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Post by Catsmate on Sept 18, 2020 21:06:19 GMT
18SEP
In 96CE the Roman emperor after Domitian is assassinated, leading to Nerva bring proclaimed Emperor Domitian had reigned fro fifteen years, a considerable time for the period and the longest since Tiberius. As emperor Domitian strengthened the economy, revalued Roman coinage, expanded the border defenses, and initiated an enormous building program to restore the damaged city of Rome. Significant wars were fought in Britain (the failed attempt by Agricola to conquer Scotland, and in Dacia, where Domitian was unable to procure a decisive victory against king Decebalus. Domitian was by a group of court officials, probably led by Domitian's chamberlain Parthenius and probably involving Nerva (though this is unverified); the killing was carried out by two men, a servant of Parthenius named Maximus, and a steward of Domitian's niece Flavia Domitilla, named Stephanus. The event was foreshadowed by a number of omens; the Germanic soothsayer Larginus Proclus predicted the date of Domitian's death (and was consequently sentenced to death by him); some days prior to the assassination, Minerva had appeared to the emperor in a dream and announced that she no longer give Domitian her protection. Another auspice received by Domitian indicated that his death would be at midday. As had been foretold, his death came at midday.
- Lots of possibilities. Accidental arrival and involvement in the plot (in the manner of The Romans). An attempt at preventing the assassination by a time meddler or TDP seeking to ingratiate herself with the emperor. Research into the details of the conspiracy. And then there all those oracles....
In 324CE Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis (modern day Üsküdar), establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire. After his navy's defeat in the Battle of the Hellespont, Licinius had withdrawn his forces from the city of Byzantium across the Bosphorus to Chalcedon in Bithynia. Constantine followed, and won the subsequent battle. This left Constantine as the sole emperor, ending the period of the Tetrarchy.
In 1048 the Battle of Kapetron is fought between a combined Byzantine-Georgian army and an army of the Seljuq Turks at the plain of Kapetron (modern Hasankale/Pasinler in northeastern Turkey). The event was the culmination of a major raid led by the Seljuq prince Ibrahim Inal into Byzantine-ruled Armenia.
In 1066 the Norwegian king Harald Hardrada lands with Tostig Godwinson at the mouth of the Humber River and begins his invasion of England.
- Barring the deployment of tactical nuclear weapons of course....
The two invaders encountered the first resistance at Scarborough, where Harald's demand for surrender was opposed. In the end, Harald burned down the town, leading other Northumbrian towns surrendering to them. After further raiding, Harald and Tostig sailed down the Humber, disembarking at Riccall. News of the invasion soon reached the earls Morcar of Northumbria and Edwin of Mercia, and they fought against Harald's invading army just south of York at the Battle of Fulford on 20SEP. That battle was a decisive victory for Harald and Tostig, and led York to surrender to their forces on 24SEP. This would be the last time a Scandinavian army defeated English forces. The same day as York surrendered to Harald and Tostig, Harold Godwinson arrived with his army in Tadcaster, just 11km from the anchored Norwegian fleet at Riccall. From there, he probably scouted the Norwegian fleet, preparing a surprise attack. As Harald had left no forces in York, Harold Godwinson marched right through the town to Stamford Bridge.
In 1454 during the Thirteen Years' War, the Polish army is decisively defeated by the Teutonic knights at the Battle of Chojnice. The Teutonic army had around 9,000 cavalry and 6,000 infantry, under Bernhard von Zinnenberg, while the Poles numbered over 16,000 cavalry, a few thousand servants (who could and usually were used in battles), a few hundred infantry, about 500 mercenaries and burghers from Gdańsk, and around 2,000 mercenaries hired by the Prussian Confederacy. All these forces were nominally under the command of King Casimir IV. The Polish commanders were counting on the battle being won by the Polish heavy cavalry, and drastically underestimated the flexibility and capacity of the Teutonic forces. The Polish defeat was complete; over 3,000 bodies were left on the battlefield and around 300 knights were captured by the Teutonic Knights, including three Polish commanders. The Teutonic Knights lost only around one hundred men.
In 1714 in Britain George I sets foot in the country, after becoming king on 01AUG.
In 1759 during the French and Indian War, the city of Quebec surrenders with the signing of The Articles of Capitulation of Quebec.
In 1793 the first cornerstone of the United States Capitol is laid by George Washington. It will be years before it is completed and it will be burned in 1814.
- A spot to drag companions to see history in action.
In 1809 the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden in London opens.
- Another spot for temporal; tourists.
In 1850 the U. S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. The act was probably the most controversial elements of the 1850 compromise and heightened Northern fears of a "slave power conspiracy". It required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to their masters and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate. Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Bill," for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves. It led to significant acts of resistance, including armed confrontations, killings and jail breaking. The Christiana Riot was mentioned previously.
- The act was also used by the unscrupulous to extort and threaten free Blacks, and to sell them into slavery; potentially complicating the period for non-white travellers. Plus there are opportunities for getting involved in acts of resistance.
In 1851 the New-York Daily Times is published for the first time; it would later become The New York Times.
- An event that might be of interest to a traveller or companion of a journalistic or similar bent.
In 1864 during the American Civil War the Confederate general John Bell Hood begins the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in an unsuccessful attempt to draw William Tecumseh Sherman out of Georgia. Hood's Tennessee Campaign took the Confederate Army of Tennessee north from Atlanta, threatening Sherman's lines of communications and supply, and central Tennessee itself. After a brief attempt to pursue Hood, Sherman returned to Atlanta and began his March to the Sea, leaving Union forces under MGEN George H. Thomas to deal with the threat of Hood's forces.
In 1870 the 'Old Faithful' Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.
In 1879 the Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
- Probably with Peri and Leela in attendance.
In 1895 the Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
- Another 'improving' event for Peri to be dragged along to.
In 1898 the Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between Britain and France. The incident was the culmination of territorial disputes between Britain and France in East Africa. A French expedition to Fashoda, on the White Nile river, sought to gain control of the Upper Nile river basin for France and thus exclude Britain from the Sudan. The French party and a much larger British-Egyptian force met on initially friendly terms, but in Europe it became a war scare. The British held firm as both empires stood on the verge of war with heated rhetoric on both sides. Under heavy pressure, the French withdrew, ensuring Anglo-Egyptian control over the area.
- A tense confrontation that is full of opportunities for meddling, for example by someone who wished to eliminate the Great War (similar to The Dogger Bank Divergence).
In 1906 the 1906_Hong_Kong_typhoon kills over fifteen thousand people, about one-twentieth of the city's population.
In 1911 the Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot twice, once in the arm and once in the chest, by Dmitry Bogrov, a leftist revolutionary, at the Kiev Opera House during the interval after the second act of a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan.
- Another event full of possibilities; save Stolypin; kill Tsar Nicholas (who was also present); save both men but kill one of the Grand Duchesses (Olga and Tatiana were both present). Any such alteration, deliberate or accidental, would have huge consequence for the Russian Empire.
- Then there's the question of who carried out and/or organised the assassination; there have always been suggestions that the act was planned not by leftists, but by conservative monarchists who were afraid of Stolypin's reforms and his influence on the Tsar.
In 1914 the Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
- An earlier enactment would have significant effects on British involvement in the Great War.
In 1928 Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro crossing of the English Channel.
In 1931 the Mukden Incident (a 'false flag' bombing of a Japanese owned railway line carried out by a Japanese officer) gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
- A perfect, seemingly minor, change to make to history. Might the arrival of a time machine prevent the bombing?
In 1939 at the start of World War II, the radio show Germany Calling begins transmitting Nazi propaganda.
- Might someone choose to use it as the vector for a mimetic mind-control weapon?
In 1940 the British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
In 1944 the British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoes the Japanese freighter Jun'yō Maru, killing 5,600, mostly slave labourers and Alled prisoners and internees.
In 1944 during World War I the Battle of Arracourt begins, part of a counteroffensive against recent American advances in France; the German 5th Panzer Army attempted to recapture Lunéville and to eliminate the XII Corps bridgehead over the Moselle River at Dieulouard. With better intelligence, tactics and use of terrain, the US forces (with heavy air support) defeated two Panzer Brigades and elements of two Panzer divisions over eleven days of battle.
In 1961 the UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The cause of the crash has never been determined decisively, bit a 'bright flash' was seen in the air and the bodies of two of the Secretary General's bodyguards had suffered multiple bullet wounds. However the injuries could have been from ammunition "cooking off" in the fire.
- It's a mystery, redolent with possibilities of alien intervention, political intrigue and more.
In 1974 the catastrophic Hurricane Fifi (or Orlene) strikes Honduras with 175km/h winds, killing over eight thousand people.
In 1977 the Voyager I probe takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
In 1984 Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.
In 1992 the Giant Mine near Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories of Canada in in the middle of a bitter and protracted labour dispute when an explosion occurs 230m underground. Nine replacement workers are killed. A mine employee Roger Warren was convicted of placing the bomb and the strike/lockout continued into 1993.
In 2001 the first letters containing anthrax powder are posted from Trenton in New Jersey, during the 2001 anthrax attacks.
- What even more dangerous, and alien, substances might have actually been inside the envelopes?
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 18, 2020 21:39:43 GMT
Joe Kittinger,Pyotr Stolypin (could be a good ah about a failed Russian Revolution),Booker T. Washington(Peri could become friends with him) Dag Hammarskjöld (a race of aliens trying to take over the world could have used this as a first step in a invasion),the Blackpool Illuminations (could be a 4th Doctor/6th Doctor multi story with Leela and Peri thwarting a attempt to take Blackpool with a possible appearance by Vastra)Juan de la Cierva, Harald Hardrada la(niukes in 1066 could be a good ah one), and George I could be good people to meet. Praxaeus could have been in the Anthrax envelopes.Germany Calling could be a wire plot. and the Battle of Chojnice could be visited by the sonatarans.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 20, 2020 12:34:05 GMT
Slightly late but here is 19SEP.
19SEP
In 634CE the Siege of Damascus ends with the capture of the city by the Rashidun Arabs under Khalid ibn al-Walid, the first major city of the Byzantine Empireto fall in the Muslim conquest of Syria. The siege had lasted almost a month and ended with the peaceful surrender at the Jabiyah gate. The peace terms included an assurance that no pursuit will be undertaken by Muslims against the departing Byzantine forces for three days. Three days after the surrender of the city, Khalid set out after the Damascan refugees, who were headed towards Antioch, and defeated them in battle six days later.
In 866 the future Byzantine emperor Leo VI (Leo the Wise) was born in Constantinople. Emperor Leo was noted as an intelligent and well-read man, who continued the renaissance of letters begun by his predecessor Basil I, continued. However he was less able as a military leader, the Empire saw several military defeats in the Balkans against Bulgaria and against the Arabs in Sicily and the Aegean. His reign also encompassed a major revision of legal and administrative affairs, with the formal discontinuation of several ancient Roman institutions (such as the consul and Senate). Leo VI was a prolific writer, on many different topics and in many styles, including political orations, liturgical poems, and theological treatises.
In 1356 an English army, under the command of Edward, the Black Prince, defeats a French army and captures King John II at Battle of Poitiers, during the Hundred Years' War The battle was a major English victory in, fought in Nouaillé, near the city of Poitiers in Aquitaine. Edward's forces were mixed with English, Welsh, Breton and Gascon troops against a larger French army. The effect of the defeat on France was catastrophic, leaving Dauphin Charles to rule the country. Charles faced populist revolts across the kingdom in the wake of the battle, which had destroyed the prestige of the French upper-class. The Edwardian phase of the war ended four years later in 1360, on favourable terms for England. Poitiers was the second major English victory of the Hundred Years' War, coming a decade after the Battle of Crécy and about half a century before the Battle of Agincourt. The town
In 1676 the British North American colonies erupt into factional fighting, the most significant of which was Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, which saw Jamestown burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon. At the time the Virginia colony was expanding, into Native American lands. In addition, attacks by tribes (principally the Doeg people) on Virginian colonists led the colonists to blame Governor William Berkeley for not guarding the safety of the frontier. The rebellion was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Governor William Berkeley. Bacon's grievances were as much personal as anthing else; he was irked to have been left out of Berkeley's inner circle, angered by the governor's refusal to allow him to take part in fur trading with Native Americans and at the refusal to grant his the military commission that would have allowed Bacon to attack Native Americans at his own discretion. Politically Bacon and his followers were angered by the governor's dismissive policy toward the political challenges of Virginia's western frontier. In 1676 Bacon took an armed force to the Green Dragon Swamp on the upper Pamunkey River where he killed nearly fifty Pamunkey Indians, which led to the chief Cockacoeske issuing orders to the rest of the tribe to escape. She ordered her tribe to not harm anyone and stay true to their treaty of peace agreed with England. Thousands of Virginians from all classes (including those in indentured servitude) and races rose up in arms against Berkeley, attacking Native Americans, chasing Berkeley from Jamestown and torching the capital. The rebellion was first suppressed by a few armed merchant ships from London whose captains sided with Berkeley and the loyalists. Government forces from England arrived soon after and spent several years defeating pockets of resistance and reforming the colonial government to be once more under direct royal control.
It was the first rebellion in the North American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part (though others occurred later). The alliance between European indentured servants and Africans (mostly enslaved) was extremely worrying to ruling class, and led to a hardening of the treatment of slaves and the Virginia Slave Codes.
In 1560 the future Sir Thomas Cavendish was born in at Trimley St Martin near Ipswich in Suffolk. Cavendish would become a noted English explorer and privateer *known as 'The Navigator') who was the first to deliberately try to raid the Spanish towns and ships in the Pacific and return by circumnavigating the globe. His first trip and successful circumnavigation made him rich from captured Spanish gold, silk and treasure from the Pacific and the Philippines.
In 1777 during the American Revolutionary War, British forces win a expensive tactical victory over the Continental Army in the First Battle of Saratoga. However the decisive English defeat on 07OCT in the second battle with be a major turning point in the war. British General John Burgoyne led a large invasion army southward from Canada in the Champlain Valley, planning to meet a similar British force marching northward from New York City and a third British force marching eastward from Lake Ontario. In fact the other forces never arrived and Burgoyne was surrounded by American forces in upstate New York. Burgoyne found himself trapped by superior American forces with no relief, so he retreated to Saratoga and surrendered his entire army there on 17OCT.
