Dark Earth Timeline

1961

January
January 1: Konigsberg is officially renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt.
January 2: Buckingham Palace announces that Queen Elizabeth II is pregnant.
January 3: Explosion of U.S. Army experimental nuclear reactor SL-1 in Idaho Falls, killing its three crew.
January 4: A Polish military intelligence officer defects to the United States in Strelsau, Ruritania.
January 5: Alfredo Fioravanti enters the U.S. consulate in Rome and signs a confession of the forgery of the Etruscan terracotta warriors displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
January 6: John F. Kennedy is formally elected as President of the United States as a joint session of Congress witnesses the tally of the electoral vote.
January 7: Withdrawal of the final operational units of British troops from Korea.
January 8: A Norwegian jarl announces a competition to create a new set of advanced prosthetic hands.
January 9: Scotland Yard and MI5 uncover a Soviet spy ring in London.
January 10: The Prime Minister of Persia announces a wave of new land reforms.
January 11: Birth of a first son to Kaiser Otto of Austria-Hungary.
January 12: Sweden, the USA, Britain and Canada sign an agreement on the prepositioning of defence equipment in Norrland.
January 13: Three U.S. Army Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals are deployed to South Vietnam to support South Vietnamese and French operations.
January 14: Dissolution of the Association of Football Players' and Trainers' Union.
January 15: The crew of an offshore radar tower are rescued by a caped superhero as it collapses.
January 16: An Iowa bank teller is arrested for the suspected embezzlement of over $120,000; it is later shown that she stole a record $2.3 million.
January 17: President Thompson gives his final State of the Union address to Congress.
January 18: Belgian Hawker Hunters strike rebel targets in the Eastern Congo, breaking a tenuous ceasefire.
January 19: Britain and Denmark reach an agreement for the establishment of a British military base at Hanstholm.
January 20: Inauguration of John F. Kennedy as President of the United States.
January 21: Confirmation hearings and swearing in of the new Kennedy Cabinet in Washington D.C.
January 22: The Admiralty authorises a new strategy paper on Royal Marine operations, strength and aviation.
January 23: Hijackjng of the cruise ship Santa Maria off Venezuela.
January 24: A USAF B-52G Stratofortress carrying four Mark 39 thermonuclear bombs crashes near Goldsboro, North Carolina.
January 25: President Kennedy holds the first live presidential news conference at the White House.
January 26: Maiden flight of the CAC CA-32 supersonic jet fighter in South Australia.
January 27: A Soviet Whiskey class submarine goes missing in the Barents Sea.
January 28: Nazi war criminal Hermann Hofle is arrested in Salzburg.
January 29: Radio Hanoi announces of the formation of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam.
January 30: German Democratic Republic Premier Ernst Thalmann declares that the GDR is the only legitimate German state.
January 31: A South African jury delivers a verdict of guilty in the treason trial of a group of Communist supporting members of the African National Congress.

February
February 1: First successful test launch of the U.S. Hercules superheavy intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral.
February 2: USN destroyers force the hijacked Santa Maria into port in Brazil.
February 3: Fifty five of the convicted defendants at the South African treason trial are sentenced to death.
February 4: A Ministry of Aviation white paper on civil supersonic air travel is released.
February 5: Opening of the Rangoon Conference to decide the political future of Burma.
February 6: Announcement of the deployment of a British brigade to Oman at the request of the Sultan to assist operations against rebel groups.
February 7: Discovery of a very large body of rare earth minerals in the Ozarks by uranium prospectors.
February 8: The Niagara Falls Hydroelectric Power Station goes online for the first time.
February 9: French Mirage fighter jets fire upon a Soviet IL-18 Coot transport en route to Morocco on a diplomatic visit after it strays into French Algerian airspace. The aircraft is forced to make an emergency landing at Annaba Air Force Base.
February 10: Communist backed guerrillas attack a military base in Northern Rhodesia, killing five personnel in exchange for unknown losses.
February 11: Robert C. Weaver becomes the first Negro to head a major US government agency, being appointed Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Authority.
February 12: Six battleships and four aircraft carriers in reserve since the Second World War are stricken from the U.S. Navy.
February 13: Rock collectors hunting for geodes in the Coso Mountains of California discover a strange object resembling a spark plug that is estimated to be 500,000 years old.
February 14: Synthesisation of Lawrencium in Berkeley, California.
February 15: Sabena air crash in Belgium
February 16: Members of a British anti-nuclear group are arrested in a series of Special Branch raids on suspicion of sedition and treachery.
February 17: U.S Secretary of Defence Clark Savage approves a Strategic Air Command plan to expand the US ICBM force to 2500 missiles by 1967.
February 18: The King of Belgium dissolves Parliament and issued orders for new national elections to be held.
