Post by simon darkshade on Nov 26, 2024 12:44:43 GMT
February
February 1: New Zealand runner John Walker sets a new world record for the mile at the Empire Games, winning gold with a time of 3:44:29.
February 2: Orion 7 is launched from the orbit of Luna on a five year voyage to the outer reaches of the Solar System, with their targets being the mysterious planets Orcus and Pluto. She is to be followed by Orion 8 in December, which will explore the Asteroid Belt, Orion 9 in 1975, which will continue studies of the Jovian system; and Orion 10 in 1976, which is to return to the moons of Saturn.
February 3: University student Patricia Hearst, granddaughter of the newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley by a gang of suspected radicals, who fire shots at the neighbours and Hearst's fiancee. Her father, Randolph Hearst, immediately contacts a number of figures known for being able to help with problems where no-one else can.
February 4: French Premier d'Ambreville announces a plan for all electricity in France to be generated by nuclear power before the year 2000, with the fusion revolution promising to be the main means of this achievement.
February 5: Beginning of Exercise Starboard, with American, British and Canadian troops joining Israeli Army forces in war games in Galilee and the Golan. The heavy fortifications along the Israeli-Syrian border are usually held by the Israeli 1st and 4th Mechanised Divisions, opposing three Syrian corps, but Starboard sees them reach their wartime strength of a reinforced corps, with allied units simulating both enemy forces and projected reinforcements.
February 6: Sesame Street features a very special sequence explaining the importance of children learning how to duck and cover, with Big Bird, Grover and Kermit paying careful attention to the friendly Civil Defence officers. This is the latest television programme utilised by the United States Civil Defense Administration to reinforce educational measures.
February 7: Biblical scholars in Israel present conclusive findings on the exact measurements of the cubit, based on extensive research of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
February 8: A coup d'etat in Upper Volta sees the dismissal of the Prime Minister and Cabinet at the hands of his predecessor. The comparative lack of public violence or overt military action is seen by some foreign observers as a contributing reason behind the lack of French response in their former colony at this time.
February 9: A special joint squad of detectives from the Oxford City Police and the Norfolk County Constabulary uncover a human smuggling ring lead by a disguised dark elf, purportedly acting for a mysterious Eastern European aristocrat. DCIs George Gently and Frederick Thursday and DIs Endeavour Morse and William Frost are officially commended for their sterling efforts before the entire investigation is classified with an X-notice and handed over to SOE and the even more clandestine Group V.
February 10: The Ministry of Labour announces that discussions between the government, trade unions and employer bodies regarding an agreement on an increase of annual leave to 28 working days plus the 16 paid public holidays are to be finalised shortly.
February 11: A series of raids by the French Inquisition arrest 13 suspects across the country on suspicion of being involved in a clandestine ring of Satanic necromancers. In keeping with the close ties between the Catholic Church and the French State, the strike teams of inquisitors, paladins and clerics are closely supported by heavily armed detachments of the Gendarmerie Nationale and the Sûreté Générale. The suspects are taken under close guard to special magical insulated cold iron cells in the Paris Temple.
February 12: Nobel prize winning Soviet author and dissident Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn is seized by the KGB from his apartment in Moscow and placed on a sealed train bound directly for the Finnish border crossing at Vainikkala.
February 13: Illich Ramirez Sanchez is found guilty of attempted murder, terrorism, murder and treachery in the Old Bailey and sentenced to death by hanging.
February 14: Sales data indicates that global sales of Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks topped 20,000 in December 1973 and January, with the popularity of the game showing no sign of abating amid a general 'craze' for fantasy and science fiction works, the ongoing significant numbers of children and young people from the postwar 'baby boom' in Europe and North America and the post Vietnam taste for escapist media.
February 15: Debut of The Adventures of HMS Hood on the BBC, a British naval drama series depicting the battles and voyages of the famed Royal Navy battlecruiser over 30 years and multiple conflicts, chiefly the Second World War. It is based on the best selling series of books by retired Polish Field Marshal Count Jan Niemcyzk, the Conqueror of the Reichstag and noted military historian, with each episode followed by a short 2 minute mini-documentary on a particular aspect or area of Hood's record showcased immediately prior, presented by Niemcyzk. This particular format will be copied by a number of subsequent programmes, including one that will widely be considered as the greatest television show of all time.
