Dark Earth Timeline

1952

January
January 1: The Danish and Swedish governments establish a commission to study the feasability of a bridge across the Øresund Strait.
January 2: Four USN heavy cruisers are reclassified as guided missile cruisers in anticipation of their planned conversion.
January 3: Australia beat the West Indies by one wicket in the Fourth Test Match at the M.C.G.
January 4: The US Navy begins Operation Package, the interdiction of enemy road and rail traffic in North East Korea by carrier aircraft.
January 5: Prime Minister Churchill arrives in Washington for a conference on global strategy with President Truman.
January 6: The National Council of Churches issues a declaration stating that Communist activities are incompatible with Christian faith.
January 7: 15 Norwegian miners are killed in an explosion in a Spitsbergen coal mine.
January 8: The Emirate of Jordan adopts a new constitution.
January 9: Baseball player Ted Williams is recalled to active duty with the United States Marine Corps.
January 10: Premiere of Cecil B. DeMille's film The Greatest Show on Earth at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
January 11: Opening of the Brussels Conference on the negotiation of security treaties between the British Empire, the United States and the nations of Western Europe.
January 12: Archaeologists uncover the sarcophagus of Pacal the Great at Palenque.
January 13: The Convair C-99 Skyfrieghter enters operational service with the Military Air Transport Service.
January 14: Coffee rationing ends in the Netherlands.
January 15: A large snowstorm in the Sierra Nevada kills 26 people.
January 16: Sooty, a talking miniature yellow bear, makes his first appearance on BBC television.
January 17: The U.S unemployment rate drops below 2% as industrial and defence mobilisation in response to the Korean War gathers pace.
January 18: Reindeer are reintroduced to the Cairngorms in the Highlands of Scotland for the first time since the last Ice Age.
January 19: The first express rail service between Adelaide and Sydney begins service in Australia.
January 20: British troops suppress riots in Ismailiya, Egypt.
January 21: Anomalous underwater rock formations are observed off Bimini Island in the Bahamas.
January 22: American Airlines begins transatlantic passenger services, joining US Airways, Pan American World Airways, United Airlines and Trans World Airways.
January 23: Admittance of the first half-orc undergraduate student to Oxford University.
January 24: Discovery of the world's largest deposits of iron ore in Western Australia.
January 25: Opening of the Grand Steamworks in London.
January 26: The Israeli Knesset approves the Reparations Agreement between Germany and Israel.
January 27: Formation of the first robotic automaton unit of the United States Army.
January 28: The Strategic Planning Group of the Committee of Imperial Defence begins deliberations on the future global strategy of the British Empire.
January 29: Emperor Maximilian IV of Mexico calls for the strengthening of Latin American ties and increased mutual cooperation in a major speech in Rio de Janeiro.
January 30: Collapse of Korean War ceasefire talks in Lhasa.
January 31: A tropical storm off Porto Rico is dispelled by US wizards in the latest of test of new weather

February
February 1: Beginning of a general strike protesting against French rule in Tunisia.
February 2: Austro-Hungarian scientists patent the first soft contact lenses.
February 3: The United States Army begins initial deployment of the Nike Ajax surface-to-air guided missile.
February 4: First use of an autonomous mechanical heart on a human patient in the United States.
February 5: Introduction of the Canadian Pension Savings Plan by Prime Minister Sir William Richardson's Conservative government.
February 6: His Majesty King-Emperor George VI dies aged 56 at Sandringham House after a long illness. Elizabeth, Princess of Wales, currently visiting Kenya, succeeds him to the throne. Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill hails him as a greatly loved and universally respected ruler, a valiant leader of all his peoples and one of England's greatest kings.
February 7: Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and sovereign of her realms by the Accession Council at St. James Palace and by the Governor-Generals of the Dominions.
February 8: First flight of the Piaggio P.152 jet bomber in Italy.
February 9: Jonas Salk begins testing of his experimental polio vaccine.
February 10: Initiation of Operation Strangle, a day and night aerial interdiction campaign across North Korea.
February 11: First passenger flight over the North Pole between Copenhagen and Los Angeles.
February 12: Formation of the National Security Agency in the United States.
February 13: Two Japanese fishing boats spot an enormous reptilian sea monster off Marcus Island.
February 14: Opening of the Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway.
February 15: The state funeral of King George VI is held at Westminster Abbey, attended by the heads of state and monarchs of over 60 states as a crowd of over a million people line the streets.
February 16: Spanish troops fire on protesters in Spanish Guinea.
February 17: An aged Swedish professor is fined for loitering on a Stockholm park bench whilst engaging in public introspection on the nature of love and human existence.
February 18: Rescue of the crew of the stricken tanker SS Pendleton by volunteers of the US Coast Guard off the coast of Massachusetts.
February 19: Byzantine Greece and Ottoman Turkey sign a Treaty of Amity and Cooperation under intense US economic pressure.
February 20: First screening of The African Queen at the Capitol Theater in New York City.
February 21: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia arrives in Paris on the first leg of his great European tour.
February 22: A Bristol Brabazon performs an emergency crash landing at Washington National Airport; all 249 passengers and crew on board miraculously survive
February 23: Opening of the first franchise Super Dog fast food restaurant in Indiana.
February 24: Closing ceremony of the Oslo Winter Olympics. Norway tops the medal count with 20, followed by Sweden with 13 and the United States with 12.
February 25: The Parícutin volcano in Mexico ceases erupting for the first time since 1943.
February 26: Beginning of the ultimately unsuccessful Netherlands-Indonesia Unity Conference.
February 27: An international geological expedition disappears while exploring newly discovered tunnels inside a dormant Icelandic volcano.
February 28: Royal Space Force fighters destroy three Space Nazi raider ships off Phobos.
February 29: Installation of the first 'Don't Walk' signs in New York City. They are promptly ignored by pedestrians.