February 19: Rhodesian Prime Minister Sir Garfield Todd announces a limited mobilisation for punitive operations against communist terrorists in the north of the country.
February 20: French Mistral heavy bombers strike suspected Viet Cong base areas in South Vietnam in the latest escalation of the communist insurgency in that country.
February 21: Launch of the atomic guided missile super battleship Ohio at New York Shipbuilding.
February 22: Reformation of a second operational divisional headquarters of the Free Polish Army.
February 23: Beginning of Exercise Sweepstake, a joint Anglo-American-French naval exercise in the Eastern Mediterranean.
February 24: President Kennedy announces the deployment of a Special Forces Group and the 187th Airborne Brigade to Laos to support the government against communist insurgents.
February 25: A USAF study is published, projecting the replacement of the active F-102 force by a combination of F-106s, F-108s and F-112s by 1964.
February 26: Hassan II is proclaimed King of Morocco after the sudden death of his father, King Mohammed.
February 27: Professor Henry Kissinger is appointed as a special consultant to the National Security Council by President Kennedy.
February 28: Maiden flight of the DFK (Deutsche Flugzeugwerft Karl-Marx-Stadt) Se-124 jet attack fighter.

March
March 1: Beginning of drilling for Project Mohole, an attempt to drill through the Earth's crust into the Mohorovičić discontinuity.
March 2: Kennedy announces the establishment of the Freedom Corps, a volunteer programme for American citizens to work abroad on development and aid projects aimed at supporting democracy.
March 3: First successful interception of a ballistic missile by the Soviet V-1000 ABM system over the Kazakh SSR.
March 4: The centennial of the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln is commemorated in Washington D.C in the presence of a crowd of 30,000.
March 5: Seventeen of those convicted in the South African treason trial in February are executed by hanging at Capetown.
March 6: The experimental XB-72 nuclear powered superbomber makes a successful flight between Carswell AFB, Texas and Andersen AFB, Guam.
March 7: Australian Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies announces a series of increases to the active strength of the Australian Defence Forces.
March 8: The USN identifies prospective SSBN bases in Britain, France, Spain and Italy in a secret report to the National Security Council.
March 9: 71 miners are killed in a fire at the Ueda coal mine in Japan.
March 10: The International Revolutionary Army issues a communique declaring that it has forces operational in every state of South America and Europe.
March 11: Debut of the 'Ken' doll, a male companion to Barbie.
March 12: Kennedy proposes an Alliance for Progress, whereby US financial and development aid will be supplied to Latin American states.
March 13: Dam burst in Kiev kills 145.
March 14: A B-52G crashes at Yuba, California.
March 15: A series of coordinated guerilla ambushes occur across Angola, marking the beginning of a concerted uprising against Portuguese rule.
March 16: In a wide-spanning interview with the New York Times, Japanese Prime Minister Akira Tanaka suggests that Japan is able and willing to participate in cooperative efforts with other members of the Free World to counter aggression in the Orient.
March 17: Albert DeSalvo is arrested for breaking and entering in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He will later be charged with rape, tried, convicted and executed on January 3rd, 1962.
March 18: British agricultural scientists develop a new large breed of chicken, averaging 25lb at fully grown weight. It will be unveiled to the public in June.
March 19: Tornadoes wreck havoc in Bengal, killing over 250 people.
March 20: First public trials of a vaccine for malaria begin in the United States.
March 21: USAF B-56 Canberra bombers strike Communist targets in Laos.
March 22: China conducts a successful long range ballistic missile test.
March 23: The Soviet Union announces that it will readmit foreign correspondents, ending the five year period of exclusion following the 1956 conflict.
March 24: Reinforcement of the USN Seventh Fleet in the South China Sea by two carrier task groups.
March 25: The Government of South Vietnam formally requests the provision of additional military aid from France, the United States and Britain to combat the communist menace of the Viet Cong.
March 26: Canadian Prime Minister Sir William Richardson arrives in Washington D.C. for a strategic conference with President Kennedy.
March 27: The Soviet Air Force authorises a preliminary study on a jet powered replacement for the Antonov An-22 strategic transport plane.
March 28: President Kennedy presents his first $125 billion defence budget to Congress, which features increases to the strength of the U.S. Army and Air Force, funding for a range of strategic weapons systems and an expansive naval construction programme.
March 29: Ronald Reagan delivers a well-received speech entitled 'Encroaching Control' to the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce.
March 30: The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City to combat the international menace of the narcotics trade.
March 31: Britain and Persia sign an extensive strategic cooperation agreement, including substantial defence orders and a graduated system of increased Persian royalties from British Petroleum.

April
April 1: A BBC radio news programme on the dangers of hydroxylic acid attracts a number of complaints.
