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Post by Catsmate on Oct 3, 2020 10:35:33 GMT
Yesterday is slightly late.
02OCT
In 829CE on the death of his father, Michael II, Theophilos succeeds him as Byzantine Emperor. This was one of the periods that remind us why 'byzantine' is used to describe complex internal politics. Theophilos's father Michael was involved in a complex series of coups and conspiracies. including the overthrow of Emperor Michael I, the installation of Leo V the Armenian, the assassination of Leo V, the revolt of Thomas the Slav as well as extenal military threats. Then there's the question of Theophilos's sister Helena, who disappears from history.
In 939CE at the Battle of Andernach at Andernach on the Rhine, the Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I,crushes a rebellion against his rule by a coalition of mainly Frankish dukes led by Eberhard of Franconia. Most of the rebel leaders die in the battle.
In 1187 the Siege of Jerusalem ends when the Crusader leader Balian of Ibelin surrenders the city to Saladin. Compares to the Crusader capture of the city in 1099 the take-over of the city was relatively peaceful, though about 7,000 men and 8,000 women and children who could not pay the 10 dinar ransom and were not resident in the city were sold into slavery. Many of the Christian refugees fled to Tyre, Acre and later Alexandria where they received worse treatment by the co-religionists,
In 1263 the Battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots. Almost forgotten today, this skirmish was considered a major historical event at one time though it was a fairly indecisive engagement between small forces of the kingdoms of Norway and Scotland. It happened on the Firth of Clyde near Largs in Scotland and was part of the Norwegian expedition against Scotland in 1263, in which the King of Norway (Haakon Haakonsson) attempted to reassert Norwegian sovereignty over the western seaboard of Scotland.
1452 the (in)famous Richard of Gloucester, later Richard III of England, is born in Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire. His life and actions are, to pit it mildly, controversial and disputed.
In 1470 the rebellion led by "the Kingmater", Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, briefly restoring Henry VI to the throne. Edward fled to Flanders and gathered support; he invaded England in March 1471 and regained his throne after victories at the battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury. Shortly afterwards, Henry VI was found dead in the Tower of London. Edward reigned in relative peace for the following twelve years.
In 1528 William Tyndale (better known for his translation of the bible into English and his execution for that) publishes The Obedience of a Christian Man, which advocates the divine right of kings and is often interpreted to argue that the king of a country should be the head of that country's church. This was used by the English King Henry VIII as a rationale to break the Church in England from the Catholic Church.
In 1552 the Russo-Kazan Wars come to an effective end with the entry of Russian troops in Kazan and the end of the siege.
In 1814 disaster strikes for the rebels during the Chilean War of Independence as Royalist troops defeat Chilean forces led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José Miguel Carrera at the Battle of Rancagua. This defeat ended the Chilean Patria Vieja and was the decisive step of the Spanish Reconquest of Chile.
In 1835 the Texas Revolution starts when Mexican troops attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
In 1864 during the American Civil War, Confederate forces defeat a Union attack on Saltville in Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners (most of them are from a Black cavalry unit) ensues. The number killed isn't definitely known; both Confederate soldiers and irregular guerrilla forces under the infamous Champ Ferguson murdered white and black Union soldiers, initially on the battlefield and later some wounded in a field hospital. Probably 30-50 were murdered.
1869 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi the Indian freedom activist, lawyer and philosopher was born in Porbandar in British India. A famour, and controversial, figure around the world his nonviolent resistance would contribute greatly to the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule, and inspire similar movements around the world.
In 1919 the US President, Woodrow Wilson, suffers a massive stroke. Wilson is completely incapacitated for several weeks and suffers lasting neurological problems; he is paralysed on his left side and has only partial vision in the right eye. For those weeks Wilson was sequestered from everyone except his wife and physicians who effectively exercise Executive functions in his name. While the extent of his injuries are concealed for some time, by February 1920 his true condition was publicly known and this is much public disquiet about Wilson's fitness for the presidency. At the time the matter of US involvement in Wilson's League of Nations is in dispute, and there are numerous domestic issues such as strikes, unemployment, inflation, the perceived threat of Communism and race riots. However no-one was willing to certify him unable to discharge the office.
In 1928 the "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded. A group with a dubious and occasionally sinister reputation
In 1937 thousands of Haitans who fled that country to the Dominican Republic are ordered expelled or killed by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo; the deaths, of over twelve thousand, living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic become known as the Parsley Massacre
In 1941 in Operation Typhoon German forces attempts to capture Moscow before the onset of winter. The attempt is frustrated by early snow, which melts creating the 'rasputitsa' mud which slows the German advance allowing the Soviets to reinforce the city.
In 1942 the ocean liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks the light cruiser HMS Curacoa north of Ireland, killing 337 crewmen aboard the Curacoa. The elderly cruiser is struck amidships by the faster and far larger liner and cut in two. Following operational procedure the liner does to stop to rescue survivors.
In 1968 Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration by unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics. Probably between 300 and 400 people are killed.
In 1990 during a hijacking Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 lands at Guangzhou airport, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128.
In 1992 Brazilian military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo to end a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead.
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Post by missyfan45 on Oct 3, 2020 16:17:46 GMT
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Woodrow Wilson, Richard of Gloucester, later Richard III of England, Rafael Trujillo,Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, Champ Ferguson,William Tyndale Michael II, Theophilos, Eberhard of Franconia, and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi are good people to meet. Opus Dei could be s good campaign villain or arc. And Operation Typhoon could be a good ah story or psuedo historical.
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 3, 2020 21:00:41 GMT
03SEP
In 2457BCE Hwanung the mythical(?) founder of Korea purportedly descended from heaven. The data is South Korea's National Foundation Day (Gaecheonjeol) and is also celebrated in the North. This is the oldest, in terms of yBP, entry in this list and while I've generally omitted national founding days and similar, this is more interesting. In Korean myth Hwanung (approximately "the Supreme Divine Regent") is an important figure playing a central role in the story of Dangun Wanggeom the legendary founder of Gojoseon, the first kingdom of Korea. Hwanung is describes as the son of Hwanin, the "Lord of Heaven". He instituted laws and moral codes and taught the humans various arts, including medicine, and agriculture, having been allowed (with 3000 followers) to leave from heaven to a sandalwood tree on what's now Baekdu Mountain. There Hwanung founded Sinsi ("City of God") and transformed a bear into a beautiful woman, who eventually bore him a son, Dangun ("Altar Prince") who would in turn found Gojoseon.
- A fascinating myth and one that could easily be woven into a scenario with Hwanung as an alien or stranded time traveller.
In 86BCE the Roman politician Gaius Cassius Longinus, generally referred to as Cassius, is born. Cassius was a prominant Roman senator and general best known as a leading instigator of the plot to assassinate Julius Caesar on 14MAR44BCE. He was the brother-in-law of Brutus, another leader of the conspiracy and later commanded troops with Brutus during the Battle of Philippi against the combined forces of Mark Antony and Octavian.
In 52BCE Vercingetorix, the leader of the combined Gallic tribes, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia. The battle took place around the Gallic fortified settlement (oppidum) of Alesia, probably atop Mont Auxois, above modern Alise-Sainte-Reine in France. It was the culminating engagement between Gauls and Romans, and is considered one of Caesar's greatest military achievements, a classic example of siege warfare and investment. The battle ended Gallic independence in France and Belgium; the lands became a Roman province.
In 42BCE at the First Battle of Philippi the triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian achieve a decisive victory over Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius, ending the Wars of the Second Triumvirate between the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian (of the Second Triumvirate) and the leaders of Julius Caesar's assassination, Brutus and Cassius. The war, ostensibly to revenge the death of Caesar, masked deep political divisions in Roman, between the conservatives and populists, the so-called Optimates and the so-called Populares. The battle was enormous by contemporary standards, involving perhaps 200,000 troops and was fought on the plain west of the ancient city of Philippi. The Roman armies fought poorly; discipline was mediocre, tactical co-ordination bad and the lack of command experience very. After the battle Cassius committed suicide on his 44th birthday.
In 382CE the Roman Emperor Theodosius I (the Great) concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans. This ended the Gothic War, which had gone poorly for the Romans in military terms; the treaty established the Goths as foederati, autonomous allies of the Empire in Illyricum (the Balkans, south of the Danube) within the Empire's borders. They were given lands and allowed to remain under their own leaders, not assimilated as had been normal Roman practice.
In 1574 the Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen or Sea Beggars.. The siege had lasted over a year, with the Spanish under Francisco de Valdez attempting to capture the rebellious city of Leiden in South Holland. During the siege thousands of the inhabitants died of starvation and at least eight thousand from a plague. The city only held out because they knew that the Spanish soldiers would massacre the whole population in any case. Curiously while the Spanish were withdrawing they were worried by a 'terrible crash' they heard from the city; in fact much of the city wall had toppled, leaving the city completely vulnerable to attack, had any chosen to remain.
- Dirt, fear, blood, starvation and disease; the perfect mix for a very gritty scenario. Perhaps with someone using the events a cover to harvest the populace? And accidentally altering history to give the Spanish victory.
In 1683 forced under the Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang force the surrender of the Tungning kingdom on Taiwan after the Battle of Penghu. The battle involved perhaps five hundred ships and ended Tungning independence.
In 1712 the Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor. Despite the sanitised portrayal MacGregor was a charismatic, conniving, calculating thief, blackmailer (the term is Scottish) as well as cattle dealer (and russler). In 1712 MacGregor was broke and borrowed money from Montrose and others; he absconded with over £1,000 and became a cattle thief, preying mainly from Montrose, who'd earlier been his benefactor. In this MacGregor was allied with Montrose's archenemy, the Duke of Argyll, who supported MacGregor and gave him refuge in Glenshira Montrose took his revenge by seizing MacGregor’s house and throwing his wife and four young sons out.
In 1873 Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California. The Modoc War was a guerilla war fought by Native Americans,mainly a band of the Modoc tribe of California and Oregon who left the Klamath Reservation and led by Kintpuash, also known as Captain Jack(!). It lasted over a year with the small force making use of the lava beds to hold off more numerous United States Army forces.
In 1909 James Reid Moore of Ipswich in East Anglia, discovered what he believed to be flint tools dating from the Pliocene era (5.3 to 2.6 million years BP), and evidence of the first human habitation of Britain. In fact it was later determined that the flint objects were natural erosion phenomena. Unless of course they weren't.
- What else might have been found, dating back millions of year, with the flint tools?
In 1912 US forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
That same day the longest drought in US history began in Bagdad in San Bernardino County, California. For the next 767 days, more than two years, no rain fell on the town in the Mojave Desert.
In 1935 the Second Italo-Ethiopian War began with the bombing of Adwa by Italian warplanes. Haile Selassie ordered a general mobilization to resist the first phase of the war began with De Bono's invasion of Abyssinia in the north.
In 1942 a German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85km altitude.
In 1943 German forces murder 92 civilians in Lyngiades in Greece. The village of Lyngiades, near Ioannina in northwestern Greece, was arbitrarily chosen as a target for reprisals by the Wehrmacht due to the killing of a German officer by members of the Greek Resistance. The vast majority of the victims were children, women and the elderly.
In 1952 the United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear fission weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
In 1962 as part of Project Mercury, Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
In 1963 a violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule, ten days before the elections scheduled for 13OCT. Ramón Villeda Morales is overthrown as the President of Honduras; he is deported to Costa Rica. At least 120 people were killed in the coup.
That same day Hurricane Flora reached its highest wind speed, over 330kmh, and made landfall at Haiti; over the next three days almost two metres of rain would fall and more than 5,000 Haitians would die. Although the storm had been spotted seven days earlier, Haitian President Francois Duvalier had prohibited the radio broadcast of any warnings, as a measure to "reduce panic".
In 1978 an elderly Finnish Air Force DC-3 crashes, killing all 15 people on board. The 35 year old aircraft crashed into Lake Juurusvesi in Rissala due to metal fatigue in an engine cylinder. Most of the victims were politicians and prominent businessmen attending a National Defence Course meeting. Not on-board was Tarja Halonen, the future President of Finland, who'd been advised by her physician not to fly, due to her late-stage pregnancy
In 1986 TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.
In 1989 a coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.
In 1993 an American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu goes badly wrong; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis will die.
In 2013, at least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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Post by missyfan45 on Oct 3, 2020 22:26:30 GMT
Wally Schirra ,Chief Kintpuash, (could be a version of captain jack from a parallel universe or something)James Reid Moore(some silurian technology perhaps)Tarja Halonen,Shi Lang,Haile Selassie,Rob Roy MacGregor, Hwanung (your idea is just like how people theorize the ancient astronaut theory),and Theodosius I are good people to meet.the First Battle of Philippi could be avoided or won the other way preventing the Roman empire from happening by some meddlers. And the Siege of Leiden could be a good moral dilemma episode.
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 4, 2020 19:20:20 GMT
04OCT
In 23CE Lülin rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. This is one of the events that would lead to the end of Wang Mang's short-lived Xin dynasty (which ruled what is now southern Henan and northern Hubei)
In 1302 the Byzantine–Venetian War (an offshoot of the second Venetian–Genoese War, which ran from 1294 ti 1299) comes to an end. The Venetian fleet had arrived before Constantinople in July and staged a demonstration of force before the city; admiral Belletto Giustinian had the population of the island of Prinkipos flogged. This induced the Byzantine government to propose a peace treaty, which allowed the Venetians to keep the islands of Kea, Santorini, Serifos and Amorgos.
In 1363 the six-week Battle of Lake Poyang, one of the largest naval battles in history, ends with victory for the rebels, led by Zhu Yuanzhang. The battle was part of the Red Turban Rebellion which would lead to the end of the Yuan dynasty.
In 1535 the Coverdale Bible is printed, by Merten de Keyser, in Antwerp, with translations into English by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale. This was the first complete modern English translation of the Bible and the first complete printed translation into English. The 1537 folio edition carried the royal licence and was therefore the first officially approved Bible translation in English. The Psalter from the Coverdale Bible was included in the Anglican Book of Common Prayer beginning in 1662, and in all editions of the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer until 1979.
In 1582 the Gregorian Calendar is introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.
In 1597 Spanish Governor of the province of La Florida, Gonzalo Méndez de Canço begins to suppress a native uprising against his rule in what is now Georgia. The rebellion, known as Juanillo´s revolt, was among the Native Americans in the province who were concerned about the spread of Christianity and their gradual loss of sovereignty.
In 1636, during the Thirty Years' War, the Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock, though they suffered serious casualties in so doing. Wittstock was a resounding victory for the Swedish forces and corrected any delusions harboured by the Imperialists that they were a spent force after the earlier battle of Nördlingen.
In 1693 during the Nine Years' War, Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French, under Marshal Nicolas Catinat, at the Battle of Marsaglia. was a battle in the Nine Years' War, fought in Italy on 4 October 1693, The battle is noted as one of the first, and perhaps the first, instances of a bayonet charge by a long deployed line of infantry, the first use of Hussar light cavalry in western Europe and the first major battle to see the new Irish Brigade in action for the French.
In 1777 troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under William Howe at the Battle of Germantown, a major engagement in the Philadelphia campaign of the American Revolutionary War. The battle was one of a series of rebel defeats (Brandywine on 11SEP, Paoli on 20SEP, the capture and occupation of the rebel capital of Philadelphia on 26SEP) and mainly due to Washington's poor tactics, planning an over-complicated set of maneuvers for his army. Despite the defeat, the French government decided to lend greater aid to the Americans and Howe did not vigorously pursue the defeated Americans. Washington, his army intact, withdrew to Valley Forge, where he wintered and re-trained his forces.
In 1795 Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to prominence by suppressing counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention in the 13 Vendémiaire battle. Given a free hand by the Convention he uses massed musket fire and artillery firing canister at short range to defeat a force outnumbering his about six-to-one by Royalists. Bonaparte commanded in person throughout the two-hour engagement, and survived unscathed despite having his horse shot from under him. The Scottish philosopher and historian Thomas Carlyle later famously recorded that, on this occasion, Bonaparte gave his opponent a "Whiff of Grapeshot".
In 1830 the Belgian Revolution formally begins when the provisional government secedes from the Netherlands.
In 1853 the Crimean War begins when the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire. Soon Britain and France would become involved and the war would drag on, seeing the first use of steam powered vehicles in warfare and the proposed use of poison gas.
In 1883 the full service Orient Express runs for the first time. Actually the rail link to Istanbul doesn't exist until 1889 so the train terminates in Varna. The Orient Express was a fascinating development, the first service to cross Europe, from Paris to Istanbul (with the last leg by boat until 1889). After the Great War (which forced the service to be suspended) a second route through the Simplon tunnel and via Milan was introduced. The train has appeared in number films, books and other media, from Draculs to James Bond, synonymous with intrigue and luxury travel. I'm sure many travellers would be interested in joining the maiden voyage; Sir Harry Flashman was there was there, as was the infamous journalist Henri Blowitz.