February 16: A report by the US Departments of the Treasury and the Interior and the Atomic Energy Commission predicts that the United States will experience a glut of potential energy sources by 1990 with the scheduled rise of nuclear fusion plants and expansion of oil, natural gas and coal production.
February 17: The Times carries a report on the demographic future of the metropolis of London, projecting that by 1980, the ethnic or non-white population of the capital will reach 1%, based on trends over the last decade.
February 18: Colonel Thomas Gatch begins his attempt at the first transatlantic balloon voyage, setting off from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in Light Heart and intending to land in France or Spain in three days. He is blown off course over the Sargasso Sea and lands five days later in Spanish Sahara, reporting the company of a huge wild platinum coloured dragon during the most perilous parts of the flight.
February 19: British forces assigned to the Imperial Strategic Reserve begin Exercise Corporate Lance, a test exercise of global surge deployment capacity, with 120 long range Shorts Belfasts, 84 Vickers VC10s and 72 Armstrong-Whitworth Atlases flying the 1st Brigade of the 1st Airborne Division, 3rd Commando Brigade and 64th Gurkha Brigade from Aldershot to the Falkland Islands via Ascension, with ten squadrons detached from Fighter Command and Strike Command beginning deployment to the Prydain and the Falklands and a squadron of Avro Vulcan strategic bombers flying non stop from Malta to Capetown.
February 20: Japanese holdout Hiroo Onoda is located by young Japanese adventurer Norio Suzuki on the Philippine island of Lubang, with the stubborn former soldier continuing to refuse to surrender, even though Japan had been defeated some 29 years ago. Suzuki agrees to attempt to locate Onoda's former commanding oficer in Japan.
February 21: Release of a new major motion picture adaption of Treasure Island, starring Mark Lester as Jim Hawkins, Charlton Heston as Long John Silver, Julian Glover as Doctor Livesey, Malcolm Stoddard as Captain Smollet, Christopher Lee as Blind Pew, Oliver Reed as Billy Bones and Brian Blessed as Ben Gunn.
February 22: HM Treasury is directed to begin transferring £6000 million in annual returns from the Imperial Sovereign Fund towards the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance to augment increases to the aged pension. This sum is to increase annually over the next six years as part of the Barton Government's long term design for generational accounting and diversification of funding of certain government programmes in order to provide for their firmer future. The Imperial Sovereign Fund has swelled to over £156,000 million, partly due to burgeoning revenues and royalties from North Sea oil and gas in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and is currently growing at over 8% per year.
February 23: A 149mm artillery shell fired during the Battle of Asiago in 1916, explodes some 57 years after the engagement, killing six scrap scavengers scouring the battlefield for souvenirs of the bloody Austrian-Hungarian victory.
February 24: Introduction into experimental U.S. Army service of the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, the intended successor to the famed UH-1 Iroquois general purpose helicopter. With over 10,000 UH-1s in the inventories of the Regular Army, National Guard and Army Reserve, the Black Hawk promises to be Sikorsky’s most lucrative aircraft to date.
February 25: Opening of a new joint USAF/RAAF base in Barkly, Northern Australia, with four 24,000ft runways and considerable suspected underground support facilities and missiles defences supporting the deployment of Strategic Air Command B-52s and B-70s in Indochina and the South Pacific. It is thought that RAAF Barkly has a dual role in supporting planned USSF orbital bombers and NASA space planes.
February 26: A Soviet Antonov An-24 is forced to make an emergency landing Gambell Airport on St. Lawrence Island, in the Bering Strait, off the coast of Canadian Alaska, leading to a brief international incident and uneasy standoff as local Canadian Militia and Eskimo Rangers and RCAF Avro Arrows respond to the arrival. After a day's negotiations, an agreement is reached for the Soviet plane to be refueled and allowed to depart.
February 27: Illich Sanchez, sometimes known as Carlos the Jackal, is hanged outside Newgate Prison before a crowd of several thousands amid heavy security. Souvenir photographs and dolls are sold, much to the distaste of some newspaper commentators.
February 28: The Admiralty announces a new series of classifications for the Royal Navy’s escort fleet, which is to consist of the current destroyers, frigates, sloops and corvettes joined by a renewed submarine chaser type, with the Flower class light corvettes being reclassified to reflect their inshore and littoral role, particularly in the North Sea.
