Dark Earth Timeline

Brazil is the largest and most powerful state in South America.

Orcus is seen by some as a dark, baleful world, but wasn't discovered formally until the 19th century. There haven't been any probes yet, but the race for the outer planets is growing in intensity; craft capable of reaching them in a reasonable time also offer an opportunity for the exploitation of the inner planets.

The Antarctic Campaign was the final one of WW2 and invoked American and British Empire land, sea and air forces. New Swabia did not exist, but the Nazis were interested in the area.

The Emperor of Brazil is Leopoldo I

Pedro I (1822-1831)
Pedro II (1831-1891)
Afonso I (1891-1920)
Pedro III (1920-1942)
Leopoldo I (1942-)

The head of state of Paraguay is Grand Duke Francisco III, a descendant of Pedro Caballero. The Prime Minister is Alfred Stroessner and the country in general is quite isolated.

The use of ling-chi is a deliberate act of terror by the new Emperor to assert his authority and inspire fear. It succeeds in the latter objective.

He was accused, but managed to escape prison and overthrow Francia with the aid of a group of foreign adventurers. It has the seeds of a future story.

For political reasons, the White Russians were channeled into the French Foreign Legion; their forces in exile were very much reduced to token numbers by the outbreak of the Second World War.

1950

January
January 1: Establishment of the International Police Association.
January 2: The first intelligence report regarding a possible North Korean invasion of South Korea are received in Tokyo.
January 3: The Egyptian Parliamentary election results in a narrow victory to the nationalist Wafdist Party over the governing Saadists.
January 4: President Truman's State of Union address calls for reform of the tax system and increased revenue.
January 5: Senator Estes Kefauver calls for an investigation into organized crime in the United States.
January 6: Workers renovating the White House discover a small box buried since 1902 containing a bottle of whisky and a magic ring.
January 7: Two platoons of Foreign Legionnaires defending a fort deep in Southern Morocco drive off a Tuareg attack by over 3000 tribesmen.
January 8: A labour strike in the Gold Coast results in the arrest of several hundred strikers and the leadership of the United Gold Coast Convention.
January 9: The Soviet delegation walks out from League of Nations due to ongoing disputes regarding the membership of the German People's Republic.
January 10: Secretary of State Dean Acheson gives a speech where he describes the defensive perimeter of the United States in the Pacific as running from Alaska to the Philippines through Japan and the Ryuku Islands.
January 11: Huk guerrillas attack the town of Hermosa in Luzon.
January 12: HMS Truculent collides with a Swedish freighter in the Thames Estuary and sinks, killing 54. The submarine is refloated and begins repairs that will take until February 1951 to complete.
January 13: Prime Minister Churchill proposes a summit meeting between the superpowers.
January 14: Completion of the first non-stop trans-Canada flight.
January 15: The National Coalition is returned to government in the Finnish general election, winning 187 seats to the Social Democrat's 65. Rysto Ryti is installed as Prime Minister.
January 16: The battleship USS Missouri runs aground on shoals in Chesapeake Bay; she is freed on January 23rd.
January 17: A gang of a dozen thieves steal over $2 million from the Brink's armoured car company headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.
January 18: The CF-100 Avro Canuck enters service with the RCAF.
January 19: Execution by hanging at Landsberg Prison of 26 Nazi war criminals found guilty at the Einsatzgruppen Trial.
January 20: The atomic submarine Dreadnought is launched by King George VI at Barrow.
January 21: Alger Hiss is convicted of two counts of perjury by a court in New York.
January 22: A Treasury report recommends that increases in British defence spending be reduced or deferred.
January 23: Raymond Westerling's Legion of Ratu Edril captures Bandung in an attempted coup against the Indonesian government before being forced to withdraw late in the afternoon.
January 24: Formal arrest of the atomic physicist Klaus Fuchs for espionage in London.
January 25: The tank landing ship HMAS Tarakan is damaged in an explosion at Garden Island, Sydney, with 10 sailors and dockworkers dying in the conflagration.
January 26: A USAF C-54 disappears with 36 passengers onboard over the Yukon.
January 27: Muroc Field is renamed Edwards Air Force Base.
January 28: A French senator disappears disappears in French West Africa after his car breaks down, a suspected victim of cannibals.
January 29: The French National Assembly votes 492-214 in favour of limited self government for Vietnam.
January 30: An envoy from Stalin meets with North Korean leader Kim Il-sung and indicates Soviet support for an invasion of South Korea.
January 31: The Soviet Union recognizes the beleaguered government of Ho Chi Minh.

