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May 4, 1998

Nothing in canon for the day. Unofficially,

The first case of bubonic plague is reported in Sacramento, 85 miles from San Francisco, despite the (ineffective) quarantine of the latter city.

In Mexico, the governing El Partido Accion Nacional (PAN) party is failing to alleviate the challenges of life in 1998 (as is every government in the world at this time), and the military-supported Partido Autentico de la Revolucion Mexicano (PARM) makes a move in the Chamber of Deputies to have the caretaker government (the PAN lacks a majority and elections are scheduled for June) replaced. The PARM backs up this demand with a demonstration of force by the Presidential Guard Brigade.

RainbowSix reports that Parliament reconvenes for the first time since Black Thursday as a number of surviving MP’s and Peers meet in the cathedral city of Winchester in Hampshire. (They meet in the city's Guildhall). With Douglas Montgomery confirmed as Prime Minister. Parliament’s first act is to pass a continuation of the Emergency Powers Act, with the military retaining primacy for law and order. Most of the surviving members of the British and Dutch Royal Families move to the Winchester area at this time, taking up residence in several country houses just outside the city, although those in the immediate line of succession to both Thrones (Prince Harry for the British and Prince Willem Alexander of Orange for the Dutch) are moved to secret locations in secure areas controlled by the military (rumours persist for some time afterwards that they have gone overseas, to either Australia or New Zealand).

Baltic Front continues its assault on II MEF's front lines. The 5th Marine Division's 27th Regimental Combat Team is brought forward from reserve positions in the town of Goleniów, and overhead F/A-18s and Harriers of Marine Aircraft Group 14 are called in (in small numbers) to reinforce outposts that are at risk of being overrun.