Dark Earth Timeline

1954

January
January 1: Licensed production of the M48 main battle tank begins in Germany.
January 2: The Yugoslav Parliament passes a motion strongly condemning communist subversion, despite opposition from socialists.
January 3: Swedish police arrest two suspected Soviet agents outside a power plant near Stockholm.
January 4: An Egyptian infantry battalion arrives in Pusan, South Korea for service with the United Nations Command.
January 5: Beginning of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu as Viet Minh and Foreign Legion patrols clash in the surrounding hills.
January 6: Death of King Zog of Albania at age 58 from lung cancer. He is succeeded to the throne by Crown Prince Zod.
January 7: The Soviet Union begins to increase the pace of release of German and Austrian prisoners.
January 8: US Army armoured cavalry destroy a band of bandits attempting to cross the Rio Grande in Texas.
January 9: The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the peak it reached prior to the Crash of 1929.
January 10: Newfoundland fishermen catch a 23ft long giant lobster off the Grand Banks.
January 11: Avalanches in Southern Austria kill over 200 people.
January 12: Queen Elizabeth II opens the New Zealand Parliament on her tour of the realm.
January 13: French explorer Jacques Cousteau announces the discovery of a sunken city off the coast of India.
January 14: Studebaker, Packard, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Company merge into an all-new four-marque American Motors Corporation.
January 15: Capture of senior Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote by British troops in Kenya.
January 16: Polish communist authorities begin a crackdown on dissident shipbuilders at Gdansk.
January 17: Conclusion of an agreement between the RN and USN regarding access to and joint operation of the Floating Fortresses in the Atlantic.
January 18: The Mexican Minister of Defence announces a new force modernisation programme for the Imperial Armed Forces.
January 19: Arcane sensor equipment in Germany indicates a large nuclear event in the Soviet Union.
January 20: USAF survey planes discover an uncharted jungle plateau in the depths of the Venezuelan Amazon and report sighting a number of large, unknown creatures.
January 21: The first gas turbine automobile is exhibited in New York City.
January 22: Celebration of the ninth annual Anglo-Danish Friendship Festival.
January 23: Chinese frogmen attack Allied shipping at Taejon.
January 24: A mysterious man survives five separate attempts at execution in the electric chair in Texas, remarking after the final one that it tickled slightly.
January 25: Opening of a summit meeting in Vienna between the United States, France, Britain and the Soviet Union.
January 26: The Spanish Ambassador to Morocco is killed by a Barbary sheep.
January 27: Ethiopian Hawker Hurricanes bomb rebel camps in the Ogaden.
January 28: Troops of the Canadian 1st Infantry Division repel several strong Chinese and Mongolian attacks on the front line in Korea.
January 29: The Soviet Union announces the successful test of its largest A-Bomb to date at Semipalatinsk.
January 30: Belgium cancels its existing trade agreement with the Soviet Union.
January 31: A magical accident results in a half hour rampage by an animated chocolate pudding in downtown Chicago.

February
February 1: The Hawker Hunter enters service with the Royal Netherlands Air Force.
February 2: Snow falls upon Gibraltar for the first time in memory.
February 3: Queen Elizabeth II arrives in Sydney on a royal tour of Australia.
February 4: The North American F-100 Super Sabre makes its combat debut in Korea.
February 5: Britain begins the full-scale production of military nerve agents at Porton Down in line with a programme to modernise British chemical warfare capacity.
February 6: A meeting of international criminal masterminds in New York City is uncovered by a costumed superhero.
February 7: The last American occupation troops leave Trieste in Austria-Hungary.
February 8: British per capita beef consumption tops 1938 levels.
February 9: President Taft authorises $250 million for aid to the French in Indochina.
February 10: Commonwealth troops begin a major offensive sweep through suspected Mau-Mau territory in Kenya in conjunction with aerial surveillance by RAF skyships.
February 11: Mexico announces that it will deploy its sole aircraft carrier in support of UNC operations in Korea in a calculated step designed to ease tensions with the United States.
February 12: An RNAS Avro Shackleton crashes off the coast of Malta, killing all 12 crew members onboard.
February 13: Establishment of Mawson Station by Australian scientists in Antarctica.
February 14: A gathering of American gangsters meeting in Nicaragua are arrested by a team of FBI and CIA agents.
February 15: A Turkish submarine runs aground off the coast of the Greek island of Naxos, sparking a diplomatic furore.
February 16: General Gavin receives approval from the Joint Chiefs of Staff for his long planned spring offensive.
February 17: Execution of Waruhiu Itote for treason in Nairobi.
February 18: Free Polish special operations forces attack a Communist convoy outside of Kraków.
February 19: The first nuclear armed variants of the Vickers Red Rapier flying bomb enter service with RAF Bomber Command.
February 20: Monthly surrenders by communist terrorist forces in Malaya reaches a new high as the combination of British military pressure and a successful hearts and minds campaign continues to reduce their support.
February 21: A Boeing 707 crashes on a test flight near Tacoma, Washington.
February 22: American farmers discover a strange golden suit of armour in a field in Kansas.
February 23: First mass inoculation against polio using the Salk vaccine in Pittsburgh.
February 24: Establishment of the first peacetime Canadian military base in Scandinavia at Trondheim.
February 25: The Archbishop of Canterbury gives a speech condemning the apparent rise of public immorality.
February 26: Stalin is presented a 10 point plan by Stavka to modernise the Soviet Armed Forces over the next six years.
February 27: 196 USAF B-36s bomb Pyongyang overnight, inflicting devastating damage.
February 28: Allied carrier aircraft conduct hundreds of airstrikes against Chinese lines in North Korea.


March
March 1: Four Porto Rican nationalists open fire at the US House of Representatives and are gunned down by police.
March 2: The United States conducts a hydrogen bomb test at Eniwetok, code named Castle Bravo.
March 3: Opening of Canada's largest integrated steel mill in London, Ontario.
March 4: Allied heavy bombers strike Chinese, Mongolian and North Korean lines of communication and supply in a series of very heavy raids.
March 5: A barrage by over 3600 guns and airstrikes by over 1200 fighter-bombers marks the beginning of Operation Longbow, the long-awaited United Nations Command spring offensive.
March 6: American explorers discover the wreck of a Spanish treasure galleon off South Carolina.
March 7: USN destroyers conducting monitoring patrols as part of Operation Castle spot the Pacific Monster 134nm north of Eniwetok. It dives and escapes before they are able to open fire.
March 8: Belgian colonial authorities agree to nationalist demands for elections in the Congo.
March 9: The US I Corps decisively breaks through the enemy frontline in Korea after several days of extremely slow progress.
March 10: Britain and Austria-Hungary sign a new trade agreement.
March 11: Robert Wadlow has his maximum adult height recorded as 12'4".
March 12: The Honjo Masamune is returned to the gates of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo by a masked ninja, who subsequently disappears into the night.
March 13: Viet Minh troops begin a new wave of offensive operations against French forces around Dien Bien Phu.
March 14: Anti-Turkish riots sweep Constantinople.
March 15: USN and RN aircraft carriers move into strike positions off the coast of Indochina to aid French forces supporting the garrison of Dien Bien Phu.
March 16: Chinese and Mongolian forces in Korea begin a general withdrawal to their secondary defensive line south of Pyongyang.
March 17: Successful test of a Royal Air Force long range ballistic missile at Woomera in South Australia.
March 18: The display of a rare tropical flower in Central Park causes widespread nausea as it suddenly comes into bloom.
March 19: British and Commonwealth troops accept the surrender of more than 400 Mau-Mau rebels at the foot of Mount Kenya.
March 20: French tactical bombers and fighter-bombers launch dozens of airstrikes on Viet Minh targets around Dien Bien Phu
March 21: A Mississippi steamboat is capsized by the attack of an enormous aquatic serpent.
March 22: German commandos rescue a Bavarian village occupied by orcs.
March 23: Several towns in Northern Florida are struck by a rain of frogs and fish.
March 24: Legislative elections in the Gold Coast result in a majority of seats being gained by the nationalist Labour and Social Democrat coalition, renewing calls for self government.
March 25: The Commonwealth Corps' Anzac Division captures Sariwon in North Korea.
March 26: An emissary of the Church of Bosnia is received by the Pope in the Vatican.
March 27: Creation of a world record giant strawberry jelly in Sheffield.
March 29: The US 1st and 3rd Marine Divisions begin a heavy bombardment of North Korean positions south of Wonsan in conjunction with long range naval gunfire.
March 30: Garfield Sobers makes his Test cricket debut for the West Indies against England at Kingston, Jamaica.
March 31: 178 USAF B-36s destroy two bridges over the Yalu in night raids.

April
April 1: Formation of the US Army's first helicopter battalion.
April 2: Walt Disney announces plans to build a magical park to showcase his creations.
April 3: Vladimir Petrov defects to Australia.
April 4: Retirement of legendary conductor Artur Toscanini.
April 5: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a counter offensive across the front in Korea after the smashing Allied success of Operation Longbow.
April 6: A British passenger jet carrying a group of schoolboys goes missing over the Indian Ocean.
April 7: Establishment of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
April 8: An RCAF Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37.
April 9: RNAS patrol planes detect and sink an unidentified submarine in the Irish Sea.
April 10: France officially warns China not to support Viet Minh rebels in Indochina.
April 11: A bank robbery in Chicago is interrupted by a clash between a costumed superhero and a villainous scientist, who level the building in their fight.
April 12: The Royal Air Force issues an operational requirement for an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying a thermonuclear warhead.
April 13: A Soviet spy ring in Australia is uncovered, leading to the arrest of over 40 suspects.
April 14: J. Robert Oppenheimer publicly denies accusations of being a communist.
April 15: Imperial Chinese forces stabilise the front in Korea, pushing back the US XII Corps and South Korean troops and establishing a 24 mile deep salient in the middle of the front.
April 16: A newspaper article claims that fabulous lost cities lie in the depths of the Amazon.
April 17: Publication of The Two Towers, the second volume in Professor J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
April 18: Extensive rainfall in Southern Iraq uncovers a Sumerian mound near Uruk.
April 19: The Soviet Ambassador to Ethiopia is assassinated by two White Russians in Addis Ababa.
April 20: General James Gavin, Supreme Allied Commander in the Far East, arrives in Washington to meet with the US Joint Chiefs of Staff and brief President Taft on the Korean situation.
April 21: Talks regarding a broad peace settlement in the Far East opens in Geneva, jointly sponsored by the Swiss and Persian governments.
April 22: Senator Joseph McCarthy begins hearings on Communist penetration of the U.S. Army.
April 23: Formation of the Nordic Corps in Germany under the auspices of the Atlantic Pact.
April 24: Two South Korean corps begin a steady advance towards Wonsan.
April 25: Australia and the Soviet Union sever diplomatic relations over the Petrov Affair.
April 26: Release of the Japanese film The Seven Samurai, starring Toshiro Mifune.
April 27: United Nations Command forces initiate Operation Watchman, an intense land, sea and air bombardment of enemy positions along the front line in Korea and the second in four phased offensives aimed at driving to the neck of the peninsula by the end of summer.
April 28: Brazilian fascists clash with Trotskyites on the streets of São Paulo.
April 29: The French Socialist Party issues a motion condemning ongoing German rearmament.
April 30: Former Vice President Atticus Finch is given an honourary knighthood for his services to Anglo-American relations.

