Post by simon darkshade on Nov 22, 2021 9:38:42 GMT
July
July 1: A US Army chartered jet carrying 324 soldiers to South Vietnam is forced down to land in the Kurile Islands after straying into Soviet airspace
July 2: Premiere of Dad's Army, a respectful semi-comedic television series on the experiences of the Home Guard in the Second World War, on BBC1.
July 3: The British Army takes delivery of its first armoured trains since the Second World War.
July 4: President Kennedy announces that, should he be prevailed upon to stand as the Democratic candidate for President, he would reluctantly accept in order to bring the war in Vietnam to a victorious end and pursue a lasting peace with the Soviet Union.
July 5: Round-the-world yachtsman Alec Rose is greeted by a crowd of 200,000 as he completes his voyage, sailing home into Portsmouth Harbour.
July 6: Laying down of the Royal Navy’s newest guided missile atomic super battlecruiser at Cammell Laird; the new ships dwarf the wartime Orion class that they are finally replacing and are thought to be an appropriate counter to recent Soviet, Chinese, Polish and GDR ships.
July 7: Merger of the Northrop Aircraft Corporation and the Grumman Aerospace Corporation, the second major consolidation in the US aerospace sector following on from last year’s creation of McDonnell-Douglas and ongoing talks between North American and Convair.
July 9: Enoch Powell wins the second round of the Conservative Party leadership contest and is formally elected as Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition.
July 10: The Royal Navy introduces a dual purpose air-launched anti-ship/land attack version of the Hawker-Siddeley Paladin supersonic missile into experimental service with carrier-based Blackburn Buccaneers and Supermarine Excaliburs of the Grand Fleet. It is a smaller and shorter range weapon than the ship launched Paladin and the ground-based coastal defence missile still under development.
July 11: Opening of the first direct commercial air service between the United States and USSR with Panam and Aeroflot flying between New York City and Moscow.
July 12: Reports of increased unrest in rural Venezuela cause a brief crash in the local stock market under suspicious circumstances.
July 13: Doctors in Hong Kong identify a new, highly virulent strain of influenza that displays alarming features of other diseases.
July 14: First performance of The Great Passion Play, the largest outdoor dramatic performance in the United States, in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
July 15: Ground is broken on the first stage of the Port Victoria Deepwater Ship Terminal and Skyport on the Isle of Grain, alongside the BP oil refinery and gasworks, Imperial Steel ironworks and the Grain Power Station.
July 16: Rebel Armée Nationale Congolaise forces engage British troops deployed on stabilisation operations in Northern Katanga and are defeated in a brief pitched battle notable for heavy use of firepower.
July 17: Local authorities are puzzled by the overnight appearance of a huge beanstalk in Bavaria; the plant is destroyed by Luftwaffe jets armed with incendiary and herbicidal missiles as a precaution shortly before noon.
July 18: Intelcorporation unveils the prototype of what it terms a 'microcomputerprocessor'.
July 19: US forces seize their final objects along the extended Liberty Line in Laos, having lost 296 men in the operation in exchange for an estimated 6000 NVA dead.
July 20: The first running of the British Grand Prix on its new circuit at Silverstone, with Jim Clark narrowly defeating Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart, whilst Jack Brabham and Bruce McLaren rounded out the top five.
July 21: Soviet cosmonauts begin assembly of a very large spacecraft in Earth orbit, closely monitored by the United States Space Force.
July 22: Mexican police and Imperial troops are attacked by peasant groups in a coordinated uprising in the southern state of Chiapas.
July 23: The Office of the Witchfinder General conclude an investigation into a strange case of a infant biting his brother's finger and erupting into uncontrollable demonic laughter, finding that the child's actions were apparently not inspired by the agency of the Evil One, but rather innocent childish play.
July 24: Incorporation of new monastic order of the Church of the United States of America, the Brotherhood of St. Cuthbert in Boston.
July 25: First clandestine flight of the Northrop SR-72 Aurora at an altitude of 125,000ft in the night skies over Nevada.
July 26: The Home Office indicates that it will not pursue any relaxation of theatre censorship, despite the presentation of a large petition organised by the Royal National Theatre.
July 27: Korean troops report increased Chinese activity across the demilitarised strip along the heavily fortified Yalu River border.
July 28: A Swedish chef subdues a rabid roc during a cooking demonstration in Brussels with a fortuitously placed antique blunderbuss.
July 29: Eighty-seven people are killed in the eruption of Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica.
July 30: Arrival of the Soviet Kosmos spacecraft in the Saturnine system.
July 31: International Revolutionary Army commandos attempt to attack the Royal Exchange and Bank of England, resulting in an intense firefight with Metropolitan Policemen, outraged passers-by and the Bank guard detachment, prior to the arrival of the Special Patrol Group, two companies of Grenadier Guards from the Tower of London and a Centurion tank from the Barbican Fortress. The nine surviving terrorists attempt to escape back on the Thames, but are cornered, pinned down by an RN frigate and their lair stormed by the SAS two hours later, with all inside killed and their thirty hostages rescued. 25 IRA members, 4 policemen and 2 Guardsmen are killed in the ‘Battle of London.’
