Dark Earth Timeline

I have actually read that while the loss of the knowledge stored in the library was a disaster, it was also a boon to civilization because it forced writers of the time to come up with new ideas instead of just copying what came before.

So where is it located, in Alexandria, is it only a tomb ore is it something like the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus.

At least you have not said yet if they have found the Tomb of Genghis Khan in the Darkearth verse as some things are not meant to be found, but i do want to know if people have enterd the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor.

1953

January
January 1: The Office of the Witchfinder General begins operations of black magic detection vans in England.
January 2: Christopher Craig is hanged for murder at Wandsworth Prison in London; his accomplice, Derek Bentley, had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment on account of his mental incapacity.
January 3: Beginning of the trial of Chin Peng and his fellow leaders of the Malayan Communist Party.
January 4: US automobile production for 1952 reaches a new record of 14,289,567 vehicles.
January 5: Maiden flight of the Boeing 367-80.
January 6: New Zealander Godfrey Bowen sets a new world record, shearing 526 sheep in 8 hours.
January 7: The United States Army formally ends glider operations.
January 8: North Korean and Chinese torpedo boats sink a South Korean minesweeper off the coast of Kaesong.
January 9: The Balkan Pact between Greece, Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria signed at Constantinople, agreeing to act together to defend themselves against Soviet expansionism or threats from an outside power.
January 10: Establishment of the Liberal Party of South Africa.
January 11: The Commonwealth Government authorises a study on the optimal location of an atomic power plant in Australia.
January 12: Pravda publishes details of an alleged plot by Jewish doctors to poison the military and political leadership of the Soviet Union.
January 13: A gas explosion in a Belgian coal mine kills 15.
January 14: The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the German Democratic Republic is arrested for espionage.
January 15: First meeting of a special CIA panel to discuss the spate of UFO sightings.
January 16: The Prime Minister of Egypt announces that taxation will be slashed and public welfare spending boosted on the personal orders of the King.
January 17: Unveiling of the Jaguar XK-140 sports car in London.
January 18: Soviet wizards develop a powerful new chain lightning spell.
January 19: 73% of US television sets are tuned in to I Love Lucy to see Lucy give birth to Little Ricky.
January 20: Robert Taft sworn in as President of the United States.
January 21: The United States and Ottoman Turkey sign an agreement giving US firms extensive oil exploration rights.
January 22: Chin Peng is found guilty of high treason and sentenced to death by hanging, drawing and quartering.
January 23: A nationalist coalition wins the most seats in the Persian general election, giving new life to the ongoing Anglo-Persian dispute regarding Abadan and oil revenues.
January 24: Mau-Mau rebels kill the Ruck family in Kenya, sparking outrage.
January 25: A suspected Soviet submarine is detected operating off the Sognefjord in Central Norway.
January 26: First use of the B-36 in the Korean War; the Peacemaker will subsequently replace the B-29 as the main conventional bomber of the Far East Air Forces.
January 27: Yugoslav federal elections result in the Social Democratic Party being returned to power with a reduced majority.
January 28: Chin Peng is executed in Georgetown, Malaya along with eight other senior members of the Malayan Communist Party.
January 29: British and Commonwealth forces in Kenya launch a series of punitive raids, sweeps and air strikes against suspected Mau-Mau areas of operations and sympathisers.
January 30: Australia and New Zealand sign an agreement with the Netherlands on the support of the Dutch East Indies. The move is attacked by Indonesian politicians as blatant imperialism.
January 31: A storm tide causes a major North Sea flood, inflicting widespread damage in Britain, the Netherlands and Belgium and killing over 2500 people.

February
February 1: Reformation of the headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force to control units in the British Isles not dedicated to the British Army of the Rhine or home defence.
February 2: The death of Politburo member Nikita Khruschev is reported by Pravda.
February 3: RNAS and RAF helicopters rescue hundreds of stranded civilians across the Netherlands in the aftermath of the North Sea Flood.
February 4: Chen Shen is declared General Secretary of the Malayan Communist Party.
February 5: Première of the Disney version of Peter Pan.
February 6: US controls on wages and some prices are lifted.
February 7: Death of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover from a heart attack, aged 58.
February 8: Chinese forces launch a major offensive against Allied lines in Central Korea, supported by tanks and heavy artillery.
February 9: Over 200 Chinese and Soviet Mig-15s engage in a mass dogfight over Central Korea against 186 USAF F-86s.
February 10: 15 Nazi war criminals are executed by British authorities in Hamelin.
February 11: Hundreds of United Nations Command aircraft strike at the advancing Chinese and their supply lines with poison gas and napalm.
February 12: The USSR breaks diplomatic relations with Israel.
February 13: Reports of a ghostly assembly at Glencoe, Scotland.
February 14: Field Marshal Erwin Rommel is appointed Chief of the General Staff of the German Army.
February 15: The Soviet Union begins the transfer of Tu-6 heavy bombers to China.
February 16: Ted Williams successfully crash lands his Panther jet fighter, escaping injury.
February 17: Opening of the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in London, the world's largest.
February 18: Laos formally becomes an independent constitutional monarchy.
February 19: Georgia approves the establishment of the first literature censorship board in the USA.
February 20: The US 1st Marine Division conducts an amphibious landing behind Chinese lines in Korea in an effort to turn the flank of their latest offensive.
February 21: Several dozen members of the Crimson Clan are killed in Sonora by a wandering stranger carrying a machine gun in a coffin.
February 22: Discovery of a conspiracy to assassinate the Belgian cabinet.
February 23: French paratroopers defeat Viet Minh forces after weeks of fighting in the Red River Delta.
February 24: Death of former German Field Marshal Gerd Von Runstedt at the age of 77 in Hanover.
February 25: Release of Jacques Tati's French comedy picture Les Vacances de M. Hulot.
February 26: British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines begins jet operations with the de Havilland Comet between Melbourne and Vancouver.
February 27: The U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee estimates that the Soviet Union will be unable to launch major combat operations in Europe or the Far East in the face of continued Allied land, air and sea strength in those theatres, whilst the Middle East and India remain comparatively vulnerable.
February 28: University of Cambridge scientists James Watson and Francis Crick announce the discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule.