May
May 1: The Red Air Force unveils the prototype of an eight engine heavy jet bomber at the May Day Parade in Moscow.
May 2: USAF B-36s destroy a North Korean underground fortress complex on the Yalu with 26 T-12 Cloudmaker guided earthquake bombs.
May 3: English rangers report a strange gathering of foxes in Yorkshire.
May 4: General Alfredo Stroessner launches a coup in Paraguay.
May 5: Six Indonesian farmers are eaten by a Komodo dragon.
May 6: Roger Bannister breaks the four minute mile in a race at Oxford.
May 7: Sweden and Denmark sign an agreement regarding Baltic herring fisheries.
May 8: Formation of the Asian Football Confederation in Manila.
May 9: An unidentified aircraft crash site is found by Scouts in southern Rhodesia.
May 10: Sir Charles Ratcliffe slays the Grandfather Crocodile of the Nile, a 68ft monster responsible for killing over a hundred Egyptian fellahin.
May 11: Dutch and Indonesian fighters come close to clashing over the Moluccas.
May 12: Tarzan gives the opening address at the World African Congress in Lagos, Nigeria.
May 13: The Hague Convention on the Protection of Cultural Property in War Time is adopted.
May 14: Belgium increases its period of national service to 24 months.
May 15: Creation of the Latin Union by the Convention of Madrid.
May 16: US Secretary of State John F. Dulles declares that the security of Indochina is vital to the interests of the United States in Asia.
May 17: Prime Minister Churchill announces that the Communist Party of Great Britain will not be banned at this time, despite increasing public calls for this measure.
May 18: Launch of Operation Lantern, the largest pitched battle thus far in the Malayan Emergency, with over 50,000 Commonwealth troops supported by tanks and artillery sweeping down from the Kra Isthmus.
May 19: Six Mafia bosses are sentenced to death by a New York court.
May 20: Several dozen Allied commando raids hit both coasts of North Korea.
May 21: Apparent death of the dark wizard Zoroander in an RAF air strike in Yucatan.
May 22: Maiden flight of the Folland Midge jet fighter.
May 23: A Royal Navy frigate locates the surviving schoolboys from the Imperial Airways disappearance on a remote island in the Indian Ocean. The matter is promptly classified.
May 24: Opening of the world's first atomic power station in Britain.
May 25: A tribe of West African chimpanzees are exposed to a misfired intelligence boosting spell in a sorcerous accident in Cameroon.
May 26: An explosion of a hydraulic catapult aboard the aircraft carrier USS Bennington kills 104 sailors.
May 27: A small wood of oak trees walks into the sea in Navarre.
May 28: The Bristol Bloodhound Mark I surface to air guided weapon enters service with the Royal Air Force.
May 29: Capture of two large yeti in Tibet by British hunters.
May 30: The United States cricket team is defeated by the West Indies in the Second Test at Kingston by 7 runs after Sonny Ramhadin and Alf Valentine spin the home team to victory, dismissing the visitors for 199 late on the fifth afternoon, with US opener Harry Schultz carrying his bat for 85*.
May 31: General introduction of the influenza pill to the U.S. domestic market.

June
June 1: Allied forces begin Operation Vigilant, a full scale offensive across the Korean Peninsula, utilising extremely heavy concentrations of tanks and artillery and new war gasses and combat spells. Three armoured divisions are poised behind the UNC front to exploit any major breakthroughs.
June 2: Protests by Communist supporters in Paris and across France against the ongoing Indochina War.
June 3: A costumed superhero is recorded as flying faster than a USAF F-100 Super Sabre in tests in Nevada.
June 4: Mexico threatens to pull out of the International Conference of American States over strained relations with Brazil.
June 5: A major air battle over North Korea results in the destruction of no fewer than 124 Chinese and Soviet MiG jet fighters for the loss of only 26 USAF and Commonwealth aeroplanes.
June 6: German inventors patent the electric drip brew coffee-maker.
June 7: Allied troops encircle Pyongyang as Operation Vigilant continues to encounter steady success.
June 8: The US House of Representatives passes the Interstate Railway System Act.
June 9: Joseph Walch, special counsel for the United States Army, questions whether Senator McCarthy has lost his sense of decency.
June 10: Communist terrorist attacks in Malaya fall to their lowest monthly rate in three years.
June 11: Establishment of the first USAF airbase in India.
June 12: A meteorite crashes in the middle of downtown St. Louis, Missouri.
June 13: Amphibious naval landings take place on both coasts of North Korea, with two US Marine divisions enveloping Wonsan and the 2nd Royal Marine Division and Commonwealth brigades storming Nampo.
June 14: President Taft signs an order adding the words 'under God' to the Pledge of Allegiance.
June 15: Completion of the Drax Power Station in Yorkshire, the world's largest coal fired power plant.
June 16: Heavy fighting takes place in the hills around Dien Bien Phu, as Viet Minh efforts to overrun French positions are repulsed by the heavy use of firepower.
June 17: Outbreak of a CIA backed military coup in Guatemala.
June 18: Pyongyang is captured by US troops.
June 19: Canadian wizards successfully deploy a long range spell mirror.
June 20: Two USAF C-54 transports collide over Yokohama, killed 175.
June 21: The Merry England Inn restaurant chain opens its first American branch in Boston.
June 22: The Republic of Formosa formally changes its name to Taiwan.
June 23: Royal Swedish Air Force Tunnan jet fighters intercept two Soviet bombers over the Aland Islands.
June 24: Legendary West Indian batsman George Headley retires after the Third Test against the United States.
June 25: The Kenyan War Council approves a villagisation programme to cut off remaining Mau Mau supplies.
June 26: The Spanish Inquisition arrests dozens of socialists in a series of pre-dawn raids.
June 27: President Jacobo Arbenz steps down in Guatemala.
June 28: Operation Vulture: 250 USN and RN carrier strike aircraft pound Viet Minh positions around Dien Bien Phu with napalm and wildfire, followed by 186 USAF B-36s and 72 RAF Yorks dropping over 5000 tons of bombs on the surrounding hills.
June 29: French troops begin an aerial evacuation from Dien Bien Phu in the aftermath of Operation Vulture.
June 30: First major eclipse in Britain since 1927.

July
July 1: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that racial segregation of schools is unconstitutional by 9-0 in Brown vs Board of Education.
July 2: Chinese counterattacks in Central Korea are broken up by the use of guided rockets and chemical weapons. The last operational division of the North Korean Army is overrun at Sariwon.
July 3: U.S. Marines land at Hungnam in a daring flanking operation.
July 4: Germany wins the 1954 World Cup, beating Austria-Hungary 4-3 in a thrilling final in Bern.
July 5: The BBC broadcasts its first international television news service.
July 6: Destruction of the Mongolian 6th Army at the Battle of Yongwon by the US IX Corps.
July 7: British tanks of the 2nd Armoured Division reach the Ch'ong'chon River in North Korea.
July 8: The Prince of Switzerland offers his assistance to facilitate negotiations to end the Indochina War.
July 9: Operation Nemesis, the final stage of the Allied offensive into North Korea, begins across the front at 0325 with a massive artillery and aerial bombardment, including USAF B-36 strikes at bridges and industrial targets along the Yalu River. Four B-36s are shot down by Soviet and Chinese night fighters.
July 10: The Archbishop of Washington arrives in Canterbury for a meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury.
July 11: Juan Fangio wins the British Grand Prix motor race at the Silverblade Circuit in Lyonesse, setting a new record average speed of 110.2 mph.
July 12: Proposals for an interstate highway system in the United States are unveiled by President Taft.
July 13: Hagaru is seized by a USMC helicopter assault, marking the return of the Marines to the vicinity of Chosin Reservoir.
July 14: The Communist Control Act is passed by the United States Senate, authorising the outlawing of the Communist Party of the United States.
July 15: South Korean President Syngman Rhee is assassinated by a disguised North Korean wizard while triumphantly visiting Pyongyang.
July 16: The first issue of Sports Illustrated is released in the United States.
July 17: Beginning of truce talks between representatives of France, the Viet Minh and the Empire of Vietnam in Geneva.
July 18: The average cost of a gallon of gasoline in the United States is recorded at 19 cents.
July 19: A vicious swarm of locusts in Morocco lays waste to significant amounts of crops and fruit orchards.
July 20: The Red Army moves four tank divisions forward to the Vistula River.
July 21: Establishment of the Australian Academy of Science.
July 22: Completion of the aerial evacuation of the last French units from Dien Bien Phu.
July 23: Allied forces in Germany go on high alert in response to Soviet moves in Poland.
July 24: Essendon's John Coleman kicks 18.5 against South Melbourne in the Round 13 VFL clash at the Lake Oval, topping the century for the sixth consecutive year.
July 25: Six senior Soviet generals retire for reasons of ill-health to shallow graves in the woods outside Moscow.
July 26: South Korean armoured cavalry patrols reach the Yalu River in North Korea.
July 27: Back-channel discussions between Soviet and American officials begin in Constantinople aimed at pulling back from the brink of war.
July 28: The Imperial Chinese Army Supreme Command orders five further field armies to Manchuria for reinforcement of forces in Korea.
July 29: Signing of the Treaty of Brussels establishing a political community between Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg with coordinated defence and economic policies, a Low Countries common market and joint military command of the Benelux Army Group.
July 30: Opening of the Empire Games in Vancouver, Canada.
July 31: Chinese rocket attacks strike the outskirts of Seoul, with several carrying chemical warheads.