In 1896 Dorothy Lawrence was born in Hendon, Middlesex. She is best known, in her journalistic career, for posing as a male soldier in order to report from the front line during World War I. After revealing herself she was suspected of being a spy and was held under arrest. After the war Lawrence slowly began to lose her sanity and in the end eventually ended up dying in an insane asylum.
In 1911 Sir Almroth Wright, who had developed a vaccine against typhoid fever, begins inoculation of 50,000 gold miners with an anti-pneumonia vaccine. Unfortunately by 1915 it is discovered to be a failure because of the various forms of pneumococci.
Also on this day Dr. Joseph Bell, the Scottish surgeon who was Arthur Conan Doyle's inspiration for Sherlock Holmes dies at the age of 74.
In 1912 the Royal Navy submarine B2 collides with the Hamburg America Line ship Amerika off the coast of Dover in the early hours of the morning. 15 sailors die, there is one survivor. At the time of the collision B2 was part of a flotilla of thirteen submarines patrolling off Dover as part of Royal Navy maneuvers; it crossed less than twenty metres in front of the bow of the Amerika, which was moving twice as fast and was unable to stop.
In 1917 the Battle of Broodseinde, part of the Third Battle of Ypres, is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
In 1918 an series of huge explosions, totalling over six kilotonnes, kills more than 100 people and destroys a munitions plant in New Jersey. The explosions began at 7:36PM and trigger a fire and subsequent series of explosions that continued for three days. The death toll is approximate as several people were effectively vapourised. Over a century later explosive debris continues to surface regularly in the area.
In 1927 Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
In 1936 an attempt by the British Union of Fascists (the Blackshirts, led by Oswald Mosley) to march in uniform through a predominantly working class and Jewish section of the East End of London is frustrated by violent clashes known as the Battle of Cable Street. Attempts to persuade the British government to ban or re-route the march (including a petition by over 100,000 local people) had failed and an alliance of various anti-fascist groups, including anarchist, communist, Jewish and socialist groups, members of the British Labour party and Irish dockers, many thousands strong engaged in an hours-long running battle with fascists and the Metropolitan Police, who were sent to protect them. After a series of running battles Mosley agreed to abandon the march. This was one of a number of such clashes in the period.
1954 the Dutch motor trawler (sometimes mistakenly listed as a cutter) De Jong Jochem (also mis-named as 'Jonge Jochem' sails from Den Helder with five crew, and is never heard from again.
In 1957 Sputnik 1 becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth. The small satellite was launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit and transmitted for three weeks before its batteries died and then orbited silently for two months before it fell back into the atmosphere. Its radio signal was easily detectable by radio amateurs, and the 65° inclination and duration of its orbit made its flight path cover virtually the entire inhabited Earth. The satellite precipitated the American Sputnik crisis and triggered the Space Race.
In 1963 Hurricane Flora kills over seven thousand people in the Caribbean, mainly in Cuba and Haiti.
In 1991 The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty (the Madrid Protocol) is opened for signature. It provides for comprehensive protection of the Antarctic environment and dependent and associated ecosystems.
In 1992 El Al Flight 1862, a Boeing 747 cargo aircraft, crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
In 1993 as part of the stand-off between Boris Yeltsin and the Russian parliament, tanks bombard the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Yeltsin rally outside. Relations between the president and the parliament had been deteriorating for some time but came to a head when Yeltsin attempted to illegally dissolve the country's legislature, although the constitution did not give the president the power to do so. In response, the parliament declared the president's decision null and void, impeached Yeltsin and proclaimed vice president Aleksandr Rutskoy to be acting president. On 02OCT demonstrators removed police cordons around the parliament and the army stormed the Supreme Soviet building in the early morning hours of 04OCT by Yeltsin's order, and arrested the leaders of the resistance. At the climax of the crisis Russia was on the brink of civil war.
In 1997 the second largest cash robbery in US history occurs in North Carolina
In 2004 SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight.
In 2010 the Ajka plant accident in Hungary releases a million cubic metres of liquid alumina sludge, killing nine, injuring 122, and severely contaminating two major rivers.
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Post by missyfan45 on Oct 4, 2020 20:07:07 GMT
the 1993 constitutional crisis could be a good set off point for a civil war in a ah.Gutzon Borglum,William Howe, Dr. Joseph Bell (the Paternolster gang could meet him) Almroth Wright, Gonzalo Méndez de Canço,Wang Mang,Dorothy Lawrence and ,Thomas Carlyle are good people to meet. The Gregorian calendar could be targeted by faction paradox. Sputnik could have been manipulated by the silence and also could be a Jagaroth experiment. The Orient Express could be a good base under siege or somebody could try and make the voyage crash like the titanic's in a ah. And the Coverdale Bible could be stolen by time traveling historical thieves.
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 4, 2020 22:24:00 GMT
the 1993 constitutional crisis could be a good set off point for a civil war in a ah.Gutzon Borglum,William Howe, Dr. Joseph Bell (the Paternolster gang could meet him) Almroth Wright, Gonzalo Méndez de Canço,Wang Mang,Dorothy Lawrence and ,Thomas Carlyle are good people to meet. The Gregorian calendar could be targeted by faction paradox. Sputnik could have been manipulated by the silence and also could be a Jagaroth experiment. The Orient Express could be a good base under siege or somebody could try and make the voyage crash like the titanic's in a ah. And the Coverdale Bible could be stolen by time traveling historical thieves. The Orient Express is a classic background/location, everyone from Graham Greene to Iam Fleming, Agatha Christie (twice) to Bram Stoker, has used it. No to mention Call of Cthulhu and Who itself, if relocated. It could be used in a Victorian/Paternoster setting, the Pulp era or even in the immediate post-WW2 period. Or it could be moved into the future; rail travel is seeing a resurgence so perhaps the service will be revived (fusion powered?) later this century or as part of the Interstitial Mass Transit System. Personally I rather like the idea of Murder on the Orbital Express, set in a group of beanstalk carriages.
Wright is an interesting character, often able to see ahead but also so often very wrong.
Cable Street has potential for the culmination of a campaign in thirties London society, similar to Players.
In First Frontier Sputnik 1 was not the first such satellite.
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 5, 2020 11:37:56 GMT
05OCT
In 578 Justin II, Byzantine emperor, dies at the age of 58. He had effectively given up the imperial throne four years earlier after falling into bouts of insanity; he was described as behaving like a wild animal, being wheeled about on a mobile throne and requiring organ music to be played day and night. His wife, Sophia, and adopted son and heir, Tiberius, ruled together as joint regents for four years. On Justin's death Tiberius succeeded him as emperor Tiberius II Constantine.
In 610 Heraclius arrives at Constantinople, kills Byzantine Emperor Phocas, and is crowned emperor. Heraclius and his father had renounced their loyalty to Emperor Phocas earlier and attempted to overthrow the unpopular and incompetent Phocas. As Heraclius approached Constantinople he made contact with prominent leaders from the city and planned his assault; he also arranged a ceremony where he was crowned and acclaimed as Emperor. When he reached the capital, the Excubitors, the elite Imperial Guard, deserted to Heraclius, and he entered the city without significant resistance. When Heraclius captured Phocas, he beheaded him on the spot Heraclius was crowned for a second time, this time in the Chapel of St. Stephen within the Great Palace; at the same time he married Fabia.
In 816 King Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne, is crowned emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. Previously Louis was the King of the Franks and co-emperor with his father.
In 869 the Fourth Council of Constantinople is convened by Emperor Basil I the Macedonian, with the support of Pope Hadrian II, to depose Photios, who had been appointed as Patriarch of Constantinople, and reinstate his predecessor Ignatius.
In 1607 Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi is attacked by by assassins and left for dead with three stiletto thrusts; he would recover. This was not the first attempt to kill the brilliant Sarpi, a loyal Venetian statesman, by agents of Pope Paul V and his nephew Cardinal Scipio Borghese. Sarpi was a historian, prelate, scientist and canon lawyer in addition to his work on behalf of the Venetian Republic during the period it was under Papal Interdict. His writings were highly critical of the Catholic Church (he was a proponent of the separation of Churchand state), a hero of republicanism and free thought and a prolific author of what would now be called historical monographs. In the sciences he was a noted experimenter, a proponent of the Copernican system, friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua who corresponded extensively across Europe.
In 1789 the Women's March on Versailles effectively terminates royal authority in France. It started early on a Monday morning when a young woman struck a marching drum at the edge of a group of market-women who were infuriated by the chronic shortage and high price of bread. From their starting point in the markets of the eastern section of Paris then known as the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, the angry women forced a nearby church to toll its bells to summon more people. More women from other nearby marketplaces joined in, many bearing makeshift weapons, as the tocsins spread. The group converged on the Hôtel de Ville (the City Hall of Paris)b where they demanded not only bread, but arms; by this stage perhaps eight thousand had gathered. An attempt was made by National Guardsmen, under the Marquis de Lafayette, to stop them but Lafayette found his Republican troops unwilling to act, and he was dispatched with his troops to Versailles.
They left for the Palace of Versailles, about 19km away, and there they besieged the palace. A dramatic and violent confrontation ensued where they successfully pressed their demands upon King Louis XVI. The next day, the crowd compelled the king, his family, and most of the French Assembly to return with them to Paris.
In 1813 during the War of 1812 the US Army of the Northwest defeats a British and Native Canadian force threatening Detroit at the Battle of the Thames The American victory, against Tecumseh's Confederacy and their British allies, lost control of Southwestern Ontario for the British crown; Tecumseh and war chief Roundhead were killed, and Tecumseh's Confederacy largely fell apart.
In 1929 Chester Alan Arthur was born in Fairfield, Vermont. He would later become a lawyer and politician, before serving as the 21st president of the United States, succeeding to the presidency upon the assassination of President James Garfield. Arthur proved an unexpectedly capable, moderate and uncorrupt president, despite his background as a 'machine' politician and even Mark Twain spoke well of him: Due to ill-health and internal party opposition he did not seek re-election.
In 1838 the Killough massacre in east Texas sees eighteen Texian settlers either killed or kidnapped; it was both the largest and last Native American attack on white settlers in East Texas.
In 1869 the a tropical cyclone referred to as the Saxby Gale devastated the Bay of Fundy region in Canada. The storm was named for Lieutenant Stephen Martin Saxby, a naval instructor who had predicted extremely high tides in the North Atlantic and the potential for severe storm surges around that time. The storm caused extensive destruction to port facilities and communities along the Bay of Fundy coast in both New Brunswick and Nova Scotia as well as the US state of Maine.
In 1869 in the township of Saint Anthony Falls (not part of Minneapolis) in Minnesota a tunnel dug beneath the Mississippi River collapses, nearly destroying the town. The Hennepin Island tunnel was a 750 metre underground passage, from Nicollet Island, beneath Hennepin Island, and exiting below Saint Anthony Falls, intended to to create a downstream spillway for use of the river's flow for powering machinery. During construction of the tunnel the Mississippi broke through the thin layer of limestone separating the river's bed from the tunnel. The rushing river scoured the tunnel, caving in parts of Hennepin Island and causing the earth supporting Saint Anthony Falls to collapse upstream. There was serious concern that the riverbed would crumble and reduce Saint Anthony Falls to a long set of rapids.
In 1877 the Nez Perce War, the last of the significant 'Indian Wars' in the United States comes to an end.
1882 Robert Hutchings Goddard, the pioneer of rocketry, is born in Worcester in Massachusetts. Along with Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Hermann Obert, Goddard developed the basis for spaxe flight; developing liquid fuelled and multi-stage rockets
In 1930 the British airship R101, part of the Imperial Airship Programme (intended to connact Britain and it's colonies) and the world's largest flying craft, crashes in France, en route to Karachi in India, on its maiden voyage. 48 people are killed, more than on the Hindenberg in 1937. History is silent on the involvement of a Triskele spaceship. The crash of R101 effectively ended British airship development.
In 1936 the Jarrow March sets off for London. On their first day the two hundred or so 'Crusaders; will cover 19km (of 468km) and spend the night at Chester-le-Street. One of a series of organised protests against the unemployment and poverty (known as 'hunger marches') in the period the Jarrow march had overshadowed the others During their journey the Jarrow marchers received sustenance and hospitality from local branches of all the main political parties, and were given a broad public welcome on their arrival in London.
In 1945 on Black Friday a six-month strike by Hollywood set decorators turns into a bloody riot at the gates of the Warner Brothers studio.
In 1947 US President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
In 1948 at 1:12AM the magnitude 7.3 Ashgabat earthquake in Turkmenistan kills at least ten thousand people, and perhaps as many as a hundred thousand. Due to censorship by the Turkmen government the event was not widely reported even in the Soviet media.
In 1966 a reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial fuel meltdown. Despite phrases like "We Almost Lost Detroit" there was no loss of containment and no escape of radioactive material. The Fermi 1 reactor was a liquid metal cooled fast breeder reactor designed to produce ('breed') plutonium from uranium as well as generator steam
In 1968 a Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police; on this occasion footage is filmed by the Irish national broadcaster RTE and shown publicly. The footage of the march and unprovoked police brutality on unarmed protestors (including British MPs) would change the course of Northern Ireland forever.
In 1970 the October Crisis erupts in Canada with the kidnapping by the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) of the provincial Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte and British diplomat James Cross. In response, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the only peacetime use of the War Measures Act. The kidnappers murdered Laporte and eventually released Cross.
In 1982 across the United States Tylenol products are recalled after bottles in Chicago laced with cyanide cause seven deaths. Bottles of the paracetamol (acetaminophen) capsules had been laced with potassium cyanide. An outbreak of copycat crimes kills an additional seven people. James William Lewis was convicted of extortion for sending a letter to Johnson & Johnson that took responsibility for the deaths and demanded $1 million to stop them, but no evidence linking him to the actual poisonings had ever been found.
In 2011 in the Mekong River massacre, two Chinese cargo boats operating on the river are hijacked and thirteen crew members murdered.
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Post by missyfan45 on Oct 5, 2020 14:29:27 GMT
King Louis the Pious,Robert Hutchings Goddard,Stephen Martin Saxby, Paolo Sarpi,Heraclius,Pierre Laporte and James Cross, and Justin II are good people to meet. The Tylenol murders could be a good pure historical conspiracy type or a UNIT campaign with a alien race wanting to conquer earth by making it sick. And the Women's March on Versailles could be a good pure historical, after all its the Doctors favorite period in history.
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 5, 2020 20:27:56 GMT
King Louis the Pious,Robert Hutchings Goddard,Stephen Martin Saxby, Paolo Sarpi,Heraclius,Pierre Laporte and James Cross, and Justin II are good people to meet. The Tylenol murders could be a good pure historical conspiracy type or a UNIT campaign with a alien race wanting to conquer earth by making it sick. And the Women's March on Versailles could be a good pure historical, after all its the Doctors favorite period in history. My takes. The Tylenol contamination could be an attempt by someone to spread an alien infection or mutagen of some sort; or for a darker version and attempt to cover-up a deliberate or accidental contamination at the factory (as was alleged by some fringe writers)
The March on Versailles just screams out for a female companion/Time Lord to be the instigator; perhaps the unknown original leader was accidentally removed?
Justin II could have been possessed by an alien influence and intermittently able to fight off it;s influence.
The attempts to kill Paolo Sarpi could have been fighting between two different organisations dealing with extraterrestrial threats.
The Hennepin Island tunnel collapse suggests Earth Reptiles or something under the ground.
The Jarrow March and Black Friday are excellent background events (the former appeared in Poirot) for period setttings.
While the October Crisis is background of a more active sort; with all the police and military activity around a small party of time travellers lacking official documentation could get mixed up in events.
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 6, 2020 12:13:59 GMT
06OCT
In 105 BCE during the Cimbrian War the Roman Republic suffers a serious defeat in the Battle of Arausio, due mainly to the splitting of the army (at 80,000 the largest since the Punic wars against Carthage) and the antagonism between the two Roman commanders, consul Gnaeus Mallius Maximus and proconsul Quintus Servilius Caepio The Cimbrian war (113–101 BCE) was fought by Rome against a loose alliance of Germanic and Celtic tribes who'd migrated from the Jutland peninsula into Roman controlled territory. The poor performance of Roman forces meant that, for first time since the Second Punic War, the province of Italia and Rome itself were seriously threatened. The consuls encamped by the river Rhône near Orange in Vaucluse; disliking and distrusting each other, they erected separate camps on opposite sides of the river, leaving their split force open to separate attack. The overconfident Caepio attacked without support from Maximus and was routed; his legions were wiped out and his undefended camp overrun. The now isolated and demoralized troops of Maximus were then easily defeated. Thousands more were slain trying desperately to rally and defend his poorly positioned camp. Only Caepio, Maximus, and a few hundred Romans escaped with their lives. Arausio was the costliest defeat Rome had suffered since Cannae; for the Cimbri and Teutones it was a great, if temporary, triumph. Following the devastation of Arausio, the Roman Republic was shaken to its foundations. The 'terror cimbricus' became an obsession, as Rome expected the Cimbri at its gates at any time. A state of emergency was declared and the constitution bypassed to elect Gaius Marius consul for an unprecedented five years. Marius was now given the latitude to construct a new army on his own terms.