March
March 1: Formal re-establishment of Lufthansa.
March 2: The British Transport Commission commences the first cross-Channel RO/RO ferry service with SS Dinard crossing from Dover to Boulogne.
March 3: Anti-vice riots hit Paris.
March 4: USAF F-94 Starfires shoot down six North Korean bombers over Central Korea, signalling a shift in the night air campaign.
March 5: First meeting of the Committee for Cuban Independence in Havana.
March 6: Allied forces launch Operation Traveller, a counter-offensive against Chinese positions in Central Korea.
March 7: The United States conducts a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
March 8: Queen Elizabeth II launches the new royal yacht Britannia amid great ceremony and pageantry.
March 9: The Twelfth World Congress of the Communist International opens in Moscow.
March 10: Opening of the Battle of the Hook in Western Korea as Chinese forces assault British and Commonwealth positions north of Kaesong.
March 11: A B-47 accidentally drops an atomic bomb in Mars Bluff, South Carolina, leaving a large crater; the core does not initiate.
March 12: The first female doctor is commissioned in the U.S. Army.
March 13: Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden is nominated as Secretary-General of the League of Nations.
March 14: Two dinosaurs escape from Brookfield Zoo in Chicago, sparking a major public emergency.
March 15: An Imperial Japanese Navy patrol frigate disappears with all hands off the Ryukyu Islands.
March 16: Operation Traveller concludes, having retaken the Chinese gains of the previous two months in ten days.
March 17: 12 suspected Soviet spies are expelled by the British government.
March 18: An earthquake in Western Turkey kills over 260.
March 19: Ivanhoe wins Best Picture and Gary Cooper wins Best Actor for High Noon at the 25th Academy Awards.
March 20: Royal Navy and Commonwealth aircraft carriers launch a series of concentrated air strikes on the North Korean port of Nampo throughout the day, inflicting widespread damage.
March 21: Anti-government protests through the streets of Caracas, Venezuela.
March 22: A schoolboy is admitted to hospital after being bitten by a radioactive arachnid at a science fair in New York City.
March 23: The US Joint Chiefs of Staff report that Allied forces in Korea will require complete air superiority, additional heavy artillery and armoured forces and a further six full-strength divisions to achieve a breakthrough against Chinese and Red forces.
March 24: Mau-Mau rebels kill an estimated 250 Kikuyu natives in the Lari Massacre.
March 25: The 150th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire is marked by a thanksgiving service in St. Pauls.
March 26: Jonas Salk announces that he has developed a vaccine for polio.
March 27: 21 people are killed in a train crash in Conneaut, Ohio.
March 29: US Marines capture the North Korean town of Chongjon.
March 30: A general strike is called in Venezuela.
March 31: The US Senate approves a package of financial and defence aid for Germany.