February 1: New Zealand runner John Walker sets a new world record for the mile at the Empire Games, winning gold with a time of 3:44:29.
February 2: Orion 7 is launched from the orbit of Luna on a five year voyage to the outer reaches of the Solar System, with their targets being the mysterious planets Orcus and Pluto. She is to be followed by Orion 8 in December, which will explore the Asteroid Belt, Orion 9 in 1975, which will continue studies of the Jovian system; and Orion 10 in 1976, which is to return to the moons of Saturn.
February 3: University student Patricia Hearst, granddaughter of the newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley by a gang of suspected radicals, who fire shots at the neighbours and Hearst's fiancee. Her father, Randolph Hearst, immediately contacts a number of figures known for being able to help with problems where no-one else can.
February 4: French Premier d'Ambreville announces a plan for all electricity in France to be generated by nuclear power before the year 2000, with the fusion revolution promising to be the main means of this achievement.
February 5: Beginning of Exercise Starboard, with American, British and Canadian troops joining Israeli Army forces in war games in Galilee and the Golan. The heavy fortifications along the Israeli-Syrian border are usually held by the Israeli 1st and 4th Mechanised Divisions, opposing three Syrian corps, but Starboard sees them reach their wartime strength of a reinforced corps, with allied units simulating both enemy forces and projected reinforcements.
February 6: Sesame Street features a very special sequence explaining the importance of children learning how to duck and cover, with Big Bird, Grover and Kermit paying careful attention to the friendly Civil Defence officers. This is the latest television programme utilised by the United States Civil Defense Administration to reinforce educational measures.
February 7: Biblical scholars in Israel present conclusive findings on the exact measurements of the cubit, based on extensive research of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
February 8: A coup d'etat in Upper Volta sees the dismissal of the Prime Minister and Cabinet at the hands of his predecessor. The comparative lack of public violence or overt military action is seen by some foreign observers as a contributing reason behind the lack of French response in their former colony at this time.
February 9: A special joint squad of detectives from the Oxford City Police and the Norfolk County Constabulary uncover a human smuggling ring lead by a disguised dark elf, purportedly acting for a mysterious Eastern European aristocrat. DCIs George Gently and Frederick Thursday and DIs Endeavour Morse and William Frost are officially commended for their sterling efforts before the entire investigation is classified with an X-notice and handed over to SOE and the even more clandestine Group V.
February 10: The Ministry of Labour announces that discussions between the government, trade unions and employer bodies regarding an agreement on an increase of annual leave to 28 working days plus the 16 paid public holidays are to be finalised shortly.
February 11: A series of raids by the French Inquisition arrest 13 suspects across the country on suspicion of being involved in a clandestine ring of Satanic necromancers. In keeping with the close ties between the Catholic Church and the French State, the strike teams of inquisitors, paladins and clerics are closely supported by heavily armed detachments of the Gendarmerie Nationale and the Sûreté Générale. The suspects are taken under close guard to special magical insulated cold iron cells in the Paris Temple.
February 12: Nobel prize winning Soviet author and dissident Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn is seized by the KGB from his apartment in Moscow and placed on a sealed train bound directly for the Finnish border crossing at Vainikkala.
February 13: Illich Ramirez Sanchez is found guilty of attempted murder, terrorism, murder and treachery in the Old Bailey and sentenced to death by hanging.
February 14: Sales data indicates that global sales of Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks topped 20,000 in December 1973 and January, with the popularity of the game showing no sign of abating amid a general 'craze' for fantasy and science fiction works, the ongoing significant numbers of children and young people from the postwar 'baby boom' in Europe and North America and the post Vietnam taste for escapist media.
February 15: Debut of The Adventures of HMS Hood on the BBC, a British naval drama series depicting the battles and voyages of the famed Royal Navy battlecruiser over 30 years and multiple conflicts, chiefly the Second World War. It is based on the best selling series of books by retired Polish Field Marshal Count Jan Niemcyzk, the Conqueror of the Reichstag and noted military historian, with each episode followed by a short 2 minute mini-documentary on a particular aspect or area of Hood's record showcased immediately prior, presented by Niemcyzk. This particular format will be copied by a number of subsequent programmes, including one that will widely be considered as the greatest television show of all time.