February
February 1: President Truman formally establishes the classification of 'top secret' information by executive order.
February 2: The French Parliament approves the Convention of Saigon, paving the way for a fully autonomous Vietnamese state under the French Crown.
February 3: Establishment of the Ministry of State Security in the German People's Republic.
February 4: Death of Sir Montagu Norman, the influential former Governor of the Bank of England between 1920 and 1930.
February 5: The Soviet Union and the Empire of China sign a treaty on the return of the Port Arthur naval base to Chinese control.
February 6: Opening of the 1950 British Empire Games in Auckland, New Zealand.
February 7: The United States and Britain recognise the states of Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.
February 8: First recorded use of the Diner's Club credit charge card in New York City.
February 9: Senator Joseph McCarthy claims to have details of over 200 suspected Communists working in the State Department.
February 10: The CIA reports that the Soviet Union will likely acquire the atomic bomb within two years.
February 11: Viet Minh guerillas attack French positions in Northern Tonkin.
February 12: Albert Einstein warns that a nuclear war would lead to global destruction; Nikolai Tesla declines to comment.
February 13: A USAF B-36 crashes off the coast of British Columbia, losing a Mark 4 atomic bomb in the sea.
February 14: Declaration of a state of emergency in the British Crown colony of the Gold Coast.
February 15: Design proposals for a modern Royal Navy anti-submarine corvette for coastal operations are requested.
February 16: A Franco-American Agreement regarding aid in Indochina is signed in Paris
February 17: A rail crash at Rockeville Center, New York kills 39.
February 18: Commissioning of the Royal Canadian Navy battlecarrier HMCS St. Lawrence at Halifax.
February 19: Soviet protest over Royal Navy gunboats on the Danube.
February 20: Opening of a new large runway on the British island of Saint Helena.
February 21: First International Pancake Race is staged between competitors from Olney, Buckinghamshire and Liberal, Kansas.
February 22: Australian Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies announces the deployment of an infantry brigade to New Guinea to secure Australian defences.
February 23: Gold Coast agitators are exiled to the Kermadec Islands.
February 24: The Imperial Chinese government announces a crack down on the use and sale of opium.
February 25: Beginning of a Communist uprising on Madagascar.
February 26: The Royal Navy super battleship HMS Dragon begins a goodwill tour of Scandinavia and Northern Europe.
February 27: First test of the oral polio vaccine at the Letchworth Village institution near Otisville, New York.
February 28: The oceanliner RMS Aquitania is retired after 38 years service and is laid up on the Gareloch pending a decision on her future.

March
March 1: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of espionage and treachery and sentenced to death
March 2: Signing of an Israeli-Jordanian Treaty of Security and Cooperation in Jerusalem.
March 3: Poland announces that all Germans will be exiled from newly annexed Polish territories.
March 4: Death of Adam Rainer, 50, the only human to have been both a dwarf and a giant in his lifetime, in Austria.
March 5: Discovery of large iron deposits in Western Rhodesia.
March 6: Public unveiling of the first commercial healing pill in New York City.
March 7: Judith Coplon is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and will later be sentenced to life imprisonment.
March 8: Introduction of the Uzi submachine gun to British Army service.
March 9: Execution of John Christie at Pentonville Prison for the murders of three women at his home in Notting Hill London.
March 10: President Truman approves budget requests for the full scale production of the hydrogen bomb.
March 11: French gendarmes suppress German protests in the Saarland.
March 12: 80 people are killed in the crash of an Avro Tudor near Llandow Airfield, Wales.
March 13: Elections for the Supreme Soviet result in an unopposed victory of the Communist Party candidates.
March 14: Introduction of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives Program.
March 15: The Shah of Persia signs a new 50 year extension to the Anglo Persian Oil Concession operated by British Petroleum, providing continuity of control until 2001.
March 16: General Sir Harold Briggs is appointed Director of Operations in Malaya, responsible for planning the strategic approach for 125,000 British Commonwealth personnel and 200,000 Malayan security forces.
March 17: Announcement of the creation of a new element, californium, at the University of California, Berkeley.
March 18: First reference to a German economic miracle or 'Wirtschaffwunder' in The Times.
March 19: Vice-President Finch arrives in Britain on the first leg of a tour of Western Europe.
March 20: The Polish Sejm passes a law transferring properties owned by the Roman Catholic Church to the government.
March 21: A monstrous 18ft tiger is spotted near Darjeeling, Bengal.
March 22: The Egyptian Government demands that the British troop presence in Egypt be completely withdrawn.
March 23: Creation of the World Meteorological Organization.
March 24: The US Senate passes a resolution honouring the poet Robert Frost on the occasion of his 75th birthday.
March 25: An Italian farmer wins a prize for producing the world's largest tomato.
March 26: The Land Reform Law of 1950 in South Korea comes into effect, giving 2.7 million peasant farmers the opportunity to buy land confiscated from Japanese owners.
March 27: Arrival of a large task force of the RN Mediterranean Fleet in Alexandria from Malta.
March 28: Christopher Cockerell submits a proposal for an air cushion vehicle to the National Research Development Corporation.
March 29: Reports from Kenya regarding increased violence from the Mau-Mau are received by the Colonial Office
March 30: Dismissal of the Egyptian Wafdist government by the Sultan and an announcement of new elections.
March 31: RMS Great Britain departs on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, carrying 5264 passengers and crew. It is reported that she is capable of carrying an entire reinforced infantry division of 24,000 men if called up as a troopship.