August
August 1: Louison Bobet wins the 41st Tour de France.
August 2: Over 500 USAF and RAF fighters perform offensive aerial sweeps over Manchurian airfields, while hundreds more tactical fighters and bombers strike military targets along the Yalu and forward Chinese airfields in Manchuria with conventional and chemical weapons.
August 3: USAF and RAF Canberra bombers destroy Chinese troop concentrations at Kanggye and Sinuiju with four 50kt tactical nuclear bombs at 1800 hours.
August 4: Shortly after midnight, a Strategic Air Command B-47 successfully destroys a Chinese naval battle group of one cruiser and four destroyers operating in the Korea Bay with a 500kt atomic bomb. A note is presented to the Soviet ambassador to the League of Nations by the American and British ambassadors requesting that the USSR use its good agencies to arrange an ceasefire and eventual armistice in Korea and prevent a general nuclear war.
August 5: The Emperor of China agrees to the proposed Korean ceasefire under Soviet coercion; the threat of atomic attack on Peking and other Chinese cities by Red Air Force bombers and rockets proves quite persuasive.
August 6: At 12:00pm, all fighting ceases in Korea for the first time since May 1st 1950. Negotiations for an armistice begin at Unsan between the Allies and representatives of the Empire of China and North Korea.
August 7: The British cargo ship SS Spanker runs aground in the Hook of Holland.
August 8: An Imperial Airways Viceroy crashes shortly after take off from King George Aerodrome in the Azure Islands, killing all 32 onboard.
August 9: United Nations Command negotiators set out their proposed terms for a Korean armistice: firstly, all Chinese and Mongolian military forces are to withdraw beyond the Yalu; secondly, that there be an exchange of prisoners of war held by both sides; thirdly, that there be an internationally supervised plebiscite regarding the reunification of Korea; and fourthly, that a UNC Army of Occupation remain in place until a final peace treaty is signed.
August 10: Execution of the Imperial Chancellor of China and several other top mandarins by ling chi; this action is seen as a sign of apportionment of blame for events in Korea by foreign observers.
August 11: Recommissioning of USS Boston, the first guided missile cruiser in the United States Navy.
August 12: The Soviet Union tests its first hydrogen bomb, recording a yield of 3.2 megatons.
August 13: Indonesia announces that it will settle its territorial claims against the Netherlands through international arbitration.
August 14: First successful testing of a replacement clockwork arm by American medical arcanists.
August 15: The Zeppelin Dirigible Company recommences transatlantic passenger flights.
August 16: Sir Robert Menzies leads the Liberal-Country Coalition to a crushing victory over the Labour Party in the Australian federal election, winning 94 out of 130 seats in the aftermath of the Petrov Affair and the Korean ceasefire.
August 17: Maiden flight of the prototype of the XB-58 strategic bomber.
August 18: Opening of a new large industrial complex outside Cairo.
August 19: Rhodesia wins its first Test Match outside Africa, beating India by 97 runs.
August 20: The North Korean delegation at the Unsan armistice negotiations is replaced by a new group more amenable to Soviet and Chinese positions.
August 21: Orcish rights protestors stage a public demonstration in Trafalgar Square.
August 22: The C-130 Hercules turboprop transport aircraft enters service with the USAF.
August 23: Interpol detectives attempt to apprehend Doctor Frankenstein in Budapest, but he escapes through the sewers.
August 24: The Guinness Book of Records reports that the English Great Horse Thunderer is the largest horse in the world at a height of 32 hands.
August 25: Incorporation of the field forces of the Teutonic Knights in the German Army.
August 26: At the armistice talks at Unsan, the Chinese and North Korean delegation propose that any territorial adjustment be limited to the areas currently under Allied occupation.
August 27: The Boeing 707 jet airliner enters regular commercial service with Pan Am.
August 28: French Foreign Legionaires uncover a hidden Roman treasure hoard outside Carthage.
August 29: Six ships are wrecked at Hong Kong by a freak typhoon.
August 30: Commissioning of HMS Amazon, the Royal Navy's first guided missile destroyer.
August 31: Hurricane Carol strikes New England, killing 70 and doing millions of dollars of damage.

September
September 1: The Union of India is formally proclaimed a Dominion in a ceremony in Delhi.
September 2: Demonstration of the first automaton computing engine in London.
September 3: The Espionage & Sabotage Act of 1954 is signed into law in the United States.
September 4: British machine tool production reaches its highest quarterly rate to date.
September 5: World trade reaches 200% of 1938 levels.
September 6: A strike begins in Chile's copper mines.
September 7: The final new episode of The Lone Ranger is aired on US radio.
September 8: An earthquake in Orleansville, Algeria kills over 1500 people.
September 9: Two Japanese samurai duel at a Tokyo subway station, causing considerable chaos.
September 10: A Royal Commission into Public Morality is established in London.
September 11: British and American outposts on Luna report increased Space Nazi activity.
September 12: A provisional armistice is agreed upon in Korea, with prisoners to be exchanged and further negotiations to follow regarding the possible unification of the peninsula.
September 13: French troops conduct a fighting retreat from intense Viet Minh attacks in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
September 14: The Soviet Army carries out a tactical atomic warfare exercise at Totskoye.
September 15: US house construction reaches its highest monthly rate since the Great Depression.
September 16: Completion of the Strömsund Bridge in Sweden.
September 17: The U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee reports that US airpower in Europe and North America is now sufficient to deter Soviet aggression.
September 18: Signing of the Pacific Treaty in Manila by the United States, Britain, Canada, New Avalon, Australia, New Zealand, France, India, the Philippines, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Malaya, Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. It formalises a mutual defensive alliance in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
September 19: Thailand signs an agreement with the United States regarding air basing rights.
September 20: The Hawker Hunter enters service with the Regia Aeronautica.
September 21: Germany reinstates the Pour la Merite.
September 22: Patriotic big band music continues to enjoy great public popularity with the apparent victory in Korea.
September 23: Sino- Indian tensions continue to rise with increased intrigue in Tibet and Burma.
September 24: Establishment First Benelux Army, made up of the Dutch and Belgian Corps in Germany.
September 25: Footscray win the VFL Grand Final before a crowd of 105,827 at the MCG, beating Geelong 15.12 (102) to 12.8 (80).
September 26: The Japanese ferry Tōya Maru is sunk by a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait, with over 1000 people perishing.
September 27: China's Ministry of Industry announces a large programme aimed at modernising Chinese heavy industry.
September 28: Ministry of Space scientists begin testing of scale model of a solid fuel orbital rocket.
September 29: The Albanian Army announces the formation of its first armoured division.
September 30: Mau Mau rebels ambush several British patrols in Central Kenya, killing 11.

October
October 1: The British West African Colonial Congress unanimously passes a motion calling for increased self government.
October 2: The New York Knights win World Series, beating the Cleveland Indians 4-0.
October 3: A herd of bewitched cow rampage through the centre of Kansas City.
October 4: Four British gangsters are hanged for incitement to murder and conspiracy.
October 5: The United States conducts a hydrogen bomb test at Eniwetok.
October 6: Border tensions between Argentina and Brazil begin to rise, with several acts of hostility.
October 7: Magical detection and range finding spheres detect the transit of an unknown energy source over the Home Counties; the imagery of a glowing pyramid and a disembodied scream are received by several adepts.
October 8: First test flight of the XB-65 Atlas intercontinental ballistic rocket.
October 9: Protests against discrimination against the Arab populace of Algeria take place in the streets of Algiers and Constantine.
October 10: 99.95% of voters in the Guatemalan election support Castillo Armas.
October 11: Hurricane Hazel hits Haiti, killing over 1000 people.
October 12: The Imperial Chinese Army begins a review of performance in Korea as part of an Imperial rescript to reform and modernise its organisation, tactics, equipment and strategy.
October 13: A car crash in Memphis, Tennessee kill several notable local musicians.
October 14: Riots in Hong Kong are put down by the British garrison.
October 15: An enormous statue of a crowned man is uncovered in Northern Italy.
October 16: Britain and Egypt sign a new Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, allowing the presence of British military bases for the defence of the Suez Canal for the next 25 years.
October 17: British, American and French tanks are put through extensive testing in Western Germany to improve armoured coordination and design data.
October 18: A German born industrialist disappears in London after a confused affair regarding strategic missiles and card games.
October 19: The British cabinet is reshuffled, with Lord Wooster promoted to Foreign Secretary and Duff Cooper becoming Minister of War.
October 20: Canadian forestry officials report the discovery an extremely fast growing fir grove in British Columbia.
October 21: RFC dragons return from Korea to their peacetime lairs in the Scottish Highlands.
October 22: Expansion of the Royal Docks in London is completed.
October 23: The German Army reaches an operational strength of sixteen divisions.
October 24: Prime Minister Jan Smuts of South Africa announces his retirement.
October 25: Landslides near Salerno kill over 250 people.
October 26: Two ships disappear en route to Bermuda from Charleston.
October 27: 587 foreign-born criminals are deported from the United States in an FBI crackdown.
October 28: Ernest Hemingway is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
October 29: The first contigent of US Army Reserve support troops called up for the Korean War emergency are demobilised.
October 30: Vice President Thompson survives an assassination attempt, personally disarming the crazed man on live television.
October 31: Reports of a number of sightings of supernatural figures across New England on the night of Halloween.