March
March 1: A brigade of Royal Marines is landed near Alexandria by helicopters and conventional landing craft in a highly-publicised amphibious demonstration exercise
March 2: The French general election results in a landslide victory to Premier Charles de Gaulle's Union Française, who win 256 seats to the Socialist Party's 138, the Democrats 102, the Communist Party's 98, the National Conservatives 96 and the Radicals 87.
March 3: Porto Rico approves its first self-authored constitution.
March 4: The Royal Navy formally ceases destroyer and frigate patrols along the Rhine.
March 5: An apparition of Spanish swordsman appears in the midst of a performance of Macbeth in Edinburgh.
March 6: Introduction of the first roll-on deodorant product, Ban-Roll-On.
March 7: Giant icebergs are spotted in the North Atlantic.
March 8: Formal establishment of a joint Dutch-Belgian military staff in the latest step towards integration of the defence capabilities of the Benelux states.
March 9: Immigration to Great Britain from
March 10: First sales of No-Cal Soda in the United States.
March 11: The Martin MGM-1 Matador flying bomb enters service with the USAF.
March 12: Development of murg makhani, or butter chicken, at the Moti Mahal restaurant in Delhi.
March 13: French troops begin withdrawing from Hòa Bình in Tonkin at the end of a protracted but ultimately indecisive attritional battle against the Viet Minh.
March 14: The US Army selects the experimental T16E3 for development as its future general purpose machine gun.
March 15: A German submission calling for the release of convicted Nazi war criminals is declined by the Allied High Command.
March 16: 73 inches of rain falls in Cilaos, Reunion, establishing a new world record for the most rainfall in 24 hours.
March 17: Allied forces in Korea begin a heavy bombardment of Chinese and North Korean positions north of Kaesong.
March 18: The Royal Company of Adventurers receives its first Gloster Meteor jet fighters.
March 19: Conclusion of the Brussels Conference with the signing of the Atlantic Treaty by Britain, the United States, Canada, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Portugal. It provides for mutual defence against aggression and consultation on the coordination of national defences. It falls short of American preferences for the establishment of a formal joint command structure due to French objections, the issue of the British Mediterranean Fleet and issues of control of US and British atomic weapons.
March 20: Tornadoes cause significant damage in the lower Mississippi River Valley, killing 204 people.
March 21: The United States Senate ratifies the treaty of peace with Japan.
March 22: A KLM DC-6 crashes near Frankfurt, killing 44 passengers and crew.
March 23: Andries Jan Pieters and Artur Albrecht are executed by a Dutch firing squad in The Hague for war crimes.
March 24: A newspaper poll in the United States declares apple pie to be the nation's favourite dessert.
March 25: The 35mm Mecaflex camera goes on sale in Cologne, Germany.
March 26: Service Aeronautique Royale and Royal Air Force Lancasters strike suspected Viet Minh positions close to the Chinese-Vietnamese border.
March 27: Debut of the musical comedySingin' in the Rain at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
March 28: A Greek destroyer is sunk by a suspected German mine off the coast of Rhodes with the loss of 45 lives.
March 29: Formal establishment of the Federation of the West Indies, a union of the British colonies in the Caribbean with limited self-governing powers.
March 30: First suborbital test launch of the newest Royal Space Force rocketship, the Victoria, from Woomera, South Australia.
March 31: Over 800,000 Chinese troops in Korea launch a second Spring Offensive along the centre of the front.

April
April 1: Chinese troops achieve limited breakthroughs along Allied lines in Korea.
April 2: Fire sweeps through Bombay, killing at least 458 and destroying hundreds of buildings.
April 3: NYPD detectives arrest two dozen attendees of a poetry reading in Greenwich Village on drug and vice charges.
April 4: 78 Norwegian seal hunters disappear mysteriously off the coast of Greenland.
April 5: The decommissioned Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Renown opens as a museum ship in Govan.
April 6: Allied aircraft and artillery strike Chinese lines of supply and communication in a massive 24 hour effort to blunt the Imperial Chinese Army’s Second Spring Offensive.
April 7: Dutch and Indonesian ships come close to colliding off the Moluccas.
April 8: President Harry Truman invokes emergency provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act to prevent a strike by the United Steel Workers of America.
April 9: A cete of flying badgers terrorizes pedestrians in Chipping Sodbury.
April 10: The Avro Vulcan heavy strategic jet bomber enters operational service with the Royal Air Force.
April 11: Beginning of Desert Rock IV, a major atomic warfare exercise conducted by the United States Army at the Nevada Test Site.
April 12: Geoffrey Dummer successfully demonstrates his working example of an integrated circuit at the Royal Radar Establishment.
April 13: Fourteen people are hospitalized with food poisoning after consuming a consignment of suspect kippers in Torquay.
April 14: Imperial Airways begin the first round-the-world jetliner service.
April 15: Baden-Württemberg officially becomes a state of Germany.
April 16: An attempted coup d’etat in Bolivia is put down in a series of bloody engagements.
April 17: Soviet biological scientist Ilya Ivanov is awarded the Order of Lenin for contributions to the study of primates.
April 18: Germany and Japan reopen diplomatic relations.
April 19: Completion of the first offshore oil exploration platform in the North Sea.
April 20: Imperial Chinese Army commanders in North Korea call a halt to the Second Spring Offensive.
April 21: Establishment of the Fort Churchill Rocket Test Site in Churchill, Manitoba.
April 22: The first bulletproof sunglasses go on sale in Los Angeles.
April 23: Retired General and President of Columbia University Dwight D. Eisenhower suffers a major heart attack.
April 24: The Air Ministry begins a study into the development of a replacement for the English Electric Canberra jet strike bomber.
April 25: Chartering of the University of Southampton.
April 26: The aircraft carrier USS Wasp collides with the destroyer USS Hobson in exercises in the Atlantic Ocean, killing 175 sailors.
April 27: Reported discovery of a lost Shakespearean play in a Cambridge college.
April 28: Australian soprano Joan Sutherland makes her debut at the Royal Opera House in Covent Gardens.
April 29: The IBM 701 Defense Calculator scientific computer is announced to the public.
April 30: General Eisenhower announces that he will not be run for President on grounds of ill health.

May
May 1: Several new Soviet weapons systems are displayed at the May Day parade, including a 240mm self-propelled gun-howitzer, the IS-10 heavy tank and a new jet fighter.
May 2: Two USAF pilots land a modified C-47 at the North Pole.
May 3: Newcastle United win the FA Cup for the fifth time.
May 4: A Harlem exotic fish importer is killed in the mysterious explosion of his yacht off the coast of Jamaica.
May 5: Herman Wouk is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for The Caine Mutiny.
May 6: The Royal Air Force issues a requirement for a medium range ballistic missile capable of reaching the western USSR from the British Isles.
May 7: An expected rain of gold coins from the sky sparks wild scenes in Tripoli.
May 8: The Conqueror heavy tank enters operational service with the British Army.
May 9: Formation of the Flying Squad of the Spanish Inquisition.
May 10: Six Belgian chocolatiers are badly burnt after a freak accident while constructing a giant éclair in Antwerp.
May 11: Trade ties between Italy and Britain are normalised.
May 12: Squadron Leader P.G. Fisher completes the first non-stop unrefueled flight from England to Australia in an English Electric Canberra
May 13: Dozens of Egyptian army officers and politicians are arrested on charges of treason after British intelligence agents uncover a plot to overthrow King Farouk.
May 14: Martial law and a strict curfew are declared in Egypt, enforced by loyalist troops with the support of British forces
May 15: The RAF takes delivery of its final Avro Anson, the type having been in continuous production for 18 years.
May 16: Riotous protests against French colonial rule in Carthage are barely suppressed by the French garrison.
May 17: A large amphibious raid by US Marine Raiders is launched south of Wonsan.
May 18: Ann Davison becomes the first woman to sail single-handed across the Atlantic Ocean.
May 19: Execution by hanging of 26 Egyptian officers in Cairo in connection with the abortive coup.
May 20: Maiden flight of the first US produced Martin B-56 Canberra light jet bomber.
May 21: Reports of tribal violence and growing anti-British sentiment reach Nairobi.
May 22: Civil Air Patrol aircraft spot a UFO over the Arizona-Mexican border.
May 23: A renowned ne’er-do-well claims to have discovered the Lost Dutchman’s Gold Mine in the Superstition Mountains
May 24: The US Army conducts its third successful test of the Redstone ballistic missile.
May 25: Discovery of a large cache of Atlantean artifacts in the Florida Keys.
May 26: Initial design studies for a new Royal Navy supercarrier are submitted to the DNC.
May 27: Women gain the right to vote in Greek elections.
May 28: Establishment of the Fallskärmsjägarna (Airborne Rangers) of the Swedish Army.
May 29: Police are summoned after a bunfight at a tearoom in Penenink, Cornwall careens out of control.
May 30: The Auckland Harbour Bridge is opened by Governor-General The Lord Freyberg.
May 31: An article in The Times calls for the relaxation of anti-goblin laws.