In 1796 George Washington issued his Farewell Address to the nation which is printed across America as an open letter to the public. The letter was a classic statement of republicanism, warning Americans of the political dangers which they must avoid if they are to remain true to their values. It was
In 1799 during the French Revolutionary Wars the French-Dutch forces defeat a combined Russians and British force at the Battle of Bergen in North Holland.
In 1846 two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience an alleged Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.
In 1852 Annibale de Gasparis discovers the asteroid Massalia from the north dome of the Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte. Massalia is a relatively large (~15okm), stony, asteroid in the inner region of the asteroid belt
In 1862 during the American Civil War, Union troops under William Rosecrans defeat a Confederate force under Sterling Price in the Battle of Iuka, in Mississippi.
A year late in 1863 the Battle of Chickamauga begins, in northwestern Georgia; the bloodiest two-day battle of the conflict, and the only significant Confederate victory in the war's Western Theatre.
In 1868 La Gloriosa, the Glorious Revolution, begins in Spain ushering in a brief (six year) period of unstable democracy (known as the Sexenio Democrático) after the deposition of Queen Isabella II. The success of the revolution marked
In 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War the 131-day siege of Paris begins as part of the Prussian plan to starve the city into surrender. It will end on 28JAN1871. Due to the severe shortage of food any animals in the city (including tats, dogs, cats, and horses) would be slaughtered, along with the contents of the city zoo. The siege also saw the first significant use of balloons in military service, carrying post and other messages, and passengers out of the city (one of the flights accidentally ended up in Noway).
In 1881 the US President, James Garfield, dies of of the wounds her suffered in the 02JUL shooting. His Vice President, Chester Arthur, is sworn in as President.
In 1902 a horrific stampede occurs at the Shiloh Baptist Church in Birmingham in Alabama, after a talk by Booker T. Washington; the congregation wrongly believes the building is on fire and 116 people are suffocated or crushed to death.
In 1909 Friedrich Dessauer succeeded in making a his first clear "x-ray cinematograph", with eight x-rays images taken during the space of a heartbeat, then viewed in succession as a film.
In 1916 during the East African Campaign of the Great Wat, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (principally the infamous Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora, in the north-west of German East Africa, after heavy fighting.
In 1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp to gather and smuggle out information for the resistance movement. He would escape in APR1943 and write Witold's Report, the first comprehensive intelligence report on the atrocities of the Holocaust. The report includes details about the gas chambers, "Selektion" and the sterilisation experiments and reveals the existance of three crematoria in Auschwitz II able to cremate 8,000 people daily.
In 1944 the Battle of Hürtgen Forest begins. It will become the longest individual battle that the US Army has ever fought. Though actually a series of fierce battles, fought over three months, in the Hürtgen Forest, a 140 km2 area of dense woodland just east of the Belgian–German border. Initially American commanders planned to pin down German forces in the area to keep them from reinforcing the front lines farther north in the Battle of Aachen, where the US forces were fighting against the Siegfried Line network of fortified industrial towns and villages. However the battle was almost entirely pointless.
In 1946 the Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.
In 1952 the United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England on political and "moral" grounds.
In 1957 the first nuclear explosion to be entirely contained underground, producing no external fallout, occurs with the Rainier shot of the Plumbbob round of testing.
In 1961 one of the most famous, and the first widely publicised, UFO encounters allegedly occur when Betty and Barney Hill, from Portsmouth in New Hampshire, claim to have been taken by extraterrestrials near Franconia Notch on the night of 19SEP1961. According to their account the Hills saw a bright light in the sky while driving home at about 10:30PM which changed direction several times. They stopped their car to look through binoculars and saw an odd-shaped craft flashing multicolored lights. As they drove away, the craft, which they estimate was at least twelve metres, followed them, eventually descending so low over their vehicle that they stopped. The two claim to have seen humanoid figures in black uniforms through the ship’s windows and departed the area. However the blacked out and travelled almost sixty kilometres without recalling the journey.
In 1976 Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains on the outskirts of Karatepe in Turkey, killing all 154 on board. The crash was almost certainly down to human error on the part of the first officer, the aircraft's PIC beting absent from the cockpit during the approach.
That same day another significant UFO encounter allegedly occurred in Iran, the famous 1976 Tehran incident. Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 fighters were dispatched to investigate an unidentified flying object, when both independently lose instrumentation and communications as they approach, only to have them restored upon withdrawal. The object was sighted both visually and on RADAR near Tehran during the early morning hours of 19SEP. The incident started around midnight when Tehran residents began telephoningl Mehrabad airport stating that they saw a bright light in the sky. As the airports RADAR was not operational Shahrokhi Air Force Base (about 275 kilometers WSW of Tehran) was contacted and reported nothing on RADAR. After a senior IIAR officer saw the bright light for himself he ordered fighters to investigate (Iran has been the subject of multiple Soviet reconnaissance overflights by MiG-25s that flew too high and fast for easy interception). Two Phantoms (piloted by lieutenants Yaddi Nazeri and Parviz Jafari were scrambled) with one (or possibly both) experiencing RADAR and communications failures but both seeing a bright object. An object was eventually picked up in RADAR about 50km away, with lights of alternating strobes of blue, green, red, and orange visible. The F-4s pursued the object to the south of Tehran. It dropped another bright object out, which Jafari believed to be heading straight for him, and he attempted to engage it with a Sidewinder infrared guided missile and suffered electronics failure. Moments later another bright object came out and went straight down into the ground, leaving a bright trail, and lighting up a large 2-3 kilometer wide area. While attempting to land at Mehrabad he experienced further intermittent communications and navigation failures. A commercial airliner in the vicinity also reported communication failures, but did not see anything. The next day an investigation of the area on the ground revealed a radio transponder from an American C-141; the occupants nearby had heard a loud noise and a bright flash of light during the night.
The prosaic explanation is inexperienced pilots (this was their first night time interception), malfunctioning avionics, the conjunction of Jupiter and multiple meteor showers and the habit of the C-141 of shedding it's transponder. But it could be more.....
In 1985 a strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys much of Mexico City.
In 1991 'Ötzi the Iceman' is discovered in the Alps on the border between Italy and Austria, a natural mummy of a man who lived between 3400 and 3100BCE, found near Similaun mountain and Hauslabjoch on the border between Austria and Italy. Ötzi is, BTW, believed to have been murdered; an arrowhead has been found in his left shoulder, which would have caused a fatal wound. The nature of his life and the circumstances of his death are the subject of much investigation and speculation.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 20, 2020 18:28:10 GMT
'Ötzi the Iceman,Charlie Chaplin,James Garfield and Chester Arthur, Witold Pilecki, Friedrich Dessauer,William Rosecrans,Annibale de Gasparis,Khalid ibn al-Walid, Isabella II,Thomas Cavendish and Nathaniel Bacon (could be a good pure historical) are good people to meet. The Our Lady of La Salette apparition could be a alien disguising themselves as a religious figure.the First Battle of Saratoga could be a good pure or psuedo historial (featuring the aontarans)or ah adventure. And Betty and Barney Hill could be a classic alien adventure.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 20, 2020 20:16:17 GMT
20SEP
In 1058CE Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary meet to negotiate about the border territory of Burgenland, the western border-zone of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary until the 16th century.
In 1187 Saladin begins the Siege of Jerusalem.
In 1260 the Great Prussian Uprising among the old Prussians begins against the Teutonic Knights begins. The revolt was triggered by the Lithuanian and Samogitian military victory in the Battle of Durbe.
In 1378 Cardinal Robert of Geneva is elected as Pope Clement VII (later declared Antipope), beginning the Papal (or Western) schism. This was a split within the Catholic Church lasting from 1378 to 1417 in which two men (by 1410 three) simultaneously claimed to be the true pope, and each excommunicated the other; the break was driven by authoritative politics rather than any theological disagreement. The conflicts quickly escalated from a church problem to a diplomatic crisis that divided Europe. Secular leaders had to choose which claimant they would recognize, the pope in Rome (Denmark, England, Flanders, the Holy Roman Empire, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Poland, Sweden, Venice and most of northern Italy) or Avignon France, Aragon, Castile, León, Cyprus, Burgundy, Savoy, Naples, Scotland and Wales).
In 1486 King Henry VII of England has a son, Arthur Tudor (later was Prince of Wales, Earl of Chester and Duke of Cornwall), born in Winchester Cathedral Priory. As the eldest son and heir apparent of Henry VII of England, Arthur was viewed by contemporaries as the great hope of the newly established House of Tudor. His mother, Elizabeth of York, was the daughter of Edward IV, and his birth cemented the union between the House of Tudor and the House of York. Unfortunately he would not live to ascend the throne, rather his younger brother would become Henry VIII.
In 1498 the Nankai tsunami in addition to killing about thirty thousand people, washes away the building housing the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in (a monumental bronze statue of Amitābha, and one of the most famous icons of Japan).
In 1519 Ferdinand Magellan sets sail from Sanlúcar de Barrameda with about 270 men on his voyage to the East Indies around the southern end of the South American continent. This voyage will take three years and result the first circumnavigation of the Earth, though Magelllan does not survive.
In 1697 the Treaty of Ryswick is signed by France, England, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, ending the Nine Years' War.
In 1737 the land swindle known as the "Walking Purchase" forces the cession of 4,860 km2 of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony is perpetrated. While the founder of the Colony, William Penn, enjoyed a reputation for fair-dealing with the Lenape, his heirs, John and Thomas Penn, abandoned many of the elder father Penn's moderate practices. In 1736, they claimed to have a deed from 1686 by which the Lenape promised to sell a tract "extending as far west as a man could walk in a day and a half". The deed was at best an unsigned, unratified treaty and probably an outright forgery.
In 1792 French Revolutionary troops stop an allied invasion of France at the Battle of Valmy. This was the first major victory by the army of France during the Revolutionary Wars that followed the French Revolution. The small victory at Valmy became a huge psychological victory for the Revolution at large. The outcome was thoroughly unexpected by contemporary observers and seen as a vindication for the French revolutionaries and a stunning defeat for the vaunted Prussian army.
In 1835 the decade-long Ragamuffin War (mentioned previously) starts when rebels capture Porto Alegre in Brazil.
In 1854 during the Crimean War British and French troops defeat Russians at the Battle of Alma, the last significant battle before the siege of Sevastopol.
In 1857 the Indian Rebellion of 1857 ends with the recapture of Delhi by troops loyal to the East India Company.
In 1860 the future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom begins the first visit to North America by a Prince of Wales. His good humour and confident bonhomie made the tour a great success and he engaged in numerous public activities, including the inauguration of the Victoria Bridge across the St Lawrence River, laid the cornerstone of Parliament Hill in Ottawa. He watched Charles Blondin traverse Niagara Falls by highwire, and stayed for three days with President James Buchanan at the White House and accompanied Buchanan to Mount Vernon, to pay his respects at the tomb of George Washington. Vast crowds greeted him everywhere. The event had enormous diplomatic value for Britain.
In 1870 Italy is unified when Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia. This was the final event of the long process of Italian unification (the Risorgimento) under King Victor Emmanuel II of the House of Savoy and ended the 1,116-year reign of the Papal States.
In 1893 Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
In 1909 the Grand Isle Hurricane of 1909 struck Grand Isle in Louisiana, before destroying much of New Orleans. An estimated 350 people were killed.
In 1911 the White Star Line's RMS Olympic collides with the British cruiser HMS Hawke at the Solent, the narrow strait near Southampton, and was badly damaged. The captain of the Olympic was Edward Smith, who would later be assigned to the White Star liner RMS Titanic. In repairing the Olympic, the White Star Line delayed the completion and scheduled maiden voyage of the Titanic by 20 days.
In 1913 while the Canadian exploration ship HMCS Karluk is trapped in the Arctic ice during the Canadian Arctic Expedition of 1913–16, expedition leader Vilhjalmur Stefansson and a few other set off on what was to be a ten-day hunt for food for the ship. Stefansson would return to find that the ice pack, and the trapped ship, had floated away.
In 1920 during the Irish War of Independence British auxillary police known as "Black and Tans" burn the town of Balbriggan and beat two local men to death.
In 1946, delayed by seven years, the first Cannes Film Festival is held
That same day the landscape of the American and Canadian Niagara Falls was permanently altered when a forty metre wide section of rock collapsed at 10:19 in the morning.
In 1956 the Jupiter-C research and development rocket, carrying a modified Redstone ballistic missile, is launched from Cape Canaveral by the US Army Ballistic Missile Agency. It carried a 40kg test payload.
In 1967 RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 is launched at Clydebank in Scotland.
In 1971 having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
In 1973 Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in the Battle of the Sexes tennis match at the Houston Astrodome.
In 1977 the Petrozavodsk phenomenon is observed at multiple locations in several countries around Europe. The phenomenon was a series of celestial events (of disputed nature) seen over a vast territory; from Copenhagen and Helsinki in the west to Vladivostok in the east, between 1AM and 01:30AM. It is named after the city of Petrozavodsk where a glowing object was widely reported that showered the city with numerous rays. An unidentified object was also observed near Turku in Finland It is sometimes linked to the Soviet Kosmos-955 satellite. Certainly the event contributed to the Sovuet creation of Setka AN, a research program for anomalous atmospheric phenomena. Despite vast speculation the phenomenon has never been plausibly explained.
In 2000 the United Kingdom's Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank rocket.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 20, 2020 22:43:32 GMT
Agnes of Poitou and Andrew I of Hungary,Charles Blondin,Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs,Charles Duryea,William Penn,Ferdinand Magellan,Arthur Tudor and Clement VII are good people to meet. The Petrozavodsk phenomenon could be a good adventure like Praxaeus.the Nankai tsunami could be a good "escape the timezone" scenario. The Cannes Film Festival could be a part of a spy film like scenario. the Hawke collision could have been much worse necessitating the decommissioning of the Olympic and altering of the Titanic, thereby preventing its possible sinking. And the Secret Intelligence Service building attack could have been a coup attempt in the whoniverse.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 21, 2020 21:05:27 GMT
21SEP
In 455 the Emperor Avitus enters Rome with a Gallic army in order to consolidates his power and deter rebellious generals. Avitus opposed the reduction of the Western Roman Empire to Italy alone and, as Emperor, introduced several Gallic senators in the administration; this was opposed by the Senatorial aristocracy and by the people of Rome.