April
April 1: The United States Census announces the national population as 252,032,742 people after six months of tabulation.
April 2: Rioting strikes Cairo in response to the dismissal of the government.
April 3: A Gallup poll reports that 36% of Republican voters favour former General Dwight D. Eisenhower as the parties 1952 Presidential nominee, ahead of 20% for Senator Robert Taft, 16% for Thomas Dewey and 14% for Harold Stassen.
April 4: The United States Navy issues a statement that up to three suspected foreign submarines had been spotted off the coast of Northern California.
April 5: Order is restored in Cairo and Alexandria as over 60,000 newly arrived British and Imperial troops enforce a strict curfew.
April 6: Publication of the top secret NSC-68 paper on 'United States Objectives and Programs for National Security'.
April 7: Alger Hiss is sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for perjury.
April 8: A USN PB4Y-2 Privateer is shot down by Soviet aircraft off the coast of Latvia.
April 9: Royal Canadian Marines land in British Honduras as part of an Anglo-Canadian amphibious exercise in the Caribbean.
April 10: The retired aircraft carrier USS Enterprise is formally opened as a museum ship in New York City.
April 11: Execution by hanging of Klaus Fuchs.
April 12: South African cavalry discover a huge iron skull in the Kalahari Desert.
April 13: Chinese rebels attack French positions on Hainan.
April 14: Publication of the first edition of The Eagle comic.
April 15: Large floods strike Manitoba as the Red River bursts its banks.
April 16: The Gloster Javelin enters service with RAF Fighter Command.
April 17: A strange meteor shower is reported over central Kansas.
April 18: The Catholic Church of Poland and the Communist government sign an accord
April 19: A consignment of moon cheese goes on sale at Harrod's for the first time since the war.
April 20: CIA wizards begin research into long range remote mind control enchantments.
April 21: The Soviet Union announces that all Japanese prisoners not accused of war crimes have been repatriated; over 15,000 remain unaccounted for.
April 22: Formal establishment of Deutsche Reichsbahn in Allied occupied Germany.
April 23: The average height of British Army National Servicemen is reported as 5'11".
April 24: Downtown Chicago is terrorised by a mutated giant death spider before it is finally subdued by a silver costumed hero.
April 25: An Israeli parachute battalion arrives in Singapore, bringing the total Commonwealth force to a strength of 52 battalions.
April 26: Sergei Korolev is appointed head of research and development of the Soviet rocket programme.
April 27: Former President Hoover states that the Communist states should be expelled from the League of Nations for their lack of religion and morality.
April 28: King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand marries Princess Sirikit Kitiyakara in the week leading up to his coronation.
April 29: Arsenal wins the FA Cup in 2–0 victory against Liverpool at Empire Stadium.
April 30: The Royal Australian Air Force receives its first operational Vickers Valiant strategic bomber.

May
May 1: 250,000 North Korean troops invade South Korea.
May 2: The League of Nations passes a resolution authorising member states to provide all assistance necessary to South Korea to resist aggression and restore peace and stability.
May 3: The Hangang Bridge south of Seoul is destroyed by retreated ROK forces.
May 4: Coronation of King Bhumibol Adulyade of Thailand in Bangkok.
May 5: First USAF bomber raids by A-26 Invaders on North Korean forces.
May 6: The South Korean capital city of Seoul is captured by the North Korean Army.
May 7: A 2500 year old mummified corpse is discovered in a Danish bog near Tollund.
May 8: Stalin declares that the Soviet Union has no role in the Korean conflict, but supports the ambitions of the peace loving people of Korea for a unified socialist nation.
May 9: Hearings of the Kefauver Commission into organised crime in the United States begin in Washington.
May 10: USN and RN carrier aircraft strike North Korean forces along the 39th Parallel.
May 11: Task Force Smith is forced to retreat at the Battle of Osan.
May 12: Opening of the first Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise in Salt Lake City.
May 13: President Truman uses the term 'police action' to describe the conflict in Korea.
May 14: Elections take place across Ottoman Turkey for the General Assembly.
May 15: The monthly intake of National Servicemen in Britain is increased to two drafts of 12,500 men.
May 16: Death of Admiral Sir Robert Falcon Scott, 81, the first man to reach the South Pole becoming forever known to the British Empire and the wider world as 'Scott of the Antarctic'.
May 17: Britain, France and the United States hand over control of the Ruhr to the German government.
May 18: Prime Minister Churchill visits Paris for discussions with Premier de Gaulle on the Korean emergency.
May 19: Beginning of the Battle of Taejon, a successful American-RoK delaying action allowing the formation of a defensive perimeter in the southern tip of Korea.
May 20: Formal establishment of the United States Army Anti-Aircraft Command, or ARAADCOM.
May 21: A major earthquake in Cuzco, Peru, kills 129 and injures 400.
May 22: The first elements of the British 3rd Infantry Division begin disembarking in Pusan.
May 23: An estimated 68 communist terrorists are killed in Operation Steadfast, the largest battle in the Malayan Emergency to date.
May 24: First successful production of synthetic diamonds by ASEA in Sweden.
May 25: Tripartite Agreement between Britain, France and the United States not to sell arms to Middle Eastern states without prior consultation.
May 26: The US 24th Infantry Division completes its withdrawal to the Pusan Perimeter.
May 27: Construction begins on the first Royal Space Force orbital space station.
May 28: First broadcast of The Archers on the BBC Light Programme.
May 29: Completion of first circumnavigation of North America by the RCMP vessel St. Roch.
May 30: USN and RN carrier aircraft conduct their heaviest raids of the Korean War thus far, launching 468 sorties against Pyongyang throughout the day.
May 31: Fresh Egyptian elections see the formation of a minority Saadist government acceptable to the Sultan and British authorities.

