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Post by missyfan45 on Oct 29, 2020 16:32:48 GMT
Benito Mussolini,James Stirling ,Béla Király, Jonathan Swift, Emperor Nerva, Maxentius l, Ladislaus the Posthumous,Nikephoros II Phokas, and Clement VI are good people to meet. The forbidden city could be a ghood base under siege scenario or visited by the yeti, there are a lot of secrets in there. The opening of the Statue of Liberty could be good for time tourists to visit. And someone could have poisoned Tchaikovsky during the performance.
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 30, 2020 18:01:31 GMT
29OCT
In 312CE, on the day after the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, the victorious Constantine the Great enters the city of Rome and stages a grand adventus (triumphal march) in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and beheaded.
In 437 Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II, Eastern Roman Emperor in Constantinople, unifying the two branches of the House of Theodosius. The marriage had been long planned, the couple were betrothed when they wee four and two respectively.
In 1268 Conrad the Younger (Conradin) and Frederick I, Margrave of Baden, are beheaded on the orders of Charles I of Sicily after their attempt to reconquer Sicily (which Conrad claimed) failed; Conrad and his multi-national army (Italian, Spanish, Roman, Arab and German) met the army of Charles at Tagliacozzo in a hilly area of central Italy on 23AUG. There an ill-timed decision to loot the French camp led to a catastrophic defeat.
In 1390 the first secular trial for witchcraft occurs in Paris demonstrates the changing attitude to practitioners of teh supernatural in the Middle Ages; such "wise women" had long been a traditional part of the social fabric of their communities were increasingly finding themselves targets of the judicial system. Those tried were Jehenne de Brigue )described in period records as a 'soothsayer' and skilled at finding lost objects) and Macette de Ruilly, a client who'd asked for a potion to persuade the father of her children to marry her. Both were imprisoned, confessed under torture and were burned in January 1391.
In 1467 at the Battle of Brustem, fought near Sint-Truiden (in present-day Belgium) Charles the Bold of Burgundia defeats the forces of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège. It was a bloody affair; after their victory the Burgundians killed everybody that they got their handson, inflicting some 4,000 casualties.
In 1611 the Russian royalty perform the Shuysky tribute, paying homage and allegiance to the King of Poland, Sigismund III Vasa, and teenage prince Władysław (the then-candidate to the Russian throne) in the Senate Hall of the Royal Castle in Warsaw. The deposed Tsar Vasily IV of Russia and his brothers Dmitry and Ivan gave the oath of allegiance to King Sigismund in the presence of the nobility and the Senate of Poland.
In 1618 the English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh, one of the most notable figures of the Elizabethan erais beheaded. Officially the execution is for conspiring against King James I in the so-called Main Plot. He had been tried and convicted of this in 1603 (on very dubious evidence) but King James spared his life and he was imprisoned in the Tower of London until 1616 (where he wrote his incomplete The Historie of the World and other works). In 1617 Raleigh had been conditionally pardoned by the King and granted permission to conduct a second expedition to Venezuela in search of El Dorado. During the expedition, a detachment of Raleigh's men under the command of his long-time friend Lawrence Keymis attacked the Spanish outpost of Santo Tomé de Guayana on the Orinoco River, in violation of peace treaties with Spain, and against Raleigh's orders. One of the conditions of Raleigh's pardon was avoidance of any hostility against Spanish colonies or shipping. In the initial attack on the settlement, Raleigh's son, Walter, was fatally shot. Keymis informed Raleigh of his son's death and begged for forgiveness, but did not receive it; he killed himself. On Raleigh's return to England, an outraged Count Gondomar, the Spanish ambassador, demanded that Raleigh's death sentence be reinstated by King James, who had little choice but to do so. Raleigh was brought to London from Plymouth by Sir Lewis Stukeley, where he passed up numerous opportunities to make an effective escape; he was beheaded in the Old Palace Yard at the Palace of Westminster on 29OCT1618.
Raleigh's head was embalmed and presented to his wife. His body was to be buried in the local church in Beddington, Surrey, the home of Lady Raleigh, but was finally laid to rest in St. Margaret's in Westminster.