In 1170 the Hiberno-Norse Kingdom of Dublin falls to Norman invaders.
In 1217 during the Livonian Crusade the Battle of St. Matthew's Day both the Estonian leader Lembitu and Livonian leader Kaupo the Accursed are killed, though the battle ends in a Estonian defeat.
In 1435 the diplomatic congregation meeting in the Congress of Arras ends in a failure for English diplomacy as Burgundy switches sides in the Hundred Years' War.
In 1745 in barely half-an-hour the Hanoverian army is defeated by the Jacobite forces of Prince Charles Edward Stuart at the Battle of Prestonpans, near Prestonpans in East Lothian. This was the first significant engagement of the Jacobite rising of 1745, the inexperienced government troops broke in the face of the charging Highlanders and gave a huge boost to Jacobite morale.
In 1776 much of New York City is burned (and more looted) shortly after being occupied by British forces. Both sides blamed each other.
In 1780 Benedict Arnold and the head of British intelligence in America John André finally meet (after exchanging correspondence planning their conspiracy) at the Joshua Hett Smith House. The agree to Arnold's price for handing teh West Point fort to British forces. However two American rebels fire on HMS Vulture, the ship that was intended to carry André back to New York, forcing André to return to New York overland. André was captured near Tarrytown on 23SEP.
In 1792 during the French Revolution the National Convention formally abolishes the monarchy.
In 1843 John Williams Wilson takes possession of the Strait of Magellan on behalf of the Chilean government.
In 1860 during the Second Opium War, an Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao. This allowed the Anglo-french forces to take the capital Beijing, and eventually to defeat the Qing Empire.
In 1896 during the Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan, British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
In 1898 the immensely influential Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
In 1921 a storage silo at the BASF ammonia plant in Oppau in Germany which held approximately 4,500 tonnes of mixedf ammonium sulphate and ammonium nitrate fertiliser, explodes. Much of the plant is obliterated and around six hundred people are killed by the two explosions at 7:32AM. A crater 90m by 125m and 20m deep is left by the 1.5kt detonation. Workers at the plant had been using dynamite to break out the solid mass of fertiliser.
In 1934 a violent typhoon hits western Honshū in Japan, causing tremendous devastation and killing more than three thousand people.
In 1938 the Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 682 people from one of the deadliest and most destructive tropical cyclones to ever strike New England.
In 1939 Romanian Prime Minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by the Iron Guard.
In 1942 the Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight.
In 1953 Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea in a MiG-15 jet fighter. He is granted political asylum in the United States and paid a reward of US$100,000 (of which he was not aware).
In 1964 the North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's fastest (at approximately Mach 3) bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale in California. Only two aircraft will be completed as the concept is considered obsolete.
1976 the Chilean economist, politician and diplomat Orlando Letelier is murdered in Washington D.C. in a huge car bombing carried out by agents of Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, the Pinochet regime's secret police aided by US backed anti-Castro terrorists.
In 2003 the Galileo spacecraft is deliberately sent to its destruction into Jupiter's atmosphere.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 21, 2020 21:50:19 GMT
Armand Călinescu,No Kum-sok,John Williams Wilson,Lembitu and Kaupo the Accursed, Dowager Cixi,Orlando Letelier, Emperor Avitus, John André and Benedict Arnold, and Horatio Kitchener are good people to meet. The burning of NYC in 1776 could be a good pure historical or ah story.the Battle of Prestonpans could be a good prequel to the highlanders. And the Boeing B-29 Super fortress could be good for a base under seige story.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 22, 2020 19:54:31 GMT
22SEP
In 904CE the warlord, and former military governor, Zhu Quanzhong (later Emperor Taizu of Later Liang) kills Emperor Zhaozong, the penultimate emperor of the Tang dynasty, after seizing control of the imperial government. In so doing her overthrew the Tang dynasty and established the Later Liang dynasty with him as it's first emperor, ushering in the era of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. The last two Tang emperors, Emperor Zhaozong of Tang and Emperor Ai of Tang, who "ruled" as his puppets from 903 to 907, were both killed him. Zhu Quanzhong was an interesting, able, very dangerous and unpleasant ruler to meet. Especially for women.
In 1236 at the Battle of Saule the pagan Samogitians and Semigallianssoundly defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword (the first Catholic military order established in the Baltic lands). The Sword-Brothers are folded into the Teutonic Order in 1237. The battle inspired rebellions among the Curonians, Semigallians, Selonians, Oeselians and other tribes previously conquered by the Sword-Brothers. ]
In 1499 the Swabian War, the last major armed conflict between the Old Swiss Confederacy and the House of Habsburg, concludes with the Battle of Zutphen, soon followed by the Peace of Basel. The war went poorly for the Swabians and Habsburgs; in all but a few minor skirmishes the experienced Swiss soldiers, victorious in the Burgundian Wars (where the Swiss had battle tested troops and commanders), defeated the Swabian and Habsburg armies. In addition the Swabians, even the Swabian counts, considered to be more in the interests of the Habsburgs than their own. Both sides negotiated the The Treaty of Basel
In 1586 the Battle of Zutphen fought near the village of Warnsveld and the town of Zutphen in the Netherlands, during the Eighty Years' War, ends in a Spanish victory over the English and Dutch.
In 1692 Mary Eastey, Martha Corey, Ann Pudeator, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Alice Parker, Wilmot Redd and Margaret Scot are executed by hanging in Salem Village in Massachusetts; the last of those convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials to be killed.
In 1711 the Tuscarora War begins in present-day North Carolina. It will last three and a half years and will be the bloodiest colonial war in North Carolina, fought between the Tuscarora people and their allies on one side and European American settlers, the Yamassee, and other allies on the other.
In 1776 the American spy Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during the American Revolution.
In 1789 the office of United States Postmaster General is established. Probably nit as a cover to coordinate intelligence gathering.
In 1789 at the Battle of Rymnik Alexander Suvorov's Russian and allied army defeats numerically superior Ottoman Empire forces.
In 1792 it is Primidi Vendémiaire of year one of the French Republican Calendar as the French First Republic comes into being.
In 1823 the convicted fraudster Joseph Smith claims to have found the golden plates after being directed by God through the Angel Moroni to the place where they were buried. They, or his interpretation of them (the plates disappear) will form the basis for Mormon Christianity.
In 1857 during a storm in the Gulf of Finland, the Russian ship=of-the-line Lefort capsises and sinks, killing all 826 aboard, while en route from Reval (now Tallinn in Estonia) to Kronstadt. In all the sudden storm on the night wrecked about 30 ships on the Russian Baltic coast.
In 1862 Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation.
In 1866 Paraguay wins the Battle of Curupayty, it's only significant victory in the Paraguayan War.
In 1892 in the morning of 22SEP a locomotive disappears in the odd Lindal Railway Incident. The incident happened on Thursday 22SEP1892 near Lindal-in-Furness, a village lying between the Lancashire towns of Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness. A locomotive was busy shunting when the driver, Thomas Postlethwaite, saw cracks opening up in the ground right below. Knocking off steam, he jumped for his life, no sooner clear than the earth opened up to expose a sheer-sided hole about ten metres across, and similarly deep. The driver and fireman watched as their locomotive fell into it front first, the funnel and front part embedded, with only the tender remaining visible above the surface. The rails on which the engine had been standing were snapped off and went down with it. The adjacent passenger line was left hanging lopsidedly, its ballast having cascaded into the abyss.
Work commenced rapidly to try and save the remaining lines (there were eight lines in parallel) and wagon-loads of ballast (crushed stone) were dumped into the hole. However at 2:30PM, while the workmen were on a break, the hole suddenly deepened to about twenty metres, with he locomotive falling further still until the earth closed over it.
The railway lines had been laid over two levels of mine workings, the lower still in use. The uppermost level of the mine workings was about 160 metres below ground The hole eventually swallowed up around 300 wagon loads of ballast until a solid foundation was established.
The incident inspired numerous stories, including Doyle's The Lost Special.
In 1910 The Duke of York's Picture House opens in Brighton, now the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain. A suitable location to drag Peri too.
In 1914 in a catastrophic blow for the Royal Navy the German submarine U-9 sinks three British armoured cruisers (the Aboukir, Hogue, and Cressy) within seventy-minutes period, almost 1500 sailors die. The cruisers were considered obsolete, crewed mainly by reservists and sometimes referred to as the Live Bait Squadron. There was a public outcry in Britain at the losses and the sinkings eroded confidence in the British government and damaged the reputation of the Royal Navy.
In 1919 the steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States. It will be a prolonged and bloody dispute.
In 1934 the Gresford disaster at Gresford Colliery, near Wrexham in northeast Wales kills 266 miners and rescuers. At 2:08AM a violent explosion ripped through the 'Dennis' section of the mine and started a fire that blocked the main access road. At the time perhaps 500 men were working underground on the night shift. The cause has never been identified, the inquiry was controversial, with evidence suggesting failures in safety procedures and poor management. Finally a decision was made to permanently seal the colliery's damaged districts, meaning that only eleven bodies were recovered.
In 1939 German and Soviet military forces hold a joint parade in Brest-Litovsk celebrate the successful invasion of Poland.
In 1948 the Raisin Bombing of Berlin begins when USAF officer Gail Halvorsen officially starts parachuting sweets to children as part of the Berlin Airlift. It had started earlier when Halvorsen had unofficially started dropping chocolate bars attached to a handkerchief parachute to the children waiting below. This led to a large quantity of post being received by the US Air Force, addressed to "Uncle Wiggly Wings", "The Chocolate Uncle" and "The Chocolate Flier". Despite some opposition the programme was adopted as an official element of the airlift with supplies donated by US children and major manufacturers.
In 1957 in Haiti, François "Papa Doc" Duvalier is elected president. He remains president for nearly fifteen years, moving from a populist and black nationalist platform to totalitarian and despotic. An undercover government death squad, the Tonton Macoute indiscriminately killed Duvalier's opponents; they were thought to be so pervasive that Haitians became highly fearful of expressing any form of dissent, even in private. Duvalier further sought to solidify his rule by incorporating elements of Haitian mythology into a personality cult.
- The perfect setting for a sequel to White Darkness with Cthulhu Mythos elements and the Cold War.
In 1965 the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, ends after the United Nations calls for a ceasefire.
In 1975 in San Francisco Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service and a poor quality firearm. It has been seventeen days since Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme tried to kill Ford.
In 1979 the ongoing mystery if the Vela incident occurs. Also known as the South Atlantic Flash, the Vela Incident was an unidentified double flash of light detected by an American Vela Hotel satellite on 22SEP1979 near the Prince Edward Islands in the Indian Ocean. The cause of the flash remains (officially) unknown, though some information about the event remains classified )probably to protect the capability of surveillance satellites). The test was considered a South African nuclear test, until the end of the Apartheid regime revealed that (officially) no such test had happened. Israel and France were also suspected. Other explanations include a micro-meteoroid hitting the satellite, or other energetic, atmospheric event.
- Nuclear detonation, wormhole, spaceship exploding....
In 1991 for the first time the Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public after intervention by the Israeli government and the Israeli Antiquities Authority.
In 1993 a barge strikes a railroad bridge near Mobile, Alabama, causing the deadliest train wreck in Amtrak history. Forty-seven passengers are killed.
In 1993 a Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 is shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia. This is one of a number if incidents at the time, including small-arms fire directed at aircraft, a second plane hit by a surface-to-air missile and rocket fire at the Sukhumi airport.
In 1995 an E-3B AWACS crashes on takeoff and hits wooded ground outside Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines; all 24 on board are killed.
- Might there be more to this incident that the Revenge of the Canada Goose?
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 22, 2020 20:26:27 GMT
Sara Jane Moore,François "Papa Doc" Duvalier (i agree)Joseph Smith, Nathan Hale,Mary Eastey, Martha Corey, Ann Pudeator, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Alice Parker, Wilmot Redd and Margaret Scot,Zhu Quanzhong and Emperor Zhaozong, are good people to meet.the Vela incident could be a weather manipulation incident like the unit stories of the 70's.Lindal Railway Incident could be a good alien base under siege story. and Elmendorf Air Force Base could be a cover for a flying like alien.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 23, 2020 19:26:13 GMT
23SEP
In 63 BCE Gaius Octavius (later Augustus Caesar or more formally Imperator Caesar divi filius Augustus) is born in Rome, the adoptive son of Gaius Julius Caesar. Augustus would become the first Roman emperor, reigning from 27 BCE until his death in 14CE, and the founder of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. His status as the founder of the Roman Principate has led to a legacy as one of the most effective and controversial leaders in human history. The reign of Augustus initiated the era of relative peace known as the Pax Romana, when the Roman world was largely free from large-scale conflict for more than two centuries, despite continuous wars of imperial expansion on the Empire's frontiers and the year-long civil war known as the "Year of the Four Emperors" over the imperial succession. Augustus would die in 14CE either from natural causes or poisoned by his wife Livia. He was succeeded as emperor by Tiberius, his adopted son, stepson and former son-in-law.
In 788 Ælfwald I, king of Northumbria, died, probably at Cilurvum (Chesters) murdered by ealdorman named Sicga. Ælfwald had became king after Æthelred, son of Æthelwald Moll, was deposed in 778 and had reigned from 779 to 788. He is thought to have been a son of Oswulf, and thus a grandson of Eadberht Eating. Ælfwald was succeeded by his first cousin Osred as his own sons (Ælf and Ælfwine) were killed in 791 on the orders of King Æthelred.
In 1122 Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V meet at the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy. This was a long running conflict between church and state in medieval Europe over the ability to choose and install (invest) bishops and abbots of monasteries, and indeed the pope himself. A series of popes in the eleventh and twelfth centuries had acted to undercut the authority of the Holy Roman Emperor and other European monarchs, and the controversy led to nearly 50 years of civil war in Germany. The agreement required bishops to swear an oath of fealty to the secular monarch, who held authority "by the lance" but left selection to the church. It affirmed the right of the church to invest bishops with sacred authority, symbolized by a ring and staff. In Germany (but not Italy and Burgundy), the Emperor also retained the right to preside over elections of abbots and bishops by church authorities, and to arbitrate disputes. Holy Roman Emperors renounced the right to choose the pope.
