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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 6, 2020 0:13:22 GMT
Louis VIII, Sam Houston, Abu Hanifa, Peter I, Louis XIV,and Liu Yan are good people to meet. Lynette Fromme (she was a Manson family member)could be a good ah with President Rockefeller leading to a nuclear war. The Afyon explosion is definitely a alien weapons test by UNIT or another organization gone wrong. A silurian base could have been found in the Gotthard Road Tunnel during construction. The beard ban could be a humorous adventure with pure historical themes. And black September could be a pure historical or a alternate history adventure abut nuclear terrorism.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 6, 2020 21:04:11 GMT
06SEP
In 394CE at the Battle of the Frigidus (the frigid river) the Eastern Roman Emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper (or Western Roman ruler, depening on who you ask). The battle is sometimes considered the last attempt at a pagan revival due to the perceived pagan sympathies of Eugenius. The battle was the last serious attempt to contest the Christianization of the empire. It also put the whole empire back in the hands of a single emperor for the last time until the final collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
In 1492 Christopher Columbus departs from La Gomera in the Canary Islands, his final port of call before crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the first time.
In 1522 the last surviving ship of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, the Victoria returns to Sanlúcar de Barrameda in Spain; the first known ship to circumnavigate the world.
In 1620 the 'Pilgrim Fathers's sail from Plymouth, England on the Mayflower to settle in North America.
Eight years later in 1628 Puritans settle Salem Town which would become part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
In 1631 the flamboyant and rather controversial English-born politician and judge Charles Porter is born. He sat in the English House of Commons and was twice Lord Chancellor of Ireland, surviving an attempt by his political enemies to impeach him, and defeated attempts to persuade the English Crown to remove him from office. For the last months of his life he was effectively head of the Irish government. In his dealings with the Irish people he was noted for tolerance in religious matters and as a lawyer he was considered to be entirely honest, and he died a poor man.
In 1634 during the Thirty Years' War, the Catholic Imperial army defeats Swedish and German Protestant forces in the Battle of Nördlingen.
In 1642 the Parliament of England bans stage-plays open to the public, closing theatres until 1660.
In 1757 Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, the future French general, is born in Chavaniac in France. Known in the United States simply as Lafayette, he was a very influential French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War, commanding American troops in several battles, including the Siege of Yorktown. After returning to France, he was a key figure in the French Revolution of 1789 and the July Revolution of 1830.
In 1781 the Battle of Groton Heights takes place, during the American Revolution, resulting in a British victory when a small Connecticut militia force led by Lieutenant Colonel William Ledyard is defeated by a more numerous British forces led by Brigadier General Benedict Arnold.
In 1861 during the American Civil War Union forces under General Ulysses Grant bloodlessly capture Paducah in Kentucky, giving the Union control of the Tennessee River's mouth and an important supply base for the rest of the war.
In 1870 Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie in Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.
In 1876 John James Rickard Macleod, the Scottish biochemist and physiologist is born in Clunie in Perthshire. In a distinguished career in physiology and biochemistry, Macleod is noted for his role in the discovery and isolation of insulin (for which he jointly received the 1923 Nobel prize).
In 1888 Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. is born. A major American businessman, investor and diplomat (he served as United States Ambassador to Britain for the early part of the Second World War) he's better known for the achievements of his three (surviving; Joe Jr. was killed in the Second World War) sons. Kennedy was born to a political family in East Boston and made a fortune as a stock market and commodity investor and later rolled over his profits by investing in real estate and a wide range of business industries and later refinancing several Hollywood studios; several acquisitions were ultimately merged into RKO studios. The rumours of bootlegging are almost certainly untrue.
In 1901 US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in New York. McKinley dies mainly because of the poor state of medical care rather than the bullet. He's succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.
- There's an AITAS scenario (Doctor Who and the McKinley Conspiracy by Garrett Crowe) around the assassination.
In 1930 the democratically elected Argentine president Hipólito Yrigoyen is deposed in a military coup. Poirot was there, why not your players?
In 1939 at the beginning of World War II Britain suffers its first fighter pilot casualty of the war at the Battle of Barking Creek as a result of friendly fire.
In 1943 Pennsylvania Railroad's premier train derails at Frankford Junction in Philadelphia, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others.
In 1952 a prototype de Havilland DH.110 jet fighter disintegrates in the air and crashes into the crowd at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire in England; the two crew and 29 spectators are killed. and the two on board.
In 1955 in Istanbul the city's Greek, Jewish, and Armenian minorities are the target of a government sponsored pogrom; at least thirty die in the ensuing riots, many are tortured and/or raped and thousands flee the city.
In 1962 the United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill to evaluate Emergency Plan D. The test runs for three weeks, ending just a few weeks before the Cuban Missile Crisis. The test simulated a large scale (unrealistically large) Soviet nuclear attack on the United States, beginning with a decapitation strike and seeing approximately forty eight million simulated deaths. The later parts of the excercise provided cover for the mobilization of Federal troops for deployment to Mississippi, whose governor was then resisting a court order to desegregate the University of Mississippi.
In 1962 the archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships, dating back to the second century CE in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
In 1966 in Cape Town in South Africa. Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting. Verwoerd played an instrumental role in socially engineering the South African system of 'apartheid'; institutionalised racial segregation and white supremacy, and the implementation of those policies. He was also strategist for the far-right National Party. During the Second World War he, and many other members of the Afrikaner Broederbond (an exclusively white, male and Calvinist secret society dedicated to Afrikaner interests) had supported Nazi Germany.
In 1970 two passenger aircraft bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to to Dawson's Field in Jordan. TWA Flight 741 from Frankfurt (a Boeing 707) and Swissair Flight 100 from Zürich (a Douglas DC-8) were forced to land at Dawson's Field. The hijacking of El Al Flight 219 from Amsterdam (another 707) was foiled.
In 1976 Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States. Unsurprisingly his request is granted and he is paid for access to the aircraft.
In 1997 the Funeral of Diana, former Princess of Wales, takes place in London. Well over a million people lined the streets and around 2.5 billion watched around the world on television.
In 2007 Israel executes the air strike Operation Orchard to destroy a nuclear reactor in Syria.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 6, 2020 23:56:53 GMT
Louisa Ann Swain, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr, Marquis de Lafayette, and Viktor Belenko are good people to meet. The funeral .Diana could be good for the wire to manipulate in a idiots lantern sequel (it was one of the most watched events in tv history). Hipólito Yrigoyen could involve aliens on either sides or a pure historical. The Mayflower could be a good pure historical with a educational theme or a adventure with aliens like rutans. Somebody could try to prevent Columbus from arriving. Blackfriars Ships could be a thin ice prequel, and Hendrik Verwoerd could be a conspiracy themed adventure.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 7, 2020 8:50:34 GMT
Louisa Ann Swain, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr, Marquis de Lafayette, and Viktor Belenko are good people to meet. The funeral .Diana could be good for the wire to manipulate in a idiots lantern sequel (it was one of the most watched events in tv history). Hipólito Yrigoyen could involve aliens on either sides or a pure historical. The Mayflower could be a good pure historical with a educational theme or a adventure with aliens like rutans. Somebody could try to prevent Columbus from arriving. Blackfriars Ships could be a thin ice prequel, and Hendrik Verwoerd could be a conspiracy themed adventure. I rather like the idea of Diana's funeral being an obstruction, with the PCs trying to make their way through London to do something, hampered by the crowds and the cameras.
Nördlingen is an interesting spot for historical meddling, it could be altered to either cement Habsburg dominance in Europe or to prevent the fragmenting of the Protestant alliance. For example the flank attack by Gustav Horn could have succeeded in forcing the withdrawal of the Imperial forces and and allow for the relief of Nördlingen. However the cavalry attacked prematurely, the defenders on the hilltop rallied and two of Horn's brigades began shooting at each other.
Lafayette is an excellent target for meddling; it's likely that without him the American Revolution might have failed. Either way if would have been different, as would the French Revolution. And he did bring a retinue with him to America, a useful way to infiltrate the revolution.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 7, 2020 16:23:47 GMT
yeah i agree with diana.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 7, 2020 21:20:36 GMT
07SEP
In 70CE, as mentioned previously, Roman forces under Titus occupy and plunder Jerusalem.
In 1191 during the Third Crusade, Saladin is defeated at the Battle of Arsuf by the forces of Richard I of England.
In 1228 the Sixth Crusade, which results in a more-or-less peaceful restoration of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, begins with the landing in Acre of the army of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.
In 1303 forces of Philip IV of France, led by Guillaume de Nogaret, take Pope Boniface VIII prisoner. The pope was unpopular with many European monarchs; frequently meddling in foreign affairs (France, Sicily, Italy, Scotland) and an advocate of Papal supremacy. Dante Alighieri placed the pope in the Eighth Circle of Hell in his Divine Comedy, among the simoniacs. Boniface was beaten during his imprisonment and died a month later. Philip IV pressured Pope Clement V of the Avignon Papacy into staging a posthumous trial of Boniface where he was convicted, by Trial by Combat,of heresy and sodomy.
In 1533 Elizabeth Tudor, daughter of Henry VIII of England, was born. Elizabeth I as she would become was the last monarch of the House of Tudor and an immensely significant figure, who's appeared multiple times in the Whoniverse.
Thirty eight years later in 1571 Thomas Howard, fourth Duke of Norfolk, was arrested for his role in the fascinatingly murky and complicated Ridolfi plot, which was to have had Elizabeth I assassinated and replaced by Mary, Queen of Scots. Involving several European monarchs, masses of Papal gold, Spanish troops and an array of conspirators this plot is well worth examining as the basis for a scenario.
In 1652 around 15,000 farmers and militia rebel against Dutch rule on Taiwan in the Guo Huaiyi rebellion, caused mainly by heavy (and inequitable) Dutch taxation and widespread extortion by low-ranking Dutch officials and servicemen. The rebellion was initially successful but was crushed soon after.
In 1695 Henry Every (usually spelt 'Avery' in the Whoniverse) perpetrates probably the most profitable pirate raid in history with the capture of the Grand Mughal ship Ganj-i-Sawai. In response, Emperor Aurangzeb threatens to end all English trading in India. The Ganj-i-Sawai was a large armed dhow that belonged to the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb; with her escort Fateh Muhammed, was captured by Every en route from present day Mocha in Yemen to Surat in India. At the time Every commanded one of the most powerful single pirate vessels, 46-gun frigate Fancy, and had teamed up with five other pirate ships. After attacking and plundering the Fateh Muhammed the Fancy pursued the Ganj-i-Sawai. The Ganj-i-Sawai was a significant opponent with 62 guns and about five hundred musket-armed troops, along with six hundred passengers. However after the dhow was de-masted Every's crew (about 110 strong) boarded and overcame the crew, passengers and slaves The result was horrendous, and not at all like the sanitised portrayal of Every on television; the victorious pirates subjected their captives to several days of torture, raping and murder. Hundreds were killed or jumper overboard. The treasure was worth, in modern terms, at least a quarter-of-a-billion Euro.
Every had been asked by the other pirate captains to carry the treasure to an agreed upon location where it would be split among the various crews; the heavily armed Fancy was considered the most secure ship. Naturally they were betrayed; under cover of dark Every and his crew silently slipped away taking all the treasure with them. While a few of the crew were subsequently captured and executed, neither the treasure no Every have ever been found.
In 1776 it's probably that the first submarine attack on a ship occurred; Ezra Lee attempted to mine the British warship HMS Eagle in from the submersible Turtle. The attack failed, if it happened, due to copper sheathing on the ship's hull proving resistant to the drill Lee used.
During the Napoleonic Wars in 1812 the Battle of Borodino, part of the French invasion of Russia and the bloodiest battle of the Napoleonic Wars (about ninety thousand died), was fought near Moscow and resulted in a Pyrrhic French victory. Interestingly Napoleon made what's considered a serious strategic blunder; in refusing to commit the Imperial Guard he may have lost his one chance to destroy the Russian army and to win the campaign.
In 1857 about 150 emigrant settlers of the Baker–Fancher emigrant wagon train are murdered by Mormon settlers in whas is known as the Mountain Meadows massacre; a series of attacks on the group that started on 07SEP and ended on 11SEP.
In Italy in 1860, during the wars of Italian unification, Giuseppe Garibaldi enters Naples.
In 1876 in Northfield in Minnesota Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang are beaten off with heavily casualties by local citizens when the try to rob the town's bank.
In 1901 the Boxer Rebellion in China officially ends.
In 1906 the aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft successfully at Bagatelle in France for the first time.
In 1907 the Cunard Line's new liner RMS Lusitania sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York City.
In 1909 aviator Eugène Lefebvre becomes the first person in the world to die in a powered heavier-than-air craft when he crashes a new French-built Wright biplane during a test flight at Juvisy, south of Paris.
