Post by simon darkshade on Jul 27, 2022 12:59:48 GMT
February
February 1: 346 people are killed and hundreds injured in a horrific train collision in Benavidez, Argentina, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Prime Minister Rodriguez seizes upon the tragedy as evidence of the need for reform of the railway system.
February 2: Announcement of a special charity boxing match between Cassius Clay and Rocky Marciano.
February 3: Sherlock Holmes returns to his country estate, carried on the back of a strange and unknown dragon, having solved his last case, the Case of the Eldritch Twins.
February 4: The Australian stock market surges to a record high driven by the thirst for raw materials and foodstuffs driven in part by the Vietnam mobilisation.
February 5: Destruction of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in a mysterious nocturnal explosion. Police and investigators are flummoxed at the apparent inexplicable occurrence, suspecting dark magic.
February 6: Completion of the last phase of the integration of the Welsh Mountains Scheme and the Grand Contour Canal, an expansive water engineering project providing for irrigation of South and Eastern England and substantially developing the national water grid well into the 21st century.
February 7: Contract killer Charles Harrelson is executed in the electric chair for the murder of Sam Degelia in Texas.
February 8: The oil tanker SS Arrow breaks apart four days after running aground in Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia, spilling thousands of tons of oil into the sea.
February 9: A Soviet naval squadron lead by the super battleship Lenin and the atomic carrier Moskva departs Murmansk on a world goodwill cruise of Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa, Asia and South America. Upon its emergence from Soviet waters, it is shadowed by the USAF skyship carrier USS Victory and British and American nuclear submarines. Following the distraction of their high profile egress, the first Delta class ballistic missile submarine attempts to sortie from Severodvinsk, but is tracked by USS Devilfish, which had remained silently on station.
February 10: Launch of Mexico’s first modern spaceship, the Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, from the newly established Mexican spaceport in the exclave of Playa del Carmen on the Yucatan Peninsula.
February 11: A meeting of female activists in London passes a motion calling for a new movement in the spirit of the 19th century suffragettes to pursue the goals of equal pay for women and fully equal opportunity for education and jobs; it is met with a derisory cartoon in Punch picturing the participants as bickering tea ladies.
February 12: Emperor Alexander of Greece ceremonially overturns the first sod of earth of a new planned Imperial city in Vilazora, Central Macedonia
February 13: Introduction of new flying taxi cabs in London, with initial congestion along the designated sky lanes.
February 14: The new Congolese government delivers a lengthy note to the Rhodesian ambassador listing several grievances over the ongoing border crisis over Katanga. The provincial government of the Congolese state is poised to declare its independence from the new regime after more than a decade of unresolved disorder and separatist violence.
February 15: Communist Party officials in Tartary report increased Chinese subversive activities.
February 16: German newspaper Bild publishes a scurrilous and sensational rumour that Prince Siegfried, 24, second in line to the German throne and grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm IV, is a member of a secret crime fighting adventuring group alongside heartthrob schlager singer and actor Franzi, Vietnam War hero Konrad Nachtschicht and the one-eyed super scientist Ulric Winter.
February 17: Terrorist guerillas of the Central American Revolutionary Front launch a series of bank raids and bombings across the region, seemingly syncronised in simultaneous savagery.
February 18: Satellite and seismological data indicates a suspected underground atomic event in Sumatra. Jakarta denies any knowledge of any such event. Not that there was an event.
February 19: A British mining engineer submits a paper on an incredibly large and pure platinum deposit in Zangaro.
February 20: The Special Branch of the Royal Irish Police Force receives credible reports of the establishment of a shadowy new organisation, the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, drawn from disparate renegade druids and the tiny Dublin socialist underworld.
