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Dark Earth Timeline Jul 23, 2019 22:12:03 GMT

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Jul 23, 2019 13:57:33 GMT simon darkshade said:

Here we go:

February
1.) Apparently the point of molten sulphur transport is to maintain temperature and make sure it doesn't solidify. It certainly sounds diabolical if we term it molten brimstone! - My question here was why not transport it in solid form. Presumably some chemical problem with that but it would prosumably take up less room, is safer transporting a solid than a liquid and you don't have the expense and potential hazzard of transporting a very hot material.
2.) The character is Professor Elemental, a steampunk chap-hop performer from our own time. I am something of an aficionado, so he has a presence in Dark Earth. - Ah never heard of him before but thanks.
5.)There isn't too much of a Third World around yet for them to bother. Indonesia is independent, but firmly in the Red camp under Sukarno. South America has a broad range of public opinion, but its governments are at least nominally Western-aligned. The Middle East is similarly in a Western orbit, although chafing. In Sub-Saharan Africa, only Liberia, Ethiopia, Chad, Ubangi-Shari, Madagascar, the Congo, Kenya, Rhodesia and South Africa are independent, with the last three having white governments. In North Africa, Morocco and Tunisia and Libya and Egypt are firmly in the French and British camps respectively. India coming down firmly in the Western side stymies the prospect of a non-aligned bloc.
6.) The Libyan earthquake is historical; the city is also known as Marj. - OK thanks. Found it now.

March
7.) It is not a good time for the KKK, some of whom threw their lot in with the wrong crowd during the war. - Very good,

8.) Cline seemed like an interesting opportunity to explore. I don't viscerally dislike all of the rock/pop music of the era per se, but the drivers for its development and social impact aren't present in the same way. It does allows for development and exploration of a range of different music styles rather than the notion that the development of rock and roll and its associated social influence is inevitable, which does crops up in many alternate histories. - Personally I think the social changes would be very difficult to avoid in some form although cultural expression of them may take different forms.
9.) The Jones-Clay fight was close enough historically for it to be worth tipping in a different direction. - Will it mean Clay never makes it to the top?
10.) It could be very damaging, but at the moment, the decision is limited to only 5 men, all of them quite devoted to Japan. - However a hell of a lot more people will have to be involved in the development of such a major project plus it requires a lot of spending and infrastructure so can't really see it being kept secret until the system is fully developed. Apart from anything else any tests - and wonder where they would do that - is likely to raise eyebrows.
12.) This is actually a historical event (!) The North Vietnamese and their allies aren't stupid enough to do this, yet. - Oh interesting.
13.) I'd have to write Akallabeth, which could take a little time. It combines the section from The Simarillion, expanded texts from the History of Middle Earth and an extended section on the wars of Elendil and his heirs in Middle Earth. It ends with the death of Isildur and the loss of the Ring. - Can you have it done by the weekend, pretty please?

April
15.) From what I can gather, it was the Skagerrak, but did not result in any radiation leaks. - OK
16.) It is moving towards a different type of union - a more confederal one, in many ways. Having all their monarchs related and nominally following the authority of the senior Hashemite ruler presents the potential for some interesting developments. - OK thanks for clarifying.

May
18.) The smallpox outbreak is a historical event. (!) - Well that is a surprise. I'm so used to it being pretty much a dead disease by was it the mid-70's that I wouldn't have expected an outbreak in somewhere like Sweden.
19.) The Soviet veto was bought off trade concessions from the British and various other backroom deals that, when revealed, will be troublesome in next year's election. - Sounds ominous and possibly prompting a change of government.
20.) Their interest in cybernetics will manifest itself in something like the Chilean Project Cybersyn. - OK thanks That might help the USSR but probably not greatly or for long as autocracy, corruption and nepotism is likely to reduce its efficiency.
21.) Meader has a long and prosperous career as a Kennedy impersonator. Some of his material from his only non-JFK album wasn't that bad, in my opinion. - Yes from his Wiki entry it sounded like the assassination really make his career toxic. The basic question might be does Kennedy live, or at least for a little longer so Meader diversifies away from the 'First family' so that if Kennedy still dies, or some dirt comes out on him it doesn't take Meader's career with it.

June
22.) On the back of the violence of 1962, the crackdown and foreign intervention, the clerics in question are not going to get out. - That could be a definite improvement.

23.) The US cricket team is starting to experience greater success due to the advantages of population size, somewhat similar to India in modern cricket. - Well that could be a problem in the longer term, although I doubt it will have the same mass support of the traditional playing countries. Mind you given the climate I'm rather surprised it took off here in Canada.
25.) It will be extremely interesting... - Hopefully not in the Chinese curse way.

26.) There is irony at play here. I toyed with the idea of having him pictured eating a jam Berliner, but that would be too silly. -

July
27.) As said, it is the old boy's unmarked grave. - OK
28.) Sadly, she won't be found in time. I thought about it, but it would be too convenient and without any drivers. - Pity but as you say it would need a hell of a lot of luck.
29.) The powers that be are trying to find a place reflective of his diplomatic skills... - South Georgia is nearby and would really need an ambassador with his skills.

30.) It is extremely dramatic, coming as the result of a backfired spell that was trying to expand Rockall for use as a clandestine ASW post. It has some consequences elsewhere. The size of the Porcupine Banks island is around half the size of Shetland and Rockall is now the size of Arran. - Well not massive but definitely possibly useful. As long as they stay stable and also none volcanic.

August
31.) It is one of the first moves to de-escalate the Cold War. It isn't as expansive, binding or permanent as the one we know. - Pity but hopefully its a start.
32.) It is a shame, but there will be other tales that we do not know of.

September
33.) The pair get nabbed earlier due to more effective policing investigation methods (including arcane searching) and close monitoring of those with juvenile criminal records. Both will hang. - Good.
34.) The Mafia are having a rough time of it in Italy, although they are not as damaged as in the United States. In the next decade, they will be ridden into the ground. - Very good for Italy.
35.) Angkor Wat is one piece in a much bigger puzzle relating to the Earth's forgotten past history... - now that sounds suitable mystic.
36.) Callahan is getting out and about a bit earlier, due to some useful contacts he made in his post-military period. There are a few chaps who look like him, adding to confusion.

- Oh, who's been carrying out unauthorised cloning experiments.

October
37.) Argentina is going from strength to strength and the Olympics will be the culmination of a very good, stable few postwar decades. There might be a few potential problems, though... - In terms of economic or internal political problems or external ones? Their not going to seriously consider imperial claims with the state Britain is in here, unless their looking westwards. Which makes me think, with a markedly larger size the Falklands might have a significantly bigger and more diverse economy.
38.) It seemed too fitting not to include. -

November
41.) Both of these tragedies were historical, with neither being sufficiently preventable or changeable. - OK
42.) It is unconnected, but many speculate that it is the same type of thing going on, sparking an interest in underwater volcanoes. - OK, although that could be hazardous in the wrong hands.
43.) You are quite right to be worried about the Istrebleniye Avtomat... - Hopefully the problem will be limited to the Soviet sphere!
44.) The Wombles of Wimbledon, common are they. - Very common I hope, as the more their are the more attention might be played to litter and later other forms of pollution.

December
45.) He is a cardinal with a future. - Good as while rather conservative he seemed a genuinely good man.
46.) Their adult status will be very important to the balance of draconic power in Europe and the broader world.
47.) Konfrontasi is going to be an ongoing problem. - I would expect that but given their lack of support in the areas their trying to flitch from Malaysia - if its called that currently, it should hopefully be no more than a irratation, albeit a nagging one I suspect.
48.) Accidents happen on New Year's Eve, but the explanation that particular wizard has to give in the morning will be quite interesting. -

I wonder how they will restore the tilt.

Thanks sdarkshade Some interesting tip-bits there for possible future events. Many thanks for the reply.

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Dark Earth Timeline Jul 24, 2019 13:03:29 GMT

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1.) I'd similarly presume it is a chemical issue.
8.) Some sort of social change is inevitable, but many of the drivers are different. This is a topic worthy of a few posts in its own right.
9.) Clay will still make it to the top, but it won't be an unbeaten run, nor will he have the same level of politicisation without the influence of the Nation of Islam.
10.) Definitely. However, it is a programme of stages. Japan has a rocket programme that will be able to be applied to 'different' circumstances; they are acquiring aircraft capable of carrying special munitions; they will be pursuing a nuclear power programme with dual use capacity. Breaking out from that point will be when something is noticed.
12.) The war is going to take some different turns.
13) Back in my university days, I did write my thesis the weekend before it was due, but I don't think I'm quite up to the level of bashing out Tolkien in two days.

19.) This particular interference may well backfire, given that the Labour Leader of the Opposition is even more of an anti-Communist than the Conservatives and has quite a hard nosed approach.
20.) The USSR is always going to have issues with autocracy, but far fewer with corruption and nepotism. It isn't going to experience a Brezhnev era, but will soon be under new, younger management...
21.) Kennedy will serve two terms and not hit any major scandals, giving Meader a fair run.
22.) There will still be issues, but if several key players are out of play, the field is clearer for reform.
23.) It won't have mass support, but has enough, as well as success driving support. Canadian cricket is a function of closer Imperial ties, particularly in sport.
29.) South Georgia is governed from the Falklands and Harry still has enough clout to keep him out of the Antarctic proper.
30.) They will be quite handy in a number of ways.
35.) There are quite a few things coming to light and all are quite mystic.
36.) Not so much clones as descendants of the same poncho wearing cowboy.
37.) Argentina's problems will come from internal politics and insurgency, rather than taking on Britain.
43.) They aren't too much of a game changer, but their presence is worrying in some ways.
44.) Bringing attention to littering is one area they will succeed in.
47.) Borneo isn't Malayan, but the Indonesian threat is growing beyond the irritant level.
48.) They may not be able to do so...

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Dark Earth Timeline Jul 24, 2019 14:45:47 GMT

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Jul 24, 2019 13:03:29 GMT simon darkshade said:

1.) I'd similarly presume it is a chemical issue.
8.) Some sort of social change is inevitable, but many of the drivers are different. This is a topic worthy of a few posts in its own right. - Very true.
9.) Clay will still make it to the top, but it won't be an unbeaten run, nor will he have the same level of politicisation without the influence of the Nation of Islam. - Well that will make a big difference. I wonder how he will react when he gets drafted?
10.) Definitely. However, it is a programme of stages. Japan has a rocket programme that will be able to be applied to 'different' circumstances; they are acquiring aircraft capable of carrying special munitions; they will be pursuing a nuclear power programme with dual use capacity. Breaking out from that point will be when something is noticed.
12.) The war is going to take some different turns.
13) Back in my university days, I did write my thesis the weekend before it was due, but I don't think I'm quite up to the level of bashing out Tolkien in two days.

- Ah pity. Seriously I've read bits of the unfinished tales book which are parts from the Simillarion which are massively enlarged so the idea that if he had lived long enough to complete it has really appealed to me. Even if there's a serious plot flaw with the behaviour of the Valar.
19.) This particular interference may well backfire, given that the Labour Leader of the Opposition is even more of an anti-Communist than the Conservatives and has quite a hard nosed approach. - That can often occur in such cases. A ,ore 'left' wing party needs to demonstrate its willingness to look after the countries interests and that it isn't too closely tied to a foreign state.
20.) The USSR is always going to have issues with autocracy, but far fewer with corruption and nepotism. It isn't going to experience a Brezhnev era, but will soon be under new, younger management... - Well that could be interesting. The former generally leads to the latter.
21.) Kennedy will serve two terms and not hit any major scandals, giving Meader a fair run. - That is a big butterfly so Meader will have a much better career hopefully. Will also of course have some impacts on world history compared to OTL.
22.) There will still be issues, but if several key players are out of play, the field is clearer for reform.
23.) It won't have mass support, but has enough, as well as success driving support. Canadian cricket is a function of closer Imperial ties, particularly in sport.
29.) South Georgia is governed from the Falklands and Harry still has enough clout to keep him out of the Antarctic proper. - Pity. After all someone needs to look after the interests of all the seals there and I can't think of a better qualified man.

30.) They will be quite handy in a number of ways.
35.) There are quite a few things coming to light and all are quite mystic. - Looking forward to finding out more.
36.) Not so much clones as descendants of the same poncho wearing cowboy. - Ok, understand.
37.) Argentina's problems will come from internal politics and insurgency, rather than taking on Britain.
43.) They aren't too much of a game changer, but their presence is worry - Apart from any direct problems it probably raises questions about the safety of AIs, or are the pepper pots as in OTL doctor linked to serious environmental problems such as a nuclear disaster?
47.) Borneo isn't Malayan, but the Indonesian threat is growing beyond the irritant level. - I know the northern former British part is part of Malaysia now and I thought it was ~1963 OTL but if not on darkearth then that makes for different circumstances.
48.) They may not be able to do so... - Well that impacts the Pisan tourist trade.

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Dark Earth Timeline Jul 25, 2019 12:22:20 GMT

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Clay will still get drafted, but the absence of the NoI and the same degree of fire from Civil Rights may change the situation.

What aspects of the behaviour of the Valar do you view as flawed?

The Labour Party under Stanley Barton is quite a 'conservative' party on social matters, very strong on defence (the peace wing having gone to the Radicals and Liberals) and having an anti-Communist foreign policy toughness reminiscent of Ernie Bevan in @. It will make for very interesting times.

The USSR continuing its seeming progress and growth towards 'Red Plenty' will make for a different 1960s and 1970s.

Kennedy's impact and role will be interesting. He won't be mythologised in the same manner.

Flashy will eventually make it off the Falklands before their defence is badly impaired.

The mystical aspects of the Dark Earthverse take many different forms. One is the 70s/80s 'New Age' style of British fantasy, typified by Robin of Sherwood and other seminal works. Another, which is at play here, is the seed of strange ideas about a hidden antediluvian past, even before Atlantis.

The pepper pots are more of an indication of some strange inspiration from another time and place, as well as representing robotics moving slightly beyond the simple.

