Dark Earth Timeline

1967

January
January 1: The residents of the town of Ellington, Connecticut rally to save a pilot of a light plane whose radio had failed amid intense rain and fog. The town’s three fire engines and dozens of private cars provide a beacon for his safe landing at the small airstrip.
January 2: Ronald Reagan is sworn in as Governor of California.
January 3: USAF fighters successfully shoot down eight North Vietnamese MiG-21s in Operation Bolo, a cleverly organised aerial ambush. Elsewhere in Indochina, the number of deployed US Army personnel tops 600,000 for the first time, with further reinforcements scheduled to build up over the course of the year; total US forces in theatre total 968,342, approaching the peak level of the Korean War.
January 4: Donald Campbell sets a new world waterborne record, reaching a speed of 306mph on Lake Conniston, Lancashire in his Bluebird K7.
January 5: A team of Canadian astronomers report the discovery of a new moon of Saturn and a number of strange anomalies regarding its orbital behaviour.
January 6: French and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Achille, a division sized offensive sweep in the Mekong Delta supported by air and naval forces.
January 7: Death of Shah Abbas of Persia in Tehran, from a fall from his palanquin after suffering from a surfeit of dodos. His heir, 14 year old Crown Prince Kamar, is officially proclaimed Shah.
January 8: Over 90,000 US and Allied troops launch Operation Cedar Falls, a large scale offensive against Viet Cong in the Iron Triangle northwest of Saigon aimed at eliminating enemy forces after lines of retreat towards Cambodia were cut with arcane barriers and chemical agents.
January 9: CIA agents and Lao mercenaries launch a successful raid on the Ban Naden prison camp, rescuing 103 prisoners, including 12 Americans.
January 10: President Kennedy announces a rise in defence spending and marginal taxation in his State of the Union address, describing the need for a great national effort for victory in Vietnam.
January 11: Noted Japanese author and intellectual Yukio Mishima agrees to run as the Liberal Democratic candidate as Governor of Tokyo.
January 12: A breakthrough is reached in talks over the future of Polish Togoland between the Free Polish administration and African nationalists.
January 13: The Ford Escort debuts at the Brussels Motor Show.
January 14: Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils with an estimated age of 25 million years near Lake Victoria.
January 15: The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game.
January 16: An Imperial Chinese spaceship is launched from a hitherto secret rocket base in Koko Nor, apparently heading on an interplanetary trajectory at a tremendous velocity. This causes a great deal of shock amongst the space going powers and scientific community.
January 17: An article in The Daily Mail reports that there are 4012 holes in the roads of Blackburn, Lancashire, comprising sufficient space to theoretically fill the Royal Albert Hall.
January 18: 19 miners are killed in a coal mine explosion in New Zealand.
January 19: Withdrawal of a proposed billingual education bill from consideration by the United States Congress.
January 20: Severe riots take place in Managua, Nicaragua, prompted by police gunning down protesting university students
January 21: Heavy rainfall causes the Rio Paraíba do Sul to break its banks in Brazil, killing and displacing hundreds.
January 22: Border clashes occur along the Amur River border between China and the Soviet Union.
January 23: Wilhelm Harster is sentenced to death for Nazi atrocities in Munich.
January 24: Argentina announces a new wave of defence increases, aiming to become the most powerful military force in South America.
January 25: A private members bill proposing the decriminalisation of abortion is defeated in the House of Commons by 532-118.
January 26: Chicago is beset by a huge blizzard, resulting in 25 inches of snowfall over 24 hours.
January 27: Opening of an Outer Space Conference in Moscow.
January 28: The US Supreme Court upholds the longstanding ban on Communists being engaged as teachers.
January 29: The Japanese general election results in a hung parliament.
January 30: Soviet President Nikolai Podogorny meets with Pope Paul VI
January 31: The Royal Navy commissions HMS Argent, the first of a new class of ‘super hovercraft’. The 2500t vessel is capable of a top speed of 125 knots and is designed for a variety of transport and combat roles,

February
February 1: The US federal minimum wage is increased to $2.00.
February 2: Communist insurgents initiate a full scale uprising in rural Bolivia, assisted by IRA commando advisors and KGB agents.
February 3: Ronald Ryan is hanged for murder in Pentridge Prison, Melbourne, Victoria.
February 4: The Politburo approves the deployment of a combined arms army to Mongolia as reinforcement against Chinese adventurism.
February 5: General Anastasio Somoza Debayle is elected President of Nicaragua in an election widely considered as fraudulent.
February 6: Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin arrives in London to meet with Prime Minister Stanley Barton; requests for a state visit and reception with Queen Elizabeth II were refused.
February 7: 62 people are killed in large bushfires in southern Tasmania.
February 8: Launch of a new Italian super battleship in Genoa.
February 9: Southern Colombia is struck by an earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale, killing 98.
February 10: Backchannel talks aimed at securing a ceasefire for the Vietnamese new year festival of Tet collapse.
February 11: President Kennedy formally proposes a system of universal health care in an expansive speech at Harvard.
February 12: An underground Viet Cong base is successfully overrun after being saturated with CR gas in Bien Hoa, South Vietnam.
February 13: Discovery of the Madrid Codices of Leonardo Da Vinci in the National Library of Spain by American researchers.
February 14: A man is arrested for impersonating a lord at a Torquay hotel.
February 15: The accidental explosion of a 105mm artillery shell sets off a chain explosion at a Texarkana ammunition plant, killing 10.
February 16: North Vietnamese Su-17s raid US and South Vietnamese positions near the DMZ at night, leading to immediate planning for expansive combat air patrols.
February 17: King Zod of Albania declares that his country will be the greatest champion of Christianity and freedom leading into the 21st century.
February 18: Wanted Nazi war criminal Franz Stangl is arrested in Brazil by Interpol after a tip off by Simon Wiesenthal.
February 19: An Irish Office paper on economic development identifies the need for industrial expansion in southern and western Ireland to alleviate the emergence of regional disadvantage and discontent as traditional agriculture begins to modernise.
February 20: Jose Suarez is executed in Sing-Sing Prison for the murder of his wife and five children.