June
June 1: Mauna Loa begins erupting in Hawaii.
June 2: Guam is given the status of a Territory of the United States.
June 3: A French expedition successfully reaches the summit of Mount Annapurna in Nepal.
June 4: The Social Christian Party wins 125 seats in the Belgian General Election, forming a majority government.
June 5: North Korean forces launch their first Naktong Offensive.
June 6: Beginning of the 'Red Purge' against members of the Communist Party of Japan
June 7: Germany regains control of its chemical industry from the Allied High Commission.
June 8: Korean War update
June 9: The first Dassault Sperrins, licenced copies of an experimental British design, enter test service with the French Air Force.
June 10: USN forces are moved into the Strait of Formosa to provide defensive assistance to the US-backed Republicans ensconced on the island.
June 11: The first division of the re-established Austro-Hungarian Army achieves official operational status.
June 12: An emergency defence funding bill is passed by the House of Commons in response to the Korean emergency.
June 13: An Air France DC-4 crash near Bahrain kills 48.
June 14: Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg sign a mutual defence pact and announce their intention to pursue a close economic union.
June 15: US Congress approves a raft of emergency measures that dramatically increase defence funding and authorise the activation of reserve forces.
June 16: First successful French test of a V-2 type rocket in the Algerian desert.
June 17: The world's first kidney transplant surgery takes place in Chicago; the recipient survives for a further five weeks.
June 18: Opening of the First Battle of the Nam River, where British and Commonwealth forces successfully hold back a major North Korean offensive against the south of the Pusan Perimeter.
June 19: The 28th, 29th, 40th, 42nd, 43rd and 45th Infantry Divisions of the United States Army National Guard are federalized and called up for active service.
June 20: Hatching of the first new Soviet dragons since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution from previously dormant red dragon eggs.
June 21: The first commercial Zuse Z4 computing engine is delivered to the University of Frankfurt.
June 22: Arrest of David Greenglass, a former technician at Oak Ridge and Los Alamos, for espionage.
June 23: 157 faculty members of the University of California are dismissed for refusing to sign loyalty oaths against the threat of Communism.
June 24: Opening of 1950 World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, with the hosts beating Mexico 4-0 in front of 101,000 fans.
June 25: General MacArthur authorises an increase in strength of the Japanese Army to 230,000 men.
June 26: Protests take place across Persia against perceived British influence over the Shah and government.
June 27: Secret discussions regarding German rearmament open in Bavaria, with the United States supporting the formation of an army of 25 divisions, Britain in favour of restrictions on air and naval power and France opposed to a sovereign German military force at this time.
June 28: The first mobile army surgical hospital, or MASH, arrives in Korea.
June 29: The Soviet delegation returns to the Council of the League of Nations.
June 30: President Truman signs a bill extending curreny universal military service to 24 months and allowing the recall of reservists.