With regard to Borneo, the British have been trying to combine their various colonies on the island into a single entity, providing one point of conflict and Konfrontasi. The others are the Dutch rump holdings, the Australians in Timor and the broader future of Malaya. Sukarno has considerable ambitions in the region.

I'll put up something on the 1960s social debate tomorrow, as well as some thoughts on military changes.

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Dark Earth Timeline Jul 25, 2019 17:53:51 GMT

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Jul 25, 2019 12:22:20 GMT simon darkshade said:

With the Valar there are a number of points about their stance during the war of the jewels.

a) They say that neither the Noldor or any others but Valar can defeat Melkor, which is quite true. However that gives them a duty to stop Melkor devastating Eru 's creation, even apart from the fact they came to Eä to act as its guardians and defenders. I know there is some comment that after his previous defeat they were horrified at the devastation when they defeated him before and 1st imprisoned him but presuming that they will ultimately have to face him again the longer they leave it the more powerful he's likely to be. If they actually chased after him immediately he's very much isolated and would be pretty easy to subdue with minimal damage to Middle Earth. Doubly so since Melkor has brought death to the Undying Lands by killing Finwë and destroying the trees.

b) They then tell the Noldor that they will send help to fight Melkor once someone comes from Middle Earth to request their aid but that they will create assorted magical barriers to prevent such a request arriving. Ditto with the reference that this must be a request from both elves and men - forget the exact wording - despite the fact men are still unknown to the elves and won't be 'awake' for a while. I know that Fëanor and his son's were total idiots and can understand Valar anger at the Noldor, albeit also understanding why Fingolfin and his followers followed Fëanor because he wished to avoid conflict within the Noldor, hence his earlier oath to follow Fëanor. However the Valar basically deserted all the children of Eru, along with those of Aule to Melkor's power, bringing much death and suffering to them, both during the war and in the future, including the corrupting of many men, because the Valar are NOT opposing Melkor and as an indirect result of the war the divisions between dwarves and elves.

Basically the stance of the Valar was necessary for the story of the Silmarillion to develop as it did with the great struggle of the three people's against Melkor but it makes no sense in terms of the internal logic of the wider story of Middle Earth and also makes it much darker in later ages. If they had quickly subdued Melkor there would have been far less, possibly no orcs, no dragons, probably fewer balrogs and far less corrupted men, at least in the short term. Also probably some closer links between the Valar and Middle Earth along with stronger states such as Thingol's kingdom. They would have had to do something about Fëanor and his followers but that's likely to be far less destructive of the world as a whole, especially since the later kinslayings aren't going to occur.

I wouldn't call the extemists the peace wing. More the disarmament wing as that's more accurately their aim and many aren't bothered about stopping war as long as they can make sure their country can't defend itself.

Think the belief in the success of the Soviets lasted at least until the end of the 60's OTL - talking about the general view not just that of the fanatics. After all the Americans were really concerned about whether they would win the space race until they actually got to the moon.

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Dark Earth Timeline Jul 28, 2019 12:25:59 GMT stevep likes this

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I do agree that the behaviour of the Valar was contrived to push forward Tolkien's intended story arc, with even the differing motivations of godlike beings not fully accounting for the tribulations they put in the way of the anti-Morgoth coalition. However, the sons of Feanor and plenty of the Noldor had a lot to atone for.

The disarmament wing doesn't really exist in mainstream Dark Earth British politics at this point, being confined to the lunatic fringe given the events of 1956 and 1960. There is a small fraction of Labour, the Liberals and the Radicals who have a starry/positive view of the Soviets, but there is a distinct difference to the general outlook of the British political establishment. Even before we get to the point of a different 1950s and postwar period without Suez, the scars of WW1 and WW2 are rather more superficial and there is still something of the old Edwardian/Victorian self-assurance of Empire. The facts on the ground are rapidly changing, making for a muddier Cold War.

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1963 Notes:

- Fawcett has some information of distinct interest to HM Government...
- The US and allied response to the escalation in South Vietnam is in large part a consequence of the victory in Korea.
- The Flying Scotsman is rather fast
- Alabama's gubernatorial election does not go to Wallace, in part due to the absence of the fire of segregationism.
- Simca does not come under Chrysler's control at this time.
- Kuwait is being drawn closer into British control rather than being independent.
- The radiation coming from China indicates an accident or a big test...
- Third and Fourth TAFs would see action in any full mobilisation of British defence forces.
- Professor Elemental saves the day in Cairo.
- Reverend Elvis Presley has the first of many adventures, battling the cult of Cthulhu.
- The Englishman assassinating Trujilo is a reference to The Day of the Jackal.
- Retirement of the Valiant may be delayed by certain circumstances, but it is an older aircraft in Dark Earth.
- The IDF is not standing still and has quite the advanced military.
- Doug Jones beating Clay will have some interesting consequences.
- Japan is slowly moving towards a breakout capacity for nuclear weapons.
- Soviet atomic aircraft exposure to 3.6 roentgen is a reference to Chernobyl.
- The IRA is working up to something spectacular.
- This MiG-23 is a very different aircraft, being quite close to the Phantom.
- Dwarven domination of barbecue.
- The NASA rocketship is very fast and is a smaller scale test of some of the Orion hardware.
- The BAOR is slowly building up, not so much in large scale strength, but in firepower and heavy equipment.
- Public executions continue in France.
- Vaughan Meader will have a better career.
- Orion's schedule is extremely ambitious.
- Persia continues to progress in some different ways.
- The 125mm Light Gun is quite the advance for 25pdr equipped Royal Artillery units, although the latter gun will stay around for many a long year yet. It will go to British airborne divisions as part of their 'hardening' process.
- McCarthy is still kicking around.
- Sterling Moss has not retired from motor racing.
- Krazgrim vs. Arkansas will be only the beginning...
- The National Enquirer headline is extremely 'out there'.
- Kennedy's speech occurs in a slightly different context.
- The Moors Murder is a singular event, without that particular appellation.
- Emergence of new islands is a very strange event for those not in the know.
- Malaya starts to get hot again.
- The development of successful cancer treatments is a step in a positive direction.
- The survival of the Mona Lisa was a conspiracy, with the fraud scandal to break in 1964.
- Rubber swan to JFK is a reference to Vaughan Meader's The First Family.
- The one-armed man is caught!
- Release of the Kerguelen prisoners will probably occur in 1966.
- The Soyuz spacecraft is quite different from @.
- TAC gets a modified twin-engine B-58 to replace some older bombers.
- Patrick Kennedy is born full term and healthy.
- Harry Callahan is not yet dirty on his job.
- The era of the windjammers finally comes to an end.
- Buenos Aires getting the Olympics is a big feather in Argentina's cap.
- Big Lift is rather more expansive and a sign of things to come.
- The USAF operates a few different aircraft...
- I included the R101 reference after listening to a few repetitions of Empire of the Clouds.
- Maharajah Kishan is the young boy from Northwest Frontier/Flame over India.
- The MCR combat ration is quite different from C rations.
- Britain is cracking down hard in Aden.
- The Chinese spaceport will feature again...

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Dark Earth Timeline Jul 28, 2019 22:49:08 GMT

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Jul 28, 2019 12:25:59 GMT simon darkshade said:

Fully agree that Feanor and his sons were bloody stupid and arrogant and even at the end the last two lacked the courage to realise the proper thing to do was reject their oath rather than pointlessly murdering yet more people!

I have a good bit of sympathy with Fingolfin and his oath as he took that in an attempt to avoid conflict but unfortunately by the time he realised how twisted Feanor's ego was - after the 1st kinslaying and then the burning of the ships it was too late.

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Dark Earth Timeline Jul 29, 2019 12:00:05 GMT

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The Kinslaying was the event horizon for those who followed Feanor from Aman.

Here, in Tolkien's expanded tales, there is a bit more space to explain the circumstances of the wars in Beleriand and the downfall of Numenor, but these works of the First and Second Ages are essentially tragedies.

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1964

January
January 1: Royal Air Force Germany reaches an operational strength of 864 aircraft in 36 squadrons, supported by a further 16 squadrons based in the British Isles.
January 2: Senator Barry Goldwater announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for the Presidency.
January 3: A USAF B-56 Canberra narrowly misses crashing into Beaverbrook High School in Ohio.
January 4: 66 people are killed in a passenger train crash outside of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
January 5: Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras meet in Jerusalem.
January 6: Yemeni irregular troops attack British border posts in Aden.
January 7: The Typhon missile system enters service with the United States Navy.
January 8: President Kennedy gives his State of the Union address, acknowledging the progress made in the goals of the New Frontier and calling for a new War on Poverty.
January 9: Anti-American riots take place in Panama.
January 10: Officials downplay reports of an accident at the Wonka Chocolate Factory in London.
January 11: Release of 'Smoking and Health: The Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States', which states that smoking is not only hazardous to health, but a leading contributor to avoidable deaths.
January 12: The British Army begins operational testing of a new 4.5" automatic self-propelled mortar.
January 13: A USAF B-52 carrying four nuclear bombs crashes into Savage Mountain, Maryland.
January 14: The Bahamas officially join the West Indies Federation.
January 15: A Greco-Turkish conference on the reduction of tension in Anatolia opens in London.
January 16: Opening of the musical Hello Dolly! on Broadway.
January 17: An earthquake strikes Taiwan, killing 53.
January 18: Unveiling of a scale model of the proposed World Trade Centre complex in New York City, with the most striking feature being the main twin skyscrapers, which reach 125 floors and accomodate over 100,000 people.
January 19: Launch of MS Empress of Australia, the largest civilian ship yet built in Australia.
January 20: Proclamation of the formal independence of Somalia.
January 21: Rhodesian troops ambush communist backed guerrillas near the Congolese border.
January 22: An attempted mutiny of African units in Tanganyika is suppressed by loyal troops of the King's African Rifles and British forces.
January 23: Agents of the Spanish Inquisition arrest 35 Spanish youths foroffences against public decency.
January 24: Formal re-establishment of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, combining the aviation training programs of the RAF and Commonwealth air forces in a joint organisation, with facilities in Britain, Canada, Australia and South Africa. This announcement is followed by the publication of a joint undertaking by the Commonwealth air ministries for the development of a new fast jet trainer to replace the Folland Wasp.
January 25: Joint Chiefs of Staff send a classified memorandum to Secretary of Defence Savage, urging further expansion of US engagement in the Vietnam War in the form of strategic bombing of North Vietnam and a build-up of troops in the South for an invasion.
January 26: A Royal Navy task force lead by HMS Gibraltar arrives off East Africa.
January 27: Senator Margaret Chase Smith announces her candidacy for the Republican nomination for the Presidency.
January 28: The US Senate passes the next iteration of President Kennedy's programme of tax cuts.
January 29: Opening of the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.
January 30: Launch of a new Soviet rocket from Baikonur, reflecting the increased launch schedule of the Kosmos Program.
January 31: The British Army Air Corps begins the formation of new combat aviation wings to support the BAOR.

February
February 1: Over 200 people are killed in a horrific Argentine rail crash between a freight train and the Firefly Express.
February 2: The unclothed body of a lady of ill repute is found in the Thames under Hammersmith Bridge in what is dubbed the 'Hammersmith Horror'.
February 3: 450,000 students and teachers go on strike in New York City in protest against de facto racial segregation in schools.
February 4: KGB agent Yuri Nosenko defects to American CIA agents in Geneva.
February 5: The Royal Israeli Air Force's Strategic Missile Command activates a second squadron of Black Arrows.
February 6: President Kennedy formally signs the 24th Amendment, outlawing the poll tax in federal elections
February 7: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are sentenced to death in Manchester
February 8: The North Vietnamese Air Force take delivery of 50 MiG-21s
February 9: Jack Brabham wins Australian Grand Prix
February 10: 82 RAN sailors are killed when the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne rams and severely damages the destroyer HMAS Voyager off Jervis Bay.
February 11: The RCAF Golden Hawks re-equip with Avro Arrows.
February 12: Police rescue a radio host who was locked in a Chinese fortune cookie factory in New York City.
February 13: Assassination of the Chief of Staff of the Congolese Army in Kwilu Province by poison arrow.
February 14: Nazi war criminal Werner Heyde is guillotined in Frankfurt
February 15: The United States Marine Corps begins testing of the new M64 amphibious battle tank.
February 16: A coup d'etat deposes the government of Orungu in Central Africa.
February 17: The US Supreme Court rules that congressional districts must be approximately equal in population in Wesberry vs Sanders.
February 18: A large earthquake in the Azure Islands uncovers a lost city of Atlantean ruins.
February 19: Transfer of the former Royal Navy cruisers Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and Bermuda to the Royal West Indian Navy.
February 20: Franco-Swedish troops land in Orungu to restore the legitimate government.
February 21: Assassination of the Grand Vizier of Turkey in Alexandretta by an cowled assassin.
February 22: Execution of the Moors murderers Hindley and Brady at HMP Strangeways.
February 23: Twelve RAF and RAAF Vulcans from Malaya deploy to Thailand for contingency operations in South Vietnam.
February 24: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begins construction of the Trans-Floridian Canal.
February 25: Sonny Liston defeats Doug Jones to retain the World Heavyweight title in a brutal fight in Miami Beach, Florida.
February 26: The US Secret Service foil a plot to assassinate President Kennedy by an international group of terrorists.
February 27: Renewal of the British and American leases on military bases in Libyan territory.
February 28: USN patrol planes locate the lost passengers and crew of the SS Minnow 629nm south of Hawaii.
February 29: Imperial Airways orders 25 Hawker-Siddeley Concord supersonic jet airliners.