April
April 1: Discovery of a nest of dragon eggs in a cavern in the Lake District.
April 2: Vice-President Roger A. Thompson arrives in South Korea for a conference with US and UNC high command.
April 3: The French Army begins combat testing of new battle armour in Indochina.
April 4: Clashes between Israeli and Syrian border guards.
April 5: Opening of the Royal Library of Canada.
April 6: Initial reports in American media of a pernicious new narcotic in the Caribbean ports of Mexico.
April 7: U.S. Secretary of State Earl Warren gives a speech in Boston regarding the expansion of communism in Asia.
April 8: Indian health officials begin an anti-leprosy treatment campaign using newly developed medicines.
April 9: Scotland Yard discover a sickening residence in London filled with the mutilated remains of a dozen kidnapped women and children, beginning the so-called 'House of Horrors' case.
April 10: Establishment of five specific levels of biosafety protections at a World Health Organisation conference in Geneva.
April 11: The renowned Casper Banquet is held in Paris.
April 12: Advance parties of the British Empire Mount Everest Expedition reach base camp at the foot of the mountain.
April 13: General Motors produces its 50 millionth motor car.
April 14: The German Army begins development of an indigenous main battle tank.
April 15: American airman Reis Leming is awarded the George Medal for rescuing 27 people from the winter floods.
April 16: A fire in the Habar Corporation building in Chicago kills 35 people.
April 17: Mickey Mantle hits a 625ft home run at Griffiths Stadium, Washington D.C. believed to be the longest measured home run in baseball history to date.
April 18: Several British MPs call for investigations into Communist front organisations at universities:
April 19: A new species of golden eagle is reportedly discovered by a party of naturalists in Northern Tibet.
April 20: The United States Air Force Academy is established.
April 21: Two alleged American agents are exchanged for a pair of Soviet spies at a mountain pass rendezvous along the Austro-Hungarian-Romanian border.
April 22: An armed gang robs an Indiana bank of $1.2 million.
April 23: Release of the noted American Western film Shane, starring Alan Ladd.
April 24: Francis Crick and James Watson publish the scientific work "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid", describing the double helix pattern of DNA.
April 25: Maiden flight of the Convair F2Y Sea Dart seaplane fighter.
April 26: The US Joint Chiefs of Staff present a special report on Korea to President Taft, consisting of four possible plans to end the war.
April 27: Gurkhas destroy three Communist base camps in Southern Thailand in a heliborne assault.
April 28: An Australian delegate to the League of Nations in New York City foils an attempted robbery by offering to compare bladed weapons with the criminal, who is later cornered and shot by the NYPD.
April 29: A survey of British doctors confirms the suggestion that tobacco smoking and lung cancer are related.
April 30: Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenburg, Morton Sobell and Ruth and David Greenglass for espionage at Sing-Sing prison, New York.

May
May 1: Communist and socialist protests in Britain and Europe are met with counter-protests and violence from anti-communist groups.
May 2: Blackpool win the FA Cup 4-3 over Bolton Wanderers.
May 3: The Royal Indian Navy battleship HMIS Clive sinks a North Korean destroyer while on patrol in the Yellow Sea.
May 4: Opening of the first Wimpy hamburger restaurant in the West End of London.
May 5: The Combined Chiefs of Staff Committee meets in Washington D.C. to discuss strategic options in the Korean War.
May 6: Mexican bandits conduct a number of cross border raids into Arizona.
May 7: Release of the first effective measles vaccine in the United States.
May 8: First large scale use of cavalry in the Mau-Mau Rebellion.
May 9: Appointment of a new Jordanian government by King Abdullah.
May 10: Linguist Michael Ventris announces that he has deciphered Linear B Minoan script.
May 11: A tornado strikes Waco, Texas, killing 114.
May 12: Arrival of the Light Division, commanded by General Sir Richard Sharpe, in Pusan, South Korea.
May 13: The North Korean city of Pyonggang is captured by the US Army's X Corps after a long siege.
May 14: Senator Joseph McCarthy calls for investigations of Communists in the Department of Defense.
May 15: Soviet attempts to rally tribal unrest in Afghanistan are discovered by British agents.
May 16: 165 USAF F-84 Thunderjets bomb dikes in North Korea.
May 17: The Royal Navy establishes its first experimental hovercraft squadron.
May 18: Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier at Rogers Dry Lake in California.
May 19: An unexpected eclipse of the sun causes widespread concern in Barcelona, Spain.
May 20: The first Chevrolet Corvette is built at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan.
May 21: Stalin announces that the Soviet Union has possession of a full range of strategic weapons capable of matching any in the Western arsenal.
May 22: Chinese rockets strike Haeju and Kaesong in the first long-range bombardment of the Korean War.
May 23: North Korean and Chinese forces launch a series of heavy counterattacks around Pyonggang.
May 24: The number of collective farms in Poland reaches 10,000, covering 11% of Polish arable land.
May 25: Formal establishment of the Ministry of Power and Energy.
May 26: USAF bombers conduct heavy raids on targets along the Yalu River.
May 27: Death of Byzantine Emperor Theodoros X in Constantinople aged 52 from diabetes. He is succeeded by his 24 year old son, Crown Prince Alexander, Archduke of Macedonia.
May 28: Canadian Prime Minister Sir William Richardson announces his ongoing opposition to a proposed reciprocity agreement with the United States and that he will take the question to a general election in August.
May 29: First successful ascent of Mount Everest by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.
May 30: A torch wielding mob destroys the isolated country house of an experimental scientist in Bavaria, but fail to capture or kill him.
May 31: A 10.2 Mt hydrogen bomb is dropped by an RAF Avro Vulcan at Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean in Operation Gauntlet, the latest British atomic test series.