July
July 1: The Australian Army begins a call up of reserve forces in response to the Korean War.
July 2: Persian troops fire upon protestors in Tehran, sparking widespread rioting.
July 3: Twenty five atomic bomb casings and cores are moved to Guam.
July 4: First broadcasts of Radio Free Europe into Communist Poland, Germany and Romania from stations in Germany and Bohemia.
July 5: Walton Walker appointed as commander of the Eighth Army.
July 6: The United States of Indonesia are officially dissolved by President Sukarno, being replaced by a unitary republic.
July 7: American and South Korean forces evacuate P'ohang Dong on the east coast of Korea.
July 8: First recorded incidence of the use of the term 'brainwashing' regarding communist treatment of captives in the Korean War.
July 9: Argentina and Chile agree to international arbitration regarding their ongoing Andes border disputes.
July 10: General Gerhard Graf von Schwerin is appointed as military advisor to Chancellor Adenauer following the Neuschwanstein Conference as moves to recreate German armed forces gather pace in light of the Cold War and the Korean conflagration. French objections to an independent German military continue to be the primary stumbling block, with Britain and the United States now in effective agreement regarding the formation of a strong land army and limited sea and air arms.
July 11: Spain and Portugal sign a treaty providing for cooperation in colonial defence against external aggression and communist subversion.
July 12: South Korean troops rebuff a strong Red attack on Yongil Airfield.
July 13: Canadian Prime Minister Richardson announces that 125,000 Canadian reserves will be called up in response to the Korean emergency.
July 14: The US House of Representatives votes against a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College after the measure had been previously approved by the Senate.
July 15: Launch of the Royal Netherlands Navy aircraft carrier Karel Doorman in Rotterdam.
July 16: England wins the 1950 World Cup, defeating Brazil 3-2 in a closely fought final in Rio de Janeiro in front of an incredible crowd of over 320,000.
July 17: Arrest of Julius Rosenberg, 32, in New York City on espionage charges.
July 18: New Zealand agricultural wizards unveil the first steel wool sheep at an exhibition in Wellington.
July 19: Discovery of large new uranium deposits in the east of the Belgian Congo.
July 20: RAF Avro Lancasters carpet bomb North Korean positions around Chinju.
July 21: Arrival of a USAF fighter wing on Formosa to reinforce US support of the Republican regime.
July 22: A motion to ban the Communist Party is decisively defeated in the Austro-Hungarian Imperial Parliament.
July 23: 96 American POWs are massacred by North Korean troops.
July 24: A train derailment in Catalonia kills 47 and injures over 200.
July 25: The first Soviet atomic bomb test is carried out at Semipalatinsk, Kazakh SSR, with the RDS-1 device recording a yield of 24kt.
July 26: A large RN squadron passes through the Suez Canal en route to the Far East.
July 27: Air India takes delivery of their first de Havilland Comet.
July 28: Field Marshal Sir John Monash dies at age 86 in Melbourne.
July 29: The West Indies defeat England for the first time in Test Cricket at Lords.
July 30: President Truman denies that the United States intends to use the atomic bomb in Korea.
July 31: US General William Dean is captured by North Korean troops.

August
August 1: Conference of foreign ministers regarding European rearmament in Brussels.
August 2: Signing of the Treaty of Dhars Khras on Mars, ending the Sjoglaf Sanction.
August 3: Arrival of US military advisors in Saigon.
August 4: Announcement of Soviet atomic test by President Truman.
August 5: A B-29 crashes near the Fairfield-Suisun Airbase in California, killing 18 including Brigadier-General Robert T. Travis.
August 6: Brazilian Premier Vargas announces a policy of heavy industrial development to support Brazil's development as a rising power.
August 7: The Imperial Court begins to debate Chinese intervention in the Korean War.
August 8: Florence Chadwick becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
August 9: Execution of Nazi war criminal Philip Schmitt in Belgium.
August 10: Stalin orders emergency deployment of guided rocket defences around Moscow within a year.
August 11: Pope Pius XII promulgates a broad reaching encyclical, Humani generis, which presents evolved positions on new theological developments.
August 12: Successful Soviet rocket launch of an improved R-2 ballistic missile with a range of 513km.
August 13: Publication of the first edition of 'The Effects of Nuclear Weapons' by the Atomic Energy Commission.
August 14: Assam-Tibet Earthquake in India kills 574 and leaves hundreds of thousands homeless.
August 15: Birth of Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise, to Princess Elizabeth, in Buckingham Palace.
August 16: Reports emerge of a strange reptilian creatures attacking livestock in Mexico.
August 17: Collision between Australian and Indonesian minesweepers off Timor.
August 18: The Soviet battleship Revolutsiya suffers a mysterious fire while on manoeuvres.
August 19: British and Indian troops in Southern Persia turn back several large demonstrations from the British zone around Abadan.
August 20: A brigade of French troops from Indochina and North Africa begins to disembark at Pusan.
August 21: Completion of the first 'New Village' to protect Chinese Malayans from communist subversion under the auspices of the Briggs Plan
August 22: Greek and Turkish fighter aircraft involved in an unauthorised clash over Anatolia.
August 23: US military intelligence reports the presence of five Chinese armoured divisions along the North Korean border.
August 24: A spate of weregoat attacks are reported in Northern Yugoslavia.
August 25: President Truman federalizes US railways in response to an anticipated railway strike.
August 26: The Sultan of Egypt agrees to a petition for the liberalisation of voting requirements as an oblique method of counteracting British pressure.
August 27: British explorers discover a frozen Atlantean ship off the coast of Antarctica.
August 28: The Prince of Switzerland declares that his state will remain neutral in any future European conflict.
August 29: Announcement of the formation of a Scandinavian Defence Union between Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.
August 30: The four way civil strife in Colombia reaches a new level of intensity with Communist attacks on Bogota.
August 31: TWA Flight 903, flying from Bombay to New York City, crashes outside Cairo, killing all 55 passengers and crew onboard.