March
March 1: 85 people are killed in the crash of Paradise Airlines Flight 901 as it crashes into a mountain en route to Tahoe Valley.
March 2: Eruption of Mount Villarica in Chile, burying the village of Coñaripe and killing 32.
March 3: Test launch of a U-2 spyplane off the aircraft carrier USS America.
March 4: Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa is convicted of jury tampering.
March 5: Opening of the final stage of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen in Japan.
March 6: Oil tanker Bunker Hill explodes and burns in Puget Sound, killing 5 crew members and sparking calls from the National Maritime Union for the compulsary installation of inflatable life rafts on all ships carrying NMU crew-members.
March 7: Unveiling of the prototype of a new Imperial Japanese Air Force heavy strategic bomber in Tokyo.
March 8: Resignation of Prime Minister of Persia in frustration at the continuing presence of foreign troops and the resistance to the Shah's reforms
March 9: The first Ford Mustang goes on sale in the United States.
March 10: A Soviet computing engine defeats its US counterpart in a telegraphed chess game.
March 11: Signing of the London Fisheries Convention, establishing exclusive fishing rights out to 12 nautical miles in Western European waters.
March 12: Benjamin Britten conducts his Symphony in D for Cello and Orchestra in Moscow.
March 13: The US Army issues a requirement for a replacement for the MIM-23 Hawk surface to air missile system.
March 14: A Peruvian Army patrol in the Amazon is nearly wiped out by Indians wielding strange weapons.
March 15: Marriage of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in New York City.
March 16: The Hawker-Siddeley Trident begins service for British European Airways.
March 17: Birth of a second son to Crown Prince Gustav Adolf and Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden.
March 18: First flight of the new Soviet MiG-25 air superiority fighter.
March 19: A USAF RB-66 is shot down by Soviet fighters over the Black Sea.
March 20: Ministry of Magic wizards relocate the Royal Arch at Dundee to make way for the new Tay Road Bridge.
March 21: The US National Security Council issues a classified memorandum on the danger of Communist expansion in South East Asia, citing a feared 'domino effect'.
March 22: Whilst being unpacked at Yokohama for loan to the Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, the famed statue of the Venus di Milo is slightly damaged. An attempted repair by a sorcerer results in the restoration of its arms. Embarrassment ensues.
March 23: RAF Vickers Valiants bomb rebel camps in Yemen in a series of nocturnal air strikes.
March 24: US Ambassador to Japan is stabbed by deranged man who is cut down by police; hundreds of left wing individuals are arrested in the subsequent crackdown.
March 25: Opening of the 'Big Three' superpower summit meeting in Paris between President Kennedy, Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Eden.
March 26: Two US Army pilots are captured by the Viet Cong after their L-19 Bird Dog observation plane is shot down near Quang Tri, South Vietnam.
March 27: An earthquake registering 9.2 on the Richter scale strikes near Anchorage, Alaska, killing 51 people and causing tidal waves as far away as California.
March 28: Conclusion of the Paris Summit, with all three leaders hailing it as a significant step towards peace and the decreasing of tensions. The most tangible outcome is the establishment of a permanent international council for the discussion of strategic arms control.
March 29: Enthronement of the new King of Arabia, 29 year old Rashid ibn Abdullah.
March 30: Debut of the game show Jeopardy on NBC.
March 31: A British field force crosses the border of Yemen in hot pursuit of raiders.

April
April 1: The Brazilian general election does not yield a majority for any party, with socialist andTrotskyites winning the most seats.
April 2: President Kennedy proposes the establishment of a unified rapid deployment force for reaction to crises in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.
April 3: A resolution protesting against British actions is vetoed on the Council of the League of Nations by Britain and France.
April 4: Launch of an unmanned Soviet rocketship mission to Mercury.
April 5: A USMC F-8 Crusader crashes in Hachida, Tokyo, killing 5 and injuring 52 people on the ground.
April 6: British forces in Yemen destroy military targets and rebel encampments in heavy fighting using long range artillery, mobile columns of Centurion tanks and armoured cars and helicopter gunship strikes.
April 7: The Arab League issues a formal note of protest over the British incursion into Yemen; it is accepted by the Foreign Office, which states that the operations will be completed in an expedited fashion.
April 8: Four major US railway unions go on strike against the Illinois Central Railroad.
April 9: The Brazilian parliamentary crisis enters a second week as negotiations to form a stable government prove fruitless at this time.
April 10: Mrs Verda Welcome, the first Negro senator from Maryland, is shot and wounded whilst campaigning.
April 11: British troops complete their withdrawal from Yemen.
April 12: French police arrest 17 people over an alleged fraudulent conspiracy related to the supposed destruction of the Mona Lisa.
April 13: Sidney Poitier becomes the first Negro to win Best Actor at the 36th Academy Awards, winning for his performance in Lillies of the Field, whilst Tom Jones wins Best Picture.
April 14: The Dutch Government announces that an independence plebiscite will be held in Western New Guinea in 1966.
April 15: The first new anti-submarine warfare escort carriers since the Second World War are laid down in the United States.
April 16: Opening of the Donauturm tower in Vienna.
April 17: Geraldine Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to complete a successful solo flight around the world. Amelia Earhart sends her a congratulatory telegram.
April 18: 11 year old Danny Nowell Is carried 3000 feet into the air by a hot air balloon in Mill Valley, California before being rescued by a flying man in a scarlet cape.
April 19: A coup attempt in Laos throws Vientiane into chaos, with loyalist troops tenaciously holding half the city and gradually reducing the rebel positions through the night.
April 20: Opening of an Anglo-American Combinec Chiefs of Staff conference on South East Asia in Washington D.C.
April 21: President Kennedy gives an expansive speech before the Assembly of the League of Nations on global poverty and the war on want.
April 22: Opening of the New York City World's Fair.
April 23: Malaya is proclaimed an independent Dominion within the British Empire.
April 24: An earthquake in the Tajik SSR threatens to flood the city of Samarkand before the Waters are diverted by an individual with strange powers.
April 25: Vandals attempt to steal the head of the beloved Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen abs are torn to shreds by a party of vacationing mermaids.
April 26: President Kennedy sends a letter outlining proposed legislation to Congress for an Appalachian Regional Development Act to relieve poverty in the area.
April 27: US tobacco companies come to an agreement on the content of cigarette advertisements and commercials.
April 28: One of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, child-killer Joseph Bryan Jr., is arrested in a supermarket car park in New Orleans. He is extradited to Tennessee to stand trial for kidnapping and murder and goes to the electric chair on November 17th 1965.
April 29: Entry of the SAM-A-19 Plato short range anti-ballistic missile into US Army service.
April 30: Opening of the first nuclear power station in Australia at Jervis Bay.

May
May 1: American mathematics professors run the first program in the BASIC computer programming language.
May 2: North Vietnamese frogmen sink the aircraft transport USNS Card in Saigon, killing 30 of the crew.
May 3: Conclusion of voting in the Lebanese elections.
May 4: Bourbon whiskey is designated a distinctive product of the United States in a voice vote of the House of Representatives.
May 5: Announcement of the completion of the first stage of the National Water Carrier of Israel.
May 6: Rocket mail is introduced in Germany.
May 7: Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 crashes near Concord, California, killing all 44 on board; later investigations reveal that the pilot was shot by a passenger.
May 8: Ronald Wolfe is executed in the Missouri gas chamber for the rape of an 8 year old girl.
May 9: South Vietnamese intelligence agents foil a plan to assassinated US Secretary of Defence Clark Savage on his planned visit to Saigon.
May 10: Frank Sinatra is rescued from drowning in an undertow in Hawaii by actor Brad Dexter.
May 11: A new Argentine battleship is laid down at Vickers shipyard in Barrow.
May 12: Over 500 people are sickened by a typhoid outbreak in Aberdeen.
May 13: A Soviet spy is convicted of espionage in Chicago and sentenced to death.
May 14: Announcement of of the construction of a joint US-Canadian nuclear test site in Amchitka in the Aleutian Islands.
May 15: Launch of the Royal Navy's new ASW light aircraft carrier, HMS Phoenix.
May 16: Deactivation of the first Atlas ICBMs of the USAF as they are replaced by Minutemen.
May 17: British physician Sir James Black synthesizes propranolol, a drug for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmia.
May 18: Beginning of Exercise Desert Strike, an extensive US Army war game involving 180,000 personnel over five southwestern states.
May 19: NASA conducts a test launch of the NERVA nuclear rocket.
May 20: President Kennedy signs a law barring foreign vessels from fishing within 10 nautical miles of the US coast.
May 21: A USN RF-8 Crusader is shot down over Laos.
May 22: Kennedy gives a noted speech on the dual struggles to eliminate poverty at home and defend freedom abroad in the commencement address for University of Michigan students, speaking of the necessity to rise to the challenges of the New Frontier.
May 23: Entry into operational service of the Hawker Siddeley HS.681 with the Royal Air Force.
May 24: 328 people are killed in riots and a stampede at a soccer game in Lima, Peru.
May 25: President Duvalier of Haiti is declared President for Life by a unanimous vote of Haitian Congress. US intelligence agents note the presence of a new, shadowy figure in his entourage.
May 26: Materials from a US military spy satellite crash land in a Venezuelan farmer's field.
May 27: Launch of a major offensive by the Colombian Army against communist rebels in Marquetalia.
May 28: Recommissioning of anti-aircraft Maunsell Forts off the east coast of England with new fully automatic gun and missile systems remotely controlled from Chatham.
May 29: Launch of the new Soviet atomic-powered spaceship, the Soyuz, from the orbit of Bellona to the asteroid belt.
May 30: Release of The Thieftaker, a new thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Dean and Marilyn Monroe as an unlikely pair of private investigators.
May 31: The Royal Navy begins regular deployments of a task force based around an aircraft carrier and battleship to the Persian Gulf.

June
June 1: Signing of a bilateral consular treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union, providing for the establishment of consulates and consular rights for civilians arrested in each country.
June 2: Senator Barry Goldwater beats Governor Rockefeller in the Republican California primary.
June 3: Arrival of a German infantry brigade in Saigon.
June 4: Crossed ATT wires result in a conversation between two unsuspecting New York housewives being broadcast over NBC for 18 million viewers. Callers later inquire as to the result of the neighbour's meatloaf scandal.
June 5: The first F-111 strike bombers enter service with the USAF.
June 5: British sensors in Cyprus report a high likelihood that an underground atom bomb test has taken place in Anatolia.
June 6: The Times publishes a poll on Britain's favourite meal conducted by Mass Observation. Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding comes out as a clear winner with 56%.
June 7: Launch of a large two-stage German research rocket from Cuxhaven.
June 8: A USN F-8 Crusader shot down over Laos by Pathet Lao anti-aircraft guns.
June 9: US Army deserter George Gessner is sentenced to death for desertion and espionage by a federal court in Kansas City.
June 10: Release of the Pontiac GTO in the United States.
June 11: A madman attacks a German elementary school with a homemade flamethrower, killing 10 students and teachers in the massacre.
June 12: Declaration of the establishment of the Arab Union of Arabia, Iraq, Syria and Jordan as a confederal state with a common currency, ministries and defence force, with the Sultan of Arabia heading the council of kings. Lebanon and Yemen are given observer rights with capacity to join at a later date.
June 13: The Governor of British Guyana proclaims a state of emergency in response to mounting violence following a protracted sugar worker strike.
June 14: Romanian Communist officials free 9874 political prisoners in a general amnesty.
June 15: The Texan Republican Party Convention pledges its 82 delegates to Senator Barry Goldwater, clinching the Republican nomination for President.
June 16: A Continental Trailways bus crashes into Lake Ponchartain, Louisiana killing six of the eight people onboard.
June 17: Completion of the Soviet space station Krasnya Oktyabr.
June 18: The Colonial Secretary announces that a plebiscite on the future of Singapore will be held in 1965.
June 19: Senator Edward Kennedy is injured in a plane crash at Southampton, Massachusetts.
June 20: General Creighton Abrams is appointed to command of United States Forces Vietnam.
June 21: Germany defeats France to win the European Nations Cup in front of a crowd of 140,000 at Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
June 22: Reverend Elvis Presley is approached by two men presenting evidence of a white slave smuggling ring.
June 23: Britain gives an undertaking to respect the territorial sovereignty of Yemen in exchange for Yemeni government suppression of rebel forces supporting the insurgency in Aden.
June 24: The US Federal Trade Commission rules that cigarette packets must feature a prominent and unambiguous warning that smoking can lead to premature death.
June 25: Launch of NASA spaceship Orion 1 for the asteroid belt from the orbit of Luna.
June 26: USS Bainbridge reports a mysterious subsurface contact in the North Atlantic 280nm south of Iceland travelling at upwards of 50 knots more than 1000 feet below them. It then accelerates into the depths and disappears.
June 27: The Arab Legion is formally transferred to the control of the Arab Union
June 28: Handley-Page and the Argentine government sign an agreement for the production of new jet bombers for the Royal Argentine Air Force.
June 29: Premier Charles de Gaulle arrives in Washington for Franco-US talks on Vietnam with President Kennedy.
June 30: Heavy fighting takes place in Northern Burma between Chinese backed rebels, Communist insurgents and Commonwealth troops.