April 2: The National Educational Radio Network begins broadcasting.
April 3: Arrest of gangster Carlos Marcello in New Orleans.
April 4: The Politburo authorises the flight of a new spaceship on a direct exploratory voyage to the asteroid belt.
April 5: Formation of the New Guinea Council in Netherlands New Guinea.
April 6: The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Tel Aviv.
April 7: The River Uruguay Treaty is signed between Argentina and Uruguay in Montevideo.
April 8: Sinking of the British merchant liner MV Dara in the Persian Gulf by a suspected bomb. 253 passengers and crew are killed.
April 9: The Council of the League of Nations unanimously passes a resolution providing for international cooperation in the suppression of dark wizards.
April 10: Production of the 3 millionth Land Rover at the Rover manufacturing plant in Solihull.
April 11: An article in The Times predicts a forthcoming renaissance for mounted cavalry in modern warfare due to advances in armour and lightweight weapons.
April 12: 36 RAF Vickers Valiant strategic heavy bombers strike targets in Oman and Arabia linked with rebel groups suspected on the sinking of MV Dara.
April 13: Execution of PFC John A. Bennett for rape and attempted murder at Fort Leavenworth.
April 14: Arrival of the first elements of a British punitive expedition in Oman. Their direct mission is to neutralise desert bases belonging to rebel groups
April 15: French trufflehunters uncover a 12.4lb black truffle in Southern France.
April 16: Stirling Moss wins the Vienna Grand Prix.
April 17: 33rd Academy Awards: Sink the Bismarck! wins best picture, John Wayne wins best director for The Alamo and Kenneth More wins Best Actor for his role in Sink the Bismarck!
April 18: The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations is unanimously approved at a conference at the League of Nations.
April 19: Germany and Austria-Hungary sign a memorandum of understanding regarding tank development.
April 20: The Bell Rocket Belt goes on sale in the United States.
April 21: Release of 'The Passage to the West' by C.S. Lewis, the latest novel in the long-running Narnia series of children's books.
April 22: French troops launch a series of major raids in Algiers.
April 23: Judy Garland performs a well-received comeback concert at Carnegie Hall.
April 24: Raising of the Swedish ship Vasa from the Baltic Sea where it had lain until 1628.
April 25: The British Colonial Office states that Sierra Leone will not be granted independence in the forseeable future.
April 26: France conducts a thermonuclear test at Muroroa Atoll in the South Pacific.
April 27: President Kennedy gives a speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Association, stating that the media has a vital responsibility to ensure that they take the national security interests of the nation into account when considering publication.
April 28: The M-29 Davy Crockett atomic recoilless rifle enters service with the U.S. Army.
April 29: Luciano Pavarotti makes his operatic debut at Reggio Emilio.
April 30: Eastern Airlines inaugurates the Eastern Air Shuttle.

May
May 1: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry formally retires from the Royale Service Aeronautique.
May 2: Publication of an article outlining a putative cure for Huntington's chorea in The Lancet.
May 3: The U.S. minimum wage is raised to $2.40 per hour.
May 4: Commander Malcolm Ross and Lieutenant Commander Victor A. Prather take part in a record-breaking balloon flight to an altitude of 125,468ft.
May 5: NASA conducts a successful test flight of an advanced interplanetary spaceship from Cape Canaveral, reaching Luna 16 hours and 24 minutes later.
May 6: Manchester United win the FA Cup over Tottenham Hotspur 4-2, with Duncan Edwards scoring a brace of second-half goals.
May 7: The leader of the Burmese Communist Party is killed in a police raid.
May 8: George Blake is sentenced to death for espionage at the Old Bailey in London.
May 9: The Chairman of the FCC gives a noted speech on the importance of maintaining high standards in television broadcasting.
May 10: A meeting of the Soviet Navy high command recommends significant increases to the capacity and armament of the Soviet Naval Infantry.
May 11: Air France Flight 406 crashes in the Sahara en route to Marseilles, killing all 79 people on board.
May 12: A wildfire rips through Hollywood, destroying several homes and burning the iconic sign to the ground.
May 13: Congress passes the National Interstate and Defense Railways Act, authorising the construction of a network of strategic high speed railways in the United States.
May 14: General Johann Graf von Kielmansegg is appointed interim Commander of Joint Allied Forces in Berlin.
May 15: Gary Cooper makes his first public appearance since recovering from cancer.
May 16: President Kennedy arrives on a state visit to Canada, planting a commemorative tree in Ottawa to mark the occasion.
May 17: A Soviet rocketship explodes shortly after launch, killing three cosmonauts.
May 18: Work begins on design of an upgraded version of the M102 heavy tank.
May 19: Publication of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic historical fantasy, The Silmarilion , which, at 2567 pages, is thought to be one of the longest novels in the English language.
