1779 Never perhaps has England been in more serious danger of invasion than in July 1779 The reason was that they had smallpox on board, and far from being in a condition to fight, they were so weakened that it would have been impossible to maneuver their ships." 1863 Abraham Lincoln gets smallpox Returning to Washington by train the afternoon after giving the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln developed a severe headache and fever (31–34). When he arrived back in Washington, the President was placed at bed rest, while complaining of increasing headache, backache, fever and generalized fatigue. Two days later the rash appeared. The diagnosis of smallpox was made, and for the next three weeks Lincoln remained under quarantine at the White House 1870 Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871 On the European continent during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871, the Prussian army of over 800,000 soldiers was vaccinated every seven years; these Germans lost fewer than 300 out of 8,360 infected. In contrast, the French army commanders who did not believe in repeated vaccination lost over 23,000 soldiers to smallpox and more than 280,000 became infected. 1969 That some who are vaccinated later become susceptible to smallpox... infection is a fact, but why these unfortunates are different from those protected by vaccination is unclear In 1969 newspapers and broadcasts described the murder trial of Robert Kennedy’s killer in the United States and the seizing of the American ship Pueblo by the North Koreans. The good news broadcast at that time noted amazing achievements in space, the docking of spacecrafts and walking in space. But even as the Concord supersonic jet took flight, Palestinian terrorists detonated bombs and a TWA jet was hijacked. Also in that year, a twenty-year-old traveler (name withheld for confidentiality) from Meschede, Westphalia, Germany, was returning from adventures in the Orient and Pakistan. Eleven days after his return, he fell ill, and two days later developed a fever that rapidly rose to 102◦ and then 103◦ along with a severe headache and delirium...

1999 Clinton halts destruction of remaining smallpox virus 2001 Prior to September 11, plans were made to eliminate all stocks of smallpox within the next several years, thus making the virus the first species purposely eliminated from this planet. 2002 Paranoia causes US to stockpile smallpox vaccine