February 16: A report by the US Departments of the Treasury and the Interior and the Atomic Energy Commission predicts that the United States will experience a glut of potential energy sources by 1990 with the scheduled rise of nuclear fusion plants and expansion of oil, natural gas and coal production.
February 17: The Times carries a report on the demographic future of the metropolis of London, projecting that by 1980, the ethnic or non-white population of the capital will reach 1%, based on trends over the last decade.
February 18: Colonel Thomas Gatch begins his attempt at the first transatlantic balloon voyage, setting off from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in Light Heart and intending to land in France or Spain in three days. He is blown off course over the Sargasso Sea and lands five days later in Spanish Sahara, reporting the company of a huge wild platinum coloured dragon during the most perilous parts of the flight.
February 19: British forces assigned to the Imperial Strategic Reserve begin Exercise Corporate Lance, a test exercise of global surge deployment capacity, with 120 long range Shorts Belfasts, 84 Vickers VC10s and 72 Armstrong-Whitworth Atlases flying the 1st Brigade of the 1st Airborne Division, 3rd Commando Brigade and 64th Gurkha Brigade from Aldershot to the Falkland Islands via Ascension, with ten squadrons detached from Fighter Command and Strike Command beginning deployment to the Prydain and the Falklands and a squadron of Avro Vulcan strategic bombers flying non stop from Malta to Capetown.
February 20: Japanese holdout Hiroo Onoda is located by young Japanese adventurer Norio Suzuki on the Philippine island of Lubang, with the stubborn former soldier continuing to refuse to surrender, even though Japan had been defeated some 29 years ago. Suzuki agrees to attempt to locate Onoda's former commanding oficer in Japan.
February 21: Release of a new major motion picture adaption of Treasure Island, starring Mark Lester as Jim Hawkins, Charlton Heston as Long John Silver, Julian Glover as Doctor Livesey, Malcolm Stoddard as Captain Smollet, Christopher Lee as Blind Pew, Oliver Reed as Billy Bones and Brian Blessed as Ben Gunn.
February 22: HM Treasury is directed to begin transferring £6000 million in annual returns from the Imperial Sovereign Fund towards the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance to augment increases to the aged pension. This sum is to increase annually over the next six years as part of the Barton Government's long term design for generational accounting and diversification of funding of certain government programmes in order to provide for their firmer future. The Imperial Sovereign Fund has swelled to over £156,000 million, partly due to burgeoning revenues and royalties from North Sea oil and gas in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and is currently growing at over 8% per year.
February 23: A 149mm artillery shell fired during the Battle of Asiago in 1916, explodes some 57 years after the engagement, killing six scrap scavengers scouring the battlefield for souvenirs of the bloody Austrian-Hungarian victory.
February 24: Introduction into experimental U.S. Army service of the Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, the intended successor to the famed UH-1 Iroquois general purpose helicopter. With over 10,000 UH-1s in the inventories of the Regular Army, National Guard and Army Reserve, the Black Hawk promises to be Sikorsky’s most lucrative aircraft to date.
February 25: Opening of a new joint USAF/RAAF base in Barkly, Northern Australia, with four 24,000ft runways and considerable suspected underground support facilities and missiles defences supporting the deployment of Strategic Air Command B-52s and B-70s in Indochina and the South Pacific. It is thought that RAAF Barkly has a dual role in supporting planned USSF orbital bombers and NASA space planes.
February 26: A Soviet Antonov An-24 is forced to make an emergency landing Gambell Airport on St. Lawrence Island, in the Bering Strait, off the coast of Canadian Alaska, leading to a brief international incident and uneasy standoff as local Canadian Militia and Eskimo Rangers and RCAF Avro Arrows respond to the arrival. After a day's negotiations, an agreement is reached for the Soviet plane to be refueled and allowed to depart.
February 27: Illich Sanchez, sometimes known as Carlos the Jackal, is hanged outside Newgate Prison before a crowd of several thousands amid heavy security. Souvenir photographs and dolls are sold, much to the distaste of some newspaper commentators.
February 28: The Admiralty announces a new series of classifications for the Royal Navy’s escort fleet, which is to consist of the current destroyers, frigates, sloops and corvettes joined by a renewed submarine chaser type, with the Flower class light corvettes being reclassified to reflect their inshore and littoral role, particularly in the North Sea.