February 21: Voting concludes in the Indian general election, with preliminary results indicating a victory for the Nationalists.
February 22: Royal South African Air Force Valiants strike at rebel bases in the Congo in response to increased raids on the Rhodesian border.
February 23: A British Commonwealth expedition succeeds in climbing Mount Godwin-Austen from the eastern face for the first time.
February 24: French scientists announce the discovery of the Lost City of the Mayas in Yucatan.
February 25: Unveiling of the Pontiac Firebird at the Chicago Auto Show.
February 26: A “Prayer for World Peace” is held at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem by Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Jewish and Moslem clerics.
February 27: Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first British monarch to visit Cyprus.
February 28: The US Supreme Court finds in favour of the plaintiff in Silent Eagle vs Hannaforyth, declaring that Bigfoot are entitled to full rights as demihumans rather than beasts.

March
March 1: 186 people are killed after the suspicious explosion of an gas tanker in Montevideo causes a massive conflagration.
March 2: British Middle East Command announces the end of the Aden Uprising and Operation Castellan.
March 3: Coordinated Viet Cong bombings take place in Saigon, Biên Hòa and Cần Thơ throughout the morning, sparking a massive security crackdown.
March 4: Swimmers and water goers on a San Diego beach are attacked by a savage megalodon, killing four and sparking a huge hunt by USN ships and aircraft. The 60ft beast is located 17 hours later and destroyed by being suspended in midair by a quick thinking naval sorcerer.
March 5: Five people are killed in the derailment of a British Rail express train in Conington, Huntingdonshire after a railway signalman deliberately flips a switch to activate a mechanical lock on the railway track.
March 6: The Ministry of Housing releases an expansive report on projected reforms to British housing standards.
March 7: Secretary of Defence Clark Savage approves the deployment of specially bred dinosaurs to South Vietnam.
March 8: Joseph Stalin’s daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to the United States embassy in Constantinople.
March 9: USN Lt. Frank Prendergast becomes the first US naval aviator to escape North Vietnam, being rescued by an SH-3 Sea King off the coast of Thanh Hoa Province.
March 10: Unveiling of the prototype of the Tu-132, the first Soviet super jumbo jet.
March 11: Destruction of the Thai Nguyen Steel Works in North Vietnam by the third heavy USAF and RAF bomber raid in as many days.
March 12: The US Department of the Interior releases a list of 87 animals in the United States considered to be endangered species. It contains numerous creatures, including the American lion, dire wolf, smilodon, cave duck and the Southern mind toad.
March 13: Henry Cooper defeats Cassius Clay in an enormously controversial decision in a World Heavyweight Championship title fight at Empire Stadium, with the American being disqualified for the employment of smelling salts by his trainer.
March 14: An Italian infantry battalion defeats a large Viet Cong force in a protracted battle in Viet Binh Province, South Vietnam.
March 15: A German hot air balloonist makes an emergency landing in the Kentish village of Walmington-on-Sea, disrupting a local wartime Home Guard reunion.
March 16: The Metropolitan Police announce an expansion of patrols by police lions beyond the East End of London.
March 17: USAF crewmen at Malmstrom AFB report sighting several UFOs above missile launch control facilities, followed by several flights of Minutemen missiles going offline.
March 18: The supertanker SS Torrey Canyon runs aground on Pollard’s Rock in the Seven Stone’s Reef in the Scilly Channel, spilling thousands of tons of oil into the sea.
March 19: British Prime Minister Stanley Barton begins the first leg of an extensive visit to Middle East landing in Jerusalem, prior subsequent destinations including Damascus, Baghdad, Cairo and Tehran.
March 20: A jazz singer is sentenced to eight years imprisonment for possession of cannabis in London.
March 21: The Queen’s Flight of the Royal Air Force acquires a specially modified Concord for long distance journeys.
March 22: A USAF B-52 drops a 64,000lb bomb on a Viet Cong base in South Vietnam, obliterating the target.
March 23: Communist guerrillas of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional de Bolivia ambush and destroy a Bolivian Army patrol near Ñancahuazú, capturing numerous weapons, ammunition and the operations manual of the Bolivian Army.
March 24: German scientists of the Deutsches Zentrum fur Raumraketenforschung successfully launch a new test rocket carrying a satellite from Cuxhaven.
March 25: Pat Casey breaks the human bench press world record, lifting 986lb.
March 26: American businessman Jim Thompson mysteriously disappears in Malaya.
March 27: The Democratic Party of Korea defeats the Liberal government in parliamentary elections for the first time since unification.
March 28: The Firearms Act of 1967 is passed by the House of Commons, providing for the stricter regulation of the private possession of fully automatic weapons and machine guns, which will now need to be registered with local police. Proposals for modifying the conditions for home storage of service firearms by Territorial Army members and Army Reservists were defeated in the committee stage.
March 29: French prospectors strike oil in the Oriente province of Ecuador, causing considerable jubilation in Quito; reports that drilling seems to have caused some localised seismic disturbances are discounted as incidental.
March 30: The Boeing 737 enters serial production.
March 31: Enoch Powell becomes Shadow Chancellor.

April
April 1: President Kennedy becomes the first President of the United States to walk on one of Earth’s moons, paying a surprise visit to Luna City in the new US Space Force Andromeda atomic lunar rocketcruiser , which makes the journey in twelve and a half hours. In his first speech on Lunar surface, Kennedy quips “Where once going to the moons was hard, now we have made it easy!”
April 2: A US airborne battalion destroys a VC regiment in the Battle of Ap Gu, heavily supported by long range artillery, fighter-bomber strikes and helicopter gunships.
April 3: Federal agents investigating reports of a “miracle man” wandering the South West of the United States discover narrowly miss meeting the man after he crosses the Grand Canyon, walking on air.
April 4: The Joint Intelligence Committee submit a paper on Allied Strategic Air Defense to the Joint Chiefs of Staff for consideration.
April 5: Spartan troops destroy a suspect Viet Cong stronghold in a night time raid in Bing Tuy province in the largest Greek operation yet carried out in South Vietnam.
April 6: The kidnapped 11 year old son of a Beverley Hills bank president is rescued by a mysterious man in a bat-like costume.