February 21: Signing of an Armistice by South Vietnam, North Vietnam, the United States, the Soviet Union, France and Britain. formally bringing hostilities on land, sea and air in the Vietnam War to an end until a final peaceful settlement can be achieved. It provides for the establishment of a 15 mile wide Demilitarised Zone from the coast to the Thai border, the temporary partitioning of Laos into a communist North Laos and democratic South Laos, a full exchange of prisoners of war and the clearing of mines from the coast of North Vietnam and a lifting of the blockade. Previous Soviet and North Vietnamese insistence upon the withdrawal of Allied forces from South Vietnam was dropped in exchange for acquiescence on the terms of the Laotian partition.
Whilst both sides can claim victory by virtue of survival as state entities, the effective destruction of the Viet Cong provides for the best possible evidence of a strategic victory for South Vietnam, the United States and their Free World allies. Whilst Saigon still has significant progress to make until it it is militarily self sufficient, it is greatly advanced from its position of a decade ago. The cost in lives, treasure and damage to the natural environment has been great for all involved. South Vietnam has suffered an estimated 360,000 military and 500,000 civilian dead and missing and over 1 million wounded; the United States 79,248 killed or missing and 398,532 wounded; France 12,823 KIA/MIA and 65,612 WIA; Britain 10,376 KIA/MIA and 56,934 wounded; Korea 8741 KIA/MIA and 25,938 WIA; the Commonwealth 8692 KIA/MIA and 35,624 WIA; India 6983 KIA/MIA and 27,445 WIA; and other Free World Military Forces 12,579 KIA/MIA and 70,628 WIA. North Vietnam and the Viet Cong lost an estimated 2 million military dead or missing and upwards of 300,000 civilian deaths due to bombing and other military action.
The economic cost of the Vietnam War to the United States in the 1960s is difficult to measure, but from 1964 to 1970, $307 billion was spent on direct war costs alone; aid to South Vietnam and subsidies and support to numerous member states of the Free World Military Forces was in addition to this expenditure. US forces peaked in 1969 with a total of 2,139,526 men deployed in 27 Army and Marine divisions and a total of 2954 fixed wing planes and 3877 helicopters were lost due to combat or accidents, but only 426 tanks were lost. Like the Korean War, naval losses were comparatively small, with only a handful of ships sunk, but numerous battleships and carriers sustained casualties from enemy fire and accidents and sea during the six and a half years of major combat operations. Enemy air to air combat losses are claimed as 524 shot down in aerial combat in exchange for 178 US, 65 British, 40 South Vietnamese and 23 French planes.
The increasing use of chemical and radiological weapons in the final years of the war has rendered some certain parts of North Vietnam and Laos uninhabitable for the next ten millennia, whilst the use of chemical defoliant and assorted biological agents has inflicted considerable damage. Significant parts of Hanoi, Haiphong and other strategic North Vietnamese cities have been destroyed by the heavy bombing campaign of Operation Rolling Thunder and over 24 million tons of explosive ordnance was dropped by the USAF, USN and Allied forces, ranging from 3” rockets to a former battleship. It saw the last combat employment of the F-51 Mustang and the de Havilland Mosquito and the first use of nuclear weapons in a war since the British in 1956.
February 22: President Kennedy delivers a triumphant State of the Union address to Congress, being met with a rapturous reception after the effective victory in Vietnam. His approval ratings reach an unprecedented 89%.
February 23: Formation of a unified republican movement in Guyana; several of the contingents are already heavily infiltrated by British intelligence.
February 24: A series of massive avalanches across the Alpa kill 36 people.
February 25: SFPD officers arrest a Frenchman for attempting to eat the Golden Gate Bridge.
February 26: Astronomer Marcus Wolff reports that the noted star Rallax has disappeared, a discovery confirmed by a bewildered NASA in the coming days.
February 27: Thirty two military ethicists across the West sign a public letter in The New York Times expressing their concerns regarding the fielding of robot gun turrets.
February 28: The Indian princely state of Nepal is transfixed by the spectacle of the royal wedding of Crown Prince Birendra to Princess Aishwarys in Kathmandu.