July
July 1: Norwegian Terje Pedersen breaks the world javelin distance record with a throw of 290ft.
July 2: CBS runs a special report on the Space Race, characterising it as entering a new phase of intensity with the voyages of Orion 1 and the Soyuz.
July 3: United States Forces Vietnam issues a request to CINCPAC for authorisation of surface patrols of the Gulf of Tonkin to investigate North Vietnamese coastal defence capacity.
July 4: Viet Cong guerrillas attack a US training camp at Polei Krong and are driven off with heavy losses.
July 5: Formation of the African Liberation Front in the Congo, joining together a range of Rhodesian, Kenyan, Angolan and Mozambiquan rebel groups.
July 6: The Partido Reforma Nacional wins the Mexican general election, paving the way for what will be known as the Great Mexican Awakening.
July 7: 900 Viet Cong attack a South Vietnamese Army camp at Nam Dong, near the Laotian border. 350 South Vietnamese troops and 12 US Green Berets hold off the attack for an hour before the arrival of reinforcements and overwhelming aerial firepower. Gunfire support by USN cruisers offshore proves pivotal in the successful resistance.
July 8: Australia and Canada sign an agreement for the mutual development of the CAC CA-32 Rainbow supersonic fighter-bomber for the RAAF and RCAF.
July 9: The Tonton Macoute attacks opposition supporters in Port-au-Prince in a day of running street battles and riots, with some prisoners dragged away to trucks that head out of the city for the hills.
July 10: Simba rebels defeat Congolese Army forces in a pitched battle in Central Congo with the aid of Soviet advisors.
July 11: President Kennedy, Premier de Gaulle and Prime Minister Eden jointly announce a conference on South Vietnam to be held in Jamaica.
July 12: Twenty-two people die and over 130 are made seriously ill in an accidental mass poisoning in the western Greek village of Stylia, after a grieving widow accidentally mistakes insecticide for powdered sugar and adds it to a mourning dish.
July 13: Beginning of a communist uprising in Northern Thailand sponsored by Soviet backed groups.
July 14: The Washington Post publishes an extensive report on a new successful cancer treatment.
July 15: Senator Barry Goldwater formally accepts the Republican nomination for President.
July 16: Gomez Addams is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
July 17: Donald Campbell breaks the land speed record in his famed Bluebird on Lake Eyre in South Australia.
July 18: A pro-war rally in South Vietnam is attended by 100,000 people, with many chanting "Bac thien!", or "To the North!"
July 19: Brazil orders a new super battleship from France, surprising international naval observers.
July 20: The International Revolutionary Army launches a spectacular attack on the Colombian Parliament and War Ministry in Bogota.
July 21: First flight of the Vickers VC-10 wide-body super jetliner.
July 22: Algerian rebels kill 14 French soldiers in a series of ambushes across Algiers.
July 23: Four lost yachtsmen missing since July 14 are rescued by the US Navy, having been found 420 miles off the coast of Virginia.
July 24: An atomic technician is subjected to a fatal dose of radiation in a criticality accident at the Wood River Junction nuclear facility.
July 25: French troops of the Armée d’Afrique launch the 'Battle of Algiers', a huge sweep of the Algerian capital to locate and destroy rebel terrorist groups.
July 26: Ninety-four passengers and crew are killed in a Portuguese train derailment near Custóias.
July 27: South Vietnamese Navy patrol boats launch dawn raids and bombardments on two North Vietnamese islands near the DMZ.
July 28: Senator Goldwater challenges President Kennedy to a series of debates; the President accepts immediately.
July 29: German commandos defeat a Viet Cong ambush near Saigon in their first action in South Vietnam.
July 30: A USN cruiser-destroyer squadron is dispatched to the Gulf of Tonkin.
July 31: First flight of a McDonnell experimental reconaissance plane developed under Project ISINGLASS.

August
August 1: The British 1st Airborne Division begins testing of a variety of new armoured vehicles for use in airborne operations.
August 2: Whilst patrolling in the Gulf of Tonkin, USS Maddox is engaged by three North Vietnamese torpedo boats, leading to a running naval battle joined by two further USN destroyers and the cruiser USS Phoenix. Five North Vietnamese torpedo boats and a Riga class frigate are sunk by USN gunfire and aerial attacks, whilst USS Maddox suffers moderate damage, with five sailors killed and 20 injured.
August 3: Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko arrives in Peking for urgent talks on South East Asia.
August 4: USN carrier planes strike at North Vietnamese naval bases and facilities around the city of Vinh in retaliatory attacks launched after the Battle of the Gulf of Tonking in Operation Pierce Arrow.
August 5: The city of Stanleyville in the Congo is seized by Simba rebels.
August 6: President Kennedy addresses the nation on the Vietnam crisis, outlining the escalation of the conflict and calling for the authorisation for use of military force against North Vietnam.
August 7: A fiery debate at the League of Nations on alleged North Vietnamese aggression sees the Soviet Union veto a resolution condemning Hanoi.
August 8: Congress votes for the authorisation of use of military force in defence of South Vietnam, with the resolution passing the House of Representatives by 425-0 and the Senate by 92-4.
August 9: A brigade of the US 82nd Airborne Division arrives in the Congo.
August 10: Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Ecclesiam suam.
August 11: The supersonic twin engine Mirage F1 enters experimental service with the Royale Service Aéronautique.
August 12: China declares conditional neutrality in the Vietnam War at this time, stating that it will defend its territory and interests.
August 13: Execution by hanging of murderers Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen in Liverpool.
August 14: Soviet reinforcement of North Vietnam by air begins with the first arrival of weapons, supplies and technical experts, most notably new surface- to-air missile systems and a regiment of MiG-21 Floggers.
August 15: Reverend Presley uncovers the involvement of dark elves in the slaving ring and leads his faithful posse to destroy their underground lair in a midnight raid.
August 16: The New York Times publishes Isaac Asimov's predictions of the World's Fair of 2014, which includes the presence of underwater cities, personalised computing engines, supersonic air travel across the globe and self-driving cars.
August 17: 120 Indonesian troops land on the Malayan mainland and are promptly captured by Malayan territorial forces and militia units. RAF fighters destroy two Indonesian landing craft that are found in Malayan territorial waters.
August 18: The British Government indicates that it will honour its commitments under the Pacific Treaty to South Vietnam.
August 19: Completion of a new Japanese early warning weather radar system, the Mount Fuji Radar System.
August 20: USAF B-47 and B-52 bombers strike at Viet Cong targets in South Vietnam in a demonstration of US firepower.
August 21: President Kennedy signs the Economic Opportunity Act at the White House.
August 22: Debut of television sporting programme Match of the Day on the BBC.
August 23: The Australian Parliament passes an extensive rearmament vote proposed by the Menzies Government.
August 24: Arrival of the first wave of US reinforcements in South Vietnam in the form of the 17th Airborne Division and advanced units of III Marine Expeditionary Force.
August 25: Britain issues a note to Indonesia indicating that further incursions into Malayan or British territory will be considered an act of war.
August 26: President Kennedy is unanimously renominated for President by the Democratic Party.
August 27: Release of the charming family film Mary Poppins.
August 28: Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka holds the first of a series of meetings with nationalist groups.
August 29: Mexican archaeologists report the discovery of the remains of one of the mysterious Cities of Gold.
August 30: In response to the crisis in Vietnam, President Kennedy issues a call up of elements of the National Guard and Army Reserve, activating four divisions and numerous brigades, and bringing 10 Air National Guard and 8 USAFR wings into active service. Orders for the production of defence equipment and ammunition are increase.
August 31: Protests against the Vietnam conflict take place in Washington D.C. and New York City.

September
September 1: The Indian Parliament votes for support of PATO forces in South Vietnam in a very close and bitter debate.
September 2: USFV officially divides the defence of South Vietnam into four tactical areas associated with the operational corps of the South Vietnamese Army.
September 3: At the direction of the President, FBI Director Elliot Ness initiates a counter-intelligence programme aimed at the Ku Klux Klan and other separatist terrorist organisations.
September 4: Opening of the Forth Road Bridge in Scotland.
September 5: The German Democratic Republic announces the formation of two further divisions in its latest military expansion.
September 6: Establishment of the African Development Bank in Addis Ababa.
September 7: Anak Krakatoa begins to erupt, sending thousands fleeing away from the islands of the Sunda Strait.
September 8: Protests in Madrid against the continuing influence and control of the Spanish Inquisition.
September 9: Debut of Flipper, an NBC children's television series about a friendly talking dolphin.
September 10: Formation of a Commonwealth Naval Task Force off the southern coast of South Vietnam, consisting of the battleships Australia and Conqueror and the carriers Sydney, Irresistible, Natal and Vikrant.
September 11: Construction of an atomic fusion reactor begins in Scotland.
September 12: American athlete Ralph Boston breaks the world long jump record with a leap of 29ft at Olympic trials.
September 13: Conclusion of the Algiers Campaign by the French Army; almost 900 insurgents have been killed and thousands taken into captivity, whilst 56 French soldiers were killed.
September 14: Cassius Clay defeats Henry Cooper at Madison Square Garden.
September 15: Prime Minister Eden asks Queen Elizabeth to dissolve Parliament and call a general election.
September 16: The Emperor of Mexico gives a televised speech calling for his nation to awake and cast off the bonds that hold it back from its position as a great power.
September 17: Unidentified frogmen launch an attempted attack on the USN base at Subic Bay, but are detected and destroyed by US Marine guards.
September 18: The Soviet Union vetoes a League of Nations resolution put forward by Canada condemning Indonesian aggression in Borneo.
September 19: Melbourne defeats Geelong by 4 points in the 1964 VFL Grand Final.
September 20: The governing United Conservative Party is returned to power in the Chilean general election, which is marred by allegations of foreign intervention.
September 21: The United States retains the America's Cup for the 20th consecutive time.
September 22: British troops begin withdrawal from Egyptian bases around Cairo for the Suez Canal Zone and Alexandria
September 23: The Wilderness Act of 1964 is signed into law by President Kennedy, protecting over 25,000 square miles of federal land as designated wilderness areas.
September 24: Outbreak of open fighting in the hinterland of Portuguese East Africa, as KGB agents and mercenaries provide support and arms to rebel groups.
September 25: Announcement of a major defence agreement between Britain and the Benelux countries.
September 26: Simba rebels begin a round up of Europeans in areas of the Congo under their control.
September 27: Beginning of a Royal Tour of Canada, Newfoundland, New Avalon and West Indies as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip arrive in Trinidad.
September 28: Australia win the Davis Cup against the United States in a tiebreaking fifth game.
September 29: US economic growth for the third quarter of the year averages 3.9%.
September 30: A White Paper on Defence is commissioned by the Israeli Defence Ministry.

October
October 1: A USN nuclear submarine exploring the Marianas Trench spots a strange sea creature of unparallelled size.
October 2: Chinese diplomats begin a new round of talks with British and US envoys in Hong Kong.
October 3: Release of a number of political prisoners in the German Democratic Republic.
October 4: Graham Hill wins the 1964 US Grand Prix.
October 5: Chinese and North Vietnamese officials meet in Chungking to discuss the provision of military support and equipment.
October 6: Aberdeen residents report seeing a tartan-skirted elderly lady flying above the city in the early hours of the morning.
October 7: General Gavin gives a glowing report on the military progress of Atlantic Alliance forces based in Central Europe, marking the first use of the acronym NATO in an official document; the term had been in use by some British officials since mid 1961.
October 8: FBI agents arrest several dozen KKK members across the South in a wave of raids.
October 9: The Politburo approves an ambitious plan for the expansion of Soviet grain production through the cultivation of 25 million hectares of uncultivated land in the Volga, Western Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan.
October 10: Opening of the Tokyo Summer Olympics Games.
October 11: Craig Breedlove regains the world speed record in his Spirit of America on the Bonneville Salt Flats, breaking the 500mph barrier on his way to a top speed of 525.4mph.
October 12: The head of the Soviet military robotics program dies in a hunting accident in Siberia.
October 13: Dawn Fraser wins her third successive Olympic 100m swimming final in a world record time.
October 14: Entry into USMC service of the CH-53 Sea Stallion.
October 15: The Labour Party wins 236 seats to the Conservatives 220 and 151 of the Liberals, allowing Stanley Barton to form a minority government with the support of the Liberals on supply and confidence. Sir Anthony Eden indicates he will stay on as caretaker Leader of the Opposition until a new leader can be chosen in the new year.
October 16: China conducts an underground hydrogen bomb test in the Gobi Desert.
October 17: Opening of the Queen Elizabeth II Observatory in British Columbia, with its 300 inch telescope being the largest in the world.
October 18: The New York City World's Fair closes for the year.
October 19: Announcement of experimental changes in Soviet economic policy on a limited and localised basis based on recommendations from Kharkov University economist Yevsei Liberman.
October 20: Death of former President Herbert Hoover at the age of 90.
October 21: Opening of the film version of the hit Broadway musical My Fair Lady.
October 22: The US Atomic Energy Commission conducts an underground nuclear test near Baxterville, Mississippi.
October 23: Prime Minister Stanley Barton unveils his 'Grand Design' at a Cabinet meeting, consisting of expanded defence and infrastructure spending, increases in funding of pensions and education and the elimination of the National Debt.
October 24: Graham Hill narrowly wins the World Driving Championship.
October 25: A Minnesota Vikings gridiron player runs 66 yards in the wrong direction and scores a 'touchdown'.
October 26: Execution of multiple murderer Eric Edgar Cooke in Perth, Western Australia.
October 27: Ronald Reagan gives a well-received speech supporting Barry Goldwater for President, titled 'A Time for Choosing'.
October 28: A CIA report recommends US or other Western intervention to prevent the Simba Rebellion from escalating out of control in the Congo.
October 29: The world famous 'Star of India' is stolen in New York City.
October 30: Invention of Buffalo wings in Buffalo, New York.
October 31: Arrest of jewel thief 'Murph the Surf' in Miami; he is charged with the theft of the Star of India.