While I've referred to the 1911 theft of La Gioconda previously, on 07SEP1911 the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa and a number of Egyptian statuettes from the Louvre museum. In fact his former secretary, Honoré Joseph Géry Pieret, stole the statues. Curiously Apollinaire implicated his friend Picasso in the theft, and he was also brought in for questioning in the matter of the thefts, before being exonerated. The theft of the Mona Lisa was perpetrated by Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian house painter who acted alone and was only caught two years later when he tried to sell the painting in Florence.
In 1921 in Atlantic City in New Jersey, the first Miss America Pageant was held over two-days.
In 1923 INTERPOL the International Criminal Police Organization is formed. Perhaps used as a cover for stranger investigations?
In 1929 the steamer Kuru capsizes and sinks on Lake Näsijärvi near Tampere in Finland. One hundred thirty-six die.
In 1936 the last thylacine, a carnivorous wolf-like marsupial, named Benjamin dies alone in its cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
In 1940 the 'Blitz', a concerted aerial boming operation against bombing London and other British cities begins; it lasts for almost two months of consecutive night raids.
Four years later in 1945 the Berlin Victory Parade is held.
In 1977 the 300-metre-tall CKVR-DT transmission tower in Barrie in Ontario is struck by a light aircraft in fog, causing it to collapse. What sinister transmissions might have needed such action?
In 1978 Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is poisoned by a pellet containing the toxin ricin and fired from an airgun concealed in an umbrella, while walking across Waterloo Bridge in London.
In 1984 a Maltese patrol boat disposing of illegal fireworks at sea off Gozo is severely damaged by an explosion, killing seven soldiers and policemen.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 7, 2020 23:12:18 GMT
the Ganj-i-Sawai could be a good curse of the black spot prequel. Guillaume de Nogaret, Boniface VIII, Eugène Lefebvre, Jesse James, Garibaldi in Naples, Ezra Lee, and Alberto Santos-Dumont are good people to meet. The first Miss America Pageant could be a good comedic psuedo or pure historical adventure. The thylacine could be held in a alien menagerie zoo. someone could sink the Lusitania during it's maiden voyage preventing America from entering WWI.the Battle of Borodino could be a good pure or psuedo historical with the sontarans. And the Guo Huaiyi rebellion could be a pure historical with mid control themes.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 8, 2020 10:18:57 GMT
the Ganj-i-Sawai could be a good curse of the black spot prequel. Yes it could easily have recovered artefacts aboard. Or the PCs could become involved in a search for the lost treasure in any later period.Guillaume de Nogaret, Boniface VIII, Eugène Lefebvre, Jesse James, Garibaldi in Naples, Ezra Lee, and Alberto Santos-Dumont are good people to meet. True. I'm fond of Bushnell's Turtle, a fascinating idea for the time and one that almost worked. Might someone have suggested the idea to him? Or suggested some improvements; a couple of pontoons would have added stability and made holding position easier and a 'scrubber' to remove carbon dioxide would have greatly extended the little boat'd endurance. The latter could have bee as simple as a solution of calcium hydroxide, easily available. It's not the lack of oxygen that gets you, it's the carbon dioxide poisoning.
BTW there is an error, which I will correct, in my description of the failure of the attack. Lee probably struck an iron rudder component rather than copper sheathing. Lee continued in 'special duties' during the Revolutionary War and might crop up working for the Secret Congress or investigating oddities for Washington.
Santos-Dumont is another fascinating character, who could be encountered in Europe or Brazil, and get involved in almost anything.The first Miss America Pageant could be a good comedic psuedo or pure historical adventure. Yes, it strikes me as perfect 'background colour'. There were over a hundred thousand people there for the pageant and lots of possibilities for shennanigas. Perhaps Miss Gorman's image, based on the newspaper pictures, is used by an alien as the basis for a shimmer disguise, to general confusion?
The period was Atlantic City's golden age; there was little attempt to enforce Prohibition, and lots of liquor smuggling and 'rum row' offshore.
- 'Rum row' is an oddity of the early Prohibition era. The USA claimed the traditional three nautical mile (~5.5km) territorial limit, beyond which it had no law enforcement authority, until 1924. Ships would 'park' offshore and sell liquor, usually by prior arrangement, to bootleggers to bring ashore (there was an industry in producing fast motorboats for this purpose). Some ships dealt in more 'retail' transactions and floatplanes were also used.
- The infamous "Queen of Rum Row" was Gertrude Lythgoe, who was actually employed by the British firm of Haig and MacTavish Scotch Whisky to supply the US market; she was based in the Bahamas.
- There was a lot of competition; ships often flew large, colourful banners advertising their wares and threw parties with prostitutes on their ships to draw customers.
- Rum Row was utterly lawless; crews were typically heavily armed (and not just small arms; there was a lot of surplus Great War hardware around) and willing to use force, including against the US Coast Guard. Armed robberies, hijackings and sinkings were not unknown.
- Anything could be happening just offshore....
At the time Atlantic City was run by Enoch "Nucky" Johnson (organised crime and political boss) and Edward L. Bader (mayor; the man behing the 'Miss America' pageant).
1921 is too early for Capone and National Crime Syndicate but if you're planning a sequel the latter was founded in Atlantic City in MAY1929 to smooth over territorial disputes between the different gangs. The original meeting was called by Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Masseria family) with Johnny "the Fox" Torrio (Chicago), Meyer Lansky, Benjamin Siegel, and others in attendance.
The thylacine could be held in a alien menagerie zoo. someone could sink the Lusitania during it's maiden voyage preventing America from entering WWI.the Battle of Borodino could be a good pure or psuedo historical with the sontarans. And the Guo Huaiyi rebellion could be a pure historical with mid control themes. For the thylacine how about this; in the "present" (anywhen from the '70s to today) thylacines are unexpectedly found in the rainforests of Tasmania. UNIT Australia gets involved and investigates. Where did they come from? Crack in time allowing passage from the distant past? If so is it two-way and what else has/might come through? Secret breeding programme? Who/where/why and what else might appear? Time traveller with ecological interests? Ogeron would fit.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 8, 2020 21:35:34 GMT
08SEP
In 617CE at the Battle of Huovi, Li Yuan, later Experor Gaozu, defeats a army of the Sui dynasty, opening the way to his capture of the imperial capital Chang'an and the eventual establishment of the Tang dynasty.
In 1380 Russian forces defeat a mixed army of Tatars and Mongols, preventing further Mongol advances into Russia, at the Battle of Kulikovo.
In 1504 in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence Michelangelo's David is unveiled
In 1514 one of the biggest battles of the century is fought; the Battle of Orsha sees a combined force of Lithuanians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
In 1522 the Magellan–Elcano circumnavigation, the first round-the-world sea vovage ends when the Victoria arrives at Seville.
In 1565 the Ottoman siege of Malta, which began on 18MAY, is ended by the Knights of Malta.
In 1588 the brilliant French polymath (mathematician, philosopher, and theologian) Marin Mersenne is born in Oizé in Maine. He worked in many fields, though is best known as a mathematician, though he also studied vibrational harmonics (and effectively began the field of acoustics), music theory. Perhaps his single greatest contribution is to facilitate communication between other researchers and the exchange of ideas; he was known as the "the post-box of Europe".
In 1655 the city of Warsaw falls without resistance to a small force under the command of Charles X Gustav of Sweden during the period of Polish-Lithuania history known as the Swedish Deluge.
In 1727 during a puppet show held in a barn in the village of Burwell in Cambridgeshire, a fire begins; About eighty people, most of them children, die.
In 1761 King George III of the United Kingdom is married to to Duchess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace. The couple had met for the first time that morning. A fortnight later, on 22SEP, they were both crowned at Westminster Abbey. Strangely for his familiy George appears to have been very happy with Charlotte and never took a mistress or engaged in known affairs.
In 1775 Malta say the brief and unsuccessful Rising of the Priests against the Knights of Malta who ruled the island.
In 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars the Battle of Hondschoote is fought in Flanders, part of the operations related to the Siege of Dunkirk. It resulted in a French victory against the Anglo-Hanoverian corps.
Three years later another battle of the French Revolutionary Wars is fought in 1706; the Battle of Bassano sees French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano del Grappa.
In 1810 the ship Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six-month journey around the tip of South America, the ship arrives at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men establish the fur-trading town of Astoria, Oregon.
In 1860 the paddle steamship PS Lady Elgin sinks off the town of Port Clinton in Illinois on Lake Michigan, after she was rammed in a gale by the schooner Augusta. At least three hundred people die.
In 1862 the Russian state is officially one thousand years old (dated from the traditional arrival of Rurik in Novgorod) and the milestone is marked with the Millennium of Russia monument; unveiled in the Novgorod Kremlin on 08SEP1862 The monument is a fifteen metre bronze bell crowned by a cross.
In 1883 the Northern Pacific Railway was completed in a ceremony at Gold Creek, Montana. Former president Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in an event attended by rail and political luminaries.
In 1888 Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested. This was a highly capable craft for the time, powered by an electric motor, the ability to fire torpedoes underwater (and reload) and an air regeneration system. Her hull shape, propeller, periscope, torpedo launcher and cruciform external controls anticipated later designs. Conservatism within the Spanish Navy meant that the design was not taken into service.
Also in 1888, in London the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
In 1900 the town of Galveston is destroyed by an immensely powerful hurricane that hits Texas killing; at least eight thousand people are killed.
In 1914 Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war; he appears to have been suffering from PTSD. Over three hundred more will be shpt.
In 1916 Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles completing a sixty day, 9,000lm motorcycle journey across the United States, in a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders,
In 1923 the US Navy suffers the Honda Point disaster when nine destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven ships are lost and twenty-three sailors killed.
In 1934 a fire aboard the passenger liner SS Morro Castle kills 137 people off the New Jersey coast.
In 1935 the US Senator, and perhaps potential dictator, from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building. A charismatic and able governor, Long had ambitions for national office and rose to national prominence during the Great Depression as a vocal critic of President Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal. Long remains a controversial figure. He was, supposedly, shot by Carl Weiss, son0in-law of long time political opponent Judge Benjamin Henry Pavy. Weiss fired one shot, which may have missed; Long's bodyguards fired perhaps a hundred, hitting Weiss at least 60 times, and probably also fatally wounding long.
In 1941 German forces begin the Siege of Leningrad, a prolonged military blockade against the Soviet city of Leningrad taht would last 872 days. In addition to German troops, Finnish and Spanish forces were also involved.
In 1944 London is hit by a V-2 rocket for the first time.
In 1960 US President Dwight Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center, in Huntsville, Alabama.
In 1966 a new science fiction television series called "Star Trek" premieres.
In 1974 US President Gerald Ford signs the pardon of Richard Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office.
In 1978 Iran sees its bloodiest day of political violance; during Black Friday the Shah's troops kill perhaps three thousand people, though some estimates suggest fifteen thousand.
In 2004 the NASA unmanned spacecraft Genesis crash-lands in Utah when its parachute fails to open. It was asample-return probe that collected a sample of solar wind particles and returned them to Earth for analysis. The crash contaminated many of the sample collectors.
In 2016 NASA launches OSIRIS-REx, its first asteroid sample return mission; the probe is set to visit 101955 Bennu and (hopefully) to return with samples in 2023.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 8, 2020 22:56:24 GMT
the marriage of King George could be a great humorous adventure. Someone could prevent Ford form pardoning Nixon and it could result in a second term for him. The V-2 rocket could be more deadlier in a alternate history. Someone could prevent Star Trek from premiering. The Morro Castle could be a great tragedy type adventure with pure or psuedo historical themes. Michelangelo's David could be a good model for a moving statue or a weeping angel themed adventure.The Tang dynasty.could be a good pure historical. And Galveston Hurricane could have been caused by the silurians.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 9, 2020 9:54:07 GMT
the marriage of King George could be a great humorous adventure. Someone could prevent Ford form pardoning Nixon and it could result in a second term for him. The V-2 rocket could be more deadlier in a alternate history. Someone could prevent Star Trek from premiering. The Morro Castle could be a great tragedy type adventure with pure or psuedo historical themes. Michelangelo's David could be a good model for a moving statue or a weeping angel themed adventure.The Tang dynasty.could be a good pure historical. And Galveston Hurricane could have been caused by the silurians. 1. Yes the Royal wedding has plenty of comic potential, mistaken identity, camouflaged aliens et cetera.
2. The Meddler seems like someone who'd try and alter the Nixonian pardon, perhaps as part of a wider plot.
3. The V-2 could be fitted with an unconventional warhead, perhaps based on Mad Science or recovered alien technology.
4. The Morro Castle fire was significant factor in improving safety at sea (compulsory use of fire retardant materials, automatic fire doors, ship-wide fire alarms, mandatory practice of fire drills). Though not enough as the Yarmouth Castle would prove two decades later. There's a Movietone newsreel about the fire here, which mentions the General Slocum. It's a wonderful example of the reporting, and purpose prose, of the era.
5. I see the unveiling of David as the perfect opportunity for temporal tourism (Sixie again) or theft.
6. The Galveston is interesting, not only in the scale of destruction, but the fact that the city took decades to recover and would probably have been the per-eminant city in Texas without that disaster. Interestingly this would effect the city during the Prohibition era, creating the so-called Free State of Galveston. Then again the hurricane is an actual event so the PCs are supposed to ensure it happens as described....
