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Post by simon darkshade on Sept 11, 2020 13:16:06 GMT
1966
January
January 1: The reverberations of the revelation of the interstellar signal echo around the world, preoccupying governments and civil society alike and leading to a number of spontaneous public meetings in several countries by more excitable elements. Notable astronomers and space scientists are sought after for comment and explanation by myriad press agencies and most decry any immediate thought of full contact or threat. By the end of the day, the governments of the great powers issue a statement through the League of Nations that they will coordinate with each other on an appropriate response.
January 2: The Green Bay Packers defeat the Cleveland Browns 23-12 to win the NFL Championship, with the game itself somewhat overshadowed by a caped superhero steering away a jet airliner that encountered engine difficulty over the stadium.
January 3: Independence of the Upper Volta from France.
January 4: Orion 4 reaches the fastest recorded speed achieved by an Earthly vessel as it forges out for the Jovian system, arousing an extra level of interest due to the most recent developments.
January 5: First transmission of electricity from the new nuclear power station on Philip Island, Victoria, Australia.
January 6: The US Coast Guard rescue the crew and passengers of a cruising schooner near Bimini; in the process, they observe what appear to be the submerged ruins of large stone buildings.
January 7: RCAF helicopters and Rotodynes rescue 179 passengers froma a Canadian National Railways train trapped in Fraser Canyon, British Colombia.
January 8: South Vietnamese and French forces launch a new offensive sweep against Viet Cong base areas in the Mekong Delta, supported by Marine Royale carrier aircraft.
January 9: The White House announces that President Kennedy will visit the Soviet Union in a surprise move suspected to be connected with the recent extraterrestrial contacts.
January 10: Very heavy rains lead to the largest flooding in Brazilian history, causing mudslides that sweep away entire neighbourhoods in Rio de Janeiro.
January 11: Conclusion of the quarantine of the village of Barwell in accordance with the Midwich Protocol.
January 12: President Kennedy’s State of the Union address focuses on the challenges of defending freedom in Vietnam and strengthening the nation at home.
January 13: Police shoot dead two attempted kidnappers at the Beverley Hills mansion of the heir to the Firestone Tire fortune.
January 14: Debut of Batman on ABC, a semi-fictionalised action comedy based on the activities of certain caped superheroes from Gotham City, NJ.
January 15: Combat debut of a new Soviet jet fighter over North Vietnam flown by Soviet “volunteers”, shooting down 6 USAF F-4 Phantoms.
January 16: Communist sympathising Bolivian Army units launch a series of attacks on loyalist camps, supported by KGB advisors. A separate insurgency supported by Chinese agents has been ongoing since 1964.
January 17: A USAF B-52 collides with a KC-135 over Palomares, Spain, accidentally releasing four B-41 hydrogen bombs.
January 18: Arrival of significant US reinforcements to Vietnam, with the 1st Marine Division landing at Chu Lai and the 2nd and 3rd brigades of the 29th Infantry Division landing at Vũng Tàu.
January 19: An expedition lead by an intrepid young Belgian explorer locates Michael Rockefeller in Western New Guinea.
January 20: Formal establishment of the South Pacific Federation, a union of the British colonies of Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Nauru, Rarotonga, the New Hebrides, the Solomon Islands, the Union Islands, Savage Island, the Phoenix Islands and the Gilbert and Ellice Islands.
January 21: Reverend Martin Luther King gives an address in New York City, calling for real equality for Americans of all colours and races.
January 22: Completion of Operation Blue Light, a USAF airlift of 5200 tons of supplies and over 8600 troops from Hawaii to Pleiku, South Vietnam
January 23: Esso places orders for four very large supertankers with Armstrong-Whitworth, Swan Hunter, Palmers and Hawthorn Leslie. This is seen as one of the most prominent signs thus far of the success of the regional industrial development strategy championed by the Barton Labour government, with Anglo-Saxon Petroleum and British Oil in discussions with shipyards on Merseyside and Clydeside.
January 24: Colonial authorities on Easter Island report that several new huge moai statues have appeared overnight, whilst others seem to have moved.
January 25: A USAF SR-71 crashes during a training flight over New Mexico; both pilots survive the accident and ejection, safely parachuting to the ground.
January 26: A man is arrested in Glenelg, Adelaide for the attempted kidnapping of three small children.
January 27: Canadian Prime Minister Sir William Richardson officially retires after over 40 years in office. He is succeeded by Sir Alexander Spencer, the 42 year old Minister of Defence.
January 28: British and Indian Army forces launch a series of raids on rebel forces in Burma supported by RAF bombers from aerodromes in Malaya.
January 29: Operations Masher and Double Eagle both begin in South Vietnam, the former being a corps sized search and destroy operation in Binh Dinh and the latter being a large amphibious landing by US and South Vietnamese Marines in Quang Ngai. Heavy fighting would follow over the next 6 weeks.
January 30: French diplomats begin a new round of talks with German and Italian delegations in Geneva on the question of political cooperation and reduction of non-tariff barriers.
January 31: The US Selective Service System announces sweeping changes to exceptions provided under current conscription legislation in the light of mobilisation for the war in Vietnam and additionally raising the monthly call up to 125,000 men.
February
February 1: British Prime Minister Stanley Barton gives a speech on relations with Europe and European policy at Dover, stating that the hands of Britannia were ever extended across the Channel, but that she remained with Europe, but not of it. This is seen as a clear rebuke to certain elements on the liberal right of the Labour Party, who have been increasingly vocal in their support of certain aspects of Liberal foreign policy.
February 2: GDR Chairman Ernst Thalman makes a clear declaration on the importance and vitality of socialist rearmament to counter imperialism.
February 3: An anthropological expedition arrives in Upper Volta to investigate the astronomical knowledge of the Dogon people.
February 4: Conclusion of the British Army’s MACV competitive tests on Salisbury Plain.
February 5: An opinion column in Le Monde discusses the political landscape of France after de Gaulle, arguing that the length of his time in office diminished the political talent pool of his successors.
February 6: Discovery of the Lost Dutchman Mine in the Superstition Mountains of Arizona.
February 7: First broadcast of colour television in South Vietnam, using the Stratovision aerial relay service supplied by the USAF.