April 7: Two Royal Syrian Air Force Hunter fighter jets are shot down by Israeli surface to air missiles after accidentally straying into the Haifa Air Defence Zone, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
April 8: 100/1 outsider Foinavon wins the Grand National in a huge upset.
April 9: An international scientific conference in Brussels on further interpretation of the interstellar signal ends inconclusively with at least three different factions forming. The US and Soviet military delegations are seen engaged in several heated and highly secretive discussions.
April 10: King Henry VIII wins Best Picture at the 39th Academy Awards, with Robert Shaw winning Best Actor and Elizabeth Taylor winning Best Actress.
April 11: The Imperial Chinese Army closes several border crossings with Hong Kong.
April 12: An International Revolutionary Army commando begins initial operations in Paraguay, supported by a joint KGB- Red Army special forces action team as part of Operation Amur.
April 13: A Jacksboro, Tennessee science teacher is dismissed for violation of a prohibition of the teaching of evolution.
April 14: USAF B-52 bombers flying from bases in Morocco and Egypt strike targets across the Eastern Congo in the first major American air strikes in the Congo Emergency.
April 15: Scotland defeats England 3-2 at Imperial Stadium, ending its 20 game winning streak.
April 16: The Free Polish government announces that Polish Togoland will be granted independence in December.
April 17: An article in The Military Review discusses the reemergence of modern cavalry and proposes the establishment of an experimental field force.
April 18: Two American physicians present data on salt consumption in the United States at the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, showing that the majority of Americans are consuming over 100 times as much salt as they need.
April 19: Formal establishment of the British African Army, joining together Imperial forces under a single command.
April 20: Edgar Storngard wins the Canadian National Darts Championship, becoming the first dwarf to do so.
April 21: 59 people are killed by a series of tornadoes that sweep across the Midwest.
April 22: The Imperial Naval Staff of Byzantine Greece completes its Future Naval Plan, which controversially proposes the gradual retirement of capital ships of the fleet without replacement.
April 23: German People’s Democratic Republic General Secretary Ernst Thalmann declares that the military superiority of socialism becomes stronger with every year in an expansive speech at a tank manufacturing plant in Karl Marx Stadt. The triumphalist rhetoric is perhaps less notable than the General Secretary himself, who seems to look several decades younger than his last public appearance.
April 24: Orion 4 continues to close in on the Jovian system, but the Soviet Kosmos spaceship appears to be increasing speed according to some observers. A special telecast from onboard the Soviet ship sees its commander Yuri Gagarin and deputy Alexei Leonov display many of the features and crew members of the massive atomic powered spacecraft, in addition to showing a far distant image of Jupiter, some 32 million miles away.
April 25: An ammunition explosion leads to a devastating fire breaking out on board HMS Africa in the Eastern Mediterranean, destroying 17 aircraft and killing 283 crew before it can be brought under control.
April 26: The War Office announces that the Vickers prototype has been selected for development as the FV-525 Mechanised Armoured Combat Vehicle.
April 27: Ceremonial launch of the first modern battleship of the Navy of the Polish People’s Republic at Gdańsk, with several of its features arousing substantial interest in foreign observers.
April 28: Announcement of the merger of the McDonnell and Douglas aircraft companies in the most significant change in the U.S. aerospace industry in over a decade.
April 29: A referendum in the New England area of New South Wales on a proposal for it to become a state of Australia passes, paving the way for the question to be put to the entire state.
April 30: The White House announces that the First Lady is pregnant.

May
May 1: NYPD detectives fail to find any trace of a strange magician who enchanted the occupants of a New York bar, making them believe that the United States had been invaded by the Soviet Union.
May 2: The Ostankino Tower overtakes the Palace of the Soviets as the tallest building in Moscow.
May 3: US Marines capture 'The Street Without Joy' in a major offensive northwards from the fortified base of Khe Sanh.
May 4: A 16 month old boy survives an 8 storey fall from hotel in Chicago.
May 5: Marriage of Crown Prince Victor Emmanuel of Italy and Infanta Maria of Spain in Rome.
May 6: Chinese backed riots break out in Hong Kong, leading to reinforcements of Gurkhas and Imperial Police being flown in from Singapore and Royal Hong Kong Police deploying CR gas and water cannon.
May 7: USS Halsey Powell collides with the Soviet destroyer Samarkand in the Aegean Sea.
May 8: The Canadian Army begins a reorganisation of its field forces and corps, increasing the operational strength of the latter.
May 9: A US test pilot is badly injured in the crash of an experimental lifting-body aircraft; his subsequent special surgeries and treatments cost over $6 million.
May 10: Three boys disappear whilst exploring Hannibal Caves in Missouri.
May 11: Strategic discussions between Egyptian and Arab military staff begin in Cairo, observed by representatives from British Middle Eastern Command.
May 12: Announcement of division of the four regions of Nigeria into twelve smaller states.
May 13: Pope Paul VI begins a formal visit to Portugal on anniversary of the Fatima Miracles.
May 14: Sir John Betjemen is appointed Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II.
May 15: A Swedish chef produces the world’s largest Swedish meatball, a delicacy 12ft across weighing almost 500lb.
May 16: BBC’s Panorama presents a special programme on the Interstellar Signal and increasing UFO activity, featuring interviews with Sir John Dashwood and Professor Quatermass.
May 17: The US Supreme Court rules that juvenile defendants are entitled to the same rights as adults in In re Gault.
May 18: A grand coalition of the Social Democrats and Centre is formed following the Yugoslav general election, paving the way for administrative, linguistic and political reforms.
May 19: Over 16,000 US Marines of the 3rd Marine Division cross into the DMZ in Operation Hickory, a large scale search and destroy mission supported by naval gunfire from Montana, New York and Iowa and preliminary bombing by USAF B-47s.
May 20: Mexican peasants begin a protest march on the state capital Oaxaca de Juarez in Oaxaca after long running disputes over land reform resulted in a brutal police crackdown.
May 21: Canadian Stefan Michalak claims to have been injured by the ray gun of a UFO, sparking an RCAF inquiry.
May 22: A horrific fire at Brussels’ largest department store kills 322 people.