In 1215 Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor, was born. He would becomethe fifth khagan of the Mongol Empire reigning from 1260 to 1294.
In 1338 the Battle of Arnemuiden was fought, ending in a French victory over the English. It is the first naval battle of the Hundred Years' War and the first naval battle in which gunpowder artillery is used.
In 1409 the Chinese Ming empire's forces are routed at the Battle of Kherlen by the Mongols. It took place at the banks of Kherlen River (Kerulen) in the Mongolian Plateau. The Eastern Mongols had been routed to the Kerulen River by recent attacks of the Oyirad Mongols, thus the Yongle Emperor took the opportunity for a punitive expedition. He send a force of around one thousand cavalry against the Eastern Mongols; the forcse was lured deep into the steppe of Mongolia, the Ming army was completely routed and defeated.
In 1459 the Battle of Blore Heath is fought, the first major battle of the English Wars of the Roses. It ends in a Yorkist victory.
In 1641 one of the largest treasures to be lost at sea goes down aboard the Merchant Royal, off Land's End in Cornwall. The treasure was around 100,000 pounds (weight) of gold (worth perhaps €2.4 billion today), 400 bars of Mexican silver (about ten tonnes, €7.5 million) and about half-a-million gold and silver coins (mainly pieces of eight). The treasure and the ship have never been found, thought in MAR2019 one of it's anchors was brought up in the net of a fishing vessel.
In 1779 during the merican Revolution John Paul Jones a United States naval officer raids the coast of Yorkshire and wins the Battle of Flamborough Head. The battle took place in the North Sea off the coast of Yorkshire between a combined Franco-American squadron and two British escort vessels protecting a large merchant convoy. It became one of the most celebrated naval actions of the war, despite its relatively small size and a considerable dispute over what had actually occurred.
A year later in 1780, also during the American Revolution a British officer, Major John André, Adjutant General and head of intelligence operations in America, is arrested as a spy by American soldiers. The arrest and the documents captured exposes Benedict Arnold's change of sides. I mentioned yesterday the circumstances around his meeting with Arnold and the plan to surrender the West Point fort for Stg£20,000, ending in the retreat of the ship that carried André. To aid André's escape through the rebels' lines, Arnold provided him with civilian clothes and a passport and laissez-passerl under the name John Anderson. André rode on in safety until about 9AM when he approached Tarrytown in New York. Therehe was stopped by three armed militiamen. Mistaking them for loyalists he greeted them and was arrested.
At first events went well for André since post commandant (Lieutenant Colonel John Jameson) decided to send him to Arnold, not suspecting the treachery being planned. However Major Benjamin Tallmadge, head of Continental Army Intelligence, arrived, and persuaded Jameson to bring the prisoner back and André was returned. Jameson sent Washington the papers carried by André, but was unwilling to believe that Benedict Arnold could be guilty of treason. He therefore sent a note to Arnold informing him of the entire situation. Arnold used the warning to make his own escape, an hour before Washington and his party arrived at West Point to investigate. André was tried by court-martial and sentenced to die, operating "under a feigned name and in a disguised habit". He was hanged.
- A fascinating story and one that few writers of fiction would dare to compose. Lots of opportunities for meddling, deliberate or accidental, and altering the course of American history. If West Point had been taken it's entirely possible that the revolution might have failed, or Britain might have retained control of New England, greatly weakening the nascent republic.
- Then again, if you would like a "slightly alternate" history perhaps Arnold is captured and André escapes? Or Clinton is persuaded to swap the two men? He detested Arnold while André was his favourite aide. Most of history is unchanged, though André may have had interesting descendants...
- Or perhaps André dies quietly in the woods, his horse accidentally spooked by a materialising TARDIS? Who happens next?
In 1803 during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, the Battle of Assaye is fought between the British East India Company and the Maratha Empire in India. The outnumbered Indian and British forces, commanded by Major General Arthur Wellesley, defeated a larger combined Maratha army. The battle was the future Duke's first major victory and the one he later described as his finest accomplishment on the battlefield.
In 1806 the Lewis and Clark expedition (or Corps of Discovery Expedition) returns to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States for three years.
- There are many possibilities for the expedition. From simple meetings with a group of PCs, to strange and alien encounters. Why did Jefferson delay mentioning the return of the expedition? Why did Lewis kill himself, if indeed he did commit suicide? And what about the maize that the party brought back? Jefferson himself planted seeds of the "Missouri hominy corn" (along with a number of other unidentified seeds) at Monticello which he cultivated and studied. But where did maize come from; the wild form of maize, Amaranth, looks nothing at all like modern maize and even DNA typing is doubtful about their relationship.
In 1821 during the Greek War of Independence, Tripolitsa is captured by Greek rebels.
In 1846 the planet Neptune is discovered by a joint effort of astronomers Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle; it was mathematically predicted by Le Verrier,before it was directly observed. Using this prediction telescopic observations were made at the Berlin Observatory by Galle (assisted by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest),
In 1868 the Grito de Lares ("Lares Revolt") occurs in Puerto Rico against Spanish rule.
In 1905 the union of Norway and Sweden is peacefully dissolved by the Karlstad treaty.
In 1910 Jorge Chávez Dartnell of Peru became the first person to fly an airplane over the Alps, crossing from Switzerland to Italy in 41 minutes. He wins the Milan Committee prize but doesn't live to receive it, suffering fatal injuries when his plane crashed during the attempt to land at Domodossola; he died four days later.
In 1911 pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
Also that Saturday, the first major demonstration by Protestant Irish against "Home Rule" and the separation of all of Ireland from the United Kingdom occurs in Belfast. Edward Carson led the march of 50,000 Unionists to Craigavon.
In 1913 Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael in France to Bizerte, Tunisia), a trip across the sea of over 850kmand about eight hours.
Also in 1913 Albanian nationalist Isa Boletini leads a revolt in Serbian-occupied Macedonia, with 6,000 fighters taking control of the western Macedonian towns of Debar and Ohrid.
In 1923 the first marketing of radio receivers occurs in the USA. The ad is made by Horne's Department Store in Pittsburgh and runs in the Pittsburgh Press.
Also in 1923 construction begins on the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC. James Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, gave the blessing to the granite foundation stone at a ceremony viewed by thousands of people.
In 1933, that Saturday Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was on a boat trip on the Black Sea, near Sukhumi, when the craft came under rifle fire from the coast. What had first appeared to be an assassination attempt turned out to be a mistake made by guards from the local NKVD secret police, who thought that the unfamiliar boat was bringing foreign spies. The guards' pleas for mercy were accepted by Stalin at the time, though they were executed in the Great Purge.
In 1948 over 12,000 people attended a rally of the American Communist Party at Madison Square Garden.
In 1949 President Truman issued a terse statement announcing that the US government had "evidence that within recent weeks an atomic explosion occurred in the U.S.S.R". This was the first public acknowledgement of the "Joe-1" nuclear test of 29AUG. TASS would confirm the test a few days later.
In 1950 during the Korean War, the Battle of Hill 282 would see USAF aircraft attack the First Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in an apparent 'friendly fire' incident that saw the British troops strafed and bombed with explosives and napalm.
In 1955 sixteen EOKA prisoners escape from Kyrenia Castle in Cyprus by climbing down sheets tied to be a rope. The incident was extremely embarrassing to the British government.
Meanwhile in Sumner, Mississippi, USA, an all-white, all male, jury acquits both defendants in their trial for the murder of black teenager Emmett Till. The jury deliberate for just over an hour, with one juror saying: "If we hadn't stopped to drink pop, it wouldn't have taken that long." The brutality of the murder of the fourteen-year-old boy and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew attention to the long history of violent persecution of African Americans in the United States.
In 1956 soldiers of the Jordanian Legion fire on a group of Israeli archaeologists working inside Israeli territory near Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. Four people are killed and 16 others injured. Jordan officially apologises and blames the incident on a single individual.
In 1964 at the autumnal equinox, the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD) was founded in the UK, a split from the Ancient Druid Order with Ross Nichols as its leader. It still exists today. Its teachings draw from mainly Celtic sources but also incorporate ideas from modern psychology and the Human Potential movement.
In 1967 a fire at the Craycroft Nursing Home in Tucson, Arizona sees four die. Many more are saved by the intervention of a group of fourteen teenagers who helped rescue patients.The students had been dining at an all-night diner at around 2AM when they saw emergency vehicles racing to the scene of the fire and followed the, They entered the burning building and carried, lead or pulled patients out. Of the 57 persons inside, 53 were saved.
In 2004 over 3,000 people die in Haiti after Hurricane Jeanne produces massive flooding and mudslides.
In 2017 the Earth failed to end, despite a supposed prophecy known as 'Revelation 12'. This was an apocalyptic belief that an astronomical alignment on 23SEP2017 fulfilled the first two verses of Revelation 12. This date coincided with the Autumnal equinox and the end of the Catholic September Ember Days.
In 2071 a total solar eclipse occurred with totality encompassing the east coast of South America and the Caribbean
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 23, 2020 20:07:37 GMT
Emmett Till,Earle Ovington,James Gibbons, Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle,Jorge Chávez Dartnell,Isa Boletini, John Paul Jones, Ælfwald I and Sicga, Pope Callixtus II, Gaius Octavius and Ross Nichols are good people to meet.Revelation 12 could be a good prophecy to integrate in your campaign. John André, could lead in to a "conspiracy type" adventure.Stalin's attempt could be a good point of divergence for a ah story. and the Merchant Royal treasure could be subject to a national treasure like adventure.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 24, 2020 9:06:03 GMT
Emmett Till,Earle Ovington,James Gibbons, Urbain Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle,Jorge Chávez Dartnell,Isa Boletini, John Paul Jones, Ælfwald I and Sicga, Pope Callixtus II, Gaius Octavius and Ross Nichols are good people to meet.Revelation 12 could be a good prophecy to integrate in your campaign. John André, could lead in to a "conspiracy type" adventure.Stalin's attempt could be a good point of divergence for a ah story. and the Merchant Royal treasure could be subject to a national treasure like adventure. André and Stalin are, to me anyway, the perfect situations for time travellers to blunder into, and cause problems that they (or someone) has to fix. The killing of Ælfwald is another such; the reasons for Sicga to kill him are lost to history. Someone might want to know, go back in time to investigate, only to get enmeshed in events. Easily a pure historical scenario, or one with alien elements.
The Concordat of Worms is another murky bit of medieval diplomacy that could split up the party and get them involved in the exchanges between the Papacy and HRE. Naturally the HRE has some special people of its own along....
The Merchant Royal is the basis for a classic 'lost treasure' adventure; besides the specie there could be interesting artefacts on board. It's also a good way to introduce a new recurring antagonist. Someone, in the more-or-less present, acquires a time machine and decides to acquire some money. The Merchant Royal disappeared without trace (so far, except the anchor) so why not loot the ship? The crew are going to die anyway...
Who doesn't mention Scandinavia much but it wouldn't be impossible to intervene so the dissolution of the union of Norway and Sweden doesn't happen peacefully; historically both sides were prepared for war, and this would probably attract other European powers' meddling.
The escape from Kyrenia Castle has possibilities; maybe prisoners other than Cypriot nationalists were held there? Or was it used by Torchwood?
The Battle of Hill 282 could have been rather different to the historical accounts; with the Highlanders fighting an alien menace and the 'friendly fire' a necessity to stop it.
The Ramat Rachel shooting could be cover for something else. Did the archaeologist uncover something strange or dangerous?
Druids are always goo cover for Sinister Alien Menaces so the OBOD (or an expy of them) could be an antagonist organisation
The Craycroft Nursing Home suggests one thing to me; who do we know operate a surprisingly mobile diner?
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 24, 2020 19:26:32 GMT
24SEP
In 787CE the first assembly of the Second Council of Nicaea occurred at the church of Hagia Sophia to discuss matters of church doctrine, principally the matter of icons; the use and veneration of icons had been suppressed by imperial edict inside the Byzantine Empire.
In 1568 Spanish naval forces defeat an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.
In 1645 the Battle of Rowton Heath ends in a Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles.
In 1830 revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional Government of Belgium.
In 1846 during the Mexican–American War American General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
In 1852 the first powered airship, the Giffard dirigible travels a distance of 27km from the Place de l'Etoile in Paris to Élancourt in about three hours. The craft was a streamlined hydrogen filled gasbag powered by a steam engine and created by Henri Giffard and was the first powered and steerable airship to fly. Under the gasbag was suspended a long beam with a triangular rudder at aft and a platform for the pilot and the steam engine. Significant precautions were taken to minimise the potential for the envelope to be ignited by the engine, including directing the exhaust downwards and surrounding the boiler's stoke hole with wire gauze. The engine was not sufficiently powerful to allow Giffard to fly against the wind to make a return journey.
In 1869 it's Black Friday as gold prices plummet following the decision by President Grant to order the US Treasury to sell large quantities of gold. This was triggered by a plot, principally devised by Jay Gould and James Fisk plot, to control the market. The conspiracy, known as the Gold Ring, was formed between the two investors and Abel Corbin (a small time speculator, married to younger sister of President Grant). They planned to corner the gold market and force up the price of that metal on the New York Gold Exchange. During the Grant presidency it was his policy was to sell Treasury gold at weekly intervals to pay off the national debt, stabilise the dollar, and boost the economy. Gould and Fisk hoped to take advantage of Corbin's connection with the president to obtain information about the government's gold policy, and to prevent the sale of gold. The scheme worked and resulted in a scandal that undermined both the credibility of Grant's presidency and the US economy. During the first week of September George Boutwell (Grant's Secretary of the Treasury) was told by Grant that gold sales would be harmful to Western farmers, an idea planted by Gould and Fisk. Boutwell suspended Treasury gold sales while Gould and Fisk began buying gold, raising the price of gold. After learning about the nature of their scheme, Grant first told Corbin to unload his gold holdings before ordering the release of $4 million in government gold on 24SEP; the move immediately drove down the price of gold, crushing the Gold Ring but also triggering a panic on Wall Street and months of economic turmoil. Thanks to Grant's efforts, as well as those of his administration, a national depression was averted.