February 8: President Kennedy, General Secretary Stalin and Prime Minister Barton arrive in Geneva for an emergency summit meeting of the world’s great powers. International media are shocked by the sudden arrival of the Imperial Chancellor of China, the notorious Fu Manchu.
February 9: The National Hockey League approves eight expansion franchises, doubling the size of the league, with the existing teams in Boston, Chicago, New York, Toronto, Detroit, Montreal, Ottawa and Philadelphia to be joined by Los Angeles, Edmonton, Calgary, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and San Francisco.
February 10: British agents operating a midget submarine disguised as a whale successfully taps a Soviet submarine telephone in the White Sea.
February 11: Launch of Kosmos 4 from lunar orbit for the Jovian system.
February 12: Several clashes along the Sino-Korean border along the Yalu River result in heavy forces being brought up by both sides and an inconclusive artillery duel.
February 13: Eight Firebee drones are launched over North Vietnam to collect electronic intelligence on Soviet SAM systems before being shot down.
February 14: An article in the Washington Post decries the increasingly frenetic nature of modern pop music and its popularity amongst the young.
February 15: A Columbian priest fighting with ELN rebels, Camilo Torres, miraculously survives injuries sustained in a firefight with government troops.
February 16: France conducts an underground hydrogen bomb test in the Algerian Sahara with a yield of 4.8 megatons.
February 17: Aeroflot Flight 65, a Tupolev Tu-114, crashes as it takes off from Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, killing 26 of the 48 passengers and crew on board.
February 18: Five light aircraft carriers are ordered by the Royal Navy, joining the recently commissioned Arion and Phoenix and four sister ships under construction in the latest manifestation of British naval rearmament.
February 19: The Politburo unanimously approves the draft directives for the Eighth Five Year Plan.
February 20: Death of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the United States Pacific Fleet in World War II, at his home in San Francisco at the age of 80.
February 21: Completion of the trainable 1000ft Queen Elizabeth II radio telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory.
February 22: Rioting and disorder in Aden leads to the death of four British soldiers and 56 Arabs.
February 23: Large sea serpents are spotted off the coast of Miami, leading to the beaches being closed.
February 24: Independence of the Gold Coast from Britain.
February 25: Tsarevich Peter is commissioned into the Royal Horse Guards despite Soviet protests.
February 26: The Soviet Union announces the successful test launch of a new heavy ICBM.
February 27: A large explosion devastates a Royal Syrian Air Force base north of Damascus; authorities blame Israeli agents.
February 28: Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie opens the Pan African Congress in Monrovia.
March
March 1: US monthly spending on the war in Vietnam tops $6 billion for February alone, with over 582,000 American troops currently deployed and a further 195,000 reinforcements scheduled to be deployed this year.
March 2: The Grand Vizier of Ottoman Turkey presents the 1966/67 defence budget to the Meclis-i Umumî, featuring a 19% rise in spending and funding for a range of powerful new weapons systems.
March 3: Launch of the Argentine battleship Argentina at Vickers.
March 4: A public survey on attitudes to magic finds that 38% of British adults have a negative view of it.
March 5: President Kennedy signs the Social Security Amendment Act, mandating a 15% rise in old age and disability survivor benefits.
March 6: The Revolutionary Party wins a surprise majority in the Guatemalan election, sparking the arrest of several dozen opposition politicians and increasing instability. This is the cause of some alarm for local US diplomats and CIA officers.
March 7: Death of famous Marxist Leon Trotsky in Brazil at the age of 87.
March 8: Syria moves an armoured division to the Israeli border in response to recent tensions.
March 9: Prime Minister Barton announces an amendment of the '50 Year Rule' on government records to allow the release of historical material on the Great War.
March 10: Formation of four combined Dutch-Belgian corps in the latest military cooperation between the two states.
March 11: Indonesia takes delivery of 50 medium range ballistic missiles from the Soviet Union.
March 12: Opening of the deep sea port of Paradip on the eastern coast of India.
March 13: An earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale takes place in the seas between the Japanese island of Yonaguni and Formosa, causing a powerful localised tsunami. USN rotodynes taking part in subsequent search and rescue operations report identifying some extremely anomalous submerged objects off the southeast tip of Yonaguni.
March 14: President Kennedy orders the deployment of the aircraft carrier USS Midway to the vicinity of Guatemala as a contingency in case of the situation degenerating into civil war.
March 15: The last missing hydrogen bomb lost in the Palomares accident is located by USN divers, trained dolphins and naval sorcerers.
March 16: Establishment of a single daylight saving time standard across the continental United States.
March 17: The first four Light Anti-Submarine Warfare Frigates are laid down in Britain, the United States, Canada and Australia in coordinated ceremonies.
March 18: Mr. John Roarke, a mysterious sorcerer, receives permission from the French colonial government to open a specialist holiday resort near Tahiti.
March 19: Release of the first Action Man plastic toy figurines in Britain, based on the successful G.I. Joe line in the United States
March 20: The World Cup Trophy is mysteriously stolen from an exhibition hall in London by a blackclad, masked figure.
March 21: Signing of the International Convention on Fishing and Preservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas in Geneva.
March 22: The Social Democratic Party wins a plurality of seats at the Finnish general elections, forming a government for the first time since before the Second World War.
March 23: Pope Paul VI, the Patriarch of Constantinople, the Patriarch of Babylon and the Archbishop of Canterbury meet in Rome for a special conclave to discuss Christian unity and cooperation.
March 24: US scientists report a number of breakthroughs in experiments with solar energy transferance from orbiting satellites to Earth.
March 25: The Ecuadorian government is overthrown in a popular revolt that seizes control of the capital city of Quito. King Luis IV, currently undergoing treatment for gout in the United States, issues a statement deploring the uprising.
March 26: Maiden flight of the Soviet Tupolev Tu-125 supersonic heavy bomber.
March 27: Pickles the dog finds the World Cup Trophy wrapped in newspaper in a South London garden. His owner receives a £5,000 reward and Pickles is awarded a silver medal by the National Canine Society and a year's supply of free dog food and nominated for Dog of the Year.