May 23: US nuclear forces go on emergency alert after polar surveillance radars are blacked out until the cause is deduced as being a solar geomagnetic storm.
May 24: Arrival of the US Army’s latest war machine, the Super Freedom Fighter 76, at the Port of Saigon. Some observers regard the 50ft high armoured battle robot as unsuited to guerrilla warfare.
May 25: Yukio Mishima wins election as Governor of Tokyo.
May 26: The Royal Israeli Air Force unveils a new nuclear-capable missile at a military parade in Tel Aviv.
May 27: A stand-off between British and Chinese tanks along the Hong Kong border begins.
May 28: Sir Francis Chichester returns to Plymouth in his Gipsy Moth IV, being greeted by 250,000 spectators.
May 29: Archbishop Karol Wojtyla of Krakow is appointed a cardinal by Pope Paul VI.
May 30: ODESSA strike teams launches an audacious simultaneous machine gun, car bomb and grenade attack on the US, Soviet, British and German embassies in Madrid and Lisbon, causing moderate damage and sparking huge outrage, killing 63.
May 31: Launch of the Canadian rocketship Arcadia from Trinidad.

June
June 1: Beginning of the “I'm Backing Britain” movement.
June 2: Execution of familicide Luis Monge in the Colorado gas chamber.
June 3: Reverend Elvis Presley, investigating the disappearance of the missing Hannibal, Missouri boys, discovers that they have been kidnapped by a cannibalistic Luciferian cult using an interstate bus as a mobile hideout. Hastily requisitioning a model M-105 flying tank and US Civil War re-enactors, Reverend Presley and his posse intercepts the Shadow Bus, rescues the boys and introduces the villainous diabolists to Justice, his specially modified power sword.
June 4: A British Midlands Airways de Havilland Super Comet narrowly avoids disaster whilst landing at Ringway Airport in Manchester, suffering failure of three engines, but managing to land with the aid of a flying caped individual.
June 5: Chinese nuclear capable missile artillery is moved up within range of Hong Kong, leading to the movement of British bombers to standoff positions over the South China Sea, bringing the mounting nuclear crisis to a head. A Imperial Chinese Navy fleet begins moving towards Hong Kong from Ningpo and the Royal Navy Far Eastern Fleet begins to steam up from exercises off the coast of Brunei.
June 6: Israel and Jordan sign an agreement on water and defence cooperation in Amman.
June 7: Discovery of a huge oil field at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, Canada.
June 8: Commissioning of the first atomic power station in Korea.
June 9: Argentina takes delivery of the first of its new Handley-Page heavy bombers.
June 10: The Reichstag passes the Law for Promoting Stability and Growth, which provides for coordination of budget planning and fiscal policy.
June 11: A high level diplomatic conference leads to the resolution of the Hong Kong Crisis, with British and Chinese forces pulling back in a series of mutually timed steps.
June 12: SS United States wins back the Blue Riband, recording an incredible average speed of 39.2 knots on its journey from New York to Southampton.
June 13: Formation of a new united Senate of Belgium and the Netherlands.
June 14: Publication of the British Defence White Paper, ‘Security for Peace’, an expansive document setting out the Barton government's plans for rearmament and modernisation.
June 15: A retired British Field Marshal is captured in his Turkish bath by unsporting opponents immediately prior to a special Home Guard exercise.
June 16: The West Indies defeat the USA in the First Test in Philadelphia by 123 runs in front of a crowd of over 70,000, with Garfield Sobers scoring a scintillating 178 and Richie Calypso taking 7/69 in the American second innings.
June 17: HMS Dreadnought torpedoes the wreck of a German freighter off Azure Islands in an attempt to destroy the nautical hazard.
June 18: Three disturbed Scottish nationalists are arrested for plotting to steal the Queen’s haggis.
June 19: Formation of a specialised expeditionary force of the French Army for training and operational support of newly independent states in Africa.
June 20: The US House of Representatives votes overwhelmingly in favour of a new anti-flag burning bill aimed at curtailing the shocking actions of communist sympathisers.
June 21: Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin arrives in Baghdad for a state visit, closely monitored by British forces at RAF Habbaniya.
June 22: Australian Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies indicates that Defence Minister Edward Rogers is his preferred successor.
June 23: Beginning of a special US-Soviet superpower summit in Ankara.
June 24: Pope Paul VI reaffirms the prohibition on clerical marriage and the rule of celibacy in the encyclical Sacerdotalis caelibatus.
June 25: Over 700 million people around the world view the live ‘Our World’ live satellite television broadcast.
June 26: A Californian teenager uncovers a vampire living next door to him and destroys the monster with the aid of an aged television host.
June 27: The first automated teller machine begins operation at a branch of Barclays Bank in North London.
June 28: Death of the last living ‘mafia’ boss in Italian prison, a survivor of Mussolini’s bloody and brutal eradication of the Sicilian organised crime group.
June 29: Orion 4 reaches the Jovian system, arriving in a high orbit around Callisto after reducing speed for much of the last two and a half months.
June 30: Photographs and radar imagery of Callisto indicate the extensive presence of liquid water and plant life.

July
July 1: Canada marks the centenary of Confederation with a royal visit by Queen Elizabeth II, who is greeted by a Fleet Review in the St. Lawrence River and an aerial display by over 1500 RCAF aircraft.
July 2: Launch of Operation Buffalo by the 9th Marine Regiment around Con Thien on the southern verge of the Demilitarised Zone in South Vietnam.
July 3: 42 trapped miners are rescued from entombment in a Philippines gold mine in a coordinated effort by military and civil forces.
July 4: A private member’s Bill for the decriminalisation of homosexuality is defeated by 325-82 in the House of Commons.
July 5: Two divisions of the Congolese Army mutiny against their commanders in Eastern Congo.
July 6: Orion 4 successfully deploys an unmanned robotic lander onto the surface of Callisto, confirming that it is teeming with life. Pictures are beamed back to Earth of strange, alien animal life.
July 7: 154 people are killed in a terrible train collision in the German Democratic Republic.
