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Post by Catsmate on Aug 16, 2020 20:54:30 GMT
16AUG.
In 1384 Emperor Dong, Hongwu Emperor of Ming China, allegedly heard the unusual case of a married couple who, while fighting over a sum of paper money, tore the notes. This act was legally equal the act of destroying stamped government documents, carrying a mandatory penalty of severe, possibly fatal, flogging. The Emperor pardoned them.
In 1513 Battle of the Spurs was fought between allied English (under Henry VIII) and Holy Roman Empire (under Maximilian I) forces against those of France (under Charles IV) at Enguinegatte in Artois, in Northern France. The running battle, part of the ongoing Italian Wars, ended in a severe French defeat.
In 1777 during the American War of Independence American militiamen decisively defeat British forces at the Battle of Bennington in New York. The battle is important not in itself but for three strategic reasons. Firstly it caused General Burgoyne Native American supporters to largely abandon him; secondly, it galvanised colonial support for the still relatively unpopular independence movement and thirdly it played a significant role in bringing France into the war on the rebels' side. An alteration here could cause the independence movement to collapse.
A year later in 1780 British forces decisively defeat American rebels in the Battle of Camden South Carolina. The rout of the numerically superior Americans destroyed the career of General Horatio Gates.
In 1797 comet Bouvard-Herschel (or C/1797 P1) approached within thirteen million kilometres of Earth. This was the final comet discovered by Caroline Herschel, a bright (3rd magnitude) and easily visible object.
On Sunday 16AUG1819 about sixty thousand people gathered in Manchester to protest inequalities in the British political system, and began marching towards St Peter's Field. The peaceful but illegal demonstration was attacked by cavalry and approximately twenty people died and six hundred and fifty people more were injured in an event that became known as the Peterloo Massacre.
In 1858 Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs US President James Buchanan for first time overly the newly operational transatlantic telegraph cable; Buchanan replied that "it is a triumph more glorious, because far more useful to mankind, than was ever won by conqueror on the field of battle." The later failure of the cable will useful slow diplomacy in the aftermath of the Trent Affair.
In 1859 Giuseppe Garibaldi assumed command of the Army of the Italian League, formed by the provisional governments of Florence, Modena, Parma, and Bologna.
On this day in 1896 gold was first discovered at Bonanza Creek in Alaska by George Carmack. The Klondike Gold Rush would attract over a hundred thousand people, spawn many stories and nearly bring American and the British Empire to war.
In 1906 the city of Valparaiso in Chile was destroyed by an immensely powerful earthquake (magniture 8.6). The trmors, building collapses, tidal wave and fires kill between four and twenty thousand people.
In 1934 the US occupation of Haiti (since 1915) ends. Perhaps allowing followers of strange godlike entities to reestablish their operations.
In 1953 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, seeing that his attempted coup against the elected government of ister Mohammad Mosaddegh has failed, flee the country with Princess Soraya. The couple initially fly to Baghdad and then to Rome. The CIA/SIS coup is more successful and Pahlavi will return.
In 1981 the retrieved First Class passenger safe from the Italian liner Andrea Doria, sunk in 1956 is openened on live television, watched by millions. It's contents are a disappointing small collection of waterlogged banknotes.
In 1984 NASA launches AMPTE 1 (also Charge Composition Explorer) a quarter tonne satellite intended to study and monitor the Earth's magnetosphere.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 16, 2020 23:26:56 GMT
Garibaldi is a pure historical, Buchanan and Victoria are good psuedo historical for aliens to assassinate them.Burgoyne is a good ah one , they already did peterloo massacre.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 17, 2020 22:05:21 GMT
17AUG
More than half-way through August already...
In 1180 in Japan Yoritomo no Minamoto begins an uprising against Kiyomori Taira, who installed his grandson (Emperor Antoku) on the Imperial throne. The rebellion, what would become the five-year Gempai War, was in response to the call to arms of Prince Mochihito. The perfect opportunity to involve a group of travellers in the decidedly murky and complex Japanese politics.
In 1544 the combined Imperial (i.e. HRE) and English armies occupy Saint-Dizier in France after a lengthy siege.
In 1563 King Charles IX of France is declared an adult at 13. This was a legal formality to end the Regency of his mother, r Catherine de' Medici, and occured after the recapture Le Havre from the English. Catherine continued to play a major in French politics, often dominating her weak-willed son. In 1572 at her instigation Charles would allow the massacre of the Huguenot leaders who gathered in Paris for the royal wedding. This event became known as the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
Fourteen years later in 1577 the Peace of Bergerac would grant political rights to the Huguenots
In 1579 Francois of Anjou, Duke of Anjou and Alençon and the youngest son of King Henry II of France, visits Queen Elizabeth I; he was the only one of her suitors to meet her in person. Most sources agree that the two got on well together, though the likelihood of an actual marriage is a trickier topic. There was a significant age difference (he was 24 while Elizabeth was 46. Elizabeth, as was her general habit, gave Francis an unflattering nickname; frog
In 1585 Antwerp surrenders after eight months under siege Spanish forces led by the Duke of Parma, of Armada infamy.
Delayed by the Anglo-Spanish War (i.e. the 'Spanish Armada' and the attempt to invade England) it's not until 1590 that John White, Governor of Roanoke Island colony, returns from England with supplies for the colony. Of course he found the settlement fortified but abandoned, the word 'CROATOAN' carved into the palisade and no sign of the settlers. White abandoned the effort and returned to England.
In 1795 in the Dutch colony of Curaçao a slave revolt began at the Knip plantation of Caspar Lodewijk van Utrecht at Bandabou. It was led by a local slave named Tula, who'd been planning the rebellion for some time, inspired by revolution that had resulted in freedom for the enslaved in Haiti. The rebels began a guerrilla campaign, including poisoning wells, but were defeated in about two months. Tula was publicly tortured to death on 01OCT1795; many other slaves were executed or killed in massacres.
In 1807 Robert Fulton's steamboat North River, also known as the Clermont, begins first trip up Hudson River. The boat was around 46 metres long, had been built in New York and was fitted with Fulton's own steam engine design, constructed in Birmingham, England. The ship was able to sustain a speed of about five knots. Regular passenger service began on 01SEP, New York to Albany.
In 1834 Charles Darwin reaches the top of Cerro la Campana in Chile during his voyage on the Beagle
Two years later Darwin leaves South America for the last time on the HMS Beagle.
In 1846 during the Mexican-American War, Commodore Robert Stockton of the US Navy, formally annexes California to the United States.
In 1859 the United State's first air mail delivery took off from the town square in Lafayette in Indiana, John Wise, a noted balloon enthusiast and aeronaut, departed in the balloon Jupiter for New York carrying 123 letters. Unfortunately the attempt ended in ignominious failure.
For the opera fans; on this day in 1876 Richard Wagner's opera Götterdämmerung has its premiere in Bayreuth.
