links: Montenegro, Doomsday
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2017 Jan 26 |
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists warned that comments by US President Donald Trump on nuclear weapons and climate change have helped make the world less safe, moving its symbolic "Doomsday Clock" 30 seconds closer to midnight. Links: USA, Nuclear, TrumpD, Doomsday
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2018 Jan 25 |
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists said mounting concerns about the possibility of a nuclear war along with US President Donald Trump's "unpredictability" have pushed the symbolic "Doomsday Clock" to two minutes before midnight. Links: Nuclear, Doomsday
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2018 Jul 6 |
Japan executed doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara (b.1955) and six of his followers. Their 1995 poison gas attack on rush-hour commuters in Tokyo's subway killed 13 people and sickened more than 6,000. Links: Japan, Doomsday
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2018 Jul 26 |
In Japan the last six members of a Japanese doomsday cult who remained on death row were executed for a series of crimes in the 1990s including a sarin gas attack on Tokyo subways that killed 13 people. Links: Japan, Terrorism, Doomsday
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2019 Jul 12 |
In Florida Mirko and Regina Ceska were arrested for charges including sexual assault and neglect. The couple, described as “doomsday preppers,” allegedly abused their adopted twin daughters, subjecting them to beatings, sexual assaults and a restricted food intake. Links: USA, Sex, Florida, Doomsday
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2020 Jan 23 |
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced its symbolic “doomsday clock” has moved forward to 100 seconds to midnight, the closest to catastrophe that the scientists have judged the world to be at any point since its creation in 1947, at the outset of the cold war. Links: Doomsday
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