In 69BCE during the Third Mithridatic War, forces of the Roman Republic, led by Consul Lucius Licinius Lucullus, pursue the fleeing Mithridates VI of Pontus who had sought shelter from his son-in-law Tigranes, king of Armenia. At the Battle of Tigranocerta the Romans defeat Tigranes and subdue Armenia. Initially the Romans had laid siege to the Armenia capital, Tigranocerta, and fell back behind a nearby river when the large Armenian army approached. Feigning retreat, the Romans crossed at a ford and fell on the right flank of the Armenian army. After the Romans defeated the Armenian heavy cavalry (cataphracts), the balance of Tigranes' army panicked and fled.
In 404 the controversial Byzantine Empress Eudoxia dies from the miscarriage of her seventh and last pregnancy.
In 618 Wang Shichong decisively defeats his rival contender for the succession of the Sui dynasty Li Mi at the Battle of Yanshi. Although Li managed to escape with part of his army, his authority was shattered, and his followers joined Wang. While Li Mi sought refuge in the rival Tang court, Wang consolidated his control over Henan and eventually deposed the Sui puppet ruler Yang Tong and declared himself as emperor of the new Zheng dynasty.
In 1539 the Spainish DeSoto expedition takes over the Apalachee capital of Anhaica for their winter quarters. At the time Anhaica, now Tallahassee in Florida, was the principal town of the Apalachee people.
In 1600 Euridice Jacopo Peri, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance at the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, beginning the Baroque period. It is inspired by part of Ovid's Metamorphoses and the story of the legendary musician Orpheus and his wife Euridice.
In 1683 immigrant families found Germantown, Pennsylvania in the first major immigration of German people to America.
In 1762 during the Seven Years' War, British forces capture Manila from Spain and occupy it.
In 1777 during the American Revolution, British forces capture Forts Clinton and Montgomery on the Hudson River, not far from West Point. The battle is also sometimes called the "battle of the Clintons" due to the unusual number of participants with that name
In 1789 as a result of the Women's March on Versailled king Louis XVI is forced to return to the Tuileries Palace from Versailles.
In 1849 the so-called 'Thirteen Martyrs of Arad' are executed by the Austrian Empire after the failed Hungarian war of independence. The execution was ordered by the Austrian general Julius Jacob von Haynau.
In 1854 a day of fire in the towns of Newcastle and Gateshead leads to 53 deaths, hundreds injured and a vast degree of destruction. The towns of Newcastle upon Tyne (north) and Gateshead are opposite each other, separated by the relatively steep slopes leading down to the River Tyne. Both were, in the 1850s, dense concentrations of business and commercial activity, including manufactories, mills and warehouses. At about half past midnight on Friday 06OCT1854, the woolen mill of J. Wilson & Sons, was discovered to be on fire; despite efforts to extinguish the braze, the presence of large quantities of wool and oil inside defeated such efforts. Within an hour the huge stone building was ablaze, and and within two the roof fell in and. Nearby was a massive, seven storey, warehouse, owned by Charles Bertram and used to store thousands of tons of sulphur, 'Chile saltpeter' (sodium nitrate) and other inflammable materials. The heat from the mill fire is believes to have caused the sulphur to melt and ignite; a burning blue liquid flame spread from the warehouse. With reinforcements at hand the town's authorities tried to save the warehouse, but the fire had spread inside, By 3AM the entire warehouse was one body of flames, described by an on-looker as "most awfully magnificent"; a lurid purple light illuminated the town. Sulphur flowed from the windows "like streams of lava". Between 3AM and 3:30AM a series of small explosions occurred in the warehouse followed by a fourth, vastly more powerful. The force of the blast, throwing heavy granite slabs over a kilometre and lighter debris even further.
The exact cause of the blast has never been determined; no explosives (i.e. black powder) were stored there, nor had the cause of the initial fire ever been satisfactorily explained, despite an enquirt involving several experts.
In 1908 the Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina, formerly within the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire This unilateral action, timed to coincide with Bulgaria's declaration of independence from the Ottoman Empire, triggered protests from all of the Great Powers of Europe and Austria-Hungary's Balkan neighbours, Serbia and Montenegro. The crisis permanently damaged relations between Austria-Hungary and the neighboring states of Italy, Serbia, and Russia, and in the long term helped lay the grounds for World War I.
In 1913 Chicago became the first major American city to pass a resolution declaring the immorality of the tango, a dance which had recently become popular in the United States after originating in Argentina. The tango differed from acceptable dances because of the contact between the upper thighs of the dancers.
In 1920 two interesting experiments in navigation were carried out in the United States. An airplane touched down at Roosevelt Field at Mineola on Long Island in darkness, using powerful electric arc lamps to illuminate a landing site. The Associated Press described it as "one of the most important developments in aviation since the Armistice". Since the development of the flying after dusk had been too dangerous to attempt.
On the same day the US Navy made its first public demonstration of the new magnetised cable system to guide shipsl the Ambrose Channel pilot cable navigational aid was used to guide the destroyer USS Semmes solely by instruments through the Ambrose Channel of the Narrows of New York Harbor. This was the first technology that would allow ships to sail into New York during heavy fog rather than waiting for the fog to clear. (the windows of USS Semmes were blocked by heavy canvas
In 1927 The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson, was presented for the first time at 8:45PM at the Warner Theater in New York (after sunset on the eve of the Yom Kippur holiday, in keeping with the film;s theme); it was the first prominent "talkie" movie (though it actually featured little audio). The theatre had been wired from sound with the Vitaphone system. The first words heard by the audience were Jolson, as Jakie Rabinowitz, shouting to an orchestra, ""Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I tell ya, you ain't heard nothin' yet!"
In 1934 Catalonia saw a general strike, armed insurgency and declaration of a Catalan State by Catalonia's autonomous government in reaction to the inclusion of anti-autonomy conservatives in the republican regime of Spain. These events took place as part of a nationwide strike and armed action known as the Revolution of 1934. Martial law was declared and military forces attacked the Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya (Palace of the Government of Catalonia) and other buildings. In the general election of 1933 the left-wing parties had lost heavily; and the newly formed conservative Confederación Española de Derechas Autónomas opposed regional independence.
In 1943 thirteen civilians are burnt alive in Kali Sykia, Crete, by German paramilitaries led by Fritz Schubert. group in Crete.
In 1960 James Tidwell is admitted to the Cincinnati General Hospital in Cincinnati in Ohio, for treatment of cancer; he became the first of 88 unwilling and unwitting victims of an experiment by the University of Cincinnati and the Atomic Support Agency of the United States Department of Defense to test the effects of high doses on ionising radiation on humans. On 28OCT he would be subjected to his first of many doses of ionisng radiation over his entire body; starting at 100 rads, and increasing gradually to 250 rads, and doses of 300 rads to his brain. He would die on 29NOV1960, 32 days after the treatments began; the first fatality of the program, which would continue until 1971. The existence of the experiments would not be revealed to the public until 1994.
That same day the film Spartacus, directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas in the title role, premiered at the DeMille Theatre in New York City before being released nationwide the next day.
In 1965 McDonnell company test pilot George Shirley Mills bails out of McDonnell F3H-2N Demon jet aircraft over Carrollton in Illinois (and near St. Louis, Missouri) after what appears to be a massive systems failure. Instead of crashing, fighter circles over two states for more than an hour without the cockpit canopy, ejection seat and pilot. It eventually impacts in cornfield near Monticello in Iowa, over 400km from the ejection site.
In 1973 the Yom Kippur War begins as Egypt and Syria launch coordinated attacks against Israel. The war saw significant initial Arab gains and preparations for Israeli nuclear attacks.
In 1976 Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 is destroyed by two bombs, placed on board by an anti-Castro militant group.
In 1976 Chinese Premier Hua Guofeng has the 'Gang of Four' arrested, ending the Cultural Revolution in China. The group were led by Jiang Qing (Mao Zedong's last wife) and the other members were Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen. Their downfall a month after Mao's death brought about major celebrations on the streets of Beijing and marked the end of a turbulent political era in China.
In 1976 dozens are killed by the Thai army in the Thammasat University massacre.
In 1977 the first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.
In 1995 the first planet orbiting another sun, 51 Pegasi b, is discovered.
In 2007 Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth, using bicycle, roller-blades and a wooden pedal-powered boat named Moksha.
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Post by missyfan45 on Oct 6, 2020 13:17:16 GMT
Jason Lewis,Hua Guofeng,Jiang Qing Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen,James Tidwell,Fritz Schubert,Al Jolson (maybe someone could prevent the film from getting released it is a piece of cinema history after all,Kirk Douglas ,Jacopo Peri (could be related to our peri),Wang Shichong,George Shirley Mills, Empress Eudoxia, Gnaeus Mallius Maximus and Quintus Servilius Caepio are good people to meet. In a ah story the Yom Kippur war could lead to a nuclear war. And the Thirteen Martyrs of Arad could be a good horrors of war pure historical.
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 7, 2020 15:29:36 GMT
07 OCT
In 3761BCE the modern Hebrew calendar begins.
In 1403 the last battle of the Venetian–Genoese wars, the Battle of Modon, sees the Genoese fleet, commanded by the French marshal Jean Le Maingre (better known as Boucicaut) defeated decisively by the Venetian fleet. T was fought on 7 October 1403 between the fleets of the Republic of Venice
In 1477 Uppsala University is inaugurated.
In 1513 during the War of the League of Cambrai, combined force of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire, defeats Venice at the Battle of La Motta, at Schio, in the Italian region of Veneto, then part of the Republic of Venice,
In 1571 the naval Battle of Lepanto, the last battle utilising mainly oared ships, is fought; the Ottoman Navy suffers its first severe defeat by the Holy League (a coalition of Catholic Christian states arranged by Pope Pius V) The Spanish Empire and the Venetian Republic were the main powers of the coalition, as the league was largely financed by Philip II of Spain and Venice was the main contributor of ships. In the history of naval warfare, Lepanto marks the last major engagement in the Western world to be fought almost entirely between rowing vessels and has been describes as an "infantry battle on floating platforms". It was the largest naval battle in Western history since classical antiquity, involving more than 400 warships.
In 1731 a mysterious plague of unexplained deaths and alleged vampirism begins to effect the small village of Meduegna, on the West Morava river in Trstenik, Serbia. (Then part of the Austrian Empire, earlier and later it was Turkish; the area has changed hands a lot over the centuries). A woman aged about fifty named Miliza dies after a brief, unexplained, illness.
The supposed cause of the vampirism was one "Arnold Paole"; this is almost certainly a poor anglicisation of a German rendition of his actual Serbian name but I'll stick to it, and events began some six years earlier. Paole was a Serbian militiaman, a land-holding hajduk, who'd moved to the village in 1725 and died (after falling from a great height on a farm house [or possibly a haywagon, accounts differ] and lingering for several days), in 1726
In his new home Paole often told the story that he had been plagued by a Turkish vampire, while soldiering in Serbia, at a location named Gossowa (Kosovo?), but that he had cured himself by eating soil from the vampire's grave and smearing himself with his blood. Within a month of Paole's death, four people in the village complained that they had been plagued by him. These people all died shortly thereafter.
Ten days later, some forty days after Paole's death, the villagers led and advised by their 'hadnack' (a military/administrative title and who had apparently witnessed such events before) dug up Paole's grave. They saw that the corpse was undecomposed with all the indications of a vampire; his veins were replete with fluid-blood "and that fresh blood had flowed from his eyes, nose, mouth, and ears; that the shirt, the covering, and the coffin were completely bloody; that the old nails on his hands and feet, along with the skin, had fallen off, and that new ones had grown". Further, "his body was red, his hair, nails and beard had all grown again.
Concluding that Paole was indeed a vampire, they did what any superstititious person of that time and place would do; they drove a stake through his heart (to which he reacted by emitting a "frightful shriek as if he were alive", groaning and bleeding". Then they cut off his head and burned the body. Afterwards they then disinterred Paole's four supposed victims and performed the same procedure, to prevent them from becoming vampires as well.
Five years later in the winter of 1731 a new epidemic of strange deaths began. At least ten people died within a few weeks. (The numbers, names, and ages of the deceased vary somewhat between the main sources.) The dead seemed to weaken and die within just two or three days, without any previous illness. The main source for this is the report (of a Doctor Johann Friedrich Glaser) who was sent by the Austrian authorities to investigate, states that by 12 December, 13 people had died in the course of six weeks.
The named dead were Miliza/Milica: a 50-year-old woman Milloi/Miloje: a 14-year-old boy Joachim: a 15-year-old boy Peter/Petar: a 15-day-old boy Stanno/Stana: a 20-year-old woman and her newborn child (who died unbaptised) Wutschiza/Vučica: a nine-year-old boy Milosova/Milosava: a 30-year-old woman, wife of a hajduk Radi/Rade: a 24-year-old man Ruschiza/Ružica: a 40-year-old woman Those afflicted complained of stabbing pain in the sides and pain in the chest, prolonged fever and spasming of the limbs.
On reporting the deaths to local authorities (one Oberstleutnant Schnezzer, the Austrian military commander) an epidemic was feared and Glaser, a specialist in infectious diseases stationed in the nearby town of Paraćin, sent for. Glaser began his investigation on 12DEC1731, examining the villagers and their houses, but failed to find any signs of a contagious disease and blamed the deaths on the malnutrition common in the region as well as the unhealthy effects of the severe Eastern Orthodox fasting. The villagers insisted that the illness were caused by vampires; they grouped themselves together at night, several households in one house, with some on watch. They were convinced that the deaths wouldn't stop unless the vampires were executed by the authorities, and threatened to abandon the village in order to save their lives if that wasn't done.
The despairing Glaser authorised to the exhumation of some of the deceased. To his surprise he found that most of them were not decomposed and many were swollen and had blood in their mouths, though several who had died more recently were rather decomposed. Glaser outlined his findings in a report to the Jagodina commandant's office, recommending that the authorities should pacify the population by fulfilling its request to "execute" the vampires. Schnezzer furthered Glaser's report to the Supreme Command in Belgrade, whet the vice-commandant, Botta d'Adorno, sent a second commission to investigate the case.
The new commission included a military surgeon (Johann Flückinger) two Army officers (Büttner and von Lindenfels) and two other physicians attached to the military administration (Siegele and Baumgarten). On 07JAN1732 accompanied by the village elders and some local Gypsies, they opened the graves of the deceased. Their findings were similar to Glaser's, although their report contains much more anatomical detail; five of the corpses were decomposed, the remaining twelve were "quite complete and undecayed" and exhibited the traits that were commonly associated with vampirism. Their chests and in some cases other organs were filled with fresh (rather than coagulated) blood; the viscera were estimated to be "in good condition", corpses looked plump and their skin had a "red and vivid" (rather than pale) colour and, in several cases, "the skin on ... hands and feet, along with the old nails, fell away on their own, but on the other hand completely new nails were evident, along with a fresh and vivid skin". One corpse, that of Milica, surprised the local people as she appeared 'plumper' than when alive
The surgeons summarised all these phenomena by stating that the bodies were in "vampiric condition". After the examinations had been completed, the eads of the supposed vampires were cut off and both bodies and heads burned. The ashes being thrown in the West Morava river. A full report, dated 26JAN1732, was sent to the authorities in Belgrade, over the signatures of the five officers involved.
- A fascinating incident, and one that is entirely historical. Not blend in actual vampires, aliens and time travellers.
In 1763 King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements. The proclamation forbade all settlement west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains, which was delineated as an Indian Reserve. This exclusion from the vast region of Trans-Appalachia created discontent between Britain and colonial land speculators and potential settlers and was the significant areas of dispute between Britain and the colonies.
In 1777 during the American Revolutionary War American forces are victorious in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
In 1780 American militia defeat royalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson at the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina. Achieving a complete surprise, the American militiamen attacked and surrounded the Loyalists, inflicting heavy casualties. After an hour of battle, Ferguson was fatally shot while trying to break the rebel line, after which his men surrendered. Several surrendering Loyalists were executed in revenge for the alleged killings by Banastre Tarleton's militiamen at the Battle of Waxhaws.
