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Wild Card Monday: March 25 past and future History

The March 25, 2013 prompt for "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  is
On This Day in History: Part One: Find something from history that happened on March 25th to research and give us your thoughts.
(Wiki reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_25)
Part Two: Invent something that will happen on March 25th some day in the future (one year from now, five years, 100 years) and write about it as if it were history.

Part One: March 25, 1948

On this day in history
people were born
people died,
and, in tornado alley,
a supercell formed
west of Tinker Air Force Base

On March 25, 1948, meteorologists made the first successful tornado prediction. This prediction was the results of a military investigation resulting from a tornado that struck the base on March 20, 1948. The weather conditions on March 25 were identical to those on March 20, so the successful prediction was caused by luck and a commanding officer who pressured base meteorologist to stick their necks out in the storm . This incident proved that a tornado could be predicted1.

The severity of the March 25, 1948 storm was not known because The Tornado Scale was not introduced until 1971. The Fujita-Pearson scale2, which is also know as the F scale, rate tornadoes from F0 to F5. The wind speeds of these tornadoes are F0, 40 to 72 mph, F1, 73 to 112 mph, F2, 113 to 157 mph, F3, 158 to 206 mph, F4, 207 to 260 mph, and F5, 261 to 318 mph.

Part Two: March 25, 2113

On this day in future history,
the final battle is won
and planetary peace has come;
Earth is united
and humanity has become
citizen contributing
to a global civilization.

Thought of the Day: "I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet." - Isabel Allende

Footnotes
1  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Tinker_Air_Force_Base_tornadoes
2  http://tornado-facts.com/the-tornado-scale/