In 1877 at the Battle of Shiroyama the Imperial Japanese Army obliterate the remaining rebel Samurai of the Satsuma Rebellion. There were very few survivors of the rebellion, as most chose to charge the Imperial lines and were shot down. The war effectively ended the samurai class; the new Imperial Japanese Army was built on 'commoner' conscripts.
In 1906 US President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
In 1906 existing racial tensions are exacerbated by newspaper spread rumors of rapes, lead to the Atlanta Massacre. The massacre saw armed mobs of white Americans attack African Americans in Atlanta over the 22-24SEP period. The events were reported by newspapers around the world; the French Le Petit Journal which described the "lynchings in the USA" and the "massacre of Negroes in Atlanta". The final death toll of the murder spree is unknown and disputed, but official estimates state that least 25 African Americans were murdered (hanged from lamposts, shot, beaten or stabbed to death) and two whites died (one of a heart attack). Blacks werre pulled from street cars and attacked on the street; white mobs invaded black neighborhoods, destroying homes and businesses.
In 1911 His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
In 1929 Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible. Useful if there's something outside you don't want to see...
In 1946 the top-secret Clifford-Elsey Report on the Soviet Union is delivered to President Truman. This was based on the 'X Article' written by George Kennan.
In 1950 the eastern United States is covered by a thick haze from the Chinchaga fire in western Canada. This forest fire burned in northern British Columbia and Alberta for several weeks, consuming about 1.7mha, and was the single largest recorded fire in North American history. The authorities allowed the fire to burn freely in line with local forest management policy creating the '1950 Great Smoke Pall' observed across eastern North America and in Europe. At the time the existence of the massive fire was not well known and the smoke was mostly in the upper atmosphere, so there was much speculation about the atmospheric haze and its provenance.
In 1957 US President Eisenhower orders the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock in Arkansas to enforce desegregation.
In 1960 the USS Enterprise the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (and second surface vessel), is launched.
In 1972 in an odd pilot mix-up Japan Airlines Flight 472 lands at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in (then) Bombay in India. The DC-8 overran the short runway, which resulted in the aircraft being written off after being damaged beyond economic repair (both engines on the port wing were torn off) and eleven people were injured. Five years later the same flight would be hijacked.
In 1975 the Southwest Face expedition members become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces, instead of using a ridge route.
In 1996 representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
In 2005 Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas.
In 2013 a 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing at least 327 people.
In 2014 the Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to reach Mars orbit, and the first nation in the world to do so in its first attempt.
In 2015 at least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 24, 2020 21:15:24 GMT
the Second Council of Nicaea could be a good pure historical. Devils Tower could be a secret alien base.Black Friday and its surroundings could be a good conspiracy or "what happened here" type of adventure.the Chinchaga fire could be a good distraction or hazard during a adventure.The Giffard dirigible could be used for a base under siege adventure. And the Satsuma Rebellion could involve sontarans.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 25, 2020 19:55:50 GMT
25SEP
In 275CE, after the assassination of Emperor Aurelian, for the last time, and with significant reluctance, the Roman Senate chooses an emperor. They select the 75-year-old Marcus Claudius Tacitus, after eight months of discussion.
In 762 led by Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, the Hasanid branch of the Alids begins the Alid Revolt against the Abbasid Caliphate.
In 1066 at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, the Scandinavians under Harald Hardrada, King of Norway, are defeated by King Harold II of England.
- Unless someone was meddling. Or two someones', one backing the English and one the Vikings....
In 1237 England and Scotland sign the Treaty of York, establishing the location of their common border.
In 1396 the forces of the Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I routs a Christian Crusader army at the Battle of Nicopolis. This victory ends the siege of the Danubian fortress of Nicopolis, leads to the end of the Second Bulgarian Empire and was one of the last large-scale Crusades of the Middle Ages.
In 1513 the Spanish explorer Vasco Núñez de Balboa reaches the body of water that would become known as the Calm or Pacific Ocean.
In 1555 the Peace of Augsburg is signed by Emperor Charles V and the princes of the Schmalkaldic League.
In 1690 the first multi-page newspaper to appear in the Americas is published for the first time in Boston by Richard Pierce, edited by Benjamin Harris. It is also the last publication of Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick (facsimile) because the paper was shut down by the Colonial government on 29SEP1690.
In 1775 during the American Revolution Ethan Allen surrenders to British forces after attempting to capture Montreal during the Battle of Longue-Pointe.
That same day in 1775 Benedict Arnold's expedition to Quebec sets off.
In 1789 the United States Congress passes twelve constitutional amendments; of these the ten known as the Bill of Rights are ratified while the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, and the Congressional Compensation Amendment are never ratified.
In 1790 fFour Great Anhui Troupes introduce Anhui opera to Beijing in honor of the Qianlong Emperor's eightieth birthday.
In 1804 during the Lewis and Clark Expedition the Lakota nation (whom the Americans called Sioux or "Teton-wan Sioux") demand one of the boats and other #gifts' from expedition the as a toll for allowing the expedition to move further upriver. The Americans and the Native Americans had problems when they met and there was a concern the two sides might fight; the Lakota were considered a powerful and aggressive tribe, determined to block free trade on the river, except on their terms. Clark wrote of the Lakota that they were "warlike" and were the "vilest miscreants of the savage race".
In 1868 the Imperial Russian steam-screw frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.
In 1890 the United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
- Probably not a cover for the study of Sasquatch.
In 1906 the inventor Leonardo Torres y Quevedo demonstrates the Telekino, a system for remote operation of vehicles, guiding a boat from the shore, in what is considered to be the first use of a remote control.
In 1911 an explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
In 1926 the international Convention to Suppress the Slave Trade and Slavery is first signed.
- Or perhaps the Convention was part of the League of Nations cover for LONGBOW?
In 1937 during the Second Sino-Japanese War; in a rare Chinese victory the Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
In 1956 TAT-1, the first submarine transatlantic telephone cable system, is inaugurated. Prior to this telephone calls across the Atlantic were made by radio link, first used in 1927; this cost Stg£9 for three minutes and carried an average of around 300,000 calls per annum. TAT-1 had 36 channels, each capable of carrying a voice call or multiple telegraph lines.
In 1957 Central High School in Little Rock in Arkansas is de-segregrated by the use of United States Army troops.
In 1959 Solomon Bandaranaike, the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, is fatally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
In 1963 Lord Denning releases the UK government's official report on the Profumo affair. This was a British political scandal that originated with a brief sexual relationship between John Profumo (then Secretary of State for War) and Christine Keeler, a 19-year-old model who may have been having a relationship with Captain Yevgeny Ivanov, a Soviet naval attaché. The report was later condemned as superficial, inaccurate and unsatisfactory. The Profumo Affair was referred to in Remembrance of the Daleks though the line was cut.
In 1977 the first running of the Chicago Marathon attracts about 4,200 participants.
In 1978 PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing 144 people.
In 1992 NASA launches the Mars Observer. Eleven months later, the probe would fail while preparing for orbital insertion.
- Probably not due to sabotage to conceal what's realy going-on on Mars.
In 2003 the magnitude 8.3 Hokkaidō earthquake strikes just offshore of Hokkaidō in Japan.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 25, 2020 21:05:42 GMT
Solomon Bandaranaike,r Leonardo Torres y Quevedo,Ethan Allen,Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya,Bayezid I, Marcus Claudius Tacitus,Vasco Núñez de Balboa,Richard Pierce, and Benjamin Harris are good people to meet.The Profumo affair could be a good pure historical or conspiracy type of adventure.the Battle of Stamford Bridge, could be a good prequel to the time meddler. And the Mars Observer could be a good ice warrior story.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 26, 2020 21:41:45 GMT
26SEP
In 46BCE on the last day of his triumph, Gaius Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to Venus Genetrix (the mother of Aeneas, and thus the mythical ancestress of the Julian family) in what's now called the Forum of Caesar in Rome; this fulfills a vow he made on the eve of the Battle of Pharsalus two years earlier, when his outnumbered forces had decisively defeated those of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus ('Pompey the Great) at Pharsalus in central Greece. The forum and temple would eventually be completed by Octavian.
- What else might the temple be used for? A base for the Legion of Smoke or
In 715CE Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne, the first definite battle of the civil war which followed the death of Pepin of Heristal, Duke of the Franks, on 16DEC714. The battle was fought between the forces of Ragenfrid (whom Dagobert III had appointed as 'mayor of the palace') against those of Pepin's choice as his successor, his grandson Theudoald. Ragenfrid emerges victorious, and Theudoald fled to his grandmother Plectrude in Cologne. Importantly for known history Charles Martel, Pepin's illegitimate son, soon escaped Plectrude's prison and Dagobert III soon died. These events caused the war to become a three-way conflict.
- Martel is a vital figure in European history; both as the grandfather of Charles the Great (Charlemagne) the first Holy Roman Emperor and in his own right as the power behind the throne in Frankish politics. He was a major figure in restoration of centralised government in Francia, reinforced the position of the Franks as the masters of all Gaul and led the Franks to decisively defeat the Muslim invasion of Aquitaine, at the Battle of Tours in 732. This victory is seen as a crucial, historic act of preservation of Western Culture.
In 1087 William II (William Rufus) is crowned King of England, and reigns until 1100.
- William Rufus had been mentioned before.
In 1345 as part of the Friso-Hollandic Wars the Frisians defeat Holland in the Battle of Warns.
In 1580 Francis Drake finishes his three year circumnavigation of the Earth when the Golden Hind sailed into Plymouth with Drake and 56 remaining crew aboard, along with a rich cargo of spices and captured Spanish treasures. Queen Elizabeth's share (one-half) off the cargo exceeded the rest of the crown's income for that entire year.
- Which is a substantial amount of cash, about Stg£160,000 in all; which paid off her entire government debt and left Stg£40,000 in a new trading company for the Levant.
- The treasure included six tonnes of cloves from the Spice Islands (worth slightly more than their weight in gold), at least tonne of gold, 360,000 pesos, 26 tonnes of silver and more.
- Interestingly Drake's return was kept quiet, ostensibly for political reasons though there may be a different reason...
In 1687 during the Siege of the Acropolis, part of the Morean War, the Parthenon in Athens was used as a gunpowder depot by the Ottoman garrison; during an artillery bombardment by the Venetian forces the store detonates and partially destroys the structure.
- Unless the explosion had a different cause, or was an attempt to stop something.
In 1688 the city council of Amsterdam votes to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution.
- Without their support it's unlikely William would have embarked on his adventure.
In 1774 John Chapman, better knows as 'Johnny Appleseed', the American, agronomist, gardener and environmentalist was born in Leominster in Massachusetts. Chapman introduced apple trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ontario, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and what is now West Virginia. He became an American legend while still alive, and worked as a missionary for The Swedenborgian Church.
In 1777 during the American Revolution, British troops occupy Philadelphia.
In 1789 George Washington appoints Thomas Jefferson the first United States Secretary of State.
In 1799 during the War of the Second Coalition the Franco-Swiss forces defeat the Austro-Russian forces at the Second Battle of Zurich leading to the collapse of Suvorov's campaign.
In 1865 Mary Russell, later Duchess of Bedford is born at Stockbridge in Hampshire. A fascinating woman; aviator and ornithologist, martial artist and nurse, humanitarian and traveller.
- And of course 'Stockbridge' has Whovian resonances.
In 1905 Albert Einstein publishes the third of his four 'Annus Mirabilis' papers, introducing the special theory of relativity.
In 1910 the Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled. His newspaper, Swadeshabhimani ('The Patriot') had become a potent weapon against the rule of the British and the erstwhile princely state of Travancore (now Kerala) and a tool for social transformation.
In 1917 during World War I the Battle of Polygon Wood begins. It would last into early October, part of the Third Battle of Ypres in the First World War.
In 1918 World War I is coming to and end with the start of the last major campaign, the Meuse-Argonne Offensive; it would last until the surrender of German forces. The campaign would last 47 days and is still the largest offensive in United States military history; over 1.25 million American troops would be involved; 360,000 casualties were suffered. US losses were worsened by the inexperience of most of the troops, poor tactics (due to unwillingness to learn from the Franco-British forces) and the onset of the global influenza outbreak, the infamous 'Spanish flu'
In 1933 while according to folklore as gangster George 'Machine Gun' Kelly surrenders to the FBI he would shout out, "Don't shoot G-Men", the story is entirely fabricated. His arrest in Memphis, Tennessee was however the first major case solved by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. The arrest of Kelly and his associates was overshadowed by the escape of ten inmates, including all of the members of the future Dillinger gang, from prison Michigan City, Indiana, that same night.
In 1934 the last of the great ocean liners, RMS Queen Mary, the 'Grey Ghost' is launched. While in reality the supposed hauntings are entirely fabricated, in the Whoniverse there is much strangeness on board.
In 1953 the rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends
In 1954 the Japanese rail ferry Tōya Maru sinks during a typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait. At least 1,172 are killed though the exact number is uncertain as there were victims who obtained passage on the ship at the last minute, and others who cancelled their tickets just before departure.
In 1959 Typhoon Vera (also known as the Isewan Typhoon), the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
In 1960 in Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
- An opportunity for all sorts of skullduggery; possession by electromagnetic entities, doping or otherwise interfering with the participants, subliminal mind control or of course the Silence.
In 1963 and odd incident occurred in the city of Lansing, Michigan; a panicked elephant named Little Rajjee ran from an outdoor circus at the South Logan shopping centre and was chased for 90 minutes through the residential streets of south Lansing. One person was injured and extensive damage was caused to a department store. Despite efforts by her handlers Rajje was panicked by a burglar alarm, and was finally shot by city police.
In 1964 more than 400 residents of the Copenhagen suburb of Valby were injured by the explosion of two large natural gas storage tanks, and at least four of the most critically hurt died in the blast.
In 1969 Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.
Meanwhile in Washington the 26 members of the White House Police (the uniformed division of the Secret Service who stand guard at the White House) began wearing new uniforms decided on by President Nixon personally; inspired by the uniforms of palace guards in other nations. The new uniforms are almost universally criticised and would be retired shortly after Nixon's resignation in 1974. In 1980 the surplus uniforms would be purchased by the marching band of Meriden-Cleghorn High School in Cleghorn, Iowa.
In 1973 Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
- In the Whoniverse what might the programme conceal? A spaceplane using reverse-engineered alien systems? A high speed UNIT command platform? An interceptor using nuclear armed air-to-orbit missiles? Historically there was interest in a high speed bomber version.