November
November 1: French officials begin discussions with the exiled Sultan of Morocco for his eventual return and a gradual move towards independence within the French Empire.
November 2: David Attenborough presents the first episode of Zoo Quest, a BBC nature documentary.
November 3: The Pacific Monster attacks Yokohama and Tokyo, rampaging out of the sea and destroying dozens of buildings and killing over 4000 people. It is finally turned back by waves of American jet fighters, naval and coastal defence gunfire and the intervention of magically enlarged Imperial Guards. The motivation for the attack is unclear.
November 4: Astonishment sweeps the world after the attack on Tokyo, with the Japanese press dubbing the monster Gojira, combining the terms for gorilla and whale. USAF and USN aircraft are rapidly redeployed to Japan from South Korea to assist in defence against further attacks.
November 5: Talks end in Havana regarding the union of Cuba with the rest of the British West Indies.
November 6: Over sixty American and Commonwealth warships begin air and sea patrols to find and destroy Gojira.
November 7: Soviet fighters shoot down a US RB-29 reconnaissance plane to the north of Japan.
November 8: A wave of vampire attacks is reported in New York City.
November 9: End of the state of war between Japan and Burma.
November 10: Dedication of the Iwo Jima memorial in Arlington, Virginia.
November 11: The Soviet Union vetoes a League of Nations motion calling for the expedited reunification of Korea.
November 12: Closure of the Ellis Island immigration station in New York City.
November 13: The governing Nationals win the New Zealand General Election, increasing their majority to 18 seats.
November 14: Strong elements of the Imperial Chinese Navy sortie into the Yellow Sea, ostensibly to defend against Gojira, but perceived by many to be a show of force.
November 15: Canada announces that it will cooperate with the deployment of US defensive missiles in Alaska.
November 16: Elections across Austria-Hungary see the Liberals make inroads against the Social Democratic government.
November 17: USAF rocket scientists begin initial testing of a 2500 mile intermediate range ballistic missile.
November 18: The 24th Infantry Division arrives back in San Francisco to a rapturous reception.
November 19: Establishment of a permanent USAF airbase on the Canary Islands.
November 20: President Taft announces that he hopes to make reductions in the active strength of the United States Army in Europe when international tensions are reduced.
November 21: Construction begins on a nuclear reactor in Italy.
November 22: Launch of a Chinese super battleship at Shanghai.
November 23: Morris Australia opens a large automotive construction plant in Adelaide.
November 24: The first British airship packet holidays to the West Indies take place.
November 25: Sweden's cabinet agrees to back the secret development of an atomic bomb for deterrence of Soviet aggression.
November 26: Colin Cowdrey makes his Test cricket debut against Australia at the Gabba.
November 27: Royal Ordnance, Vickers and Armstrong-Whitworth begin development of a new type of advanced tank armour.
November 28: Release of The Liberators, a Technicolour World War 2 epic starring Ronald Reagan and John Wayne.
November 29: A Fairey delta-winged fighter achieves a speed of Mach 1.6 in level flight over Ireland.
November 30: SAS troopers raid a Mau Mau encampment in Kenya, killing over 60 rebels.

December
December 1: New Zealand inventor William Hamilton develops the pump-jet engine.
December 2: The U.S. Senate votes to condemn Joseph McCarthy for conduct bringing the Senate into disrepute.
December 3: Signing of the Taiwan-United States Mutual Defence Treaty in Taipei.
December 4: The first Burger King restaurant is opened in Miami, Florida.
December 5: French troops pull back towards Hanoi and Haiphong in North Vietnam.
December 6: Introduction of the ZSU-57-2 into Soviet Army service.
December 7: The United States Navy issues a requirement for an atomic powered super battleship.
December 8: Major new oil deposits are discovered in Southern Mexico.
December 9: Joseph Needham begins publication of Science and Civilisation in China.
December 10: Linus Pauling and Sir Winston Churchill are awarded the Nobel Prizes for Chemistry and Peace in Stockholm.
December 11: Commissioning of the supercarrier USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-64) at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.
December 12: A strange resonant energy is detected around the Great Pyramid.
December 13: Formation of the Council for the Protection of Children in Amsterdam.
December 14: The Soviet Union launches its largest space rocket to date.
December 15: HMS Talent is damaged after being grounded in the Medway.
December 16: Discovery of a new species of theropod dinosaur from fossil finds in South Dakota.
December 17: Introduction of the first fully automated railway freight yard in Gary, Indiana.
December 18: A confidential report by the Cunard Line concludes that airliners do not pose a significant threat to the trans-Atlantic oceanliner at this point because of political interference in their choice of route and subsequent lack of true freedom of navigation.
December 19: Heavy snowfall paralyses interstate traffic across much of the North Eastern United States.
December 20: Opening of Gimpo International Airport in Seoul, South Korea.
December 21: The nationalist government of Argentina declines to pursue a path of nationalising British owned railways and oilfields for fear of sparking a hostile reaction.
December 22: American archaeologists uncover a lost Inca fortress high in the Andes.
December 23: The first successful kidney transplant is performed in Boston.
December 24: Inaugural meeting of the Caribbean Council in Kingston, Jamaica.
December 25: USAF fighters attempt to intercept a supersonic sleigh travelling at 65,000ft above the Midwest with little success.
December 26: President Taft suffers a moderate heart attack and is taken to Walter Reed Hospital for treatment.
December 27: Opening of the Royal Garden of Canada in Ottawa.
December 28: A provisional ceasefire in Vietnam is agreed at Geneva.
December 29: The United States defeats Australia to win the Davis Cup in Sydney.
December 30: Death of Archduke Eugen of Austria at the age of 91.
December 31: The Empire of China tests its first atomic bomb in Inner Mongolia, recording a yield of 29kt.

Does it have a German designation like Panzer 84 ore something.


So is Albania still a kingdom.



Nice to see it in service with the RNAF.


Not the Polish Home Army.


Lead by Otto Skorzeny most likely.


Did not know he was a real person until i google it.

1.) No, it simply keeps the American designation.

2.) Albania is a kingdom; King Zod will be quite ambitious.

3.) The Home Army is a separate organisation; running a twilight war is a very difficult task.

4.) No, he is persona non grata in postwar Germany and is involved with ODESSA.

5.) There are plenty of interesting figures scattered around the back pages of history.

1955

January
January 1: The Kingdom of Bhutan issues its first postage stamps.
January 2: Assassination of President Jose Cantera of Panama at a racetrack in Panama City.
January 3: Rosafred, a Swedish passenger ship runs aground off Stockholm.
January 4: The Empire of China declares that its words are backed by nuclear weapons.
January 5: President Taft is released from Walter Reed Hospital after enjoying a rapid recovery from his heart attack. He still appears to be sickly, but returns to his duties as rapidly as possible.
January 6: Public announcement of the provisional ceasefire in the Indochina War, leading to mixed reactions in Paris and Vietnam.
January 7: Release of the British animated feature film Animal Farm, based on the celebrated allegorical novel by George Orwell.
January 8: Selangor State in Malaya is declared free of all communist terrorist activity.
January 9: Soviet speed skater Boris Shilkov breaks the men's 5000m world record in Medeo, Kazakhstan.
January 10: Entry into service of the A3D Skywarrior strategic naval bomber with the US Navy.
January 11: Two French Air Force Shackletons collide in midair over Corsica, killing all on board.
January 12: The Royal Navy Small Arms Development Establishment begins testing of a new power sword to replace previous cutlasses.
January 13: Sir De Villiers Graaff is sworn in as Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.
January 14: A group of London-based adventurers announce the discovery of a map to Long John Silver's fabled treasure.
January 15: Imperial Mining begin operations at a new large bauxite mine in Weipa, Queensland.
January 16: Juan Manuel Fangio wins the Argentine Grand Prix in Buenos Aires.
January 17: Public announcement of a major international summit of the Great Powers in Constantinople, to be held in February.
January 18: A large USAF base is established in the Trucial States.
January 19: First release of the board game Scrabble.
January 20: The Soviet Union unexpectedly drops its former objections to a Council of the League of Nations motion calling for an internationally supervised plebiscite on the reunification of Korea.
January 21: Formation of the Irish Farmer's Association in Dublin.
January 22: The Pentagon announces that the United States will field an intercontinental ballistic missile by 1956.
January 23: An express train is derailed at Sutton Coldfield railway station, killing 17 people.
January 24: Arianius Rex, a great golden wyrm hatched in the reign of King Arthur, is enthroned as the new Grand Dragon of the Royal Flying Corps.
January 25: The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces an end to the state of war between the USSR and Germany.
January 26: Columbia University scientists develop an atomic clock accurate to within one second in 500 years.
January 27: A clash between Indonesian Navy and Royal Australian Navy patrol boats off the coast of Western New Guinea leads to the withdrawal of the Australian ambassador from Jakarta for consultations in Canberra.
January 28: President Taft announces that the United States will deploy naval and air forces for the protection of the Chinese Republican state on Taiwan.
January 29: The British Transport Commission produces a report on the Modernisation of British Railway which proposes the introduction of new steam locomotives, major resignalling projects and extensive capital investment in the rail and canal networks.
January 30: Denali, the highest mountain in Canadian Alaska and North America, is renamed Queen Elizabeth II Peak.
January 31: A suspected sighting of Dracula in Amsterdam sparks a massive security operation involving forces from no less than seventeen countries.