July 8: Ann Pellegreno, 'The Flying Housewife' lands in California and is greeted by Amelia Earhart, whose famous route she followed.
July 9: US runner Jim Ryun breaks his own world record for the mile.
July 10: Cardinal Karol Wojtyla is welcomed back to Krakow by a huge crowd, despite the efforts by Communist authorities to downplay his return.
July 11: Entry into Pan Am service of the Boeing 747 ‘super jumbo jet’.
July 12: The Imperial Interior Ministry of Greece begins a crackdown on 'undesirable residents', arresting them and confiscating their property.
July 13: First public unveiling of the Supermarine advanced supersonic fighter at a special display of British aircraft at Farnborough.
July 14: Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on a Jovian moon as he leads the landing on Callisto.
July 15: Jim Clark wins the British Grand Prix at the Brooklands Course.
July 16: In municipal elections in Ecuador, a plurality of votes is cast for the Pulvapies Foot Powder Company in a curious development.
July 17: Orion 4 departs Callisto for Ganymede, having replenished supplies of oxygen and hydrogen.
July 18: Canada defeat England in the 2nd Test at Toronto by 1 wicket in a thrilling match that goes down to the penultimate over.
July 19: Discovery of the well-preserved ruins of a lost Minoan city at Akotiri.
July 20: Several major and hitherto untouched Viet Cong logistical supply bases are attacked in the dead of night by teams of US Special Forces and Rangers who seemingly arrive out of thin air, inflicting heavy losses and damage.
July 21: The US House of Representatives passes a bill allocating $100 million for rat eradication in inner cities.
July 22: A group of unlikely New York City professionals succeed in driving a herd of cattle to Colorado after their guide suffers a fatal heart attack.
July 23: Detroit Police arrest 110 people in a raid on an unlicenced drinking establishment.
July 24: Pope Paul VI arrives in Constantinople to meet with Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I in the latest effort to end the Great Schism.
July 25: Dar Es Salaam is terrorised by a giant kitten.
July 26: Retirement of RMS Queen Mary after more than 30 years service in war and peace.
July 27: Clandestine landing of a scoutship of Space Nazis in rural Paraguay for a high level meeting with representatives of ODESSA and the Neo Waffen SS.
July 28: Outbreak of extensive civil violence in Southern Nigeria.
July 29: 135 USN sailors are killed in an explosion and fire on board USS United States as it conducts operations off the coast of Vietnam.
July 30: A young English boy is awarded a bravery medal for rescuing his drowning sister having never swum extensively before; he ascribes his ability to the assistance of a disembodied friendly alien force. The Ministry of Space begins investigations
July 31: The Soviet spaceship Kosmos arrives in the Jovian system.

August
August 1: Nine Japanese high school students are killed by a freak lightning bolt whilst climbing Mount Nishihodaka.
August 2: The Rhodesian Army launches a major offensive across the Congolese border to suppress rebel groups.
August 3: The Super TurboTrain enters service with U.S. Railways.
August 4: RAF Lightnings unsuccessfully attempt to intercept a suspected UFO over the North Sea.
August 5: Two rogue dragons duel in the skies above Guatemala City, causing widespread panic.
August 6: Cambridge student Jocelyn Bell becomes the first person to discover a pulsar.
August 7: President Kennedy announces a 12% increase in corporate and individual tax rates to contribute to the cost of the war in Vietnam.
August 8: Orion 4 detects some strange energy signatures as it approaches Ganymede.
August 9: Denver is hit by an earthquake registering 5.5 on the Richter scale.
August 10: The Long Bien Bridge over the Red River is destroyed by F-111s using guided bombs in a heavy nighttime USAF raid on North Vietnam.
August 11: Opening of Europe’s largest integrated steelworks in Corby, Northamptonshire.
August 12: A census of the Aboriginal population of Australia records a total of 52,563 people.
August 13: Giant bear attacks kill four people in separate incidents in Glacier National Park, Montana.
August 14: Brazilian military and law enforcement launch a crackdown on Trotskyist and other socialist groups, arresting hundreds in predawn raids.
August 15: Nine members of the Peterson family of Shell Lake, Saskatchewan are killed by a crazed gunman in a random mass murder. The perpetrator is tracked down and shot by the RCMP four days later.
August 16: Upon receiving a request from the Governor-General of Nigeria, British Prime Minister Stanley Barton orders the deployment of 25,000 troops from the Imperial Strategic Reserve to Southern Nigeria to suppress recent civil strife and prevent the outbreak of civil war.
August 17: The Santa Alleanza, the Vatican secret service, arrests several servants on suspicion of espionage.
August 18: End of the practice of regular trooping by sea for the British Armed Forces.
August 19: Imperial Mexican Army troops are dispatched to Chihuahua after a gang of vicious bandit mice once again outsmarts local police.
August 20: Opening of the first Domashen Gril restaurant in Yugoslavia, joining 33 branches in Bulgaria.
August 21: Four USAF F-4 Phantoms clash with Imperial Chinese Air Force fighters over North Vietnam, with two Chinese planes shot down.
August 22: The total length of the Royal Highways network in Great Britain reaches 7000 miles, with several lengthy sections specially designed for wartime use as emergency airstrips.
August 23: British national unemployment drops to 0.36%.
August 24: An article in The Times comments on the recent ‘swashbuckling’ craze, bought on by recent television and radio programmes and several motion pictures.
August 25: Orion 4 enters orbit around Ganymede and immediately transmits a highly coded signal back to Earth.
August 26: A bus careers off a mountain road in Peru but is miraculously caught by a strange energy field before it impacts the valley below.
August 27: British Prime Minister Stanley Barton announces the establishment of several new Cabinet departments, dubbed ‘super ministries’ by Fleet Street. Ministers receiving promotions in the resultant Cabinet reshuffle include Tom Stephens (Minister for Health, Pensions and Social Security), Adam Wainwright (Minister for Housing, Works and Local Government), Barbara Castle (Minister for Trade, Industry and Labour), Reg Prentice (Minister for Education, Science and Technology) and Kenneth Robinson (Minister for Transport, Power and Energy).
August 28: Over 20 inches of rain fall in Niigata Province, Japan, over the course of 24 notes, causing widespread flooding.