February 1: 346 people are killed and hundreds injured in a horrific train collision in Benavidez, Argentina, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Prime Minister Rodriguez seizes upon the tragedy as evidence of the need for reform of the railway system.
February 2: Announcement of a special charity boxing match between Cassius Clay and Rocky Marciano.
February 3: Sherlock Holmes returns to his country estate, carried on the back of a strange and unknown dragon, having solved his last case, the Case of the Eldritch Twins.
February 4: The Australian stock market surges to a record high driven by the thirst for raw materials and foodstuffs driven in part by the Vietnam mobilisation.
February 5: Destruction of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge in a mysterious nocturnal explosion. Police and investigators are flummoxed at the apparent inexplicable occurrence, suspecting dark magic.
February 6: Completion of the last phase of the integration of the Welsh Mountains Scheme and the Grand Contour Canal, an expansive water engineering project providing for irrigation of South and Eastern England and substantially developing the national water grid well into the 21st century.
February 7: Contract killer Charles Harrelson is executed in the electric chair for the murder of Sam Degelia in Texas.
February 8: The oil tanker SS Arrow breaks apart four days after running aground in Chedabucto Bay, Nova Scotia, spilling thousands of tons of oil into the sea.
February 9: A Soviet naval squadron lead by the super battleship Lenin and the atomic carrier Moskva departs Murmansk on a world goodwill cruise of Europe, the Mediterranean, Africa, Asia and South America. Upon its emergence from Soviet waters, it is shadowed by the USAF skyship carrier USS Victory and British and American nuclear submarines. Following the distraction of their high profile egress, the first Delta class ballistic missile submarine attempts to sortie from Severodvinsk, but is tracked by USS Devilfish, which had remained silently on station.
February 10: Launch of Mexico’s first modern spaceship, the Tlahuizcalpantecuhtli, from the newly established Mexican spaceport in the exclave of Playa del Carmen on the Yucatan Peninsula.
February 11: A meeting of female activists in London passes a motion calling for a new movement in the spirit of the 19th century suffragettes to pursue the goals of equal pay for women and fully equal opportunity for education and jobs; it is met with a derisory cartoon in Punch picturing the participants as bickering tea ladies.
February 12: Emperor Alexander of Greece ceremonially overturns the first sod of earth of a new planned Imperial city in Vilazora, Central Macedonia
February 13: Introduction of new flying taxi cabs in London, with initial congestion along the designated sky lanes.
February 14: The new Congolese government delivers a lengthy note to the Rhodesian ambassador listing several grievances over the ongoing border crisis over Katanga. The provincial government of the Congolese state is poised to declare its independence from the new regime after more than a decade of unresolved disorder and separatist violence.
February 15: Communist Party officials in Tartary report increased Chinese subversive activities.
February 16: German newspaper Bild publishes a scurrilous and sensational rumour that Prince Siegfried, 24, second in line to the German throne and grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm IV, is a member of a secret crime fighting adventuring group alongside heartthrob schlager singer and actor Franzi, Vietnam War hero Konrad Nachtschicht and the one-eyed super scientist Ulric Winter.
February 17: Terrorist guerillas of the Central American Revolutionary Front launch a series of bank raids and bombings across the region, seemingly syncronised in simultaneous savagery.
February 18: Satellite and seismological data indicates a suspected underground atomic event in Sumatra. Jakarta denies any knowledge of any such event. Not that there was an event.
February 19: A British mining engineer submits a paper on an incredibly large and pure platinum deposit in Zangaro.
February 20: The Special Branch of the Royal Irish Police Force receives credible reports of the establishment of a shadowy new organisation, the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood, drawn from disparate renegade druids and the tiny Dublin socialist underworld.