July 1: A US Army chartered jet carrying 324 soldiers to South Vietnam is forced down to land in the Kurile Islands after straying into Soviet airspace
July 2: Premiere of Dad's Army, a respectful semi-comedic television series on the experiences of the Home Guard in the Second World War, on BBC1.
July 3: The British Army takes delivery of its first armoured trains since the Second World War.
July 4: President Kennedy announces that, should he be prevailed upon to stand as the Democratic candidate for President, he would reluctantly accept in order to bring the war in Vietnam to a victorious end and pursue a lasting peace with the Soviet Union.
July 5: Round-the-world yachtsman Alec Rose is greeted by a crowd of 200,000 as he completes his voyage, sailing home into Portsmouth Harbour.
July 6: Laying down of the Royal Navy’s newest guided missile atomic super battlecruiser at Cammell Laird; the new ships dwarf the wartime Orion class that they are finally replacing and are thought to be an appropriate counter to recent Soviet, Chinese, Polish and GDR ships.
July 7: Merger of the Northrop Aircraft Corporation and the Grumman Aerospace Corporation, the second major consolidation in the US aerospace sector following on from last year’s creation of McDonnell-Douglas and ongoing talks between North American and Convair.
July 9: Enoch Powell wins the second round of the Conservative Party leadership contest and is formally elected as Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition.
July 10: The Royal Navy introduces a dual purpose air-launched anti-ship/land attack version of the Hawker-Siddeley Paladin supersonic missile into experimental service with carrier-based Blackburn Buccaneers and Supermarine Excaliburs of the Grand Fleet. It is a smaller and shorter range weapon than the ship launched Paladin and the ground-based coastal defence missile still under development.
July 11: Opening of the first direct commercial air service between the United States and USSR with Panam and Aeroflot flying between New York City and Moscow.
July 12: Reports of increased unrest in rural Venezuela cause a brief crash in the local stock market under suspicious circumstances.
July 13: Doctors in Hong Kong identify a new, highly virulent strain of influenza that displays alarming features of other diseases.
July 14: First performance of The Great Passion Play, the largest outdoor dramatic performance in the United States, in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
July 15: Ground is broken on the first stage of the Port Victoria Deepwater Ship Terminal and Skyport on the Isle of Grain, alongside the BP oil refinery and gasworks, Imperial Steel ironworks and the Grain Power Station.
July 16: Rebel Armée Nationale Congolaise forces engage British troops deployed on stabilisation operations in Northern Katanga and are defeated in a brief pitched battle notable for heavy use of firepower.
July 17: Local authorities are puzzled by the overnight appearance of a huge beanstalk in Bavaria; the plant is destroyed by Luftwaffe jets armed with incendiary and herbicidal missiles as a precaution shortly before noon.
July 18: Intelcorporation unveils the prototype of what it terms a 'microcomputerprocessor'.
July 19: US forces seize their final objects along the extended Liberty Line in Laos, having lost 296 men in the operation in exchange for an estimated 6000 NVA dead.
July 20: The first running of the British Grand Prix on its new circuit at Silverstone, with Jim Clark narrowly defeating Graham Hill and Jackie Stewart, whilst Jack Brabham and Bruce McLaren rounded out the top five.
July 21: Soviet cosmonauts begin assembly of a very large spacecraft in Earth orbit, closely monitored by the United States Space Force.
July 22: Mexican police and Imperial troops are attacked by peasant groups in a coordinated uprising in the southern state of Chiapas.
July 23: The Office of the Witchfinder General conclude an investigation into a strange case of a infant biting his brother's finger and erupting into uncontrollable demonic laughter, finding that the child's actions were apparently not inspired by the agency of the Evil One, but rather innocent childish play.
July 24: Incorporation of new monastic order of the Church of the United States of America, the Brotherhood of St. Cuthbert in Boston.
July 25: First clandestine flight of the Northrop SR-72 Aurora at an altitude of 125,000ft in the night skies over Nevada.
July 26: The Home Office indicates that it will not pursue any relaxation of theatre censorship, despite the presentation of a large petition organised by the Royal National Theatre.
July 27: Korean troops report increased Chinese activity across the demilitarised strip along the heavily fortified Yalu River border.
July 28: A Swedish chef subdues a rabid roc during a cooking demonstration in Brussels with a fortuitously placed antique blunderbuss.
July 29: Eighty-seven people are killed in the eruption of Arenal Volcano in Costa Rica.
July 30: Arrival of the Soviet Kosmos spacecraft in the Saturnine system.
July 31: International Revolutionary Army commandos attempt to attack the Royal Exchange and Bank of England, resulting in an intense firefight with Metropolitan Policemen, outraged passers-by and the Bank guard detachment, prior to the arrival of the Special Patrol Group, two companies of Grenadier Guards from the Tower of London and a Centurion tank from the Barbican Fortress. The nine surviving terrorists attempt to escape back on the Thames, but are cornered, pinned down by an RN frigate and their lair stormed by the SAS two hours later, with all inside killed and their thirty hostages rescued. 25 IRA members, 4 policemen and 2 Guardsmen are killed in the ‘Battle of London.’
That must have required a hell of a cooking pot. Or was the chief cooking an elephant and the roc tried to steal the meal?