August 29: British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey announces the introduction of a Value Added Tax at a rate of 10% to replace Purchase Tax.
August 30: Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces begin deployment of the Fractional Orbital Bombardment System.
August 31: Signing of the Suez Treaty between Britain and Egypt, setting out military basing rights, financial aid, royalties and strategic cooperation. It is decried by Egyptian nationalists as a continuation of British colonial domination.


September
September 1: The International Astronomical Union passes a unanimous motion calling for a concentration of efforts on observation of the outer planets in light of recent developments at its conference in Prague.
September 2: US Defence Secretary Clark Savage and British Minister of Defence George Brown sign a memorandum of agreement on cooperation in the development of an Anglo-American strategic transport plane.
September 3: A meeting of the Motion Picture Association of America agrees to an updating of the Motion Picture Production Code to provide for effective censorship of new kinds of unacceptable content.
September 4: Launch of Operation Swift, a combined arms offensive by U.S. Marines against Viet Cong forces in the Que Son Valley.
September 5: Hurricane Beulah is dispelled by US wizards over the Caribbean.
September 6: A young nun in Porto Rico discovers that she can fly very short distances.
September 7: Launch of the Royal Navy’s first escort carrier since the Second World War at Harland & Wolff in Belfast.
September 8: Republican Senator James Norcross foils an attempted bank robbery by would-be revolutionists, displaying a number of surprising capabilities in the process.
September 9: Formal establishment of the North American Soccer League.
September 10: 210 USAF B-47s and B-52s bomb targets in the North Vietnamese city of Cam Pha, inflicting extremely heavy damage.
September 11: Imperial Coronation of the Shah of Persia in Tehran, attended by royalty and dignitaries from around the world.
September 12: Unveiling of the prototype Hawker-Siddeley P.1204 'Hurricane' advanced fighter at Kingston.
September 13: Opening of a secret USN communications facility in Exmouth, Western Australia.
September 14: Declaration of Amity and Cooperation by the contingent nations of the Union of East Africa, setting out a programme of progressive political, military and economic unity.
September 15: Vietnamese People's Air Force aircraft launch a series of intense diversionary operations around the DMZ, covering a squadron of Tu-98 Backfin bombers which conduct an unprecedented low level night-time air raid on Saigon.
September 16: Vladimir Tkachenko attempted abduction and defection
September 17: 54 USAF SRBMs are fired at Hanoi and Haiphong in response to the Raid on Saigon.
September 18: An enthusiastic dog takes off after a bout of particularly frenzied tail wagging in Smallville, Kansas.
September 19: A meeting of South African and Rhodesian black nationalist groups in Antananarivo agrees on a military alliance.
September 20: Thailand begins taking submissions from international oil companies for the purchase of onshore and offshore oil exploration rights.
September 21: Release of Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 'The Gulag Archipelago' as a samizdat publication in the Soviet Union.
September 22: Britain's Ministry of Education indicates that it will continue to offer free milk to both primary and secondary students as part of the school meals programme.
September 23: Geelong defeats Richmond 21.10 (136) to 19.11 (125) in the VFL Grand Final at the M.C.G. in front of 129,367 spectators.
September 24: New Zealander voters endorse a proposal for the end of the '6 o'clock swill' in a referendum.
September 25: Tens of thousands of Leningrad residents are shocked when a giant vision of Rasputin appears in sky above the city.
September 26: Renowned Hong Kong kung-fu master and secret agent Bruce Lee destroys a Triad ring in Kowloon in conjunction with a well dressed British agent and a veteran American martial artist.
September 27: A McDonald's restaurant in Uniontown, Pennsylvania introduces the Big Mac hamburger, a 40c sandwich containing two 2oz patties, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, special sauce and cheese.
September 28: Sinking of a third merchant ship in the Eastern Atlantic, with surviving sailors reporting an insanely cackling black-robed individual riding a hideous sea serpent being responsible for the horror.
September 28: Daredevil stuntman Evel Knievel jumps the Grand Canyon in a specially adapted motorcycle in front of a crowd of over 9000 spectators.
September 29: A Chinese diplomatic delegation arrives in Delhi for consultations with the Indian government in an effort to promote rapprochement between the two countries.
September 30: Completion of the first stage of the US starship under construction on Minerva; a further two dozen stages are to follow before its launch and completion in orbit.

October
October 1: Opening of the first International Spartakiad in thirty years as part of a new Soviet sporting and cultural initiative.
October 2: Talks on an Anglo-Japanese automotive import agreement in London reach a nominal agreement allowing Japanese cars to be sold in the British Empire from 1969.
October 3: USAF B-52s and RAF Vulcans conduct a series of high altitude air strikes on railway yards and logistical targets close to the Chinese border with North Vietnam.
October 4: Three steers escaping from a slaughterhouse in Chester, Pennsylvania rampage down the main street and crash through a jewelry shop, smashing thousands of dollars worth of china and other valuables. A wealthy local eccentric, hearing of the literal case of bulls in a china shop, laughingly purchases the captured bovines, sparing their lives.
October 5: A huge glowing UFO crashes into Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia, but subsequent searches by the Canadian Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Navy are unable to find any sign of the craft.
October 6: Daring dastardly sky pirates attack the luxury ocean liner SS Neptune en route to Tahiti, stealing millions in cash and jewellery from the passengers and escaping in flying boats.
October 7: Elizabeth Taylor narrowly avoids death on the set of a movie in Sardinia, exiting her trailer mere seconds before it crashes over a 150ft cliff into the Mediterranean Sea.
October 8: The British Army begins the operational testing of Project Knight in an isolated section of the Kalahari Desert of South Africa.
October 9: A study by the Rand Corporation concludes that the balance of power in the Middle East continues to be strongly in favour of Israel due to its arsenal of advanced weaponry and confirmed nuclear status.
October 10: US Department of Health officials confirm the successful use of a combined course of Solarianum, a drug derived from rare plants in the Amazon Jungle and Alzabuka, a recently rediscovered alchemical compound, as a cure for cancer.
October 11: The German Democratic Republic Volksmarine activates the first units of its new Rotes Ballonkorps.