June
June 1: Opening of the Festival of Empire at the Crystal Palace as part of the Coronation festivities.
June 2: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey in London in front of a crowd of thousands. The procession from Buckingham Palace to the Abbey is watched by over 5 million Londoners and a televisual audience of 100 million and consists of over 25,000 British, Commonwealth and Imperial military personnel, with a further 100,000 lining the streets along the route. News arrives on the morning that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay have been the first to successfully ascend Mount Everest. The day concludes with the traditional Royal Coronation Banquet, magnificent fireworks and street parties across Britain and the Empire.
June 3: The 1953 Imperial Conference opens in London; topics of discussion include a forthcoming superpower summit, security of the Middle East, economic integration and the Korean War.
June 4: Dr. Daniel Fox, a General Electric polymer chemist, accidentally synthesises the polycarbonate Lexan, while working on a new wire coating.
June 5: Production of the Mark 7 tactical atomic bomb begins.
June 6: The largest military parade in London since the Victory Parade of 1945 is held.
June 7: 46 tornadoes begin to wreck havoc across 10 states over three terrible days, killing over 250 people from Colorado to Massachusetts.
June 8: The governing Christian Democrats win control of both houses of the Italian Parliament in the 1953 general election.
June 9: A Belgian Air Force C-47 is shot down by rebels in the Congo, killing 12.
June 10: RMS Great Britain arrives in New York City, successfully reclaiming the Blue Riband
June 11: The United States Air Force begins research into the feasibility of a nuclear powered strategic bomber.
June 12: Opening of the Royal Air Show, a special international event to mark the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, at Farnborough.
June 13: Delivery of the first Vickers V-1000 Voyager to the Royal Air Force.
June 14: An American airship takes the first incontrovertible pictures of the huge Pacific Monster.
June 15: Queen Elizabeth II inspects the vast Coronation Fleet Review at Spithead aboard the royal yacht Britannia, consisting of over 600 ships of the Royal and Commonwealth Navies - 29 battleships, 35 aircraft carriers, 79 cruisers, 125 destroyers, 87 frigates, 108 corvettes, 56 submarines and 93 minesweepers - and representative ships from over two dozen foreign nations, including the battleships Sovetsky Soyuz from the USSR, USS Montana from the United States and Charlemagne from France. Over 2500 aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm and Royal Naval Air Service fly over the fleet in formation.
June 16: England beat Australia by 10 wickets in the First Test of the 1953 Ashes series at Trent Bridge.
June 17: A worker's strike in Konigsberg is suppressed by Soviet troops.
June 18: A USAF C-124 Globemaster crashes at Tachikawa Airfield in Tokyo, killing all 129 on board.
June 19: The Soviet Union and Yugoslavia formally reopen diplomatic relations.
June 20: The United States, Britain and France agree to the establishment of a joint advisory committee to discuss the atomic defence of the Western Allies.
June 21: US rockets strike Pyongyang in response to Chinese first use in May.
June 22: Production of the Heckler & Koch 7.92mm G3 battle rifle begins in Germany.
June 23: Activation of the French 27th Division to control its reinforced contingent in Korea.
June 24: Dire wolves attack a village in Northern Norway and are driven off by a passing swordsman.
June 25: Operational debut of the USAF's new Martin B-56 Canberra light bomber over Korea.
June 26: South African police conduct a number of raids against Communist African organisations.
June 27: Establishment of the Benelux Defence Union, whose forces are to be closely intrgrated with those of Britain and the United States.
June 28: Scotland Yard detectives arrest four men over the House of Horrors case.
June 29: Discovery of a huge natural gas field at Groningen in the Netherlands.
June 30: The first Chevy Corvette is completed at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan.

July
July 1: A Pan-Am DC-7 is saved from a catastrophic crash at Idlewild Airport in New York City by the intervention of a flying man in a cape.
July 2: President Taft approves the Plan Able strategy for victory in Korea, which calls for the expansion of offensive operations into the north and reunification of the entire peninsula, spearheaded by forces of the ROK Army and supported by American equipment, airpower, naval forces and atomic weapons as required. It is anticipated that four stages will be required - a build up of required forces and equipment; the rupturing of the current Chinese line; an advance to the neck of the peninsula; and three convergent drives on the Yalu.
July 3: Opening of Baghdad Central Station.
July 4: Coal mining strikes in Poland are forcibly ended by the Communist government.
July 5: Creation of Golden Sovereign cheese in Oxfordshire.
July 6: The United States conducts a hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific Testing Grounds.
July 7: Argentine medical student Ernesto Guevara sets out on the second of his extensive motorcycle tours of South America.
July 8: British and French authorities confirm reports of pirates apparently operating in the South Pacific and agree to step up naval patrols.
July 9: The Soviet nuclear stockpile reaches 250 bombs; work on a boosted fission device and hydrogen bomb continues with the highest priority.
July 10: Execution of Jomo Kenyatta by hanging in Nairobi, Kenya.
July 11: The Committee of Imperial Defence estimates that the Soviet Air Force possesses up to 1000 Tupolev, Kalinin and Petlyakov strategic bombers, a third of which would be deployed directly against the British Isles in addition to the United States and Canada. The margin of superiority of current RAF jet fighters remains decisive and the fielding of jet bombers is thought to be 3 to 5 years away.
July 12: First flight of the supersonic Blackburn Naval Aircraft.
July 13: German Minister of Economics Ludwig Erhard announces that Germany will begin to repay Marshall Plan aid in 1954.
July 14: France conducts an atomic bomb test in the Sahara to mark Bastille Day.
July 15: The notorious jewel thief, Le Viendre, is arrested in Brussels after a twenty year criminal career.
July 16: Joint Spanish and Portuguese military exercises begin in the Bay of Biscay.
July 17: The Rome Oil Refinery, the largest in Italy, begins operations.
July 18: Beginning of the House of Horrors trial at the Old Bailey.
July 19: A fire in Vienna destroys a block of flats, but miraculously, there are no fatalities among the 600 inhabitants.
July 20: Viet Minh forces overrun two French outposts in Northern Vietnam.
July 21: A barbarically garbed swordsman rescues the passengers of a derailed train in Ohio.
July 22: USAF bombers destroy the Sui-Ho Dam and hydroelectric power station on the Yalu River with a combination of earthquake bombs and guided munitions.
July 23: Debut of 'Great Look' men's suits at a Paris Fashion Show.,
July 24: The nationalist Persian government is deposed in a British-backed coup.
July 25: Studies on the conversion of Royal Navy aircraft carriers to amphibious helicopter operations are initiated.
July 26: Leon Trotsky gives a fiery speech in Rio de Janeiro, condemning Stalinism and Western imperialism and calling for efforts to achieve true socialism to be redoubled.
July 27: Opening of the first branch of the halfling owned and operated Hartshire General Stores outside of the British Isles in Calais.
July 28: French bombers begin an intense strategic air campaign against Viet Minh forces in Laos.
July 29: The Home Office publishes a paper supporting the relaxation of certain anti-goblin laws.
July 30: Germany and Austria-Hungary sign an agreement reducing tariffs on specific goods and services.
July 31: First flight of the Myacheslav M-4 strategic bomber.