June
June 1: RMS Great Britain and SS United States begin their celebrated Great Atlantic Race at Southampton.
June 2: Opening of the Volga-Don Canal, linking the Caspian and Black Seas.
June 3: The Yugoslav Ministry of Agriculture reports that the current drought affecting Bosnia and Croatia is thought to be man-made.
June 4: An American scientific mission arrives in Peru to study the Nazca Lines.
June 5: Introduction of a one shilling charge for prescription drugs dispensed by the National Health Service.
June 6: The Prince of Lapland is received by US Secretary of State Dean Acheson in Washington in what is described by several newspapers as evidence of growing American-Finnish security ties.
June 7: RMS Great Britain arrives in New York City in a record 6 days, 12 hours and 23 minutes, beating SS United States by only 21 minutes.
June 8: Two Royal Fusilier National Servicemen, Reginald and Ronald Kray, are shot for desertion at the Tower of London.
June 9: The first five divisions of the German Army reach limited operational readiness.
June 10: Myxomatosis is introduced into France.
June 11: Seven toppled moai on Easter Island are mysteriously righted.
June 12: The Royal Navy places production orders for 10 Type 14 anti-submarine corvettes.
June 13: A Royal Swedish Air Force Douglas Tp-79 is shot down by Soviet MiG-9 jets while on an electronic intelligence gathering mission over the Baltic Sea.
June 14: First test firing of an atomic shell by a British supergun in Operation Parapet at Maralinga in South Australia
June 15: Opening of a new deep dwarven coal mine in Ayrshire, Scotland.
June 16: Two RSAF Catalinas are attacked by Soviet MiGs as they search for survivors of the Douglas Tp-79 crash. One is forced to make an emergency landing near a German cargo ship, which rescues the stricken crew.
June 17: First joint Intercolonial Congress of the Federations of British West Africa and British East Africa.
June 18: Sweden issues a formal protest over Soviet aerial harassment in the League of Nations.
June 19: Formation of the Special Forces of the United States Army.
June 20: The minesweeper HMS Elfreda is sunk by enemy shore batteries off the coast of Korea, killing 16 members of the crew.
June 21: Former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George dies aged 89.
June 22: Porto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.
June 23: Allied aircraft begin intense attacks on North Korean electricity generation facilities.
June 24: The Flying Dutchman is reportedly spotted by mariners en route to Mauritius.
June 25: Establishment of the Conservative Party of the United States in Charleston, South Carolina.
June 26: The Anglo-American Combined Chiefs of Staff estimate that Western forces in Germany will reach a level capable of halting and holding a conventional Soviet attack by early 1954, provided that air superiority could be maintained. A total force of 120 divisions would be in place by M + 25.
June 27: Decree 900, an agrarian reform law for the redistribution of land comes into effect in Guatemala.
June 28: Formation of the Labour Party of Malaya.
June 29: Britain conducts Operation Grapple, its first hydrogen bomb test on Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean
June 30: Maiden flight of the Alouette II utility helicopter in France.

July
July 1: Formation of the Royal Portuguese Air Force.
July 2: Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands is appointed mayor of the miniature city of Madurodam.
July 3: The German Navy places preliminary orders for four destroyers with Blohm + Voss, Deutsche Werft and Howaldstwerke.
July 4: Commissioning of the atomic submarine USS Nautilus.
July 5: Commercial hovercraft services begin between Dover and Calais.
July 6: Establishment of the New York City Transit Authority to administer bus, subway and street car operations in the metropolis.
July 7: French police arrest 20 communists in connection with a plot against the King.
July 8: The aircraft carrier HMNAS Drake begins combat operations off the coast of Korea.
July 9: Four German war criminals are executed by a Dutch firing squad in The Hague.
July 10: The Soviet Union announces that it will send a scientific expedition to the Antarctic next year.
July 11: A coordinated airstrike by USAF, USMC, USN and RN aircraft on Pyongyang causes massive destruction.
July 12: The value of direct US-Martian trade reaches $23 billion.
July 13: SS America re-enters service on the North Atlantic route after a lengthy refit.
July 14: French commandos destroy eight Viet Minh supply camps in a series of airborne raids.
July 15: Installation of a major long range RDF station on Heligoland.
July 16: The Shah of Persia names a new premier and government.
July 17: American troops launch a new major offensive in central Korea.
July 18: Opening of the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. China and the Soviet Union are not invited to compete while Germany, Austria-Hungary, Japan and Italy take part in their first Olympics since 1936.
July 19: India are bowled out for 58 and 82 in a single day, losing the Third Test at Old Trafford to England by an innings and 207 runs.
July 20: Detection of a number of unidentified flying objects over Washington D.C.
July 21: A large earthquake strikes the southern San Joaquin Valley in California, killing 14 people and causing millions of dollars of damage.
July 22: Communist Poland adopts a new constitution.
July 23: Four Imperial Policemen are killed in ambushes in Kenya.
July 24: HMS Oberon reports detecting and tracking a very large suspected Soviet transport submarine off the North Cape of Norway.
July 25: Canada and Mexico sign a new trade agreement.
July 26: Launch of the first Floating Fortress of the Royal Navy.
July 27: Thieves steal a large diamond worth an estimated $68 million from a Philadelphia bank vault.
July 28: Discovery of a large underground pyramid in central China.
July 29: A USAF RB-47 makes the first non-stop crossing of the Pacific Ocean, being refuelled in flight twice.
July 30: The Government of India officially proclaims the establishment of the Heavy Engineering Corporation of India and the Food Corporation of India.
July 31: Arrival of a reinforced infantry battalion of the Prydainian Army in Pusan.