In 1879 Ferdinand de Lesseps forms French Panama Canal Company to construct a sea-level canal, dug through the mountainous spine of Central America. The company would collapse, mired in scandalm in 1889.
In 1891 the first public bathhouse with showers (People's Bath) opens in New York. Probably not a cover for something unpleasant...
In 1908 Émile Cohl carrys out the first cartooon projection in Paris; the first animated cartoon, Fantasmagorie was atwo minute "stream of consciousness" style animation.
In 1915 the city of Galveston in Texas is devastated by a major cyclone, only fifteen years after a previous hurricane. Over four hundred people die.
In 1915 two years after the death sentence for his (probably unjust) conviction for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, is commuted to life imprisonment, Jewish businessman Leo Frank is kidnapped from Milledgeville prison and lynched. The murderers included the former governor of Georgia, Joseph Mackey Brown,; Eugene Herbert Clay, former mayor of Marietta (and later president of the Georgia Senate); E. P. Dobbs, the mayor of Marietta; Moultrie McKinney Sessions, lawyer and banker.
In 1918 the Bolshevik leader Moisei Uritsky, head of the Cheka of Petrograd, is assassinated by Leonid Kannegisser, a military cadet who was executed shortly afterwards. Along with the attempt assassination of Lenin, mentioned previously, this would lead to the Red Terror.
In 1933 in the Soviet Union Sergei Korolev would watch the test of the GIRD liquid fueled rocket he's co-designed. At the time the rocket was the most advanced in the world. Unfortunately Stalin had little interest in rocketry, and Korolev would spend ten years in the gulags until rehabilitated to mastermind the Soviet space programme decades later.
In 1943 the US Army Air Force mounts the infamous bombing attack on Schweinfurt and Regensburg that would lead to the loss of more than sixty aircraft (and six hundred crew) with more than eighty more damaged (many beyond repair). This showed the requirement for long range escorts.
In 1951 Hurricane Charlie strikes Jamaica; more than 150 people die, and winds drive six ships ashore at Kingston.
Four years later another hurricane, 1955 Hurricane Diane, strikes the US coast killing two hundred and caysing immense damage.
In 1958 seventy seven seconds after being launched on a Thor-Able rocket, the first human rocket aimed at the moon, Pioneer, explodes at an altitude of sixteen kilometres.
In 1962 an eighteen year old East German bricklayer named Peter Fechter is shot by border guards while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall at Zimmerstrasse into the Western Sector. He lies inside the 'death strip' for over an hour in public view before dying.
In 1966 NASA successfully launches Pioneer 7 into solar orbit. The satellite was still operational twenty years later to monitor the passage of Halley's Comet.
In 1969 the United States was hit by another hurricane; Hurricane Camille kills 259 people, mainly in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
In 1970 the Soviet planetary probe Venera 7 is launched successfully. In December it landed on the surface of Venus, the first soft-landed proble to reach another planet. After entering the Venerian atmosphere the probe transmitted for 53, twenty on the surface, before succumbing to the temperature and corrosive atmosphere.
In 1976 the Moro Gulf earthquake and tsunami strikes the islands of Mindanao and Sulu in the Philippines. Between five and eight thousand people die.
In 1977 the first ship reaches the North Pole. The Soviet nuclear powered ice-breaker Artika takes thirteen days to cover almost 5,000km of water and ice.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 17, 2020 22:52:08 GMT
Yoritomo no Minamoto could be a pure historical,Pioneer 7 could be a good "beacon" of a alien invasion, i agree with the bathouse one that could be good for fart jokes and all that, i will create a Roanoke thread, and Peace of Bergerac is a good sequel to "the massacre"
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 18, 2020 9:13:10 GMT
Yoritomo no Minamoto could be a pure historical,Pioneer 7 could be a good "beacon" of a alien invasion, i agree with the bathouse one that could be good for fart jokes and all that, i will create a Roanoke thread, and Peace of Bergerac is a good sequel to "the massacre" Well Pioneer 0 could have been sabotage by Nazis trying to conceal their presence on the moon until it was more established. Pioneer 7 could be cover for something else. The Gempai War has, as you say, lots of fodder for a pure historical (or a restaging of The Warrior's Code) with travellers rapidly getting in over their heads in local politics.
I rather like the idea of using the reign of Charles IX to 'bookend' The Massacre with the travellers witnessing that massacre itself (perhaps encountering Doctor1, possibly two of him), the earlier life of Charles and his mother, and then the Peace of Bergerac, but out of chronological order.
The visit of Francois of Anjou has lots of potential for accidental and deliberate meddling.
A visit to Caroline Herschel, maybe Sixie and Peri again, might discover she'd seen more than comets. I can sim him dragging Peri to watch Götterdämmerung too.
Altering Korolev's life has possibilities for changing human space exploration to more resemble the Whoniverse (remember the British Mars missions in the UNIT era?). Perhaps with Megaroc too. Maybe the PCs arrive in the 'modern day' Whoniverse and find Earth invaded becase space travel as they know it didn't happen?
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 18, 2020 22:17:45 GMT
18AUG
On this day in 293 BCE (more or less) the oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded, starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica (the grape harvest festival). Perhaps the cult changed and survived?
In 1217 CE we have the first historical record of famous Scottish scholar Michael Scot, who signs and dates his translation of al-Bitruji's 'On the Sphere' in Toledo, Spain Scot (or Scotus) was a medieval mathematician and scholar, known for his linguistic ability and translations (such as Averroes); he was probably the greatest public intellectual of his days and served as science adviser and court astrologer to Emperor Frederick II.
- That's be the Holy Roman Emperor. If there was an agency investigating weird stuff back they, Scot would be connected to it.
Damn all detail is known about Scot's life; he was born around 1175 somewhere in the border regions of Scotland (or northern England, things were a bit fluid). He may have studied at the cathedral school of Durham and then at Oxford and Paris; beyond the usual trivium and quadrivium he specialised in philosophy, mathematics, and astrology. Though unlike many 'secular' academics, who's have taken only the lower ranks of the 'Holy Orders' Scot was ordained a priest. Scot is an excellent example of the wandering, polyglot, scholar of the Middle Ages; a churchman who knew Latin, Greek, Arabic and Hebrew as well as the vernacular languages. An interesting person to encounter, open minded and highly intelligent. Not one likely to be fooled by a unlikely cover story either.
In 1541 a Portuguese group aboard a Chinese make an involuntary landing in Japan when their ship drifts ashore at Tanegashima island in the Japanese province of Higo (now Kumamoto Prefecture) on Kyushu. These were the first Europeans (known) to visit Japan.
- Unless there were earlier visitors of course, that were excised from the records for some reason
Especially after 1548 (when a Jesuit, Francis Xavier, arrived from Goa to introduce Christianity to the Japanese) there were a trickle of Portuguese traders and Jesuit missionaries in to Japan. These 'nanban' (southern barbarians) brought tin, lead, gold, wool and cotton textiles; and exported swords, lacquerware, silk, and silver.