In 1800 the French privateer/pirate Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British East India Company 38-gun ship Kent. Surcouf was a French privateer (or pirate) who operated in the Indian Ocean between 1789 and 1801, and again from 1807 to 1808, capturing over 40 prizes. He later amassed a large fortune as a ship-owner, from privateering, piracy, smuggling, legitimate commerce, and the illegal slave trade. The capture of the Kent occurred off Sand Heads, near Calcutta, The Kent had rescued the crew of another ship, Queen,which had been destroyed by fire and therefore had an exceptionally large complement on board. Surcouf managed to board his larger opponent and, after over an hour and a half of battle across the decks of the ship gained control.
In 1826 the Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the USA; it was built to carry granite from Quincy in Massachusetts to a dock on the Neponset River in Milton. From there boats carried the heavy stone to Charlestown. It was the first commercial railway in the United States.
In 1828 as part of the Morea expedition, French forces liberate the city of Patras in Greece. The Morea expedition was a land intervention of the French Army in the Peloponnese between 1828 and 1833, at the time of the Greek War of Independence, with the aim of expelling from the region the Ottoman-Egyptian occupation forces. Interestingly it was accompanied by a scientific expedition mandated by the French Academy.
In 1864 during the American Civil War the Bahia incident sees the US Navy capture a Confederate raider in a Brazilian seaport, sparked a diplomatic incident with the Brazilian government.
In 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War, Léon Gambetta, Minister of the Interior and of War, escapes the siege of Paris in a balloon inflated by hot air the "Armand-Barbès"
- An interesting incident, especially given Gambetta's work in raising a new French army.
In 1879 Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
In 1909 William H. Taft became the last American president to ride in a stagecoach when he accompanies naturalist John Muir on a ten hour, 55km, trip through the Yosemite National Park.
In 1910 a massive wildfire in Minnesota kills hundreds of people in northern Lake of the Woods County; the towns of Baudette, Spooner, Graceton, Roosevelt, Longworth, Swift, Ziplie, Cedar Spur, Gravel Pit Spur, and EnglePitt are destroyed. Trains sent by the Canadian Pacific Railway evacuated many of the townspeople to Ontario. In the next week over two hundred bodies are recovered, but many more people are missing, their bodies disinterested in the conflagration. Between 1,200 and 1,500 square kilometres are burned
In 1915 the 'Chinatown' district of Walnut Grove in California (which included a 'Japantown'), referred to as the "Oriental quarter" was destroyed in a fire, es acerbated by powerful winds.
In 1917 the largest airship built at the time, the German L57, was wrecked and destroyed by fire while trying to take off for a test flight in poor weather. The Zeppelin aircraft was 226.5m long and held 68,500 cubic metres of hydrogen gas. It was intended for long-distance flights from Europe to Africa.
In 1940 during World War II the McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States. A favourite subject of conspiracy theorists who believe the Japanese attack on the United States was provoked deliberately the Eight Action Memo, was a memorandum sent by Lieutenant Commander Arthur McCollum, who effectively ran the 'Japan desk' (the Far East Asia section) of the Office of Naval Intelligence to the director of the ONI. The McCollum memo was first widely disseminated with the publication of Robert Stinnett's book Day of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor where Stinnett claimed that the memo was a plan to This is despite the memo specifically disavowing such actions.
In 1943, in the aftermath of the Białystok Ghetto Uprising, 1,313 Jews arrested at Białystok, nearly all of them children, were put to death shortly after arriving the Auschwitz concentration camp. The Auschwitz camp log for that day states that
That same say more than 100 people, most of them Italian civilians, were killed in the explosion of a time bomb at the main post office in Naples. The explosive had been planted more than a week earlier by agents of the German occupation forces as they retreated from the Allied advance.
Also that day the children's film Lassie Come Home, the first in a series of seven MGM movies starring the fictional Rough Collie dog Lassie, was released. A young Roddy McDowall played Lassie's human companion.
In 1944 during an uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, the Sonderkommando (Nazi death camp prisoners deployed to remove corpses from the gas chambers and burn them) revolted with makeshift weapons. Three SS guards were killed, and Crematorium IV was burned down, .but more than 200 members of the Sonderkommando died in the fighting. Hundreds of prisoners escaped, but were all soon captured and executed.
In 1946 twenty-three people, most of them teenage schoolboys, died when a Fairey Firefly of 861 Squadron Marine Luchtvaartdienst, struck a school in Apeldoorn, in the Netherlands. Max Christern, the 21-year-old pilot, was on his first solo flight and was supposed to be familiarising himself with the aircraft near Valkenburg airfield. Instead be flew to Apeldoorn and was flying low over his parents' house in a misguided stunt; the right wing of the aircraft clipped the roof of the school gymnasium, dropping burning fuel inside. The dead included the pilot and his mother, who suffered a fatal heart attack, and 21 of the 27 pupils in the gymnasium
In 1955 Allen Ginsberg performed the first reading of Howl at the Six Gallery Reading in San Francisco.
In 1958 the 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.
In 1959 the Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs of the far side of the Moon to the Earth. From 03:30 to 04:10 GMT, 29 photographs were taken and later transmitted back to Earth.
That same day on Baghdad's al-Rashid Street, Iraq's President Abd al-Karim Qasim was ambushed on his way to the East German embassy. The five man team, led by future Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, killed Qasim's driver and wounded Qasim. One assassin died and Saddam himself was injured, but escaped to a farm. After the US led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Saddam fled to the same farm, where he was captured on 13DEC2003.
Also that day a Taiwanese RB-57 electronic surveillance plane, flying at an altitude of 20,000 meters, was downed by three V-750 (SA-2) missiles as it flew near Beijing. It was the first time that a surface-to-air missile had brought down an aircraft. At the time the success was credited to Chinese fighter aircraft, to keep the S-75 program secret.
In 1973 during the Yon Kippur war Israeli Defense Minister Moshe called an early morning meeting with Shalhevet Freier, the director-general of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission, and Golda Meir (the Prime Minister of Israel) to discuss the possible deployment of nuclear weapons; the Israeli military command feared that the Syrians would quickly their rapid advances. At the time Meir rejected this option; however within three days Israel would prepare between fifteen and twenty five tactical nuclear weapons for use.
In 1985 the Mameyes landslide kills almost 200 people in Puerto Rico.
In 1988 a hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
In 1993 the Great Mississippi Flood of '93 officially ends at St. Louis in Missouri; 103 days after it began the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
In 2001 the US invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
In 2002 the US Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-112 to continue assembly of the International Space Station.
In 2008 Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into earth's atmosphere. The rock massed approximately eighty tonnes, and was 4.1 metres on the longest axis; exploded at around 37km altitude over the Nubian Desert in Sudan with an energy of approximately 2 kilotonnes. Some 600 meteorites, totalling 10.5kg, were recovered; many of these belonged to a rare type known as ureilites, which contain nano-diamonds.
In 2016 tn the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to 800.
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Post by missyfan45 on Oct 7, 2020 16:55:05 GMT
Moshe Dayan,Allen Ginsberg,Roddy McDowall, Robert Surcouf,Robert Stinnett, Abd al-Karim Qasim,Léon Gambetta,Arnold Paole,Jean Le Maingre, and Max Christern are good people to meet. The Yom Kippur war could easily lead to Nuclear War in a AH story.the Morea expedition could be a good group of people to come across while isolated in a area. And the Battle of Lepanto could be visited by a warlike race like the sontarans.
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 7, 2020 19:38:11 GMT
Moshe Dayan,Allen Ginsberg,Roddy McDowall, Robert Surcouf,Robert Stinnett, Abd al-Karim Qasim,Léon Gambetta,Arnold Paole,Jean Le Maingre, and Max Christern are good people to meet. The Yom Kippur war could easily lead to Nuclear War in a AH story.the Morea expedition could be a good group of people to come across while isolated in a area. And the Battle of Lepanto could be visited by a warlike race like the sontarans. Yom Kippur could have been nudged to the point of nuclear use, either by more despair (or mind control) on the Israeli side or the Syrians not stopping and threatening the Israeli heartland (the "Temple" option).
The Luna 3 photographs are interesting; officially only 12 (or 17) of the photographs taken were scanned and successful transmitted back to Earth and the probe itself burned up, but 29 images were taken (the probe used a film camera with an on-board developer and scanner, rather than a camera with direct digital imaging, a common technique at the time).
But one could say that other images were taken and transmitted and/or that the probe successfully returned a film pack to Earth. So what's on the other pictures1? And who wants to hide them2? If you're interested in re-staging Ice Station Zebra here's your opportunity. With Nazi/Alien and Soviet agents in pursuit of the missing film package and the secrets of the Dark Side of the Moon. And if you're looking for a setting, well there's an interesting little project nearly finished in Greenland.....
Asteroid 2008/TC3 might have brought something odd to Earth. Now UNIT has to investigate the impacts in the Sudan. Which is luckily between civil wars at the time, not that that means much. Or was there an asteroid at all? Maybe the object was attacked in near-Earth space and the debris needs to be recovered.
Operation Breakthrough in Alaska in 1988 has possibilities; what was really behind this sudden outpouring of Soviet/American cooperation? What was actually under the ice?
The attempted assassination of Abd al-Karim Qasim in 1959 is one of those events (rather like Doctor7 and Ace's presence at the Munich Beer Hall Putch) that begs to have a few PCs accidentally involved with. What do they do?
Walnut Grove Chinatown fire might have been an organised act of arson, or the result of some act of Mad Science (where's Fu Manchu?) going terribly wrong.
1. Obviously someone with a lunar base; Lunar Space Nazis? Aliens? 2. Their followers/agents on Earth 3 4
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 8, 2020 14:12:54 GMT
08OCT
In 314CE (probably) Constantine I defeats the other Roman Emperor Licinius, who loses his European territories, at the Battle of Cibalae in what is now Croatia. Despite being outnumbered Constantine won a resounding victory in the bloody, attritive, day-long battle and personally led a decisive cavalry charge lat in the day. Perhaps 20,000 of Licinius's troops were killed and he fled the field under cover of darkness.
In 451 the first session of the Council of Chalcedon begins in the church of St. Euphemia, Martyr, outside the city of Chalcedon (now Kadıköy in Istanbul) and directly opposite Constantinople. The church council lasted less than a month and was attended by about 520 bishops or their representatives and is the largest and best-documented of the first seven ecumenical councils held to settle matters of church doctrine and discipline.
In 876 East Frankish forces led by Louis the Younger prevent a West Frankish invasion and defeat Holy Roman Emperor emperor Charles II ( at the Battle of Andernach, near Kettig southeast of Andernach.
In 1075 Dmitar Zvonimir is crowned Demetrius, King of Croatia and Dalmatia, in the Basilica of Saint Peter and Moses (known today as the Hollow Church) in Solin, by a representative of Pope Gregory VII.
In 1200 Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England. She was the second wife of King John from 1200 until John's death in 1216 and bore him five children, including his heir the later Henry III. At the time of her marriage to the much older John, the blonde-haired blue-eyed Isabella was already widely renowned for her beauty (she's sometimes called the 'Helen of the Middle Ages') and possessed a volatile temper. King John was infatuated with his young, beautiful wife and it was said that he neglected his state affairs to spend time with Isabella, often remaining in bed with her until noon.
In 1322 Mladen II Šubić of Bribir is deposed as the Croatian Ban (a local ruler, originally a viceroy) after the Battle of Bliska. The battle was fought between the army of a coalition of several Croatian noblemen and Dalmatian coastal towns (with the support of the king Charles I Robert of Anjou) and the forces of Mladen II Šubić of Bribir, Ban of Croatia, and his allies.
In 1480 the Great Stand on the Ugra river puts an end to Tartar rule over Moscow This was an interestingly non-violent battle, a standoff between the forces of Akhmat Khan of the Great Horde, and the Grand Prince Ivan III of Muscovy, which ended when the Tatars departed without conflict. In fact both armies withdrew, for different reasons.
In 1573 the Spanish siege of Alkmaar ends, giving the Ditch their first victory in the Eighty Years' War. The Siege of Alkmaar had lasted since 21AUG, with the townspeople of Alkmaar holding off the Spanish for six weeks from inside their city walls, with boiling tar and burning branches. After the dikes surrounding Alkmaar were breached on 21SEP, the polders in which the Spanish troops were camped were flooded, foring their retreat.
In 1829 the three day long Rainhill Trials end with Stephenson's Rocket declared the winner and Stephenson receiving £500. The Rainhill Trials was an important locomotive competition run in October 1829 to test the argument of George Stephenson that locomotives would provide the best motive power for the then nearly-completed Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR), rather than stationary engines and a cable drive system Five locomotives were entered, running along a measured mile length of level track at Rainhill in Lancashire
Two or three locomotives ran on each of the three days, and several tests for each locomotive were performed over the course of six days. Between 10,000 and 15,000 people turned up to watch the trials.
- Probably including a few technologically minded time travellers and their less interested Companions.
Bands provided musical entertainment on both days. Food was provided on-site and pick-pockets were active.
The last locomotive to drop out was Novelty a technologically advanced model for 1828; lighter and considerably faster than the other locomotives in the competition. It was the crowd favourite and reached a then-astonishing 28 miles per hour (45 km/h) on the first day of competition. Unfortunately it later suffered damage to a boiler pipe which could not be fixed properly on site. Nevertheless, it ran the next day and reached 15 miles per hour (24 km/h) before the repaired pipe failed and damaged the engine severely enough that it had to be withdrawn.
The Rocket was the only locomotive that completed the trials. It averaged 12 miles per hour (19 km/h) and achieved a top speed of 30 miles per hour (48 km/h)) hauling 13 tons, and was declared the winner of the £500 prize. The Stephensons were given the contract to produce locomotives for the L&MR.
In 1856 the 'Arrow Incident' occurs, providing the casus belli for the Second Opium War; one of the most dubious justifications for an imperial war in history. The Arrow was not (as was claimed) a British-flagged Chinese vessel, there was no British captain on board (Thomas Kennedy was on a different ship at the time) and while the crew were arrested, they were released with the exception of three who were held on piracy charges related to the Arrow’s former career. Nevertheless the incident, inflated by the British press, gave Prime Minister Palmerston the excuse for military action to further open China to British exploitation; on his first try he was censured by Parliament for his war-mongering but a snap election gave him a sufficient majority. It was the second major war in the Opium Wars, fought over issues relating to the exportation of opium produced in British India to China, and resulted in a second defeat for the Qing dynasty.
In 1862 the Confederate invasion of Kentucky is halted at the Battle of Perryville, in the Chaplin Hills west of Perryville, Kentucky. The battle is considered a strategic Union victory, as the Confederates under Braxton Bragg withdrew to Tennessee soon thereafter and the Union retained control of the critical border state of Kentucky for the remainder of the war.
On the night of 08OCT 1871 America Burned. Fires on a huge scale erupted in the mid-western United States with probably the best known being the Great Chicago Fire, though that was one of the smaller outbreaks that night.
- It still devastated the city; over three hundred people died and eight square kilometres and 18,000 buildings burned.
In 1872 Mary Engle Pennington was born in Nashville, Tennessee. She would become a noted American bacteriologist, chemists and engineer. She left University of Pennsylvania in 1892 having completed the requirements for a BSc in chemistry; however the university did not then grant degrees to women at this time, she was given a certificate of proficiency. She received her Ph.D. in 1895. and was director of the Clinical Laboratory at Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania and a researcher in clinical hygiene. She also worked as a bacteriologist with the Philadelphia Bureau of Health. There she improved sanitation standards for food products. In 1905 Dr. Pennington started work for the US Department of Agriculture as a bacteriological chemist, and later in the new Food Research Laboratory. There she developed and improved systems for refrigerated boxcar. She was a consultant in the fields of refrigeration, food science and bacteriology from 1922 until her retirement, not long before her death, in 1952.
- A person who could easily come across something strange in the food chain or in the field of public health.
In 1879 as part of the War of the Pacific the Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos, at Punta Angamos. The loss of it's navy in the battle, and the resulting Chilean naval dominance off the Pacific coast, contributed significantly to success in the following land campaigns across the Atacama Desert that ended with Lima's fall in January 1881. The War of the Pacific was principally fought over control of the nitrate resources of the Atacama Desert.