November
November 1: Viet Cong guerrillas stage a mortar attack on Bien Hoa Air Base, destroying eight B-56 Canberras and damaging 20 other aircraft. 5 US servicemen are killed and 26 injured.
November 2: British Petroleum announces the discovery of large oil deposits in Oman.
November 3: President John F. Kennedy wins the 1964 Presidential Election against Republican candidate Senator Barry Goldwater by the substantial margin of 375 electoral votes to 140.
November 4: A coup in Bolivia overthrows the government, replacing it with a military junta.
November 5: The Armstrong-Whitworth Atlas superheavy strategic jet transport enters service with the Royal Air Force.
November 6: Colonial Office officials announce that Sudan will be granted independence by 1974.
November 7: A new Soviet ABM is unveiled at a parade in Red Square.
November 8: Sir Winston Churchill is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to encourage international peace between the superpowers.
November 9: France and China begin talks on the future of Hainan.
November 10: Delivery of the first F-111s to the Royal Australian Air Force.
November 11: Abdication of the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
November 12: Haitian President Duvalier orders the televised public execution of captured members of the Jeune Haiti rebel movement.
November 13: Syrian artillery fires on two Israeli border posts, leading to a punishing airstrike by RIAF tactical fighters employing napalm and wildfire.
November 14: An American anthropologist begins a long term residency with the Yanomami tribe of the Amazon Jungle, sparking strife with other local tribes.
November 15: Prime Minister Stanley Barton gives a speech on British policy in the Middle East, emphasising its role as a regional protector and fair arbiter, standing strong against Communist expansion.
November 16: The Politburo is reshuffled, with Sergei Alekseyev promoted to Minister of Trade.
November 17: RAF TSR-2s strike at Viet Cong targets in South Vietnam.
November 18: The British Army begins testing of a new long range 6" self propelled gun-howitzer.
November 19: Stanley Barton arrives in Washington D.C. on his first state visit as Prime Minister
November 20: The Vatican officially rescinds the blame of Jews for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
November 21: Opening of the Roosevelt Bridge in New York City spanning the Narrows.
November 22: Defence Secretary Clark Savage arrives in Canberra for high level talks with the Australian government regarding the strategic situation and defence sales.
November 23: The Swiss and German government agree on border swap with Swiss territory exchanged for the German town of Verenahof.
November 24: Belgian paratroopers land in Stanleyville to liberate European hostages in conjunction with an offensive by Western mercenaries in Operation Dragon Rouge. Over 3200 are saved and hundreds of Simba rebels are routed.
November 25: A former US Army sergeant surrenders to the FBI and confesses to spying for the Soviet Union in the 1950s.
November 26: Pope Paul VI giftss his Papal tiara to the United States as thanks for 'all that America has done for the world'.
November 27: Huk rebels in the Philippines shoot down a Philippines Air Force DC-4 over Southern Luzon.
November 28: Egyptian rioting in Cairo leads to the government calling in the army and declaring a state of emergency.
November 29: Doctors in London report a wave of strange, protracted fevers and influenza striking seemingly at random across the capital.
November 30: Sir Winston Churchill celebrates his 90th birthday at his Chartwell home.

December
December 1: The Supreme Court of the USSR announces a change in criminal trials to a presumption of innocence.
December 2: NASA plans for Grand Tour of the Solar System with Orion announced.
December 3: Execution of George Marcotte, who shot two policmen whilst dressed as Santa Claus, in Montreal, Canada.
December 4: The B-70 Valkyrie enters operational service with the United States Air Force.
December 5: Turkish fighters buzz the Papal flight and escort it through Turkish airspace, before Templar fighter jets operating out of Cyprus relieve it.
December 6: Riots in Khartoum lead to reinforcement of the British garrison from Aden.
December 7: British medical researchers discover a new treatment for senile dementia.
December 8: One airman is killed in an accident involving a nuclear armed B-58 at Bunker Hill AFB.
December 9: The United States Navy initiates the Advanced Fleet Defender (AFD) aircraft programme.
December 10: Sir Winston Churchill gives a famed speech in Stockholm as he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize, calling for amity and cooperation between the superpowers on Earth and in space, whilst arguing that 'the glorious song of freedom cannot be quelled, no matter how high the wall or how stout the gates.'
December 11: International Revolutionary Army leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara declares that every member state of the Free World Military Forces in South Vietnam is an enemy of the people of the world and international peace.
December 12: A joint USN-IJN naval task group begins exercises off Hainan.
December 13: Arrival of the first elements of the British 9th Infantry Division in Australia.
December 14: USAF strategic bombing of Laos begins under Operation Barrel Roll.
December 15: Launch of first Italian space ship since the Second World War, SS Marco Polo.
December 16: CIA agents report suspicions that the Haitian government is using zombies against its political opposition.
December 17: Gosbank is authorised to give loans to collective farm workers for the purchase of livestock and agricultural equipment for personal use.
December 18: The 'Christmas Flood' in Oregon begins, the most intense for 50 years.
December 19: The Royal Air Force's Blue Streak ICBM force reaches its peak level of 250 missiles.
December 20: Opening of the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex, a secure command and control bunker deep inside the mountain itself.
December 21: USAF combat debut of the F-111 over South Vietnam as four strike bombers destroy a suspected Viet Cong base in the Central Highlands.
December 22: An announcement in Isvestia outlines an experimental profit scheme in a number of Ukrainian factories.
December 23: Over 1000 people are killed after a cyclone strikes the Palk Strait between India and Ceylon.
December 24: Viet Cong terrorists explode a time bomb at the Brinks Club in Saigon, killing 6 and injuring 107 people.
December 25: President Kennedy proclaims that 'these are the most hopeful and brightest days in the near two thousand years since the birth of Jesus Christ'.
December 26: Discovery of the ruins of a lost city in the Peruvian Andes.
December 27: European mercenaries, Belgian Paracommandos and Congolese government troops liberate 120 captives held by Simba rebels in a dawn raid.
December 28: The Emperor of Mexico proclaims a series of restrictions on the migration of workers to build up the national labour power of Mexico.
December 29: John Wayne announces his successful recovery from cancer using new advanced treatments.
December 30: Indian police arrest over 500 suspected Chinese agents in North Eastern India.
December 31: Launch of a large British interplanetary spacecraft from Martian orbit.

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1964

January
January 1: Royal Air Force Germany reaches an operational strength of 864 aircraft in 36 squadrons, supported by a further 16 squadrons based in the British Isles.
January 2: Senator Barry Goldwater announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for the Presidency.
January 3: A USAF B-56 Canberra narrowly misses crashing into Beaverbrook High School in Ohio.
January 4: 66 people are killed in a passenger train crash outside of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
January 5: Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras meet in Jerusalem.
January 6: Yemeni irregular troops attack British border posts in Aden.
January 7: The Typhon missile system enters service with the United States Navy.
January 8: President Kennedy gives his State of the Union address, acknowledging the progress made in the goals of the New Frontier and calling for a new War on Poverty.
January 9: Anti-American riots take place in Panama.
January 10: Officials downplay reports of an accident at the Wonka Chocolate Factory in London.
January 11: Release of 'Smoking and Health: The Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States', which states that smoking is not only hazardous to health, but a leading contributor to avoidable deaths.
January 12: The British Army begins operational testing of a new 4.5" automatic self-propelled mortar.
January 13: A USAF B-52 carrying four nuclear bombs crashes into Savage Mountain, Maryland.
January 14: The Bahamas officially join the West Indies Federation.
January 15: A Greco-Turkish conference on the reduction of tension in Anatolia opens in London.
January 16: Opening of the musical Hello Dolly! on Broadway.
January 17: An earthquake strikes Taiwan, killing 53.
January 18: Unveiling of a scale model of the proposed World Trade Centre complex in New York City, with the most striking feature being the main twin skyscrapers, which reach 125 floors and accomodate over 100,000 people.
January 19: Launch of MS Empress of Australia, the largest civilian ship yet built in Australia.
January 20: Proclamation of the formal independence of Somalia.
January 21: Rhodesian troops ambush communist backed guerrillas near the Congolese border.
January 22: An attempted mutiny of African units in Tanganyika is suppressed by loyal troops of the King's African Rifles and British forces.
January 23: Agents of the Spanish Inquisition arrest 35 Spanish youths foroffences against public decency.
January 24: Formal re-establishment of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, combining the aviation training programs of the RAF and Commonwealth air forces in a joint organisation, with facilities in Britain, Canada, Australia and South Africa. This announcement is followed by the publication of a joint undertaking by the Commonwealth air ministries for the development of a new fast jet trainer to replace the Folland Wasp.
January 25: Joint Chiefs of Staff send a classified memorandum to Secretary of Defence Savage, urging further expansion of US engagement in the Vietnam War in the form of strategic bombing of North Vietnam and a build-up of troops in the South for an invasion.
January 26: A Royal Navy task force lead by HMS Gibraltar arrives off East Africa.
January 27: Senator Margaret Chase Smith announces her candidacy for the Republican nomination for the Presidency.
January 28: The US Senate passes the next iteration of President Kennedy's programme of tax cuts.
January 29: Opening of the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.
January 30: Launch of a new Soviet rocket from Baikonur, reflecting the increased launch schedule of the Kosmos Program.
January 31: The British Army Air Corps begins the formation of new combat aviation wings to support the BAOR.

February
February 1: Over 200 people are killed in a horrific Argentine rail crash between a freight train and the Firefly Express.
February 2: The unclothed body of a lady of ill repute is found in the Thames under Hammersmith Bridge in what is dubbed the 'Hammersmith Horror'.
February 3: 450,000 students and teachers go on strike in New York City in protest against de facto racial segregation in schools.
February 4: KGB agent Yuri Nosenko defects to American CIA agents in Geneva.
February 5: The Royal Israeli Air Force's Strategic Missile Command activates a second squadron of Black Arrows.
February 6: President Kennedy formally signs the 24th Amendment, outlawing the poll tax in federal elections
February 7: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are sentenced to death in Manchester
February 8: The North Vietnamese Air Force take delivery of 50 MiG-21s
February 9: Jack Brabham wins Australian Grand Prix
February 10: 82 RAN sailors are killed when the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne rams and severely damages the destroyer HMAS Voyager off Jervis Bay.
February 11: The RCAF Golden Hawks re-equip with Avro Arrows.
February 12: Police rescue a radio host who was locked in a Chinese fortune cookie factory in New York City.
February 13: Assassination of the Chief of Staff of the Congolese Army in Kwilu Province by poison arrow.
February 14: Nazi war criminal Werner Heyde is guillotined in Frankfurt
February 15: The United States Marine Corps begins testing of the new M64 amphibious battle tank.
February 16: A coup d'etat deposes the government of Orungu in Central Africa.
February 17: The US Supreme Court rules that congressional districts must be approximately equal in population in Wesberry vs Sanders.
February 18: A large earthquake in the Azure Islands uncovers a lost city of Atlantean ruins.
February 19: Transfer of the former Royal Navy cruisers Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and Bermuda to the Royal West Indian Navy.
February 20: Franco-Swedish troops land in Orungu to restore the legitimate government.
February 21: Assassination of the Grand Vizier of Turkey in Alexandretta by an cowled assassin.
February 22: Execution of the Moors murderers Hindley and Brady at HMP Strangeways.
February 23: Twelve RAF and RAAF Vulcans from Malaya deploy to Thailand for contingency operations in South Vietnam.
February 24: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers begins construction of the Trans-Floridian Canal.
February 25: Sonny Liston defeats Doug Jones to retain the World Heavyweight title in a brutal fight in Miami Beach, Florida.
February 26: The US Secret Service foil a plot to assassinate President Kennedy by an international group of terrorists.
February 27: Renewal of the British and American leases on military bases in Libyan territory.
February 28: USN patrol planes locate the lost passengers and crew of the SS Minnow 629nm south of Hawaii.
February 29: Imperial Airways orders 25 Hawker-Siddeley Concord supersonic jet airliners.

March
March 1: 85 people are killed in the crash of Paradise Airlines Flight 901 as it crashes into a mountain en route to Tahoe Valley.
March 2: Eruption of Mount Villarica in Chile, burying the village of Coñaripe and killing 32.
March 3: Test launch of a U-2 spyplane off the aircraft carrier USS America.
March 4: Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa is convicted of jury tampering.
March 5: Opening of the final stage of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen in Japan.
March 6: Oil tanker Bunker Hill explodes and burns in Puget Sound, killing 5 crew members and sparking calls from the National Maritime Union for the compulsary installation of inflatable life rafts on all ships carrying NMU crew-members.
March 7: Unveiling of the prototype of a new Imperial Japanese Air Force heavy strategic bomber in Tokyo.
March 8: Resignation of Prime Minister of Persia in frustration at the continuing presence of foreign troops and the resistance to the Shah's reforms
March 9: The first Ford Mustang goes on sale in the United States.
March 10: A Soviet computing engine defeats its US counterpart in a telegraphed chess game.
March 11: Signing of the London Fisheries Convention, establishing exclusive fishing rights out to 12 nautical miles in Western European waters.
March 12: Benjamin Britten conducts his Symphony in D for Cello and Orchestra in Moscow.
March 13: The US Army issues a requirement for a replacement for the MIM-23 Hawk surface to air missile system.
March 14: A Peruvian Army patrol in the Amazon is nearly wiped out by Indians wielding strange weapons.
March 15: Marriage of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor in New York City.
March 16: The Hawker-Siddeley Trident begins service for British European Airways.
March 17: Birth of a second son to Crown Prince Gustav Adolf and Crown Princess Margaret of Sweden.
March 18: First flight of the new Soviet MiG-25 air superiority fighter.
March 19: A USAF RB-66 is shot down by Soviet fighters over the Black Sea.
March 20: Ministry of Magic wizards relocate the Royal Arch at Dundee to make way for the new Tay Road Bridge.
March 21: The US National Security Council issues a classified memorandum on the danger of Communist expansion in South East Asia, citing a feared 'domino effect'.
March 22: Whilst being unpacked at Yokohama for loan to the Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, the famed statue of the Venus di Milo is slightly damaged. An attempted repair by a sorcerer results in the restoration of its arms. Embarrassment ensues.
March 23: RAF Vickers Valiants bomb rebel camps in Yemen in a series of nocturnal air strikes.
March 24: US Ambassador to Japan is stabbed by deranged man who is cut down by police; hundreds of left wing individuals are arrested in the subsequent crackdown.
March 25: Opening of the 'Big Three' superpower summit meeting in Paris between President Kennedy, Premier Stalin and Prime Minister Eden.
March 26: Two US Army pilots are captured by the Viet Cong after their L-19 Bird Dog observation plane is shot down near Quang Tri, South Vietnam.
March 27: An earthquake registering 9.2 on the Richter scale strikes near Anchorage, Alaska, killing 51 people and causing tidal waves as far away as California.
March 28: Conclusion of the Paris Summit, with all three leaders hailing it as a significant step towards peace and the decreasing of tensions. The most tangible outcome is the establishment of a permanent international council for the discussion of strategic arms control.
March 29: Enthronement of the new King of Arabia, 29 year old Rashid ibn Abdullah.
March 30: Debut of the game show Jeopardy on NBC.
March 31: A British field force crosses the border of Yemen in hot pursuit of raiders.