September
September 1: The United States Army increases its monthly draft requirement to 70,000 men.
September 2: The Israeli Parliament passes a law granting the right of migration and citizenship to all Jews, their spouses or those of Jewish ancestry.
September 3: North Korean forces reach what will later be regarded as the high point in their advance in the Great Naktong Offensive.
September 4: Shootdown of a Red Air Force Tu-6 heavy bomber off coast of North Korea by USN fighters. The Soviet Foreign Ministry issues a vigorous protest despite the American statement of regret at the accident.
September 5: A new Syrian constitution is unveiled under the restored rulership of King Zeid, who is backed by British and French troops.
September 6: Allied aval and land based bombers and fighter-bombers in Korea begin concentrated air strikes in the lead up to the landings at Inchon.
September 7: British Petroleum and Sultan Abdullah of Arabia reach a new agreement on profit sharing of Arabian oil deposits.
September 8: The Defence Production Act passed in the USA.
September 9: Socialists and communists clash in protests in Munich, Hamburg and Berlin over the issue of German rearmament.
September 10: Beginning of preliminary long range bombardment missions of North Korean targets in occupied South Korea by British and American battleships.
September 11: US National Security Council report NSC-81 calls for the Allied conquest of North Korea in a successful conclusion to the war.
September 12: The RAF begins the forward deployment of forty-eight atomic bombs to India.
September 13: Resignation of US Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson.
September 14: Allied cruisers and destroyers bombard Wolmi-do as fighter-bombers of Task Force 77 begin strikes around Inchon.
September 15: US Marines and Royal Marines storm the beaches of Inchon, South Korea, supported by a fleet of 248 warships and over 2500 aircraft. Almost 56,000 troops have been landed by dusk of the first day, outflanking the North Korean field army in the south and threatening Seoul.
September 16: Establishment of a new large joint USN and RN base on Fiji.
September 17: Bulgarian secret police arrest three dozen suspected Soviet agents in raids in Varna and Sofia.
September 18: Over 250,000 Allied troops pushing out from the Pusan Perimeter break through the last large scale North Korean defensive positions after two days of heavy fighting.
September 19: A vampire is destroyed in Whitby whilst attempting a copy of Dracula's infamous attacks of 1897.
September 20: The Internal Security Act of 1950 is passed by the United States Senate.
September 21: First combat use of a French dragon in Indochina.
September 22: The Union of India formally assumes responsible domestic government.
September 23: Essendon's John Coleman kicks 6.1 in the 1950 VFL Grand Final, taking his record-breaking season total to 179.
September 24: Students of the University of Cairo flock to the streets of the Egyptian capital in a well coordinated protest against British control.
September 25: Conservative MP Sir Waldron Smithers gives a speech in the House of Commons calling for the banning of the Communist Party.
September 26: Australian forces apprehend 16 well equipped Communist terrorists in a large scale sweep in Malaya; several are armed with new Soviet AK-47 assault rifles.
September 27: The Communist Party Dissolution Act 1950 is passed by the Australian Senate, banning the Communist Party of Australia.
September 28: The Colonial Office announces that the groundnut scheme in Tanganyika, East Africa recorded a profit of 29 million pounds in 1949/50.
September 29: Indonesia joins the League of Nations.
September 30: The formal liberation of Seoul is announced by General MacArthur and President Rhee.