May 20: Tarzan gives an extensive interview to the Washington Post on the future of Africa, arguing fiercely that independence for current colonies should be expedited.
May 21: Investigation of Fletcher's Ice Island by the United States Air Force begins.
May 22: An earthquake strikes Central New South Wales.
May 23: Maiden flight of the Canadair CL-84 VTOL utility aircraft.
May 24: Monthly tree planting in Britain reaches its highest rate in the 20th century.
May 25: President Kennedy gives an address to a special joint session of Congress on space exploration, calling for the United States to send a manned expedition to Jupiter and Saturn by the end of the decade and to commit itself to the larger goal of launching an interstellar starship to Alpha Centauri before 2000.
May 26: Norman Borlaug's newest strain of semi-dwarf wheat is introduced to India.
May 27: Execution of George Blake by hanging, drawing and quartering for high treason at Newgate Gaol in London.
May 28: Opening of the Stockholm Conference on European Security.
May 29: Assassination of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, allegedly by an unidentified British man.
May 30: KLM Flight 897 crashes shortly after taking off from Lisbon bound for Caracas. All 61 passengers and crew are killed.
May 31: Premier DeGaulle and President Kennedy meet in Paris to discuss military command arrangements in Europe and Franco-German relations.

June
June 1: The 1960 Canadian Census is published, recording the population of the Dominion as 69,847,992.
June 2: Ethiopia is struck by an earthquake registering 7.3 on the Richter scale.
June 3: The superliner RMS Canberra departs on her maiden voyage from Portsmouth to Australia via South Africa.
June 4: Conclusion of the Stockholm Conference, with all parties claiming a significant step forward towards lasting peace and security in Europe.
June 5: Announcement of the engagement of King Baldwin of Belgium and Crown Princess Beatrice of the Netherlands.
June 6: Death of Carl Jung at the age of 85 in Zurich.
June 7: Beginning of Exercise Broadsword, a joint Commonwealth defence exercise in Israel and the broader Middle East.
June 8: Launch of a new super battleship at Kure Shipyard in Japan. It is named Yamato, after the largest such vessel of the Second World War.
June 9: The Assembly of the League of Nations calls upon Portugal to desist from repressive measures and activities in Angola and to enter into negotiations with independence movements.
June 10: A strange energy event takes place in the vicinity of London and the Home Counties.
June 11: Two AWOL U.S. Army privates are arrested at a roadblock near Salt Lake City after a cross-country killing spree.
June 12: Creation of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.
June 13: The Orient Express begins an extended service through to Angora for the first time.
June 14: Introduction of the Colt M-16 7.62 x 51mm battle rifle to US Army service.
June 15: Completion of the third stage of the Berlin Wall defensive barrier.
June 16: Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to French officials in Paris.
June 17: The first edition of the Presidential Intelligence Checklist is published.
June 18: Four young girls in the Spanish village of San Sebastian de Garabandal report seeing a vision of the Archangel Michael.
June 19: Discovery of an infestation of Japanese beetles in California.
June 20: Conclusion of the Antarctic Conference without clear agreement on the future of the continent.
June 21: Opening of the first seawater desalination plant in the United States near Freeport, Texas.
June 22: Formation of a unified Laotian government of national salvation.
June 23: USAF Major Robert M. White reaches a speed of Mach 6.24 in an X-15 test flight over California.
June 24: George Lincoln Rockwell is sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for sedition by a federal court.
June 25: Commissioning of the Royal Navy’s newest atomic powered supercarrier, HMS Hermes.
June 26: Publication of Ernest Hemingway’s newest novel, The Last Mountain.
June 27: The Reverend Edmund Thomas is enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England.
June 28: First broadcast of Julia Child's The French Chef by Boston television station WGBH.
June 29: Australian SAS troopers ambush an attempted Indonesian landing on Timor, sinking two boats and killing at least forty.
June 30: Cuba reaches an agreement to join the West Indies Federation in 1963.

July
July 1: The Dowry Prohibition Act 1960 comes into effect in India.
July 2: Officials of the major nuclear powers begin new discussions on an atmospheric test ban agreement in Geneva.
July 3: General Douglas MacArthur arrives in the Philippines for his first formal visit since 1945 and is met with a rapturous reception.
July 4: Soviet nuclear submarine K-19 experiences a catastrophic reactor leak whilst on patrol in the Arctic Ocean.
July 5: Israel conducts a successful test of a space rocket.
July 6: Morocco agrees to provide limited clandestine aid to Algerian rebels in a secret agreement.
July 7: An explosion in an Austro-Hungarian coal mine kills 108 miners.
July 8: The Ku Klux Klan is declared an illegal organisation by a federal court.