February
February 1: Great tornadoes ravage several counties in northern Mississippi.
February 2: England beat Australia by 5 wickets at the Fourth Test in Adleaide to take an unbeatable 3-1 lead in the 1954/55 Test series and retain the Ashes.
February 3: Opening of the first branch of the Empire Steakhouse restaurant chain in London.
February 4: Signing of Baghdad Pact, a regional mutual security agreement by Britain, France, the United States, India, Iraq, Persia, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Arabia and Egypt. The non-participation of Israel attracts considerable criticism from British and American politicians and newspapers.
February 5: The Soviet battlecruiser Stalingrad docks in Surabaya, further increasing regional tensions.
February 6: The Norwegian Archaeological Expedition to Rapa Nui, lead by the renowned Thor Heyerdahl, departs Christiana for South America.
February 7: Establishment of the Royal Lao Air Force and Royal Lao Navy are established.
February 8: Canadian sailors in the North Pacific report the sighting of an enormous blue whale more than twice the size of any previously creature.
February 9: Merger of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organisations.
February 10: Opening of the Constantinople Summit, attended by Stalin, President Taft, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier de Gaulle. Security is extremely heavy, with Anglo-American and Soviet naval task forces tensely monitoring each others activities. The American proposal for an 'Open Skies' agreement to allow mutual defence observation is tersely refused and Stalin declines to enter into discussion of any change in the status of Poland and Romania. Some small progress is apparently made on the principle of normalizing East-West trade relations and a broad philosophical commitment to the use of the League of Nations to avoid global conflict, but little of substance is achieved. Western observers note that Stalin seems to be somewhat different in mannerism and style.
February 11: Opening of the Rome Metro to passenger service.
February 12: NYPD detectives, paladins and sorcerers destroy a vampire lair hidden deep beneath the subways of New York City, bringing an end to their reign of terror.
February 13: The Grumman F11F Tiger enters initial operational service with the United States Navy.
February 14: Discovery of the ancient tomb of a barbarian king in Northern Scotland by oil prospectors. The skeletal remains of the tall warrior clutch a remarkably preserve Atlantean sword.
February 15: Construction begins on a top secret space rocket base at Baikonur in the Kazakh SSR.
February 16: 96 people are killed in a fire at an elderly person's home in Yokohama, Japan.
February 17: The Committee of Imperial Defence begins a extensive study into the global defence strategy of the British Empire in the new post-Korea situation.
February 18: A secret meeting of the ODESSA and Space Nazi agents in Paraguay agrees upon the initiation of Operation Sunrise.
February 19: French archaeological wizards demonstrate a recreation of Ancient Egyptian pyramid power at a conference in Strasbourg.
February 20: An American astronomer declares that the chances of intelligent life coming from Jupiter or Saturn are 'a billion to one'.
February 21: The Emperor of China announces that he will not object to the League of Nations plebiscite in Korea. Private undertakings are reached for the expedited withdrawal of United Nations Command troops south of the 38th Parallel to assuage Chinese security concerns.
February 22: Large scale flooding begins in the Hunter Valley of New South Wales, eventually costing 25 lives.
February 23: Freezing conditions across Britain result in dozens of roads being blocked by snow and cancellation of rail service across many parts of the country. The Royal Air Force makes deliveries of foodstuffs and medical supplies to the hardest hit areas.
February 24: A USN Convair R3Y-1 Tradewind sets a new flying boat speed record in a flight across the continental United States, flying from San Diego, to NAS Patuxent River, in 8 hours and 46 minutes at an average speed of 432 mph.
February 25: The Red Army begins testing of a large combat tripod, causing considerable consternation in the West.
February 26: George F. Smith becomes the first man to survive aircraft ejection at supersonic speed, escaping from a North American F-100 Super Sabre flying at Mach 1.25.
February 27: The Japanese Democratic Party returns to power at the General Election, winning 205 seats to 124 of the Liberal Party.
February 28: Signing of a secret memorandum agreement between the United States, Japan and the British Empire regarding Japanese rearmament in Tokyo, ostensibly motivated by the Gojira Attack, but more broadly focused on counterbalancing Soviet and Chinese power in North East Asia. Previous restrictions on the manufacture, purchase or operation of strike aircraft, capital ships, submarines and aircraft carriers are to be effectively lifted.

March
March 1: Signing of the Treaty of Seoul, marking a formal end to the Korean War. The national plebiscite is scheduled to follow in August.
March 2: USS Midway and her accompanying task force arrives in Australia, her visit marking a sign of overt American support for Australia in the ongoing New Guinea dispute.
March 3: England win the Fifth Test at Sydney by 10 wickets, taking the Ashes series 4-1. Frank 'Typhoon' Tyson takes 5/26 in Australia's second innings to bring his series total to 36 wickets at an average of 19.2
March 4: 15 leaders of the Communist Party of Great Britain are arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy.
March 5: President of the United States Robert Taft dies in Washington D.C. at 0925 aged 65, from a brain hemorrhage resulting from complications arising from pancreatic cancer. It is revealed that he learned of the diagnosis in December, but continued at his duties to work for a resolution of the Korean plebiscite and to attend the Geneva Summit. The nation and free world grieves for his loss and his funeral is to be marked by a national day of mourning. Vice-President Roger Thompson is sworn into office as the 32nd President shortly after Taft's death.
March 6: Clashes between the Spanish Inquisition and the Rosicrucian Brotherhood take place in Lisbon over the discovery of scrolls of ancient wisdom.
March 7: HMS Dreadnought arrives in Sydney on her second world cruise.
March 8: Discovery of major new oil deposits in the mountains of central New Avalon.
March 9: The state funeral for President Taft is held in the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. It is attended by 35 heads of state and government and the stoic courage of President Thompson and his young family is approvingly noted by the international media.
March 10: Mexico unveils the prototype of an indigenous tank design.
March 11: Death of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Sir Alexander Fleming, aged 73.
March 12: Stalin approves of the formation of secret experimental orcish units in Siberia.
March 13: The King of Nepal dies under suspicious circumstances.
March 14: Colonial and church officials begin a crackdown on the Rastafarian sect in Jamaica on grounds of heresy, sedition and suspected connections to Communists.
March 15: The Grand Duke of Burgundy, the richest man in France, dies at his estates in the West Indies, aged 87.
March 16: A runaway train carrying explosives is halted by the timely intervention of a caped superhero outside New York City, preventing a potentially calamitous accident.
March 17: Britain successfully tests a hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in the Pacific.
March 18: The five match India-Canada Test cricket series ends in a 2-2 draw.
March 19: General Sir Arthur Percival, best known for his meritorious wartime role as Chief of Staff to Field Marshal Wavell in South East Asia Command, retires from his position as Governor-General of Ceylon.
March 20: Forging of first magic great sword since the Second World War begins in Avalon.
March 21: A large part of the westerly portion of Craggy Island, a small island off the west coast of Ireland, is washed away in a freak storm
March 22: A USN R6D crashes into Pali Kea Peak near Honolulu, killing all 66 passengers and crew on board.
March 23: The Norwegian ocean liner Venus runs aground near Plymouth.
March 24: Commissioning of HMS Warspite, the Royal Navy's second atomic powered submarine.
March 25: The German Democratic Republic is granted full sovereignty by the Soviet Union.
March 26: Bill Hayes tops the American charts with 'The Ballad of Davey Crockett, marking the beginning of the coonskin cap craze in the United States.
March 27: Two motorised regiments of Hispanic Knights arrive in Spanish West Africa in their first significant postwar deployment.
March 28: New Zealand are dismissed for 26 in the Second Test against England at Eden Park.
March 29: An experimental electric train in France sets a new speed record of 352kmph, damaging the track in the process.
March 30: On the Waterfront wins Best Picture at the 27th Academy Awards, with Marlon Brando winning Best Actor and Ronald Reagan winning Best Supporting Actor for The Liberators.
March 31: Four members of the Victorian Labour Party are expelled, forming the Australian Labour Party (Anti-Communist), marking the beginning the Great Split in the ALP.

April
April 1: A reclusive British chocolate factory owner announces a competition for tours of his secretive manufacturing plant.
April 2: Duncan Edwards becomes the youngest English international footballer in a 7-2 win over Scotland at Empire Stadium.
April 3: A horrendous passenger train crash in Guadalajara, Mexico kills over 300 people.
April 4: Decommissioning of the Brazilian battleship Silvado, the last operational vessel in the world armed with 16" guns.
April 5: Sir Winston Churchill retires as British Prime Minister, having served from 1940-1945 and 1948-1955. He is created Duke of London by Queen Elizabeth II in honour of his great service. Succeeding him as Prime Minister is Sir Anthony Eden, who asks the Queen to dismiss Parliament and call a general election.
April 6: The Douglas B-66 Destroyer medium bomber enters service with the United States Air Force.
April 7: Chinese backed irregular forces step up raids along the Tibetan border.
April 8: British intelligence agents uncover a Soviet backed diamond smuggling ring in Sierra Leone.
April 9: The United States performs a tactical atomic bomb test at the Nevada Test Site as part of Operation Teapot.
April 10: Korean martial artists agree on the name of taekwondo for their newly developed composite martial art.
April 11: An Admiralty study predicts that the Royal Navy will field atomic powered battleships, aircraft carriers, cruisers and destroyers by 1965.
April 12: First successful test of powered armour at Fort Knox.
April 13: 21" of rain fall in Axis, Alabama in a 24 hour period, establishing a new state record.
April 14: The United States declares that it supports a policy of free interplanetary trade.
April 15: Ray Kroc opens his first McDonalds hamburger restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois.
April 16: Release of Richard III, starring Laurence Olivier in the title role.
April 17: Opening of an anti-colonial conference in Bandung, Indonesia.
April 18: The Saab 32 Lansen supersonic jet fighter enters service with the Royal Swedish Air Force.
April 19: Production of the Volkswagen Type 2 begins in Germany, after the return of the factory and equipment from Britain in 1953 and encouraging success in sales of the Volkswagen Type 1.
April 20: A scantily clad swordsman subdues a dragon terrorizing a town in Oklahoma.
April 21: 30 people are killed in a cave-in in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
April 22: The Saab 34 medium jet bomber enters service with the Royal Swedish Air Force, representing a considerable jump in capability over their previous English Electric Canberras. Negotiations regarding the acquisition of Vickers Valiants with the British Government continue.
April 23: Inauguration of the Super Continental train service by Canadian Railways.
April 24: Yucatan and Mexico extend their defensive alliance for a further ten years.
April 25: Eric Liddell is knighted for services to athletics and the Church.
April 26: An unexpected meteor shower over Central Europe lights up the night skies.
April 27: Opening of the Exposition Universale in Paris.
April 28: Discovery of enormous gold deposits near Mount Jayawijaya in New Guinea.
April 29: Announcement of the discovery of a new element, Mendelevium, at UCLA Berkeley.
April 30: The last Cornish engine still in use is phased out of service at South Croft.