October
October 1: Sinking of the minesweeper USS Magpie off Korea, killing 21 of the crew.
October 2: Two American businessmen are killed by a unicorn in Ireland while attempting to capture it for a San Francisco zoo.
October 3: The Labour Party of Premier Getulio Vargas wins the Brazilian general election, winning 152 of the 380 seats; the Trotskyite Social Democratic Party increases its share to 70
October 4: German civil aviation is fully restored to domestic control.
October 5: Explosions of five gas mains in Brooklyn, New York City spark panicked reports of an atomic war.
October 6: Giant zombies attack several plantations in the hills of Haiti.
October 7: The NY Yankees win World Series, beating the Philadelphia Phillies 5-2.
October 8: A party of young American film makers goes missing in the Amazon whilst researching reports of a lost cannibal tribe.
October 9: Formation of the first ten infantry regiments of the German Army, ostensibly as security forces and auxiliary border guards.
October 10: The Eighth Army advances across the pre-war border into North Korea.
October 11: A CIA report estimates that the Red Army fields more than 29,000 tanks in its active force.
October 12: Transfer of eleven former USN destroyers and destroyer escorts to the Imperial Japanese Navy.
October 13: The Arab League agrees to a new round of talks regarding defence cooperation and procurement coordination.
October 14: Free Polish winged hussars parade before Prime Minister Sikorsky on Salisbury Plain to mark the official reformation of the Free Polish Army in the West.
October 15: A conference between President Truman and General MacArthur takes place on Wake Island.
October 16: Publication of the children's novel 'The Lion, the Witch and Wardrobe' by C.S. Lewis.
October 17: The United States pledges to supply France with $3.6 billion in defence aid by the end of 1951.
October 18: French troops in Indochina complete a fighting withdrawal from Cao Bang to Lang Son along Route Coloniale 4.
October 19: A British SAS detachment in Malaya locates a communist terrorist section at a range of 14,568 yards using a new nocturnal Foefinder.
October 20: Fall of the North Korean capital city of Pyongyang.
October 21: Chinese commandos and South Korean troops clash in North Korea.
October 22: Large scale midnight anti-communist raids by the FBI across the United States result in the arrest of 97 suspected agents.
October 23: The Soviet Army displays its first operational IS-10 heavy tanks in a parade in Red Square, causing a mixture of confusion and consternation in some Western observers.
October 24: Commonwealth troops repel a North Korean counterattack at Kujin on the Taeryong River
October 25: The Imperial Chinese Army launches a major offensive against the South Korean II Corps at Onjong.
October 26: India warns China to cease its recent aggressive moves towards Tibet.
October 27: A KGB attempt to capture Count Dracula leaves 68 dead and an entire city block devastated in Madrid, Spain.
October 28: Canadian research wizards discover what appears to be a ship deep within an Alaskan glacier.
October 29: King Gustav V of Sweden dies in Drottningholm Palace, Stockholm, aged 92.
October 30: Troops of the Commonwealth Division secure the town of Chongju in North Korea.
October 31: An unnaturally heavy fog and thunderstorm blankets much of Western Europe.

November
November 1: The Chinese 39th Corps attack American and South Korean forces around Unsan.
November 2: An assassination attempt on President Truman by Porto Rican extremists is foiled by Secret Service bodyguards.
November 3: The Assembly of the League of Nations passes what will later be known as the 'Uniting for Peace' resolution, authorising the Assembly to act in circumstances where the Council of the League is deadlocked or otherwise unable to act in defence of collective security.
November 4: The Commonwealth Corps hold back heavy Chinese attacks at Pakchon as the First Phase Offensive grinds to a halt.
November 5: Space pirates attack a British merchant convoy off Deimos, marking their most daring action in years and leading to calls for the Royal Space Force to provide greater security for interplanetary trade.
November 6: A minor earth tremor strikes the Byzantine city of Illium, uncovering ancient remnants from the fabled Trojan War, including what appears to be the petrified remnants of of a wooden horse's hoof.
November 7: Midterm Congressional elections in the USA see the Democratic maintain a majority in the House with 219 seats to 192 of the Republicans and 29 of the Whigs, but lose outright control of the Senate as a result of four Republican gains, leaving the balance as 49 Democrat, 49 Republican and 8 Whig.
November 8: Signing of the Balkan Pact between Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria and Greece, providing for mutual defence against external aggression and defensive cooperation.
November 9: Philippines
November 10: A USAF B-29 jettisons a Mark 4 atomic bomb over Quebec, scattering 100lb of uranium in the river below.
November 11: A battalion of Gurkhas drive off an attack by Chinese backed insurgents on several border posts in a night-long battle.
November 12: Jacobo Arbenz is elected President of Guatemala with 65.4% of the popular vote.
November 13: Assassination of Venezuelan Premier Carlos Chalbaud in an attempted kidnapping in Caracas.
November 14: France announces its intention to launch its own artificial satellite by 1955.
November 15: Four freight cars collide with a passenger train in the Hjuksebø train disaster in Norway, killing 14.
November 16: Establishment of the first permanent peacetime West Indian Division.
November 17: Tenzin Gyatso, 15, enthroned as the 14th Dalai Lama in Lhasa, Tibet.
November 18: A confidential report is submitted to the British Ministry of Energy and Power on production potential of North Sea oil and gas.
November 19: American Red Cross governors vote to cease the practice of labelling human blood by race.
November 20: Nationalist politicians make significant gains in local elections across Argentina, emphasising
November 21: The Royal New Zealand Navy's aircraft carrier, HMNZS Endeavour, arrives in Alexandria with an escort of the cruiser HMNZS Wellington and two destroyers for a nine month operational tour with the Mediterranean Fleet as part of general British Empire defensive mobilisation.
November 22: A man is trapped inside Edvard Munch's famed painting 'The Scream' by black magic.
November 23: The French National Assembly votes to transfer further authority for administration in French Indochina to Vietnamese authorities.
November 24: General MacArthur's 'Home by Christmas' offensive is launched in Korea.
November 25: Four Chinese field armies, a force over 380,000 strong, attack the Eighth Army along the line of the Ch’ongch’on River in the Second Phase Offensive.
November 26: Andrés Martínez Trueba is elected as President in the Uruguayan General Election where the Colorado Party wins 57.3% of the popular vote.
November 27: Construction of a large atomic production plant on the Savannah River begins.
November 28: British Foreign Minister Sir Anthony Eden announces the launch of the British Empire Development Plan, more popularly known as the Churchill Plan. It will see the distribution of over £3250 million to British dominions and colonies over the next five years from Imperial oil, mineral and Martian revenues.
November 29: An ogre slaving ring is broken in Beirut by French intelligence agents.
November 30: President Truman publicly speculates as to the possible use of the atomic bomb in Korea should the situation require it.