BTW here's some material from my notes on the Van Buren sisters.
Addie and Gussie’s cross-country ride.
In 1916 the United States was widely expected to enter the Great War in the near future (though it'd take a year) and this causes an upsurge of patriotic interest around the country. This led to the Preparedness Movement.
Two of those citizens were Adeline and Augusta Van Buren, descendants of President Martin Van Buren (the mostly forgotten eighth president); they were as interested as many others, wanted to prove that women could ride as well as men and would be able to serve as military dispatch riders, freeing up men for other tasks.
Adeline and Augusta were society women, but they had unorthodox interests for ther class and era; they liked to box, driver and fly airplanes. They ice skated. They particularly loved to ride motorcycles, and took part in an annual motorcycle race between New York and Poughkeepsie on New Year’s Eve.
So they decided to ride from New York to Los Angeles to demonstrate they could do it. They may have been inspired by Effie Hotchkiss (whom I mentioned previously), who had completed the Brooklyn-to-San Francisco trip in 1915, with her mother as a sidecar passenger.
They set out from Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn 04JUL on a pair of expensive 1,000cc Indian Power Plus motorcycles. This was by no means an easy trip; there were no interstate roads, in fact no road maps of much of the journey, and the roads that did exist were generally intended fro local traffic (long distances were traveled by rail or water) and off poor quality in many places. There were other problems, including heavy rains and mud and more anticipated ones, like the Rocky Mountains. There were also social problems; women driving were unusual enough, riding motorbikes was beyong the pale in conservative areas. Then there was their choice of clothing; in many parts of the USA women wearing trousers constituted "indecent exposure" at the time (and well into the '20s; in some into the 1950s) and they were arrested at least seven times. The rode to the top ofPikes Peak in Colorado and got lost in Utah desert. They detoured into Mexico, visiting Tijuana.
Despite succeeding in their trek, they arrived in Los Angeles on 08SEP1916, the sisters' applications to be military dispatch riders were rejected. Both continued their feminist activism; Adeline rarned her law degree from New York University. Augusta became a pilot and joined Amelia Earhart's Ninety-Nines international women's flying organization.
A fascinating pair who could pop up in a scenario.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 9, 2020 22:00:49 GMT
09SEP
In 9CE the alliance of Germanic tribes, under Arminius, ambushes and annihilates three Roman legions led by Publius Quinctilius Varus in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. This would mark the limit to Roman expansion into northern mainland Europe; despite several successful campaigns and raids by the Romans in the years after the battle, they never again attempted to conquer the Germanic territories east of the Rhine river, except for Germania Superior.
In 337 The Roman Empire is divided between the three Augusti, Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans, who succeed their father Constantine I as co-emperors.
In 533 a Byzantine army of 15,000 men under the renowned general Flavius Belisarius lands at Caput Vada (now Chebba in Tunisia) and marches to Carthage.
In 1000 the Battle of Svolder is fought between King Olaf Tryggvason (of Norway), who'd been sailing home after an expedition to Wendland (now Pomerania), when he was ambushed by an alliance of Svein Forkbeard (King of Denmark), Olof Skötkonung (also Olaf Eiríksson, King of Sweden), and Eirik Hákonarson (Jarl [Earl] of Lade [now part of Norway]. The Norwegian king lost, his ships captured and Olaf threw himself into the sea. After the battle, Norway was ruled by the Jarls of Lade as a fief of Denmark and Sweden.
In 1087 William Rufus (remember him?) becomes King of England, taking the title William II.
In 1141 Yelü Dashi, the Liao dynasty general who founded the Qara Khitai, decisively defeats the Seljuq and Kara-Khanid forces at the Battle of Qatwan. The battle signalled the beginning of the end of the Great Seljuk Empire.
In 1513 king James IV of Scotland is badly defeated and dies in the Battle of Flodden, at Branxton in Northumberland in northern England, bending Scotland's involvement in the War of the League of Cambrai. He is the last British monarch to date to die in battle.
In 1543 the nine-month-old Mary Stuart is crowned in the central Scottish town of Stirling. Thus begins an eventful life.
In 1561 the ultimately unsuccessful Colloquy of Poissy opens in an effort to reconcile French Catholics and Protestants and end the centuries long French religious wars.
1737 Luigi Galvani, the Italian physician and physicist, is born in Bologna in the Papal States. Galvani is most remembered today for his experiments in' animal electricity' and as the pioneer of bioelectromagnetics.
In 1739 the Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain's mainland North American colonies erupts near Charleston in South Carolina. About seventy people died (mainly Africans). The uprising was led by native Africans probably from the Central African Kingdom of Kongo. Led by a literate slave named Jemmy about twenty enslaved Kongolese, who may have been former soldiers, marched south from the Stono River towards Spanish Florida (there was an offer from the Spanish that promised freedom and land at St. Augustine to slaves who escaped from the British colonies). The group grew to over eighty before the party was intercepted and defeated by South Carolina militia near the Edisto River. Few survived, most died in battle or were executed.
In 1839 John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph, beginning the art and science of photography.
In 1845 this is often taken to be the start of the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Potato_Famine which killed approximately one-and-a-quarter million people in Ireland (and more than a hundred thousand elsewhere) and immensely disrupted society in Europe; it was the principal reason for the spate of revolutions in 1848. In Ireland the effects were worsened to catastrophic by the Whig government's economic laissez-faire policy; during the famine Ireland remained a net food exporter. In the longer tern the famine re-birthed Irish Nationalism and permanently altered the island's demographic, political, and cultural landscape, with over two and a half million refugees leaving the island.
In 1855 during the Crimean War, the Siege of Sevastopol comes to an end when Russian forces abandon the city. Fra more allied (British, French and Turkish) troops died of disease than enemy action.
In 1863 during the American Civil War, the Union Army enters Chattanooga in Tennessee.
In 1892 the Jovian satellite Amalthea is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard. It is the first satellite of Jupiter discovered since Galileo.
In 1922 the Greco-Turkish War effectively ends with Turkish victory over the Greeks in Smyrna.
A year later Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, founds the Republican People's Party.
In 1924 the Hanapepe massacre occurs on Kauai, Hawaii; a long running strike of Filipino sugar workers local police and strikebreakers fire on strikers. Nine are killed and seven more fatally wounded seven. In retaliation four police are stabbed to death.
In 1936 during the early stages of the Spanish Civil War the crews of two Portuguese Navy destroyers (NRP Afonso de Albuquerque and Dão) mutiny against the Salazar dictatorship's support of the Franco coup against the elected Spanish government and declared their solidarity with the Spanish Republic. As the ships were leaving the Tejo estuary they are fired upon by the forts and both ships are hit and grounded. Most of the sailors were arrested and sent to the penal colony of Tarrafal in Portuguese Cape Verde.
In 1939 in Poland the Battle of Hel (on the Hel Peninsula, of the Baltic Sea coast) begins. This is the longest-defended pocket of Polish Army resistance during the German invasion of Poland. Some 2,800 Polish soldiers under Rear Admiral Włodzimierz Steyer hold the Hel Fortified Area for about 32 days.
Also in 1939 the Burmese national hero, Buddhist monk Sayadaw U Ottama dies in prison after a hunger strike to protest Britain's colonial government.
In 1940 the Treznea Massacre occurs in Transylvania when soldiers of the he 22nd Hungarian Border Guards Battalion entered the of Treznea village at noon and begin killing indiscriminately. At least 93 people die; bludgeoned, bayoneted, shot or burned alive.
In 1947 the first computer bug is found; a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University. It's preserved in the machine's log book.
In 1956 Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
In 1965 Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, leaving 76 dead and doing around 1.5 billion dollars in damage.
In 1971 the four-day Attica Prison insurrection begins; eventually resulting in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
In 1972 in Kentucky's Mammoth Cave National Park, a Cave Research Foundation exploration and mapping team discovers a link between the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems, making it the longest known cave passageway in the world. What else might they have found?
In 2012 the Indian space agency puts into orbit its heaviest foreign satellite payload yet; Spot-6, a French satellite, and a small Japanese satellite are on board PSLV-C21.
In 2016 the government of North Korea conducts its fifth and reportedly biggest nuclear test (around 30kt).
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 9, 2020 22:13:46 GMT
Elvis Presley ,William Rufus , Flavius Belisarius,James IV, Sayadaw U Ottama, Luigi Galvani, Emerson Barnard are good people to meet. The NK nuclear test could be a cover for blowing up a alien enemy. The potato famine could be a great educational pure historical.the Stono Rebellion and Hanapepe massacre could be good pure historicals. They could find silurian artifacts in Mammoth Cave. The Attica Prison insurrection could be a mad max based homage.And the Siege of Sevastopol could be visited by time meddlers.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 10, 2020 22:13:26 GMT
10SEP
In 506CE the Council of Agde begins, attended by thirty five bishops from various locations in the Visigothic Gaul kingdom and representatives of others, meet at Agde (Agatha), on the Mediterranean coast east of Narbonne. Presided over by Bishop Caesarius of Arles the matters discusses, and to a degree set into Canon Law, covered mainly ecclesiastical discipline.
In 1419 John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy and ruler of Burgundy is assassinated on the bridge at Montereau by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France. The Duke was prominent in French national affairs during the period and assisted his mentally ill cousin (King Charles VI) in ruling France and waging the Hundred Years' War with England. Able but rash, ruthless and completely unscrupulous John had triggered the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War in France by his murder of Duke of Orléans, the King's brother. John's son and successor Philip was enraged by the killing of his father, and the involvement of the Dauphin (the killing was done by two of his close advisors Tanneguy du Chastel and Jean Louvet) and sought an alliance with the English, thereby bringing the Hundred Years' War to its final (Lancastrian) phase. A wonderfully murkey period to drop a group of clueless time travellers into.
In 1509 Constantinople is badly damaged, and over ten thousand people killed, by a powerful earthquake that became known as 'The Lesser Judgment Day. The 'quake struck at about 10PM, the epicentre was in the Sea of Marmara and the magnitude is estimated at 7.5. A six metre tsunami also struck the coast. Curiously the 'quake was followed by an unusually long and intense period of aftershocks; for eighteen days intense shocls wracked the area and even when these ended minor tremors continued for an additional month. Within the city the Grand Mosque of Hagia Sophia survived almost unscathed (one minaret collapsed) though the plaster that had been used to cover up the Byzantine mosaics in the dome was knocked off, revealing the original Christian imagery. The Ottoman Turks were terrified and it was widely felt that doomsday had arrived. Also interesting is that the earthquake was allegedly predicted by an unnamed Greek monk from Saint Catherine's Monastery in Sinai while he was present in the Sultan's court. Both Muslims and Christians viewed the earthquake as a punishment, though against whom and for what varied. The sultan’s residence, the Topkapı Palace, was not significantly damaged but Bayezid II’s bedroom collapsed and had he been present he would probably have been killed.
In 1515 the 'butcher's son' Thomas Wolsey is invested as a cardinal. He would amass great power and wealth, and significant political influence as Henry VIII's chancellor, until his downfall in 1529 for failing to arrange the end of Henry's marriage. Charged with treason he was arrested by Henry Percy (an interesting family, ripe with oddities, accusations of wizardry and alchemy and perhaps treason) but died conveniently in his way to London.
In 1547 the last full-scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, the Battle of Pinkie, is a catastropic loss for the Scots and a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI. The battle occurred on the banks of the River Esk near Musselburgh and became known as 'Black Saturday' in Scotland.
In 1561 in Japan the bloody victory of Takeda Shingen at the Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima does little to end the ongoing wars against Uesugi Kenshin.
In 1570 a party of Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in and establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission in what is now Virginia. One the Jesuits is Don Luís de Velasco (Paquiquino) a Native American who'd taken by a Spanish expedition nine years earlier. He had travelled with them Cuba, Mexico and Spain. He returned as guide and interpreter and for a party of Jesuit missionaries. He is believed to have left the Jesuits and returned to his people, before murdering a group of them, and taking a force of of warriors to the main mission station; there in FEB1871 they killed the Spanish, sparing only a young servant boy named Alonso de Olmos. The following year a Spanish party from Florida went to the area rescued Alonso and massacred about twenty Native Americans.
In 1573 in Hamburg the notorious German pirate Klein Henszlein and 33 of his crew were executed by beheading.They had raided raided shipping in the North Sea until defeated by a fleet from Hamburg; they were paraded through the streets, executed and their heads were impaled on stakes.
In 1608 John Smith, of Pocahontas fame, is elected the council president of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia. He played an important role in the establishment of the colony at Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, and mapped the Chesapeake Bay area.
In 1776 during the American Revolutionary War, patriot Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army. He will be executed twelve days later. But what were his last word? And where exactly was he hanged?