May
May 1: Signing of the Warsaw Treaty between the Soviet Union, the German Democratic Republic, Poland and Romania, establishing a mutual defensive alliance.
May 2: Tennessee Williams is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The expected follow up to William Forrester's sensational debut novel Avalon Landing, which won the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Literature, is yet to be published.
May 3: Publication of The Magician's Nephew, the latest book in C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia.
May 4: President Thompson announces a wide-reaching defence review.
May 5: Two Dutch murderers are hanged in Amsterdam.
May 6: Three Strategic Air Command B-49s complete a non-stop flight around the world in an exhibition of the long range striking power of the United States.
May 7: Newcastle United win the F.A. Cup, defeating Manchester City 4–2 at Empire Stadium.
May 8: Exhibition of the world's biggest cake in an Indiana fair.
May 9: The first two prototypes of the eight-engined Tu-95 strategic heavy jet bomber, given the codename 'Bear' by US military intelligence, enters test service with the Soviet Air Force. It is considered to represent a substantial advance in capability over the Bison and Badger.
May 10: A British construction firm estimates that the cost for construction of a similar structure to Offa's Dyke would run into the tens of millions of pounds.
May 11: 166 people are killed in a collision between two Japanese ferries.
May 12: A tense stand-off between Chilean and Bolivian airships over the Andes ends after three days and nights.
May 13: The Ministry of Food's strategic stockpile of foodstuffs reaches 16.4 million tons, including sufficient tea supply for 18 months.
May 14: France conducts an atomic bomb test with a yield of 246kt at the Reggane test site in the Algerian Sahara.
May 15: The German Army's Tank Design Committee issues design specifications for a 50t modern main battle tank and a 75t heavy battle tank. The former will be armed with a 105mm gun based on the Royal Ordnance L7 and the latter with an improved version of the 128mm KwK L/55 used on the wartime Tiger II heavy tanks. Development details of a rumoured 100t superheavy tank remains top secret.
May 16: King Baldwin of Belgium arrives in the Belgian Congo for a royal tour of the colony.
May 17: An operational test of a new galehorn by the British Army results in the partial destruction of a model village.
May 18: Establishment of the Central American Union, a wide-reaching intergovernmental political and defence cooperation agreement.
May 19: First flight of the Sud Aviation Caravelle jet airliner.
May 20: The Argentine Parliament approves the official separation of church and state.
May 21: President Thompson conducts his first foreign state visit, arriving in Canada to great fanfare.
May 22: Reformation of the Imperial Japanese Army's elite Samurai Division.
May 23: A USAF F-100 pilot shoots down a Chinese MiG-15 off the coast of Korea after it enters prohibited air space.
May 24: Release of The Dam Busters, a Technicolour war epic telling the story of 617 Squadron and Operation Chastise, to great acclaim in London.
May 25: Successful ascent of Kangchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world.
May 26: Sir Anthony Eden leads the Conservative Party to a resounding victory in the British General Election, winning 389 seats, to the Liberals 140, Labour 117, the Nationals 32, Imperialists 26, Radicals 20, Socialists 13 and Independents 12.
May 27: First flight of the Convair F-106 supersonic interceptor.
May 28: Pope Pius XII describes the struggle against communism as a holy war.
May 29: Return of the US Army National Guard 28th and 43rd Infantry Divisions from Germany, where they had been deployed since late 1951 as part of the Korean War defensive build-up.
May 30: Tunisia is granted internal self government by France.
May 31: French aviatrix Jacqueline Auriol sets a women′s world speed record of 769 mph in a Mystere IV.

June
June 1: HAPAG general director Albert Ballin retires for the third and final time at the age of 98.
June 2: Yugoslavia and Austria-Hungary sign the Treaty of Belgrade, formalizing defensive ties against the growing Soviet threat.
June 3: An American expedition to a remote Indian ocean island captures a monstrous ape.
June 4: The Soviet secret police and intelligence service is formally renamed the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti or Committee for State Security)
June 5: New York Yankees star Mickey Mantle hits a record 632' home run off Billy Pearce.
June 6: The Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act comes into effect, motivated by the increased popularity of horror comics.
June 7: Debut of The $64,000 Question on CBS Television.
June 8: Celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the establishment of the halfling region of Hartshire in England.
June 9: Scientists report the first separation of a virus into its component parts.
June 10: The strength of the British Civil Defence Corps reaches 865,000 personnel.
June 11: 83 people are killed and over 100 injured after two race cars collide at Le Mans.
June 12: Three British academics publish a paper suggesting that the reconstitution of the Holy Roman Empire could serve as one means of defending Europe against external aggression.
June 13: Opening of the Mir diamond mine in the Soviet Union.
June 14: The Fairey Delta supersonic fighter enters operational service with the Royal Air Force.
June 15: Australia scores a record 758/8 against the West Indies at Kingston.
June 16: HMS Sidon is sunk in an accident that kills 13 crew in Portland Harbor after an explosion of an experimental high speed torpedo. Refloating and repair will take until February 1956.
June 17: The average price of a colour television in the United States is recorded as $79.99, while the average cost of a new automobile is $1360.
June 18: Discussions between dwarven communities and the Ministry of Defence regarding the use of underground settlements for mass civilian shelters in the event of general atomic war reach a satisfactory resolution.
June 19: Newsreel broadcasts of the new Ch'ing-Lung medium tank of the Imperial Chinese Army spark intense speculation as to its attributes.
June 20: The longest total solar eclipse for over 9 centuries darkens much of South East Asia.
June 21: Protests against Portuguese colonial rule begin in Goa.
June 22: Soviet fighters shoot down a USN patrol plane over the Bering Strait. The Soviet response surprises the Western world as they issue a statement of regret and offer to pay half damages.
June 23: Establishment of the Argentine National Petroleum Corporation.
June 24: Persian diplomats begin a new round of talks with British colonial officials regarding a renegotiation of the Anglo-Persian Treaty.
June 25: Destruction of the last major field force of the Malayan Races Liberation Army in the swamps of Teluk Anson.
June 26: Arctic explorers find the ruins of an icy palace in the mountains of Spitsbergen.
June 27: First legislation passed on the use of seat belts in automobiles in Illinois.
June 28: Mass surrender of former Mau-Mau fighters in Kenya.
June 29: First overseas deployment of combat forces of the United States Presidential Guard Regiment since the Second World War, as one company is assigned to the headquarters of US Army Europe.
June 30: The Ministry of Power, the Royal Atomic Energy Commission and British Energy publish a study outlining the development of the British electrical power industry over the next 20 years, including a plan for the construction of 52 nuclear power stations across Britain and Ireland.

July
July 1: Lord Wooster arrives in Washington for consultations with Secretary of State Dulles.
July 2: The largest collection of intact Inca quipu to date are recovered from caverns high in the Andes.
July 3: A toad motorist is fined £250 for repeated speeding offences by a Berkshire magistrate.
July 4: Legislative elections in Mexico lead to a strong victory by the National Party over the Liberal government.
July 5: A USAF study recommends the formation of a mobile rapid deployment air striking force capable of responding to global emergencies.
July 6: British and Indian troops complete the clearance of a large underground complex infested by hobgoblins on the North West Frontier, suffering 32 casualties in the week-long operation.
July 7: Commissioning of the USN's second atomic submarine, USS Seawolf.
July 8: The Midnight Shadow, a notorious gentleman thief wanted all over Europe, escapes a dogged pursuit by Metropolitan Police detectives over the rooftops of Limehouse, yet again.
July 9: Lufthansa begins its first regular jet services to London and Paris, employing de Havilland Comets.
July 10: Britain experiences its twelfth consecutive day above 70 degrees; the heatwave has sent many Englishmen and their perturbed dogs questing for relief at the seaside.
July 11: The first group of twelve CIA pilots complete training on the Lockheed U-2 high altitude reconnaissance plane and are prepared for their initial flights over Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The U-2 is capable of flying at altitudes well above 75,000ft, well above the current ceiling of Soviet interceptors.
July 12: A Mexican passenger ship sinks off Veracruz in suspicious circumstances.
July 13: Execution by hanging of Ruth Ellis for murder in HM Prison Holloway.
July 14: France unveils its latest battle rockets at the Bastille Day Parade in Paris.
July 15: 18 Nobel laureates issue the Mainau Declaration, warning of the dangers of atomic war.
July 16: Opening of the Disneyland fairy tale theme park in Anaheim, California.
July 17: Sterling Moss wins the British Grand Prix at the Ainslee Circuit.
July 18: Winterborne St Martin records the highest rainfall in a 24 hour period in the British Isles with a 12" downpour.
July 19: Cecil Rhodes dies in Cape Town, aged 102. His death is marked by mourning across South Africa and the British Empire and is described by many as the end of an era.
July 20: Publication of The Return of the King, the final volume in Professor J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.
July 21: Opening of the Yarkon Project to supply water to the Negev Desert in Israel.
July 22: President Thompson arrives in Panama City for the Tenth International Conference of American States.
July 23: Mau-Mau leader Dedan Kimathi is captured by a police patrol in Kenya.
July 24: An intrepid 4 year old girl becomes lodged in the barrel of Dora, the former Nazi German superheavy railway gun on display at the Royal Artillery Museum at Woolwich, London. The unfortunate explorer is rescued by the London Fire Brigade an hour later.
July 25: The MiG-19 supersonic fighter enters service with the Soviet Air Force. It goes some way towards bridging the qualitative gap between the East and West, but Soviet jet technology remains a substantive distance behind that of America and Britain, with both now fielding Mach 2 capable fighters.
July 26: The Labour Party is returned to power in the Israeli General Election, winning 52 out of 125 seats in the Knesset.
July 27: A friendly spectacled Peruvian bear is rescued from abandonment at Paddington Station by a kindly London family.
July 28: The first Interlingua Congress in Tours leads to the foundation of the Union Mundial pro Interlingua.
July 29: Protests against the British Army's use of war lions are rebutted in an extensive BBC interview with the chiefs of two battle prides.
July 30: The Soviet Union conducts an atomic test of a new experimental torpedo warhead at Semipalatinsk.
July 31: Five Swiss socialites drown in a cauldron of molten Emmental in a tragic fondue accident.