August
August 1: A disturbed man is arrested in London while trying to attack the museum battleship Warspite with a rock hammer.
August 2: North Korea and China accuse the United States of using germ warfare in Korea.
August 3: The 15th Summer Olympic Games conclude in Helsinki. The United States tops the medal table with 98, followed by Austria-Hungary with 59, Sweden with 42, Germany with 34, Britain with 32 and Finland with 29.
August 4: British troops and Royal Constabulary suppress riotous demonstrations in Accra.
August 5: A estimated 75,000 neo-fascists stage a large protest in Rome.
August 6: Douglas MacArthur tops a Tokyo newspaper poll on the most admired foreigner.
August 7: Greece orders over 80 million pounds of defence material from Britain.
August 8: Syngman Rhee is re-elected as President of South Korea.
August 9: A general strike is called against extension of the term of conscription in Belgium.
August 10: Several newspapers across the United States publish editorials sharply critical of British imperialism and colonial policy in Africa and Asia.
August 11: A UFO is unsuccessfully engaged by USAF F-86 fighter jets over Southern Massachusetts.
August 12: 13 Jewish poets are executed in the Soviet Union for treason.
August 13: The long running dispute over the estate of the late Charles Foster Kane is settled out of court.
August 14: A youthful Belgian reporter foils an attempted coup in a tiny Red Sea city state.
August 15: Publication of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis.
August 16: A freak wave in Lynmouth, England kills 35.
August 17: The Canadian House of Commons hears that books barred from Canada include Joseph Stalin's Questions of Leninism and Mae West's Diamond Lil.
August 18: RAF Avro York superheavy bombers strike underground communist terrorist targets in Northern Malaya with 48,000lb Super Grand Slam earthquake bombs.
August 19: A fisherman catches a world-record 4278lb great white shark off Ceduna, South Australia.
August 20: The Conservative Government of Sir Winston Churchill is returned to office with an increased majority in the 1952 British General Election, winning 379 seats, the Liberals 132, Labour 120, the Nationals 38, Imperialists 29, Radicals 21, Socialists 16 and Independents 15.
August 21: First broadcast of 'Kitchen Magic' on BBC Television, presented by Fanny and Major Johnnie Craddock.
August 22: A plague of locusts strikes Arabia and Transjordan.
August 23: The members of the Arab League conclude a mutual security pact.
August 24: The Governor of Kenya imposes a general curfew on areas of suspected Mau-Mau insurgency.
August 25: Fluoridation of the San Francisco water supply begins
August 26: Mother Teresa opens the first Home for the Dying in Calcutta.
August 27: An Imperial Airways de Havilland Comet makes a return crossing of the Atlantic from London to New York City in a single day.
August 28: Jacob Malik is appointed as Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union.
August 29: The Allied High Commission for Germany formally ceases to exist.
August 30: A nefarious plot to destroy the West Indian sugar crop is foiled by British and Canadian agents.
August 31: The Convair B-60 enters service with the United States Air Force

September
September 1: Publication of Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, reportedly based on a true story.
September 2: Dr. C. Walton Lillehei and Dr. F. John Lewis perform the world's first open-heart surgery at the University of Minnesota
September 3: France conducts its first atomic bomb test in Algeria, becoming the fourth nuclear power.
September 4: The Royal Air Force's Vanguard rocket force reaches its peak strength of 125 missiles.
September 5: General Carlos Ibanez is elected Prime Minister of Chile.
September 6: The de Havilland DH.110 breaks the sound barrier in level flight at the Farnborough Airshow.
September 7: First tests of a revolutionary influenza pill in Chicago.
September 8: HMS Hood, pride of the Royal Navy and its most famous capital ship, is decommissioned at Portsmouth in front of a crowd of 126,000 after a 32 year career of peacetime and wartime service in every ocean in the world.
September 9: The Labour-Progressive Party of Canada is banned as a Communist front organisation.
September 10: A USAF study indicates that Soviet air defences have been considerably strengthened over the last two years, but that the current MiG-15 jet fighter is of only marginal utility against USAF B-47s and RAF Valiants and unable to counter the B-52, B-49 or the Avro Vulcan.
September 11: HMS Dreadnought arrives at Halifax Royal Navy Dockyard, having completed a submerged transit of the North Atlantic from Portsmouth in 129 hours and 32 minutes.
September 12: An American skyship successfully completes a non-stop journey from the South Pole to the North Pole.
September 13: Establishment of the Indian Army Expeditionary Force, initially set at a strength of two corps.
September 14: The barcode is patented in the United States.
September 15: An experimental USAF rocket plane reaches an altitude of 129 miles in the latest of a series of sub-orbital test flights over California.
September 16: Goblin attacks in Madagascar reach their highest degree of intensity since the Affair of 1896.
September 17: Constitution Day is marked in the United States by great parades and public demonstrations of patriotism.
September 18: Japanese membership of the League of Nations is vetoed by the Soviet Union.
September 19: Charlie Chaplin is refused re-entry into the United States pending investigation by the Immigration Service.
September 20: First flight of the prototype of the Tu-88 medium jet bomber.
September 21: The Swedish general election sees the Liberal People's Party returned to government, winning 84 seats to 75 of the Social Democrats.
September 22: Establishment of a secret Royal Navy rocket base on Rarotonga.
September 23: The Vickers Red Rapier long range flying bomb enters service with the Royal Air Force.
September 24: A Japanese oceanographic research vessel, the Daigo Kaiyo, is sunk by the explosion of an underwater volcano.
September 25: Chinese forces launch a series of probing attacks along the Allied front in Korea.
September 26: The Israeli Army takes delivery of the first of 108 specially modified Conqueror heavy tanks.
September 27: Geelong defeats Collingwood in the 1952 VFL Grand Final 20.9 (129) to 5.12 (42) to record their second successive premiership.
September 28: First flight of the Mikoyan MiG-17 transonic jet fighter.
September 29: A top secret directive of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff authorises that the remaining elements of War Plan Red be officially discontinued.
September 30: Sir Evelyn Baring takes up his position as the new Governor of Kenya.