In 1612 in Lancashire the Pendle Witch Trial began on this day with ten people accused of witchcraft at the Lancaster Assizes. The key witness at this trial was a nine-year-old boy, Jennet Device. Of the eleven defendants who lived to see trial ten were hanged.
In 1634 a French Catholic priest named Urbain Grandier, accused and convicted of sorcery, is burned alive in Loudun. Grandier was convicted following the events of the infamous 'Loudun Possessions', where a convent of Ursuline nuns said they had been visited and possessed by demons. The murky circumstances of Grandier's trial and execution have be written about and filmed on numerous occasions
In 1674 Jean Racine's dramatic tragedy Iphigénie premieres in the Orangerie in Versailles before Louis XIV.
In 1686 famous astronomer Giovanni Cassini (ge of the Cassini Division in the rings of Saturn). Now we know today that Venus possesses no natural satellites, so what might he have seen?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brescia_explosion In 1769 a lightning strike on the Bastion of San Nazaro in Brescia, Italy, ignited around ninety 90 tonnes of gunpowder stored there (ironically as it was believed that churches were less likely to be hit by lightning). The city is desastated and perhaps three thousand people die. Unless the destruction was down to something different.
In 1783 (a year littered with odd events) a huge fireball is seen across Great Britain as it passes over the east coast. On the evening of 18AUG1783 between 21:15 and 21:30 a fireball was observed passing over Britain. It's believed to have been a meteor that entered the Earth's atmosphere over the North Sea, before passing over the east coast of Scotland and England, and over the English Channel. It shattered explosively in the region over south-western France or northern Italy. Given the clear and dry night there were many witnesses. One group of these were on the terrace at Windsor Castle at the time the meteor appeared and included the Italian natural philosopher Tiberius Cavallo, who studied electricity, magnetism and aeronautics. Not all the meteor made the journey, over Lincolnshire a significant amount of the object broke off and fragmented.
In 1817 a "sea serpent" of perhaps twenty metres length was sighted by several fishermen and other offshore of Gloucester in Massachusetts/ The creature has allegedly been seen on several occasions and influence H. P. Lovecraft.
In 1838 the United States Exploring Expedition (or Wilkes Expedition) led by Charles Wilkes departed from Hampton Roads for the Pacific Ocean and Antarctica. The expedition was of major importance to the growth of science in the United States, in particular the then-young field of oceanography.
In 1848, on the orders of Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas, Camila O'Gorman and her lover Father Ladislao Gutierrez are executed by firing squad.
In 1864 during the American Civil War the Battle of Globe Tavern is fought between Union forces (trying to cut the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad, a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg in Virginia) and Confederate forces trying to stop them. The battle ended in a Union tactical victory, though at a relatively high cost.
In 1891 Martinique is struck by a devastating hurricane, leaving 700 dead.
In 1903, four months before the Wright brothers, a German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made aeroplane outside Hanover.
In 1917 a huge fire in Thessaloniki in Greece destroys a third of the city.
In the United Sates in 1920 voting rights are extended to women at a national level (many states already did so). The constitutional amendment is ratified in vote in Tennessee by the vote of repeesentative Harry Burn.
In 1940 this is the Hardest Day during the Battle of Britain. There is continual fighting over London and other cites, and heavy losses on both sides.
In 1947 a Naval mine store in Cádiz in Spain explodes. The official death toll is 147 and the cause was never disclosed by the Franco regime but there was speculation of sabotage by anti-Franco Maquis. The real death toll was far higher.
On this day in 1960, for the first time a photograph was sent by radio signal via satellite; from Cedar Rapids in Iowa to d Richardson in Texas
During the Vietnam War in 1966 The Battle of Long Tân is the first major engagement of Australian troop; a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, clashed with a Viet Cong force at a rubber plantation near Long Tân, in Phước Tuy Province
In 1976 in one of the more bizarre incidents of the ongoing Korean War, two US soldiers tasked with cutting down a poplar tree blocking the view of UN observers of Korean Demilitarized Zone, are hacked to death by North Koreans claiming it was planted by Kim Il-sung. The US response, Operation Paul Bunyan, occurred on 21AUG and involved sixteen engineers with chain saws, directly supported by sixty troops in 23 vehicles. Another 64 'unarmed' South Korean Special Forces were on-site, with Claymore mines strapped to their chests. Overhead 27 helicopters carrying two hundred troops circled, with a squadron of B-52 Stratofortress bombers, escorted by Phantom fighter-bombers and F-5 fighters, behind them. Just offshore was the aircraft carrier USS Midway and its task force escorts. On the edges of the DMZ approximately twelve thousand US and South Korean infantry waited for a response.
In 1977 Steve Biko is arrested at a police roadblock nears Grahamstown. After his arrest he was severely beaten by at least one BOSS (security police) officer. He would die from his injuries on 06SEP.
In 1984 an oil storage tank owned by the Triangle Oil Corporation in Jacksonville Florida is struck by lightning; the resulting fire spills ten million litres of oil that burns for days.
In 1985 Japan's JASA launches the Suisei probe, one of five launched to rendezvous with Halley's Comet in 1986. What else happened in 1986 near the Earth?
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 18, 2020 23:09:26 GMT
Pendle Witch Trial is a good witchfinders sequel, Battle of Britain could be a good empty child prequel. Cassini could have seen mondas (as well as any other alien planets also mondas in 1986!)Boss could be related to boss and ill cover the Korean incident in a thread
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 19, 2020 22:18:07 GMT
19AUG
In 43 BCE Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, later and better known as Caesar Augustus, great-nephew and adopted son and heir of Gauis Julius Caesar, compels the Roman Senate to elect him Consul. He would formally end the Roman Republic and institute the Empire, with him as the first Emperor.
In 1153 CE Baldwin III, king of Jerusalem takes formal control of the Kingdom of Jerusalem from his mother Melisende; later hw would also captures Ascalon.
In 1504 in Ireland, the Battle of Knockdoe is fought outside Galway between the the Hiberno-Norman de Burghs (Burkes) and Anglo-Norman Fitzgeralds. This is one of the first major battles in Ireland where firearms play a significant part.
It seems like just a couple of days since she left as a child, but today in 1561 Mary, Queen of Scots, now aged 18, returns to Scotland after spending 13 years in France.
In 1612 the sequel to the Pendle Witch Trails occurs when the three "Samlesbury witches" are tried at the Lancaster Assizes. The three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, Jane Southworth, Jennet Bierley, and Ellen Bierley were accused by a 14-year-old girl, Grace Sowerbutts, of witchcraft and also tried on charges of child murder and cannibalism. After the presiding judge questions the principal witness the case unravels rapidly and the three are freed.