February 21: Signing of an Armistice by South Vietnam, North Vietnam, the United States, the Soviet Union, France and Britain. formally bringing hostilities on land, sea and air in the Vietnam War to an end until a final peaceful settlement can be achieved. It provides for the establishment of a 15 mile wide Demilitarised Zone from the coast to the Thai border, the temporary partitioning of Laos into a communist North Laos and democratic South Laos, a full exchange of prisoners of war and the clearing of mines from the coast of North Vietnam and a lifting of the blockade. Previous Soviet and North Vietnamese insistence upon the withdrawal of Allied forces from South Vietnam was dropped in exchange for acquiescence on the terms of the Laotian partition.
Whilst both sides can claim victory by virtue of survival as state entities, the effective destruction of the Viet Cong provides for the best possible evidence of a strategic victory for South Vietnam, the United States and their Free World allies. Whilst Saigon still has significant progress to make until it it is militarily self sufficient, it is greatly advanced from its position of a decade ago. The cost in lives, treasure and damage to the natural environment has been great for all involved. South Vietnam has suffered an estimated 360,000 military and 500,000 civilian dead and missing and over 1 million wounded; the United States 79,248 killed or missing and 398,532 wounded; France 12,823 KIA/MIA and 65,612 WIA; Britain 10,376 KIA/MIA and 56,934 wounded; Korea 8741 KIA/MIA and 25,938 WIA; the Commonwealth 8692 KIA/MIA and 35,624 WIA; India 6983 KIA/MIA and 27,445 WIA; and other Free World Military Forces 12,579 KIA/MIA and 70,628 WIA. North Vietnam and the Viet Cong lost an estimated 2 million military dead or missing and upwards of 300,000 civilian deaths due to bombing and other military action.
The economic cost of the Vietnam War to the United States in the 1960s is difficult to measure, but from 1964 to 1970, $307 billion was spent on direct war costs alone; aid to South Vietnam and subsidies and support to numerous member states of the Free World Military Forces was in addition to this expenditure. US forces peaked in 1969 with a total of 2,139,526 men deployed in 27 Army and Marine divisions and a total of 2954 fixed wing planes and 3877 helicopters were lost due to combat or accidents, but only 426 tanks were lost. Like the Korean War, naval losses were comparatively small, with only a handful of ships sunk, but numerous battleships and carriers sustained casualties from enemy fire and accidents and sea during the six and a half years of major combat operations. Enemy air to air combat losses are claimed as 524 shot down in aerial combat in exchange for 178 US, 65 British, 40 South Vietnamese and 23 French planes.
The increasing use of chemical and radiological weapons in the final years of the war has rendered some certain parts of North Vietnam and Laos uninhabitable for the next ten millennia, whilst the use of chemical defoliant and assorted biological agents has inflicted considerable damage. Significant parts of Hanoi, Haiphong and other strategic North Vietnamese cities have been destroyed by the heavy bombing campaign of Operation Rolling Thunder and over 24 million tons of explosive ordnance was dropped by the USAF, USN and Allied forces, ranging from 3” rockets to a former battleship. It saw the last combat employment of the F-51 Mustang and the de Havilland Mosquito and the first use of nuclear weapons in a war since the British in 1956.
February 22: President Kennedy delivers a triumphant State of the Union address to Congress, being met with a rapturous reception after the effective victory in Vietnam. His approval ratings reach an unprecedented 89%.
February 23: Formation of a unified republican movement in Guyana; several of the contingents are already heavily infiltrated by British intelligence.
February 24: A series of massive avalanches across the Alpa kill 36 people.
February 25: SFPD officers arrest a Frenchman for attempting to eat the Golden Gate Bridge.
February 26: Astronomer Marcus Wolff reports that the noted star Rallax has disappeared, a discovery confirmed by a bewildered NASA in the coming days.
February 27: Thirty two military ethicists across the West sign a public letter in The New York Times expressing their concerns regarding the fielding of robot gun turrets.
February 28: The Indian princely state of Nepal is transfixed by the spectacle of the royal wedding of Crown Prince Birendra to Princess Aishwarys in Kathmandu.