In the early hours of 08COT1895 a group of Japanese assassins brutally murder the Korean Empress Myeongseong in what is called the Eulmi incident. The Empress' assassination occurred in the Geoncheonggung, the rear private royal residence inside Gyeongbokgung Palace and had been organised by the Japanese minister to Korea, Miura Gorō, in an attempt to stem growing Russian influence over the Korean government. The plan backfired due to international outrage over the incident, widespread anti-Japanese violence throughout Korea, the arrest of pro-Japanese government officials and King Gojong seeking shelter in the Russian consulate. Miura initially denied any Japanese involvement in the incident, despite eye-witness accounts, and the Japanese government denied involvement. The corpse of the Empress, and several attendant ladies who were also murdered and mutilated, were dumped in the Daeguk Pine Tree Forest, where the bodes were dismembered and burned.
In 1912 the First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire. The war would last into May 1913 and involved actions of the Balkan League (Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro) against the Ottoman Empire. The Balkan states' combined armies overcame the initially numerically inferior and strategically disadvantaged Ottoman armies and achieved rapid success, while the war was a comprehensive and unmitigated disaster for the Ottomans.
In 1952 the Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people; this remains the worst peacetime rail crash in the United Kingdom. This was an unusual incident, involving three trains colliding at Harrow and Wealdstone station in Wealdstone, Middlesex (now Greater London) during the morning rush hour. Initially an overnight express train from Perth crashed at speed into the rear of a local passenger train standing at a platform at the station, at 8:19AM; wreckage blocked adjacent lines and was struck within seconds by a "double-headed" express train travelling north at over 100km/h.
The Perth express had passed a colour light signal at caution and two semaphore signals set at danger, and had burst through the trailing points of the crossover from the slow lines; the reasons for these errors by the driver were never established as both he and the fireman were killed. The driver was describes as "a methodical young man", in good health and there were no signs of a medical emergency or equipment fault.
- This could be anything from a background detail, to an annoying delay, to a fight to survive to an investigation of who caused the crash, and why.
In 1967 guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
In 1969 the opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago. these were a series of direct actions taken over a course of three days in October 1969 in Chicago, organised by the Weatherman faction of the counterculture-era group Students for a Democratic Society.
In 1973 during the Yom Kippur War Israel loses more than 150 tanks in a failed attack on Egyptian-occupied positions in the Sinai, and faces military difficulties on both fronts. Additionally Syrian operated Soviet air defense systems were inflicting a high toll on Israeli aircraft. During the night of 08-09OCT a fearful Moshe Dayan told Golda Meir that "this is the end of the third temple" and raised the use of Israel's stockpile of nuclear weapons in a cabinet meeting; warning that the country was approaching a point of "last resort". In the early hours of 09OCT Meir authorises the assembly of a number (details uncertain, 15-25) of tactical nuclear weapons and their deployment to the Jericho l short-range ballistic missiles in hardened caves at Sdot Micha Airbase and F-4 Phantom II strike aircraft at Tel Nof Airbase. The preparations was done in an easily detectable way, as a signal to both the United States and Soviet Union.
In 1974 after two years of fraud and mismanagement by the Mafia, Nixon administration and the pseudo-masonic P2 connected criminal, Michele Sindona the Franklin National Bank; it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States to date. After conviction in 1984 "mysterious Michele" was extradited to Italy where he died in prison from cyanide poisoning. He was also connected to the alleged murder of Pope John Paul 1.
In 1982 after its London premiere, Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years. before closing on September 10, 2000. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cats_(musical)
In 2005 the magnitude 7.6 Kashmir earthquake leaves 86,000–87,351 people dead, 69,000–75,266 injured, and 2.8 million homeless.
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Post by missyfan45 on Oct 8, 2020 16:57:53 GMT
Michele Sindona , Empress Myeongseong(could be a good conspiracy/stealth type adventure) Che Guevara,Dmitar Zvonimir, Mladen II Šubić of Bribir,Mary Engle Pennington, Isabella of Angoulême, and Constantine I are good people to meet. The Rainhill Trials could be something like a spiritual ssequel to enlightenment. And the Council of Chalcedon could be a good pure historical.
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 9, 2020 20:14:49 GMT
09OCT
In 768 Charlemagne and his younger brother Carloman I are crowned kings of the Franks. Each inherited a half of the Kingdom of the Franks upon the death of their father Pepin the Short. It is commonly agreed that Carloman and Charlemagne disliked each other, although the reasons are unclear; quite probably each brother considered himself rightfully to be the sole heir of their father (Charlemagne was older, Carloman was definitely legitimate while there are doubts about Charlemagne)
In 1238 James I of Aragon founds the Kingdom of Valencia.
In 1410 09OCT sees the first known mention of the famous Prague astronomical clock, though it's likely that it exixted somewhat earlier. The full clock or Orloj is mounted on the southern wall of Old Town Hall in the Old Town Square of Prague and has a sophisticated mechanism; there is an astronomical dial, representing the position of the Sun and Moon in the sky and displaying various astronomical details; statues of various Catholic saints stand on either side of the clock and take part in "The Walk of the Apostles" an hourly show of moving Apostle figures and other sculptures, notably a figure of a skeleton that represents Death, striking the time; and a calendar dial with medallions representing the months. According to local legend, the city will suffer if the clock is neglected and its good operation is placed in jeopardy.
Only the oldest part of the Orloj, the mechanical clock and astronomical dial, dates from 1410 when it was made by clockmaker Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel, then later a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Charles University. The remaining elements were added later.
In 1594 troops of the Portuguese Empire are defeated on Sri Lanka, bringing an end to the Campaign of Danture, a series of encounters between the Portuguese and the Kingdom of Kandy in 1594, part of the larger Sinhalese–Portuguese War. It is considered a turning point in the indigenous resistance to Portuguese expansion; for the first time in Sri Lanka a Portuguese army was essentially annihilated, when they had been on the verge of the total conquest of the island. Victory at Danture notwithstanding, only the mobile section of the Portuguese army in Ceylon was annihilated, while their strongholds remained intact, and so Kandy was unable to follow up with an advance into the lowlands.
In 1604 Kepler's Supernova (SN 1604) is the most recent supernova to be observed within the Milky Way. It was a Type Ia supernova that occurred in the Milky Way, in the constellation Ophiuchus, approximately 6,000 parsecs from Earth. Itt is the most recent supernova in our galaxy to have been unquestionably observed by the naked eye.
In 1708 Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya, one of the major battles of the Great Northern War. It took place at the village of Lesnaya, close to the border between the the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia (now the village of Lyasnaya, south-east of Mogilev in Belarus).
In 1740 Dutch colonists and Javanese natives begin a massacre of the ethnic Chinese population in Batavia, eventually killing at least 10,000. The violence in the city lasted until 22OCT, with minor skirmishes outside the city walls continuing late into November. Earlier in the year unrest had arisen among the Chinese population, spurred by government repression and declining sugar prices. On 07OCT a mob of hundreds of ethnic Chinese, many of them sugar mill workers, killed 50 Dutch soldiers, leading Dutch troops to confiscate all weapons from the Chinese populace and to place the Chinese under a curfew. Two days later, rumours of Chinese atrocities led other Batavian ethnic groups to burn Chinese houses and Dutch soldiers to fire cannon at Chinese homes. The violence soon spread throughout Batavia, killing more Chinese. Although Valckenier declared an amnesty on 11 October, gangs of irregulars continued to hunt and kill Chinese until 22 October.
In 1760 during the the Third Silesian War (part of the Seven Years' War), Russian and Austrian troops raid and briefly occupy Berlin. After raising money from the city, and with the approach of further Prussian reinforcements, the occupiers withdrew. There were later allegations that the Russian commander Count Tottleben had received a personal bribe from the Prussians to spare the city; he was subsequently tried and found guilty of being a spy. Certainly the Russians, were concerned about improving their international reputation and generally acted with greater restraint and emphasised respect towards the inhabitants. Several areas of the city were ransacked by the occupiers, and several royal palaces were burnt; weapons were also seized. After the formal surrender by the City Council (to the Russians rather than the Austrians, as Austria was Prussia's bitterest enemy) the Russians immediately made a demand for 4 million Thalers in exchange for the protection of private property. This was eventually negotiated down to 1.5 million Thalers.
In 1790 a severe earthquake, of magnitude 6.3, centred at Oran in northern Algeria at around 01:20AM, caused severe damage and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea and kills three thousand. The city suffered heavy damage in that city and caused a tsunami observed in southern Spain.
In 1799 the British (formerly French) frigate HMS Lutine sank during a storm at Vlieland in the West Frisian Islands,with the loss of 240 men and a cargo of gold worth £1,200,000 (about ten tonnes). Shifting sandbanks disrupted salvage attempts, and the majority of the cargo has never been recovered.
In 1806 Prussia initiated the War of the Fourth Coalition against France; this will array Napoleon's French Empire against Prussia and Russia with Saxony, Sweden, and Great Britain also contributing. The war lasts into 1807 and sees Napoleon victorious.
In 1812 during the War of 1812 in a maritime skirmish on Lake Erie, American forces capture two British ships, HMS Detroit and HMS Caledonia. Lieutenant Jesse Elliott, commander of the United States Navy forces on Lake Erie, spotted the two vessels and commanded a "cutting out operation" to capture both brigs. The American force of about 100 departed Buffalo Creek and approached the British vessels in darkness. Elliott's force successfully captured both vessels and the Americans made for safe harbour at Black Rock. Caledonia arrived safely, but Detroit ran aground on the southern tip of Squaw Island after the wind had died and the vessel became unmanageable, while under fire from British artillery. The British sent a force to retake the ship, but Elliott's crew beat off the attack. In order to prevent the brig's recapture, Elliott ordered the ship burned.
In 1825 the ship Restauration arrives in New York Harbor from Norway, the first organised immigration from Norway to the United States.
In 1831 Ioannis Kapodistrias, one of the most distinguished politicians and diplomats of Europe and the first head of state of independent Greece, is assassinated by Konstantis and Georgios Mavromichalis (father and son) over a personal dispute; earlier that year Kapodistrias had ordered the imprisonment of Petrobey Mavromichalis, who had been the leader of the successful uprising against the Turks and was the Bey of the Mani Peninsula, one of the wildest and most rebellious parts of Greece. The arrest of their patriarch was a mortal offence to the Mavromichalis family. Kapodistrias was killed while on his way to church; at the church steps, Konstantis and Georgios came close as if to greet him and Konstantis drew a pistol and fired, missing. Georgios stabbed Kapodistrias in the chest, while Konstantis shot him in the head. Konstantis was shot by General Fotomaras, who watched the murder scene from his own window. Georgios managed to escape and hide in the French Embassy; after a few days he surrendered to the Greek authorities Kapodistrias is considered the founder of the modern Greek state and the architect of Greek independence.
In 1834 the Dublin and Kingstown Railway was opened, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
In 1854 during the Crimean War, the siege of Sevastopol begins. It will last into SEP1855.
In 1861 during the American Civil War, Union troops repel a Confederate attempt to capture Fort Pickens on Santa Rosa Island in Florida.
In 1864 Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook in Virginia. The battle was nicknamed "The Woodstock Races" for the speed of the Confederate withdrawal.
In 1874 the Universal Postal Union is created by the Treaty of Bern, inspired by the idea of Heinrich von Stephan, the Postmaster-General of the German Reichspost. Before this international postage was chaotic; sending a letter from (say) Berlin to New York required different amounts of postage depending on which ship carried the letter across the Atlantic Ocean and required stamps from each country through which the letter would pass.
In 1911 the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy erupts, beginning the Xinhai Revolution that successfully overthrew China's last imperial dynasty; the immediate cause of the uprising is the accidental detonation of a bomb being prepared by Sun Wu in the Russian concession in Hankou; he was seriously injured and hospitalised. The hospital staff discovered his identity and alerted the Qing authorities.
In 1913 the steamship SS Volturno catches fire in the mid-Atlantic; the ship was a Royal Line vessel under charter to the Uranium Line at the time of the fire. After the Volturno issued SOS signals, eleven ships came to her aid and, despite heavy seas and gale force winds, rescued 521 passengers and crewmen. 135 people, most of them women and children in lifeboats launched unsuccessfully prior to the arrival of the rescue ships, died in the incident. The Volturno was carrying a mixed load of passengers, mostly immigrants, and cargo, which included highly-flammable chemicals.
In 1918 the Finnish Parliament offers to Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse the throne of a short-lived Kingdom of Finland. The attempt failed; the king-elect never reigned nor came to Finland, and republican victories in the next election ensured the proposal was abandoned.
In 1934 King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, are killed in Marseille by an Ustashe assassin. The killing of Alexander was part of an Italian plan to weaken and absorb Yugoslavia; Italy vlaimed territory awarded to the new country of Yugoslavia after the Great War and supported both Hungarian revisionism and the Croat Ustaše terroriss . Meanwhile Barthou had been attempting to build an alliance meant to contain Germany; this was to encompass France's allies in Eastern Europe like Yugoslavia together with Italy and the Soviet Union.
As a result of the previous deaths of three family members on Tuesdays, Alexander generally refused to undertake any public functions on that day of the week. However on this Tuesday he had little choice, as he was arriving in Marseille to start a state visit to France, to strengthen the two countries' alliance in the Little Entente. While Alexander was being slowly driven in a car through the streets along with French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, a gunman, the Bulgarian Vlado Chernozemski, street and shot Alexander twice and also the chauffeur. Barthou was also killed by a stray bullet fired by French police during the scuffle following the attack. It was one of the first assassinations captured on film; the shooting occurred in front of the newsreel cameraman, only metres away at the time.
In 1936 Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
In 1937 nine Catholic clergy were murdered by Japanese troops in Zhengding in China; they were attempting to protect local population from the advancing Japanese army. The clergymen initially resisted the Japanese troops demands to surrender the approximately five thousand Chinese civilians under their protection; they were later abducted and burned alive.
In 1950 at least 153 unarmed civilians were murdered in Korea, in the Goyang Geumjeong Cave massacre. The killings were carried out by police in Goyang in the Gyeonggi-do district of South Korea; after victory in the Second Battle of Seoul, South Korean authorities arrested and summarily executed many individuals along with their families on suspicion of sympathising with North Korea. At the same time the Namyangju Massacre was being carried out in nearby Namyangju.
In 1963 in Italy, a large landslide a causes a giant wave to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000 people in the Piave valley. The Vajont Dam is one of the tallest dams in the world at 262m high, in the valley of the Vajont River under Monte Toc, in the municipality of Erto e Casso, 100km north of Venice. After a wet summer in 1963 the basin was almost completely filled; also at that time slides, shakes, and movements of the ground were continuously reported. On 15SEP the entire side of the mountain slid by 22cm and further landslips occurred, On O9OCT engineers saw trees falling and rocks rolling down into the lake where the landslide was predicted. With a major landslide now imminent, engineers gathered on top of the dam that evening to witness the tsunami; it was considered that the reduction in the water level of the basin was sufficient to absorb and wave. At 10:39PM a massive landslip dumped about a quarter-billion cubic metres of forest, earth, and rock into the reservoir at a speed of over 100km/h. The ship took less than 45 seconds. The resulting displacement of water caused 500 million tonnes of water to overtop the dam in a 250-metre-high wave and erupt down into the Piave Valley; the villages of Longarone, Pirago, Rivalta, Villanova and Faè were destroyed, killing around 2,000 people. The dam was largely undamaged. The top metre or so of masonry was washed away, but the basic structure remained intact and still exists today.
- The perfect spectacle for time travellling disaster tourists.
In 1966, another war another massacre; in Vietnam, South Korean troops commit the Binh Tai Massacre, killling around 150 civilians Binh Tai village. South Korean troops set fire to the Binh Tai villagers' homes and shot the villagers who fled the burning buildings. The raid had been ordered as a punitive action by the Division Headquarters as retaliation for the killing of a Korean officers three days before by sniper fire.
In 1969 in Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue over the trial of the "Chicago Eight".
In 1983 South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon in Myanmar), but the bomb used kills 21 and injures 17 others. The attempt was orchestrated by North Korea.
In 1986 the Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre.
In 1995 sabotage caused the Amtrak Sunset Limited train to derail near Palo Verde in Arizona. The two locomotives and eight of the twelve cars derailed, four of them falling ten metres off a trestle bridge into a dry river bed. Mitchell Bates, a sleeping car attendant, was killed. Seventy-eight people were injured, 12 of them seriously. Those responsible remain unknown.
In 2006 North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.
In 2009 the first lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program is carried out.
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Post by missyfan45 on Oct 9, 2020 20:34:56 GMT
Chun Doo-hwan ,King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou ( the assassination could be prevented or the film could be stolen)Ioannis Kapodistrias,Konstantis and Georgios Mavromichalis , Carloman I,and Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel are good people to meet. The SS Volturno could be a good base under siege scenario in the veins of warriors of the deep. And Kepler's Supernova could have been a Dalek or Cybermen ship exploding.