July 9: Patrolling RAAF Lightning fighters shoot down an Indonesian MiG-19 that strays into Australian airspace over the Timor Sea.
July 10: Deciphering of the Voynich Manuscript is completed by an apprentice wizard in the service of Dr. Simon Gallows.
July 11: The British Ministry of Defence refuses to comment on a story in the Belgian press about the presence of tactical nuclear artillery and missiles in Hong Kong.
July 12: A rain of peaches fall from the sky over Shreveport, Louisiana.
July 13: Robert Soblen is convicted of espionage for the Soviet Union and sentenced to life imprisonment.
July 14: Unveiling of a new French supersonic bomber in a flight above the Bastille Day parade in Paris.
July 15: Restrictions on crossings at the Anglo-Chinese border between Imperial China and Hong Kong are relaxed in an indication of the gradual easing of tensions; the area remains heavily militarised.
July 16: Over 300 Viet Cong are killed in a protracted engagement with South Vietnamese troops supported by French jet fighter-bombers and armed helicopters.
July 17: A German doctor claims to have developed a cure for lycanthropy.
July 18: USAF B-66 Destroyer light bombers strike Pathet Lao positions on the Plain of Jars.
July 19: France warns Tunisia not to interfere with the operations of its naval base at Bizerte.
July 20: Indonesian President Sukarno gives a fiery speech claiming that the legitimate territorial demands of a greater Indonesia in New Guinea, Borneo and wider South East Asia cannot be denied and calling for the removal of all Western colonial oppression from the area.
July 21: Australia announces a new series of atomic tests to be conducted at Maralinga.
July 22: A group of concerned marine biologists publish a paper hypothesising the extinction of the great white shark.
July 23: Formation of the Korean Ministry of Economic Planning and Development.
July 24: Imperial Japanese Air Force maritime patrol aircraft spot Godzilla south of Marcus Island, but are unable to engage the monster before it submerges.
July 25: Kennedy calls for greatly increased spending on civil defense and production of fallout shelters.
July 26: The Rhodesian government declares that it will intervene directly in disorder in neighbouring states should it affect its own security.
July 27: Cyril I is proclaimed Patriarch of Bulgaria.
July 28: Arrival of a reinforced British Army battlegroup in Northern Australia.
July 29: Presentation of a new KGB plan for the successful confrontation and destabilisation of the United States and British Empire to the Politburo.
July 30: The Communist Party of the Soviet Union releases an expansive programme of reforms and goals to be achieved over the next twenty-five years.
July 31: IBM unveils a new commercial computing engine linked to an electric typewriter and trackball.

August
August 1: Establishment of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.
August 2: Sixteen people are killed when a tourist bus crashes in Lake Lucerne.
August 3: The Royal Bulgarian Navy flagship, the light cruiser Tsar Simeon II strikes a mine in the Bla k Sea and is barely able to limp back to port at Varna.
August 4: Hundreds of people report seeing a flying car in the skies above Surrey, England.
August 5: The Hawker Siddeley White Knight solid fuelled medium range ballistic missile enters service with the British Army. With a range of 2500 miles, it is considered to provide an effective deterrent and counter to Soviet missiles targeted on Britain and India in conjunction with the RAF's Black Arrows.
August 6: Stirling Moss wins the 1961 German Grand Prix.
August 7: The skies above Nantucket are filled with a strange red glow.
August 8: British Foreign Secretary Lord Wooster signs an agreement with the Prime Minister of Egypt to reduce British forces based in Egypt by 20,000 personnel by 1963.
August 9: The Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces activate a further two missile divisions.
August 10: First successful use of chemical defoliant in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam.
August 11: A solar eclipse over South America leads to a very brief increase in vampiric activity and a number of subsequent embarrassing disintegrations.
August 12: The United States and Britain sign an extensive strategic cooperation agreement and alliance.
August 13: Stanley Barton gives a major speech on the need for British armament to counter Soviet aggression.
August 14: Defection of a Soviet KGB colonel to Britain in a perilous operation on the Caspian Sea.
August 15: The Labour Party records a strong victory in the Israeli general election.
August 16: The CH-47 Chinook enters U.S. Army service.
August 17: Eight women and children are killed by the explosion of a World War 2 howitzer shell uncovered in Aversa, Italy.
August 18: Pictures of a new Soviet tank appear in a Swedish newspaper.
August 19: The British Ministry of Education announces a range of reforms and improvements to the rigour of the 11-plus school examination.
August 20: Stirling Moss wins the 1961 Swedish Grand Prix.
August 21: Theft of Goya’s Portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London.
August 22: First game of the Imperial Cup is played Milmoor, with Rotherham defeating Aston Villa; the competition pits the best 100 Association football teams in the British Empire against each other.