Eighty years later and a on a different continent another witchcraft trials comes to a less sanguine end; on this day in 1692 five of those convicted of witchcraft at the Salem witch trials, Martha Carrier, George Jacobs Sr., George Burroughs, John Willard, and John Proctor, are executed by hanging.
In 1745 "the 45", the Second Jacobite Uprising formally begins when the Young Pretender, Prince Charles Edward Stuart, raises his standard in Glenfinnan in Scotland.
In 1745 during the Ottoman–Persian War, the Ottoman army is routed at the the Battle of Kars by Persian forces led by Nader Shah.
In 1759 the naval Battle of Lagos if fought off Cadiz between Great Britain and France. This is one of the maratime skirmishes of the Seven Years' War.
In 1782 the last significant battle of the American Revolutionary War is fought in Kentucky. The Battle of Blue Licks sees a small froce of militia routed by a larger force of Native American irregulars and Loyalists. This occurs almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander, Charles Cornwallis, after the Siege of Yorktown.
Thirty years later during the War of 1812 a naval engagement is fought between the American frigate USS Constitution and the British frigate HMS Guerriere off the coast of Nova Scotia. The Constitution's victory earns it the the nickname "Old Ironsides".
In 1839 the French government announces that Louis Daguerre's photographic process is a gift "free to the world".
In 1848 news of the California Gold Rush arrives in New York on this day. The New York Herald breaks the news to the East Coast of the United States of the gold rush in California which started in January.
In 1854 the First Sioux War begins when United States Army soldiers kill Lakota chief Conquering Bear and in return are massacred.
In 1861 the first ascent of Weisshorn (the fifth highest summit in the Alps) is made by Irish physicist John Tyndall, with two guides (J. J. Bennen and Ulrich Wenger).
In 1920 Bolshevik rule in Russia sees a major challenge when the Tambov Rebellion breaks out, in response to the Bolshevik policy of forced confiscation of grain. The unrest turns into a guerrilla war against the Red Army, Cheka units and the Soviet authorities. More than 150,000 take part, a quarter-million die (including more than fifteen thousand executed), more than one hundred thousand are arrested and exiled. The Red Army made use of chemical weapons to fight the peasants.
In 1934 the German referendum of 1934 approves Hitler's appointment as head of state with the title of Führer by abouit nine-to-one. The vote saw widespread intimidation and violence.
In 1936 the Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins with the opening of the first of the Moscow Trials.
In 1942 during World War 2 Operation Jubilee is staged. This is a trial run for a cross-channel invasion of France, then projected for1943. Allied units, mainly the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division, take part in an amphibious assault on Dieppe in Northern France. The operation is a fiasco; despite some successes in gathering intelligence over 60% of the attackers were killed or captures in ten hours, tanks had to be abandoned on the beaches, aerial losses were in favour of the Luftwaffe and many landing craft were lost. Mountbatten's leadership was heavily criticised, especially by the Canadians. There a re some suggestions the raid was cover for an attempt to steal a new model Enigma code machine.
Three years later and Paris is liberated by a combination of French and Allied forces, despite orders to German troops to demolish the city.
In 1960 downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage. That same day Korabl-Sputnik 2 (aka Sputnik 5) is launched carrying plants, the dogs Belka and Strelka, forty rodents and a rabbit into space. All passengers survived, the first Earth-born creatures to go into orbit and return alive. Curiously one of the puppies born to the female (Strelka) was presented to President Kennedy by Nikita Khrushchev in 1961. A Cold War romance bloomed between the puppy Pushinka ('Fluffy') and a Kennedy dog named Charlie, resulting in the birth of four pups.
Four years later in 1964 the first communication satellite is placed in geostationary orbit, Syncom 3 would enable live coverage of the 1964 Summer Olympics.
In 1980 301 people die of smoke inhalation when Saudia Flight 163, a Lockheed TriStar, burns after making an emergency landing at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.
In 1989 the Berlin Wall starts to crumble when several hundred East Germans cross the frontier between Hungary and Austria during the Pan-European Picnic. This began the chain of events that ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Two years later and the process of ending the Cold War hits a major bump; in 1991 during the dissolution of the Soviet Union hardliners stage the August Coup. On holiday in Foros in the Ukraine Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is placed under house arrest. For days uncertainly reigns, especially over control of the Soviet strategic nuclear forces.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 20, 2020 0:03:30 GMT
Jacobite Uprising could be good for a psuedo historical/ soviet coup is a good ah one,Operation Jubilee is a good curse of fenric prequel,Old Ironsides is a good psuedo historical. And Weisshorn is a good alien story with horror routes.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 20, 2020 9:11:29 GMT
Jacobite Uprising could be good for a psuedo historical/ soviet coup is a good ah one,Operation Jubilee is a good curse of fenric prequel,Old Ironsides is a good psuedo historical. And Weisshorn is a good alien story with horror routes. There's an excellent Coc scenario set during the coup where a Soviet Perimeter site has been captured by the servants of Things Man Was Not Meant To Know and needs to be dealt with. The PCs are Spetsnaz who get the job, and a couple of RA-115s.... The perfect place and time to drop, say, a London Bus.
As for Jubilee, I like the idea that the whole operation was cover for a quick raid/snatch of something else. Maybe a certain German surface raider is in port? Possibly a sequel to what really happened to the Surcouf and the start of a 'lost in time' campaign?
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 20, 2020 18:46:01 GMT
The Call of Cthulhu scenario is 'Cold Dead Hand' in issue 23 of The Unspeakable Oath (DTRPG) by ArcLight
It's a good scenario, pretty easily adapted for Who with the addition of, or replacement of Spetsnaz by, a UNIT force. A few time travellers could also drop in to Siberia. Or a group that discovers the effects of the mission failing and heads back to fix things.. The more supernatural elements could be converted to aliens.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 20, 2020 22:07:27 GMT
20AUG
In 14 CE on this day Agrippa Postumus, grandson of the now late Roman Emperor Augustus, is killed by his guards while in exile. This occurs shortly after the death of Augustus and under mysterious circumstances Once heir and probable successor to Augustus, Postumus had been banished from Rome in 6 CE for what was described as his "beastly nature". Augustus died (under more of those 'mysterious circumstances') while returning from a visit to Postumus in Planasia, on which his only companion was his trusted friend, the senator Paullus Fabius Maximus. Was Augustus murdered because he planned to name his grandson his heir? Or because he wasn't? Who killed him (Postumu, Livia and Tiberius are suspects)? Was he checking on the "beastky nature" of his grandson? What exact was wrong with Postumus? Or did Augustus give orders for the death of Postumus?It's certainly rather unusual from a Roman Emperor to set out almost alone on such a trip.
In 636 at the Battle of Yarmouk Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of the Levant away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia. Something certain groups, if they had access to time travel, might want to meddle in.