October
October 1: The Liberal Party is returned to power in the Japanese general election, winning 289 seats out of 525.
October 2: American and British heavy bombers strike targets around the Yalu River throughout the night.
October 3: The Air Ministry issues a specification for a supersonic fighter-interceptor capable of operational altitudes up to at least 60,000ft.
October 4: Arrest of seven former members of the Black Shorts movement in London.
October 5: A Communist mad scientist known only as Doctor Revenge issues a lurid threat to poison the water supply of St. Louis.
October 6: Sightings of strange lights in the sky above the Midwest United States.
October 7: The New York Yankees tie their own record of four consecutive World Series wins, beating the Brooklyn Dodgers 4 games to 3.
October 8: A railway accident at Harrow and Wealdstone station in North London kills 108.
October 9: Knights Templar uncover a coven of witches in Dublin.
October 10: Marshal Sikorsky declares that the Free Polish Army will never disband while their homeland remains under Communist captivity.
October 11: Public display of several Red Army war machines at a technological exposition in Leningrad.
October 12: A giant caterpillar causes widespread damage in Valladoid, Spain before disappearing underground.
October 13: Chinese and American tanks clash in a large scale engagement along the south of what will be known as the Iron Triangle.
October 14: Opening of the second franchise of the Dag-Wood Sandwich Shoppe in Toledo, Ohio.
October 15: Doctor Revenge is apprehended and subdued by a caped superhero in a daring assault on his subterranean lair beneath the Ozarks.
October 16: The Luftwaffe receives its first jet fighters, F-84 Thunderjets.
October 17: Indonesian troops commanded by General Nasution surround the Presidential Palace in Djakarta, beginning a tense stand off with forces loyal to Sukarno.
October 18: An explosion in a Ministry of Magic laboratory forces the evacuation of several Cambridge suburbs.
October 19: John Bamford, 15, rescues his two younger brothers from a housefire in Newthorpe and is subsequently avoided the George Cross.
October 20: Martial law is declared in Kenya.
October 21: British military and colonial authorities launch Operation Jock Scott, a massive sweep through Kenya's major urban areas aimed at arresting Mau-Mau supporters and cadre. A British infantry brigade is airlifted into Nairobi from Egypt, Royal Marines are landed at Mombasa from the cruisers Kenya and Newcastle and the entire 1st African Division joins the six regular battalions of the Kenya Regiment on operational deployment.
October 22: Australia refuses Indonesian requests to enter into negotiations regarding Timor and Western New Guinea.
October 23: A wild-eyed blue haired monster terrorises several New York bakeries in search of cookies.
October 24: The USAF begins development of an armed rocket-propelled spaceplane.
October 25: Premier Charles de Gaulle opens the Donzère-Mondragon Dam in Vaucluse.
October 26: American Rangers are landed behind Chinese lines in a heliborne raid in Korea and successfully destroy a key railway bridge.
October 27: Rediscovery of the Sword of Heraclius in Constantinople.
October 28: Streetfights between rival dwarven clans in Minneapolis result in widespread damage.
October 29: The first reported sighting of Mussolini in South America for several years sparks a frenzy among adventurers keen to effect his capture.
October 30: Clarence Birdseye introduces the first commercially available frozen peas.
October 31: World Savings Day is marked by a rush to deposit money in banks across Europe and North America.

November
November 1: The United States tests a hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok, with the device having a yield of 13.6 megatons.
November 2: First combat between jet fighters at night as a USMC F3D Skynight downs a Yak jet.
November 3: A massive earthquake causes a tsunami to strike Severo-Kurilsk in the Kuril Islands, killing over 2400.
November 4: Republican Robert A. Taft defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson in the 1952 U.S. Presidential Election by 299 electoral votes to 218, with Whig candidate Robert M. La Follete Jr. winning 33 votes.
November 5: Air Force Secretary Finletter and Army Secretary Pace sign a memorandum of understanding limiting the empty weight of fixed wing Army aircraft to no more than 6500lb and removing limits on helicopters.
November 6: A Soviet submarine attempts to shadow an Anglo-Canadian naval task force in the Norwegian Sea, but is quickly left behind as their intended prey accelerates to flank speed.
November 7: Fifteen high-ranking Mau-Mau officials and supporters are found guilty of treason and sentenced to death in a trial in Nairobi.
November 8: American troops continue to press into the Iron Triangle in Korea.
November 9: Sir Sherlock Holmes, noted detective and former Chief Commissioner of Scotland Yard, retires from publi life to his country estate.
November 10: French forces crush a series of Viet Minh ambushes around Hanoi, demonstrating that enemy control does not yet extend to the major cities of Indochina.
November 11: Ottoman Turkey begins a clandestine atomic weapons programme.
November 12: Establishment of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
November 13: The former commander of the Soviet garrison in Romania, General Kasantsev, is found dead in his bed in Moscow, completely drained of blood and suffering from what are described as extremely extensive injuries.
November 14: German annual steel production reaches 42 million tons.
November 15: The Manchester Guardian calls for the Allies to use the atomic bomb in Korea to break through Chinese resistance.
November 16: Pro-American protests take place in Cairo and Alexandria in response to criticisms by the Socialist Party of Egypt.
November 17: A family of meerkats open an insurance agency in South London despite several complaints on grounds of public health.
November 18: Treasury analysis indicates that British economic growth is projected to exceed 2.3% in the final quarter of the year on the back of increased domestic demand and growing exports of coal, ships, automobiles, aircraft and consumer goods, particularly to Europe and South America.
November 19: Reports from Persia of substantial and mysterious activity is taking place at Alamut Castle.
November 20: Former British Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party Clement Attlee dies aged 69.
November 21: RAF Mosquitoes bomb suspected Mau-Mau base areas in a series of dawn raids.
November 22: The Saab 32 Lansen enters service with the Royal Swedish Air Force.
November 23: Austro-Hungarian police uncover the long lost laboratory of Doctor Frankenstein.
November 24: US combat wizards in Korea debut a series of new protective enchantments and wall spells.
November 25: Agatha Christie's mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassador's Theatre in London.
November 26: A secret report of the Committee of Imperial Defence estimates the Soviet atomic arsenal consists of up to 85 bombs.
November 27: The remains of a huge metallic ship, possibly belonging to the lost civilisation of Hiva, are found off the Galápagos Islands.
November 28: Seven British diplomats are expelled from the Soviet Union.
November 29: Formal design work on a successor tank to the Centurion is initiated.
November 30: Retirement of the last P-47 Thunderbolts in Air National Guard service.