In 1980 a right-wing terrorist named Gundolf Köhler is killed by the accidental detonation of the home-made bomb he brought to the Oktoberfest celebrations in Munich; twelve other people die and 211 are injured. It's not entirely sure if he was acting alone.
In 1983 World War Three fails to start when a Soviet Air Force officer named Stanislav Petrov on duty in the 'Oko' ('Perimeter') command centre identifies a report of six incoming ballistic missiles as a computer error and not an American first strike; Petrov's decision to disobey orders and violate Soviet military protocol is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies.
- But what if he had decided differently? Or was influenced by someone? Or had been replaced due to illness?
In 1994 a still mysterious crash occurred at RAF Boscombe Down in Wiltshire. Believed to be closely linked to a 'black' project of some sort an unknown aircraft experienced problems on take-off (probably a failure of the nose-wheel undercarriage) and crashed on the runway. USAF aircraft flooded into the base. Special forces personnel arrived in plainclothes, and the crash site was screened from view by fire engines and tarpaulins. The base was closed to all flights soon and London Air Traffic Control Centre was alerted to a serious incident. Historically the aircraft was probably an unacknowledged plane of some sort, perhaps linked to the 'Aurora' programme. In the Whoniverse it could be much more....
In 2002 the overcrowded Senegalese ferry, MV Le Joola, capsised off the coast of the Gambia, en-route from Ziguinchor in the Casamance region to the Senegalese capital, Dakar. The ship ran into a violent storm, farther out to sea than it was licensed to sail. It is estimated that over 2,000 passengers were aboard, more than three times the ship's design capacity. The death toll was estimated at 1,863; there were 64 survivors
In 2008 Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
In 2014 a mass kidnapping and probably murder occurs in Iguala in Mexico. 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College were forcibly abducted and then disappeared. Two are confirmed to be dead. The involvement of local and federal police, politicians, the Mexican army and organised crime gangs is disputed.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 26, 2020 22:13:04 GMT
Yves Rossy,Little Rajjee, George 'Machine Gun' Kelly, Mary Russell,Johnny Appleseed, Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai Francis Drake,Ragenfrid and Theudoald are good people to meet. The Petrov incident could be a good divergence point for a nuclear war like earth perfect for the silurians to reclaim it.The Boscombe crash could be a UNIT campaign seed.the first presidential debate could be a wire story.The Glorious Revolution could be a good pure or psuedo historical. And the RMS Queen Mary could be a good ghost hunting story or base under siege one.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 27, 2020 20:33:19 GMT
27SEP
In 1066 William of Normandy (aka William the Bastard/Conqueror) and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme river, beginning the Norman invasion of England. The Normans will land at Pevensey in Sussex on 28SEP; there they erected fortifications and raided the surrounding area for supplies for the army, and as to provoke Harold.
In 1331 the Battle of Płowce is fought Poland and the Teutonic Order. In three hours of foghting the Teutonic knights had been defeated and their leader captured. The Polish forces were victorious in this phase of the battle, took prisoner 56 knights, and freed many Polish captives.
In 1422 after the brief Gollub War, the Teutonic Knights sign the Treaty of Melno with Poland and Lithuania. The war lasted two months, mainly over long running territorial disputes between the Knights and Lithuania.
In 1529 Ottoman forced led by Suleiman I attacks the city of Vienna and begins the Siege of Vienna. This was the first attempt by the Ottoman Empire to capture the city of Vienna, part of their intervention into the ongoing Hungarian conflict. The siege would last into mid-October and end in failure; the arquebuses and long pikes of the defenders prevailing. The Ottoman retreat would turn into a disaster with much of the baggage and artillery abandoned or lost in rough conditions, as were many prisoners.
In 1540 the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) receives its charter from Pope Paul III.
- The Jesuits were, and are, the target of many conspiracy theories. In the Whoniverse they may be involved with investigations into alien matters for the church.
In 1590 Pope Urban VII dies 13 days after being chosen as the Pope; the shortest papal regin in history.
- Giovanni Battista Castagna was a compromise candidate for the papacy, and was backed by Ferdinando I de' Medici, the Grand Duke of Tuscany (rumoured to have poisoned his elder brother). Urban VII was strictly against nepotism and he forbade it within the Roman Curia. Which may have contributed to his sudden death from "malaria".
- He also instituted the first known public smoking ban; anyone who "took tobacco in the porchway of or inside a church, whether it be by chewing it, smoking it with a pipe or sniffing it in powdered form through the nose" was threatened with excommunication.
In 1669 after a twenty-one year siege the Venetians surrender the fortress of Candia to the Ottomans. The long duration of the siege and cost to the Ottoman side contributed to the decline of the Ottoman Empire.
In 1822 Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone. The stone itself is the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs; it is inscribed with three versions of a decree issued in Memphis on behalf of King Ptolemy V Epiphanes. The top and middle texts are in Ancient Egyptian using hieroglyphic and Demotic scripts respectively, while the bottom is in Ancient Greek.
In 1825 the world's first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is ceremonially opened. The opening was a huge spectacle; the train left carrying between 450 and 600 people (rather than the 300 planned for). Most travelled in empty waggons but some perches on top of waggons full of coal. It reached 16 to 20km/h, until the waggon carrying the company surveyors and engineers lost a wheel; the waggon was left behind and the train continued. The train stopped again, this time for 35 minutes to repair the locomotive and the train set off again, reaching perhaps 25 km/h before it was welcomed by an estimated 10,000 people at the Darlington branch junction. 14 km had been covered in two hours at an average speed of 13km/h. Six waggons of coal were distributed to the poor.
In 1854 the steamship SS Arctic, while on passage to New York from Liverpool, collides in fog with the French steamer Vesta off the coast of Newfoundland and sinks four hours later with 300 people still on board. Arctic's lifeboat capacity was around 180, enough for less than half those on board; the boats were launched in an atmosphere of panic and disorder, and the principle of "women and children first" was ignored. There were 85 survivors; 24 male passengers and 61 crew; all the women and children died. No one was called to account for the disaster, and no official enquiry was held. Lifeboat provision on passenger-carrying ships remained inadequate until well into the 20th century.
In 1875 the merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is wrecked during a storm, in the mouth of the Mersey River at Liverpool. Shore-based lifeboats crewed mainly by volunteers set out from several lifeboat stations to the aid of the distressed ship after it foundered on a sandbank. One of the lifeboats capsized in heavy seas after picking up the ship's crew, resulting in nine people from the ship as well as three rescuers losing their lives.
In 1903 the Wreck of the Old 97 occurs when the Fast Mail train, en route from Monroe in Virginia to Spencer in North Carolina, derails at the Stillhouse Trestle near Danville in Virginia; the train careened off the side of the bridge. The crash occurred mainly due to excessive speed in order to stay on schedule and arrive at Spencer on time. Eleven people died in the wreck The crash inspired a popular ballad, which was the focus of a convoluted and protracted copyright lawsuit.
In 1908 production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.
In 1916 Iyasu V is deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zewditu. Her reign was noted for the reforms of her Regent and designated heir Ras Tafari Makonnen (who succeeded her as Emperor Haile Selassie I), about which she was at best ambivalent and often stridently opposed, due to her staunch conservatism and strong religious devotion.
In 1938 the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow. She would have a less stories career than the Queen Mary, and a rather undignified end; sold to a Hong Kong businessman who intended to convert her into a floating university, she was damaged in a suspicious fire and capsised.
In 1941 the SS Patrick Henry is launched, becoming the first of more than 2,700 Liberty ships.
In 1944 more than 580 USAAF aircraft take part in the Kassel Mission; navigational errors and heavier than expected German attacks result in the largest loss by a USAAF group on any mission in
In 1956 USAF Captain Milburn Apt becomes the first person to exceed Mach 3, taking the air-launched, rocket propelled Bell X-2 aircraft to approximately Mach 3.2. He does not survive the flight.
In 1962 Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the US Environmental Protection Agency.
In 1964 the prototype of the British TSR-2 aircraft, XR219, makes its maiden flight. Soon afterwards the prohramme is cancelled.
- Though in the Whoniverse it may have survived.
In 1996 confusion on a tanker ship results in the Julie N. oil spill in Portland, Maine.
In 2003 the ESA SMART-1 satellite is launched at 23:14Z rom the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana. It carried a number of sensors into lunar orbit. On 03SEP2006 SMART-1 was deliberately crashed into the Moon's surface, ending its mission.
- Was it expended in an attack on a lunar base? Whose
In 2007 NASA launches the Dawn probe to the asteroid belt.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 27, 2020 21:42:28 GMT
Rachel Carson,Milburn Apt,Iyasu V,Jean-François Champollion, William of Normandy,Pope Urban VII, and Hank Snow are good people to meet.the SMART-1 satellite could have been used as a "first shot " against invader s like the sycorax.the Jesuits could be good overarching villans for a earth absed campaign with one episode focusing on a conspiracy. And the Siege of Vienna could be a great pure historical or a episode involving the sontarans or another militaristic alien race.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 28, 2020 20:17:10 GMT
29SEP
In 551BCE Confucius, the semi-legendary Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history is born in the town of Zou in the State of Lu ((near present-day Nanxin Town in Shandong province of China)
In 48BCE Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) is assassinated by order of King Ptolemy XIII upon arriving in Egypt. In practice the person behind the killing was Potheinus the eunuch, who was regent for the boy king, persuading his other advisors (Theodotus of Chios, Achillas, the king's tutor among them) into his course of action, principally to curry faviour with Caesar. In this the attempt failed; when Caesar arrived in Egypt a few days later, he was appalled. Pompey's head was severed, and his naked body thrown into the sea (where one of Pompey's servants, named Philipo rescued it).
In 235CE during the persecution of Christians in the reign of the Emperor Maximinus Thrax, Pope Pontian resigns after being arrested and sentenced to exile to the mines of Sardinia. His resignation made the election of a new pope possible and allowed an orderly transition in the Church of Rome.
In 351CE at the bloody Battle of Mursa Major (in what is now Croatia) Emperor Constantius II defeats the usurper Magnentius.
In 365 the Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions resting at Constantinople, and proclaims himself emperor.
- Did he perhaps expect some support from unusual allies?
Procopius took control of the imperial city and soon took control of the provinces of Thrace, and later Bithynia. Although Emperor Valens initially despaired of subduing the rebellion, and was inclined to come to terms with the usurper, he quickly rallied, guided by the counsels of Sallustius and Arintheus, and the superior ability of his generals prevailed in two battles at Thyatira and Nacolia where Procopius' forces were defeated. Procopius would be executed on 27MAY366 by being fastened to two trees bent down with force; when the trees were released, Procopius was ripped apart.
In 935 Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia (of the famous Christmas carol) is murdered by a group of nobles led by his younger brother Boleslaus I, who succeeds him. Boleslav had invited Wenceslas to the feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian in Stará Boleslav (his home); Boleslav and three companions, Tira, Česta, and Hněvsa, fell on the duke and stabbed him to death. The martyrdom of Wenceslaus and the popularity of several highly hagiographic biographies gave rise to a reputation for heroic virtue that resulted in his elevation to sainthood. He was posthumously declared to be a king and came to be seen as the patron saint of the Czech state. In September 935, a group of nobles allied with Wenceslas's younger brother Boleslav plotted to kill him. After B duke fell, Boleslav ran him through with a lance.[5]
Sixty years later there is further dynastic murder in the Balkans when, in 995, Boleslaus II, Duke of Bohemia (and son of Boleslaus I), kills most members of the rival Slavník dynasty. Prince Soběslav had attempted for form alliances with the Polish and Saxon rulers. On 28SEP995, Boleslaus' forces and the confederate Vršovci clan stormed Libice Castle in southern Bohemia and massacred the members of the Slavník dynasty that were found there. Boleslaus's brutal triumph ensured the unity of Bohemia under a single ruler.
In 1066 William the Conqueror lands in England, beginning the Norman conquest.
- Unless someone welcomes him with a Davy Crockett...
In 1106 King Henry I of England defeats his brother Robert Curthose at the Battle of Tinchebray (now in the Orne département of France) in Normandy. Henry I had invaded France in pursuit of the Dukedom. Henry's knights won a decisive victory and captured Robert whom Henry imprisoned in England until Robert's death.
In 1238 King James I of Aragon conquers Valencia from the Moors. Shortly thereafter, he proclaims himself king of Valencia.
In 1322 Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, defeats Frederick I of Austria in the Battle of Mühldorf.
In 1538 during the Ottoman–Venetian War, the Ottoman Navy scores a decisive victory over a Holy League fleet in the Battle of Preveza, near Preveza in northwestern Greece. The battle occurred in the same area in the Ionian Sea as the Battle of Actium in 31BCE.
In 1542 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego in California.
In 1781 during the American Revolution, the American forces backed by a French fleet begin the siege of Yorktown. This would end, on 19OCT1781, with a decisive victory by a combined forces over a British army commanded by British peer and Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis. The siege was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War; the surrender by Cornwallis, and the capture of both him and his army, prompted the British government to negotiate an end to the conflict. The battle boosted faltering American morale and revived French enthusiasm for the war.
- An interesting occasion for meddling.
In 1868 the defeat of Royalist forced in the Battle of Alcolea causes Queen Isabella II of Spain to flee to France. The battle was fought over a bridge above Guadalquivir river in the town of Alcolea in the Córdoba region of Spain.
In 1889 the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a metre.
- Perhaps not the most interesting event a Time Lord has ever dragged a companion along to witness, but nonetheless I'm sure it was done.
In 1890 the fascinating Florence Violet McKenzie was born in Hawthorn in Victoria. "Mrs Mac", as she was known, was Australia's first female electrical engineer, the founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps and a lifelong promoter of technical education for women. She campaigned successfully to have some of her female trainees accepted into the all-male Navy, thereby originating the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service and her school trained over 12,000 servicemen in Morse code and visual signalling. In addition to the first woman in Australia to operate her own electrical contracting business, she was the first Australian woman to take out an amateur radio operator's licence. Through the 1920s and 1930s, her "Wireless Shop" in Sydney's Royal Arcade was renowned amongst Sydney radio experimenters and hobbyists. She founded The Wireless Weekly in 1922, established the Electrical Association for Women in 1934, and wrote the first "all-electric cookbook" in 1936. She also corresponded with Albert Einstein in the postwar years.
