Table 1.

Full list of the 36 historical events with their dates and longitudes^a

Event stimulus	Year	Longitude (°)	Event stimulus	Year	Longitude (°)
1 Miles Davis	1991	−118.5	19 Desert Storm	1990	43.9
2 Ronald Reagan	2003	−118.3	20 Second Intifada	2000	35.7
3 Artificial genome	2007	−117.1	21 Radovan Karadzic	2008	7.5
4 Drinkable water	2015	−149.4	22 Universal exhibition	2015	9.2
5 Solar eclipse	2024	−102.1	23 Elephant extinction	2024	34.8
6 Oil drying up	2040	−152.4	24 Nuclear phase out	2034	8.2
7 Barack Obama	1992	−87.6	25 Cold War	1989	65.8
8 Twin Towers	2001	−74.1	26 DCN bombing	2002	67.1
9 Hurricane Katrina	2005	−90	27 Meteor shower	2013	60
10 Canal expansion	2018	−79.7	28 Dam building	2017	95.8
11 Francophony ending	2030	−73.5	29 Archipelago flooding	2026	72.9
12 Air traffic	2032	−77	30 First population	2036	76
13 Tony Blair	1994	−0.1	31 Celestial peace	1989	116
14 Prestige wreckage	2002	−11.1	32 Ecology agreement	1997	140.5
15 Depenalized abortion	2007	−9.1	33 Nuclear accident	2011	140.5
16 Olympic Games	2016	−43.2	34 Second Titanic	2016	119
17 Sewer renovation	2025	−0.1	35 Indonesia growth	2030	113.9
18 Metro express	2035	2	36 Koala extinction	2038	151.2

^a Historical events were provided in French to participants and consisted systematically of 2 words.