August
August 1: Sweden, Norway and Denmark establish a combined defence staff.
August 2: The Blackburn Buccaneer supersonic naval strike bomber enters test service with the Fleet Air Arm.
August 3: Air Vice Marshal Sir Guy Gibson V.C. is promoted to Air Officer Commanding, No. 1 Group RAF.
August 4: Construction begins on a new high security headquarters for the CIA in Langley, Virginia.
August 5: Beginning of the Korean national plebiscite under international supervision.
August 6: Dedan Kimathi is sentenced to death by hanging, drawing and quartering for treason in Nairobi.
August 7: Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering begins sales of transistor radios in Japan.
August 8: A Soviet pilot defects with his MiG-17 jet fighter to Bulgaria, where he is rewarded with $100,000 by CIA agents.
August 9: The Bristol Silver Shield Mk. IV anti-tank guided missile enters frontline service with the British Army of the Rhine.
August 10: French Lines' 154,000t superliner SS France departs on her maiden Transatlantic voyage from Le Havre.
August 11: Two USAF C-119 Boxcars collide in midair near Stuttgart, Germany, killing 66 troops and crew on board.
August 12: The minimum wage in the United States is raised from 80 cents to $1.00.
August 13: King Zod of Albania announces that his state will be the most powerful in Europe within five years.
August 14: Four Manchester children are taken on a fantastical journey through a long forgotten elven gate into faerie.
August 15: Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia arrives in Washington DC on a state visit.
August 16: The War Office announces that two British divisions will be withdrawn from Germany to Britain by the end of the year in the light of increased German self-defence capacity.
August 17: Five Poles are killed in two separate incidents as they attempt to cross the Polish-Ruritanian border, a deadly toll that continues to add to the Iron Wall's sinister reputation.
August 18: A mutiny in the Sudan Defence Force is swiftly suppressed by the British garrison battalions.
August 19: Hurricane Diane hits the northeastern United States, killing over 200 people and inflicting almost $1 billion in damage.
August 20: Anti-French riots sweep Morocco, with dozens of buildings being burnt in Fez and Casablanca and hundreds killed in the violence.
August 21: Dedan Kimathi is executed at Kamiti Prison in Nairobi.
August 22: 11 schoolchildren are killed when a freight train hits their school bus in Spring City, Tennessee.
August 23: The United States raises import duties on bicycles by 50%
August 24: Two aircraft carriers are laid down in Japan under high levels of security.
August 25: The results of the Korean plebiscite are announced, with 82% voting for reunification as an independent state.
August 26: Anak Krakatoa begins to grow rapidly as it enters a cycle of continual erupitve activity.
August 27: A New York traffic jam results in effective gridlock for 2 hours.
August 28: Opening of a large new RAF airfield on St. George's Island in the Indian Ocean.
August 29: A specialized prototype English Electric Lightning supersonic fighter sets a new altitude record for a jet aircraft, reaching 100,236ft.
August 30: The League of Nations Korean Supervisory Commission declares that reunification will take place on January 1st, 1956, followed by national elections to determine the government.
August 31: A Pan American Boeing 707 disappears off the coast of Florida while en route from Miami to Rio de Janeiro.

September
September 1: British elder stateman Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG dies aged 92 in London.
September 2: Greek Cypriot protests against British colonial rule in Cyprus proceed amid careful observation.
September 3: A British pilot becomes the first man to successfully eject from an aircraft on the ground, surviving his escape from a Gloster Javelin travelling at 150mph along a runway.
September 4: Soviet biological scientists announce that they have successfully bred a new hybrid dinosaur.
September 5: Official formation of the Imperial Defence Staff, a combined general staff representing the land, sea and air forces of Britain and her Crown Colonies, the Dominions and India. This is the first of several recommendations of the Committee of Imperial Defence regarding the integration of forces under joint Commonwealth command.
September 6: Riots in Constantinople are suppressed by the Varangian Guard
September 7: German counter-intelligence agents arrest 15 suspected Soviet spies.
September 8: Opening of the world's largest movie theatre in Los Angeles.
September 9: Completion of the second stage of construction of Queen Elizabeth Station in orbit around the Earth.
September 10: The Western series Gunsmoke debuts on CBS television.
September 11: Juan Fangio continues his tremendous winning form, this time triumphing at the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
September 12: Great Khan Temur of Mongolia declares that revolutionary socialism and Mongolian independence are not incompatible and any who make such a contention will be boiled alive.
September 13: Soviet wizards of the SKV (Soyuz Krasnyy Volshebnik) report a breakthrough in successfully counteracting lycanthropy, to the considerable scepticism of their Western counterparts.
September 14: Pope Pius XII elevates many Apostolic vicariates in Africa to the status of Metropolitan Archdioceses.
September 15: Airfix produces their first scale model aircraft kit, a 1/72 Supermarine Spitfire.
September 16: Release of Sword of Freedom, a Civil War epic film starring Ronald Reagan, James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Olivia de Havilland and Grace Kelly.
September 17: Melbourne defeat Collingwood in the VFL Grand Final at the MCG in front of 123,574 spectators.
September 18: Discovery of a new cavern containing ancient scrolls at Qumran.
September 19: Hurricane Hilda kills 358 people in Mexico.
September 20: Establishment of the Australian Rangers, a long range reconnaissance light infantry force for the defence of Northern Australia.
September 21: Glenn Miller reaches the top of the US charts with his latest composition 'Feelin' Fine'.
September 22: The Imperial Byzantine Navy marks the 2435th anniversary of the Battle of Salamis with solemn ceremonies off Piraeus.
September 23: Israeli agents assassinate two fugitive Nazis in Montevideo.
September 24: A proposal to lift restrictions on imports from Japan to the British Empire is abandoned due to a lack of support.
September 25: Establishment of the Royal Jordanian Air Force.
September 26: Marriage of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, dubbed by many as 'America's sweethearts'.
September 27: Birdseye begins sales of frozen fish fingers across Britain.
September 28: The Indonesian Communist Party wins the second largest number of seats in Indonesia's legislative elections.
September 29: USAF weather planes begin new cloud seeding experiments over Kansas.
September 30: Hollywood actor James Dean is paralyzed and disfigured in a terrible car accident near Cholame, California.

October
October 1: Talks in Samarkand between the Soviet Union and the Empire of China regarding the future of Tartary break down.
October 2: Deactivation of the ENIAC computing engine at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.
October 3: Two suspected Mau-Mau bases are destroyed by RAF airstrikes and rocket attacks in Kenya.
October 4: The Brooklyn Dodgers win the 1955 World Series, defeating the New York Yankees 2–0 in the seventh game.
October 5: A combined task force from New Avalon begins deployment to Britain as part of major Commonwealth global defence exercises.
October 6: Launch of the Citroen DS at the Paris Motor Show.
October 7: A Royal Canadian Mounted Police patrol discovers the fragments of a strange newly impacted meteorite in the Yukon.
October 8: First U-2 missions flown over the Soviet Union.
October 9: Reports of a strange plague in the hinterlands of Haiti reach the outside world.
October 10: USN helicopters assist in rescue operations for Mexicans stranded by flooding in Tampico.
October 11: A scientific exhibition to explore the so-called Lost Plateau of the Venezuelan Amazon disappears without a trace.
October 12: Commissioning of the supercarrier USS Chesapeake (CVA-62).
October 13: Confirmation of the existence of antiprotons in an experiment at the Bevatron particle accelerator at UCLA Berkeley.
October 14: A duel between two Martian ambassadors disrupts daytime commerce in the Strand.
October 15: Reopening of the Hamburg State Opera House with a performance of Mozart's The Magic Flute.
October 16: President Thompson announces a sweeping economic programme to balance the budget, cut marginal rates of taxation and end price and wage controls.
October 17: The Soviet battleship Comintern strikes a mine off Sevastopol and is heavily damaged.
October 18: Joint Arab League military exercises in Syria and Egypt gain significant public attention across the Middle East.
October 19: The Texan Supreme Court commutes the death sentence of 'The Man who Could Not Die' to life imprisonment, after further attempts at electrocution and hanging have no effect.
October 20: British and Australian strategic bombers conduct overflights of Indonesian territory en route between Singapore and Darwin as part of a show of force.
October 21: Chivu Stoica becomes Prime Minister of Romania.
October 22: A foreign businessman is fined 5 guineas for wearing white brogues in public by a London magistrate.
October 23: Secret testing of a double-barreled self-propelled howitzer begins at Woomera.
October 24: Establishment of the Serengeti National Park in Tanganyika, due in no small part to the vigorous advocacy of Sir Denys Finch Hatton.
October 25: A Yorkshire inventor announces that he and his dog have successfully flown a cavorite rocket to Luna and back.
October 26: Canada conducts an atomic bomb test at Christmas Island in the Pacific, signalling its position as the second atomic power of the British Empire.
October 27: The 96th Indian Scouts Regiment is deployed to the Philippines in response to the continuing Communist backed insurgency.
October 28: Belgian workers win the right to a 45 hour week.
October 29: Premier performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra.
October 30: The Swiss federal election results in victory for the Social Democratic Party, winning 61 seats out of 198.
October 31: Research begins on the means to extend the range of coastal and heavy artillery