March 28: Canadian George Chuvalo beats Cassius Clay in a close, contentious fight in Toronto, claiming the World Heavyweight Championship.
March 29: Announcement of a live action film adaption of The Lord of the Rings at a press conference in London. A trilogy of movies are to be made, with filming to take place in Britain, Europe and a variety of locations across the Empire and the direction team to be lead by David Lean.
March 30: Stanley Barton gives a speech at the Federation of British Industries on the need for a 'New Industrial Revolution' with Britain at its forefront, focusing on emergent new technologies in electronics, nuclear energy, space, robotics and advanced manufacturing.
March 31: A high speed interplanetary rocketship takes off from Mars on a supply mission to the SS Dreadnought as it prepares for a journey to the Jovian system from its current location in the asteroid belt; its general location within the solar system puts it at a distinct disadvantage to the Orion 4.
April
April 1: Soviet Defence Minister Zhukov gives a cryptic speech at the Communist Party Congress, referring to a "blue belt" of national defence.
April 2: Thousands of anti-government protesters march through the streets of Da Nang, South Vietnam.
April 3: Buckingham Palace announces that Queen Elizabeth II has given birth to twin boys.
April 4: Unrest erupts in Hong Kong, ostensibly over an increase in ferry boat fares.
April 5: Soviet Prime Minister Kosygin announces that the USSR would henceforth measure economic successes by the level of profits rather than by the achievement of production quotas.
April 6: Laying down of a large British starship in Lunar orbit.
April 7: Decommissioning of last light cruiser in Royal Navy service, HMS Belfast.
April 8: All 494 passengers and crew aboard MS Viking Princess are saved after a fire sweeps the liner in the Caribbean Sea.
April 9: Israel and the United States sign an extensive defence order including 120 F-4 Phantoms, 32 C-130 Hercules transports, 100 M-107 175mm self propelled howitzers and 600 M113 armoured personnel carriers.
April 10: Research wizards report that the project to transfer all the books and written materials contained within the Great Library of Alexandria to arcane microfiche should be completed by 1995.
April 11: The inaugural Singapore Grand Prix is won by Graham Hill.
April 12: Over 300 USAF B-47 and B-52 bombers attack the Mu Gia Pass in an effort to block the Ho Chi Minh Trail, causing multiple severe landslides and greatly impeding transportation of men and materiel to the South.
April 13: Pope Paul VI meets Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko in the Vatican for wide ranging discussions.
April 14: France conducts a test launch of a new long range submarine launched ballistic missile in the South Pacific.
April 15: The Sultan of Araby arrives in London for high level talks regarding Arabian oil royalties agreements.
April 16: ODESSA head Wilhelm Hitler orders the initiation of Unternehmen Sonnenaufgang.
April 17: Liberal Party leader Alfred Rutherford calls for a Royal Commission on Unidentified Flying Objects.
April 18: The Sound of Music wins Best Picture at the 38th Academy Awards, with Laurence Olivier winning Best Actor for Othello and Julie Christie winning Best Actress for Doctor Zhivago.
April 19: The USAF accepts the first Lockheed YC-150 Galaxy superheavy jet transport plane in a formal ceremony at Lockheed's plant in Burbank, California.
April 20: An artificial heart is implanted into a human being in a six hour operation in Houston.
April 21: The formal opening of Parliament is televised live, in full, and in colour for the first time by the BBC.
April 22: Gurkha Lance-Corporal Rambahadur Limbu is awarded the Victoria Cross for extraordinary valour in an engagement in Sarawak against Indonesian forces in November 1965.
April 23: RAF Fairey Delta IIs shoot down three North Vietnamese MiG-17s whilst escorting Avro Vulcans on a raid over North Vietnam.
April 24: TASS reports that an Armenian woman, ostensibly aged 267, is the world's oldest living female with a natural and non-magic lifespan.
April 25: A volcanic eruption in Eastern Java kills hundreds and destroys the village of Bambunan.
April 26: A group of renegade royal guards attempt to assassinate the Sultan of Oman whilst he inspected troops at an army camp, but are foiled by his personal sorcerer.
April 27: A 17 year old American girl stows away aboard the Royal Navy submarine HMS Walrus in Baltimore, only being discovered once the boat was five hours out to sea.
April 28: British South African Police and Rhodesian Army troops kill dozens of rebel insurgents in the Battle of Sinoia, which is followed by retaliatory Vickers Valiant airstrikes on suspected terrorist encampments in the Congo.
April 29: A crazed half-orc attempts to stab Kaiser Wilhelm IV at a military parade in Berlin before being cut down by his bodyguards.
April 30: Formation of the Royal Navy's first combat hovercraft squadron as part of the modernisation of Coastal Forces.
May
May 1: President Kennedy’s war cabinet formally approves a plan prepared by US Joint Chiefs of Staff for an invasion of Cambodia to sever Viet Cong supply lines.
May 2: Foundation of the Society for Creative Anachronism.
May 3: Leaders of the Methodist Church of the United States, the Church of America, the United Church of Christ, the Presbyterian Church of the United States and several smaller churches representing over 82 million members, meeting in Dallas, Texas to discuss plans for a merger of the aforementioned Protestant denominations. They comprise a substantial proportion of the Christian populace of the United States, which consists of 25% Roman Catholic, 12% Southern Baptist, 11% Methodist, 10% Nondenominational, 9% Church of America, 7% Lutheran, 7% Presbyterian, 5% Pentecostal, 4% Restorationalist, 2% Quaker or Anabaptist, 2% Mormon, 2% Orthodox, 1% Eastern and 0.5% Adventist; 2.5% are Jewish or other religions.
May 4: Life Magazine interviews retired star New York Knights baseballer Roy Hobbs in a rare return to public life; he demured answer on whether any modern players were capable of breaking his legendary 1938 total of 100 home runs.
May 5: England defeat Scotland 3-2 at Empire Stadium to claim the Imperial Cup.
May 6: Discussions on the reformation of the united Federal Republic of Central America break down amidst bitter disputes on the Guatemalan situation and unrest in El Salvador.
May 7: The Times carries a report on the Israeli 'agricultural miracle' of the last three decades, outlining the key measures of its success: the fivefold increase in total land under cultivation, an increase in cereal and vegetable crop production of 178% and the tripling of citrus exports.