August
August 1: RAF English Electric Canberra conduct high altitude reconnaissance flights over Kapustin Yar in the Soviet Union.
August 2: Marshal Navarre orders the beginning of planning for a major airborne landing to cut Viet Minh supply lines to Laos.
August 3: Spanish diplomatic protests on the status of Gibraltar are coldly dismissed by the British Foreign Office.
August 4: Irregular Chinese forces attack British outposts in Northern Burma.
August 5: Prime Minister Churchill and President Taft meet in a summit conference in Bermuda to discuss Anglo-American global strategy. Taft explains his policy of gradually reducing US ground forces commitments once allied troops can replace them and states that he believes that German rearmament will permit the withdrawal of US forces by 1957. Churchill argues for the maintenance of a strong capability in addition to German and French forces to provide a united front against Stalin, but fails to reach direct agreement. There is more success in the area of strategic atomic and ballistic missile cooperation, with a formal agreement drafted.
August 6: Coronation of Emperor Alexandros XXIV in Constantinople.
August 7: Heavy rainfall and landslides kill over 1500 people across Japan.
August 8: The London Agreement on German War Debts is concluded, reducing German prewar debt by 50%.
August 9: Conclusion of the Bermuda Conference and the publication of an expansive statement of Anglo-American policy, including a joint statement on the security of Hong Kong, indicating that any action against it would be considered an attack against the United States as well as the British Empire.
August 10: Sir William Richardson's Conservatives are returned to government in the Canadian Federal Election, winning 184 seats to 70 for the Liberal Party.
August 11: Four men are sentenced to death over the House of Horrors case.
August 12: A strong earthquake strikes the Ionian islands, killing 52 people.
August 13: A general strike begins in France, ostensibly in protest against government austerity measures.
August 14: General Omar Bradley retires as Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, replaced by Admiral Arthur Radford.
August 15: Alfredo Stroessner takes power in Paraguay.
August 16: German unemployment falls to 1%.
August 17: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California.
August 18: The USAF begins construction of an artificial orbital space station with a launch from White Sands Rocket Base.
August 19: England complete a 2-1 victory over Australia and regain the Ashes.
August 20: King Mohammed V of Morocco is deposed by French authorities and exiled to Corsica.
August 21: The United States returns 482 captured ships to Germany.
August 22: A Douglas Skyrocket piloted by Scott Crossfield reaches a new conventional air speed record of 1296 mph at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
August 23: United Nations Command forces begin a concentrated bombardment of Chinese lines in Korea to pre-empt a suspected offensive.
August 24: Signing of 'An Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for Cooperation on the uses of Atomic Energy for Mutual Defense Purposes'.
August 25: The French general strike ends as troops are moved into major cities.
August 26: Ruritania introduces female suffrage.
August 27: Release of Roman Holiday, starring Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn.
August 28: Introduction of the Mark 15 thermonuclear bomb by the United States Air Force.
August 29: The Imperial General Staff recommends the formation of specific Commonwealth standing units for service in Europe and the Middle East.
August 30: Bjorngrim Harnhammer becomes the first dwarf to swim the English Channel.
August 31: The operational strength of the German Army reaches 10 divisions.