Thirty seven years later in 1813 the United States is again at war with Britain. On 10SEP a US naval force defeats and captures a British squadron at the Battle of Lake Erie. At the clash, off the Ohio coast, nine US vessels defeated and captured six vessels of the Royal Navy, establishing American control of the lake for the rest of the war, and the recovery of Detroit
In 1858 astronomer George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora, a moderatley large and very bright asteroid, at he Dudley Observatory near Albany in New York.
In 1897 during the ongoing Pennsylvania coal wars a sheriff's posse fires into a crowd of striking coal miners, killing at least nineteen unarmed men, an event known as the Lattimer massacre.
In 1898 Empress Elisabeth of Austria, the much loved Sisi, is murdered by an Italian anarchist, Luigi Lucheni. She was stabbed with a tapered file while walking from her hotel in Geneva to ride a paddle steamer to Montreux, accompanied by her lady-in-waiting Countess Sztáray. Lucheni was upset that capital punishment had been abolished in Geneva as he wished to become a martyr to the anarchist cause. Her husband, the Austro-Hunganian Emperor Franz Joseph I, was deeply effected by her death, one of a number of deaths in his close family.
In 1918 during the Russian Civil War the Red Army finally captures Kazan from the Czechoslovak Legion and the People Army of Komuch. Most of the Whites escaped via the Volga.
In 1937 the Nyon Conference is attended by nine countries to address "international piracy" (mainly undeclared submarine attacks made by Italy against the Spanish Republic) in the Mediterranean Sea. Part of the ongoing Franco-British effort to strengthen their policy non-intervention in the Spanish Civil War.
In 1939 under odd circumstances the submarine HMS Oxley fails to respond to numerous attempts to signal her and is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton off the Obrestad Light, near Norway. At 19:55 Triton had surfaced to fix her position and charge her batteries. Her CO, Lieutenant Commander Steel, was called to the bridge a hour later when submarine was seen nearby. Despite three attemps to signal by lamp, and the firing of flares, the submarine made no response so Steel ordered it sunk. Less than a minute later an explosion occurred and Triton moved to investigate. Three survivors were seen, and two rescued (the Oxley's CO, Lieutenant Commander H. G. Bowerman, and a lookout, Able Seaman Herbert Gluckes) The third person in the water, Lieutenant F. K. Manley, was seen to be swimming strongly when he suddenly sank from view. Neither Manley's body nor any others from Oxley were found. The incident was covered up until the 1950s.
In 1943 as part of Operation Achse, the forcibly disarming of Italian armed forces following Italy's armistice with the Allies, German troops begin their occupation of Rome.
In 1961 the Italian Grand Prix at Monza sees the worst crash in it's history when German driver Wolfgang von Trips looses control of his Ferrari and crashed into a fence line of spectators; fifteen spectators die along with von Trips.killing 15 and causes the death of German Formula One driver The race was not stopped, supposedly to avoid the departing audience jamming the roads around the stadium and thus impeding the rescue work for the injured.
In 2002 Switzerland becomes a full member of the United Nations.
In 2008 CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the biggest scientific experiment in human history, is powered up. Despite much hype the world fails to end. Probably.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 10, 2020 22:32:57 GMT
Sisi (a great murder/conspiracy type scenario),Nathan Hale (he could have been hanged o a spaceship by the judoon)John Smith,John the Fearless, and George Mary Searle could be good people to meet. they actually made a Torchwood audio drama that very same day live to celebrate the opening (the LNC in the audio only released ghosts).Battle of Kawanakajima could be a good sontaran adventure. HMS Triton's incident could be a silurian cover up. And Thomas Wolsey is a good villain to meet in a adventure.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 11, 2020 21:41:42 GMT
11SEP
1185CE the Byzantine Empire sees a change of emperor. Discontent in Constantinople was seething against the regime of emperor Andronikos I Komnenos, and on 11SEP Stephen Hagiochristophorites, the most powerful member of the emperor's court of Byzantine attempted to arrest (or kill) Isaac II Angelos, who killed Stephen. The nest day Isaac deposed and replaced Andronikos.
In 1297 at the Battle of Stirling Bridge the Scots, jointly led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray, decisively defeat the English army under John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey. Surrey'spoor tactical judgement was a significant contributing factor to the defeat.
In 1541 the city of Santiago in Chile is besieged by indigenous warriors, led by Michimalonco, who tried to free eight indigenous chiefs held captive by the Spaniards. However, the Spaniards decapitated the chiefs and rolled their heads on the main square, horrifying the indigenous warriors, and subsequently ending the attack.
In 1609 Henry Hudson discovered Manhattan Island and the indigenous people living there.
In 1649 the Parliamentarian Siege of Drogheda in Ireland ends when: Oliver Cromwell's troops take the town and execute its garrison and a disputed number of civilians.
In 1683 the siege of Vienna by Ottoman forces is ended by the Battle of Vienna as Coalition forces, including the famous winged Hussars, led by Polish King John III Sobieski lift the siege. The imperial city had been besieged by the Ottoman Empire for two months. The battle was fought by the Holy Roman Empire led by the Habsburg Monarchy and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, both under the command of King John III Sobieski, against the Ottomans and their vassals The battle marked the first time the Commonwealth and the Holy Roman Empire had cooperated militarily against the Ottomans, and it is often seen as a turning point in history, ending the menace of the Ottoman Turks to Europe. In the ensuing war, which lasted until 1699, the Ottomans lost almost all of Hungary to the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I. The battle is noted for including the largest known cavalry charge in history.
In 1697 the Battle of Zenta, a major engagement in the Great Turkish War of 1683–1699, if fought and ends in one of the most decisive defeats in Ottoman history. The battle saw the Ottomans suffer an overwhelming defeat by an Imperial force one third as large, commanded by Prince Eugene of Savoy.
In 1709 at the Battle of Malplaquet, a major engagement of the War of the Spanish Succession, sees British, Dutch and Austrian forces fight against France. Clever use of terrain by the French commanders, the Marshal Duke of Villars, allowed the outnumbered French army to hold off the allied troops and retreat in good order. The Allies lost 20,000 men, twice as many as the French, which was regarded by contemporaries as a shocking number of casualties. The Battle of Malplaquet is often regarded as a Grand Alliance pyrrhic victory due to the casualties suffered by the allies, which delayed them considerably and ensured that the British and Dutch governments would never again allow their armies to engage in field battles in such a scale for the remainder of the war.
Five years later saw another battle in the War of the Spanish Succession. In 1714 after the Siege of Barcelona, the capital city of Catalonia surrenders to Spanish and French Bourbon armies.
In 1758 at the Battle of Saint Cast France repels an attempted British invasion during the Seven Years' War.
In 1771 the Scottish explorer Mungo Park was born in Selkirkshire. He became a noted explorer of West Africa and wrote a popular and influential book entitled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in which he theorized the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river, a major field of exploration in later years *they are actually separate rivers).
In 1776 the last attempt to avert the nascent American Revolution, the British–American peace conference on Staten Island fails. to stop
A year later in 1777 one of the most significant battles of the war, the Battle of Brandywine in Chester County, Pennsylvania., ends in a major British victory in
In 1792 during the chaos of the French Revolution the French Crown Jewels, including the semi-mythic Hope Diamond, are stolen. While Louis XVI and his family were imprisoned in the Temple in the early stages of the Reign of Terror a group of sic thieves broke into the Royal Storehouse, the Hôtel du Garde-Meuble de la Couronne and remove most of the Crown Jewels in a robbery that lasts five days. While many jewels were later recovered, including other pieces of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the French Blue was not among them and it disappeared from history.
In 1803 during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, the Battle of Delhi is fought between British troops under General Lake, and Marathas of Scindia's army under General Louis Bourquin.
In 1826 one of the more unusual incidents in American history began when one Captain William Morgan, a former Freemason, is arrested in Batavia in New York (supposedly for nonpayment of a loan and allegedly stealing a shirt and tie), after declaring that he would publish The Mysteries of Free Masonry (PG), a book against Freemasonry. This sets into motion the events that lead to his mysterious disappearance. As Masons swear not to reveal the passwords and grips of the degrees of the Order, several members of the Batavia lodge published an advertisement denouncing Morgan for breaking his word by authoring the book. An attempt was also made to set fire to print shop that produced the book. Morgan was jailed in Canandaigua, and when Miller (his publisher and a newspaper owner) learned of this, he went to the jail to pay the debt and secure Morgan's release. Morgan was released, but then re-arrested and charged with supposedly failing to pay a two dollar tavern bill. While the jailer was away, a group of men convinced his wife to release Morgan, whom the walked to a waiting carriage, which arrived two days later at Fort Niagara. There Morgan disappeared. What happened next is unknown; probably Morgan was taken in a boat to the middle of the Niagara River and thrown overboard, where he presumably drowned. Alternatively he may have been paid off to disappear.
In OCT1827 a badly decomposed body washed up on the shores of Lake Ontario, which may have been (but probably wasn't) that of Morgan.
The events led to an anti-Masonic witchhunt and several people were convicted, dubiously, or involvement in Morgan's murder. It would also lead to the formation of the Anti-Masonic Party.
In 1836 during the Ragamuffin War rebels defeat troops of the Empire of Brazil in the Battle of Seival and proclaim the Riograndense Republic. The war is considered the longest and third bloodiest of the failed wars of secession in the Brazilian Empire.
In 1847 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Watson_Whitney, a noted an American astronomer and mathematician is born in Waltham in Massachusetts. She was for 22 years the head of the Vassar Observatory and studied mathematics and celestial mechanics in Zurich before succeeding Maria Mitchell as a professor in Vassar. During her career, she carried out much research related to double stars, variable stars, asteroids, comets, and pioneeded measurements by photographic plates.
In 1851 escaped slaves led by William Parker fight off and kill a slave owner who, accompanied by a federal marshal and an armed party, sought to seize three of his former slaves in Christiana in Pennsylvania, thereby creating a cause célèbre between slavery proponents and abolitionists in the wake of the first Fugitive Slave Act, an event that became known as the Christiana Resistance The raid took place in the early morning hours of 11SEP1851 at the house in Christiana of William and Eliza Parke, both escaped slaves (the raid took place after the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 increased penalties for assisting escaped slaves and required law enforcement, even in free states, to assist in the recapture of slaves; Pennsylvania was such a free state and a centre of abolitionism). However because of Christiana’s location near the Maryland border, the area was plagued by people who made money by extorting or abducting freedom seekers and legally free Blacks to sell them south.
The defenders confronted the US Marshal's party to prevent the recapture of four escaped slaves who were owned by Edward Gorsuch of Maryland. Initially the Gorsuch party thought the white neighbors had arrived to help them, and were shocked to discover their error. During the confrontation gunfire was exchanged (the details aren't reliably known) and Gorsuch was fatally shot. Martial law was declared in Christiana. Nearly 150 people, Black and white, were placed under arrest. A total of 41 persons were indicted by the federal government for treason in the case, blacks and whites. Castner Hanway, a white man from Christiana, was the first to be tried as the popular opinion of the time was that only a white man could have organized an insurrection of this size. Jury selection was complicated by most prospective jurors asking to be excused from duty due to either ill health or poor hearing. On the witness stand, the deputy U.S. Marshal who had served Gorsuch’s warrant was caught in so many lies he was later tried for perjury (and was the only person convicted during the whole affair). The all white, all male, jury took fifteen minutes to declare Hanway not guilty. Further trials, state and Federal, were dropped and Christiana suffered fewer slave hunters.
In 1852 in Brazil the Revolution of September 11 breaks out, resulting in the State of Buenos Aires declaring independence as a Republic.
In 1862 in 1862 Coldwater, Michigan, Hawley Harvey Crippen was born. He's best known for being executed for the murder of his wife in 1911, after a trans-Atlantic pursuit.
In 1877 "Iron Felix", Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, is born in Ivyanets in the Minsk Governorate of the Russian Empire. A Bolshevik revolutionary Dzerzhinsky led the first two Soviet state-security organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing a secret police for the post-revolutionary Soviet regime. He was one of the architects of the Red Terror.
In 1905 in New York City during the morning rush hour a derailment of the Ninth Avenue train triggers an electrical fire that kills thirteen and injures 48 passengers, and a police officer who had been standing in the street.
In 1916 the he Quebec Bridge's central span collapses again; this time eleven people die.The bridge previously collapsed on 19AUG1907.
In 1917 Jessica Lucy 'Decca' Freeman-Mitford was born in Gloucestershire; one of the infamous six aristocratic Mitford sisters, noted for their sharply conflicting politics. Jessica would marry American civil rights lawyer Robert Treuhaft and join the American Communist Party.
In 1941 Charles Lindbergh delivers his infamous Des Moines Speech at an America First rally, accusing the British, Jews and the Roosevelt administration administration of pressing for war with Germany.
In 1944 during World War II the Western Allies begin their invasion of Germany near the city of Aachen. The same day the RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill about twelve thousand people.
In 1954 Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 2 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
In 1961 Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
In 1967 China's People's Liberation Army launches an attack on Indian posts at Nathu La in Sikkim, resulting in military clashes.
In 1973 the democratically elected president Salvador Allende, is.deposed in an American sponsored military coup in headed by General Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet exercises dictatorial power, and has thousands of opponents tortured and murdered, until ousted in 1990.