In 1191 king Richard I of England orders the Massacre at Ayyadieh; more than two thousand Muslim prisoners, captured at Acre, beheaded in front of the armies of sultan Saladin. Despite attacks by Muslim forces during the mass murders the Christian Crusaders were able to retire in good order. Saladin subsequently orders various Crusader prisoners of war to be executed.
In 1308 Pope Clement V pardons Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, absolving him of charges of heresy. This did not stop Philip IV having him burned at the stake in March 1314.
In 1519 in China the philosopher and general Wang Yangming defeats Zhu Chenhao, ending the Prince of Ning rebellion against the reign of the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor. Wangs tactical acumen, aided by breech loading cannon cannon imported from the newly arrived Portuguese traders, provded decisive in suppressing the rebellion.
In 1648 the Thirty Years' War to a close with the French victory over Spain at the Battle of Lens brings the In 1672 during the Disaster Year Dutch statesman and mathematician Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are murdered in Tha Hague; officially is is described as a mob lynching but in fact it was a planned assassination by Orangist members of the militia. The brothers' bodies were mutilated and partially eaten by their killers.
In 1707 British forces end the first Siege of Pensacola in Florida having failed to capture the fort and town.
In 1710 during the War of the Spanish Succession a multinational army (led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg) defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maître in the Battle of Saragossa.
In 1794 United States forces are victorious in the Battle of Fallen Timbers (now near Toledo in Ohio), part of the Northwest Indian War fought against a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi.
In 1852 there is another tragedy on Lake Erie when the steamboat Atlantic sinks after a collision with the steamer Ogdensburg. Between 150 and 300 people die.
This day in 1858 sees the first publication by Charles Darwin of his theory of evolution through natural selection; the theory appears in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
In 1866 American Civil War formally ends with a proclamation to this effect by President Andrew Johnson.
In 1882 Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, near the unfinished Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, under canvas and complete with cannon fire.
In 1910 much of the area known as Inland Northwest of the United States, along with ajining states and parts of Canada, burns in the largest forest fire known. At least ninety people die, towns are obliterated and more than twelve thousand square kilometres of land are burned. The event, caused by a number of smaller fires merging, and worsened by months of dry weather, is known as the Great Fire of 1910.
In 1914 during the Great War German forces capture the Belgian capital city of Brussels.
In 1940 exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is assassinated in in Mexico City, fatally wounded with an ice axe by an NKVD agent named Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day and Mercader is jailed for the murder.
In 1940 during World War 2 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".
In 1948 the Soviet Consul General in New York, Jacob Lomakin is expelled by the United States, due to the Kasenkina Case. This was a murky and messy bit of early Cold War politics, involving a depressed Soviet teacher, a suicide bid, accusations of kidnapping and forgery, and more.
In 1962 the NS Savannah begins its maiden voyage from Yorktown to Hawaii via Savannah; she was the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, and one of only a handful ever to see service
In 1968 the Cold War heats up as Warsaw Pact troops (mainly Soviet, with Polish assistance) invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring. East German participation is limited to a few specialists due to memories of the recent war. Only Albania and Romania refuse to participate.
In 1975 NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
Two years later the Voyager 2 spacecraft would be launched to the outer planets.
In 1991 during the August Coup more than 100,000 people have gathered outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev. Meanwhile Estonia issues it's own declaration of independence.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 21, 2020 0:54:02 GMT
Jacques de Molay could be a good psuedo historical/ah with someone prolonging his death,Tchaikovsky is a good celebrity historical,Great Fire of 1910 is a good alien one maybe the great intelligence is involved in this?. Wang Yangming is a good pure or psuedo historical. And Leon Trotsky is a good psuedo/celebrity one, also Viking and Voyager could be encountered on alien planets like V'ger from star trek.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 21, 2020 17:11:28 GMT
A pair of non-daily oddities. Two soldiers who served in multiple armies.
Lauri Törni aka Larry Thorne Lauri Törni waqs a Finn born in 1919 who served in in three armies under three different flags. Initially he served in the Finnish Armed Forces during the 1939-40 Winter War and Continuation War against the invading Russian forces. After that he enlisted in the Waffen SS (the Heer not accepting foreign enlistments) in 1944 to fight against the Red Army closing into Germany. Törni surrendered to British troops in the last stages of World War II and eventually returned to Finland in June 1945 after escaping a British POW camp in Lübeck, Germany.
As his family had been evacuated from Karelia, Törni sought to rejoin them in Helsinki but was arrested by Valpo, the Finnish state police. After escaping, he was arrested a second time in April 1946, and tried for treason for having joined the German forces. After a trial lasting several weeks Törni was jailed for six year JAN1947. He escaped from Turku provincial prison in JUN1947 but was recaptured and sent to the Riihimäki State Prison. He was pardoned by President Juho Paasikivi DEC1948.
In 1950 while working as a seaman on a freighter in the Gulf of Mexico, Törni had an argument with the captain and jumped ship. In the Gulf of Mexico. He swam to Mobile, Alabama, made his way to New York City where the Finnish-American community in Brooklyn's Sunset Park "Finntown" assisted him. There he worked as a carpenter and cleaner. In 1953 Törni was granted a residence permit, a somewhat interesting process involving an Act of Congress. An act that was managed by a firm that employed one William 'Wild Bill' Donovan, formerly head of the Office of Strategic Services.
In 1954 Törni enlisted in the United States Army under the Lodge-Philbin Act (a piece of Cold War legislation that allowed foreign nations to serve in the US military and receive citizenship after five years; it was intended to recruit nations of Eastern Bloc states to staff infiltration units). Törni adopted the name Larry Alan Thorne for service in the US Army; there he became part of a group of Finnish-American officers, who came to be known as 'Marttinen's Men', after a Finnish officer who'd been forced out when found to be caching weapons in Finland to use in the event of a Soviet Invasion. There are interesting rumours about exactly what this groups of Finns got up to, with and without, official US sanction, in the early days of the Cold War
Thorne, as he then was, joined the US Army Special Forces; where he taught Finnish, Russian, skiing, arctic survival, mountaineering, and guerrilla warfare. He attended paratroop training and was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the Signal Corps (a frequent cover for troops involved in intelligence operations) in 1957. Thorne was promoted to captain in 1960, whilst serving in the 10th Special Forces Group in West Germany at Bad Tölz (a former SS base); there he was second-in-command of a search and recovery mission in the Zagros Mountains of Iran, which gained him a notable but reputation. The mission was the fourth attempt to retrieve equipment, documents and (lowest priority) bodies from a USAF C-130 that had crashed on a mountaintop in (probably) the Iranian portion of the mountains. There are no real details on why a US transport was flying really close to the Soviet border in an area bordered by Iran, Turkey and Russia. The mission was entirely successful and made Thorne's reputation in the SOF community. The plane was destroyed, a number of bodies (more than the usual crew of an innocent transport....) were retrieved, as were electronics and documents.