August 23: Scientist Michael Gregsten is killed by an armed man at Deadman’s Hill near Clophill, Bedfordshire; petty criminal James Hanratty is arrested on September 12th, tried for murder and robbery, sentenced to death and hanged on October 1st.
August 24: Opening of the Pan Arab Games in Casablanca, Morocco.
August 25: A Soviet pilot defects to Korea, providing the USAF with his intact MiG-21.
August 26: Belgium agrees to replace its own regular troops in the Congo with a civil gendarmerie focussed on law enforcement and public order. In effect, they are to become an unofficial military force largely made up of European and African mercenaries.
August 27: A French Super Vatour bomber accidentally strikes and severs an aerial tramway cable, but the occupants of the carriage miraculously escape death or injury through the intervention of a strange flying costumed man.
August 28: The Department of Naval Construction finalises design of the proposed Royal Navy light anti-submarine warfare carrier.
August 29: Queen Elizabeth II gives birth to a third son and fourth child at Buckingham Palace, who is given the name Edward Alexander Richard Louis.
August 30: The FFA P-20 supersonic jet fighter enters service with the Swiss Air Force.
August 31: Archaeologists uncover the ruined remains of a great pyramid in the jungles of northern Rhodesia.

September
September 1: First international radio broadcast by Deutsche Welle.
September 2: President Kennedy and Prime Minister Eden sign an agreement on U.S. submarine basing in Scotland, Ireland, Lyonesse and Wales at the White House.
September 3: Opening of India's first high speed railway line in Calcutta.
September 4: Eden and Kennedy issue a statement calling on the Soviet Union to join in a collective agreement to cease atmospheric nuclear testing.
September 5: Legislative elections in the British colony of the Gold Coast result in major gains for nationalist candidates and supporters of expedited independence.
September 6: The Soviet Union conducts a hydrogen bomb test on Novaya Zemlya, with the device having a 36 megaton yield.
September 7: A woman attempts to assault Lenin's Tomb in Moscow with her bare hands, but is quickly subdued by guards.
September 8: Sir Winston Churchill, the Duke of London, addresses a joint session of Congress on the challenges to liberty and democracy in the increasingly dangerous world of the Cold War.
September 9: An abortive coup against the Turkish government is subdued by guards loyal to the Sultan.
September 10: Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast, leading to massive rain and winds upwards of 299 miles an hour. Over 500,000 flee the storm in the largest mass evacuation in American history.
September 11: Establishment of the World Wildlife Fund in Switzerland.
September 12: A strange shower of tiny crystals occurs in several locations across the world, defying the efforts of scientists to explain the phenomenon.
September 13: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff briefs President Kennedy on SIOP-62, which includes 16 operational plans for general war with the Soviet Union, with the most substantive strategic atomic response calling for the use of 5267 nuclear warheads on targets in the USSR and Warsaw Pact states.
September 14: Typhoon Nancy strikes Japan, killing over 200 people.
September 15: A group of children exploring abandoned tunnels in Birmingham narrowly escape being eaten by an enormous white worm.
September 16: RAF Canberra pilots flying a geographic surveying mission over Southern Iraq report considerable numbers of trees growing along the border with Arabia in what had been a desert just twenty years previously.
September 17: Parliament approves a special vote to provide 300 million pounds in funding for a new Royal Space Force capital ship
September 18: The USA conducts an underground nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
September 19: A married couple report being kidnapped by aliens whilst travelling in New Hampshire.
September 20: President Kennedy authorises the deployment of a B-47 Stratojet medium bomber group to Thailand for potential air strikes in Laos and South Vietnam.
September 21: A thirsty giant drinks 247 glasses of beer in a single sitting in New York City.
September 22: China moves a tank division close to the highly fortified border with Hong Kong, raising tensions.
September 23: Britain and Norway reach an agreement for the transfer of 360 former British Army Super Centurions to support Western European security.
September 24: Australia orders 100 F-111 strike fighters from the United States to replace its Canberra light bombers.
September 25: A sudden security crackdown occurs at the Ministry of Space's Jodrell Bank Observatory, with a number of reports and signals confiscated.
September 26: The Soviet Ministry of Defence announces that a number of new Red Army divisions are to be formed in 1962.
September 27: Marine scientists on a bathysphere expedition to the depths of the Mariana Trench observe several huge unknown sea creatures.
September 28: Formation of the United States Twenty Fifth Air Force, a special Combined Air Strike Force for global contingency operations.
September 29: Prime Minister Eden announces that. Britain will be observing a moratorium on atmospheric nuclear testing regardless of foreign action.
September 30: French Mirage jet fighter-bombers attack suspected Viet Cong base areas with rockets and mustard gas in support of operations in the Central Highlands of South Vietnam.