May 8: Several isolated farms in Western Kenya are attacked and overrun by unknown terrorists, sparking considerable alarm amidst the white population.
May 9: Arcane naturalists report that all efforts to stop the northward migration of fire ants into Colombia have failed
May 10: Imperial China conducts a hydrogen bomb test in the Tsaidam Basin of Tsinghai.
May 11: An unfortunate man in Bootle dies after falling into a giant meat pie.
May 12: USAF F-4 Phantoms engage Imperial Chinese Air Force fighters north of Hanoi whilst escorting B-47 Stratojets bombing airfields as part of Operation Rolling Thunder, shooting down four supersonic jets of a new unknown design in exchange for the loss of two of their own number.
May 13: USA Today features an extensive article on the recent rise in population of soccer in the United States.
May 14: The Ministry of Defence announces an increase in monthly draft call-ups to 75,000 men.
May 15: First telecast of the comedic variety show Shōten on Nippon Television.
May 16: Royal Assent is granted to the Merchant Navy Act of 1966, providing for extensive taxation concessions, preferential Imperial shipping support and loans for the replacement of older merchant ships with new tonnage from British and Commonwealth shipyards.
May 17: Over 13 million French public and private sector workers begin a 24-hour strike against government wage policies.
May 18: The British Air Ministry, Canadair and Hawker-Siddeley announce a joint licenced production agreement for F-4 Phantom IIs for the RAF and RCAF in a deal worth over 500 million pounds for more than 1000 aircraft.
May 19: NORAD tracks an unidentified flying object that crosses the continental United States in less than half an hour at an altitude of over 250,000 feet.
May 20: The famous Hope Diamond is stolen whilst on display in Chicago.
May 21: Amelia Earhart begins the first stage of a promotional flying tour of each of the United States of America.
May 22: Jackie Stewart wins the Monaco Grand Prix.
May 23: The self-determination referendum in Dutch Western New Guinea Indy results in a conclusive vote for independence above union with Indonesia.
May 24: The Mary Ellen Carter, a tramp steamer that was sunk in a 1965 storm, is risen from the sea off the coast of Newfoundland after an association of her former crew paid for her salvage operation.
May 25: Elements of the Soviet Mediterranean Fleet pay an unexpected port visit to Northern Syria, sparking concern across the region.
May 26: A relayed televisual link up with the command crew of Orion 4 en route to Jupiter is watched by over 90 million Americans.
May 27: Six French Royal Service Aeronautique Mirage III jet fighters crash in Spain after becoming lost on a training operation and running out of fuel.
May 28: The Japanese Cabinet approves an extensive programme of increases to the defence budget, chief of which is the acquistion of long range strike bombers, a modern missile system and nuclear submarines.
May 29: Introduction of Barclaycard, the first British credit card.
May 30: US troops in the Congo receive reports of a ten foot tall woman being burned alive in a nearby village; this is revealed to be the bait for an attempted Simba ambush.
May 31: A strange steamship runs aground during a terrific storm at Whitby, with investigators confused as to the absence of any crew.
June
June 1: A summit meeting in Athens between U.S. Secretary of State Atticus Finch, Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko, British Foreign Secretary Patrick Gordon Walker, French Foreign Minister Georges Pompidou and Grand Secretary of Foreign Affairs Prince Zaito of China...
June 2: An article is published in The Lancet on a new revolutionary method to restore sight to the blind.
June 3: Tigran Petrossian defeats Boris Spassky to win the World Chess Championship
June 4: Several US journalists investigating the national silver shortage abruptly resign their positions and move abroad.
June 5: The Emperor of Mexico ceremonially opens a new large tank plant in Tlaxcala.
June 6: 73 people are killed in large scale flooding and landslides after Hurricane Alma strikes Honduras.
June 7: Husband and wife pilots Robert and Joan Wallick complete their round the world flight in a new record time for a propeller driven plane, landing outside Manila some 7 days, 19 hours and 32 minutes after their departure.
June 8: A massive tornado comes close to Topeka, Kansas before being somehow neutralised by a flying cape-clad man.
June 9: USAF reconnaissance assets photograph a very large suspected aircraft carrier under construction at Severodvinsk.
June 10: Senegal and the Mali Federation achieve independence from France.
June 11: The National Football League and the American Football League announce they will merge by 1970.
June 12: 99.96% of votes cast in the elections for the Supreme Soviet are in favour of the CPSU listed candidates.
June 13: The U.S. Supreme Court rules against the plaintiff 5-4 in Miranda v. Arizona.
June 14: Airing of the first episode of Star Trek, a futuristic space opera, on NBC. It charts the journeys of the starship USS Enterprise as it explores the vastness of space.
June 15: An 18 strong USMC reconnaissance patrol successfully defends their positions atop Hill 488 in Quảng Tín Province, South Vietnam, holding off hundreds of well-equipped VC and NVA troops.
June 16: The Vatican holds a conference on the growing international vampire threat, with one proposal calling for the establishment of the first new military order in centuries.
June 17: President Kennedy orders the National Security Council to develop a new strategy for victory in the Vietnam war by the end of 1969.
June 18: A joint Interpol-Silver League investigative team uncover a group of mad scientists engaged in unholy experiments beneath Munich. The leader is none other than the notorious Doctor Frankenstein, who narrowly escapes capture through the use of a concealed jetpack.
June 19: Large scale fighting breaks out across Algeria as rearmed FLN groups attack a range of French targets throughout the major cities and countryside.
June 20: German economic growth for the second quarter of 1966 reaches 5.2%, reflecting a booming economy driven by modern industry and thriving exports.
June 21: Australian Opposition Leader Arthur Calwell is assassinated by a 19 year old gunman after addressing a rally in Sydney.
June 22: A sealed meeting of the Politburo results in some sort of confrontation between different factions and the emergence of a new ruling tetrarchy of General Secretary Stalin, Premier Alexei Kosygin Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Alexei Sergeyev and new KGB Chairman Yuri Andropov.
June 23: Shock and outrage spreads throughout Australia in reaction to the assassination of Arthur Calwell with a strong backlash against far right groups associated with the young killer.