September
September 1: An independent Swiss report estimates that one in every eight shells fired in Korea is filled with poison gas.
September 2: First Soviet test of a boosted fission device at Semipalatinsk.
September 3: French Foreign Legionaires destroy several desert raider camps deep in the Moroccan Sahara.
September 4: Discovery of REM sleep by two University of Chicago researchers.
September 5: China and the Soviet Union agree to increase the flow of supplies to the Viet Minh.
September 6: Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democrats record a decisive victory in the 1953 German federal election.
September 7: Fokker begin work on a Dutch jet fighter design; additional funding is confidentially supplied by the Austro-Hungarian Air Ministry.
September 8: Canadian Eskimos report increased Soviet activity in the Bering Strait and off the Arctic coast of Alaska.
September 9: North Korean commandos conduct dozens of penetration raids along the east coast of the Korean peninsula.
September 10: Indonesia announces the purchase of several Soviet naval vessels.
September 11: Discovery of large new oil fields in North Dakota.
September 12: U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy marries Jacqueline Bouvier at St. Mary's Church, Newport, Rhode Island.
September 13: Beginning of talks between the British and German Defence Ministers in Hamburg.
September 14: Ray Kroc pays a visit to the McDonald brothers' hamburger restaurant in San Bernadino, California.
September 15: South Africa and Rhodesia establish a joint airborne force of two composite brigades for combined operations in Africa. This latest step is due in part to the ongoing Congo rebellion and growing tensions in Portuguese East and West Africa.
September 16: 94 year old former President Theodore Roosevelt gives a rousing public speech in New York City regarding the future of the United States.
September 17: Mexico and Yucatan agree to a revision of their mutual border under American arbitration.
September 18: Interpol and German police discover a secret Nazi diamond smuggling scheme operating out of an Aachen chocolate factory with the aid of a young Belgian journalist.
September 19: A Soviet naval task force of three carriers and two battleships begin extensive manuevers in the Northern Pacific and the Sea of Okhotsk.
September 20: Beginning of a new British anti-guerilla operation in Northern Malaya.
September 21: Belgian colonial officials begin negotiations with revel groups in the Congo.
September 22: Final operational mission of USAF B-29s over Korea.
September 23: A KGB report concludes that Western forces would be capable of countering a conventional offensive by the Red Army through both conventional and unconventional warfare by 1954. The US and British atomic arsenals are estimated to have a strength of 3900 and 500 weapons respectively, compared 324 Soviet nuclear bombs.
September 24: Former New York Knights champion Roy Hobbs hits a 692ft home run in a charity game in Illinois.
September 25: Return of the first German POWs from the USSR.
September 26: Geelong defeat Collingwood 15.10 (100) to 14.11 (95) in front of a crowd of 109,778 at the MCG to win the 1953 VFL Premiership.
September 27: Arrest of 23 suspected Communists in Washington and New York City.
September 28: Secret Chinese peace inquiries are extended to Britain and India through Indonesian and Yugoslav embassies in Constantinople. The seperate endeavours seek to exploit perceived differences between British and American policy, play on British concerns regarding Hong Kong, Burma, Malaya and India and to increase emerging differences in British and Indian policy.
September 29: New protests take place in Accra against British colonial policies.
September 30: A US destroyer escort is damaged by torpedo attack from an unidentified enemy submarine off Wonsan.

October
October 1: Completion of reconstruction of the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen.
October 2: Studies determine that the average price of a new house in Britain is £1026.
October 3: Four USN battleships bombard Wonsan and Hungnam throughout the day, successfully raising North Korean fears of an amphibious landing and inflicting considerable damage.
October 4: Scotland Yard detectives arrest nine men for involvement in the Eastcastle Street Robbery of 1952 after a long, painstaking investigation.
October 5: John Marshall Harlan II is appointed Chief Justice of the United States by President Taft.
October 6: British troops are flown into British Guiana in response to growing unrest, suspected to be the work of communist-backed labour movements.
October 7: First flight of the SSM-N-2 Triton guided missile.
October 8: A state of emergency is declared in British Guiana.
October 9: The Kingdom of Cambodia officially becomes independent from France.
October 10: Roland 'Monty' Burton wins the London to Christchurch air race in an English Electric Canberra after spending 32 hours and 58 minutes in the air.
October 11: Television broadcasting begins in Belgium and Luxembourg.
October 12: Discovery of the wreck of the French barque Le Griffon on Lake Michigan.
October 13: 42 RAF, RCAF and RAAF Hawker Hunters shoot down 17 MiG-15s out of an enemy force of 54 jets in exchange for 4 losses over Northwesten Korea in a large fighter sweep.
October 14: Discovery of large gold deposits in Western Kenya.
October 15: The use of penal treadwheels in hard labour is abolished for general use by the Prisons Act of 1953; it is retained for a narrow range of offences at the discretion of judges.
October 16: President Taft publicly undertakes to fire any federal worker taking the 5th Amendment on suspicion of communism.
October 17: The first three female police officers in the Netherlands begin service.
October 18: Trade union membership in the United States reaches its peak level of 24%, compared to 39% in Britain.
October 19: Introduction of new truth and interrogation spells by British Army mages in Kenya.
October 20: Debut of the long-running BBC television adventure series The Bengal Lancers, the first of one of many successful 'Easterns'.
October 21: Formation of the Imperial Football Conference in London.
October 22: The Whig Party changes its official name to the Liberal Party of the United States; the change in nomenclature is mainly observed in the breach.
October 23: Maiden flight of the Chyeranovskii BICh-26 jet fighter in the Soviet Union.
October 24: Construction begins on a British Empire rocket base in Ceylon.
October 25: A coal mining accident in Belgium kills 22 miners.
October 26: Commonwealth finance ministers issue a joint communique reiterating their support for Imperial Free Trade and the Empire Common Market; this is thought to be in response to recent US trade moves.
October 27: A freak derailment of a packed London Underground train is prevented by the quick action of a passing costumed stranger.
October 28: General George C. Marshall is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
October 29: 28 RSAAF Tempests bomb, strafe and rocket suspected Mau Mau hideouts in Central Kenya in the most significant air operation by Commonwealth forces in Kenya to date.
October 30: President Taft approves NSC 162/2, a policy document calling for the expansion of the US nuclear arsenal.
October 31: Capture of 'General China', a key Mau Mau leader, by British special forces.