April
April 1: The Brazilian general election does not yield a majority for any party, with socialist andTrotskyites winning the most seats.
April 2: President Kennedy proposes the establishment of a unified rapid deployment force for reaction to crises in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia.
April 3: A resolution protesting against British actions is vetoed on the Council of the League of Nations by Britain and France.
April 4: Launch of an unmanned Soviet rocketship mission to Mercury.
April 5: A USMC F-8 Crusader crashes in Hachida, Tokyo, killing 5 and injuring 52 people on the ground.
April 6: British forces in Yemen destroy military targets and rebel encampments in heavy fighting using long range artillery, mobile columns of Centurion tanks and armoured cars and helicopter gunship strikes.
April 7: The Arab League issues a formal note of protest over the British incursion into Yemen; it is accepted by the Foreign Office, which states that the operations will be completed in an expedited fashion.
April 8: Four major US railway unions go on strike against the Illinois Central Railroad.
April 9: The Brazilian parliamentary crisis enters a second week as negotiations to form a stable government prove fruitless at this time.
April 10: Mrs Verda Welcome, the first Negro senator from Maryland, is shot and wounded whilst campaigning.
April 11: British troops complete their withdrawal from Yemen.
April 12: French police arrest 17 people over an alleged fraudulent conspiracy related to the supposed destruction of the Mona Lisa.
April 13: Sidney Poitier becomes the first Negro to win Best Actor at the 36th Academy Awards, winning for his performance in Lillies of the Field, whilst
April 14: The Dutch Government announces that an independence plebiscite will be held in Western New Guinea in 1966.
April 15: The first new anti-submarine warfare escort carriers since the Second World War are laid down in the United States.
April 16: Opening of the Donauturm tower in Vienna.
April 17: Geraldine Jerrie Mock becomes the first woman to complete a successful solo flight around the world. Amelia Earhart sends her a congratulatory telegram.
April 18: 11 year old Danny Nowell Is carried 3000 feet into the air by a hot air balloon in Mill Valley, California before being rescued by a flying man in a scarlet cape.
April 19: A coup attempt in Laos throws Vientiane into chaos, with loyalist troops tenaciously holding half the city and gradually reducing the rebel positions through the night.
April 20: Opening of an Anglo-American Combinec Chiefs of Staff conference on South East Asia in Washington D.C.
April 21: President Kennedy gives an expansive speech before the Assembly of the League of Nations on global poverty and the war on want.
April 22: Opening of the New York City World's Fair.
April 23: Malaya is proclaimed an independent Dominion within the British Empire.
April 24: An earthquake in the Tajik SSR threatens to flood the city of Samarkand before the Waters are diverted by an individual with strange powers.
April 25: Vandals attempt to steal the head of the beloved Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen abs are torn to shreds by a party of vacationing mermaids.
April 26: President Kennedy sends a letter outlining proposed legislation to Congress for an Appalachian Regional Development Act to relieve poverty in the area.
April 27: US tobacco companies come to an agreement on the content of cigarette advertisements and commercials.
April 28: One of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, child-killer Joseph Bryan Jr., is arrested in a supermarket car park in New Orleans. He is extradited to Tennessee to stand trial for kidnapping and murder and goes to the electric chair on November 17th 1965.
April 29: Entry of the SAM-A-19 Plato short range anti-ballistic missile into US Army service.
April 30: Opening of the first nuclear power station in Australia at Jervis Bay.

May
May 1: American mathematics professors run the first program in the BASIC computer programming language.
May 2: North Vietnamese frogmen sink the aircraft transport USNS Card in Saigon, killing 30 of the crew.
May 3: Conclusion of voting in the Lebanese elections.
May 4: Bourbon whiskey is designated a distinctive product of the United States in a voice vote of the House of Representatives.
May 5: Announcement of the completion of the first stage of the National Water Carrier of Israel.
May 6: Rocket mail is introduced in Germany.
May 7: Pacific Air Lines Flight 773 crashes near Concord, California, killing all 44 on board; later investigations reveal that the pilot was shot by a passenger.
May 8: Ronald Wolfe is executed in the Missouri gas chamber for the rape of an 8 year old girl.
May 9: South Vietnamese intelligence agents foil a plan to assassinated US Secretary of Defence Clark Savage on his planned visit to Saigon.
May 10: Frank Sinatra is rescued from drowning in an undertow in Hawaii by actor Brad Dexter.
May 11: A new Argentine battleship is laid down at Vickers shipyard in Barrow.
May 12: Over 500 people are sickened by a typhoid outbreak in Aberdeen.
May 13: A Soviet spy is convicted of espionage in Chicago and sentenced to death.
May 14: Announcement of of the construction of a joint US-Canadian nuclear test site in Amchitka in the Aleutian Islands.
May 15: Launch of the Royal Navy's new ASW light aircraft carrier, HMS Phoenix.
May 16: Deactivation of the first Atlas ICBMs of the USAF as they are replaced by Minutemen.
May 17: British physician Sir James Black synthesizes propranolol, a drug for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmia.
May 18: Beginning of Exercise Desert Strike, an extensive US Army war game involving 180,000 personnel over five southwestern states.
May 19: NASA conducts a test launch of the NERVA nuclear rocket.
May 20: President Kennedy signs a law barring foreign vessels from fishing within 10 nautical miles of the US coast.
May 21: A USN RF-8 Crusader is shot down over Laos.
May 22: Kennedy gives a noted speech on the dual struggles to eliminate poverty at home and defend freedom abroad in the commencement address for University of Michigan students, speaking of the necessity to rise to the challenges of the New Frontier.
May 23: Entry into operational service of the Hawker Siddeley HS.681 with the Royal Air Force.
May 24: 328 people are killed in riots and a stampede at a soccer game in Lima, Peru.
May 25: President Duvalier of Haiti is declared President for Life by a unanimous vote of Haitian Congress. US intelligence agents note the presence of a new, shadowy figure in his entourage.
May 26: Materials from a US military spy satellite crash land in a Venezuelan farmer's field.
May 27: Launch of a major offensive by the Colombian Army against communist rebels in Marquetalia.
May 28: Recommissioning of anti-aircraft Maunsell Forts off the east coast of England with new fully automatic gun and missile systems remotely controlled from Chatham.
May 29: Launch of the new Soviet atomic-powered spaceship, the Soyuz, from the orbit of Bellona to the asteroid belt.
May 30: Release of The Thieftaker, a new thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Dean and Marilyn Monroe as an unlikely pair of private investigators.
May 31: The Royal Navy begins regular deployments of a task force based around an aircraft carrier and battleship to the Persian Gulf.

June
June 1: Signing of a bilateral consular treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union, providing for the establishment of consulates and consular rights for civilians arrested in each country.
June 2: Senator Barry Goldwater beats Governor Rockefeller in the Republican California primary.
June 3: Arrival of a German infantry brigade in Saigon.
June 4: Crossed ATT wires result in a conversation between two unsuspecting New York housewives being broadcast over NBC for 18 million viewers. Callers later inquire as to the result of the neighbour's meatloaf scandal.
June 5: The first F-111 strike bombers enter service with the USAF.
June 5: British sensors in Cyprus report a high likelihood that an underground atom bomb test has taken place in Anatolia.
June 6: The Times publishes a poll on Britain's favourite meal conducted by Mass Observation. Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding comes out as a clear winner with 56%.
June 7: Launch of a large two-stage German research rocket from Cuxhaven.
June 8: A USN F-8 Crusader shot down over Laos by Pathet Lao anti-aircraft guns.
June 9: US Army deserter George Gessner is sentenced to death for desertion and espionage by a federal court in Kansas City.
June 10: Release of the Pontiac GTO in the United States.
June 11: A madman attacks a German elementary school with a homemade flamethrower, killing 10 students and teachers in the massacre.
June 12: Declaration of the establishment of the Arab Union of Arabia, Iraq, Syria and Jordan as a confederal state with a common currency, ministries and defence force, with the Sultan of Arabia heading the council of kings. Lebanon and Yemen are given observer rights with capacity to join at a later date.
June 13: The Governor of British Guyana proclaims a state of emergency in response to mounting violence following a protracted sugar worker strike.
June 14: Romanian Communist officials free 9874 political prisoners in a general amnesty.
June 15: The Texan Republican Party Convention pledges its 82 delegates to Senator Barry Goldwater, clinching the Republican nomination for President.
June 16: A Continental Trailways bus crashes into Lake Ponchartain, Louisiana killing six of the eight people onboard.
June 17: Completion of the Soviet space station Krasnya Oktyabr.
June 18: The Colonial Secretary announces that a plebiscite on the future of Singapore will be held in 1965.
June 19: Senator Edward Kennedy is injured in a plane crash at Southampton, Massachusetts.
June 20: General Creighton Abrams is appointed to command of United States Forces Vietnam.
June 21: Germany defeats France to win the European Nations Cup in front of a crowd of 140,000 at Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
June 22: Reverend Elvis Presley is approached by two men presenting evidence of a white slave smuggling ring.
June 23: Britain gives an undertaking to respect the territorial sovereignty of Yemen in exchange for Yemeni government suppression of rebel forces supporting the insurgency in Aden.
June 24: The US Federal Trade Commission rules that cigarette packets must feature a prominent and unambiguous warning that smoking can lead to premature death.
June 25: Launch of NASA spaceship Orion 1 for the asteroid belt from the orbit of Luna.
June 26: USS Bainbridge reports a mysterious subsurface contact in the North Atlantic 280nm south of Iceland travelling at upwards of 50 knots more than 1000 feet below them. It then accelerates into the depths and disappears.
June 27: The Arab Legion is formally transferred to the control of the Arab Union
June 28: Handley-Page and the Argentine government sign an agreement for the production of new jet bombers for the Royal Argentine Air Force.
June 29: Premier Charles de Gaulle arrives in Washington for Franco-US talks on Vietnam with President Kennedy.
June 30: Heavy fighting takes place in Northern Burma between Chinese backed rebels, Communist insurgents and Commonwealth troops.

July
July 1: Norwegian Terje Pedersen breaks the world javelin distance record with a throw of 290ft.
July 2: CBS runs a special report on the Space Race, characterising it as entering a new phase of intensity with the voyages of Orion 1 and the Soyuz.
July 3: United States Forces Vietnam issues a request to CINCPAC for authorisation of surface patrols of the Gulf of Tonkin to investigate North Vietnamese coastal defence capacity.
July 4: Viet Cong guerrillas attack a US training camp at Polei Krong and are driven off with heavy losses.
July 5: Formation of the African Liberation Front in the Congo, joining together a range of Rhodesian, Kenyan, Angolan and Mozambiquan rebel groups.
July 6: The Partido Reforma Nacional wins the Mexican general election, paving the way for what will be known as the Great Mexican Awakening.
July 7: 900 Viet Cong attack a South Vietnamese Army camp at Nam Dong, near the Laotian border. 350 South Vietnamese troops and 12 US Green Berets hold off the attack for an hour before the arrival of reinforcements and overwhelming aerial firepower. Gunfire support by USN cruisers offshore proves pivotal in the successful resistance.
July 8: Australia and Canada sign an agreement for the mutual development of the CAC CA-32 Rainbow supersonic fighter-bomber for the RAAF and RCAF.
July 9: The Tonton Macoute attacks opposition supporters in Port-au-Prince in a day of running street battles and riots, with some prisoners dragged away to trucks that head out of the city for the hills.
July 10: Simba rebels defeat Congolese Army forces in a pitched battle in Central Congo with the aid of Soviet advisors.
July 11: President Kennedy, Premier de Gaulle and Prime Minister Eden jointly announce a conference on South Vietnam to be held in Jamaica.
July 12: Twenty-two people die and over 130 are made seriously ill in an accidental mass poisoning in the western Greek village of Stylia, after a grieving widow accidentally mistakes insecticide for powdered sugar and adds it to a mourning dish.
July 13: Beginning of a communist uprising in Northern Thailand sponsored by Soviet backed groups.
July 14: The Washington Post publishes an extensive report on a new successful cancer treatment.
July 15: Senator Barry Goldwater formally accepts the Republican nomination for President.
July 16: Gomez Addams is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
July 17: Donald Campbell breaks the land speed record in his famed Bluebird on Lake Eyre in South Australia.
July 18: A pro-war rally in South Vietnam is attended by 100,000 people, with many chanting "Bac thien!", or "To the North!"
July 19: Brazil orders a new super battleship from France, surprising international naval observers.
July 20: The International Revolutionary Army launches a spectacular attack on the Colombian Parliament and War Ministry in Bogota.
July 21: First flight of the Vickers VC-10 wide-body super jetliner.
July 22: Algerian rebels kill 14 French soldiers in a series of ambushes across Algiers.
July 23: Four lost yachtsmen missing since July 14 are rescued by the US Navy, having been found 420 miles off the coast of Virginia.
July 24: An atomic technician is subjected to a fatal dose of radiation in a criticality accident at the Wood River Junction nuclear facility.
July 25: French troops of the Armée d’Afrique launch the 'Battle of Algiers', a huge sweep of the Algerian capital to locate and destroy rebel terrorist groups.
July 26: Ninety-four passengers and crew are killed in a Portuguese train derailment near Custóias.
July 27: South Vietnamese Navy patrol boats launch dawn raids and bombardments on two North Vietnamese islands near the DMZ.
July 28: Senator Goldwater challenges President Kennedy to a series of debates; the President accepts immediately.
July 29: German commandos defeat a Viet Cong ambush near Saigon in their first action in South Vietnam.
July 30: A USN cruiser-destroyer squadron is dispatched to the Gulf of Tonkin.
July 31: First flight of a McDonnell experimental reconaissance plane developed under Project ISINGLASS.