December
December 1: Establishment of the Federal Civil Defense Administration in the United States.
December 2: Emperor Haile Selassie declares a federation of Eritrea and Ethiopia.
December 3: The Eighth Army begins its long retreat from North Korea.
December 4: The Australian Cabinet votes to declare the Union Jack on a blue ensign the official national flag of Australia.
December 5: Pope Pius XII publishes the encyclical Mirabile illud, a call for world peace.
December 6: Washington Post's music critic Paul Hume's review of the performance of Margaret Truman results in an angry letter from her father, the President, and a challenge to a duel.
December 7: Upon being asked whether the 1st Marine Division is retreating from Chosin Reservoir, General Oliver P. Smith replies "Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction."
December 8: General MacArthur issues a request for a study on the possible use of nuclear weapons in Korea should the situation deteriorate further
December 9: Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) calls for greater efforts to defend the US home front from the threat of communist infiltration.
December 10: Swedish diplomat and humanitarian Raoul Wallenberg is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in saving Jews from Nazi Germany and assisting in the resettlement of refugees in postwar Europe.
December 11: Beginning of the evacuation of X Corps from North Korea.
December 12: A mad scientist paralyses Los Angeles traffic for two hours with a freeze ray before escaping out to sea on a steam robot.
December 13: US trade with China is officially frozen.
December 14: Beginning of the first 'hearts and minds' operations by British Empire troops in Malaya.
December 15: President Truman declares a state of national emergency in response to the Korean War.
December 16: Sweden declares a limited mobilisation of defensive forces.
December 17: 15 year old British wizard Simon Gallows is reprimanded for briefly creating an eight lane bridge over the English Channel as a juvenile prank.
December 18: Establishment of Nevada Atomic Proving Grounds.
December 19: The United States, France, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia sign the Pentalateral Mutual Defence Aid Treaty.
December 20: Allied occupation forces in Germany reach a strength of 800,000 by the end of the year (200,000 British, 200,000 French, 250,000 American, 50,000 Canadian and 150,000 Benelux)
December 21: Successful tests of a flying car by Hawker-Siddeley Aviation.
December 22: SS Meredith Victory departs Hungnam with 15,284 civilians onboard.
December 23: Discovery of St. Peter's tomb in the Vatican City, Rome.
December 24: Conclusion of the evacuation of X Corps from the North Korean port of Hungnam.
December 25: The Emperor of Mexico is persuaded that it would be best to delay an ambitious programme of military expansion and modernisation in the current international strategic environment.
December 26: Chinese troops cross the pre-war border into South Korea.
December 27: USAF B-47s of Strategic Air Command begin rotational deployments to airfields in French Algeria and Morocco.
December 28: Anti-communist rebels ambush Polish secret police outside Warsaw and Krakow in their most daring operation to date.
December 29: Transfer of three former USN cruisers to the Chilean Navy.
December 30: The Committee of Imperial Defence reports that the British Empire currently fields a total of 56 divisions and 15,024 aircraft, apart from the 29 divisions of the Indian Army, only 8 of which are deployed or deployable. This force is considered as barely sufficient for the priorities of active campaigns in Korea and Malaya, defence of India, the Far East, Australasia and the Middle East and maintaining a strong contingency force in the case of war in Europe. The Royal Navy and Commonwealth forces are considered sufficient to deal with the threat of Soviet surface and air forces, but the growing submarine threat will require modernization of the escort fleet.
December 31: Reports of strange noises and weird gasses from caves deep in the jungles of Madagascar.