Thorne was deployed twice to Vietnam; the first time in NOV1963 and the second time in FEB1965. He was last seen on 18OCT1965 when the helicopter he was on went missing "somewhere in the Republic of Vietnam". Actually it was over the border in Laos, where the US was not officially operating. His remains were soon found in 1999, confirmed in 2003, and buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
OK so let's look at integrating 'Larry' into the Whoniverse. Crashed UFO retrieval perhaps? Somewhere remote and cold with mountains would be the perfect place for his skills. Though he did well in Vietnam. Then again change the name a bit and he could end up serving with UNIT. He'd be fifty in 1970, perhaps a little old for a field command (he'd be about ten years older than Lethbridge-Stewart) but I suspect still rather capable.....
An now for another soldier who served in multiple armies.
Joseph Beryle Joseph Beryle was the only soldier to serve in both the American and Russian armies in World War 2. Initially he was a tanker but retrained as a paratrooper and was one of those who jumped into France the night before the Normandy invasion.
Sometime in JUL1944, he was captured by the Germans, escape and was recaptured twice, escaped a third time (in JAN1945) and was declared dead. This time he headed east and linked up with the Red Army. After convincing them of his story, that he was an escaped American POW, he asked if he could join them to Berlin. Surprisingly they agreed, sending word to the US, which was lost in communication. Coincidentally the Soviet unit that rescued him were using American made Sherman provided via Lend Lease, which he'd trained on. Hence he proved to be a useful asset. In FEB1945 Beryle was wounded in a German air attack and hospitalised, before being transferred to a military hospital in Moscow, where he recovered by the end of the war. He contacted the US Embassy and after convincing them of his story (they were suspicious of him until records were obtained that showed it was really Beryle and that his death was mistakenly reported) he was repatriated. At home was was declared alive again
There ends his military career, unlike 'Larry Thorne' Beyrle remained a civilian for the rest of his life, though his younger son, John Beryle, served as the US ambassador to the Russian Federation from 2008 to 2012.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 21, 2020 21:58:18 GMT
ah good hmmm daily next?
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 21, 2020 22:06:11 GMT
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In 1140 CE at the Battle of Yancheng the armies of the Song dynasty, under Yue Fei (who'd been ordered by Emperor Gaozong not to seek battle), decisively defeated an army of the Jin dynasty, under general Wuzhu. This was one skirmish of the Jin–Song Wars. Less than two year later Yue Fei would be pointed by agents of the Emperor.
In 1192 Minamoto no Yoritomo became the de facto ruler of Japan. He is considered the first shōgun, a capable leader and possessed of a useful mix of foresight and practicality.
In 1415 the Portugeuse conquest of Africa begins when John I and his son Henry the Navigator lead Portuguese forces to victory over the Marinids at the Battle of Ceuta. Portugal would gradually increase it's African holdings in the following years.
The Battle of Dunkeld (Scottish Gaelic: Blàr Dhùn Chaillinn) was fought between King of Scotland, in the streets around Dunkeld Cathedral, Dunkeld, Scotland, on 21 August 1689 and formed part of the Jacobite rising of 1689, commonly called Dundee's rising in Scotland. The battlefield was added to the Inventory of Historic Battlefields in Scotland in 2012.[1]
In 1689 in Scotland the Battle of Dunkeld in Scotland, part of the Jacobite rising of 1689 is fought between Jacobite clans (supporting the deposed king James VII of Scotland) and forces supporting William of Orange. The battle ends in a magrinal Williamite victory when the Highlanders wthdraw after taking some 300 casualties.
In 1716 Toooman forces abandon the Siege of Corfu during the Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War. Venetian naval reinforcements and the news of Ottoman defeat at Petrovaradin force the Ottomans withdrawal. The main result it to preserve the Ionian Islands under Venetian rule.
In 1770 James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
In 1778 during the American Revolutionary War the siege of the French outpost at Pondichéry in India begins.
In 1791 the Haitian Revolution begins at Bois Caiman when a Vodou ceremony, led by Dutty Boukman, inspires a violent uprising. Little is known of the event, there is no first hand account, but it is said that an African woman figure appeared mysteriously during the ritual and declared Boukman the "Supreme Chief" of the rebellion. Over three hundred thousand people would die in the revolution.
In 1821 Jarvis Island, a small coral island in the South Pacific, is discovered by the crew of the Eliza Frances.
In 1931 another slave revolt begins; Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. About two hundred people will die.
In 1858 the first debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, the Republican and Democrat candidates in the 1859 Illinois Senate election takes place in Ottawa. Lincoln narrowly lost the election and instead stood for the US presidency in 1860.
In 1863 the town of Lawrence, Kansas is destroyed by the pro-Confederate guerrillas known as Quantrill's Raiders.
In 1883 a powerful tornado strikes the city of Rochester in Minnesota, leading to the creation of the Mayo Clinic.
In 1911 the the Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee. It will be recovered in 1913.
In 1944 while the Second World War rages the Dumbarton Oaks Conference begins in Washington; this meeting lays the foundation for the creation of the United Nations.
In 1945 Manhattan Project pysicist Harry Daghlian is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The 'Demon core' was the 9cm primarily plutonium 'pit' or central core created for the fourth atomic bomb, originally to use used against Kokura on 14AUG1945, but returned to the laboratory after the end of the war. A second similar accident in 1946 will kill Louis Slotin. The core would be melted down and the plutonium recycled.
In 1957 the Soviet Union successfully conducts a long-range test flight of the R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile. More importantly it was the basis for the R-7 family of space-launch rockets which included Sputnik, Luna, Molniya, Vostok, and Voskhod.
In 1959 US President Dwight Eisenhower signs the executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.
In 1963 in Vietnam the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids are carried out by Republic of Vietnam Special Forces loyal to Ngô Đình Nhu, brother of President Ngo Dinh Diem. Scores of Buddhist pagodas are destroyed or vandalisedm thousands are arrested and hundreds killed.
In 1968 during the Cold War Romaniam dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu, publicly condemns the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, and encourages the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
In 1982 in the aftermath of the Lebanese Civil War the first troops of the multinational force lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestine Liberation Organization's withdrawal from Lebanon.