In 1982 the international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees in Beirut, following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon, leave the city of Beirut. Five days later several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps by Phalange forces.
In 1992 Hurricane Iniki, one of the most damaging hurricanes in United States history, devastates the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu.
In 1997 NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.
In 2008 a major fire in the Channel Tunnel begins on a freight train, this results in the closure of part of the tunnel for six months.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 11, 2020 23:01:32 GMT
Henry Hudson,the Mitford sisters,Mary Watson Whitney,Hawley Harvey Crippen,Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky,William Morgan,Mungo Park and Andronikos I Komnenos, are good people to meet. the 1973 coup could be a basis for a good gritty adventure. The Des Moine speech could be good for a divergence path for a President Lindbergh ah.the RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt could be a great pure historical about the horrors of war.the Hope Diamond theft could be a great psuedo historical with a alien obsessed with jewellery being the culprit. And the Battle of Brandywine is a good pure or psuedo historical scenario.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 12, 2020 21:14:41 GMT
12SEP
In 490 BCE the Battle of Marathon was (probably) fought been the Greeks (dominated by Athens but including elements from the other city states) and the Persian invasion force. The invasion was ordered by Darius, the Persian emperor, in response to Athenian meddling in what were considered Persian affairs; Athens and Eretria had sent a force to support the cities of Ionia in their attempt to overthrow Persian rule. Once the Ionian revolt had finally been crushed, by the Persian victory at the Battle of Lade in 494BCE, Darius began planning to subjugate Greece. In 490 BCE he sent a naval task force under Datis and Artaphernes across the Aegean, to subjugate the Cyclades, and then to make punitive attacks on Athens and Eretria. Reaching Euboea in mid-summer after a successful campaign in the Aegean, the Persians proceeded to besiege and capture Eretria. The Persian force then sailed for Attica, landing in the bay near the town of Marathon. The Athenians, joined by a small force from Plataea, marched to Marathon, and succeeded in blocking the two exits from the plain of Marathon. The Athenians also sent a message to the Spartans asking for support, but this was refused. The Athenians and their allies chose a location for the battle, where the marshy and mountainous terrain prevented the Persian cavalry from joining the infantry. Miltiades deployed tactics similar to those by Hannibal at Cannae; reinforcing the Greek flanks, luring the best Persians troops into his centre and then enveloping the Persians with the inward wheeling flanks.
In 1213C Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, defeats Peter II of Aragon at the Battle of Muret, part of the Albigensian Crusade. Albigensian Crusade.Montfort is widely regarded as one of the great military commanders of the Middle Ages, and is mostly noted for his campaigns in the Albigensian Crusade.
In 1229 The Aragonese army under the command of James I of Aragon disembarks at Santa Ponça in Majorca, with the purpose of conquering the island. The Battle of Portopí follows.
In 1309 the First Siege of Gibraltar takes place, part of the Spanish Reconquista, pitting the forces of the Kingdom of Castile against the Emirate of Granada and resulting in a Castilian victory.
In 1609 Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the Hudson River while aboard the Halve Maen, a Dutch East India Company carrack that sailed into what is now New York Harbor in SEP1609.
In 1634 a huge explosion at a gunpowder factory, owned and operated by the Knights Hospitaller, in in the lower part of Valletta, close to the Slaves' Prison, kills at least 22 people and does much damage.several buildings.
In 1814 at the Battle of North Point a detachment of the Maryland Militia, under General John Stricke, halts the British land advance to Baltimore in the War of 1812. Although the Americans retreated they did so in good order and having inflicted significant casualties on the British, killing one of the commanders of the invading force, significantly demoralizing the troops under his command and leaving some of his units lost in the woods and swampy creeks. This delayed the British advance on Baltimore, given the Americans valuable time to properly prepare for the defense of the city.
In 1846 the poet Elizabeth Barrett elopes with Robert Browning. Their correspondence, courtship and marriage were carried out in secret, for fear of her father's disapproval. Following the wedding she was indeed disinherited by her father. Browning had first written to Barrett after reading her 1844 collection Poems.
In 1847 during the Mexican–American War the Battle of Chapultepec begins. Invading American forces launch attacks on a small contingent of Mexican forces holding the strategically located Chapultepec Castle just outside Mexico City. The building, on sixty metre hill, was an important position for the defense of the city. 880 troops, including cadets of the Military Academy defended the position at Chapultepec against 2,000 US troops of Scot's 7,200 strong army. Although it lasted only about 60–90 minutes, the battle has great (and widely different) importance in the histories of both countries.
In 1848 modern Switzerland comes into existence with the adoption of the new federal constitution marks the establishment of Switzerland as a federal state.
In 1852 Herbert Henry ('H. H.') Asquith the English lawyer and politician is born at Morley in the West Riding of Yorkshire. After a poor start as a barrister (when he dabbled in writing) Asquith became a legal advisor to the government and entered politics for the Liberal party. During this period he played important roles in the Parnell Inquiry, the sensational Tranby Croft libel trial and lost in the famous Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co case. (1892), a land He would become Prime Minister of the United in 1908 and presided over huge changes in British politics; fight for Irish Hole Rule and the elimination of the power of the House of Lords. In August 1914 Asquith took Britain and the British Empire into the First World War, later forming a coalition government and being forced to resign in DEC1916.
In 1857 the paddle steamer SS Central America sinks about 260km east of Cape Hatteras in North Carolina, drowning a total of 426 passengers and crew. Approximately 15 tonnes of gold was also lost. The ship had left the Panamanian port of Colón on 0ESEP with 478 on board and, on 09SEP, was caught up in a powerful hurricane while off the coast of the Carolinas. By 11SEP she was battered by sustained 170km/h winds and heavy seas, had lost her rigging and was taking on water At noon a leak in one of her boiler could no longer maintain fire, meaning the steam powered bilge pumps were useless and she was entirely adrift. Her passengers and crew spent the night fighting a losing battle against the rising water, bailing as a bucket brigade. On 12SEP the ship passed through the eye of the hurricane, but attempts to relight the boiler failed and the ship was now on the verge of foundering. Two ships were spotted and 153 passengers, primarily women and children, made their way over in lifeboats. The SS Central America sank at bout 8PM that evening.
In 1897 as part of the Tirah Campaign in the North-west frontier of India a skirmish known as the Battle of Saragarhi is fought been ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen and a small force of Sikh soldiers in British service. The Pashtuns are repulsed with several hundred casualties.
In 1897 Irène Joliot-Curie the French chemist and physicist, and double Nobel laureate is born in Paris. Jointly with her husband she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935 for their discovery of artificial radioactivity. She was also one of the first three women to be a member of a French government, becoming undersecretary for Scientific Research, under the Popular Front in 1936. In 1945 she was appointed one of the six commissioners of the new French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) created by de Gaulle She died in Paris on 17 March 1956 from an acute leukemia linked to her exposure to polonium and X-rays.
In 1910 Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 is premiered in in Munich. The performance involved a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players, with Mahler himself conducting.
In 1915 French soldiers rescue about 4,200 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh, a mountain in the Hatay province of Turkey. This was the location of a successful Armenian resistance to the Armenian Genocide, an event that inspired Franz Werfel to write the novel The Forty Days of Musa Dagh. Allied warships, most notably the French 3rd squadron in the Mediterranean under command of Louis Dartige du Fournet, sighted the survivors, just as ammunition and food provisions were running out. French and British ships, beginning with the Guichen, evacuated 4,200 men, women and children from Musa Dagh to safety in Port Said.
In 1933 Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, has a eureka moment and conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction. The world is never the same again.
In 1940 Robot. the dog of 18-year-old Marcel Ravidat, falls in a hole while out walking at near the village of Montignac, in the department of Dordogne in southwestern France. When he and friends return to effect a rescue the enter a cave through a 15 metre shaft, which they believed might be a legendary secret passage to the nearby Lascaux Manor. In fact the four teenagers discover the first of about six hundred paintings on the cave walls, mainly depictions of animals.The paintings date back perhaps 17,000 years.
In 1940 an armaments factory in the Kenvil section of Roxbury in New Jersey, the Hercules Powder Plant, explodes destroying the plant, killing 51 people and injures over 200. It is not known with certainty if the explosion was n accident, or sabotage; certainly an Abwehr agent, Karl Franz Rekowski,alleged that the IRA carried out the attack on the plant.
In 1942 the Laconia incident sees about 1,600 people die. A British ship, the RMS Laconia was carrying civilians, Allied soldiers and Italian POWs when it was torpedoed off the coast of West Africa. The U-boat commander, Werner Hartenstein, then attempted to rescue the passengers and the crew of Laconia, operating under the dictates of the old cruiser rules. prize rule Hartenstein broadcast their position on open radio channels to all Allied powers nearby, and U0156 was joined by the crews of several other U-boats in the vicinity. After surfacing and picking up survivors, who were accommodated on the foredeck, U-156 headed on the surface under Red Cross banners to rendezvous with Vichy French ships and transfer the survivors. En route the U-boat was spotted by a B-24 Liberator bomber of the US Army Air Force and , after reporting the U-boat's location, intentions and the presence of survivors, were then ordered to attack the sub. The B-24 killed dozens of Laconia's survivors with bombs and strafing attacks and forced U-156 to cast their remaining survivors into the sea and crash dive to avoid being destroyed. At least one other submarine was similarly attacked while carrying survivors.
In 1943 Benito Mussolini is rescued from house arrest by German Brandenburger commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
In 1953 US Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
In 1958 Jack Kilby demonstrated the first working integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments.
In 1959 the Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Luna II, at the Moon. In addition to the radio transmitters sending telemetry information back to Earth, the spacecraft released a sodium gas cloud so the spacecraft's movement could be visually observed. On 13SEP it impacted the Moon's surface east of Mare Imbrium near the craters Aristides, Archimedes, and Autolycus. It was the first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon, and the first human-made object to make contact with another celestial body.
In 1962 President Kennedy delivers his 'We choose to go to the Moon; speech at Rice University.
In 1966 Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program is launched. Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr. and Richard Gordon Jr. performed the first-ever direct-ascent rendezvous with an Agena Target Vehicle, docking with it 94 minutes after launch and then used the Agena rocket engine to achieve a world-record high-apogee Earth orbit. The mission also created a small amount of artificial gravity by spinning the two spacecraft connected by a tether. Gordon also performed two extra-vehicular activities for a total of 2 hours 41 minutes.
In 1977 South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies in police custody.
In 1983 the armed robbery of a Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford, Connecticut, sees about seven million dollars taken.
In 1988 Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula two days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.
In 1990 moves towards German reunification culminate in the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, signed in Moscow by the two German states and the Four Powers.
In 1992 NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47, the fiftieth shuttle mission.
In 2015 a series of explosions involving propane triggering nearby illegally stored mining explosives in the Indian town of Petlawad in the state of Madhya Pradesh kills at least 105 people with over 150 injured.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 12, 2020 22:16:03 GMT
Charles Conrad Jr. and Richard Gordon Jr,Jack Kilby, Leó Szilárd,Otto Skorzeny,Irène Joliot-Curie,Gustav Mahler,Simon de Montfort,H.H.Asquith, Elizabeth Barrett,Robert Browning. And James I of Aragon are good people to meet.the Battle of Marathon could be a good pure historical.The moon speech could be visited by time meddlers trying to derail the moon landing.SS Central America is a good "escape the area" themed adventure.And Musa Dagh could be a good pure historical.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 13, 2020 21:30:57 GMT
13SEP In 585BCE the king of Rome, Lucius Tarquinius Priscus (Tarquin the Elder), celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Sabines, and the surrender of Collatia. The triumph was a public celebration, and religious sanctification of a military commander who had successfully completed a foreign war. The king wore the traditional crown of laurel and the triumphal toga picta and rode through the streets of Rome in unarmed procession with his army, captives, and the spoils of his war. At Jupiter's temple on the Capitoline Hill he offered sacrifice and the tokens of his victory to the god Jupiter. In this case the war was against the remainder of the Sabines, a people of the central Apennine Mountains of ancient Italy, who had not merged into Rome.
In 509BCE the magnificent (first) Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September. This was the most important temple in Ancient Rome, surrounded by the Area Capitolina, a precinct where numerous shrines, altars, statues and victory trophies were displayed. The first building was the oldest large temple in Rome; like many temples in central Italy it shared features with Etruscan architecture. The first temple was the largest Etruscan-style temple recorded, far larger than other Roman temples for centuries after; ot was perhaps sixty metres square. It was Lucius Tarquinius Priscus who'd vowed to construct thiis temple while battling with the Sabines; according to some sources ordered the terracing necessary to support the foundations of the temple, though it wasn't completed in his lifetime.
In 533CE at the Battle of Ad Decimum (near Carthage in North Africa) Belisarius of the Byzantine Empire defeats Gelimer and the Vandals. This event and events in the following year are sometimes jointly referred to as the Battle of CarthageThe Byzantine victory marked the beginning of the end for the Vandals and began the reconquest of the west under the Emperor Justinian I.