June 24: The U.S. Senate votes unanimously in favour of 34 collected requirements for automobile safety of new car production.
June 25: Scientists and wizards across the world are left mystified by an inexplicable event replicating the Aurora Borealis across the world in the early morning. In the aftermath, a number of children demonstrate signs of strange new extrasensory powers.
June 26: A new highly effective mumps vaccine is introduced in the United States.
June 27: Professor Nikola Tesla, usually highly reclusive, arrives at the White House for a meeting with President Kennedy and the National Security Council.
June 28: FBI agents, Templars and Church of America paladins conduct a coordinated raid on the fishing village of Collinsport, Maine after a lengthy investigation.
June 29: The BBC authorises the production of a television series on the history of civilisation and adaptions of Our Island Story and The King’s England.
June 30: President Kennedy gives an extensive speech in San Francisco on the course of the War in Vietnam, listing a variety of measures of success and outlining the goals of the United States and Free World Military Forces in the conflict.
July
July 1: Nigeria formally becomes a self-governing independent Dominion of the British Empire.
July 2: Ten cities across the Congo are renamed from their colonial Belgian names to new African ones.
July 3: France conducts an underground hydrogen bomb test in the South Pacific at Mururoa Atoll.
July 4: US prisoners of war are marched through the streets of Hanoi in front of a crowd of tens of thousands of angry North Vietnamese.
July 5: McDonalds shares begin public trading on the New York Stock Exchange
July 6: Spanish Congo is granted independence.
July 7: Hanoi is hit by a massive USAF bombing raid by 264 B-47s as a demonstration of force after the Hanoi March of July 4th.
July 8: Horst Fischer, former doctor at Auschwitz, is guillotined in Leipzig after being convicted of war crimes.
July 9: CIA assets identify units of Warsaw Pact 'volunteers' operating in North Vietnam.
July 10: A terrible and unnatural heatwave begins across the Midwest United States, killing hundreds from heat stroke and other associated illnesses.
July 11: Grand opening of the World Cup with hosts England playing the Soviet Union at Empire Stadium, winning an enthralling game 3-2.
July 12: Naval and air reinforcements to Vietnam
July 13: Scotsman Angus Barbieri completes a 385 day long diet consisting only of tea, coffee, soda water and vitamins. He loses 276 pounds over this period and causes the closure of his father's fish and chip shop.
July 14: 22 year-old Richard Speck breaks into a nurse's dormitory in South Chicago, strangling eight nurses. He is captured by Chicago police two days later, sentenced to death after a swift trial on November 5th and electrocuted on December 10th.
July 15: Millionaire Daniel Overmeyer announces he is establishing his own television network.
July 16: Jack Brabham wins the British Grand Prix, narrowly defeating Stirling Moss and Graham Hill.
July 17: France begins operational deployment of a new, advanced long range ballistic missile
July 18: The first multinational joint units of the Scandinavian Defence Union begin training at Bodo Fortress in Northern Sweden.
July 19: Lieutenant Dieter Dengler becomes the first US POW to escape from a North Vietnamese prison camp, being rescued by a USAF search-and-rescue helicopter.
July 20: Conclusion of the Anglo-French Conference in London, discussing issues of armaments cooperation and strategic coordination.
July 21: Sir Winston Churchill publishes his History of the Thirty Years’ War.
July 22: The Hawker Siddeley Javelin general purpose missile enters service with the British Army.
July 23: Reports are received by the Icelandic Ministry of Agriculture of thousands of dead rabbits being found across the country, apparent victims of a strange plague.
July 24: Charlton Heston is selected for the role of Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings.
July 25: France defeats Germany 2-1 in extra time to win an extraordinarily controversial World Cup semi-final.
July 26: A young wizard is arrested for levitating the museum battleship HMS Dreadnought above Portsmouth for a dare.
July 27: Opening of the World Polka Festival in Prague.
July 28: An Indonesian submarine is reported missing after not returning from a patrol east of Christmas Island.
July 29: Belgium and the Netherlands conclude an extensive arms modernisation order with Britain worth hundreds of millions of pounds.
July 30: England defeats France 4-2 to win the World Cup in front of a crowd of almost 200,000 at Empire Stadium.
July 31: European and North American sorcerers report a distinct instability in known gates between the planes.
August
August 1: A Soviet MiG-23 fighter defects to a US airfield in Korea.
August 2: Argentina and Bolivia sign a new reinsurance treaty, increasing the entangled web of the South American alliance system.
August 3: 12 USAF fighter-bombers are shot down over North Vietnam in a single day, leading to calls for a tactical reappraisal.
August 4: Opening of the British Empire Games in Kingston, Jamaica.
August 5: Ground is broken for the construction of the World Trade Center in New York City.
August 6: The Trucial States sign a new and revised protectorate agreement with Britain, modernising the relationship and providing for the formation of a new military force to augment the Trucial Scouts.
August 7: Opening of the Vasco da Gama Bridge, the world's largest suspension bridge, spanning the Tagus.
August 8: Count Dracula is spotted at midnight in Times Square, New York City, causing an immediate but unsuccessful reaction by law enforcement.
August 9: In an interview with Time, the Shah of Persia declares that his country will be a first world economy within 25 years.
August 10: The Moscow-Washington hotline is accidentally severed by a Soviet freighter off the coast of Denmark.
August 11: Reverend Elvis Presley receives a letter regarding strange and baleful goings on at a travelling carnival.
August 12: Chile begins negotiations for the acquisition of a large arms package from Britain in response to Argentine and Peruvian moves.
August 13: An Indonesian Mig-19 strays into British airspace near Singapore and is immediately shot down by a Blue Envoy missile.
August 14: The United States and Soviet Union begin negotiation on a vaguely termed 'Outer Space Treaty'.
August 15: US spy satellites capture pictures of an apparent major explosion onboard a Soviet battleship in Nikolayev.
August 16: Signing of the League of Santiago, an economic and strategic alliance agreement between Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Chile in opposition to the Bogota Pact of Peru, Argentina, Colombia and Paraguay.
August 17: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins extensive investigations into communist links with individuals protesting against the Vietnam War.