August
August 1: The British 1st Airborne Division begins testing of a variety of new armoured vehicles for use in airborne operations.
August 2: Whilst patrolling in the Gulf of Tonkin, USS Maddox is engaged by three North Vietnamese torpedo boats, leading to a running naval battle joined by two further USN destroyers and the cruiser USS Phoenix. Five North Vietnamese torpedo boats and a Riga class frigate are sunk by USN gunfire and aerial attacks, whilst USS Maddox suffers moderate damage, with five sailors killed and 20 injured.
August 3: Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko arrives in Peking for urgent talks on South East Asia.
August 4: USN carrier planes strike at North Vietnamese naval bases and facilities around the city of Vinh in retaliatory attacks launched after the Battle of the Gulf of Tonking in Operation Pierce Arrow.
August 5: The city of Stanleyville in the Congo is seized by Simba rebels.
August 6: President Kennedy addresses the nation on the Vietnam crisis, outlining the escalation of the conflict and calling for the authorisation for use of military force against North Vietnam.
August 7: A fiery debate at the League of Nations on alleged North Vietnamese aggression sees the Soviet Union veto a resolution condemning Hanoi.
August 8: Congress votes for the authorisation of use of military force in defence of South Vietnam, with the resolution passing the House of Representatives by 425-0 and the Senate by 92-4.
August 9: A brigade of the US 82nd Airborne Division arrives in the Congo.
August 10: Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Ecclesiam suam.
August 11: The supersonic twin engine Mirage F1 enters experimental service with the Royale Service Aéronautique.
August 12: China declares conditional neutrality in the Vietnam War at this time, stating that it will defend its territory and interests.
August 13: Execution by hanging of murderers Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen in Liverpool.
August 14: Soviet reinforcement of North Vietnam by air begins with the first arrival of weapons, supplies and technical experts, most notably new surface- to-air missile systems and a regiment of MiG-21 Floggers.
August 15: Reverend Presley uncovers the involvement of dark elves in the slaving ring and leads his faithful posse to destroy their underground lair in a midnight raid.
August 16: The New York Times publishes Isaac Asimov's predictions of the World's Fair of 2014, which includes the presence of underwater cities, personalised computing engines, supersonic air travel across the globe and self-driving cars.
August 17: 120 Indonesian troops land on the Malayan mainland and are promptly captured by Malayan territorial forces and militia units. RAF fighters destroy two Indonesian landing craft that are found in Malayan territorial waters.
August 18: The British Government indicates that it will honour its commitments under the Pacific Treaty to South Vietnam.
August 19: Completion of a new Japanese early warning weather radar system, the Mount Fuji Radar System.
August 20: USAF B-47 and B-52 bombers strike at Viet Cong targets in South Vietnam in a demonstration of US firepower.
August 21: President Kennedy signs the Economic Opportunity Act at the White House.
August 22: Debut of television sporting programme Match of the Day on the BBC.
August 23: The Australian Parliament passes an extensive rearmament vote proposed by the Menzies Government.
August 24: Arrival of the first wave of US reinforcements in South Vietnam in the form of the 17th Airborne Division and advanced units of III Marine Expeditionary Force.
August 25: Britain issues a note to Indonesia indicating that further incursions into Malayan or British territory will be considered an act of war.
August 26: President Kennedy is unanimously renominated for President by the Democratic Party.
August 27: Release of the charming family film Mary Poppins.
August 28: Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka holds the first of a series of meetings with nationalist groups.
August 29: Mexican archaeologists report the discovery of the remains of one of the mysterious Cities of Gold.
August 30: In response to the crisis in Vietnam, President Kennedy issues a call up of elements of the National Guard and Army Reserve, activating four divisions and numerous brigades, and bringing 10 Air National Guard and 8 USAFR wings into active service. Orders for the production of defence equipment and ammunition are increase.
August 31: Protests against the Vietnam conflict take place in Washington D.C. and New York City.

September
September 1: The Indian Parliament votes for support of PATO forces in South Vietnam in a very close and bitter debate.
September 2: USFV officially divides the defence of South Vietnam into four tactical areas associated with the operational corps of the South Vietnamese Army.
September 3: At the direction of the President, FBI Director Elliot Ness initiates a counter-intelligence programme aimed at the Ku Klux Klan and other separatist terrorist organisations.
September 4: Opening of the Forth Road Bridge in Scotland.
September 5: The German Democratic Republic announces the formation of two further divisions in its latest military expansion.
September 6: Establishment of the African Development Bank in Addis Ababa.
September 7: Anak Krakatoa begins to erupt, sending thousands fleeing away from the islands of the Sunda Strait.
September 8: Protests in Madrid against the continuing influence and control of the Spanish Inquisition.
September 9: Debut of Flipper, an NBC children's television series about a friendly talking dolphin.
September 10: Formation of a Commonwealth Naval Task Force off the southern coast of South Vietnam, consisting of the battleships Australia and Conqueror and the carriers Sydney, Irresistible, Natal and Vikrant.
September 11: Construction of an atomic fusion reactor begins in Scotland.
September 12: American athlete Ralph Boston breaks the world long jump record with a leap of 29ft at Olympic trials.
September 13: Conclusion of the Algiers Campaign by the French Army; almost 900 insurgents have been killed and thousands taken into captivity, whilst 56 French soldiers were killed.
September 14: Cassius Clay defeats Henry Cooper at Madison Square Garden.
September 15: Prime Minister Eden asks Queen Elizabeth to dissolve Parliament and call a general election.
September 16: The Emperor of Mexico gives a televised speech calling for his nation to awake and cast off the bonds that hold it back from its position as a great power.
September 17: Unidentified frogmen launch an attempted attack on the USN base at Subic Bay, but are detected and destroyed by US Marine guards.
September 18: The Soviet Union vetoes a League of Nations resolution put forward by Canada condemning Indonesian aggression in Borneo.
September 19: Melbourne defeats Geelong by 4 points in the 1964 VFL Grand Final.
September 20: The governing United Conservative Party is returned to power in the Chilean general election, which is marred by allegations of foreign intervention.
September 21: The United States retains the America's Cup for the 20th consecutive time.
September 22: British troops begin withdrawal from Egyptian bases around Cairo for the Suez Canal Zone and Alexandria
September 23: The Wilderness Act of 1964 is signed into law by President Kennedy, protecting over 25,000 square miles of federal land as designated wilderness areas.
September 24: Outbreak of open fighting in the hinterland of Portuguese East Africa, as KGB agents and mercenaries provide support and arms to rebel groups.
September 25: Announcement of a major defence agreement between Britain and the Benelux countries.
September 26: Simba rebels begin a round up of Europeans in areas of the Congo under their control.
September 27: Beginning of a Royal Tour of Canada, Newfoundland, New Avalon and West Indies as Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip arrive in Trinidad.
September 28: Australia win the Davis Cup against the United States in a tiebreaking fifth game.
September 29: US economic growth for the third quarter of the year averages 3.9%.
September 30: A White Paper on Defence is commissioned by the Israeli Defence Ministry.

October
October 1: A USN nuclear submarine exploring the Marianas Trench spots a strange sea creature of unparallelled size.
October 2: Chinese diplomats begin a new round of talks with British and US envoys in Hong Kong.
October 3: Release of a number of political prisoners in the German Democratic Republic.
October 4: Graham Hill wins the 1964 US Grand Prix.
October 5: Chinese and North Vietnamese officials meet in Chungking to discuss the provision of military support and equipment.
October 6: Aberdeen residents report seeing a tartan-skirted elderly lady flying above the city in the early hours of the morning.
October 7: General Gavin gives a glowing report on the military progress of Atlantic Alliance forces based in Central Europe, marking the first use of the acronym NATO in an official document; the term had been in use by some British officials since mid 1961.
October 8: FBI agents arrest several dozen KKK members across the South in a wave of raids.
October 9: The Politburo approves an ambitious plan for the expansion of Soviet grain production through the cultivation of 25 million hectares of uncultivated land in the Volga, Western Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan.
October 10: Opening of the Tokyo Summer Olympics Games.
October 11: Craig Breedlove regains the world speed record in his Spirit of America on the Bonneville Salt Flats, breaking the 500mph barrier on his way to a top speed of 525.4mph.
October 12: The head of the Soviet military robotics program dies in a hunting accident in Siberia.
October 13: Dawn Fraser wins her third successive Olympic 100m swimming final in a world record time.
October 14: Entry into USMC service of the CH-53 Sea Stallion.
October 15: The Labour Party wins 236 seats to the Conservatives 220 and 151 of the Liberals, allowing Stanley Barton to form a minority government with the support of the Liberals on supply and confidence. Sir Anthony Eden indicates he will stay on as caretaker Leader of the Opposition until a new leader can be chosen in the new year.
October 16: China conducts an underground hydrogen bomb test in the Gobi Desert.
October 17: Opening of the Queen Elizabeth II Observatory in British Columbia, with its 300 inch telescope being the largest in the world.
October 18: The New York City World's Fair closes for the year.
October 19: Announcement of experimental changes in Soviet economic policy on a limited and localised basis based on recommendations from Kharkov University economist Yevsei Liberman.
October 20: Death of former President Herbert Hoover at the age of 90.
October 21: Opening of the film version of the hit Broadway musical My Fair Lady.
October 22: The US Atomic Energy Commission conducts an underground nuclear test near Baxterville, Mississippi.
October 23: Prime Minister Stanley Barton unveils his 'Grand Design' at a Cabinet meeting, consisting of expanded defence and infrastructure spending, increases in funding of pensions and education and the elimination of the National Debt.
October 24: Graham Hill narrowly wins the World Driving Championship.
October 25: A Minnesota Vikings gridiron player runs 66 yards in the wrong direction and scores a 'touchdown'.
October 26: Execution of multiple murderer Eric Edgar Cooke in Perth, Western Australia.
October 27: Ronald Reagan gives a well-received speech supporting Barry Goldwater for President, titled 'A Time for Choosing'.
October 28: A CIA report recommends US or other Western intervention to prevent the Simba Rebellion from escalating out of control in the Congo.
October 29: The world famous 'Star of India' is stolen in New York City.
October 30: Invention of Buffalo wings in Buffalo, New York.
October 31: Arrest of jewel thief 'Murph the Surf' in Miami; he is charged with the theft of the Star of India.

November
November 1: Viet Cong guerrillas stage a mortar attack on Bien Hoa Air Base, destroying eight B-56 Canberras and damaging 20 other aircraft. 5 US servicemen are killed and 26 injured.
November 2: British Petroleum announces the discovery of large oil deposits in Oman.
November 3: President John F. Kennedy wins the 1964 Presidential Election against Republican candidate Senator Barry Goldwater by the substantial margin of 375 electoral votes to 140.
November 4: A coup in Bolivia overthrows the government, replacing it with a military junta.
November 5: The Armstrong-Whitworth Atlas superheavy strategic jet transport enters service with the Royal Air Force.
November 6: Colonial Office officials announce that Sudan will be granted independence by 1974.
November 7: A new Soviet ABM is unveiled at a parade in Red Square.
November 8: Sir Winston Churchill is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to encourage international peace between the superpowers.
November 9: France and China begin talks on the future of Hainan.
November 10: Delivery of the first F-111s to the Royal Australian Air Force.
November 11: Abdication of the Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
November 12: Haitian President Duvalier orders the televised public execution of captured members of the Jeune Haiti rebel movement.
November 13: Syrian artillery fires on two Israeli border posts, leading to a punishing airstrike by RIAF tactical fighters employing napalm and wildfire.
November 14: An American anthropologist begins a long term residency with the Yanomami tribe of the Amazon Jungle, sparking strife with other local tribes.
November 15: Prime Minister Stanley Barton gives a speech on British policy in the Middle East, emphasising its role as a regional protector and fair arbiter, standing strong against Communist expansion.
November 16: The Politburo is reshuffled, with Sergei Alekseyev promoted to Minister of Trade.
November 17: RAF TSR-2s strike at Viet Cong targets in South Vietnam.
November 18: The British Army begins testing of a new long range 6" self propelled gun-howitzer.
November 19: Stanley Barton arrives in Washington D.C. on his first state visit as Prime Minister
November 20: The Vatican officially rescinds the blame of Jews for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
November 21: Opening of the Roosevelt Bridge in New York City spanning the Narrows.
November 22: Defence Secretary Clark Savage arrives in Canberra for high level talks with the Australian government regarding the strategic situation and defence sales.
November 23: The Swiss and German government agree on border swap with Swiss territory exchanged for the German town of Verenahof.
November 24: Belgian paratroopers land in Stanleyville to liberate European hostages in conjunction with an offensive by Western mercenaries in Operation Dragon Rouge. Over 3200 are saved and hundreds of Simba rebels are routed.
November 25: A former US Army sergeant surrenders to the FBI and confesses to spying for the Soviet Union in the 1950s.
November 26: Pope Paul VI giftss his Papal tiara to the United States as thanks for 'all that America has done for the world'.
November 27: Huk rebels in the Philippines shoot down a Philippines Air Force DC-4 over Southern Luzon.
November 28: Egyptian rioting in Cairo leads to the government calling in the army and declaring a state of emergency.
November 29: Doctors in London report a wave of strange, protracted fevers and influenza striking seemingly at random across the capital.
November 30: Sir Winston Churchill celebrates his 90th birthday at his Chartwell home.