In 1658 during the Second Northern War, the naval forces of the Dutch Republic defeat the Swedes in the Battle of the Sound, near 'the Sound' (Øresund) just north of Copenhagen. During the war Sweden had invaded Denmark and an army under Charles X of Sweden had Copenhagen itself under siege. The Dutch fleet was sent to prevent Sweden from gaining control of both sides of the Sound and thereby controlling access to the Baltic Sea as well as of its trade. The Dutch forced the Swedish fleet to end the blockade of the Danish capital, enabling its resupply by Dutch armed transport ships, which eventually forced Charles to abandon the siege entirely.
In 1665 at the Battle of AmbuilaPortuguese forces defeat the Kingdom of Kongo and decapitate King António I of Kongo.
In 1787 Mozart's opera Don Giovanni, based on the Don Juan story, receives its first performance in Prague. The work was still beinWilhelmshaven mutinyg finalised on the days prior to the performance. Mozart conducted in person. The opera was rapturously received.
In 1901 iIn Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine. She will confess to numerous other killings, at least 31 murders, using a variety of poisons (mainly strychnine and opiates). Toppan had moved in with the elderly Alden Davis and his family in Cataumet to take care of him after the death of his wife Mattie (whom Toppan had previously murdered); within weeks, she had killed Davis, his sister Edna, and two of his daughters, Minnie and Genevieve. The surviving members of the Davis family ordered a toxicology exam on the youngest daughter, Minnie, which found large traces of morphine metabolites and the drug itself. Despite her insistence on her own sanity in court, she was declared insane and committed for life to the Taunton Insane Hospital.
In 1901 Leon Czolgosz, the anarchist assassin of US President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution. Following a detailed autopsy Czolgosz's body was buried on prison grounds, after being destroyed with sulphuric acid. His clothes and possessions were burned in the prison incinerator to discourage exhibitions of his life.
In 1918 the Wilhelmshaven mutiny sees the German High Seas Fleet incapacitated when sailors mutiny on the night of the 29th-30th, an action which would trigger the German Revolution of 1918–19.
In 1929 'Black Tuesday' sees the New York Stock Exchange crash in what will be called the Crash of '29 and beginning the Great Depression.
In 1941 in the Kaunas Ghetto, over 10,000 Jews are shot by German occupiers at the Ninth Fort, a massacre known as the "Great Action".
In 1948 during the Israeli War of Independence between 52 and 64 Arab villagers are murdered by Israeli troops, and four women are raped, in the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee; an event known as the Safsaf massacre Safsaf was the first village to fall in Operation Hiram, the aim of which was to "destroy the enemy in the central Galilee 'pocket,' to take control of the whole of the Galilee and to establish a defense line on the country's northern border."
In 1953 British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines Flight 304, a Douglas DC-6, crashes near San Francisco during its initial approach towards San Francisco International Airport; all 19 people on board were killed.
In 1955 the Soviet battleship Novorossiysk sinks while at anchor in Sevastopol. Over 600 Soviet sailors die. The official explanation is a left-over German World War II naval mine in the harbor at Sevastopol, but stories that she was sunk by Italian divers, from the wartime special operations unit Decima Flottiglia MAS, either in revenge for the transfer of a former Italian vessel to the Soviet Union or on behalf of NATO.
In 1957 Israel's prime minister David Ben-Gurion and five of his ministers are injured when Moshe Dwek throws a grenade into Israel's Knesset. Only one person suffered serious injuries. The Knesset (then sitting in Frumin House) was in session when Dwek, who was standing on a balcony, threw a grenade he had stolen from the army into the chamber. The grenade explosion and seriously injured Rabbi Haim-Moshe Shapira of the National Religious Party, while Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, and Transport Minister Moshe Carmel were injured by shrapnel.
In 1969 he first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
In 1991 the American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid. Galileo would continue to the outer solar system, studying Jupiter and its moons (arriving on 07DEC1995), as well as several other Solar System bodies, after gravitational assist flybys of Venus and Earth. It also discovered the first asteroid moon, Dactyl, around 243 Ida and observed Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9's collision with Jupiter.