August 18: Australian troops defeat a large force of Viet Cong in the Battle of Long Tan.
August 19: A large earthquake kills over 2390 people in Eastern Turkey.
August 20: New Zealand commandos ambush and destroy an Indonesian infiltration patrol after in lands in remote New Guinea.
August 21: Thor Heyerdahl announces a new trans-Atlantic expedition to test his theories on the prehistoric movement of peoples.
August 22: Austro-Hungarian Imperial Police discover that a monstrous spider the size of a doubledecker bus lurking in the sewers of Vienna is responsible for a wave of mysterious slayings. The beast is subdued thanks to the valour of a talented police dog.
August 23: SS Baton Rouge Victory is sunk by a Viet Cong mine in Saigon, killing seven crew members.
August 24: IBM unveils the IBM 5000, its first prototype microcomputer.
August 25: Mobilisation of four US Army Reserve divisions as part of ongoing increased mobilisation for Vietnam.
August 26: Communist backed rebels attack South African troops and police at Ongulumbashe, South West Africa.
August 27: Francis Chichester, 65, sets off from Plymouth on a solo round-the-world yacht voyage.
August 28: USN and RN submarines and underwater detection assets identify a consistent pattern of Soviet SSBNs patrolling in deep water to the east of Bermuda approximately 1200nm off the Eastern Seaboard of the United States.
August 29: Opening of the first limited operations at a specialist dinosaur park on an island off the coast of Costa Rica.
August 30: Release of Frontline: Vietnam, a feature length US Defence Department propaganda film.
August 31: Opening of the first nuclear power plant in the West Indies at Port Royal, Jamaica.
September
September 1: Dag Hammarskjold announces that he will not seek a fourth term as Secretary-General of three League of Nations.
September 2: Stanley Barton calls for British military power in the defence of freedom around the world to be matched by a ‘Land Fit for Heroes’ at home in a major speech in Sheffield.
September 3: The United States and the Soviet Union each expel a senior diplomat from the other’s embassy in their capitals on grounds of espionage.
September 4: Tourist visits resume to the Galapagos National Park, after British authorities temporarily suspended such voyages on grounds of security in 1964. This is seen as a welcome step by nature lovers, with the islands being considered one of the natural treasures of the world.
September 5: North Vietnamese fighter pilot Nguyễn Văn Bảy becomes his country’s first ace.
September 6: Opening of the Imperial Conference in Ottawa.
September 7: A fourth Egyptian businessman involved in the illegal overseas smuggling and sale of Ancient Egyptian antiquities is found desiccated and dismembered in his Cairo penthouse apartment, an apparent victim of the vengeful mummy of Ramesses the Great.
September 8: The Admiralty orders four nuclear submarines, two battlecruisers, six cruisers and twenty destroyers in the first of three states of the Barton Government's naval expansion programme.
September 9: China conducts its most powerful hydrogen bomb test to date.
September 10: Reverend Presley leads his redoubtable posse into the suspicious carnival, uncovering a horrific plot by devil worshippers to turn unwitting victims into entrapped robot soldiers. With the aid of his trusty power blade and wise-cracking Allosaur sidekick Lucky, Reverend Presley and his men put the Luciferians to the sword and free the wretched 'cyber-men'.
September 11: National elections in South Vietnam see Viet Cong attempts at disruption largely stymied by the heavy security force presence, but over 150 civilians and military personnel are still killed in attacks.
September 12: NASA's Starship Research Council makes a number of classified recommendations for future development for the Minerva construction.
September 13: A German submarine on operations in the Norwegian Sea goes missing.
September 14: Researchers report a new breakthrough in the formulation of a means of communication with dumb beasts.
September 15: The Australian Army unveils the three competing prototypes for its new wheeled armoured vehicle contest.
September 16: Entry into effect of the Canada United States Automotive Products Agreement.
September 17: Larry Bader, an American amnesia victim, has his affliction cured with an experimental form of magical surgery.
September 18: Austrian researchers uncover a lost operas by Richard Wagner whilst examining the estate of a recently deceased wizard in Salzburg.
September 19: The German brigade in South Vietnam begins an intensive sweep and clear operation in Gia Dinh Province.
September 20: Two dendrological sorcerers claim in a paper submitted to The Journal of Forestry that they have discovered the long lost “wives” of the Treelords in the boreal wilds of Northern Canada.
September 21: President Kennedy authorises an increase in the deployment of US troops in response to the mounting Congo Emergency.
September 22: Opening of the first branch of 'Smokin’ Joes' barbecue restaurant chain outside North America in London.
September 23: The RAF issues an operational requirement for a very long range superheavy jet transport aircraft.
September 24: Japanese scientists propose an anti-typhoon engine that would help protect their vulnerable nation.
September 25: South African troops operating in the Congo defeat Simba guerrillas in a pitched battle near Kalemie.
September 26: Release of the first issue of Paragon, a wholesome and stimulating magazine for the discerning God-fearing gentleman.
September 27: A 17 year old Mexican boy survives stowing away in the wheel well of an Avianca Comet flight from Bogota to Mexico City.
September 28: Beginning of Exercise Fine Leg, a major home defence exercise in Britain involving over 1 million regular military, Home Guard and Civil Defence personnel.
September 28: Two Argentine ultra-nationalists hijack a plane to the Falklands, where they attempt to spark a revolt after landing on a racecourse. The farcical situation continues for two hours before the arrival of police and Centurion tanks from the British Army garrison, whereupon they surrender.
September 29: Imperial Airways takes delivery of its 50th Concorde.
September 30: Independence of Ivory Coast from Britain
October
October 1: Release of former Nazi leaders Albert Speer, Karl Donitz, Rudolf Hess and Baldur von Schirach from Kerguelen.
October 2: Jack Brabham wins the US Grand Prix.
October 3: The Imperial Council begins deliberations on proposals for an expansion of the House of Lords across the Empire.
October 4: The Royal Israeli Air Force takes the delivery of the first of 24 additional Supermarine Eagle TSR-2 strike bombers.
October 5: Atomic disaster is narrowly averted as the Fermi 1 experimental nuclear reactor in Detroit suffers a partial meltdown that is resolved by the intervention of a dashing man in a bat costume.