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 9, 2020 21:59:58 GMT
Chun Doo-hwan ,King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou ( the assassination could be prevented or the film could be stolen)Ioannis Kapodistrias,Konstantis and Georgios Mavromichalis , Carloman I,and Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel are good people to meet. The SS Volturno could be a good base under siege scenario in the veins of warriors of the deep. And Kepler's Supernova could have been a Dalek or Cybermen ship exploding. Yes the Volturno has potential for a running battle against something.
Preventing the death of Kapodistrias and/or Alexander could be the objective(s) of a time meddler. Perhapsing hoping to abort the Second World War by separating Italy and Germany with Alexander or making a stronger Greece with Kapodistrias. Or simply a nationalist of some stripe.
The Kingdom of Finland is one of those potentially interesting and minor changes (rather like the changing of Marys) that could be the inadvertent consequences of time travel. The PCs discover that Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse became King of Finland, under a constitutionally limited monarchy, until his death in 1940 and was succeeded by his younger son Prince Wolfgang of Hesse, who ruled Finland during the Second World War and afterwards. Otherwise hstory continues pretty much as before. A minor footnote, but one that shows that the past is alterable.
Vajont Dam, as I said, strikes me as the perfect location for a group of emotionally jaded time travellers from the future seeking excitement. Possibly getting embroiled in Cold War espionage or the First Mafia War too.
The sinking of HMS Lutine is another sunken treasure plotline; in addition to the half-billion or in gold there are rumoirs of other treasure on board (including the Dutch Crown Jewels). As with other such losses a criminal with access to a some craft, some associates and weaponry, could pillage the cargo before the sinking.
Lieutenant Elliott's little raid on Lake Erie,would have had a completely different purpose; he may have been aware (or a member) of the Secret Congress or influenced by a time traveller to act to neutralise a potential history altering threat aboard one or other of the ships.
The occupation of Berlin is an opportunity to search Charlottenburg (or another of Frederick the Great's palaces) for something.
Phantom of the Opera (like Cats) seems like a night out that will probably get interesting....
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 10, 2020 20:17:32 GMT
10OCT
In 680CE the Battle of Karbala is fought between the army of the second Umayyad caliph (Yazid I) and a small army led by Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, at Karbala in what is now Iraq. The battle was won by the Umayyads. This was a massively important event in the development of the pro-Alid party (Shi'at Ali) into a unique and different religious sect with its own rituals and collective memory. This would later develop into Shi'a Islam.
In 732 the Battle of Tours (or Poitiers) is fought between the combined Frankish and Aquitainian forces, led by Charles Martel, and those of the Umayyad Caliphate, led by Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Governor-General of al-Andalus. The Franks under Martel are victorious and the Umayyad invasion of Gaul is ended. This was an immensely important event, one of the defining events in the history of Europe. The battle laid the foundations of the Carolingian Empire (under Martel's grandson, Charlemagne) and the Frankish domination of western Europe for at least the next century. Despite this not a lot of detail is known about the battle, including the number of combatants and its exact location.
In 1471 a Swedish militia force (led by Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden) decisively repels an attack by King Christian I of Denmark at the Battle of Brunkeberg, fought in the area which is Hötorget in Stockholm today. During the battle Christian was hit in the face by musket fire. Losing several teeth, he was forced to retire from battle.
In 1575 during the French religious wars Roman Catholic forces under Henry I, Duke of Guise defeat the Protestants (a Huguenot-recruited German army led by John Casimir) capturing Philippe de Mornay among others, at the Battle of Dormanslink The battle was decisive in itself, but failed to end the war militarily; it was concluded with the Edict of Beaulieu in May 1576.
In 1580 over 600 Papal troops land in Ireland to support the Second Desmond Rebellion, led by James FitzMaurice FitzGerald, triggering an insurrection across the south of Ireland on the part of the Desmond dynasty, their allies, and others who were dissatisfied with English government of the country. The rebellion would end with the death of Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, and the defeat of the rebels in 1583. The result of the rebellions was the destruction of the Desmond dynasty and the subsequent Munster Plantations, the colonisation of Munster with English settlers. In addition, the fighting laid waste to a large part of the south of Ireland. War-related famine and disease killed perhaps one-third of Munster's pre-war population.
In 1780 as part of the terrible 1780 Atlantic hurricane season the Great Hurricane of 1780 kills perhaps thirty thousand people Caribbean. It remains the deadliest Atlantic hurricane on record.
The hurricane struck Barbados with winds estimates at over 300km/h before moving past Martinique, Saint Lucia, and Sint Eustatius, (causing thousands of deaths on those islands). Occurring during the American Revolution, the storm caused heavy losses to the British fleet contesting for control of the area, significantly weakening British control over the Atlantic.
In 1814 the United States Revenue Marine (absorbed into the Coast Guard) crew of the cutter Eagle attempt to defend their ship from the Royal Navy in a prolonged (three-day) skirmish on and around Long Island. Early in the engagement the Eagle was beached near Negro Head but the crew continued fighting the Royal Navy vessels from shore using cannon recovered from their wrecked vessel and aided by local irregular forces. The crew of Eagle was ultimately able to repair and refloat her, but were unsuccessful in their attempts to drive the British ships away. After beging beached for a second time and running out of ammunition, the Eagle's crew was unable to prevent her from being towed off by the Royal Navy. The fighting injured several but the only fatality was a cow grazing in the area (who was hit by a 32-pound round shot).
In 1846 just seventeen days after the discovery of Neptune by Johann Gottfried Galle, astronomer William Lassell discovers it's largest moon, Triton.
In 1868 the Ten Years' War (or Great War) against Spanish rule in Cuba begins when sugar mill owner Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and his followers proclaimed independence. The uprising was led by Cuban-born planters and other wealthy natives.
In 1903 the Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
In 1913 US President Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.
In 1918 the RMS Leinster is torpedoed and sunk by UB-123, killing 564, the worst-ever on the Irish Sea.[3][4]
In 1928 Chiang Kai-shek becomes director of the State Council of the Republic of China, the equivalent to President of the country. As with his predecessor Sun Yat-sen, the Western media dubbed him "Generalissimo".
In 1933 in the first known case, a United Airlines Boeing 247 is destroyed by sabotage, crashing in a wooded area on the Jackson Township near Chesterton in Indiana, after an internal explosion. It was carrying three crew and four passengers from Newark in New Jersey, with its final destination being in Oakland in California. It had already landed in Cleveland and was headed to its next stop in Chicago when it exploded en route. All aboard died in the crash. Those responsible have never been identified.
In 1935 in Greece, a coup d'état by military officers ends the Second Hellenic Republic. A heavily rigged plebiscite occurred on 03NOW which resulted in an implausible 98% supporting the return of the monarchy.
In 1938 abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
In 1954 the second Jebel Akhdar War begins between the Imamate of Oman and the Sultanate of Muscat. The Sultanate's Minister of Foreign Affairs (Neil Innes) licensed oil prospectors (accompanies by troops) to search for oil near Fahud, an area located within the territory of the Imamate.
In 1957 US President Eisenhower apologises to Ghanaian finance minister Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Howard Johnson's restaurant in Dover in Delaware. The incident resulted in Gbedemah being invited to breakfast at the White House.
In 1957 the Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident and the fifth worse ever. A combination of poor design, improvisations and a rush to produce tritium for nuclear weapons led to a fire in Unit 1 of the two-reactor (then referred to as 'piles') Windscale (later renamed Sellafield) facility on the northwest coast of England in Cumberland (Cumbria). The graphite-moderated reactors had been built as part of the British post-war atomic bomb project.
The fire burned for three days and released radioactive fallout which spread across Britain, Ireland and the rest of Europe. The principal radionuclide released was iodine-131, which may lead to thyroid cancer, though the far more dangerous isotope polonium-210 were also released. The UK government played down the events at the time and reports on the fire were subject to heavy censorship, as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan feared the incident would harm British-American nuclear relations. The event was not an isolated incident; there had been a series of radioactive discharges from the reactors in the years leading up to the accident.
In 1964 the Tokyo Summer Olympics opening ceremony is the first to be relayed live by satellites.
In 1970 Canada's October Crisis escalates when FLQ terrorists kidnap Quebec's vice-premier Pierre Laporte, while he is playing football with his nephew on his front lawn. He will be found strangled on 17OCT.
In 1973 US Vice President Spiro Agnew (the "stern voice of the silent majority") resigns after being charged with evasion of federal income tax.
In 1980 the magnitude 7.1 El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.
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Post by missyfan45 on Oct 10, 2020 21:30:16 GMT
Spiro Agnew,Chiang Kai-shek,Charles Martel,Henry I, Duke of Guise,Sten Sture the Elder, William Lassell, Pierre Laporte, and Yazid I are good people to meet. The the Tokyo Summer Olympics could be good for time tourists to visit.the RMS Leinster could be a good base under siege.The Gamboa Dike could be left intact in a ah. And the Windscale fire could be a good tragic story.
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 11, 2020 19:15:26 GMT
11OCT
In 1138CE the enormously powerful 'Aleppo earthquake' strikes what is now northern Syria, devastating the town of Aleppo and much of the rest of war-ravaged northern Syria. One of the worst hit area was Harem, where Crusaders had built a large citadel; the castle was destroyed and the church fell in on itself. The fort of Atharib, then occupied by Muslims, was destroyed. Amongst others, the town of Zardana was utterly obliterated. It was one of the deadliest earthquakes in history, with tens of thousands killed, though many of the residents of Aleppo had been warned by the foreshocks and fled to the countryside before the main earthquake.
In 1142 the Treaty of Shaoxing brings peace and ends the Jin–Song wars in China, though it forced the Song dynasty into tributary status with regard to the Jin.
In 1311 in England the peerage and clergy restrict the authority of English kings with the Ordinances of 1311, imposed on the weak and unpopular King Edward II. English setbacks in the Scottish war, combined with perceived extortionate royal fiscal policies, and discontent with the king's favourite (and probably lover), Piers Gaveston set the background for the writing of the Ordinances in which the administrative prerogatives of the king were largely appropriated by a baronial council.
In 1531 the theologian and pastor Huldrych Zwingli is killed in battle with the Roman Catholic cantons of Switzerland. Zwingli had been a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland. On 09OCT1531, in a surprise move, the Five States declared war on Zürich; the mobilisation of Zürich's army was slow (due to internal squabbling) so on 11OCT about 3,500 poorly deployed men encountered a Five States force nearly double their size near Kappel. The battle lasted less than one hour and Zwingli was among the 500 casualties in the Zürich army. His death was welcomed by other protestant leaders, including Martin Luther and Erasmus.
In 1634 the Burchardi flood, a powerful North Sea storm surge, kills around 15,000 people in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany. Overrunning dikes it shattered the coastline and caused thousands of deaths and catastrophic material damage.
In 1649 Cromwell's New Model Army sacks the town of Wexford in Ireland, killing over 2,000 Irish Confederate troops and at least 1,500 civilians. After surrender negotiations broke down the Parliamentarian force stormed the town, killing most of the garrison. Many civilians also died, either during the sack, or drowned attempting to escape across the River Slaney. Along with Drogheda, Wexford is still remembered as an infamous atrocity.
In 1739 Grigory Potemkin, the Russian general and politician, and favourite of Catherine the Great, was born in Chizhovo into a family of middle-income noble landowners. A massively important figure in eighteenth century Russia, Potemkin acted as a military and civil leader and diplomat, beoming Catherine's lover and favourite, as well as friend.
In 1767 surveying for the Mason–Dixon line, the border separating Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia is completed. The survey by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon took almost four years and was intended to resolve a border dispute involving Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware in Colonial America. In later years the line became informally known as the border between the free (Northern) states and the slave (Southern) states.
In 1797 the Royal Navy decisively defeats the Batavian (Dutch) Navy at Camperdown during the French Revolutionary Wars. Eleven Dutch ships were captured without British loss.
In 1811 the Juliana designed by John Stevens begins operation, in New York harbor, as the first steam-powered ferry.
In 1862 during the American Civil War, Confederate cavalry under J. E. B. Stuary conduct a raid on Chambersburg in Pennsylvania. Th raid was an element of the Maryland Campaign forced on Lee after the Battle of Antietam.
In 1865 a march to the courthouse by hundreds of black people, led by preacher Paul Bogle, in Morant Bay in Jamaica is met with gunfire by a volunteer militia; this would trigger the Morant Bay rebellion. The protesters attacked and burned the court house and nearby buildings, with around 25 people killed. Over the next two days peasants rose up across St. Thomas-in-the-East parish and controlled most of the area. Governor Edward John Eyre declared martial law in the area, ordering in troops to hunt down the rebels. In all perhaps one thousand people were killed or later executed.
In 1899 the Second Boer War erupts in South Africa between the British-ruled Cape Colony, and the Boer-ruled Transvaal and Orange Free State. The trigger of the war was the discovery of diamonds and gold in the Boer states.
In 1906 the passage of a regulation whereby children of Japanese descent would be required to attend separate, segregated schools, by the the San Francisco Board of Education sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan. At the time there were 93 Japanese students spread across 23 elementary schools in the city. The matter was resolved by an informal agreement between the United States of America and the Empire of Japan whereby the United States would not impose restrictions on Japanese immigration and Japan would not allow further emigration to the United States.
In 1910 in an aircraft piloted by Arch Hoxsey, Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first US president to fly in an aeroplane, at Kinloch Field in St. Louis. Before the year ended Hoxsey would be dead.
n 1912 during the First Balkan War, a day after the Battle of Sarantaporo, Greek troops liberate the city of Kozani.
In 1918 the magnitude 7.1 San Fermín earthquake shakes Puerto Rico. The quake and resulting tsunami kills over a hundred people.
In 1937 the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (formerly king Edward VIII of England and Wallis Simpson) tour Nazi Germany for 12 days and meet Adolf Hitler on 22OCT. At the time the Duke's supporters saw him as a potential peacemaker between Britain and Germany, but the British government refused to sanction such a role and was against the tour, suspecting that the Nazis would use the Duke's presence for propaganda (which they did).
In 1958 NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, at )8:42AM (GMT). The launch is successful but the probe, aimed at the moon, suffers a programming error in the upper stage, causing it to fails to achieve a stable lunar orbit. The probe returns and is destroyed reentering Earth's atmosphere. The flight lasted 43 hours and reached an apogee of 113,800km.
Ten years later and the NASA mission is more successful; in 1968 NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission. Due to the disastrous Apollo 1 fire it was the first mission in the United States' Apollo program to carry a crew into space and the first US crewed spaceflight since Gemini XII in NOV1966. Apollo 7 fulfilled Apollo 1's mission of testing the Apollo command and service module (CSM) in low Earth orbit, leading to the Apollo 8 flight to the moon
In 1986 Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Iceland to continue discussions about scaling back IRBM arsenals in Europe.
In 2018 the Soyuz MS-10 mission, intended to deliver a crew for the ISS, suffers an in-flight abort. The crew lands safely.
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Post by missyfan45 on Oct 11, 2020 20:38:10 GMT
the Duke and Duchess of Windsor Arch Hoxsey,J. E. B. Stuart, Huldrych Zwingli,Grigory Potemkin, John Stevens and 1986 Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.The Apollo 7 mission could be a silence themed adventure.The Burchardi flood could be a good pure historical or a aliens did it story. And the Aleppo earthquake could be a good prequel to can you hear me?.
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 12, 2020 18:44:59 GMT
12OCT
In 539BCE about a month after winning the Battle of Opis the army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon, ending the Babylonian empire (technically the Neo-Babylonian Empire). There is very little reliable historical information abut Babylon, and the Persian taking of the city; though Babylon's walls were considered impenetrable. The only way into the city was through one of its many gates or through the Euphrates River, with was protected by metal grates. It is said that during a Babylonian festival, Cyrus' troops upstream diverted the Euphrates River, allowing an assault force to enter the city through the lowered water. of the breach.
In 633CE King Edwin of Northumbria, the most powerful monarch in Britain, is defeated (and killed) at the Battle of Hatfield Chase (near modern Doncaster), by an alliance under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd. It was a decisive victory for Gwynedd and the Mercians and a disaster for Northumbria. With both Edwin and his older son Osfrith killed, and his other son Eadfrith captured by Penda (and later killed), the kingdom was divided between its constituent kingdoms of Bernicia and Deira.
In 1279 the Nichiren Shōshū branch of Buddhism is founded in Japan, by a Japanese Buddhist priest Nichiren and his disciple Nikko Shonin. He alleged inscribed the Dai Gohonzon, a calligraphic mandala inscribed with Sanskrit and Chinese characters on a plank of Japanese camphorwood, which remains in the Grand Main Temple complex grounds at the foot of Mount Fuji.