- A fascinating if little known character, ideally placed to notice oddities and Mad Science (assuming she didn't dabble herself) in Australia, or to help with needed technical skills, supplies and support.
In 1900 another interesting 'character' was born; Isabel Townsend Pell would become an American socialite and later member of the French Resistance during World War II (being decorated with the Legion of Honour). After teh Great War she was one of the Americans (such as Gertrude Stein) who went into self-imposed exile in France; in Pell's case this was prompted by the publicity after her affair with a Metropolitan Opera soprano was revealed and she was forced to leave New York for the more Bohemian, and less homophobic, Paris where where she joined many other eccentric heiresses who sought freedom. She pursued relationships with several women in his period, including the Marquise Claire Charles-Roux De Forbin. During the war Pell took the name of 'Fredericka' and joined the Maquis, serving for four years until she was captured, in SEP1944, by Italian soldiers and interned at Puget-Théniers.
In 1901 during the Philippine–American War, Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own in what's known as the Balangiga massacre.
In 1912 the Ulster Covenant is signed by some 471,414 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill. Sir Edward Carson was the first person to sign the Covenant at Belfast City Hall .
In 1919 two days of race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, part of the Red Summer of 1919. One black man, Will Brown,was lynched and two white rioters also killed; while numerous members of the Omaha Police Department and civilians were injured, including the attempted hanging of Mayor Edward Parsons Smith. The roots of the rioting were complicated, dating to the hiring of blacks as strikebreakers in 1917. The reformist mayor was opposed by the city's criminal establishment (led by Tom Dennison) and the Omaha Business Men's Association, who had little support from the Omaha City Council or the city's unions. Violence began at about 2PM on Sunday 18SEP1919 when a large group of white youths gathered near the Bancroft School in South Omaha and began a march to the Douglas County Courthouse, where Brown (who'd been arrested on a dubious rape charge) was being held. Unusually the police attempted to intervene to disperse the gathering. Shots were fired as the mob pillaged hardware stores in the business district and entered pawnshops, seeking over a thousand firearms. The mob shot at any policeman; seven officers received gunshot wounds, although none of the wounds were serious.
In 1924 the first aerial circumnavigation is completed by a team from the US Army. The 175-day journey covered around 43,000km; around the northern-Pacific Rim, through to South Asia and Europe and back to the United States.
In 1928 Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory at St Mary's Hospital in London, discovering what later became known as penicillin. Fleming published his experimental resultsin 1929 and called the antibacterial substance (the fungal extract) penicillin. Unfortunately he was unable to convince anyone that his discovery was important and it would take years for mass production techniques to be developed.
In 1941 during World War II the Greek Drama uprising against the Bulgarian occupation in northern Greece begins in the city of Drama and the surrounding villages. The revolt lacked organization or military resources and was swiftly suppressed by the Bulgarian Army with massive reprisals.
In 1944 Soviet Army troops liberate Klooga concentration camp in Estonia. 64 prisoners were alive; over 2,400 had been murdered in the previous days. The liberation forces found numerous pyres of stacked corpses left unburned by the camp's guards when they fled.
In 1970 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.
- Unless it wasn't a hear attack.
He died immediately after an emergency Arab League summit on 27SEP in Cairo, where he forged a ceasefire. between the increasingly autonomous PLO and King Hussein's government in Jordan. He was immediately transported to his house, where his physicians tended to him; Nasser died several hours later, around 6PM, at age 52. Nasser's likely cause of death was arteriosclerosis, varicose veins, and complications from long-standing diabetes, exacerbated by his heavy smoking. Five million people attended his funeral.
In 1973 the International Telephone & Telegraph Building in New York City is bombed by the Weatherman group, in protest at ITT's alleged involvement in the coup d'état in Chile. The company financially helped opponents of Salvador Allende's government prepare a military coup.
In 1975 the Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London after an armed robbery goes wrong.
In 1994 the cruise ferry MS Estonia sinks in the Baltic Sea, killing 852 people.
In 1995 Bob Denard and a group of mercenaries take the islands of the Comoros in a coup.
In 2008 Falcon 1 becomes the first privately developed liquid-fuel ground-launched vehicle to put a payload into orbit.
In 2009 the military junta leading Guinea attacks a protest rally, killing or wounding around 1,400 people.
In 2016 the 2016 South Australian blackout occurs, lasting up to three days in some areas. Storm damage to electricity transmission infrastructure triggers a cascade failure of the electricity transmission network; almost the entire state lost electricity supply.
In 2018 the magnitude 7.5 2018 Sulawesi earthquake, which triggered a large tsunami, leaves 4,340 dead and 10,679 injured in Indonesia.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 28, 2020 20:54:31 GMT
Bob Denard , Alexander Fleming,Edward Carson,Florence Violet McKenzie, Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia, Isabel Townsend Pell,Robert Curthose, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Procopius,and Confucius, are good people to meet.the MS Estonia could have been sabotaged in a base under siege scenario.the siege of Yorktown could be a good pure historical taking place over a few months or a psuedo historical with a race thinking humans are to barbaric deciding to conquer them around this time. And Nasser could have been abducted or shot (or replaced by a chameleon or zygon) by aliens and they covered it up.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 29, 2020 9:23:04 GMT
Bob Denard , Alexander Fleming,Edward Carson,Florence Violet McKenzie, Duke Wenceslaus I of Bohemia, Isabel Townsend Pell,Robert Curthose, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Procopius,and Confucius, are good people to meet.the MS Estonia could have been sabotaged in a base under siege scenario.the siege of Yorktown could be a good pure historical taking place over a few months or a psuedo historical with a race thinking humans are to barbaric deciding to conquer them around this time. And Nasser could have been abducted or shot (or replaced by a chameleon or zygon) by aliens and they covered it up. My takes: Confucius: OK, it's possible someone may want to eliminate Confucianism and it's derived philosophies from history but it seems unlikely. So as a bystander/MacGuffin in a plot set in period China, or encountering him later in life. He could well be embroiled in odd goings-on.
The murder of Pompey (and he'll appear twice in today's events, a busy man) could be a background event; perhaps the travellers meet him and then one of them casually reminds them his bloody murder in imminent. Then again he could be in Egypt to meet with an Osiran worshiping cult who could supply him with advanced alien technology to use against Caesar. Cue fun and games with Potheinus and Theodotus.
Procopius is an interesting case to me; rather than a conventional plan to set up a splinter empire at Constantinople perhaps he had a grander plan involving the use of an alien device recovered by the Vigiles Umbrum, and stolen by a renegade faction?
I rather like the idea of a pair of interlinked scenarios involving the Boleslavs set in Bohemia (maybe linked to 'Good King Wenceslaus'?). Start with the murder of Wenceslas by his younger brother (who was known as 'Boleslaus the Cruel') and skip ahead to Boleslav II's own massacre. For further intrigue there's the question of who Biagota, the mysterious mother of Boleslav II, actually was.
The landing of William the Bastard is an obvious occasion for a 'Act of God' preventing the Norman Invasion.
I could see Sixie drag Peri along to the General Conference on Weights and Measures (or Doctor3 taking Jo) and gettimg embroiled in some bizarre plot; perhaps someone from the future )the Alexandrian Society?) tries to steal the metre?
Florence Violet McKenzie could be encountered in Pulp era Australia. Perhaps the travellers need her assistance with contructing a MacGuffin, or she detects something strange with her radio equipment? Or hears about someone purchasing large amounts of electrical parts when supplies run short, and investigates? Or gets chatting to a person with unusual ideas at a social event? Mix in Miss Fisher perhaps? I do think it's time to straighten out my notes on Antipodean weirdness.
Isabel Pell strikes me as a 'recurring background character', someone the PCs meet on multiple occasions (not of course necessarily in proper temporal sequence). Perhaps in New York, then in Paris and later during the Second World War? She could bse useful in frustrating some Sinister Nazi Plot.
Someone meddling with Irish history might attempt to disrupt the signing of the Ulster Covenant.
The 1919 Omaha race riots strike me as gritty background for a scenario, with the PCs trying to achieve someone in the city while avoiding death.
With some effort penicillin could have been available in quantity a decade earlier than historically. The same is true for sulphanilamide (or sulpha) the first of the antibiotics; it was been synthesised in 1906 and was widely used in the dye industry; however it wasn't clinically investigated as an antibiotic until 1932. In 1970 Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack in Cairo.
The death of Nassar could have been unnatural, either assassination or the strain of resisting and alien parasite.
A Denard style coup could bee cover for gaining access to a crashed spaceship.
The 2016 South Australian blackout could be down to something draining the grid.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 29, 2020 18:17:11 GMT
29SEP
In 106BCE Pompey, the future Roman general and politician was born in Picenum (modern Marche/Abruzzo)
In 61 BCE Pompey the Great celebrates his third triumph for victories over the pirates and the end of the Mithridatic Wars on his 45th birthday.
In 1011 the Danes capture Canterbury after a three week siege and take Ælfheah, archbishop of Canterbury, as a prisoner. The details of the siege are lost to history but it's likely that the Danes planned tp repeat their raid of 1009, where they were bought off by the payment of three thousand pounds of silver as danegeld. Ælfheah was held captive for seven months and refused to be ransomed or have his people pay the invaders. This eventually culminated in the archbishop's murder.
In 1267 the Treaty of Montgomery was signed in Montgomeryshire; it recognised Llywelyn ap Gruffudd as Prince of Wales, but only as a vassal of King Henry III.
In 1364 English forces defeat the French in Brittany at the Battle of Auray, ending the War of the Breton Succession (part of the Hundred Years' War). The battle began as a siege and saw an Anglo-Breton army (under Duke John de Montfort) opposed by a Franco-Breton army led by Charles of Blois. The battle was notably bloody, with captives not taken, and was lost greatly due to the failures of Charles of Blois in selecting terrain and tactics.
In 1578 Tegucigalpa (the future capital city of Honduras) was founded by Spanish settlers as Real de Minas de San Miguel de Tegucigalpa on the site of an existing native settlement of the Lenca and Tolupans.
In 1717 a severe earthquake (estimates at magnitude 7.4) strikes Antigua Guatemala, destroying much of the city, the colonial capital of Central America at the time. Over 3,000 buildings were ruined including many temples and churches. Such was the effect of the disaster that the authorities considered moving the headquarters to a settlement which was less prone to natural disasters.
In 1829 constables of the Metropolitan Police of London go on the beat for the first time; the force was founded by Robert Peel under the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 and later absorbed the the Marine Police Force (formed in 1798) and the Bow Street Horse Patrol (formed in 1805).#
In 1848 the Battle of Pákoz, part of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, ends in victory for the Hungarian revolutionary army led by János Móga but Móga fails to press his advantage against the Croatian forces.
In 1864 during the American Civil War the Battle of Chaffin's Farm (part of the Siege of Petersburg) is fought in Virginia.
In 1864 negotiations between Spain and Portugal over their shared border end with the signing of the Treaty of Lisbon. This treaty also abolishes microstate of the Couto Misto. This tiny independent state had existed for centuries due to clerical errors and inaccurate border maps and comprised the three villages of (Santiago de Rubiás, Rubiás and Meaus). This land eluded both Portuguese and Spanish control for centuries.
In 1885 Blackpool sees the opening of the first practical public electric tramway in the world.
In 1918 World War I draws to a close; today Bulgaria signs the Armistice of Salonica, the Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack in the Battle of St. Quentin Canal and Germany's Supreme Army Command tells the Kaiser and the Chancellor to open negotiations for an armistice.
In 1940 in a bizarre aerial accident two Avro Anson transports collide in mid-air over Brocklesby in New South Wales and remain remain locked together while landing safely. There were no serious injuries and one of the aircraft is returned to service.
In 1941 German forces and Ukrainian collaborators, begin the two-day Babi Yar massacre. The act is named after a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv where approximately 33,771 Jews were murdered on the orders of the military governor Generalmajor Kurt Eberhard, the Police Commander for Army Group South, SS-Obergruppenführer Friedrich Jeckeln, and the Einsatzgruppe C Commander Otto Rasch. The massacre was the largest single act of mass killing under the auspices of the Nazi regime and its collaborators during its campaign against the Soviet Union.
In 1954 the convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
In 1957 in the Soviet Union and accident at a plutonium production facility at Ozyorsk creates the Kyshtym disaster, the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded. At least 22 villages were exposed to significant amounts of ionising radiation from the disaster, with a total population of around 10,000 people evacuated. The cause of the accident was a chain of failures; the cooling system in one of the storage tanks (holding aboyt 75 tonnes liquid radioactive waste) failed and was not repaired; the excess heat evaporated solvents and lesft a highly explosive dried residue (mainly ammonium nitrate and acetates). These detonated with the force of about 100 tonnes of TNT and shattered the holding tank. Most of thereleased waste settled out near the site of the accident and contributed to the severe pollution of the Techa river, but a plume of radionuclides spread bout over hundreds of kilometers
In 1988 NASA launches STS-26, the first crewed mission since the Challenger disaster. It landed safely four days later.
In 1990 the YF-22, which would later become the F-22 Raptor, flies for the first time.
In 1991 a coup d'état occurs in Haiti, toppling the elected government of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
In 2004 the asteroid 4179 Toutatis, discovered in 1989, passes within four lunar distances of Earth. The rock is an elongated, stony asteroid, classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid and approximately 2.5 kilometers in diameter. Toutatis is also a Mars-crosser asteroid with a chaotic orbit produced by a 3:1 resonance with the planet Jupiter, a 1:4 resonance with the planet Earth, and frequent close approaches to the terrestrial planets, including Earth. In December 2012, Toutatis passed within about 18 lunar distances of Earth and was the subject of a fly-by by the Chinese lunar probe Chang'e.
In 2004 Burt Rutan's Ansari SpaceShipOne performs a successful spaceflight, the first of two required to win the Ansari X Prize. This was the first privately funded aircraft to exceed Mach 2 and Mach 3, first privately funded crewed spacecraft to exceed 100km altitude, and first privately funded reusable crewed spacecraft.
In 2007 Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station (though until 1964 it was primarily run to manufacture plutonium for nuclear weapons), is demolished in a controlled explosion.