October 6: Launch of Operation Rampart, a massive British and Commonwealth offensive in South Vietnam across three provinces involving over 100,000 troops.
October 7: President Kennedy gives a speech at Berkeley College on the planned Grand Tour of the Solar System, stating that "the Orion Programme will allow mankind to take the first great step out towards our eternal destiny, the stars."
October 8: Introduction of the Nord-Renault Orage variable-geometry strike fighter into Royal Service Aeronautique and Marine Royale service.
October 9: Monthly oil production in the North Sea reaches its highest point to date, with 236 million barrels being extracted in September.
October 10: Convening of the World Conference on Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
October 11: The Child Nutrition Act is signed into law by President Kennedy, establishing a School Breakfast Programme for children in need.
October 12: Execution of Nazi war criminal Kurt Bolender in Germany.
October 13: Opening of the Montreal Metro subway by Prince Phillip.
October 14: The 900th anniversary of Battle of Hastings is marked by a number of ceremonies at Battle, East Sussex.
October 15: Creation of the National Register of Historic Places by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.
October 16: Arab and Persian oil ministers meet in Baghdad to discuss the establishment of an international organization to influence oil prices.
October 17: British Prime Minister Stanley Barton arrives in Washington D.C. for the first leg of an official visit to the United States.
October 18: Opening of the Lochinvar National Park in Rhodesia.
October 19: First test flight of the Soviet R36 heavy intercontinental ballistic missile.
October 20: King Farouk of Egypt is killed by evil wizard who devastates a military parade in a flying attack.
October 21: A colliery spoil tip collapses in the Welsh village of Aberfan, demolishing a number of houses and destroying the local primary school, killing 12 people. The tragedy could have been substantially worse had the local schoolchildren and many other villagers being in Merthyr Tydfil for a Royal visit by Queen Elizabeth II; Her Majesty visits the site of the accident in the late afternoon.
October 22: Scotland Yard detectives arrest 11 alleged members of a Soviet spy ring in London in a series of predawn raids.
October 23: A strike team of the International Revolutionary Army lead by Che Guevara kidnaps the US Ambassador to Germany in a daring operation in Nuremberg.
October 24: Spain threatens to close the border with Gibraltar after increasing difficulties over long-running trade talks.
October 25: A meeting of PATO heads of government in Manila agree to a common plan for victory in the Vietnam War.
October 26: A fire aboard USS Oriskany in the Gulf of Tonkin kills 44 crewmen, with disaster narrowly avoided by jettisoning of several hundred bombs from the ship's arsenal.
October 27: President Kennedy conducts a brief visit to South Vietnam, surprising US troops at a base outside Saigon.
October 28: A New York restaurant begins offering a 16lb steak as part of its dinner menu, advertising it as more suitable for 'heartier appetites' and costing a princely $25, or ten times as much as a more conventional steak.
October 29: Beginning of Exercise Sandstone, a joint Anglo-American military exercises in the Middle East in Israel, Jordan and Arabia.
October 30: Independence of Niger from France.
October 31: Establishment of UNIT (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce), a paramilitary arm of the League of Nations employing the nomenclature of the United Nations Command of the Korean War.
November
November 1: A woman in Yorkshire gives birth to healthy octuplets.
November 2: The Arab Union signs an agreement for the acquisition of Soviet military equipment.
November 3: A revolutionary new anti-aging drug is approved for testing in the United States.
November 4: 149 people are killed in a flash flood of the Arno River in Italy.
November 5: Several suburbs of Liverpool experience pitch darkness at noon for 4 minutes.
November 6: Hindu protests supporting a ban of the slaughter of cows in India result in heated clashes with police on the streets of New Delhi.
November 7: Five men digging a grave in Clendenin, West Virginia see a moth-like humanoid creature flying above them.
November 8: Ronald Reagan is elected Governor of California in a landslide.
November 9: Initial shooting begins on the first film of The Lord of the Rings.
November 10: Five Israeli soldiers are killed whilst on patrol near the Syrian border by a concealed land mine.
November 11: The Welshman reports that the Welsh economy is enjoying is greatest and most protracted period of growth on historical record, driven by the automobiles, coal and steel of South Wales, the electrical power generation and slate industries of North Wales, the petrochemical sector around Pembroke and Swansea and the shipbuilding of Haven.
November 12: Beginning of Operation Firefly, a massive US combined operation against the Ho Chi Minh Trail involving over 60,000 troops on the ground and over 300 tactical airstrikes per day.
November 13: An article in Nature on sharks highlights the problems faced by the endangerment and extinction of some species.
November 14: Buckingham Palace announces that Charles, Prince of Wales, will join the Royal Navy after the completion of his schooling, followed by a period at university and service in the British Army and Royal Air Force.
November 15: A British delegation to the Atlantic Alliance Council meeting proposes that the organisation adopt the secondary title of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.
November 16: First operational mission of the Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar over North Vietnam.
November 17: Southport, Queensland is struck by horror as swimmers at the popular beach are attacked by a savage megalodon. 12 people are killed in the frenzied attack, which is followed by a massive mobilisation of RAN vessels and aircraft in the area to hunt and destroy the maneating beast.
November 18: A national conference of Roman Catholic cardinals in the United States agrees on the continuation of meatless Fridays.
November 19: US Marines in Haiti face extremely heavy attacks from zombies in the central mountains, countered by heavy firepower and dragonstrikes.
November 20: The Royal Space Force allows women to enlist in spacegoing roles.
November 21: Godzilla is spotted by an RNAS skyship near Pitcairn, but disappears beneath the waves before it can be attacked. In response, the Admiralty orders that all patrolling aircraft and flying machines be equipped with nuclear depth bombs as a contingency.
November 22: ODESSA conducts sixteen separate syncronised bank robberies across Europe in the mid morning.
November 23: The CAC CA-32 Rainbow light strike fighter/trainer enters service with the RAAF and RCAF, with the British Commonwealth Air Training Service also scheduled to acquire the aircraft for service as a supersonic advanced trainer.
November 24: Princess Bonjella of Andorra is rescued from a dastardly gang of Nazis by famed adventurer Ace Rimmer.