November
November 1: United Airlines Flight 629 is destroyed in flight over Longmont, Colorado by a time bomb planted by John Gilbert Graham in an attempt to murder his mother for insurance purposes.
November 2: Stalin orders the repatriation of Poles from the Soviet Union after discussions with General Secretary Gomulka.
November 3: Opening of the Rimutaka Tunnel in New Zealand, which becomes the longest in the southern hemisphere with a length of 6 miles.
November 4: Long-time Brazilian Premier Getulio Vargas announces his retirement. He will remain a powerful influence on the political life of the Empire of Brazil.
November 5: Racial segregation is outlawed on trains and buses in the remaining four Southern states of the USA where it remained legal.
November 6: Two septuagenarian prospectors discover a huge uranium deposit near Hawks Crag on the west coast of New Zealand, sparking a rush of fortune seekers attempting to match their success.
November 7: Construction of the first offshore oil platform in the United States is completed in Galveston, Texas.
November 8: Public unveiling of the world's first automaton bathtub in a home wares exhibition in London.
November 9: A Soviet diplomat defects to the United States in Constantinople.
November 10: Two battleships are laid down in Kobe and Kure in the most notable step in Japanese rearmament yet taken.
November 11: Romanian security services arrest 37 alleged Western spies in a major crackdown on public dissent.
November 12: German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer dies aged 79 in Berlin.
November 13: Launch of the battlecruiser Monitor at Newport News. The first of its class, it will carry a combined gun and missile armament and is set to displace over 87,000t at full load.
November 14: Kaiser Wilhelm appoints Ludwig Erhard as Adenauer's successor.
November 15: Fu Manchu is reappointed Imperial Chancellor of China.
November 16: The satellite town of Elizabeth in established to the north of Adelaide, South Australia.
November 17: Completion of expansion of the naval base at Port Royal, Jamaica, which is now the largest in the West Indies.
November 18: First successful test flight of the US Army's Jupiter long range ballistic missile.
November 19: Stanisław Mackiewicz is elected to a second term as Prime Minister of the Polish government in exile.
November 20: Arrival of the famed Iroquois Regiment of the Canadian Army in Malaya to replace the two battalions currently deployed there.
November 21: England defeat Germany 3-2 in a friendly game at Olympic Stadium in Berlin.
November 22: The American Indian population is recorded as 1.2% of the total populace of the United States.
November 23: Rhodesian miners uncover a massive diamond in mines in the south of the country.
November 24: Western diplomats in Moscow note that Stalin appears healthy and reinvigorated in recent public appearances.
November 25: A loud performance of Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra breaks several dozen windows in Vienna.
November 26: Giant wolves terrorise villages in Northern Persia.
November 27: General Moshe Dayan is appointed as Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army.
November 28: The Soviet Union and Indonesia sign an agreement regarding the supply of naval vessels, aircraft and armoured vehicles.
November 29: Premier Charles de Gaulle declares negotiations at Geneva on Indochina have come to a satisfactory conclusion.
November 30: First flight of the prototype Black Prince ballistic missile at the Upington Rocket Test Base in South Africa.

December
December 1: The Atlantic cod catch for 1955 is registered as the highest on record.
December 2: French and Moroccan officials sign the Franco-Moroccan Agreement, paving the way to the end of the French protectorate in April of next year.
December 3: Fire sweeps through the slum districts of Sofia, inflicting heavy damage.
December 4: Germany is admitted to the League of Nations as an observer state.
December 5: Issuing of the Geneva Accords on Indochina, which call for the separation of Vietnam into two states with a plebiscite to follow on unification in accordance with the successful Korean model. French forces will withdraw south of the 17th Parallel and a demilitarized zone established between the two interim states.
December 6: Death of Duke Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, heroic victor of the Winter War and father of modern Finland. The King of Finland declares three days of national mourning.
December 7: A young ogre child becomes the first golden ogre in centuries after a noble deed.
December 8: Release of The Ladykillers, an Ealing Studios black comedy starring Alec Guinness.
December 9: Former U.S. Vice President Atticus Finch is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to secure world peace, particularly in regard to his role with the Korean Supervisory Commission.
December 10: A sorcerously-assisted bank robbery in Japan nets 100 million yen.
December 11: Kaiser Otto of Austria-Hungary arrives in Germany for the first state visit by an Austro-Hungarian head of state since before the First World War.
December 12: The vestiges of the Malayan Communist Party and Malayan Races Liberation Army begin surrender negotiations with British colonial officials.
December 13: Former US Secretary of Magic Harry Houdini begins a celebrated lecture tour of North America.
December 14: American adventurers expose and destroy a cult that is attempting to summon an eldritch abomination in Cairo.
December 15: The discovery of a magnificent treasure hoard in Southern Mexico sparks off a rush of eager exploration of Maya ruins.
December 16: Queen Elizabeth II opens a new terminal at Heathrow Airport.
December 17: Outbreak of the Mlubz War on Venus.
December 18: A report claims that a grand total of 8,924,856 automobiles were sold in the United States during 1955.
December 19: Major George Flashman is expelled from Madagascar after an unfortunate incident with two of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting.
December 20: Cardiff is proclaimed the official capital of Wales.
December 21: Italian economic growth reaches its highest level since the Second World War.
December 22: American cytogeneticist Joe Hin Tjio discovers the correct number of human chromosomes, forty-six.
December 23: Portugal and India agree to a framework for talks on the future of Portuguese India.
December 24: A Soviet long range rocket explodes on the launch pad at a test in Kazakhstan and the resultant explosion killing dozens of scientists, engineers and military officials.
December 25: Queen Elizabeth II emphasises the importance of peace and liberty in her Royal Christmas Message to the British Empire and pays tribute to those serving in Malaya and Kenya.
December 26: A survey finds that roast turkey has overtaken beef as the favourite main course for American Christmas dinners, albeit by a small margin.
December 27: Colonial officials in the South Pacific report the incidence of what will later be described as cargo cults.
December 28: Australia beats the United States 5-0 to win the 44th Davis Cup in New York City.
December 29: Formation of the Liberal Party of Ottoman Turkey.
December 30: Maiden flight of the Saab 35 Draken supersonic interceptor in Sweden.
December 31: Discovery of the Cave of Swallows in Mexico.

1955 Notes

- Imperial China's words being backed by nuclear weapons is a reference to the Civilization series of computer games.
- Malaya and Kenya are starting to clear up earlier, but spotfires will continue for some time to come.
- The A3D is a larger aeroplane in the 100,000lb class; there was some thought given to a four engine strategic naval bomber.
- The different South African PM is an indicator of a very different, non-apartheid path ahead.
- Indonesia and Australia continue to shape up over various disputes.
- British Railways adopts a very different modernisation plan based on large scale capital investment in existing steam infrastructure as well as construction of modern marshalling yards and production of new rolling stock.
- The Baghdad Pact is a somewhat different institution with a lot of internal tensions.
- The Constantinople Summit fails to address the main issues of the Cold War and Stalin (or rather, his double) is playing a long game. Or so he thinks.
- Operation Sunrise will be heard of again...
- 'The chances of anything coming from another planet are a billion to one' is a hat tip to Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds as well as an oblique reference to the future.
- Japanese rearmament is really kicking off in a far greater way than @ due to the substantial Chinese and Soviet naval threats in the Pacific. The Samurai Division is quite the interesting unit.
- Taft's death brings Roger Thompson to the presidency. A popular, young Second World War general, he has his heart and guts in the right place, but lacks experience in a number of areas, which will influence events next year.
- The Rastafarian movement has a rather different fate here.
- Superheroes and their deeds pop up every now and then and have quite the effect on US popular culture. They serve as a great boost to national morale and exceptionalism, being seen as a sign of the special nature of the United States.
- Percival has a different wartime role and a much, much better historical reputation.
- Craggy Island's missing west side is explained.
- The chocolate factory owner is Willy Wonka.
- Soviet diamond smuggling rings are forever.
- The lightly dressed swordsman sometimes referenced is familiar with the power of Castle Greyskull.
- Retention of capital punishment in the Netherlands and elsewhere in Europe indicates some different social development and attitudes. Ruth Ellis's hanging passes without considerable public protest.
- The Tu-95 is going to be a big game changer when it gets into full service, giving the Soviets their first genuine intercontinental strategic bomber.
- The price of Offa's Dyke is a oblique reference to an interesting factoid included in Michael Wood's In Search of the Dark Ages in the episode on Offa.
- German tank development is following quite the interesting path.
- Albert Ballin does not take his own life in 1918, but lives on, flees the Nazis and returns back in the twilight of his life to set the company back on track once again. I've always found his story a sad one and having the circumstances which allow his survival was a happy coincidence.
- Hartshire is not a formal county, but is more of a general area in the West Midlands where halflings/hobbits have been traditionally found.
- Underground shelter capacity is several orders of magnitude greater in several countries.
- The US Presidential Guard Regiment is descended from Washington's Life Guard.
- British atomic power plans are extremely expansive, with some interesting consequences.
- Speeding toads really put the wind up the willows.
- The Girl in the Gun was simply an opportunity to refer to Dora the Explorer.
- The bear at Paddington Station loves marmalade.
- Manchester children going through a gate = Elidor (Alan Garner)
- Loss of a 707 over the Bermuda Triangle is more than what it seems.
- The Imperial Defence Staff is an interesting development.
- Great Khan Timur is a rather formidable character and hearkens back to old Mongol habits.
- The SKV will be detailed in Reds, an upcoming 1947 story, but are one of the five major power groups in the Soviet Union alongside the CPSU, the KGB and the Red Army.
- Sword of Freedom is a very successful film.
- Glenn Miller lives on and his success is one sign of different musical development.
- James Dean does not leave a good-looking corpse, but is very badly injured; his status in popular culture isn't what it was on Earth.
- Plagues in Haiti?
- The Man Who Could Not Die will be mentioned again and has an interesting role to play and past history.
- The Yorkshire inventor and his dog finally get a go.
- Nuclear Canada
- Denys Finch Hatton survives and Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen remains in Kenya.
- Artillery research will yield some interesting results within 10 years.
- Getulio Vargas doesn't shoot himself, but remains an eminence gris.
- The automaton bathtub makes an appearance in Never Had it So Good
- Adenauer died of natural causes.
- USS Monitor is a rather intriguing ship.
- The Kingdom of Finland and their victory in 1940 have some very interesting consequences.

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