October 12: Wizards experimenting with tree enhancement enchantments in Falkland, Fife accidentally pluralise the location and create a large mature woodland on the Falkland Islands.
October 13: The annual report of the British Interplanetary Colonisation Scheme states that colonial migration to Mars and Venus reached its highest rate in several decades in 1966/67, with monthly averages of 1564 and 1287 colonists.
October 14: RMS Queen Elizabeth II departs on her maiden voyage from Southampton.
October 15: Twenty people are killed in a bus crash in the Philippines after being driven off a bridge in Samar by a drunken driver.
October 16: US Navy carriers operating on Yankee Station off the coast of North Vietnam launch a series of concentrated strikes on Viet Cong and North Vietnamese positions across the Laotian border along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
October 17: SS Dreadnought begins deceleration for its approach to the Jovian system, which it is expected to reach in January 1968.
October 18: The New York Times carries an opinion piece calling for the repeal of the 22nd Amendment so President John F. Kennedy could serve a third term in office.
October 19: Opening of the Tyne Tunnel by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
October 20: Advance elements of the US 27th, 36th and 42nd Infantry Divisions arrive in South Vietnam as part of the build up of Allied forces for the planned offensives of 1968.
October 21: CBS conducts the first significant television interview with a sasquatch, with Walter Cronkite speaking with Qwekwaniqujask about his research into the cultural history of his people, the difficulties of living in two societies and his hobbies of kite flying and model railways.
October 22: The American superliner SS Poseidon completes conversion into a luxury cruise liner.
October 23: Diplomatic talks between Byzantine Greece and Ottoman Turkey on normalisation of relations begin in Cyprus.
October 24: British Prime Minister Stanley Barton announces a substantial increase in naval shipbuilding, with an additional two guided missile destroyers and six frigates to be procured yearly over the next four years, a new class of battlecruiser to be designed and orders of battleships and aircraft carriers to be brought forward.
October 25: The USA, Soviet Union, Britain, France and China sign the Spaceguard Treaty in Geneva, providing for monitoring of outer space objects that may threaten the Earth.
October 26: Lieutenant Commander John McCain III, son of Admiral John McCain Jr, is shot down over North Vietnam and taken prisoner.
October 27: Archaeologists in Bolivia uncover a strange metallic circle whilst excavating a new site on the outskirts of Tiahuanaco.
October 28: Retirement of the final Avro Canada Jetliner in Air Canada domestic service.
October 29: Expo 67 closes in Montreal, having attracted over 100 million visitors during its duration.
October 30: British scientists at Porton Down develop a series of new specially engineered and augmented war gasses, the ‘Rainbow Agents’.
October 31: Thirteen young people are slain in a horrific mass murder on the shore of Lake Michigan by a pair of killers; the crime scene indicates a Satanic motive.

November
November 1: A dashing new police constable uncovers a horse stealing ring in Aidensfield, Yorkshire, with the aid of an irrascible local farmer.
November 2: Uruguayan Premier Oscar Gestido is killed in a duel of honour by Senator Amilcar Vasconcellos in Montevideo.
November 3: Beginning of the Battle of Dak To in South Vietnam, where a 'considerable force' of North Vietnamese troops have surrounded the US Army Special Forces camp at Dak To. General Abrams orders its immediate aerial reinforcement by the 173rd Airborne Brigade and the 4th Infantry Division and the initiation of a coordinated massive aerial and naval bombardment in conjunction with long range U.S. Army 240mm, 280mm and 360mm guns at Kon Tum.
November 4: The Emperor of Mexico opens the largest oil refinery in Latin America, hailing it as an 'outstanding achievement of the Mexican people and their destiny of greatness'.
November 5: Five mercenary groups previously contracted to the government of the Congo rise up against the Army in the province of Haut-Congo.
November 6: Gala opening of David Lean's The Fellowship of the Ring in London in a Royal world premiere, attended by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke Edinburgh and the former Minister of Magic, Professor J.R.R. Tolkien.
November 7: Western defence attaches in Moscow are alarmed by the appearance of several hitherto unknown weapons systems in a grand Soviet military parade in Red Square to mark the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution.
November 8: The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Montreal resigns to become a missionary in Africa.
November 9: USAF Captain Lance Sijian is shot down over North Vietnam, where he successfully proceeds to evade capture until December 24, when he is miraculously extracted by a joint US Army Special Forces-CIA rescue mission.
November 10: Orion 5 launches a special unmanned probe at Jupiter to investigate its mysterious atmosphere.
November 11: US Army Vietnam intelligence reports estimate that the Viet Cong currently deploy a field force of over 245,000 personnel not accounting for North Vietnamese Army forces operating in the south, which are thought to number 150,000.
November 12: American Airlines Flight 455 is damaged by a crude explosive device whilst in flight from Chicago to San Diego. Subsequent FBI investigations uncover the culprit as Earle T. Cook, an Illinois bottling plant manager who sought to kill his wife; he is tried, convicted and executed in the Colorado gas chamber on May 25th 1968.
November 13: Mongolia announces that it will respond to a formal request from North Vietnam for fraternal socialist military assistance against capitalist imperialist aggression.
November 14: Habitual English criminal Norman Stanley Fletcher is sentenced to 7 years imprisonment, one for each fence broken during the theft of a lorry in Reading.
November 15: A scratch force of Roman Catholic priests, Templars and the Mexican Inquisition perform an emergency exorcism after excavations in Mexico City accidentally let loose a wave of horrific Aztec ghosts.
November 16: Notorious international Communist terrorist Che Guevara gives a secret speech in Moscow, calling for a Great South American Revolution.
November 17: Despite British and US pressure, the Arab Union confirms its intention to go through with the mooted Soviet arms deal.
November 18: The Ministry of Agriculture and Food declares that the October outbreak of foot and mouth disease along the Welsh border has been successfully eradicated.
November 19: Puyo, Ecuador is attacked by a rampaging rogue dragon and razed to the ground in its fury, killing over 3000.
November 20: British Commonwealth and Indonesian troops clash in seven separate border engagements in Borneo as both sides claim the other violated their territory.