October
October 1: Field Marshal Rommel calls for the replacement of current Imperial German Army tanks with a single vehicle.
October 2: A meeting of the Imperial Council approves the deployment of a Commonwealth contingent alongside the British Army of the Rhine.
October 3: Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson dies of a heart attack in Texas.
October 4: The first prototype of the upgraded Super Conqueror Mark 4 heavy tank begins testing in Britain.
October 5: Margaret Thatcher is appointed Parliamentary Undersecretary for the Ministry of Pensions.
October 6: A proposal to legalise gambling in Nevada fails to gain enough votes to pass.
October 7: First meeting of the 'Draft Goldwater Committee' in Chicago.
October 8: Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of crimes against humanity and sentenced to death.
October 9: Merger of the Glenn L. Martin Company and American-Marietta Corporation.
October 10: Evacuation of population of Tristan da Cunha by Royal Navy cruisers after a volcanic eruption.
October 11: Release of Biblical epic 'King of Kings' in the United States.
October 12: The atomic powered guided missile super destroyer USS Bainbridge is commissioned at Bethlehem Steel's yard in Quincy, Massachusetts.
October 13: Sigmund Freud dies aged 105 in Vienna.
October 14: Operation Sky Shield II takes place in the skies across the United States, with all civil air traffic grounded as Strategic Air Command bombers conduct exercises across the Continental United States.
October 15: President Kennedy signs a series of extensive tax cuts at the White House.
October 16: German border guards report increased numbers of Soviet heavy tanks operating on the other side of the Elbe border behind the Iron Wall.
October 17: The Assembly of the League of Nations votes to extend the effective ban on commercial whaling by a further 10 years.
October 18: The South African general election results in a strong United Party victory.
October 19: A special international conference of the world's best physicians is called, with no indication as to the reason they have been summoned to Washington D.C.
October 20: The Soviet Union conducts a live SLBM test.
October 21: U.S. Secretary of Defense Clark Savage gives a speech on American nuclear superiority over the Soviet Union.
October 22: Ceylon becomes an independent Dominion.
October 23: Oleg Penkovsky is successfully smuggled out of the Soviet Union in a joint SIS/SOE operation involving an experimental glider.
October 24: Announcement of an agreement for the preservation of the Euston Arch.
October 25: The United States provides Germany with a private assurance that it will employ atomic weapons in its defence.
October 26: Conclusion of the British punitive expedition to Oman with the destruction of the last known rebel base in the area.
October 27: Italy and Libya sign a special defence cooperation agreement.
October 28: A Clean Air Act is passed by the U.S. Senate.
October 29: A Soviet diplomatic note to Finland demanding revision of their current foreign policy relationship is politely refused.
October 30: The Soviet Union conducts the largest atmospheric atomic test to date at Novaya Zemlya, with a Tu-95 Bear jet bomber dropping a hydrogen bomb with a yield of 102 megatons.
October 31: Hurricane Hattie strikes British Honduras, wrecking Belize City.

November
November 1: A joint Anglo-American skyship carrier exercise takes place over the South Pacific.
November 2: General Maxwell Taylor returns from a fact finding mission to South Vietnam, recommending that U.S. military advisors be deployed alongside PATO allies to counter North Vietnamese aggression.
November 3: Execution of Adolf Eichmann by hanging in Tel Aviv. His body is cremated and the ashes scattered over the Mediterranean Sea.
November 4: Birth of Prince David, first son of Princess Margaret and Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden.
November 5: Journalist James Hacker is selected as Liberal candidate for the parliamentary seat of Birmingham East.
November 6: Germany counterintelligence agents arrest dozens of Soviet agents in a masterfully organised sweep operation.
November 7: France conducts an underground nuclear test in the Sahara.
November 8: British Rail machinist Richard Starkey is commended for his swift actions in preventing a train derailment in Liverpool, saving dozens of lives. He demures the most effusive praise, stating that he does not want to beat his own drum.
November 9: Neil Armstrong sets a new world speed record in the X-15, reaching Mach 6.75 at an altitude of 139,276 feet.
November 10: The Imperial Mexican Army stages an unsuccessful search for a reported crashed UFO in the Sonoran Desert.
November 11: Formation of AFNORTH, AFCENT and AFSOUTH as distinct commands under Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, General James Gavin.
November 12: French Premier de Gaulle warns Brazil to cease attempted border provocations with French Guiana.
November 13: Beginning of the world's largest fire at a natural gas well in the Algerian Sahara.
November 14: The Shah of Persia initiates the White Revolution, an ambitious modernisation programme.
November 15: Establishment of a special scientific education programme for talented youths by the U.S. War Department.
November 16: Death of Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, in Texas.
November 17: Michael Rockefeller disappears in New Guinea.