November 25: The significant smog enveloping New York City is blown away by a hastily prepared wind enchantment.
November 26: Australian Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies' Liberal-Country Coalition is returned to office in the Australian Federal Election and, across the Tasman, Sir Keith Holyoake's National Party increases is majority in the New Zealand election.
November 27: Independence of Dahomey from France.
November 28: Foundation of the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional-Tupamaros in Uruguay.
November 29: Sinking of the Great Lakes ore freighter SS Daniel J. Morrell on Lake Huron, killing 28 of its 29 crew.
November 30: Unveiling of the secret of 'Gatorade', a specialist beverage used by the University of Florida Gators football team.
December
December 1: A flying saucer flies over downtown Manhattan and New York Harbor in broad daylight, witnessed by hundreds of thousands.
December 2: HMS Ark Royal returns to Devonport, completing a 70 day around-the-world cruise escorted by the atomic battlecruiser HMS London.
December 3: The US Atomic Energy Commission conducts an underground nuclear test in Mississippi as part of Project Plowshare.
December 4: General Abrams announces the conclusion of Operation Firefly in a packed press conference in Saigon, calling it the most significant US victory in the crusade to defend South Vietnam to date and a turning point of the war.
December 5: 92 year old retired doctor John I. Bentley died in his Pennsylvania home in an apparent case of spontaneous human combustion.
December 6: A 27 year old New Jersey man vandalises several valuable portraits in the United States Capitol before being frozen by Capitol police employed new ray guns.
December 7: Germany grounds its entire fleet of F-104 Starfighters after a series of aerial accidents.
December 8: Greek passenger ferry SS Heraklion sinks whilst crossing the Aegean Sea. 177 passengers are rescued as Greek and British warships and aircraft engaged in an Atlantic Alliance training exercise rush to aid the survivors, but 78 people sadly perish in the disaster.
December 9: Arrest of taxi driver Posteal Leakey in Cincinatti. He is later identified as the 'Cincinnati Strangler' and sentenced to death on March 26th 1967.
December 10: British economic and industrial growth achieves its highest rate in over a decade, with unemployment statistically negligible.
December 11: King Umberto of Italy grants royal pardons to nine prisoners for their valourous actions during the November floods of the Arno River.
December 12: Release of Walt Disney's newest animated film, One Thousand and One Arabian Nights.
December 13: Arrival of a large Soviet arms convoy in Jakarta, delivering hundreds of tanks, armoured vehicles, guns, missile boats and aircraft, along with thousands of Soviet troops. This is seen as extremely alarming by Australia, Britain, the United States and other regional states, sparking immediate crisis meetings.
December 14: A mass of poisonous snakes are released across central Paris from the air during the midday rush hour, causing a near riot as tens of thousands of Parisians scramble to avoid the serpents. The French Army, the Paris Garde Nationale and wizards take most of the next two days to destroy the beasts.
December 15: British forces in South Vietnam conclude Operation Stellar, a three-week offensive in Long Khanh Province that succeeded in destroying seven major communist guerrilla base areas and killed an estimated 6000 enemy troops. Stellar was notable for its extensive use of coordinated air and naval support, incendiary rocket artillery, combat dinosaurs and new gas weapons.
December 16: A joint declaration is issued by President Kennedy and Prime Minister Barton announcing that Australia will be supported with reinforcements of men and equipment to counter the Soviet escalation in Indonesia.
December 17: The Soviet Ministry of Agriculture publishes statistics on the records smashed in the latest Soviet grain harvest. This is a cause of some concern to Western observers as it increases the Soviet capacity for both independent action and use of food aid to influence newly independent states.
December 18: Fighting and civil disturbance flares up in Southern Nigeria as long running tribal and religious differences begin to come to the fore following independence.
December 19: Formation of a joint US Army and Navy Mobile Riverine Force for service in the Mekong Delta alongside the French Marine Royale's Division Navale d'Assaut.
December 20: In a London news conference, plans are announced for a new International Antarctic Expedition including scientific contingents from all of the great powers and assorted other nations. This is hailed as a welcome measure to reduce recently increasing levels of international tension.
December 21: The War Office issues a specification for a new British Army main battle tank to replace the Chieftain, to be equipped with a new gun and incorporate advanced new armour systems.
December 22: Back channel discussions between the USSR and United States open in Helsinki on the issue of emigration of Soviet Jews.
December 23: The USN destroyer USS Hanson is sunk off the coast of the Demilitarised Zone of Vietnam by long range North Vietnamese artillery.
December 24: Declaration of a 48-hour Christmas truce in Vietnam.
December 25: Queen Elizabeth II focuses on the importance of peace and cooperation in her Christmas message to the British Empire and Commonwealth, speaking of the beauty and fragility of life and how much humanity can accomplish working with each other.
December 26: SS Dreadnought sets out for the Jovian system from the asteroid belt.
December 27: The RAF deploys a total of 8932 frontline aircraft, its numbers being larger than projected at this date due to the requirements of the Far East Air Force in the Vietnam War.
December 28: A USN submarine operating off the Kola Peninsula detects the acoustic signature of a new Soviet fast attack nuclear submarine.
December 29: International astronomers forecast that Orion 4 will be the first manmade craft to reach Jupiter, with their arrival to take place in July 1967 on current projections.
December 30: A Panam Boeing 2707 breaks the trans-Atlantic flight speed record on its maiden flight between New York City and London.
December 31: TASS and Soviet Central Television report that General Secretary Stalin has suffered a stroke.
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Post by lordroel on Sept 11, 2020 15:03:43 GMT
Throw in the British, Chinese and French as well. Now, in the Dark Earthverse, there have been extraterrestrial species discovered on Mars, Venus and Luna, which was a very big shock to societies of the 19th century. This was further complicated, though, by some evidence or indications of similar origins or connection with Earthly species. It isn't 100% certain that they are completely 'alien' per se. They were also, in the main, less advanced than human civilisations on Earth. The detection of the interstellar signal, the details of which I've deliberately held back, indicate that there is definitely something out there beyond the solar system and that it is more advanced than Earth. Even the combination of those two factors would be enough to worry the superpowers of Earth. Well as long as that signal is not moving towards Earth it is good, I think. |
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