November
November 1: Emil Zatopek runs a world record time for the 10km, reaching the finish line in 29 minutes and 1.06 seconds.
November 2: Opening of the first Asian Socialist Congress in Rangoon.
November 3: First live coast to coast colour television broadcast in the United States.
November 4: 80,000 British, Commonwealth and Indian troops supported by 460 aircraft launch Operation Edgar, a combined arms offensive against Mau Mau around Mount Kenya and the Aberdares.
November 5: The Obeninsk atomic power station near Moscow begins operations.
November 6: First launch of the Ariel satellite research programme from Woomera, South Australia.
November 7: A proposal to grant partial autonomy to the Saarland is declined by French authorities.
November 8: Swanson introduce the TV dinner.
November 9: The US Supreme Court rules that Major League Baseball is immune from anti-trust laws.
November 10: Ramon Magsaysay wins the 1953 Philippine Presidential Election.
November 11: A large guided missile battlecruiser is laid down by Newport News Shipbuilding.
November 12: The Conservative Party wins a crushing victory in the Portuguese General Election, winning 96 out of 120 seats.
November 13: A British infantry section successfully repels an attack on their outpost by over 150 Mau Mau rebels.
November 14: The International Whaling Commission lowers permitted whale quotas for the third successive year.
November 15: Norwegian police arrest four suspected Soviet spies in Kirkenes.
November 16: The four House of Horrors murderers are hanged by Albert Pierrepoint at Wandsworth Prison; the news is greeted outside by a crowd of hundreds gathered to view the notice of execution.
November 17: First use of dragons and giants in combat in Kenya.
November 18: The British Army of the Rhine reaches its peak strength of 10 divisions.
November 19: US Vice-President Thompson arrives in Hanoi to meet French commanders amid tight security.
November 20: The remain of Piltdown Man revealed to be a fake.
November 21: Outbreak of the Laotian Civil War.
November 22: The French 11th Airborne Division is air dropped at Dien Bien Phu in Operation Castor. The airlift of artillery, armoured vehicles and tanks is to follow over the next two weeks, along with the deployment of two helicopter and two fighter-bomber squadrons.
November 23: Two USAF pilots and their F-89 Scorpions disappear while intercepting an unidentified flying object over Lake Superior.
November 24: An earthquake and tsunami strike Honshu, Japan.
November 25: Austria-Hungary defeat England 5-4 at Imperial Stadium, London in what is later called the 'Match of the Century'.
November 26: 82 French Lancaster bombers strike Viet Minh positions in Laos.
November 27: The heavy cruiser USS Los Angeles begins its first patrol carrying the SSM-N-8 Regulus guided missile.
November 28: Front lines in Korea stabilise as winter conditions begin to set in.
November 29: A sudden severe heatwave is recorded across South Eastern Australia.
November 30: Introduction of a new, stronger variant of naval armour steel of secret composition in Britain.