November 18: An uprising in the Dominican Republic overthrows the vestiges of the Trujilio regime.
November 19: The Assembly of the League of Nations narrowly passes a motion condemning all colonialism in Africa.
November 20: Construction of a large USSC space battleship begins on Minerva.
November 21: President Kennedy announces that the United States will not permit the expansion of communism in South East Asia.
November 22: The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission announces that construction of an experimental fusion reactor will begin in 1963.
November 23: A USN task group consisting of the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and the nuclear cruiser USS Long Beach begins exercises off the coast of Florida.
November 24: The World Food Programme is established.
November 25: The Soviet Union establishes diplomatic relations with the Vatican.
November 26: Opening of new CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia.
November 27: British Prime Minister Eden proposes a range of tax cuts to stimulate the national economy.
November 28: Construction of the Command Module of the Orion spacecraft begins at North American Aviation
November 29: Sweden and Britain sign an agreement on licenced production of the Chieftain main battle tank.
November 30: Independence of Kenya as a Dominion.

December
December 1: Execution of the remaining twenty-two condemned South African prisoners convicted of high treason at Capetown.
December 2: Kennedy indicates his support of a new Farm Aid Bill.
December 3: Curators at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City confirm that Matisse's painting Le Bateau had been hanging upside down for 47 days.
December 4: Construction begins on the Volta Dam in Gold Coast, West Africa.
December 5: The Royal Canadian Air Force activates its first CIM-10 Bomarc squadron at RCAF Cold Lake.
December 6: Announcement of Malayan independence in 1964.
December 7: Commissioning of first County class atomic guided missile battlecruiser of the Royal Navy, HMS London at Armstrong-Whitworth's Elswick shipyard.
December 8: Secretary-General of the League of Nations Dag Hammarskjold proposes the formation of an international force to provide security for the Congo in the lead up to its independence.
December 9: Sir William Richardson's Conservative Party is returned to office in the Canadian Federal Election by a reduced margin.
December 10: President Kennedy puts selected units U.S. armed forces on heightened alert for possible deployment to the Congo.
December 11: First peaceful nuclear initiation of Project Plowshare takes place in a cavern deep beneath New Mexico.
December 12: A report in the Chicago Tribune on the standard of living in the United States estimates that real poverty could be eliminated by the end of the decade.
December 13: Representatives of the Great Powers meet in Geneva to begin discussions on proposed arms control talks.
December 14: Establishment of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women
December 15: KGB officer Anatoliy Golitsyn defects to the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki.
December 16: The Sultan of Arabia announces the first elections in the country's history will be held in the new year.
December 17: A dreadful circus fire in Brazil kills 323 people.
December 18: American life expectancy reaches 87.4 years for males and 90.2 for females.
December 19: Godzilla emerges from the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the principal Hawaiian island of Oahu, sparking an immediate full defence alert and widespread public panic. USAF fighter jets attack the monster with conventional missiles to no avail and even the deployment of tactical nuclear bombs is contemplated before the sudden deployment of an experimental radio weapon drives the creature away into the depths of the sea.
December 20: Sukarno announces the beginning of Operation Trikora, which calls for the mobilisation of national resources to bring about the shift of West New Guinea, the Moluccas, Borneo and Timor into Indonesian control.
December 21: An incident between RAF and Imperial Chinese Air Force jet fighters patrolling over the Hong Kong border leads to its temporary closure.
December 22: The active strength of the regular U.S. Army rises above 3,000,000 for the first time since 1956 as the Kennedy Administration's policies for a rise in manpower begin to be felt.
December 23: Release of Blackadder Goes Forth, a British war epic about the Allied invasion of Greece and the Battle of the Balkans in the last years of the Second World War.
December 24: The Scrooge Benevolent Fund enters its 90th year, with this year's charitable donations expected to exceed 25 million pounds.
December 25: Queen Elizabeth II gives her annual Christmas message to the British Empire and Commonwealth, greeting moves towards greater international peace and understanding and expressing strong hopes for a better future.
December 26: President Kennedy gives a national radio address explaining the urgency of reforms of the provision of medical care to America's senior citizens.
December 27: The Empire State Building is formally sold to an international consortium for the record price of $98 million; signing the necessary agreements takes upwards of six hours.
December 28: First performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Twentieth Symphony in the Palace of the Soviets in Moscow.
December 29: Belgium announces that the Congo will be granted full independence in March 1962, agreeing to the withdrawal of its remaining armed forces some six months after that date.
December 30: The Times publishes a report of positive tests on a new drug that appears to provide a cure for cancer.
December 31: The Soviet Foreign Ministry issues a guarded statement expressing their general acquiescence to an agreement banning the atmospheric testing of atomic weapons.