November 21: President Kennedy declares that the high tide of communist aggression in South Vietnam has been held and that 1968 will bring a decisive turning point in the war at a speech at West Point.
November 22: First flight of the Ilyushin Il-144 very high altitude spyplane in Kazakhstan.
November 23: English murderers David Burgess and Frederick West are hanged at dawn at HM Prison Reading and HM Prison Gloucester respectively.
November 24: Completion of the second deck of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.
November 25: Torrential rainfall and the flooding of the Tagus River kills over 400 people in Lisbon, with emergency aid being delivered by the helicopters and Rotodynes from USS Constellation and her battle group which rush up from Cadiz, where they were preparing for a Western Alliance naval exercise.
November 26: The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission approves the construction of the world's first experimental nuclear fusion power station in Central California.
November 27: CIA intelligence sources identify GDR Luftstreitkräfte and Volksarmee operational units in North Vietnam.
November 28: Confirmation of the earlier discovery of pulsars by Jocelyn Bell and Antony Hewish.
November 29: Disaster is narrowly averted when the collapse of the Semphor Dam in Java, Indonesia is halted by a flying hero wearing a prominent red star.
November 30: Entry into Air France service of the supersonic Sud-Dewoitine Super Caravelle airliner.


December
December 1: Georgia Governor Lester Maddox grants early release to 685 prisoners in order to let them spend Christmas with their families.
December 2: The 20th Century Limited train makes the New York City to Chicago run of 1542 miles in a record 6 hours and 42 minutes.
December 3: South African cardiac surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard conducts the world's first successful heart transplant in King George V Hospital, Cape Town.
December 4: Eruption of a volcano on Deception Island in the South Shetlands forces the evacuation of the Commonwealth scientific bases in its vicinity, rapidly accomplished by Royal Navy Fairey Rotodynes flying from Port Shackleton in Graham Land.
December 5: Viennese police locate a number of bizarre empty shells whilst investigating strange disappearences of workers engaged in the U-Bahn extension, describing them as 'Pfefferstreuer'.
December 6: President Kennedy signs the Wholesome Meat Act of 1967 into federal law.
December 7: Brigadier Harry Flashman, former Governor of Pitcairn, slays a rogue dragon on Easter Island by severing its spine with a moai. Upon post mortem examination, the beast turns out to be the same creature that terrorised Ecuador and Colombia earlier in the year. Reports that Flashman's actions were more a matter of attempting to avoid imminent death than his famed dashing heroism are denied by the colonial government and the moai.
December 8: Initiation of Operation Pontefract, a two divisional 'sweep and clear' offensive conducted by the Commonwealth Corps in Tay Ninh Province.
December 9: An RAF English Electric Lightning investigating a medium altitude low speed contact over Northern Ireland reports spotting a flock of approximately thirty swans flying at 29,600ft.
December 10: Ronald George, Wreyford Norrish, George Porter and the German Manfred Eigen win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their studies of extremely fast chemical reactions.
December 11: In the latest phase of Project Plowshare, a 29kt nuclear device is used to fracture rock formations to allow for natural gas extraction in Project Gasbuggy.
December 12: Hospitals in Saigon begin to observe steadily increasing incidences of admissions with a new strange sickness akin to blackwater fever.
December 13: HMS Faerie Queen reports detecting an enormous unidentified submerged contact 88 miles east of the Falkland Islands which rapidly dives and disappears.
December 14: America scientists at Stamford University announce the successful synthesis of DNA.
December 15: The Silver Bridge between West Virginia and Ohio collapses in the late afternoon, killing 46 people.
December 16: Soviet and American diplomats reach a preliminary agreement on the principles of arms reduction negotiations.
December 17: 21,000 Rhodesian Army troops launch an offensive into rebel bases across the border in the Congo.
December 18: A USAF F-4 Phantom crashes into a Tucson, Arizona supermarket, with only four people on the ground being killed.
December 19: Israel opens the world's largest desalination plant south of Haifa.
December 20: French General Jean-Louis Carnet Richard de Beaucourt, Marquis d'Ambreville, the youngest general in the French Army and a hero of the wars in Algeria and Vietnam, announces his retirement from active service at the age of 38 in order to enter politics.
December 21: Arrival of the first elements of the US 18th, 21st and 90th Infantry Divisions in South Vietnam, bringing United States forces in the theatre to a strength of 20 divisions and 1,562,948 personnel.
December 22: Professor John Archibald Wheeler of Princeton University coins the phrase 'black hole' to describe an astronomical phenomenon whereby a gravitational collapse is so strong that not even light can escape at the annual dinner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in New York City.
December 23: President Kennedy pays a surprise Christmas visit to troops in South Vietnam.
December 24: A tow-haired young Chicago boy is accidentally left at home by himself for Christmas whilst his family vacations abroad and foils the nefarious schemes of a pair of burglars, torturing them with a devilish array of traps and then mercilessly dispatching them with his prized .22 rifle.
December 25: Orion 4 and Kosmos transmit a carefully coordinated and syncronised joint Christmas message to Earth, emphasising the brotherhood of man and the importance of peace.
December 26: End of the Christmas ceasefire in Vietnam, with renewed Viet Cong raids being met by heavy artillery and aerial bombardment.
December 27: USAF B-47s destroys a subterranean Viet Cong stronghold in the Central Highlands with a combination of special penetrating rockets and 126 1000lb chlorine trifluoride bombs.
December 28: Incorporation of the Hyundai Motor Company in Korea.
December 29: SS Dreadnought becomes the third Earthly spaceship to arrive in the Jovian system.
December 30: The South Vietnamese city of Huế is struck by a surprise long range artillery and rocket bombardment overnight. Several dozen rockets carrying sarin warheads are fired at South Vietnamese Army fortifications on the northern outskirts of the city.
December 31: A North Vietnamese People's Air Force bomber raid is detected by USAF airborne radar inbound for South Vietnamese airspace. A flight of F-102s of the 111th Fighter Interceptor Wing of the Texas Air National Guard are ordered to destroy the raid and do so, firing six AIM-26 Falcon nuclear air-to-air missiles and obliterating the 12 Tu-98 Backfins.