Dark Earth Timeline

October
October 1: Walt Disney opens Walt Disney World, a new entertainment complex in Florida utilising the cutting edge in modern magical technology, consisting of the Magic Kingdom amusement park, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow planned community, an integrated adventure waterpark and numerous hotels and golf courses.
October 2: RAF English Electric Lightnings shoot down an Indonesian Air Force MiG-25 that accidentally violates British airspace near Singapore, surprising Soviet advisors in Djarkarta with the performance of their new air to air missiles. The Red pilot is rescued by a Royal Navy patrol boat and returned to Indonesia on October 19th after negotiations.
October 3: US Army troops manning the Liberty Line along the border of the Demilitarized Zone between North Vietnam and South Vietnam report that previous signs of enemy activity have, for all intents and purposes, ceased. Long range observation indicates that construction of a new series of fortifications on the northern side of the DMZ back from the older ones has been complete.
October 4: The Budokan arena and Yasukuni dog racing track are destroyed by a freak rogue dragon rampage no Chiyoda, Tokyo, with the maddened beast killing 397 before being subdued by an invention of Dr. Daisuke Serizawa operated by USAF Captain Jeff Falcon.
October 5: A meterorite falls in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, scattering a number of strange fragments around the verges of the city of Marilia. The gold and silver coloured stones seem to glow with an inner luminescence that sets off a number of MBCR alarms employed by Brazilian military forces involved in the clean up.
October 6: The Israeli Defence Forces completes a surprise simulated test of its emergency mobilisation system, with their computers modelling a successful call up over 800,000 reservists over 48 hours, along with the activation of the Army's six reserve divisions and movement of units to their wartime stations. Fast mobilisation is seen as the key factor in the defence of Israel, as, in the event of a war, the IDF would be required to hold the line for between 72 and 96 hours before allied reinforcements could arrive in strength.
October 7: Swedish detectives Kalle Blomqvist and Ture Sventon successfully apprehend a gang of dastardly robbers who had stolen the royal stocks of surstromming and sill being assembled for next year's coronation.
October 8: Journalists from the Bulgarian newspaper Trud investigating reports of the marked increase in the orcish and goblinoid population of the slums of Sofia and Varna publish an extensive expose claiming that the surge in numbers threatens social cohesion and the long term stability of the state.
October 9: The War Office announces that a further four new infantry regiments will be raised over the next year to reflect the evolving needs of the Army.
October 10: Debut of Upstairs, Downstairs on Thames Television, a historical drama depicting the lives and experiences of the masters and servants of a fictional British aristocratic family in the late Victorian, Edwardian and Second Georgian periods.
October 11: HMSS Dreadnought sets out from Mars for another outer solar system voyage to Saturn, taking advantage of their relative orbital positions and the tides of the solar aether.
October 12: Beginning of the 2500 Year Celebration of Persia at the ruins of Pasargadae, with young Shah Kamar leading a ceremony of solemn homage at the Tomb of Cyrus the Great.
October 13: The North American-Convair F-16 Falcon enters initial test service with the United States Air Force. The lightweight single engined tactical fighter is expected to fill a variety of roles in TAC and the forward deployed air forces and is regarded as a highly versatile and maneuverable design. With a top speed of Mach 2.5, a combat ceiling of 60,000ft and a combat radius of 500 miles, the F-16 has attracted attention from a number of European, Asian and South American states, with Byzantine Greece being particularly interested.
October 14: Formal approval is given by the full Politburo to the revised Five Year Plan, with the Soviet Union experiencing its most prosperous and positive economic conditions to date.
October 15: An emotional reunion between two long-separated paramours in MacArthur Park, Los Angeles is spoiled after someone left the cake out in the rain and passing Hollywood actor Richard Harris accidentally drank their wine.
October 16: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis mark their return to their successful partnership with the new comedy caper A Casino in Las Vegas?, a hilarious slapstick adventure based around Nevada's notoriously strict anti-gambling laws.