In 1986 in Cameroon, the Lake Nyos Disaster kills 1,800 people when perhaps a million tonnes of carbon dioxide are abruptly released from the lake at night and cause widespread asphyxiation.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 22, 2020 2:47:40 GMT
Hawaii is a good setting,Harry Daghlian could be some alien physics timey wimey stuff, someone could hijack the Dumbarton Oaks Conference the Haitian Revolution and Nat turner are good pure or psuedo/celebrity historical's, and Dunkeld is a good psuedo historical
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 22, 2020 10:45:41 GMT
Hawaii is a good setting,Harry Daghlian could be some alien physics timey wimey stuff, someone could hijack the Dumbarton Oaks Conference the Haitian Revolution and Nat turner are good pure or psuedo/celebrity historical's, and Dunkeld is a good psuedo historical There could be an attempt to prevent the US conquest of Hawaiim by local nationalists or other elements (I vaguely remember a novel with the plot of a Japanese backed independence coup in the early '70s). Daghlian and Slotin could of course have died otherwise and the excuse of the 'Demon Core' criticality accidents used to cover this up. Alternatively how about a physicist travelling to to save them? To be blunt their "experiments" with the core were insanely unsafe. Dumbarton Oaks was a little known but very significant gathering, lots of potential to influence the future there. The slave revolts are excellent events to drop a part of time travellers in; they can be swept up in historical events, have to stop meddlers trying to help the slaves et cetera. Haiti is also interesting as the Bois Caiman ceremony is an oddity that really needs proper investigation.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 22, 2020 17:51:20 GMT
i agree with Oaks plus a lot of good people to meet historically.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 22, 2020 22:14:00 GMT
Due to a cat related emergency 22AUG is postponed until tomorrow. Apologies.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 22, 2020 23:35:18 GMT
hmmmm we can do both then (lol with the cat related thing though)
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 23, 2020 16:03:29 GMT
hmmmm we can do both then (lol with the cat related thing though) That cat was fine, it wasn't out cat but a neighbour's and had gotten into a spot of bother. All is well now.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 23, 2020 16:33:09 GMT
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In 392 CE Flavius Eugenius was elected Western Roman Emperor, intended as a puppet by the Frankish general Flavius Arbogast, who was the de facto ruler of the Western Empire. Eugenius often gets short shrift in histories; his reign lasted barely two years and he is often considered the last polytheistic emperor, using public money to fund 'pagan' projects, such as the rededication of the Temple of Venus and Rome and the restoration of the Altar of Victory. This did not help his relations with the Eastern Emperor Theodosius pr the powerful bishop Ambrose of Milan.
In 384 Theodosius moved from Constantinople with his army and met Eugenius and Arbogast in the Battle of the Frigidus (in what's now Slovenia). An interesting battle, with "unusual astronomical and meteorological events", but that's for next week.
In 851 at the Battle of Jengland Duke Erispoe of Brittany defeats the forces of Charles the Bald near the Breton town of Jengland. Charles (II) was king of West Francia, and emperor of the Carolingian Empire as grandson of Charlemagne. He and Erispoe would meet secretly in Angers soon after the battle and conclude a peace treaty.
In 1138 as part of the Time of Troubles, as the years long civil war between Stephen and Matilda i s known, the Battle of Northallerton between Scotland and England. Stephen wasn't personally involved, he was fighting rebel barons in the south, and had sent a small force largely of mercenaries. Archbishop Thurstan of York had raised and organised most of the forces and, unusually for England, deployed a carroccio; this was cart mounted mast bearing a pyx carrying the consecrated host and from which were flown the consecrated banners of the minsters of Durham, York, Beverley and Ripon; hence the alternate name of the battle. The Scots army disintegrated rapidly and suffered heavy casualties in the battle and pursuit.
In 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth Field, the Wars of the Roses end with the death of Richard III, and of the House of Plantagenet, defeated by treachery and the forces of Henry VII. Certainly an event many time travelers would want to see, document or alter.
In 1559 Archbishop Bartolomé Carranza of Toledo is arrested for heresy. He was imprisoned for nearly twenty years, cleared but forced to live in seclusion for the rest of his life. Which was seven day....
In 1614 Germany saw one of the last anti-Semitic pogroms until the Nazi era in Frankfurt with the Fettmilch Uprising. The background is complicated, a mix of local politics (strains and disagreements between the town guilds, council and people of the city) mixed with Protestant anti-Semitism and greed. The mob attacked and looted the the Judengasse (Ghetto) was attacked and looted, and the Jews were expelled from the city.
In 1639 the British East India Company found the city of Madras (now Chennai) in India, initially on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers.
In 1642 the English Civil War begins when Charles I raises his standard in Nottingham.
In 1711 the Walker Expedition to Quebec ends when eight ships (one stores and seven transports) are lost to the rocks at Pointe-aux-Anglais. Almost nine hundred soldiers, sailors and women are killed. The attack on Quebec was one part of Queen Anne's War, the North American theatre of the War of Spanish Succession.
In 1780 James Cook's ship HMS Resolution returns to England, with Cook who'd been killed on Hawaii during the voyage.
In 1798 as part of the '98 Rebellion French troops land at Kilcummin, County Mayo, Ireland to aid the rebellion.
In 1849 the city of Venice was the target of the first air raid in history when Austrian forces launch pilotless balloons with time delayed bombs against the city.
In 1894 in South Africa Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
In 1922 during the Irish Civil War Michael Collins, Commander-in-chief of the Irish Free State Army, is shot dead in an ambush at Béal na Bláth in Cork. Ah, if only the Big Fella had lived. Collins was the key architect and principal player of a the fledgling independent Ireland waiting to be rebuilt from the ashes after years of war. An immensely charismatic and intelligent man with outstanding organisational skills, it is fascinating to consider what journey Ireland would have taken under his stewardship had he not been cut down in his prime.
In 1941 during World War II German troops begin the Siege of Leningrad.
A year later in 1942 Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy. A forgotten contribution to the Allies.
And in 1944 German troops murder 164 people in Crete, an event known as the Holocaust of Kedros. The civilian residents of nine villages n the Amari Valley on the island of Crete were rounded up and massacred in reprisal for guerilla operations against Nazi German forces.
In 1949 the Queen Charlotte earthquake wass Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.
In 1962 the Organisation Armée Secrète (a right-wing French dissident paramilitary organisation created during the Algerian War) attempted to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle. The operation was planned and led by an aerospace enginner, Jean Bastien-Thiry. About two hundred shots were fired at the Citroën DS carrying de Gaulle and his wife in the Paris suburb of Petit-Clamart. No-one was injured, despite the car having absorbed fourteen shots and the nearby Café Trianon twenty. Bastien-Thiry was the last person executed by firing squad in France.
In 1963 the US X-15 rocket plane programme reaches the highest altitude it achieves; Flight 91 reaches 107.96km.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 23, 2020 18:11:19 GMT
Venice could be a vampires of Venice sequel,Leningrad. and bosworth will be covered in their own threads, Bartolomé Carranza and Fettmilch Uprising are good pure historicals. Ghandi is a great celebrity historical, and someone could try and prevent the English Civil War from actually happening.
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 23, 2020 19:05:00 GMT
Venice could be a vampires of Venice sequel,Leningrad. and bosworth will be covered in their own threads, Bartolomé Carranza and Fettmilch Uprising are good pure historicals. Ghandi is a great celebrity historical, and someone could try and prevent the English Civil War from actually happening. Kill, replace or mind control Charles.