December
December 1: Soviet bombers conduct a number of provocative air missions over the Norwegian and North Seas, sparking aerial alerts in Britain and Scandinavia.
December 2: US military strength in Europe reaches 525,000 men and over 3200 aircraft.
December 3: The Grumman S-2 Tracker enters service with the United States Navy.
December 4: A great fog blankets London overnight.
December 5: 84 French intellectuals, artists, philosophers and clergy sign a public letter calling on France to abandon participation in the atomic arms race.
December 6: The Luftwaffe issues four new design requirements for the domestic development of a jet interceptor, air superiority fighter, fighter-bomber and attack fighter with a view towards rebuilding German aircraft manufacturing capacity.
December 7: Commonwealth reinforcements begin to arrive in Kenya for joint operations against the Mau-Mau.
December 8: French troops fire on demonstrators in Casablanca, killing and injuring several dozen.
December 9: Strategic Air Command establishes a permanent bomber base in the Azores at RAF Lajes.
December 10: Archer Martin and Richard Synge are awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in recognition of their invention of partition chromatography.
December 11: USSMuskogee, the former German LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin is retired from active service, having spent much of her postwar life assigned to the North Atlantic Patrol.
December 12: James Craggen sinks a Spanish frigate pursuing him near the Canary Islands.
December 13: The Strategic War Planning Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff reports that Allied superiority in atomic forces and growing conventional strength has substantially reduced the threat of Soviet aggression in Europe.
December 14: An uprising of Communist and Chinese captives in South Korea is decisively suppressed.
December 15: Pope Pius XII publishes his latest encyclical, Orientales Ecclesias, concerning the persecution of the Oriental churches.
December 16: The battlecruiser USS Guam is damaged by a mine off Wonsan and is forced to return to Pearl Harbor for repairs.
December 17: Discovery of very large oil deposits in the southern Syrian desert.
December 18: The Martian Freedom League takes responsibility for the destruction of several post boxes across London in their latest bombing campaign.
December 19: Large scale combat operations in Korea grind to a halt along the front as the coldest winter of the war takes hold.
December 20: A USAF C-124 crashes on take off at Larson AFB, Washington, killing all 87 on board.
December 21: The dark wizard Zoroander wrecks havoc in Milan, destroying several dozen buildings in a maelstrom of spellfire and narrowly avoiding capture by a circle of warrior-wizards of the Order of the Karma.
December 22: France and the Benelux states agree to slash tariffs on steel, coal and machinery.
December 23: Launch of the guided missile super battleship Hood at John Brown by Queen Elizabeth II.
December 24: The 134th annual performance of Silent Night at St. Niklaus' Church in Obendorf, Austria-Hungary.
December 25: Christmas celebrations across Europe pause at the remarkable sight of a winter rainbow glinting through the pre-dawn sky. Scientists and wizards alike are unable to explain the aerospace oddity.
December 26: US Air Force transport planes airdrop supplies of food and fuel to German and Austrian villages isolated by heavy snow fall.
December 27: The International Conclave of High Sorcery opens in Geneva.
December 28: Establishment of the Royal East African Navy.
December 29: Yugoslavian police and militia report large numbers of orcs and goblins in the mountainous south of Montenegro.
December 30: Chin Peng and several other members of the Central Committee of the Malayan Communist Party are captured in a Special Air Service raid in Northern Malaya.
December 31: General Motors becomes the first US corporation to make over $1 billion in a year.

1.) This event will be of future significance.

2.) Those networks are in the USA, providing a fourth major network alongside NBC, ABC and CBS.

3.) This represents the emergence of a clearer collective Austrian/Austro-Hungarian/Danubian identity, particularly in cuisine.

4.) The walking trees may be related, very, very distantly, to the Ents. In a roundabout way. 

5.) The presence of sea monsters makes fishing and sea travel rather more risky.

6.) Correct. The Soviets did not get anything in Berlin, as they were held up breaking the Germans in Poland over the Oder. The general Allied relationship with the USSR was a bit more distant, even at its closest points.

7.) Precisely. Cricket is a complex game for gentlemen, but baseball is America's national love.

8.) The various plagues are a result of the nastiness unleashed by the Germans and Japanese that came close to knocking civilisation off its perch.

9.) Nonhuman voting is a contentious notion, but one with a fair bit of momentum, particularly after the lessons of the war.

10.) Phar Lap has a very, very interesting life.

11.) The destruction of Castle Dracula 'starts' a long vendetta; it was a due response to his dealings with the Nazis.

12.) The Arabists prefer a pan-Arab nationalism, whereas the Pharoanists focus on Egypt's past glories. The mummy sightings and other developments play a noteworthy role.

13.) That particular incident was a nasty one, but even with earlier moves towards civil rights and equality, nastiness will sadly occur.

14.) The reference to Babe was both for the sake of humour and also to show a snippet of the experience of talking beasts.

15.) Franco and the Fascists lost out during the war, after a pro-German coup that followed the fall of France. Spain has a brighter, more open future.

16.) The Lizardine Rebellion occurred across British, French, American and Belgian territory as a very broad-based uprising.

17.) NASA is limited to the USA, with Canada being part of the Imperial Space Programme.

18.) Your diagnosis of the causes of inflation is quite correct. Britain is spending hand over fist with the requirements of Korea, Malaya and Europe and the results are starting to show.

19.) The 'Kushites' are Christian separatists in Southern Sudan who have taken on the old name.

20.) The MCG is the Melbourne Cricket Ground and the match was the grand final of the Australian Football season. The first number refers to the amount of goals, worth 6 points, and the second refers to behinds, worth 1 point each. It is my personally preferred sport, so there are a fair few updates slipped in along the way.

21.) A lighthearted joke, but it would be the Italians who disprove Juliet.

22.) War Machines are rather dangerous pieces of hardware and attempts to give them some sense of sorcerous autonomy cause some problems.

23.) Denmark does suffer from the loss of Lego, which does not get a hold of the Kiddicraft interlocking design, becoming a footnote.

24.) Unfortunately, the Pacific Monster will be heard from again...

25.) That one came to me when trying to rationalise what certain intelligent or monstrous species would think of such activities.

26.) I based that account on some of the more outlandish descriptions of the meals devoured by Diamond Jim Brady in New York in the Gilded Age.

27.) That was an OTL event.

28.) Once bitten, twice shy for Moscow.

There are some nonhuman competitors and 'sportsmen', but there are rules against their entry into many competitions, due to the unfair advantage many would have.