October 17: Jane's All the World's Helicopters publishes an article on the leading countries by civil rotary fleets of 1971, with the superpowers unsurprisingly leading the world, lead by the United States with 10,296, the USSR with 3862, Britain with 2579 and China with 1535; the Soviet 'civil' helicopters and rotodynes are all state owned and are regarded as military assets in the event of crisis or conflict.
October 18: King Zod of Albania takes to the streets of Tirana in disguise to randomly reward the good and punish the wicked according to his own particular interpretation of morality, with his subjects reportedly having either handfuls of silver coins or overripe fruit cast at them by a figure in a fedora and trench coat.
October 19: Swedish and Finnish military intelligence produce a joint report on the sharp rise in Red Army forces assigned to the Archangelsk and Murmansk Military Districts, with the latest attachment of a further Army (albeit one made up of four rifle divisions) seen as tipping the Scandinavian military balance towards Moscow's favour.
October 20: Independent journalist Michael Jagger begins filming an expansive travelogue for the BBC following the travels of Ibn Battuta through Africa and the Middle East.
October 21: The Nintendo Playing Card Co., Ltd. declares bankruptcy, having never recovered from its loss of a deal for the distribution of Disney themed cards. Their burgeoning electronic equipment sideline was purchased by the Far Eastern wing of Ferranti EKCO during the subsequent sale of assets.
October 22: American Chuck Norris defends his world champion title at the International Karate Championship in Tokyo, winning for the fourth year in a row.
October 23: NORAD begins testing a new supercomputer simulation system to game out the course and outcome of various nuclear war scenarios, with the 255 initial scenarios ranging from the predictable 'US First Strike' and 'USSR First Strike' to the more unlikely 'Uganda Offensive' and 'Caspian Defense'.
October 24: A wave of communist inspired industrial unrest in black settlements of South Africa subsides after concentrated police and security service raids and deployment of the Army on public presence missions.
October 25: Resistance fighters of the Polish Home Army transmit garbled reports to the West of some new form of Soviet military tripods being tested near Lvov.
October 26: The Royal Air Force initiates a new program for identifying and developing future potential fighter pilots whilst still in secondary school through liaison with educational authorities and cadet forces.
October 27: Former President Theodore Roosevelt celebrates his 113th birthday, putting him behind only Abraham Lincoln as the longest lived President. In his advanced years, he has begun to take things easier, giving up rafting at 110 and no longer using firearms indoors.
October 28: An 12 year old girl is successfully exorcised by Jesuit priest Father Lankester Merrin in Georgetown, Washington D.C.
October 29: The United States Army and the Department of Energy begin a joint project for the investigation of the potential employment of psychic and psionic energy in military and intelligence contexts, with a particular accent on the curious phenomenon of the 'Tomorrow Children'.
October 30: A dam collapse in Romania destroys large parts of two villages, killing almost two hundred. Communist officials suppress the news of the tragedy, claiming that only 48 died in a localised industrial accident. Romanian President and General Secretary of the Communist Party Chivu Stoica pays a secret nocturnal visit to the site.
October 31: Minneapolis youngsters Charlie Brown, 8, and Linus Van Pelt, 7, finally see The Great Pumpkin after years of trying, aided and facilitated by Brown's beagle's famous great uncle.

Nice to see him living pass his OTL date of death.

Of the 61 events outlined in October and November, I must say that the circumstance of Disney’s longer life is close to the bottom of relative importance. Even in that event, the more considerable element, at least to me as the author, was EPCOT emerging as an actual planned community rather than a theme park with the same name.

Perhaps some events are buried a tad deep. Take the October 4 dragon attack in Tokyo, where the Budokan is destroyed…along with the Yasukuni dog racing track. The latter is a reference to the initial plan of American occupation authorities to burn the Yasukuni shrine to the ground and build a dog track on the site.

Vatican with nukes, what the heck.

Blessed nuclear missiles, that is new.

But I assume that in the Darkearh verse blessing works unlike OTL.