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In 30 BCE after his successful invasion of Egypt, Octavian orders the executions of both Marcus Antonius Antyllus (Marcus Antonius Minor), eldest son of Mark Antony; and Caesarion, last pharaoh of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt, and only child of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra.
In 20 BCE the 'Ludi Volcanalici' are held today (the feast day of the god Vulcan) within the precincts of the temple of Vulcan; they are used by Augustus to mark the treaty with Parthia and the return of the legionary standards that had been lost at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BCE.
In 79 CE, also on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire Mount Vesuvius begins stirring.
In 476CE Odoacer, chieftain of the Germanic tribes, is proclaimed rex Italiae ("King of Italy") by his troops.
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In 1244 during the Siege of Jerusalem the Tower of David, the city's citadel, surrenders to Khwarezmian Empire.
In 1305 Sir William Wallace is executed for high treason at Smithfield outside London.
In 1382 the Siege of Moscow as the reformed Golden Horde led by Tokhtamysh lays siege to the capital of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. It will fall within days.
In 1514 the Battle of Chaldiran ends with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, founder of the Safavid dynasty
In 1541 the French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.
In 1572 during the French religious wars, mob violence against thousands of Huguenots in Paris results in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.
In 1595 during the thirteen year Long Turkish War prince Michael the Brave of Wallachia confronts the Ottoman army in the Battle of Călugăreni and achieves a tactical victory. Overall the was was indecisive, pitting the Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire against each other, primarily over the Principalities of Wallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia.
In 1600 during the indeterminable Japanese internecine wars the Battle of Gifu Castle is fought between the forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu and those of Toyotomi Hideyori.
In 1628 George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham and close confident and (incompetent) advisor to Charles I, is assassinated by a disaffected Army officer John Felton. The killing of the deeply unpopular Villiers is widely welcomed but Felton is hanged. The act was fictionalised in Alexandre Dumas, père's, The Three Musketeers.
In 1775 in the run-up to the American Revolutionary War, King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.
In 1784 Western North Carolina (what is now, confusingly, eastern Tennessee) declared itself an independent state under the name of Franklin. The new state is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
In 1799 Napoleon I of France leaves Egypt for France en route to seizing power.
In 1839 the United Kingdom captured Hong Kong as a base as it prepares for the First Opium War with Qing China.
In 1864 during the American Civil War the Union Navy captured Fort Morgan in Alabama, breaking Confederate dominance of ports on the Gulf of Mexico.#
In 1866 the Austro-Prussian War ends with the Treaty of Prague.
In 1873 the Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
In 1898 the Southern Cross Expedition, the first British venture of the Age of Antarctic Exploration, departd from London.
In 1914 during World War I, hard pressed by German forces the British Expeditionary Force and the French Fifth Army begin their Great Retreat, also known as the Retreat from Mons. Their defeat at the Battle of Charleroi (21AUG) made forward positions untenable and the retreat will continue to and beyond the Marne.
In 1921 the British airship R-38 experienced rapid structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber Estuary. Of her 49 British and American training crew only four survives.
In 1923 Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John Richter performed the first mid-air refueling of aircraft, using a De Havilland DH-4B. The flight would last a total of 37 hours, one of a number of such long endurance flights in the period.
In 1927 after a lengthy, controversial, and deeply unfair trial, the Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.
In 1929 during rioting in Palestine Arabs attack the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, between 65 and 70 people die and the remaining Jews are forced to leave the city.
In 1939 during the early part of World War II Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
Three years later in 1942 the Battle of Stalingrad begins.
In 1944 a United States Army Air Force B-24 Liberator bomber crashes into a school in Freckleton, on the Lancashire coast killing 61 people.
In 1958 during the continuing Chinese Civil War, the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's artillery bombardment of the island of Quemoy. This is part of an attempt by Communist Chinese forces "liberate" Taiwan from the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) but, more importantly, to probe the extent of the United States support for Taiwan. In addition to naval skirmishes and artillery duels the war sees the first aircraft destroyed air-to-air missiles.
In 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 transmits the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
In 1990 West and East Germany announce that they will reunite on October 3.
In 1991 rhe World Wide Web is opened to public use.
In 2007 the skeletal remains of Russia's last royal family members Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, and his sister Grand Duchess Anastasia are discovered near Yekaterinburg, Russia.
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Post by missyfan45 on Aug 24, 2020 0:03:20 GMT
Cartier is a good celebrity historical, Sacco and Vanzetti could live in a alternate timeline or someone framed them, someone could try and stop West and East Germany from uniting, you could meet Napoleon I in Egypt,Albert Bridge could be a good torchwood base, and the World Wide Web could be averted by time meddlers ill cover Stalingrad in my own thread
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 24, 2020 9:35:27 GMT
Cartier is a good celebrity historical, Sacco and Vanzetti could live in a alternate timeline or someone framed them, someone could try and stop West and East Germany from uniting, you could meet Napoleon I in Egypt,Albert Bridge could be a good torchwood base, and the World Wide Web could be averted by time meddlers ill cover Stalingrad in my own thread Thatcher and Torchwood?
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Post by olegrand on Aug 24, 2020 9:49:37 GMT
Ah, this reminds me of one of Lady Penelope's adventures (season 6, episode 5, gosh how time flies), which took place in Cambridge, in 1985, with a lot of references to Shada - but it also included a visit by Margaret Thatcher, Torchwood and the Daleks... Here is the blurb from my blog: Episode 5: Remembrance Cambridge 1985 - Penelope goes looking for the lost memories of Professor Chronotis – but Time has another blast-from-the-past in store for her. Featuring Lord Percivale Ashworth, PM Margaret Thatcher and, for the very first time in Lady Penelope’s Odyssey, the Daleks!
which gave me, as GM, the pleasure of delivering the following line in my best Daleky voice (and in French, obviously): THE IRON LADY WILL STOP TALKING OR THE IRON LADY WILL BE EXTERMINATED...
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Post by Catsmate on Aug 24, 2020 10:40:44 GMT
Ah, this reminds me of one of Lady Penelope's adventures (season 6, episode 5, gosh how time flies), which took place in Cambridge, in 1985, with a lot of references to Shada - but it also included a visit by Margaret Thatcher, Torchwood and the Daleks... Here is the blurb from my blog: Episode 5: Remembrance Cambridge 1985 - Penelope goes looking for the lost memories of Professor Chronotis – but Time has another blast-from-the-past in store for her. Featuring Lord Percivale Ashworth, PM Margaret Thatcher and, for the very first time in Lady Penelope’s Odyssey, the Daleks!
which gave me, as GM, the pleasure of delivering the following line in my best Daleky voice (and in French, obviously): THE IRON LADY WILL STOP TALKING OR THE IRON LADY WILL BE EXTERMINATED... I love it! All it needs is the Cybermen to create a real 'Iron Lady....
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