Some general notes on Easter Eggs

1947
- The British atomic bomb isn't quite purely British, as alluded to in 1947 stories. The wartime bombs are from American production and the separation of the US and Imperial programmes occurs gradually over 1946 and 1947 as the Axis threat dissipates. Significant numbers of British devices only start being produced from late 1947 as the Tube Alloys facilities in Britain and Canada start to produce the requisite amount of material. Windscale is rather bigger.
- The earlier ending of rationing and better general conditions create more of a mood of "things are gradually getting better" than the historical postwar austerity. This has an impact on so many aspects of social history and popular culture above and beyond the national diet/the evolution of British cuisine and general affluence.
- The situation in Austria-Hungary is relatively tenuous.
- Civilian access to armed bears is reduced postwar due to the end of the threat of Nazi invasion and sabotage.
- Swedish involvement in the Second World War on the Allied side as well as Finland not being involved in the Continuation War. The latter event comes from an ongoing Allied presence in Northern Norway as well as more assistance given in the Winter War; the outcome that conflict is still something I'm mulling over.
- Jazz is seen as far edgier on both sides of the Atlantic and is viewed as dangerously foreign by elements of British law enforcement.
- East Prussia turns out differently. There is a largish remnant German populace who are augmented by German communists, former Volga Germans and assorted other elements from around the Soviet empire.
- More will be heard of Shou Chang...
- The different circumstances of the Middle East and India make various Cossack exiles a handy proxy force.
- Rabaul remains a viable long term anchorage.
- The British have some sort of high level asset in the Kremlin, perhaps even on the Politburo.
- Nazi war criminals end up serving their sentences outside Germany, meaning that many will not get early release.
- Triffid outbreaks...
- I still get a bit of a giggle about the Harold Holt Swimming Pool after his rescue of the girls from Picnic at Hanging Rock.
- A giant benevolent lion in Iraq/Turkey may sound familiar.
- Boulder Dam renamed Roosevelt Dam
- Trans-Arabian Pipeline following its original course to Haifa.
- The Doomsday Clock being an actual timepiece and a speaking one to boot.
- Anne Frank surviving.
- Many of the familiar wartime aircraft names carry on in their ultimate form - Lancaster, Mosquito, Tempest, Spitfire.
- Oil discovered in Egypt, as well as the Qattara Lake Hydroelectricity Project
- British India extending to the Straits of Hormuz.
- The Austin Champ becomes a somewhat smaller and more viable jeep analogue.


1948/49

- The initial years of postwar difficulty start to give way to economic growth, due to the Marshall Plan for the Continent and some other factors for Britain that have been obliquely alluded to.
- The colonial conflicts in Malaya and Vietnam begin to develop, whilst that in Indonesia comes to an end. Burma remains a simmering problem. The Soviets are sniffing around all of the conflicts, but are unable to deliver
- China emerges from a postwar civil war not as a Communist power, but as a nationalist Imperial regime that sends its republican rivals (whose powerbase had been centred on Southern China) packing to Formosa whilst a Communist breakaway Sinkiang/Tartary is a Soviet puppet state.
- Italo Balbo and Count Ciano survive the war and are in hiding in South America, which is also the operational centre for a far more tangible ODESSA/Kameradenwerk.
- Small scale standing Commonwealth military deployments in Britain are followed by full scale operations in Malaya. The Far Eastern Strategic Reserve won't be the only such body.
- Communist inspired troubles in Western and Central Europe begin to settle down; Austria-Hungary in particular is emerging from uncertainty under a new, popular figurehead.
- A lack of cane toads in the North of Australia
- Qattara Lake Project
- Successful experiments in weather control over Southern Iraq will have some long term consequences.
- The Amethyst Incident, rather than being a perilous yet minor event, serves as one of the key factors that pushes China into an alliance of convenience with the Soviet Union, ultimately contributing to intervention in the Korean War
- Zoroander is one of many supervillains, some of whom associate with each other.
- The Soviet rocket and atomic weapons programme is handicapped by not being able to get to Germany proper, just as non-transfer of the Nene gives their jet programme an extra obstacle to overcome.
- The British Lab-Lib coalition collapses ostensibly over the failure of the Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement and the subsequent Socialist boycott, but more broadly because of significant differences between the policy objectives and visions of the Liberal and Labour Parties.
- The Great Lighthouse of Alexandria isn't the only Wonder besides the Pyramids.
- A crackdown on gangsterism in Britain and the continuation of judicial corporal punishment are signs of a more socially conservative society.
- There is a lack of Czech coup d'etat and the Berlin Blockade on top of the lack of a 1947 Truman Doctrine, which shifts the tempo of the early Cold War. American policy is focused on economic means of countering communism while building up Strategic Air Command as an ultimate deterrent and ensuring hemispheric security. Britain is still able to hold the line in its sphere of influence and France is regarded rather more capable than in @.
- European integration is strangled in its cradle, at least in the historical manner, by the combination of harder attitudes towards Germany from the Gaullist government, greater French power, annexation of the Saarland and the role of the French and German monarchies. Franco-German reconciliation is not on the cards anytime soon.
- The 1948 Olympics do not occur under the shadow of austerity in one example of the brightening conditions in Britain.
- Bradman finishes with an average above 100, taking away somewhat from the fairytale nature of his legend.
- A young boy, Barnsley and a kestrel...
- A new owner for The Times will develop down the line.
- Leopold Miacca is a reference to the English fairy tale.
- Dreadnought joins Warspite among the ranks of museum ships. Britain is too small for too many museum ships, but there is something of a more sentimental mood that ensures that certain famed vessels survive. Other vessels may be preserved elsewhere.
- Bertrand Russell dies in the plane crash he narrowly survived in @.
- Allenby and a number of other noted military figures are still alive and kicking. This is a means of showing that general life expectancy is greater.
- The Standard Cavalier is the Volkswagen Beetle, the VW factory having been dismantled and shipped to Britain.
- The British aircraft industry is formally consolidated before 1950.
- I wonder what the South Pacific anomaly could be...
- The Palace of the Soviets is completed, which is a bad thing unless you are a fan of Stalinist architecture.
- The various reports of the Committee of Imperial Defence build up a picture of a definite Soviet threat, but not one that would completely overwhelm Britain if prepared. The Red Army could easily advance from the Oder to the Rhine as of 1949 and then likely break through to the Channel, but couldn't win another Battle of Britain and would be ultimately vulnerable to atomic strikes, strategic bombing of their transport network, naval power and diversionary attacks in Central Asia and the Far East. The figure of 50 divisions and 7500 aircraft required to resist a Soviet invasion is probably optimistic.
- Exercise Valiant was inspired by Exercise Lionheart in 1984.
- The Tiger Moth sees service in a lot of roles and its production levels reflect its importance to the British Empire Air Training Scheme.
- Pobeda! is the Dark Earth version of The Fall of Berlin, without the Berlin climax.
- The brief Argentine-Prydain crisis shows the scope of British power and influence in the Southern Cone of South America; Argentina doesn't go down the Peronist path and is still a first world state.