In 1229 Ögedei Khan (third son of Genghis Khan) is proclaimed Khagan of the Mongol Empire at Kodoe Aral in Mongolia. he is the second Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, succeeding his father. He continued the expansion of the empire that his father had begun, and was a world figure when the Mongol Empire reached its farthest extent west and south during the Mongol invasions of Europe and East Asia.
In 1437 at the Battle of Tangier a Portuguese expeditionary force fails to seize the Moroccan citadel of Tangier. The Portuguese expeditionary force, led by Prince Henry the Navigator, left Portugal in AUG1437, intending to seize a series of Moroccan coastal citadels. The Portuguese laid siege to Tangier in mid-September. After a few failed assaults on the city, the Portuguese force was attacked and defeated by a large Moroccan relief army led by vizier Abu Zakariya Yahya al-Wattasi of Fez. The Moroccans encircled the Portuguese siege camp and starved it to submission. To preserve his army from destruction, Henry negotiated a treaty promising to return the citadel of Ceuta (captured earlier in 1415) to Morocco in return for being allowed to withdraw his troops. The Portuguese decided to hold on to Ceuta and allowed the Portuguese hostage, the king's own brother Ferdinand the Holy Prince, to remain in Moroccan captivity, where he died in 1443.
In 1501 during the Italian Renaissance Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.
In 1541 after three years of exile, John Calvin returns to Geneva to reform the church under a body of doctrine that becomes known as Calvinism.
In 1584 the San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.
In 1609 Henry Hudson reaches the river that would later be named after him.
In 1645 during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms (the overarching English Civil Wars and associated conflicts) the Scottish Royalists are defeated by Covenanters at the Battle of Philiphaugh.
In 1759 at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, British forces defeat the French near Quebec City in the Seven Years' War.
In 1782 during the American Revolutionary War, Franco-Spanish troops launch the unsuccessful "grand assault" during the Great Siege of Gibraltar.
In 1788 the Philadelphia Convention sets the date for the first presidential election in the United States, and New York City becomes the country's temporary capital. The Convention sat from 25MAY to 17SEP in the old Pennsylvania State House (now known as Independence Hall) in Philadelphia. Intended to revise the league of states and first system of government under the Articles of Confederation, of the delegates (chief among them James Madison of Virginia and Alexander Hamilton of New York) was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one. The delegates elected George Washington of Virginia, former commanding general of the Continental Army in the war (and proponent of a strong national government), to become President of the convention. The result of the convention was the creation of the Constitution of the United States.
- Another event of historical significance that's plausible for meddlers and more serious tourists.
In 1812, during the War of 1812, a supply wagon sent to relieve Fort Harrison is ambushed in the Attack at the Narrows, near modern Fairbanks, Indiana.
In 1814 in a turning point in the War of 1812, the British fail to capture Baltimore. During the battle, Francis Scott Key composes his poem 'Defence of Fort McHenry', which is later set to music and becomes the United States' national anthem.
In 1843 the Greek Army rebels against the autocratic rule of king Otto of Greece, demanding the granting of a constitution. The uprising was supported by large sections of the people and demanded the granting of a constitution and the departure of the Bavarian officials that then dominated the government. The revolution succeeded, ushering the period of constitutional monarchy and universal suffrage in Greece.
In 1848 in a medical curiousity that is still in textbooks today a Vermont railroad worker named Phineas Gage survives an iron rod 3.2 cm in diameter being driven through his brain. The reported effects on his behavior and personality stimulate discussion of the nature of the brain and its functions. The accident destroyed much of Gage's left frontal lobe, and altered his personality sufficiently that friends considered him as "no longer Gage."
In 1862 in one of the most significant accidents of the American Civil War a party of Union soldiers find a copy of Robert E. Lee's battle plans in a field outside Frederick, Maryland. It is the prelude to the Battle of Antietam.
- The battle of Antietam/Sharpsburg could easily have had other outcomes; a Confederate success might have enabled the states to remain independent by forcing political acceptance of their secession in the election of 1864, or obtaining British and/or French recognition.
- Alternately a decisive Union victory might have destroyed Lee's army and ended the war earlier.
In 1882 during the Anglo-Egyptian War the Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.
In 1899 Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of the 5,300m high mount Batian, the highest peak of Mount Kenya.
In 1922 the final act of the Greco-Turkish War, the Great Fire of Smyrna, begins, four days after the Turkish military captured the city, effectively ending the Greco-Turkish War, more than three years after the Greek army had landed troops at Smyrna. The estimated Greek and Armenian death toll from the fire start at ten thousand and range up to over a hundred thousand. In the aftermath around a quarter-million Greek and Armenian refugees crammed in the waterfront to escape from the fire. They were forced to remain there under harsh conditions for nearly two weeks, with Turkish troops and irregulars engaging in periodic torture, rape and murder. Afterwards tens of thousands of Greek and Armenian men (estimates vary between 25,000 and over 100,000) were subsequently deported into the interior of Anatolia, where many of them died in the harsh conditions and forced labour. The fire completely destroyed the Greek and Armenian quarters of the city.
As to who and what started the fire, some sources attribute it to Turkish soldiers setting fire to Greek and Armenian homes and businesses; pro-Turkish sources hold that the Greeks and Armenians started the fire to tarnish the Turks' reputation.
In 1923 following a military coup in Spain, Miguel Primo de Rivera takes over, setting up a dictatorship that would last until 1931 and the short lived Second Republic.
In 1948 the Deputy Prime Minister of India, Vallabhbhai Patel, orders the Army to move into the Princely state of Hyderabad to integrate it with the Indian Union.
In 1956 as part of the Zuiderzee works the dike around the Dutch polder East Flevoland is closed. The pumping out of the trapped water began that day, draining the polder took until JUN1957. The polder eventually became the province of Flevoland, with the capital at Lelystad (founded in 1967).
- The sort of improving sight that would fascinate certain time travellers.
In 1964 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd of 20,000 West Berliners on Sunday in Waldbühne.
In 1971 as part of the murky world of Chinese politics the second in command and successor of Chairman Mao Zedong, Marshal Lin Biao, flees China after the failure of an alleged coup. Conveniently his plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
- What might he have learned about the hierarchy ruling China?
In 1987 in Brazil the incident known as the Goiânia accident occurs; a radioactive source is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
- An interesting event, one that could be cover for something even weirder.
In 2018 the Merrimack Valley sees a series of gas explosions, with about forty homes destroyed when excessive natural gas pressure caused fires and explosions. One person is killed, 25 are injured.
- Another interesting and odd event that might have been used to conceal something even weirder.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 13, 2020 23:12:15 GMT
Lucius Tarquinius Priscus,Miguel Primo de Rivera,Martin Luther King Jr,Michelangelo, John Calvin, Ögedei Khan,Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel, and Vallabhbhai Patel could be good people to meet. The Merrimack explosion could be a good cover for some tremors-like monsters defeat.the Goiânia accident could be the beginning of a kaiju like monster or a virus.Marshal Lin Biao could have found a cult or something related to weng-chiang.the Battle of Antietam could have ended the war earlier or be a good pure historical or a good adventure with the sontarans or a time meddler.Francis Scott Key and the Fort McHenry incident could be a good educational adventure. And the San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace could be a good base for a torchwood like organization.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 14, 2020 21:17:42 GMT
Firstly one item I inadvertently omitted from yesterday's post.
13SEP1943 The Terra Nova, the whaler better known for her later use as and polar expedition ship, and est known for carrying the 1910 British Antarctic Expedition (Scott's last expedition) is deliberately sunk by gunfire of the US Coast Guard's Greenland Patrol, off the southern coast of Greenland. She'd been used since 1942 to carry supplies to base stations in Greenland but on 13SEP1943 she radioed that she was in serious trouble, with water entering her boilers and pumps were not working. Four US Coast Guard cutters (the Atak, Amarok, Laurel, and Manitou) responded with two (the Atak and Laurel) taking survivors off before setting the ship alight The next day they shelled the burning ship to pieces.
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In 81CE Roman Emperor Titus (son of Vespasian) dies and is succeeded by his brother Domitian. Titus had lasted just two years as emperor and fell ill with a fever on his way from Rome to the Sabine territories; curiously he died in the same farmhouse as his father.
In 629CE Eastern Roman Emperor Heraclius enters Constantinople in triumph after his victory over the Persian Empire.
This day in 786 was known as the "Night of the three Caliphs". One Abbasid caliph (al-Hadi) dies, another (his brother Harun al-Rashid) succeeds and a third, future, caliph, Harun's son al-Ma'mun is born.
In 919 in Ireland the Battle of Islandbridge is fought, High King Niall Glúndub is killed while leading an Irish coalition against the Vikings of Uí Ímair, led by King Sitric Cáech.
In 1180 in Japan the Genpei War continues with the Battle of Ishibashiyama fought in Japan. This is the first battle in which Minamoto no Yoritomo (later to became shōgun) commanded the Minamoto forces. Despite being outnumbered by approximately 10-to-1 and attacked at night the Minamoto managed a fighting retreat (aided by allies concealed among the attackers and the dark and stormy night). Yoritomo himself is said to have hidden inside the tree trunk with a single companion and was smuggled from the battlefield.
In 1402 the Battle of Homildon Hill resulted in an English victory over Scotland. This was part of the cross-border raiding and tit-for-tat warfare of the period which had culminated in the brutal, albeit small, Battle of Nesbit Moor. The run-up to Homildon Hill was a Scottish punitive expedition into England, which reached Newcastle before being forced back.
In 1763 a party of Seneca warriors defeat British forces at the Battle of Devil's Hole (fought near Niagara Gorge in present-day New York state) during Pontiac's War.
In 1782 during the American Revolutionary War, General George Washington reviews the French troops under General Rochambeau at Verplanck's Point in New York.
In 1812 during the Napoleonic Wars the French Grande Armée enters Moscow. The Russian army marched through Moscow into an eastbound road to Ryazan, followed by masses of civilians. Soon afterwards the Fire of Moscow begins. The exact cause of the fire isn't known, though much of the city burns. Russian troops and most of the remaining residents has abandoned the city just ahead of Napoleon's vanguard troops entering Moscow. Certainly Count Rostopchin had given orders to have the Kremlin and major public buildings (including churches and monasteries) either blown up or set on fire.
In 1846 the Kot massacre is carried out by Jang Bahadur and his brothers; about 40 members of the Nepalese palace court are killed.
In 1862 during the American Civil War the Battle of South Mountain, is fought. This was part of the Maryland Campaign, resulting from the conflict between Lee's attempted invasion of Union territory, and McClellan's response, given his intelligence windfall regarding Lee's plans.
In 1901 Vice President Theodore Roosevelt becomes President on the death of William McKinley, who dies after being wounded on 06SEP and suffering poor medical treatment.
In 1912 in Belfast, a football (soccer) match is between the Belfast Celtic Football Club (Catholic/Nationalist) and Linfield Rangers (Protestant/Unionist) sees sectarian violence and rioting; over 100 people are injured when the rival crowds face off against one another with sticks, stones and knives.
In 1914 the first submarine of the Royal Australian Navy, HMAS AE1, is lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. She'd departed Blanche Bay on Rabaul at 7AM to patrol off Cape Gazelle with HMAS Parramatta. When she had not returned by 8PM ships were dispatched to search for her. No trace of the submarine was found, and she was listed as lost with all hands.
In 1927 the celebrity American singer and dancer Angela Isadora Duncan dies in a freak accent in Nice in France. Duncan was being chauffeured in a car that she intended to purchase and was driving along the Promenade Des Anglais when the long scarf she was wearing around her neck became entangled in one of the wheels; Duncan was strangled and had her neck broken, before being hurled her out of the car. She was 50 years old.
In 1936 Raoul Villain the man who'd assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaures but been acquitted, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza.
In 1939 Estonia is dragged into the Second World War. After an escaping Polish submarine, the ORP Orzeł, arrives in Tallinn the submarine is interned and it's weaponry removed. However at around midnight on 18SEP the Poles overpower the Estonian guards, cut the mooring lines and gte under way. When the Estonians realise what's happening the sub is peppered with machine-gun fire. Managing to partially submerge the Orzeł runs aground on a sandbar at the harbour mouth, where she's fired on by artillery, and her radio gear is damaged. Her acting captain blows the sub's ballast tanks and manages to get the boat off the bar, before proceeding into the Gulf of Finland (with two Estonian soldiers on board), intending to sail for a British port. The Estonians were set ashore in Sweden, after being provided with clothing, money, and food for their safe return to Estonia. The escape of the submarine Orzeł was used by the Soviet Union and Germany to challenge Estonian neutrality and led to the Soviet annexation.
That same day off Rockall Bank, the German submarine U-39 attacks the British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal but all the torpedoes fell short of their target. Three British destroyers in the vicinity hunted down U-39 and disabled it with depth charges, rescuing all the crew. It was the first U-boat to be sunk in World War II.