December
December 1: Completion of the Esch-sur-Sûre Dam in Luxembourg.
December 2: The first Matchbox toy cars go on sale in London.
December 3: Senator McCarthy claims that communists have infiltrated the ranks of the Republican Party.
December 4: Opening of the first Burger King restaurant in Miami.
December 5: The Air Ministry and Ministry of Supply approve the production of a test version of Barnes Wallis' Swallow supersonic aircraft design.
December 6: Charles Chaplin indicates in an interview that he will not return to the United States.
December 7:
December 8: An investigation into accidents in the Belgian coal mining industry suggests the deliberate involvement of outside persons or groups.
December 9: Dr. Albert Schweitzer is presented with the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize in Stockholm.
December 10: Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill is awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature 'for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values'.
December 11: General Electric announces that all Communist employees will be dismissed.
December 12: Chuck Yeager sets a new conventional air speed record of Mach 2.44.
December 13: The McDonnell F3H Demon enters service with the United States Navy.
December 14: HMS Temeraire docks in Recife on the first leg of a South American tour.
December 15: Death of Admiral Sir Ernest Shackleton, the famed Arctic and Antarctic explorer and first man to reach both poles, at the age of 79.
December 16: President Taft conducts his first White House press conference in front of 162 reporters.
December 17: Dmitri Shostakovitch's 10th Symphony premieres in Leningrad and is met with great approval.
December 18: The Blue Danube Mk.1 Hydrogen Bomb enters active Royal Air Force service, deployed on Avro Vulcans of 617 Squadron.
December 19: A strange light is noticed over the Hagia Sophia, where it remains all day, defying investigation or explanation of any kind.
December 20: Two men of Russian extraction are arrested by FBI agents on suspicion of espionage in Boston.
December 21: Publication of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpiece The Lord of the Rings.
December 22: The Sud-Ouest Djinn light helicopter enters service with the French Army.
December 23: Two USN cruisers fail to find any trace of the Pacific Monster.
December 24: 151 people are killed in the collapse of a railway bridge in Tangwai, New Zealand.
December 25: Return of the Amami Islands to Japanese control after eight years of US military occupation.
December 26: The tenth anniversary of the Battle of the North Cape is marked by solemn ceremonies aboard Royal Navy ships at the site of the battle, lead by HMS Duke of York.
December 27: British and European migration to Rhodesia for the year reaches 254,867.
December 28: Completion of the primary stage of King George VI Station, the Royal Space Force's first orbital space station.
December 29: German economic growth for the year is estimated to be 10.3%.
December 30: Ramon Magsaysay takes office as President of the Philippines.
December 31: American agents in Moscow report sighting a figure resembling Rasputin.

1953 Statistics

1953 Largest GDPs
1.) USA: $4,329,246,207,907(+ 4.43%)
2.) Britain: $1,582,260,635,218 (+ 6.42%)
3.) Soviet Union: $1,359,183,722,922 (+ 9.26%)
4.) Germany: $1,164,207,315,762 (+ 9.57%)
5.) China: $883,502,171,314 (+ 8.74%)
6.) India: $723,086,097,642 (+ 5.83%)
7.) France: $718,075,414,742 (+ 5.31%)
8.) Japan: $652,681,839,128 (+ 8.94%)
9.) Canada: $638,135,726,021 (+ 5.98%)
10.) Italy: $459,151,092,749(+ 6.86%)
11.) Austria-Hungary: $417,223,056,203 (+ 3.91%)

1953 Largest Populations
1.) China: 671,508,254
2.) India: 462,364,175
3.) Soviet Union: 294,337,410
4.) USA: 269,436,659
5.) Japan: 195,481,532
6.) Indonesia: 154,427,985
7.) Germany: 146,269,873
8.) Britain: 121,225,269
9.) France: 114,160,779
10.) Austria-Hungary: 95,847,052
11.) Italy: 90,333,176

1953/4 Share of World Industrial Output
USA: 40.5%
Britain: 13.9%
Soviet Union: 13.4%
Germany: 6.2%
France: 4.9%
Canada: 3.5%
China: 2.1%

1953 Steel Production
1.) USA: 132 million tons
2.) USSR: 98 million tons
3.) Britain: 54 million tons
4.) Germany: 49 million tons
5.) Austria-Hungary: 32 million tons
6.) France: 26 million tons
7.) Canada: 25 million tons
8.) Poland: 23 million tons
9.) Belgium: 17 million tons
10.) Sweden: 15 million tons
11.) Australia: 13 million tons

1953 Coal Production
1.) USA: 682 million tons
2.) Britain: 443 million tons
3.) USSR: 402 million tons
4.) Germany: 308 million tons
5.) Poland: 192 million tons
6.) China: 179 million tons
7.) Austria-Hungary: 167 million tons
8.) France: 132 million tons
9.) South Africa: 73 million tons
10.) India: 70 million tons
11.) Canada: 48 million tons

1953 Aircraft Production
USA: 6394
USSR: 6218
Britain: 3025
China: 1243
France: 1076
Canada: 913
Australia: 405

1953 Tank Production
USSR: 13974 (11954 T-54s 1232 PT-76, 788 T-10)
USA: 7704 (5984 M-48, 1352 M-41, 368 M102)
Britain: 3445 (3287 Centurion, 158 Conquerors)
France: 986 (874 AM-13, 112 AMX-50)
Canada: 625 (625 Centurions)
Sweden: 382 (382 Stridsvagn 100/Centurion)
Australia: 379 (379 Centurions)

1953 Defence Spending
USA: $573.5 billion/£16,386 million (12.9%)
Soviet Union: $306.38 billion/£8754 million (21.6%)
Britain: $224.76 billion/£6422 million (13.6%)
China: $218.1 billion/£6231 million (23.8%)
Germany: $92.46 billion/£2462 million (7.2%)
France: $91.23 billion/£2607 million (12.5%)

That is different then OTL i assume.

Question simon darkshade, where is China on the tank production list, they are even beaten by Sweden and Australia, i assumed China would be able to produce tanks by 1953 ore are they still buying,receiving large amount of Soviet tanks.