| Date
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Event(s)
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| Weeks prior
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- Foul smell in the air first noticed
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| July 1, 1993 (Day -8)
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| July 4, 1993 (Day -5)
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- American day of Independence
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| July 6, 1993 (Day -3)
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- Knox Evacuation: military blockades set up around border, displacing those from the outer perimeter
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| July 9, 1993 (Day 0)
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- Game begins, three days after the Knox Evacuation.
- First official statement given during a press conference by General John McGrew (11AM on the 9th July 1993)
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| July 11, 1993 (Day 2)
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- WHO ground all non-military or -medical internal and international flights (after 6pm EST)
- People begin looting and rioting within many major cities
- Peacekeeping forces stationed throughout the nation
- Fort Knox military base abandoned. Quarantined cells unlocked and soldiers gone. (unknown to public until July 13)
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| July 12, 1993 (Day 3)
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- Knox Exclusion Zone widened
- Public anger leads to riots resulting in fatalities in New York and injuries in Miami
- President announces 6pm curfews in New York, Miami and L.A.
- Pictures from West Point leaked from inside the Exclusion Zone: Image of a guy age thirty with blood around his mouth, bloodstained clothes, one arm raised, with the other hanging on by a thread/unattached, unconcerned by his injury and walking in a street full of corpses.
- Amateur radio broadcast received from inside the Exclusion Zone (Frequency: 107.6 MHz).
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| July 13, 1993 (Day 4)
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- Interference from an unknown source impacts radio broadcasts.
- Infection confirmed to spread through fluid exchange.
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| July 14, 1993 (Day 5)
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- Early in the morning within the Primary Exclusion Zone camp, South of Lousieville, a soldier opens fire, killing two unarmed people. Angry protesters were dispered with warning shots and tear gas.
- Hundreds, maybe thousands of infected break through the borded defences, littering the area with the dead. The military pull out.
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| July 15, 1993 (Day 6)
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- People beyond the Exclusion Zone begin showing symptoms of infection without fluid contact.
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| July 16, 1993 (Day 7)
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- Key bridges and river crossings over the Ohio River are blocked and demolished by the military, in an attempt to contain the outbreak.
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| July 17, 1993 (Day 8)
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| July 18, 1993 (Day 9)
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