December
December 1: The Supreme Court of the USSR announces a change in criminal trials to a presumption of innocence.
December 2: NASA plans for Grand Tour of the Solar System with Orion announced.
December 3: Execution of George Marcotte, who shot two policmen whilst dressed as Santa Claus, in Montreal, Canada.
December 4: The B-70 Valkyrie enters operational service with the United States Air Force.
December 5: Turkish fighters buzz the Papal flight and escort it through Turkish airspace, before Templar fighter jets operating out of Cyprus relieve it.
December 6: Riots in Khartoum lead to reinforcement of the British garrison from Aden.
December 7: British medical researchers discover a new treatment for senile dementia.
December 8: One airman is killed in an accident involving a nuclear armed B-58 at Bunker Hill AFB.
December 9: The United States Navy initiates the Advanced Fleet Defender (AFD) aircraft programme.
December 10: Sir Winston Churchill gives a famed speech in Stockholm as he accepts the Nobel Peace Prize, calling for amity and cooperation between the superpowers on Earth and in space, whilst arguing that 'the glorious song of freedom cannot be quelled, no matter how high the wall or how stout the gates.'
December 11: International Revolutionary Army leader Ernesto 'Che' Guevara declares that every member state of the Free World Military Forces in South Vietnam is an enemy of the people of the world and international peace.
December 12: A joint USN-IJN naval task group begins exercises off Hainan.
December 13: Arrival of the first elements of the British 9th Infantry Division in Australia.
December 14: USAF strategic bombing of Laos begins under Operation Barrel Roll.
December 15: Launch of first Italian space ship since the Second World War, SS Marco Polo.
December 16: CIA agents report suspicions that the Haitian government is using zombies against its political opposition.
December 17: Gosbank is authorised to give loans to collective farm workers for the purchase of livestock and agricultural equipment for personal use.
December 18: The 'Christmas Flood' in Oregon begins, the most intense for 50 years.
December 19: The Royal Air Force's Blue Streak ICBM force reaches its peak level of 250 missiles.
December 20: Opening of the NORAD Cheyenne Mountain Complex, a secure command and control bunker deep inside the mountain itself.
December 21: USAF combat debut of the F-111 over South Vietnam as four strike bombers destroy a suspected Viet Cong base in the Central Highlands.
December 22: An announcement in Isvestia outlines an experimental profit scheme in a number of Ukrainian factories.
December 23: Over 1000 people are killed after a cyclone strikes the Palk Strait between India and Ceylon.
December 24: Viet Cong terrorists explode a time bomb at the Brinks Club in Saigon, killing 6 and injuring 107 people.
December 25: President Kennedy proclaims that 'these are the most hopeful and brightest days in the near two thousand years since the birth of Jesus Christ'.
December 26: Discovery of the ruins of a lost city in the Peruvian Andes.
December 27: European mercenaries, Belgian Paracommandos and Congolese government troops liberate 120 captives held by Simba rebels in a dawn raid.
December 28: The Emperor of Mexico proclaims a series of restrictions on the migration of workers to build up the national labour power of Mexico.
December 29: John Wayne announces his successful recovery from cancer using new advanced treatments.
December 30: Indian police arrest over 500 suspected Chinese agents in North Eastern India.
December 31: Launch of a large British interplanetary spacecraft from Martian orbit.

Another good year simon darkshade and a lot of stuff to see.

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Thank you. I rewrote the Gulf of Tonkin aftermath a few times, but matters are already diverging strongly there.

There are half a dozen very big developments this year; I'd be interested to see people's opinion on the top three most significant.

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1964

January
January 3: A USAF B-56 Canberra narrowly misses crashing into Beaverbrook High School in Ohio. - Is that the British Canberra and some units sold to the US with them using B-56 as its identifier?

January 7: The Typhon missile system enters service with the United States Navy. - Would this be comparative with OTL Polaris?

January 10: Officials downplay reports of an accident at the Wonka Chocolate Factory in London. - Interesting.

January 11: Release of 'Smoking and Health: The Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States', which states that smoking is not only hazardous to health, but a leading contributor to avoidable deaths. - Excellent. Hopefully things move a lot faster than OTL on this.

January 24: Formal re-establishment of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan, combining the aviation training programs of the RAF and Commonwealth air forces in a joint organisation, with facilities in Britain, Canada, Australia and South Africa. This announcement is followed by the publication of a joint undertaking by the Commonwealth air ministries for the development of a new fast jet trainer to replace the Folland Wasp. - Nothing in what might be called the new commonwealth i.s. including areas such as India, part of Affrica and Israel - although the latter might be too small and surrounded by potential foes.

February
February 7: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley are sentenced to death in Manchester - Good.

February 18: A large earthquake in the Azure Islands uncovers a lost city of Atlantean ruins. - Now that could have some intriguing results.

March
March 4: Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa is convicted of jury tampering. - Well its a better outcome for him than OTL.

March 10: A Soviet computing engine defeats its US counterpart in a telegraphed chess game. - That could trigger a new 'computer' race and also make everybody sit up.

March 14: A Peruvian Army patrol in the Amazon is nearly wiped out by Indians wielding strange weapons. - Take it this is something more deadly than arrows and poisoned blowpipes. However not sure what.

March 19: A USAF RB-66 is shot down by Soviet fighters over the Black Sea. - Depending on the exact circumstances but this is likely to heat things up further.

March 22: Whilst being unpacked at Yokohama for loan to the Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, the famed statue of the Venus di Milo is slightly damaged. An attempted repair by a sorcerer results in the restoration of its arms. Embarrassment ensues. - Well actually if that makes it closer to the original its probably a gain but does change what people are used to.

April
April 10: Mrs Verda Welcome, the first Negro senator from Maryland, is shot and wounded whilst campaigning. - Unfortunately some things don't change as checking up this was an OTL event. Fortunately one thing that was also the same is that she lives.

April 13: Sidney Poitier becomes the first Negro to win Best Actor at the 36th Academy Awards, winning for his performance in Lillies of the Field, whilst - is this cut short here?

April 23: Malaya is proclaimed an independent Dominion within the British Empire. -

April 24: An earthquake in the Tajik SSR threatens to flood the city of Samarkand before the Waters are diverted by an individual with strange powers. - So the Soviets also have a few special people. I wonder of he is welcomed by the authorities or not?
April 25: Vandals attempt to steal the head of the beloved Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen abs are torn to shreds by a party of vacationing mermaids. I can't help feeling a degree of satisfaction at this.

May
May 11: A new Argentine battleship is laid down at Vickers shipyard in Barrow. - Interesting that their buying in Britain rather than the US, which suggests Britain continues to have quite a lot of influence in the area.
May 12: Over 500 people are sickened by a typhoid outbreak in Aberdeen. - Nasty and I assume not an OTL event?

May 30: Release of The Thieftaker, a new thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Dean and Marilyn Monroe as an unlikely pair of private investigators. - well two people doing better than OTL but I agree an unlikely pair of PIs.

June
June 5: British sensors in Cyprus report a high likelihood that an underground atom bomb test has taken place in Anatolia. - Would that be Greek or Turkish? Likely to cause further tension as well.

June 12: Declaration of the establishment of the Arab Union of Arabia, Iraq, Syria and Jordan as a confederal state with a common currency, ministries and defence force, with the Sultan of Arabia heading the council of kings. Lebanon and Yemen are given observer rights with capacity to join at a later date. - well that's interesting but wonder if it would be any more successful than the OTL union attempts.

June 18: The Colonial Secretary announces that a plebiscite on the future of Singapore will be held in 1965. - Isn't it part of the Malaysian dominion or is this to decide if it leaves that as an independent state as OTL?

June 24: The US Federal Trade Commission rules that cigarette packets must feature a prominent and unambiguous warning that smoking can lead to premature death. -

June 25: Launch of NASA spaceship Orion 1 for the asteroid belt from the orbit of Luna. - Well the US matching the USSR.

July
July 24: An atomic technician is subjected to a fatal dose of radiation in a criticality accident at the Wood River Junction nuclear facility. - Now why do I feel this isn't the end for him?

September
September 1: The Indian Parliament votes for support of PATO forces in South Vietnam in a very close and bitter debate. - That's a big departure given the OTL involvement of India in the Non-Aligned movement.

September 14: Cassius Clay defeats Henry Cooper at Madison Square Garden. -

but too likely unfortunately.

October
October 9: The Politburo approves an ambitious plan for the expansion of Soviet grain production through the cultivation of 25 million hectares of uncultivated land in the Volga, Western Siberia and Northern Kazakhstan. - I have a feeling that despite the presence of magic this isn't going to be any more successful than OTL.

October 12: The head of the Soviet military robotics program dies in a hunting accident in Siberia. - Possibly being paranoid but why do I question this?

October 15: The Labour Party wins 236 seats to the Conservatives 220 and 151 of the Liberals, allowing Stanley Barton to form a minority government with the support of the Liberals on supply and confidence. Sir Anthony Eden indicates he will stay on as caretaker Leader of the Opposition until a new leader can be chosen in the new year. - Well that could change a few things, although probably not much in the short term.

December
December 1: The Supreme Court of the USSR announces a change in criminal trials to a presumption of innocence. - Now that would be a dramatic change if they actually meant it.
December 2: NASA plans for Grand Tour of the Solar System with Orion announced. - Well that would be a lot earlier than the OTL Voyager trips but with the much higher technology its a possibility earlier.

December 7: British medical researchers discover a new treatment for senile dementia. - Now that would be a big boost. Could definitely help OTL.

December 17: Gosbank is authorised to give loans to collective farm workers for the purchase of livestock and agricultural equipment for personal use.
December 22: An announcement in Isvestia outlines an experimental profit scheme in a number of Ukrainian factories. - Along with other reports it sounds like there are genuine attempts at some limited reform in the USSR?

December 31: Launch of a large British interplanetary spacecraft from Martian orbit. - And Britain joins in the new space race.

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Thanks again Steve for the detailed response.

1.) The B-56 Canberra = @ B-57 Canberra. It is a licensed Canberra built by Martin.
2.) The Typhon is an advanced surface to air missile system similar to its @ equivalent ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-50_Typhon), but with a slightly increased performance. It will make for some interesting guided missile ships in the 1960s and 70s.
3.)An incident occurred at the chocolate factory, resulting in a fine for having an unregistered flying glass elevator in public airspace.
4.)Matters regarding smoking will proceed much faster.
5.)India will follow in time, but the existing infrastructure present in South Africa/Rhodesia, Canada and Australia is ready to be used within a few months. The 'Plan' will combine the training commands/establishments of the RAF, RSAAF, RNZAF, RRAF, RCAF and RAAF and produce a large number of training pilots, aircrew and ground crew each year, as well as providing a bit of accounting slight of hand to remove certain aspects of air force budgets from the grasp of national parliaments.
6.) The Moors Murderers and others will not be around for future release or reoffending.
7.) It is the latest of a few seismic events in the Atlantic that gives some hints as to the deep past.
8.) Hoffa will be going to jail and getting a bit of attention. That may well save his life.
9.) There is a growing computing race and it will gather pace and significance.
10.) The Indians have some form of wands that seem to produce a form of energy, according to the garbled accounts of survivors...
11.)It is one of many unfortunate and lesser known costs of an ongoing Cold War, that, just like @, had real casualties on a regular basis.
12.) The situation is akin to the Leaning Tower of Pisa situation - accidentally fixing things a bit too well.
13.) There is a lot less racial violence, but to handwave it all away would be unrealistic and unseemly.
14.) Typo fixed.
15.) Malayan independence has been on the cards for a while, but it remains very much tied to Commonwealth military help in light of Indonesia on one side and the broader Indochina War on the other.
16.) Soviet superheroes are very much under the control of the Communist Party. In most cases...
17.) One should not tempt fate in a universe where it can bite one on the backside pretty savagely.
18.) Britain remains the dominant player in the Southern Cone; Argentina's economic and political situation is substantially in advance of @.
19.) The typhoid outbreak is a historical one.
20.) Both of them are going on to new horizons and improved careers. Dean is somewhat held back by his missing leg, for the moment.
21.) It is a Turkish bomb, changing the strategic situation in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean substantially.
22.) This is one of the real big developments in my view. It is occurring in a circumstance without outward pressure from a Nasserite UAR, is backed by the US, Britain and France and is coming right at a time when oil monies will start to flow in. It ticks boxes for every major player in the region apart from the Soviets; however, they do like the idea of a unified Arab state that might be bent to their purposes eventually, so their agents are acting in support. Taken forward, it puts a major power bloc in a very important area and causes substantial friction with Ottoman Turkey and Qajar Persia, which also have pretensions of regional hegemony.
23.) Singapore will be given a range of options, with the British preference for some form of direct association due to its strategically vital location.
24.) This is one aspect of Point 4 that is starting to move quickly.
25.) The race for the asteroid belt is on for all comers. There have been expeditions there before, but these are using new, nuclear engines in the first stage of the real Space Race for the outer giants and beyond. The asteroid belt itself represents riches beyond the wildest dreams of the superpowers, but they are a long way away and eye-wateringly expensive, not to mention being the haunt of the Space Nazis.
26.)I hadn't intended it to be the beginning of something strange, but there is potential there...
27.)Here, there is no NAM and India is firmly in the Western orbit, starting to flex its muscles as an independent power. That still does not butterfly opposition, which is extensive.
28.) Clay does have the skills and power to beat Cooper, but there will be some further rematches. Liston vs Clay isn't scheduled quite yet and there are a few other would-be challengers.
29.) You might be surprised as to what happens in this version of the Virgin Lands Campaign. There are some extremely proficient and realistic men running it, along with some other factors that will play out. Will it result in Khrushchev's dream from @? Probably not, but there are different measures for success out there.
30.) You are quite right to be suspicious.
31.) This is another potential major game changer in at least 4 different ways, but I'd like to see what others think or can infer before I outline what I think; it may well change some of my future events if others can put in an interesting analysis/argument.
32.) Soviet reforms are gathering a fair bit of pace - they are largely historical, but these experiments and 'thaw' were to be short-lived in @.
33.) The window is the same one that Voyager was designed to exploit, but there are bigger and better ships that will be used.
34.) It will be an extremely helpful development, along with other health news.
35.) There is a definite attempt at reform going on in the USSR, steered by Stalin (ie, by whoever is behind him) and several other younger generation figures.
36.) The full details of the British ship have actually been referred to in another tale - Space, the New Frontier. The ship is the Dreadnought (built since 1955 on Deimos), which had been thought of as a military vessel for use in the Inner Solar System, not a dual-purpose vessel to push for the Outer. It has a joint mission of trying to go after the Space Nazis. Once the consequences of this become clear in Moscow and Washington, it would be interesting to be a fly on the wall.

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Oct 3, 2019 6:03:55 GMT simon darkshade said:

There are half a dozen very big developments this year; I'd be interested to see people's opinion on the top three most significant.

I see, a lot more North Vietnamese ships are sunk in this battle than OTL.

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