In 1940 the Hungarian Army, supported by local Hungarians, carry out the Ip massacre; 158 Romanian civilians are murdered in Ip, a village in Northern Transylvania, an act of ethnic cleansing.
In 1954 the odd, and still mysterious, Snowball exercise is carried out. This was a top secret Soviet nuclear test with troops, tanks and aircraft carrying out a simulated attack on an irradiated battlefield, immediately after the detonation of a prototype RDS-4 tactical nuclear weapon, of 40 kiloton yield, dropped from a Tu-4 bomber just north of Totskoye village.
In 1958 the first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere. They each carried a small (~5kg) test payload to a height of 50 kilometres.
In 1959 the Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
In 1961 one of the odder incidents of the Cold War, the Thunderstreak incident, occurs in Berlin. Two USAF F-84 F Thunderstreak of the West German Luftwaffe crossed into East German airspace, supposedly because of a navigational error, before landing at Berlin Tegel Airport. The two planes successfully evaded a large number of Soviet fighter planes by finding cover in a heavy layer of clouds, but also by the actions of the corporal at the USAF flight control at Berlin Tempelhof Airport who ordered the planes on to Berlin rather than forcing them to turn around and face the pursuing fighter planes. The event came at a historically difficult time in relations between the two Germanies; a month before, the Berlin Wall had been built, which completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin.
In 1969 the American oil tanker SS Manhattan becomes the first commercial ship to successfully travel through the Northwest Passage, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean
In 1979 Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president. This would lead to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.
In 1997 in India eighty-one people die when five carriages of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
In 2015 the first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 14, 2020 21:36:12 GMT
Muhammad Taraki ,Ernst Mohr,Jean Jaures and Raoul Villain, Isadora Duncan (her death could be the subject of a mystery type whodunit)General Rochambeau, Heraclius, Jang Bahadur,Domitian,Heraclius and High King Niall Glúndub are good people to meet. The Snowball exercise could have been a cover for a nuking of a base or a monster., the Thunderstreak incident could have been a secret army sortie to defeat a alien. The Celtic/Linfield club game disaster could be good for a dark humor type 5th doctor story. And the Fire of Moscow could be a good pure historical.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 15, 2020 10:30:51 GMT
My takes: The crew on the Terra Nova could have found/encountered something left behind by her use as an Antarctic explorer and needed to depart rapidly. Or they may have been delivering it to Greenland for experimentation.
Titus/Domitian has potential for a pure historical scenario with murky Roman succession politics in the background.
The Battle of Islandbridge has potential for meddling in Irish history. Likewise the Battle of Ishibashiyama for meddling in Japanese; the death of Yoritomo would significantly alter future history.
The Devil's Hole skirmish strikes me as an event for travellers to become accidentally embroiled n.
The French capture of Moscow and the Fire of Moscow have opportunities for looting, meddling and trying to assassinate Napoleon.
The Maryland Campaign has lots of opportunities meddling in the US Civil War.
William McKinley's death could have been easily avoided, potentially leading to a delayed Roosevelt presidency and eliminating the Wilson presidency.
The 1912 Belfast rioting is background colour for a scenario.
The disappearance of HMAS AE1 could be down to an encounter with Reptilians, aliens or mad science experiments.
The death of Isadora Duncan could be a background event the travellers witness or prevent.
The Orzeł affair is the perfect situation to dump a few PCs into; escaping Estonia with someone/something onboard and running the gauntlet of Soviet and German attempts to sink her. Ver Alastair MacLean....
A minor divergence could see U-39 sinking the Ark Royal with cascading changes to history.
The Ip massacre is an opportunity to dump the players in a pretty nasty no-win situation.
The 1954 Snowball exercise could have been a Soviet battle against something. Alien, extra-dimensional invaders et cetera, with the exercise as a cover story,.
The Mohr rockets could have brought back something from the upper atmosphere.
The Thunderstreak incident could have been cover for delivering something to Berlin.
The SS Manhattan's transit through the Northwest Passage could be cover for a scientific mission or action against some threat.
The assassination of Nur Muhammad Taraki could be the objective of a pro-Soviet time meddler, attempting to prevent the Afghanistan quagmire.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 15, 2020 22:27:13 GMT
15SEP
In 668CE the Eastern Roman Emperor Constans II (Constantine the Bearded) is assassinated in his bath at Syracuse in Italy; killed by his chamberlain with a bucket.
- What happened to the silver bucket used?
In 994 the Battle of the Orontes (in modern Syria) ends in a major Fatimid victory over the Byzantine Empire.
In 1440 Gilles de Rais, one of the earliest known serial killers, is taken into custody on the authority of of Jean de Malestroit, Bishop of Nantes. Rais was a knight and baron from Brittany and a leader in the French army, a companion-in-arms of Joan of Arc. He was executed fro the sexual assault and murder of potentially hundreds of children. However the evidence is disputed; the were plots against Joan and he may have been enmeshed in them, he may have been the victim of an ecclesiastic plot or act of revenge by the Catholic Church or French State and the Duke of Brittany (who carried out the prosecution), received all the titles to Rais' former lands after his conviction. There are other suggestions (promulgated by Murray and others) that he was involved in a witch-cult of some sort; certainly Rais had an interest in the occult.
- A historical mystery to investigate? Or a alien influence to neutralise?
In 1530 at the Dominican friary at Soriano Calabro in southern Italy a supposedly miraculous portrait of Saint Dominic appears one night (around 3AM), given by three strange women to the sacristan. The picture is reputed to have healing properties.
- A mystery worthy of a time travelling archaeologist.
In 1640 Titus Oates is born. A fraudster, perjurer and liar on a grand scale the 'Popish Plot', a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II, was responsible for several executions.
In 1762 during the Seven Years' War the Battle of Signal Hill is fought in St. John's, Newfoundland
In 1776 during the early part of the American Revolutionary War, British forces land at Kip's Bay during the New York Campaign.
In 1789 the United States "Department of Foreign Affairs", established by law in July, is renamed the Department of State and given a variety of domestic duties.
- One wonders if these additional duties are connected to the responsibilities of the Secret Congress?
In 1794 at the Battle of Boxtel during the Flanders Campaign of the French Revolutionary Wars, Arthur Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) sees his first combat.
In 1795 Britain seizes the Dutch Cape Colony in southern Africa to prevent its use by the Batavian Republic, the French dominated Dutch puppet republic.
In 1816 the fast sloop HMS Whiting, on it's way to patrol the Irish Sea for smugglers, runs aground on the Doom Bar, a sandbar at the mouth of the estuary of the River Camel, where it meets the Celtic Sea on the north coast of Cornwall.
In 1830 the Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens and British MP William Huskisson becomes the first known railway passenger fatality when he is struck and killed by the locomotive Rocket.
In 1830 José De La Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori is born, the Mexican general, politician and seven termPresident of Mexico, is born.
In 1835 HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin aboard, reaches the Galápagos Islands. The ship lands at Chatham or San Cristobal, the easternmost of the archipelago.
In 1857 William Howard Taft, later 27th president of the United States and tenth Chief Justice of the United States is born.
In 1862 during the American Civil War, Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), the site of the Federal arsenal and rifleworkd.
In 1894 during the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan inflicts a severe defeat on Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
In 1912 one John Flammang Schrank, a bartender from New York City, begins having dreams about the late US President William McKinley who tells him to kill (McKinley's successor) President Theodore Roosevelt with the words: Schrank would follow through on his vision and shoot Roosevelt on 14OCT. Curiously he will die, aged 67, on 15SEP1943 in the Central State Mental Hospital in Waupun, Wisconsin.
In 1915 the British troopship Patagonia was torpedoed and sunk in the Black Sea 19km off Odessa by German submarine SM UB-7.
That same day the German submarine SM U-6 is torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea off Stavanger in Norway by Royal Navy submarine HMS E16.
In 1916 at the Battle of the Somme tanks are used for the first time in war.
In 1924 German astronomer Friedrich Simon Archenhold claims to have seen what he believed to be an attempt by inhabitants of Mars to contact Earth.
- What did he see? Did others see it too? What happened?
Also in 1924 the round-the-world flyers arrived in Chicago and conducted a fly-over of the city escorted by US Army aircraft.
In 1940 the Battle of Britain reaches a climax when the Luftwaffe launches its largest and most concentrated attack of the entire campaign.
In 1944 Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet in Quebec as part of the Octagon Conference to discuss strategy and the post-war nature of Europe..
In 1948 the F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record at 1,080 km/h.
In 1949 the first USAF B-36 Peacemaker is lots when an aircraft of the 9th Bomb Squadron, 7th Bomb Wing, crashes into Lake Worth during a night "maximum effort" mission takeoff from Carswell AFB, Texas, killing five of 13 crew. All recovered wreckage is scrapped.
In 1958 a Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter train runs through an open drawbridge at the Newark Bay, killing 48.
In 1959 Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
In 1962 the Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis. The ship is carrying crated Ilyushin bombers, short and medium range missiles and other equipment.
In 1963 at 10:22AM a bomb explodes in an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, carried out by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Four children die and twenty two other people (all children) are injured.
In 1964 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev claimed in a speech in Moscow to visiting Japanese politicians that Soviet researchers had shown him "a monstrous new terrible weapon" that was "a means of the destruction and extermination of humanity". Khrushchev said, "I have never seen anything like it.... It is power without limit." Foreign intelligence analysts speculated that the Soviet premier was talking about the (then) theoretical cobalt salted bomb. Khrushchev followed his announcement by saying, "We do not want to use such terrible weapons," without explaining why he would have had Soviet scientists produce a bomb that would destroy his own nation along with its enemies.
- Were his comments, later denied, meant for an audience beyond the Cold War politics of the 1960s? Was he suggesting that, in extremis, he would render the Earth uninhabitable for potential invaders?
In 1968 the Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched; it will become the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 15, 2020 23:12:12 GMT
Porfirio Díaz Mori,Nikita Khrushchev, William Huskisson,Friedrich Simon Archenhold(he could have seen some ice warrior project)William Howard Taft,Titus Oates, John Flammang Schrank,Constans II,(silver bucket could be in a torchwood like area). and Gilles de Rais, (could be a fun romp or a mind control episode) are good people to meet. The new weapon could have been used by the Zygons or Chameleons to make earth more like their planets. the 16th street bombing could be a good sequel to Rosa. The Secret Congress could be like a shadow government type body. The portrait of Saint Dominic could definitely be in River Song's possession. And the 7th Bomb Wing could be a good new alien adventure.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 16, 2020 21:14:44 GMT
16SEP
In 1400 Owain ab Gruffydd, lord of Glyndyfrdwy (anglicised to Owain Glendower) is declared Prince of Wales by his followers during the fierce and long-running, but ultimately unsuccessful, war of independence against English rule in Wales. He was the last native Welshman (so far) to hold the title Prince of Wales. Glendower was driven from his last remaining strongholds in 1409, but he avoided capture; the last documented sighting of him was in 1412. He twice ignored offers of a pardon from his military nemesis, the new king Henry V of England, and despite the large rewards offered, Glendower was never betrayed to the English. His death was recorded by a former follower in the year 1415 but has never been confirmed. With his death Glendower acquired an almost mythical status as a folk hero awaiting the call to return and liberate his people.
- What did happen to him? Might he actually be in stasis in a hill cave, or deep under a castle, waiting resuscitation?
In 1620 the Pilgrims set sail from England on the Mayflower. As mentioned previously the settlement attempt was poorly organised, running dangerously late in the year, and smaller than intended. 102 settlers made it to the tip of Cape Cod. Arriving in November they had to survive unprepared through a harsh winter; barely half of the original settlers survived the first winter at Plymouth. Ironically, without the help of local Indigenous peoples to teach them food gathering and other survival skills, they would all probably have died. On ship the Pilgrims created and signed the Mayflower Compact; lacking a Royal charter for their attempt the Compact was an agreement made among the passengers before going ashore to establish a rudimentary form of democracy, in which each member would contribute to the safety and welfare of the planned settlement. Though only male, free, Protestants were involved in decision making.
In 1701 James Francis Edward Stuart (the 'Old Pretender') becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland on his father's death, James III of England and Ireland and James VIII of Scotland. Fourteen years later, he unsuccessfully attempted to gain the throne in Britain during the Jacobite rising of 1715.
- Might someone want to try and aid his attempts?
In 1732 at around 3AM during a fierce storm in Campo Maior in Portugal, lightning strikes the Armory, located in the Castle's main tower. Inside are stored about ninety tonnes of gunpowder along with prepared ammunition and powder charges. The explosion that ensued, followed by a fire, severely damages the fortress and injures two thirds of the inhabitants of the fort.
In 1776 during the American Revolutionary War the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought in what is now the Morningside Heights area and east into the future Harlem neighborhoods of northwestern Manhattan Island in New York. The running skirmish started in the early morning as each side's scouts met.
In 1779, also during the American Revolutionary War, the Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
In 1810, at around 2:30AM in Dolores in Mexico, a Roman Catholic priest named Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang his church bell, summoned his parishoners and gave the call to arms that triggered the Mexican War of Independence. This event is known as the Grito de Dolores ('Cry of Dolores')
In 1863 Robert College, in Istanbul is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist; the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded .
- It's probably not cover for investigating odd occurrences in Near East.
In 1893 an estimated 100,000 potential settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma. A land run was an event in which previously restricted land of the United States was opened to homestead on a first-arrival basis. The land in question was formerly Cherokee grazing land.
In 1914 during World War I the 133-day Siege of Przemyśl in Poland begins. This was the longest siege of the war and a crushing defeat for Austria-Hungary against Russian forces.
In 1920 at 12:01PM a cart bomb in front of the J. P. Morgan building in the Financial District of Manhattan detonates. About 45kg of dynamite propels almost a quarter-tonne of metal shrapnel outwards into the lunchtime crowds, killing 38 people and injuring over 400, 143 seriously. The bombing has never been solved, although most investigators believe it was carried out by Italian anarchists.
In 1921 three British schooners are destroyed by storms in the Atlantic: the Farlings and the Socrates are both wrecked on the coast of Barbados, whilst the Namara is dismasted and abandoned.
Also in 1921 the French coaster Sophie strikes a mine and sinks in the Black Sea 16km Constanţa in Romania. The crew are rescued alive.
In 1955 at midnight the military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched.
In 1955 the first submarine launched ballistic missile (a R-11FM or 'Scud') is fired from the Soviet Zulu IV class submarine B-62 (which was used as a systems trials vessel).
In 1961 the United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eye of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury, an attempt to weaken tropical cyclones by seeding with silver iodide. The project was run by the United States Government from 1962 to 1983 but was generally ineffective and based on a flawed model of the inner structure of the hurricane.
- Unless the project was actually used for something utterly different.
Also in 1961 Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
In 1975 the first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 (Foxhound) interceptor makes its maiden flight. The aircraft was designed as a replacement for the earlier MiG-25 Foxbat and is a large, high speed, relatively unmaneuverable, fighter-interceptor.
In 1976 the Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a reservoir in Yerevan, the capital and largest city of Armenia, then part of the USSR.
In 1978 the magnitude 7.4 Tabas earthquake strikes the city of Tabas in Iran, heavily damaging the city and killing more than fifteen thousand people.
In 1979 after more than eighteen months of preparation eight people escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon. Led by Peter Strelzyk (an electrician and former air force mechanic) and Günter Wetzel (a bricklayer) who'd met while working in a plastics factory, the families had converted 1,250 square meters of taffeta, over 6 kilometers of thread and a propane burner into a workable, if crude, lighter-than-air craft able to carry over half-a-tonne At 2AM they inflated their craft and set off, carried by winds from a thunderstorm, from Oberlemnitz in East Germany. They flew for 28 minutes in sub-zero conditions and landed in Naila, in Bavaria, ten kilometres inside West Germany.
In 2013 a gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 16, 2020 21:57:18 GMT
Shavarsh Karapetyan,Juan Perón,Peter Strelzyk,Owain ab Gruffydd, lord of Glyndyfrdwy(he could be like wales version of king arthur being resurrected whenever wales is in danger)Christopher Robert(could be a near east version of torchwood,the 'Old Pretender(could be a good alternate history story) and the Pilgrims could be good people to meet.the J. P. Morgan could have been bombed by aliens and they used Italian anarchists. as a cover. Campo Maior in Portugal could be a good escape scenario and Project Stormfury could be a cover to track down kaiju.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 17, 2020 20:39:57 GMT
17SEP
In 1111CE in Galacia, Alfonso VII is crowned as King of Galicia by the Galician nobility and church. He will later add the titles of king of Toledo in 1116, king of León and Castile in 1126 and Emperor of All Spain in 1135. While he attempted to integrate Spain into a single state, and tried to make the imperial title meaningful in practice to both Christian and Muslim populations, his intentions failed. Portugal became de facto independent in 1128 (and de jure in 1143) amongst other setbacks.
In 1176 the last attempt by the Byzantine Empire to recover central Anatolia from the Seljuk Turks fails with the Byzantine defeat at the Battle of Myriokephalon, when they were ambushed when moving through a mountain pass.
In 1382 Mary, daughter of Louis the Great, is crowned "king" of Hungary, seven days after her father's death. The resulting period of intrigue saw her mother, Queen Elizabeth the regent absolve the Polish nobility from their oath of loyalty to Mary in favor of Mary's younger sister, Jadwiga, in early 1383. Elizabeth also attempted to marry Maary to Louis, younger brother of Charles VI of France. After the invasion of Sigismund of Luxembourg Elizabeth gave Mary in marriage to him. However Charles III, the preferred monarch of most Hungarians, entering Buda later in the year and Mary renounced the throne in his favour. Elizabeth had Charles murdered weeks after his coronation on 31DEC1385. Queen Elizabeth was herself murdered in JAN1387, and Mary officially remained the co-ruler with Sigismund until she and her son died in an "accidental" fall from her horse during a hunting trip.
In 1577 the Treaty of Bergerac is signed between King Henry III of France and the Huguenots to end the French Wars of Religion. It does not succeed in this objective.
In 1479 Celio Calcagnini, the Italian astronomer, is born in Ferrara. Calcagnini or Calcagninus displayed a wide field of knowledge, as a soldier, academic, lawyer, diplomat and bureaucrat. He was consulted by Richard Croke on behalf of Henry VIII of England in the question of the latter's divorce. He was a major influence on Rabelais's literary and linguistic ideas, taught Clément Marot and was praised by Erasmus. He had a considerable contemporary reputation as an astronomer, and wrote on the rotation of the earth; he also knew Copernicus in Ferrara at the beginning of the sixteenth century. His Quod Caelum Stet, Terra Moveatur is a precursor of Copernicus's De Revolutionibus.
In 1631 Protestant, mainly Swedish forces, win a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War. The battle is a classic of the period, fought at a crossroads near Breitenfeld, about 8km north-west of the walled city of Leipzig, and a demonstration of the tactical skill of Gustavus Adolphus. Ut was also the Protestants' first major victory of the Thirty Years War and caused many Protestant German states to ally with Sweden against the German Catholic League, led by Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, and the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II. Despite a considerable numerical advantage in the number of veteran infantry the Catholic forces, under Count Tilly, were smashed in their Tercio;s by Gustavus' mobile field artillery The battle sounded the death-knell for the pike formation, especially given the more powerful and numerous Swedish muskets, and their superior tactial employment.
In 1658 the Battle of Vilanova is fought between Portugal and Spain during the Portuguese Restoration War.
In 1683 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing the 'animalcules' revealed by his experiments in microscopy. This is the precursor to the development of Germ Theory.
In 1775 during the American Revolutionary War, the American invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
In 1776 the Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
In 1778 the Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed, the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe. The treaty was essentially a formal treaty of alliance, giving the United States permission to travel through the Delaware territory and called for the Delawares to afford American troops whatever aid they might require in their war against Great Britain, including the use of their own warriors. The treaty also recognized the Delawares as a sovereign nation, guaranteed their territorial rights, and even encouraged the other Ohio Country Indian tribes friendly to the United States to form a state headed by the Delawares with representation in the Continental Congress.
In 1787 the United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.
In 1809 peace is agreed between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War; the territory that will become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
In 1849 the American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery for the first time, accompanied by her brothers Ben and Henry but the latter returned to their owner, forcing her to accompany them. In her later career as a 'conductor' with the Underground Railway she would not tolerate such changes of mind, requiring those who started on the road to escape to follow through, sometimes at gunpoint. Tubman was born enslaved in Dorchester County, Maryland, and was beaten and whipped by her various masters as a child. Early in life, she suffered a traumatic head wound from an irate overseer; this caused dizziness, pain, and spells of hypersomnia (unusual sleep patterns), which continued throughout her life. After her injury, Tubman began experiencing strange visions and vivid dreams, which she ascribed to premonitions from God.
In 1857 Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky the brilliant Russian scientist and engineer is born in Izhevskoye in the then Russian Empire. A pioneer in space science and engineering before most others had conceived of such, and before powered flight, Tsiolkovsky is one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics who inspired later rocket engineers such as Sergei Korolev and Valentin Glushko. Tsiolkovsky designed rockets for interplanetary travel, steering thrusters, multistage boosters, space stations, airlocks for exiting a spaceship into the vacuum of space, and closed-cycle biological systems to provide food and oxygen for space colonies, as well as dirigible airships, streamlined aircraft and trains, hovercraft, and more. Indeed most current space technology was conceived by him.
In 1859 Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States."
In 1862 during the American Civil War, Union commander George McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history. It began at dawn on 17SEP1862 when MGEN Joseph Hooker's corps mounted a powerful assault on Lee's left flank. Attacks and counterattacks swept across the battlefield until, eventually, Union assaults against the Sunken Road eventually pierced the Confederate centre. However the Federal advantage was not followed up. In the afternoon Confederate MGEN A. P. Hill's division arrived from Harpers Ferry and launched a surprise counterattack, driving back Burnside and ending the battle.
That same day, at about 2PM, the Federal arsenal in Allegheny exploded. This resulted in the single largest civilian disaster during the war, the explosions were heard in Pittsburgh 3km away. 78 workers, mostly young women, were killed; 54 bodies were unidentified, and were buried in a mass grave. The youngest to be confirmed dead was fifteen.
In 1894 the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese, the Battle of the Yalu River, ends in a decisive Japanese victory. The battle is considered to be one of the Imperial Japanese Navy's greatest victories.
In 1901 during the Second Boer War Britihs forces suffer two defeats; a Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort while at the Battle of Elands River Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers.
In 1908 the Wright Flyer, flown by Orville Wright and with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
In 1914 during World War I, the 'Race to the Sea begins'. While the First Battle of the Marne and the First Battle of the Aisne had stopped the German invasion of France both sides now attempted to envelop the northern flank of the opposing army, operating through the provinces of Picardy, Artois and Flanders. The "race" ended on the North Sea coast of Belgium around 19OCT after a series of 'encounter' battles as the opposing sides clashed. Erich von Falkenhayn, Chief of the German General Staff concluded that a decisive victory could not be achieved on the Western Front and that it was equally unlikely in the east; he therefore abandoned the strategy of annihilation (Vernichtungsstrategie) and attempted to create the conditions for peace the strategy of exhaustion (Ermattungsstrategie)
In 1924 the Polish Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits. This force defended against armed bands of Soviet backed saboteurs, who were crossing the border on a daily basis. 1924 the town of Stołpce, 20km from the border, was seized by Soviet saboteurs and pillaged.
In 1928 the Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people. It was one of the deadliest hurricanes in the recorded history of the North Atlantic.
In 1930 the Kurdish Ararat rebellion is suppressed by the Turks, with perhaps fifty thousand deaths.
In 1932 a speech by Laureano Gómez, head of the minority opposition in the Colombian Senate, proclaimed; "Peace, peace, peace in inner Colombia; war, war, war on the border against our despicable enemy". This escalated tensions, already high after the Leticia Incident.
In 1941 during World War II Tehran is entered by Soviet forces enter Tehran during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.
In 1944 also during World War II, Operation Market (half of Operation Market Garden) sees thousands of Allied airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the
In 1948 The Stern gang murder the United Nations mediator Count Folke Bernadotte. to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel. Bernadotte and French UN observer André Serot are amongst those killed with the gang open fire on a UN convoy.
In 1948 the Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union.
In 1949 the Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
In 1950 United States Marines fight their way into the outskirts of the South Korean capital of Seoul for the first time since the city had been captured by North Korean invaders in June.
Also on 17SEP1950 the legend of the Bermuda Triangle begin with the publication of a piece by Miami Herald reporter E. V. W. Jones, who describes a pattern of disappearances in a story he titled Sea's Puzzles Still Baffle Men In Pushbutton Age. The story began with the recent disappearance of an American freighter, the Sandra, in the Caribbean and recounted other recent incidents. The illustration accompanying his story suggested a triangle with points at Bermuda, San Juan, and Miami.
In 1970 the Jordanian army entered Amman as part of operations to oust Palestinian fedayeen from the country in what became known as Black September. Earlier that year the PLO had begun to openly call for the overthrow of the Hashemite monarchy and had engaged in public acts of terrorism, such as the Dawson's Field hijackings.
In 1976 the Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA.
In 2006 Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the volcano in at least 10,000 years.
In 2018 a Russian reconnaissance aircraft carrying 15 people on board is brought down by a Syrian surface-to-air missile over the Mediterranean Sea.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 17, 2020 22:28:31 GMT
Count Folke Bernadotte,E. V. W. Jones,Thomas Selfridge Celio Calcagnini,Joshua A. Norton, Harriet Tubman, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek,Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, and Alfonso VII are good people to meet.the Nizam of Hyderabad could be a good sequel to Demons Of The Punjab. Operation Market Garden could be a good "stop the meddlers" or pure historical.United States Constitution could be altered or erased in a alternate timeline.the Treaty of Bergerac could be a good Massacre sequel, and Fourpeaked Mountain could be a secret alien base.
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