1950
- Magic ring in the White House; more to come on that.
- Many more death sentences carried out at the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, with the major war criminals not being held in Spandau...
- Montagu Norman's tenure is shorter, with some flow on effects on British economic policy in the Depression
- Tesla alive in 1950
- A St Helena airfield will have some future effects
- Ongoing use of exile as a colonial punishment; sub-Antarctic conditions are a bit harsh
- Fuchs getting sentenced to death
- Treaty between Israel and Jordan; no 1948 Arab-Israeli War
- Commercial healing pills
- Ahistorical iron deposits in Western Rhodesia, which corresponds to some of the inland provinces of Angola in our version of Africa. The coal of Tete, the copper and uranium of Northern Rhodesia and Katanga and the mineral deposits of Southern Rhodesia make it a very important factor in the developing Cold War in Africa.
- Frencu annexation of the Saar
- Persian, Arabian and Iraqi oil is a virtual British monopoly, with many consequences.
- RMS Great Britain will have a long rivalry with a US ship
- iron skull in the Kalahari
- French Hainan, for now.
- Meteor shower over Kansas. Not a bird, nor a plane.
- Sweet, sweet moon cheese
- Long range mind control...could go majorly right or wrong
- Several original American superheroes
- Space stations...think the very imaginative ones from Popular Mechanics in the 40s crossed with Ministry of Space.
- 1950 World Cup
- Steel wool from sheep
- Real chupacabras
- Frozen ships in Antarctica and Alaska
- Waldron Smithers and groundnuts
- Haiti zombies
- American film makers in the Amazon = Cannibal Holocaust
- Free Polish Army winged hussars arrive!
- Trojan horse
- Churchill Plan: where is the money coming from?
- Surviving Raoul Wallenberg


1951
- An exile on Skellig Michael is a reference to Luke Skywalker in one of the new Star Wars flicks
- US television gets a fourth major network
- German rearmament proceeds rather smoothly, with the French dropping their objections in return for something from Britain. I wonder what it could be...
- Mention of a distinct Austro-Hungarian-American cuisine, as compared to the differing national types
- Strange happenings in an Iowa cornfield = Field of Dreams
- Rearmament on both sides of the Cold War divide continues as Korea shows no sign of abating
- Green Knowe
- Earlier eradication of malaria in the USA
- Viking hoards in Maine suggest a more protracted and widespread Vinland presence
- The beginning of trouble in Guatemala
- Troubles in Persia and Egypt threaten to boil over; the British strategic position in both cases is rather stronger
- Theft of a sapphire from Cortina is a reference to the Pink Panther, albeit with a different gem
- A growing British Red Scare
- An earlier collapse of order in some parts of the Belgian Congo
- Earlier and slightly more powerful US H-bomb
- Scandinavian common market
- US and British rocket programmes continue to advance
- The later entry into service of the MiG-15 and Il-28 have a bearing on relative Communist capabilities
- Implied rejection of the Himmelrod memorandum further paves the way for ruptures in the Western bloc later down the line; Britain and France are very much not in favour of clemency towards condemned or imprisoned war criminals.
- The aftermath of the Treaty of San Francisco does not provide for a sole US role in Japan
- The Festival of Britain still occurs, but more in the manner of an international exhibition than the event of @
- Henry Gurney surviving in Malaya
- Four European Guianas
- Britain retains capital punishment for offences other than murder and treason, reflecting a different evolution of a different society
- The illegal baccarat game is a reference to Casino Royale
- Volcanic eruption in the Philippines will have some long term consequences on weather and a few other factors
- The mechanical horse of December 30th will later evolve into something more than just a novelty

1952 

- The anti-communist moves by churches are one indication of a rather more conservative bent to religion, which will have some social consequences down the line.
- The Bimini Road has a less practical explanation here.
- Egypt is becoming a long term issue for the British Empire, laying the groundwork for the explosion of 1956.
- The Grand Steamworks are an interesting place...
- The 1952 Global Strategy Paper will have some different features and recommendations than the historical one.
- The reference to the Swedish professor is an oblique hat tip to Wild Strawberries.
- Several different fast food franchises are beginning to make an appearance, showing some different cultural influences and developments in the United States.
- Relations between the USA and Ottoman Turkey are growing warmer.
- There are five major US airlines emerging rather sooner ahead of the rest of the pack.
- France has some different political parties and the postwar Social Democratic ascendancy in Sweden is nipped in the bud before it can bloom.
- Immigration to Britain peaks at 5000 in a year. This has some major ramifications down the line in terms of social development. It is not a fiat decision, but the logical outcome of a Liberal-Labour coalition immediately postwar, a different labour market in Britain with reduced demand and different developmental paths for the economies of the West Indies and India.
- Western military unity fails at Brussels due to rivalry between the Big 3 and between Britain and France, the complicating factor of negotiating an alliance between two independent nuclear states and some European countries and leaders making the wrong calls and judgements. It could have been done in the late 40s as in @ when the power balance was different.
- The Netherlands and other European states retain peacetime capital punishment, ostensibly for Nazi war criminals at this time, but later there may be some developments regarding crime and perceived crime that drive its retention.
- The Krays face a firing squad rather than the cameras of the press.
- Dutch-Indonesian issues are focussed on the Moluccas rather than Western New Guinea. This will continue to get worse as the years go by and be an influence on Indonesian development.
- Truman takes a different approach to the steel strike; this is something I'd like to explore in more detail in the Korean War history..
- The Bolivian Revolution fizzles.
- Ilya Ivanov was known for his experiments with human-ape hybrids. Stalin is...intrigued...
- Several aircraft have their origins this year, including the TSR-2, the English Electric Lightning and the Fairey Delta (the Fairey Delta II from @ with the performance of the Mirage III)
- The Canberra is known as the B-56 in US service.
- Eisenhower's heart plays up and throws open the Republican nomination. It ends up with Taft, who balances the ticket with a young Texan former general (fictional) who we've already met in another story.
- The MRBM becomes the Black Knight
- The Flying Squad of the Spanish Inquisition is 36% more unexpected!
- Harlem fish importer = Live and Let Die
- Cornish capers are a reference to the Goodies' episode Bunfight at the O.K. Tearooms.
- The Conservative Party of the United States will grow into the fourth major national party in time.
- Austria-Hungary performs well at the World Cup and Olympic.
- The 48,000lb Super Grand Slam is a British equivalent to the T-12 Cloudmaker, or a bomb in search of a role.
- No Farnborough Air Show crash of the DH.110. It, like other de Havilland jet fighters, has a more conventional tail structure, which gives it slightly less manoeuvrability and performance.
- Retirement of the Mighty Hood and the launch of a new Hood.
- Mussolini is the great postwar mystery and that won't change any time soon; not if he can help it.
- Britain is rather harsher to the Mau-Mau/Kenyan nationalist leadership. This is something of an own goal as it leads to even more radical types coming to the fore later down the line; being too heavy-handed has consequences.
- Attlee dies earlier, sparking off some longer-running disputes between the two wings of the Labour Party.
- The capture of Chin Peng is not the end of the Malayan Emergency, nor the beginning of the end, but it is perhaps the end of the beginning.

I toughed it was also a monarchy, ore am i wrong.

Nice to see that, i hope she will have a good life and one day become a famous aothor in the Darkearth verse.



Wonder what those other wonders could be.

So no Great Library of Alexandria ore the Hanging Garden end of Babylon.