In 2009 Samoa is struck by a magnitude 8.1 earthquake; this and the resulting tsunami that kills 189 and injures hundreds.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 29, 2020 18:31:11 GMT
the Metropolitan Police of London could be a good place to recruit a companion.the Kyshtym disaster could be like a 70's UNIT story or a base under siege. 4179 Toutatis Could have hoito December 21st in a alternate timeline. Babi Yar massacre. could be good pure hhistorical. the Battle of Pákoz could be good for meddling. And SpaceShipOne could be another base under siege.
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Post by Catsmate on Sept 30, 2020 18:51:18 GMT
30SEP
In 489CE the Ostrogoths (under Theoderic the Great in person) decisively defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time at the Battle of Verona. Odoacer was subsequently forced to flee to Ravenna, and Theodoric was free to capture Pavia and Milan, paving the way for Theodoric to gain rulership of the combined Gothic realms.
In 737 the Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the river Oxus (in modern northern Afghanistan), and capture their baggage train, giving the battle it's name; the Battle of the Baggage
In 1399 Henry Bolingbroke is proclaimed king Henry IV of England, the first English ruler since the Norman Conquest whose mother tongue was English rather than French.
In 1520 Suleiman the Magnificent is proclaimed sultan of the Ottoman Empire. He was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 until his death in 1566; under his administration the Ottoman caliphate ruled over at least 25 million people.
In 1541 the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance. De Soto was an explorer and conquistador who, in addition to playing an important role in Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru, is best known for leading the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States (through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and probably Arkansas). He is the first European documented as having crossed the Mississippi river. His North American expedition was a vast undertaking, ranging throughout what is now the southeastern United States, both searching for gold, which had been reported by various Native American tribes and earlier coastal explorers, and for a passage to China or the Pacific coast. De Soto died in 1542 on the banks of the Mississippi River.
- Like the later Lewis and Clark expedition, De Soto could have encountered any sort of oddities during the exploration, only to have the facts suppressed.
In 1551 a coup by the military establishment (led by Sue Takafusa) of Japan's Ōuchi clan, known as the Tainei-ji incident, forces the clan lord to commit suicide, and their city is burned. The coup put an abrupt end to the prosperity of the Ōuchi clan, though they would rule western Japan in name for another six years.
In 1744 during the War of the Austrian Succession France and Spain defeat Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo, but soon have to withdraw from Sardinia anyway. The battle was brought about by a difference in Franco-Spanish policy during the middle part of 1744; Spain wished for an advance along the coast of Italy through Genoa to occupy the lands around Parma while the principal French aim was to humble Piedmont-Sardinia and to force her to detach herself from Austria, or better yet, force her to drop out of the war entirely.
In 1791 the first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute takes place at Schikaneder's theatre (the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna); Mozart conducted the orchestra personally (just two months before his death), Schikaneder himself played Papageno, while the role of the Queen of the Night was sung by Mozart's sister-in-law Josepha Hofer. The opera drew immense crowds and sustained hundreds of performances during the 1790s.
- Another "improving" cultural event for Peri/Tegan/Leela/Jo/Sarah Jane/Mel to be dragged to see. But what happens next? Is it connected to the French Revolution?
In 1882 Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant, the Vulcan Street Plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton (in Wisconsin), housed in the Appleton Paper and Pulp Company building.
- Something could be attracted to a new, and uncommon, source of electricity. Or it may be needed to power the MacGuffin.
In the early hours of 30SEP1888 Jack the Ripper performs his "double event", killing his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes. Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes were both killed in the early morning hours of Sunday 30SEP1888. Stride's body was discovered at approximately 1AM in Dutfield's Yard, off Berner Street (now Henriques Street) in Whitechapel; she had been killed by a single clear-cut incision across her neck. There were no other mutilations, possibly suggesting her killer was interrupted. Several witnesses later informed police they had seen Stride in the company of a man in or close to Berner Street on the evening of 29SEP; however their descriptions differed greatly.
- The Whoniverse has several, contradictory, explanations for the Ripper. Possibly indicating the ares was a nexus of multiple intersecting parallel timelines and several Rippers (human, alien, cybernetic, robotic and temporally displaced) may be plaguing the East Ends of several different Londons. Pursued by several Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, Herbert George Wells, Madame Vastra, several Doctors, multiple groups of time travellers and more.
In 1909 the Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
In 1915 during World War I a Serbian soldier named Radoje Ljutovac, from the village of Poljna, becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire. Ljutovac ends the war as a sergeant and opened a store trading mixed goods in Trstenik; he lived until 1968.
In 1935 the massive and controversial Hoover Dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, astride the border between the US states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated by President Franklin Roosevelt. Construction took five years, thousands of workers and cost over one hundred lives.
In 1938 Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. The Czechs do not take part.
In 1938 the League of Nations unanimously outlaws "intentional bombings of civilian populations".
In 1945 the Bourne End rail crash, in Hertfordshire, England, kills 43 people. The cause of the accident, where an overnight London, Midland & Scottish Railway sleeper train (carrying over 700 passengers) from Perth to London Euston derailed, is not known absolutely but driver error was blamed and seems likely; Driver Sidney Swaby or Fireman Walter Jones are both killed. The inhabitants of the hamlet of Bourne End had been enjoying a VJ day party at the time of the crash, about 8:20PM.
In 1954 the U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear-powered vessel.
In 1999 the (second) Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident. There have been two nuclear accidents at the nuclear facility at Tōkai in Japan. In this one mistakes in the mixing of nuclear fuels in a uranium processing plant led to a criticality incident.
In 2009 the magnitude 7.6 Sumatra earthquake leaves 1,115 people dead.
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Post by missyfan45 on Sept 30, 2020 19:47:30 GMT
Hernando de Soto's escapades could be a entire campaign. The Hoover Dam could be a good location for a base under siege or alien base. Radoje Ljutova could be a good person to meet.the USS Nautilus could be part of a cold war prequel., the Vulcan Street Plant could be part of a "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror" type adventure.The Magic Flute could be a good historical with fantasy themes. And the RMS Mauretania could have sunk in a alternate history.
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 1, 2020 19:27:13 GMT
01OCT
In 331BCE the army of the Hellenic League under Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela (close to the modern city of Dohuk in Iraqi Kurdistan). Despite being severely outnumbered Alexander emerged victorious due to his army's superior tactics; this was the decisive battle of Alexander the Great's invasion of the Persian Achaemenid Empire and Alexander's victory led to the fall of the Achaemenid Empire.
In 366CE following the death of Pope Liberius, Pope Damasus I is consecrated amidst factional violence; thugs hired by Damasus and his supporters would storm the Julian Basilica an massacre many of his opponents. He would preside over the Council of Rome of 382 that determined the official list of Christian scripture.
In 959 Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England, in succession to his older brother Eadwig. He would reign for fifteen years, being about sixteen at his accession. Edgar consolidated the political unity achieved by his predecessors, with his reign being noted for its relative stability. His most trusted advisor was bishop Dunstan, whom he recalled from exile and made Archbishop of Canterbury. The pinnacle of Edgar's reign was his coronation at Bath in 973, which was organised by Dunstan and forms the basis for the current British coronation ceremony.
In 965 Pope John XIII is consecrated. His pontificate was caught up in the continuing conflict between the Holy Roman emperor (Otto I) and the Roman nobility. After long and arduous negotiations John succeeded in arranging a Byzantine marriage for Otto II, in an effort to legitimize the Ottonian claim.
In 1553 Queen Mary I of England is crowned. Her five year reign is best known for her vigorous attempt to reverse the English Reformation, begun by her father Henry VIII. Her attempt to restore to the Church the property confiscated in the previous two reigns was largely thwarted by parliament, but during her five-year reign, Mary had over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake.
In 1588 aged seventeen Abbas is crowned Shah Abbas I of Persia. Pushed to overthrow his father Mohammad at the age of 14 by Murshid Qoli Khan after a large Uzbek army invaded Khorasan in 1587. Although Abbas would preside over the apex of Iran's military, political and economic power, he came to the throne during a troubled time for the Safavid Empire. Under his weak-willed father, the country was riven with discord between the different factions of the Qizilbash army, who killed Abbas' mother and elder brother. Meanwhile, Iran's enemies, the Ottoman Empire and the Uzbeks, exploited this political chaos to seize territory for themselves.
In 1730 the unpopular Ahmed III is forced to abdicate as the Ottoman sultan; he had become unpopular by reason of the excessive pomp and costly luxury in which he and his principal officers indulged. Ahmed voluntarily led his nephew Mahmud I to the seat of sovereignty and paid allegiance to him as Sultan of the Empire.
In 1787 during the Russo-Tirkish war Russians forced under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at the battle of Kinburn, located opposite Ochakov on a sand bank forming a part of the Dnieper river delta. Despite far weaker forces Suvorov won a significant victory and was rewarded by Catherine the Great with the Order of St. Andrew and her highest praise.
In 1814 in the wake of the defeat of Napoleonthe major powers of Europe gather in the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe's political map. This was one of the most important international conferences in European history, complicated, controversial and at times chaotic. It remade Europe after the downfall of Emperor Napoleon I, with the ambassadors of European states chaired by the famous Klemens von Metternich. The congress lasted eight months in Vienna. The principal objective of the Congress was to provide a long-term peace plan for Europe by settling critical issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars; not simply to restore old boundaries but to resize the main powers so they could balance each other and remain at peace. France lost all its recent conquests while Prussia, Austria and Russia made major territorial gains while the new Kingdom of the Netherlands was formed. The congress is and was immensely controversial; conservative and reactionary it managed to achieve a mostly peace ful Europe for a century.
- This is a prime opportunity for meddling, either to impose greater stability (perhaps attempting to present the First World War) or to alter the balance in favour of one power. Or simply to replace or control a sufficient number of statesmen to allow for a general takeover.
In 1832 Texian political delegates convene at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Mexican Texas. The Convention of 1832 was the first political gathering of colonists in Mexican Texas. Delegates sought reforms from the Mexican government and hoped to quell the widespread belief that settlers in Texas wished to secede from Mexico. The convention was the first in a series of unsuccessful attempts at political negotiation that eventually led to the Texas Revolution.
In 1910 at 1:07AM large bomb, left the previous night by James Barnabas McNamara, detonates in "Ink Alley", an narrow alley between the Los Angeles Times building and the Times annex in Los Angeles. the explosion ignites barrels of highly flammable ink in the alley and gas mains in the building; unusually dozens of staff were working overnight and 21 people die in the fire. The building collapses later due to fire damage. The bombing was part of the ongoing, bitter and violent labour dispute involving the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers; the Times' publisher, Harrison Gray, was vehemently anti-union McNamara admitted the bombing, is convicted and jailed along with his brother John; their trial became a cause célèbre for the American labour movement. This bomb was an escalation of the union's bombing campaign which had previously only targeted non-union workplaces (three other bombs planted that night failed).
- This is a prime opportunity for dubious characters, with no ties to the city, no visible means or support, character witnesses or papers, to get into a lot of trouble.
In 1931 the George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York is opened, though the formal dedication with President Roosevelt is on 24OCT The George Washington Bridge is a New York icon, an enormous double-decked suspension bridge spanning the Hudson River, connecting the borough of Manhattan with the New Jersey borough of Fort Lee.
- A spectacle to watch, or an opportunity to meet FDR and frustrate the plan to implant him with a neural control device.
In 1936 Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
- This is a significant event; unity of leadership was one of the main advantages of the Nationalists in their insurrection against the elected Republican government.
That same day the Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia dissolves itself, handing control of Catalan defence militias over to the Generalitat, the independent Catalan government.
1938 Hitler's Germany annexes the Sudetenland, it's "last territorial claim". Betrayed by the nominal French and British allies the Czechs do not resist.
- Unless of course they do, and derail the Nazi conquest.
In 1942 the American submarine USS Grouper torpedoes the Japanese freighter Lisbon Maru, not knowing that the ship is carrying British prisoners of war from Hong Kong. Over 800 die in the sinking mainly due to the Japanese policy of deliberately not allowing them to evacuate; once the Japanese troops leave the sinking ship the hatches were battened down above the prisoners. After 24 hours it became apparent that the ship was sinking and the prisoners were able to break through the hatch covers; some were able to escape from the ship before it sank. Members of the Royal Artillery in the hold could not escape; they were last heard singing "It's a Long Way to Tipperary". Survivors reported that other Japanese ships machine gunned prisoners in the water.
In 1943 after the Four Days of Naples, a popular ad hoc uprising in the city, Allied troops enter Naples. The uprising, while unorganised and unplanned severely disrupted German plans to deport Neapolitans en masse, destroy the city and prevent Allied forces from gaining a strategic foothold.
In 1946 rhe Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied-occupied Korea, starting in in Busan. This is a mixture of peasant uprising throughout the southern provinces of Korea (against the policies of the United States Army Military Government) and communist inspired insurrection.
In 1961 the United States Defense Intelligence Agency is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military intelligence organization.
In 1964 the Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. This was an enormous, long-lasting student protest at the campus, and part of sustained campus revolts of the period.
That same day in Japan the Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka, cutting travel time from six hours and 40 minutes to less than four hours (later reduced to just over three hours). Within three years 100 million passengers had used the service, and over one billion by 1976.
In 1971 the first practical CT (computerised tomography, basically three dimensional x-rays using computer generated imaging) scanner is used to diagnose a patient.
In 1985 "Operation Wooden Leg" sees Israeli F-15s attack the Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters in Tunisia during . The attack lasted for six minutes, after which the F-15s flew back to Israel, refuellling over the Mediterranean.
In 1987 the magnitude 5.9 Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley in California, killing eight and injuring 200.
In 2015 heavy rains trigger a major landslide in the village of El Cambray Dos in Guatemala, killing 280 people and dozens are never found.
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Post by missyfan45 on Oct 1, 2020 19:38:34 GMT
Ink Alley could be good for a meddler to get in to. Edgar the Peaceful, Queen Mary I of England i, Pope John XIII,, Pope Damasus I, andShah Abbas I of Persia are good people to meet.the Shinkansen could be good for a base under siege or a model for a alien train.The Lisbon Maru could be a abduction like adventure. And the Sudetenland could be a ah divergence in a no Nazis universe.
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