In 1406 Chen Yanxiang, the only person from Indonesia known to have visited dynastic Korea, reaches Seoul after having set out from Java four months before. Chen Yanxiang was a merchant of Chinese origin, based (probably) on the Indonesian island of Java, who visited Joseon Korea and Muromachi Japan between 1394 and 1412 and is considered a colourful and widely travelled character for the period. He visited Korea at least once, and dabbled in astronomy there, but returned to Korea in 1406 with a cargo of exotic birds, pepper, and other goods; he also claimed (dubiously) to be an ambassador from a Javanese king. Off the Korean coastline, Chen was attacked by Japanese pirates, lost his entire cargo. Nevertheless he travelled to Seoul and was hosted by the Korean king Taejong and a "King of Japan" (probably the shogun Ashikaga Yoshimochi). Chen returned to Japan in 1411, this time with an official title of high rank granted by the Javanese court. He visited Kyoto, then Japan's capital, while sending his grandson to offer gifts to the Korean court. He disappears from the historical record in 1412. He is the only known person from Indonesia to have ever visited dynastic Korea.
In 1492 the first expedition of Christopher Columbus makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in the Bahamas.
In 1654 a massive, accidental, gunpowder deflagration in the Dutch city of Delft devastates the city; more than one hundred are killed. The explosion, known as the Delft Thunderclap, occurred when about thirty tonnes of gunpowder stored in barrels in a former Clarist convent in the Doelenkwartier district detonated, destroying much of the city. The cause is not known, Cornelis Soetens, the keeper of the magazine, opened the store to check a sample of the powder and a huge explosion followed. Luckily, many citizens were away, visiting a market in Schiedam or a fair in The Hague. Among those killed was Carel Fabritius, considered Rembrandt's most promising pupil; most of his work was also destroyed.
In 1748 during the War of Jenkins' Ear, (soon to become part of War of the Austrian Succession) a British squadron wins a tactical victory over a Spanish squadron in the Battle of Havana. The British force drove the Spanish back to their harbour after capturing the Conquistador and ran the vice-admiral's ship Africa on shore, where she was blown up by her own crew after being damaged.
In 1773 in Williamsburg, Virginia America's first insane asylum, now Eastern State Hospital, opens.
In 1798 Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule known as the Peasants' War.
In 1799 Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse becomes the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute. Labrosse was a noted early aeronaut, and wife of André-Jacques Garnerin, a hydrogen balloonist and inventor of the frameless parachute; she was the first woman to ascend solo and the first woman to make a parachute descent.
In 1810 the citizens of Munich hold the first Oktoberfest.
In 1822 Pedro I ("the Liberator") of Brazil is proclaimed the first emperor of of the Empire of Brazil. He had been King Dom Pedro IV of Portugal, until the French invasion of 1807.
In 1849 the city of Manizales, Colombia, is founded by 'The Expedition of the 20', a group of twenty Antioquians
In 1915 British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium This was an immensely important propaganda victory for Britain; Cavell was arrested for "war treason" despite not being a German national (she may have been recruited by the British Secret Intelligence Service earlier in the war).
In 1917 the First Battle of Passchendaele begins, in the Ypres Salient on the Western Front. The attack was part of the Third Battle of Ypres and was fought west of Passchendaele village.
In 1918 the Cloquet fire, a massive forest fire in northern Minnesota, kills at least 453 people in one day.The fire (actually at least fifty individual fires) was caused by sparks on local railways and tinder dry conditions. 38 communities and over a thousand square kilometres were destroyed.
In 1928 the 'iron lung; respirator is used for the first time at Boston Children's Hospital, developed by Drinker and Shaw (hence it being referred to as the "Drinker respirator") Philip Drinker and Louis Shaw, Jr. were professors of industrial hygiene at the Harvard School of Public Health. The main version of the machine was powered by an electric motor with air pumps from two vacuum cleaners which changed the pressure inside a rectangular, airtight metal box, pulling air in and out of the patient's lungs. The first subject was an eight-year-old girl who was nearly dead as a result of respiratory failure due to polio. Her dramatic recovery, within less than a minute of being placed in the chamber, helped popularise the new device.
In 1933 the military Alcatraz Citadel and Disciplinary Barracks becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary when it is acquired by the US Department of Justice. The prison opens in August 1934.
In 1960 during the 902nd Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at the United Nations in protest at a speech by Philippine delegate Lorenzo Sumulong.
In 1960 Japan's Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma is stabbed to death with a sword during a live television broadcast by ultranationalist Otoya Yamaguchi.
In 1962 the 'Big Blow' (or Columbus Day Storm; originally part of Typhoon Freda) strikes the US Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 people are killed by flooding and mudslides. The storm ranks among the most intense to strike the region since at least 1948, likely since the "Great Gale" of 09JAN1880. nd Northern California resulting from
In 1964 the Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew, and the first flight without pressure suits (to save weight and space). It was the seventh crewed Soviet space flight and set a crewed spacecraft altitude record of 336km.
In 1972 a race riot occurs on the United States Navy aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk off the coast of Vietnam.
In 1979 Typhoon Tip becomes the largest and most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded.
In 1984 a Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb in the Grand Hotel in Brighton detonates at 2:54AM but fails to kill British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet.; five people are killed, and 31 wounded A long-delay time bomb was planted in the hotel by Patrick Magee, with the purpose of killing Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, while staying under the pseudonym Roy Walsh during the weekend of 14–17SEP1984.
In 1992 a magnitude 5.8 earthquake occurs in Cairo in Egypt at 13:09. The 'quake was was unusually destructive for its size and at least 510 died. The areas of greatest damage were in Old Cairo, Bulaq and southwards along the Nile as far as Girza, on the west bank.
In 1994 the NASA Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus. This was the final part of the mission, after it had mapped the surface of Venus by using synthetic aperture RADAR. and measured the planetary gravitational field. The final experiment was the "Windmill experiment"; it's orbit was lowered and the solar arrays aligned so they could act as paddles as they impacted the Venusian upper atmosphere.
In 2005 the second Chinese human spaceflight, Shenzhou 6, is launched, carrying two cosmonauts in orbit for five days.
In 2019 Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya becomes the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours with a time of 1:59:40 in Vienna.
In 2019 the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans, which was under construction, collapses, killing two and injuring twenty.
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Post by missyfan45 on Oct 12, 2020 19:41:23 GMT
Eliud Kipchoge,Christopher Columbus,Inejiro Asanuma ,Lorenzo Sumulong, Edith Cavell ,Nichiren and, Nikko Shonin,Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse,King Edwin of Northumbria,Penda of Mercia,Cadwallon of Gwynedd, and Cyrus the Great are good people to meet. The Brighton bombing could be a good ah or pure historical story. And the War of Jenkins' Ear/Shoe banging incident could be good comedic adventures.
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 13, 2020 10:41:06 GMT
13OCT
In 54CE the Roman emperor Claudius dies under mysterious circumstances in the early hours of the morning. He was probably poisoned, the question is by whom? And who organised the affair? There are lesser questions of what poison was used and how it was administered also. Mushrooms (wither naturally toxic or with some addition) are a popular hypothesis as is a poisoned feather (used to induce vomiting). Also, were there multiple murder plots and poisons?
Claudius is considered a weak emperor, unsuited to the role (he had scholarly inclination) and was afflicted with a limp and slight deafness due to illness in his youth. He was the first Roman emperor to be born outside Italy, at Lugdunum in Roman Gaul, where his father was stationed as a military legate. He appears in the scenario The Legions of Death, in a supporting role.
The most likely person to have poisoned Claudius was his final wife, Agrippina; she and Claudius had become more combative in the months leading up to his death. Additionally Claudius may have planned to adopt his son Britannicus (by this third wife Valeria Messalina) as his heir. At the time of his death Claudius's heir was his step-son, Agrippina's son Lucius Domitius, the infamous Nero.
Others who may have been involved in the plot are Claudius's taster Halotus, his physician Xenophon, and the infamous poisoner Locusta (who appeared in The Romans). The circumstances of Claudius's death are uncertain; some accounts suggest a single dose of poison at dinner, followed by several hours of suffering an death, while others suggest he recovered and poisoned a second time. So there's plenty of flexibility for a scenario. Snacking should be avoided...
In 409 several tribes, including the Germanic Buri, Suevi and Vandals and the Sarmatian Alans, move into Roman Hispania (Iberia) across the Pyrenees at the request of Gerontius a Roman general and would-be-usurper. This began the end of Roman Spain.
In 1269 the present church building at Westminster Abbey is consecrated. Construction had began in 1245 under Henry III (who selected the site for his burial) The perfect opportunity for ghostly goings-on and temporal displacements.
In 1307, at dawn, on the orders of king Philip IV of France, Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Templar order, and hundreds of other French Templars are simultaneously arrested. This id done with the consent of Pope Clement V, based in Avignon in France. The charges were almost certainly a pretext for Philip to sieze the wealth accumulated by the Knights Templar, and extinguish his own huge debts to them (the Templars originated international banking) based on an accusation made in 1305 by an ousted Templar. The Templars were charged with a wide variety of crimes; that during Templar admissions ceremonies recruits were forced to spit on the Cross, deny Christ, and engage in indecent kissing; brethren were also accused of worshipping idols, and the order was said to have encouraged homosexual practices; additional charges of financial corruption, fraud, and secrecy. Many of the accused confessed to these charges under torture. The Templars were accused of idolatry and were suspected of worshiping either a figure known as Baphomet or a mummified severed head they recovered, amongst other artifacts, at their original headquarters on the Temple Mount that many scholars theorize might have been that of John the Baptist, among other things.
- Plenty of opportunity for scenarios there. These could be mundane, time travellers being caught up in events, perhaps helping a fleeing Templar (has someone a razor?). Or they could be more outre; perhaps the Templars were investigating extra-terrestrial encounters, utilised alien technology, accepted members from other worlds stranded on Earth or were the mind controlled pawns of an alien influence.
- Were the Templars suppressed entirely? Or did some part of the order continue in secret?
In 1332 Rinchinbal Khan briefly becomes the Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan dynasty. He reigns for just 53 days. He was enthroned as the new emperor on 23OCT1332 and died on 14DEC, aged six.
- Did someone cause his death? Why? How?
In 1399 Henry Bolingbroke is crowned King Henry IV of England at Westminster Abbey. This was probably the first time since the Norman Conquest when the monarch made an address in English.
In 1644 a Swedish fleet, assisted by Dutch mercenaries, defeats the Danish fleet at the battle of Fehmarn (now in Germany, on the Baltic coast) and captured about 1,000 prisoners.
In 1710 Port Royal, (now Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia), the capital of French Acadia (the French settlements in North America), falls in a siege by British forces during Queen Anne's War The successful British siege marked the beginning of permanent British control over the peninsular portion of Acadia, which became Nova Scotia.
In 1793 during the French Revolutionary Wars (specifically the War of the First Coalition) Austrian and Prussian worces are victorious over Republican France at the First Battle of Wissembourg. The poorly led and unmotivated French troops offer only an ineffectual resistance, with the French army abandoning their fortified line behind the Lauter River and retreating toward Strasbourg in confusion.
In 1812 during the American invasion of Canada in the War of 1812, Sir Isaac Brock's British and native forces repel the invasion General Rensselaer's United States forces at the Battle of Queenston Heights. This was was the first major battle in the War of 1812. Brock himself was killed in the battle. The battle frustrated the American attempt to establish a foothold on the Canadian side of the Niagara River before winter.
In 1843 in New York City, B'nai B'rith, the oldest Jewish service organization in the world, is founded; it is committed to the security and continuity of the Jewish people (and later the State of Israel) and combating anti-Semitism and bigotry.
In 1884 voting takes place on various resolutions at the International Meridian Conference in Washington DC. The conference was attended by 21 countries and has opened on 01OCT (instigated by US President Chester Arthur) to standardise matters of mapping, navigation and time-keeping. The conference voted to establish the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
- This would also be the beginning of standardisation of time, something that had begun in Britain with the railway network and the use of telegraphed time signals; at the time 12 noon Washington DC was 11:30 in Columbus, Ohio; 11:08 in New Orleans; 12:26 in Salem and 11:42 in St.Augustine. Given that railway timetables operated on local times, this caused confusion.
In 1892 Edward Emerson Barnard discovers first comet discovered by photographic means, now called 206P/Barnard–Boattini. After this apparition this comet was lost and was thus designated D/1892 T/1 until it was rediscovered on 07OCT2008 by Andrea Boattin.
- What else might those astronomical photographs have shown.
In 1915 the Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos. A series of attacks over about a week left six thousand dead; "The fighting.... had not improved the general situation in any way and had brought nothing but useless slaughter of infantry".
In 1917 in the Cova da Iria in Portugal the "Miracle of the Sun" (also known as the Miracle of Fátima) is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people, though what they witnessed is disputed. The crowd had gathered at Fátima in response to a prophecy made by three children, that the Virgin Mary would appear and perform miracles on that date. Newspapers published testimony from witnesses who said that they had seen extraordinary solar activity, such as the Sun appearing to "dance" or zig-zag in the sky, careen towards the Earth, or emit multicolored light and radiant colors. According to these reports, the event lasted approximately ten minutes. While the Roman Catholic Church declared the miracle "worthy of belief" skeptics consider the effects seen were a mix of wish-fulfillment and the result of staring at the sun.
In 1972 Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashes in the Andes mountains. Twenty-eight survive the crash. All but 16 succumb before rescue on 23DEC. The incident was noted for the survivors reluctantly resorting to cannibalism of the dead. Most deaths were due to injuries in the crash combined with the cold conditions. The crash site was over-flown several times in the days after the crash, with it being seen.
In 1983 the first cellular telephony network in the USA starts operations; Ameritech Mobile Communications launches in Chicago.
In 2010 a mining accident in Copiapó in Chile ends today with the rescue of all 33 trapped miners, after a record 69 days The incident began on 05AUG with a cave-in at the San José copper–gold mine in the Atacama Desert, which trapped thirty-three men about 700 metres underground and 5km from the mine's entrance. Seventeen days after the accident, a note was found taped to a drill bit pulled back to the surface (We are well in the shelter, the 33 of us). The message spawned three separate, competing, drilling rig teams, involving nearly every Chilean government ministry, NASA, and a dozen corporations from around the world.
In 2013 a stampede occurs in India at about 9AM among 25,000 worshipers on a bridge near the Ratangarh Mata Temple in Datia district, during the Hindu festival Navratri; a rumour spread that the bridge was about to collapse, and the crowd panicked and began pushing their way off. Many were killed or injured in the ensuing crush, and others drowned after jumping into the river below. Most of the 115 dead and 110 injured were women and children. At least one account stated that a group of pilgrims intentionally spread the collapse rumour, hoping to cut the long line.
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Post by missyfan45 on Oct 13, 2020 14:04:32 GMT
Rinchinbal Khan,Claudius , Gerontiu,Henry Bolingbroke , Edward Emerson Barnard(a spaceship heading to earth), and Jacques de Molay,(maybe under mind control) could be good people to meet.the "Miracle of the Sun could be caused by the Atraxi or forces trying to end the world by moving the sun closer. And the International Meridian Conference could be good for time meddlers to visit.
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 14, 2020 19:21:32 GMT
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In 1066CE the Norman conquest of England begins with the Battle of Hastings. The last real chance to prevent the Normal conquest of Britain (well England and Wales). The battle took place approximately 11km northwest of Hastings, close to the present-day town of Battle, and began a couple of hours after first light, about 9AM and lasted until around dusk, about 8PM. There is little information available as to the numbers involves, though the composition of the forces is far clearer; the English army under Harold was composed almost entirely of infantry (nobles and their retainers) and had few archers and cavalry. The Norman force was composed of about one-quarter each cavalry and archers, with the remainder infantry; those infantry were also better trained and equipped in general, rather than the levies used by Harold. The use and importance of stirrups is a matter of debate; certainly their use allowed for the classic cavalry 'shock action' tactic. There are a number of possible ways meddle in the battle; in addition to the less subtle technique of importing some advanced military hardware (be it a Soixante-Quinze, an A7V, a few mortars, a DASH carrying iron bombs or a Davy Crockett), there are options for assassination, the use of bio-chemical agents of varying levels of effect against the Normans or simply stopping William's scouts discovering Harold's army and reporting its arrival. The battle was no easy won thing for the Normans; initially their efforts to break the English battle lines failed. It was the ruse of pretending to flee in panic and then turning on their pursuers (a tricky maneuver to pull off and one that could be disrupted or negated fairly easily). Harold's death probably occurred near the end of the battle and that is what led to the overwhelming Norman victory and the defeat of most of the English army. After further marching and some skirmishes,
In 1322 at the Battle of Old Byland in Yorkshire, Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats the army of King Edward II of England (led by John of Brittany) and forces Edward to accept Scotland's independence. The Scots victory was the most significant since Bannockburn in 1314, which had given Robert and the Scots the initiative in the wars with England; they had raided deep into the north of the country repeatedly and with comparative ease to attempt to force the English to the peace-table. Edward II, a rather weak king, was incapable of dealing with the problem; he was distracted by the political struggle with his own barons. He refused to even begin peace negotiations with the Scots which would have required recognizing Robert the Bruce as King of the Scots. It was in early 1322 that the situation had become critical, with some senior English noblemen, (headed by Thomas of Lancaster) preparing to enter into an alliance with the Scots.
In 1586 Mary, Queen of Scots, goes on trial for treason and conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I of England, under the Act for the Queen's Safety before a court of 36 noblemen, including Elizabeth's advisors Cecil, Shrewsbury, and Walsingham. Mary denied the charges and told her triers She protested that she had been denied the opportunity to review the evidence, that her papers had been removed from her, that she was denied access to legal counsel and that as a foreign anointed queen she had never been an English subject and thus could not be convicted of treason. However these points had no effect and she was convicted on 25OCT and sentenced to death. Nevertheless, Elizabeth hesitated to order her execution, even in the face of pressure from the English Parliament to carry out the sentence. She was concerned that the killing of a queen set a discreditable precedent and was fearful of the consequences; especially the possibility of Mary's son, James, forming an alliance with the Catholic powers and invading England. Elizabeth made at least one attempt to have Mary assassinated during her imprisonment.
In 1758 during the Third Silesian War (part of the Seven Years' War), Frederick the Great suffers a rare defeat at the Battle of Hochkirch, fought in and around the village of Hochkirch, 9km east of Bautzen in Saxony A force of around 80,000 Austrians commanded by Leopold Josef Graf Daun surprised the Prussian army (around 30,000–36,000 strong) commanded by Frederick and overwhelmed the Prussians, forcing a general retreat. The battle is considered one of Frederick's greatest blunders; he ignored the advice of his subordinates, he refused to believe that the typically cautious Austrian commander von Daun would bring his troops into battle. The Austrian force ambushed his army in a pre-dawn attack and about one-third of Frederick's army was defeated, five generals were killed and he lost his artillery park and a vast quantity of supplies. Although Daun had scored a complete surprise, his attempt to pursue the retreating Prussians was unsuccessful.
In 1773 the first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealthm created by the Sejm and the King Stanisław II August.
In 1805 during the War of the Third Coalition a French corps (under Michel Ney) routs an Austrian force (led by Johann Sigismund Riesch) and prevents the Austrian attempt to escape encirclement at Ulm in the Battle of Elchingen. Soon afterward, the Austrians trapped in Ulm surrendered to Napoleon's forces and the French mopped up most of the remaining Austrians forces. The battle was part of a gigantic envelopment of the Austrian army in Bavaria (led by Karl Mack von Lieberich) carried out by Napoleon. While the Austrian army lay near Ulm, south of the Danube River, the French army marched west on the north side of the river. Then Napoleon's troops crossed the river east of Ulm, cutting the Austrian retreat route to Vienna. Finally waking up to his danger, Mack tried to break out on the north side of the river, but a lone French division blocked his first attempt.
In 1806 during the War of the Fourth Coalition, Napoleon decisively defeats Prussia at the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
In 1843 the Irish nationalist leader Daniel O'Connell is arrested by the British on charges of criminal conspiracy. O'Connell's tactics of "Monster Meetings" (one at the Hill of Tara [by tradition the inaugural seat of the High Kings of Ireland] on 05AUG1843 had attracted over one million people) was seriously worrying the British authorities and led to the arrest and trial. After what is describes as a show trial O'Connell and his son John were sentenced to twelve months imprisonment for conspiracy, though both were released after three months, the charges quashed on appeal to the House of Lords. After his release O'Connell was paraded in triumph through Dublin on a gilded throne.
In 1863 during the American Civil War Confederate troops under the command of A. P. Hill fail to drive the Union Army out of Virginia and are defeated at the Battle of Bristoe Station.
In 1888 Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene, a short silent actuality film recorded at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, Leeds. The Grange was the home of Joseph and Sarah Whitley, the parents of Le Prince's wife, Elizabeth. The footage features Louis's son Adolphe Le Prince, his mother-in-law Sarah Whitley, his father-in-law Joseph Whitley and Annie Hartley in the garden of Oakwood Grange, leisurely walking around the garden. It is considered the oldest surviving film.
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In 1898 the steam ship SS Mohegan sinks off the coast of the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall on her second voyage after hitting The Manacles rocks. 106 out of the 197 people on board die in the accident. The ship had been built at Earle's Shipbuilding and Engine Company in Hull with a number of advanced safety features (eight watertight bulkheads, failsafe lighting and pumping systems, eight lifeboats capable of carrying 59 passengers each and three compasses). The cause of the accident was probably human error; it appears that the ship took the wrong bearing of the Cornish coast, passing the Eddystone light at 4.17PM, and steamed down The Lizard coast without slowing from 13 knots. This was noticed by the Coverack coastguard, which attempted to signal to her with warning rockets. The Mohegan either was unaware or took no notice, and maintained her course. James Hill, coxwain of the Porthoustock lifeboat saw the ship, lights ablaze, heading at full speed towards the Manacle Rocks and called his crew, anticipating the accident. Just before hitting the rocks the crew of the Mohegan realised the danger and stopped engines, but too late. The Mohegan ran onto the Manacles at about 7PM, embedding the rudder into the rock and tearing the hull open; flooding the engine room almost immediately flooded. The ship's lighting failed soon after and the passengers made their way onto the deck, where attempts were made to launch the lifeboats. The ship rolled and sank 12 minutes after hitting the rocks, with the loss of 106 lives including Captain Griffith, Assistant Engineer William Kinley and all of the officers. The Porthoustock lifeboat Charlotte was launched in 30 minutes and rescued most of the survivors from the wreck and the water; 44 persons were saved.
- Why did an experienced crew make such a mistake and take so long to realise it?
In 1901 the Discovery Expedition to Antarctica, led by Robert Falcon Scott, begins the second leg of its journey as RRS Discovery departs from Cape Town, South Africa, toward New Zealand. The Discovery Expedition of 1901–1904 (officially as the British National Antarctic Expedition) was the first official British exploration of the Antarctic regions since the voyage of James Clark Ross sixty years earlier (1839-1843). It had been organised on a large scale under a joint committee of the Royal Society and the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and was planned to carry out scientific research and geographical exploration in what was then largely an untouched continent. It launched the Antarctic careers of many who would become leading figures in the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, including Robert Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Edward Wilson, Frank Wild, Tom Crean and William Lashly. Its scientific results covered extensive ground in biology, zoology, geology, meteorology and magnetism. The expedition discovered the existence of the only snow-free Antarctic valleys, which contain Antarctica's longest river. Further achievements included the discoveries of the Cape Crozier emperor penguin colony, King Edward VII Land, and the Polar Plateau on which the South Pole is located. The expedition tried but failed to reach the South Pole.
- This probably needs a specific post of it's own.
In 1910 the pioneering English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his aircraft on West Executive Avenue near the White House in Washington DC.
- Might someone need a lift? Or a message delivered?
In 1912 former US president Theodore Roosevelt (and then candidate for the Presidency) is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. Much of the impact was absorbed by a folder speech and the metal case for Roosevelt's glasses. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
- I mentioned Schrank and his dreams about the late US President William McKinley earlier (15SEP
). Might someone (or an organisation) have felt that Roosevelt and the Progressive party were a threat to them? What had Roosevelt learned as president?
– Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners. In 1913 an explosion under the Senghenydd colliery (near Caerphilly in Glamorgan ) leads to the worst mining accident in British history. 439 miners and one rescuer die. Coal in the region was notorious for containing high levels of 'firedamp' (a highly explosive gaseous mix of methane and hydrogen, with coal dust ). An earlier disaster had happened in MAY1901 with three underground explosions at the colliery kill ing 81 miners. The probably cause of the explosion was ignition, by an electric park from underground signalling equipment, of firedamp. While miners in the east side of the workings were evacuated safe ly, the men in the western section bore the brunt of the explosion, fire and 'afterdamp' (a toxic mix of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen left after an explosion). Earlier that day , at around 3AM, firemen had descended the pit to conduct the daily checks for gas; they had three hours to complete their investigations. The firemen for the Mafeking return had to travel more than two miles from the shaft bottom to the workface which left inadequate time to make a thorough check of the workings. - This involved placing a naked flame into cavities to see if the flame lengthened.
Between 5:10 and 6:00AM about 950 men descended the shaft for a shift that was due to last until 2PM. At around 8:05AM an explosion or explosions occurred in the west side of the underground workings. Some mine hazards:Afterdamp: a toxic mixture of gases left after an explosion; typically carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen Stinkdamp: the foul smelling and highly toxic (comparable to hydrogen cyanide) gas hydrogen sulfide. Blackdamp: mixture of carbon dioxide and nitrogen , not greatly toxic but a slow asphyxiant. Firedamp: a n explosive, flammable gas mixture of (predominantly) methane with hydrogen and other hydrocarbons. Whitedamp: a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulphide ( its name comes from the tendedc y of flames to burn more brightly in its presence) That same day British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith and Leader of the Opposition Bonar Law met secretly to discuss a bipartisan solution to the growing demand for Home Rule in Ireland. From their meetings, there would emerge the eventual separation of the mostly Protestant counties, in north east Ulster, from the mostly Roman Catholic counties in the rest of the island. In 1915 during World War I Bulgaria joins the Central Powers. This is a significant boost for the Central Powers, adding troops and resources and providing a land and rail link from Germany to Istanbul , as well as cutting off the railway linking Skopje with Thessaloniki and preventing the Serbian Army from being resupplied and reinforced by the Allies. Th at day Imperial Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet raided Varna in Bulgaria, employing a seaplane carrier and battleship force. In 1939 in the early stages of World War II , the German submarine U-47 (c ommanded by Guther Prien) raids the supposedly secure Royal Navy harbour at Scapa Flow in Scotland and sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak The U-47 was six days out of port when she succeeded in penetrating the Royal Navy's primary base at Scapa Flow ; unfortunately for Prien most of the Home Fleet was not at the base at the time. In 1940 in the evening the Balham underground station , one of many deep tube stations designated for use as a civilian air raid shelter , is damaged in a bombing, part of the London Blitz. A 1400 kg semi-armour piercing fragmentation bomb fell on the road above the northern end of the platform tunnels and detonated in the ground, reating a large crater into which an out of service bus then crashed. The northbound platform tunnel partially collapsed and was filled with earth and water from the fractured water mains and sewers above, which also flooded through the cross-passages into the southbound platform tunnel. Between 66 and 69 people in the station were killed and more than seventy injured. In 1943 at about 4PM prisoners at Sobibor extermination camp begin covertly assassinat ing most of the on-duty SS officers in the camp as the prelude for a mass breakout. The plan consisted of two phases . Firstly the prisoners would lure the SS officers to secluded locations around the camp and kill them ; these covert killings would take place in the hour before evening roll call. The second phase would begin at evening roll call, after all the prisoners had assembled in the Lager I roll call yard. The kapos would announce that the SS had ordered a special work detail in the forest outside the camp, and the entire group would calmly march to freedom out the front gate. If the watchmen found this unusual, they wouldn't be able to confirm their suspicions or coordinate a response since the SS men would be dead. The first to die was the camp's Deputy Commandant, SS-Untersturmführer Johann Niemann , who rode up to the Lager I tailor's barracks on his horse at 4PM for a scheduled appointment to be fitted for a leather jacket taken from a murdered Jew. His death was important since he was acting commandant .While admiring the jacket, Niemann spotted one of the Russian prisoners standing by with an axe and asked what he was doing there, but he was satisfied with the head tailor's explanation that he was simply there to repair a table. At the tailor's request, Niemann removed his pistol holster and put on the jacket. The tailor asked Niemann to turn around, ostensibly to check if any alterations were needed in the back. When Niemann complied, two prisoners crept up behind him with axes and killed him. Over the next hour, an SS officer was killed roughly every five minutes, thirteen in total. However the plan did not succeed as intended, but roughly 300 prisoners escaped the camp to the forest. - An absolutely fascinating incident and one that, while over complicated, stood a chance of succeeding.
In 1943 during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt the American Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers , with another 17 damaged so heavily that they had to be scrapped. 121 had varying degrees of battle damage. Losses in aircrew were equally heavy, with 650 men lost of 2,900; 22 percent of the bomber crews. In 1944 Erwin Rommel is allowed to commit suicide by the Nazis rather than face trial for his knowledge of the July Bomb Plot .In 1947 despite two broken ribs Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound in the air-launched, rocket propelled Bell X-1. Two nights before the scheduled date for the flight, Yeager broke two ribs when he fell from a horse. He was worried that the injury would remove him from the mission and reported that he went to a civilian doctor in nearby Rosamond, who taped his ribs . On the day of the flight, Yeager was in such pain that he could not seal the X-1's hatch by himself and used the end of a broom handle as an extra lever, to allow him to seal the hatch. Glamorous Glennis reached Mach 1.05 at an altitude of 13,700m over the Rogers Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert. in 1948 the film Johnny Belinda starring Jane Wyman (in an Oscar-winning role), Lew Ayres and Charles Bickford had its official world premiere at the Warner Hollywood Theatre in Los Angeles.
That same day the less famous Australian play Rusty Bugles by Sumner Locke Elliott premieres at the Independent Theatre in Sydney. The play was controversial for its coarse language and gained notoriety when it was threatened with closure for obscenity.
In 1952 during the Korean War , the Battle of Triangle Hill, the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952 , begins. Also known as Operation Showdown this was a protracted engagement between two United Nations infantry divisions, with additional support from the United States Air Force, and elements of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army. The battle lasted until late November around Triangle Hill, a forested ridge of high ground 2km north of Gimhwa-eup. Despite clear superiority in artillery and aircraft, escalating UN casualties resulted in the attack being halted after 42 days of fighting, with PVA forces regaining their original positions. In 1957 at least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia. The city as a whole was left without water, gas and electricity and around 75% of commercial and industrial activity was affected and around 5,800 homes were destroyed. In 1962 the firs t step of the the Cuban Missile Crisis is taken when an American U-2 reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba. The thirteen day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by Soviet deplo yment of nuclear armed ballistic missiles in Cuba to reduce the USSR's strategic inferiority. In fact reconnaissance missions were authori sed on 09OCT b ut poor weather kept the planes from flying. On the night of 12OCT a U-2 flown by Major Richard Heyser took 928 pictures on a path selected by the US Defense Intelligence Agency, capturing images of what turned out to be an SS-4 construction site at San Cristóba l, in western Cuba. On 15OCT the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center reviewed the photographs and identified objects that they interpreted as medium range ballistic missiles. In 1964 in a surprise t o the rest of the world Nikita Khrushchev was removed from his position as the leader of the Soviet Union, when the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union voted to retire him from his position as the Party's General Secretary, and the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet voted to accept his "voluntary" retirement as Chairman of the Council of Ministers. In 1966 the city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system. In 1968 the first live TV broadcast by American astronauts in orbit is performed by the Apollo 7 crew. In 1968 the magnitude 6.5 Meckering earthquake shakes the southwest portion of Western Australia causing significant property damage and some injuries, but no fatalities.
In 1968 Jim Hines becomes the first man ever to break the so-called "ten-second barrier" in the 100-meter sprint with a time of 9.95 seconds. In 1973 Thailand sees the Thammasat student uprising, with over 100,000 people protesting against the military government. Seventy-seven are killed and 857 are injured by soldiers. In 1975 an RAF Avro Vulcan bomber explodes and crashes over Żabbar in Malta after an aborted landing at RAF Luqa. , killing five crew members and one person on the ground. The Avro Vulcan B.2 bomber crashed in a residential area in Żabbar; the two pilots managed to eject and survived the accident. In 1979 the first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people. In 2012 Felix Baumgartner successfully jumps to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere. In 2014 a snowstorm and avalanche in the Nepalese Himalayas triggered by the remnants of Cyclone Hudhud kills 43 people. In 2088 an annular solar eclipse occurs, mainly visible over southern South America
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Post by missyfan45 on Oct 14, 2020 19:45:02 GMT
Felix Baumgartner,Jim Hines,Chuck Yeager, Louis Le Prince, Sumner Locke Elliott,Erwin Rommel,Jane Wyman, Charles Bickford,Claude Grahame-White, John Flammang Schrank(he could have been mind controlled to change history),Daniel O'Connell , and Robert the Bruce of Scotland could be good people to meet.the Cuban Missile Crisis could always be a ah story about nuclear war. And Mary, Queen of Scots could be a good conspiracy themed historical.
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