In 1998 the NASA Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on mission STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go (back) into space.
In 1998 Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
In 1999 BOB 06 a large and destructive cyclone, the most intense recorded in the North Indian Ocean, devastates Odisha in India. Wind speed peaked at 260 km/h (160 mph) and atmospheric pressure dropped to 912 mbar.
In 2012 Hurricane Sandy hits the east coast of the United States, killing 148 directly and 138 indirectly as well as doing immense damage and causing major power outages.
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Post by missyfan45 on Oct 30, 2020 20:18:01 GMT
Valentinian III,Moshe Dwek, Jane Toppan, Leon Czolgosz,Sir Lewis Stukeley,Sir Walter Raleigh(could have been killed by aliens with the execution as a cover up),Charles the Bold,and Conrad the Younger are good people to meet.Black Tuesday could have been prevented and a AH point of divergent. Don Giovanni's premiere could be good. And ARPANET could be a form of WOTAN in the whoniverse.
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 30, 2020 23:15:56 GMT
Well in the Whoniverse WOTAN and the international links predated ARPANET by three years; quite possibly Clive Finch was right that it developed the internet.... But then again, technology in the Whoniverse is significantly more advanced in numerous fields; computing, spaceflight, nuclear power et cetera.
The upsurge in witchcraft persecutions in the late fourteenth centuries is interesting; one, plausible and mainstream, theory is that it was linked to the weather. Around 1360-80 the Medieval Warm period ended, rather suddenly, and the Little Ice Age began. A lot of people died as the growing season shortened, grain rotted, milk yields reduced and animals died.
The cool period would persist for centuries, spurring vast social and technological changes (from the chimney and staircase, buttons and knitting, to the rigid separation of social classes and the depictions of winter in paintings, playing of games like draughts and backgammon, the prevalence of music and reading and the attitudes to privacy and sex).
The period would last into the ~1750s and would gradually subside (though there were particularly cold intervals, around 1650, 1770, and the last in 1850). They're linked to what's referred to (somewhat pretentiously IMO) as the General Crisis of the Seventeenth Century. In that period the once unassailable Spanish Empire started to fall apart, Britain was wracked by revolt and civil war, Europe was torn apart by the Thirty Years War, France saw the Wars of Religion, Ming China, the most populous state in the world, collapsed, et cetera. More wars took place around the world in the mid-seventeenth century than in almost any other period of recorded history.
Raleigh is a fascinating character, a polymath and intellectual, writer and poet, as much as soldier and adventurer. Arrange a suitable double and he'd make an excellent recruit for someone like the Time Agency. Of course he would inevitable go rogue....
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Post by Catsmate on Oct 31, 2020 17:23:32 GMT
30OCT
In 637CE the Arab–Byzantine wars are going badly for the Byzantines when the strategic city of Antioch surrenders to the Rashidun Caliphate after the Battle of the Iron Bridge. The battle took its name from a nearby nine-arch stone bridge over the Orontes River, the bridge's fates were trimmed with iron. It was one of the last battles fought between the Byzantines and the Rashidun Caliphate; in the aftermath of the battle the province was annexed into the Rashidun Caliphate.
In 758 the important southern Chinese port city of Guangzhou, in Guang Prefecture, is sacked by a combined force of Arab and Persian pirates; they raided and plundered the city and burned its warehouses and storehouses before departing by sea. The Chinese response was disrupted by the ongoing An Lushan rebellion. After the attack the port was closed to foreign traffic for five decades.
In 1137 Ranulf, Count of Apulia defeats Roger II of Sicily at the Battle of Rignano, securing his position as duke until his death two years later. This was the second defeat of Roger, though the reasons aren't known in detail; his forces has pushed Ranulf's army back along the road to Siponto when he personally joined in the fray, but his charge, for reasons unknown, completely repulsed. Roger fled and soon the Norman army was in full retreat.
In 1270 the Eighth Crusade ends by an agreement between Charles I of Anjou (replacing his deceased brother King Louis IX of France) and the Hafsid dynasty of Tunisia. The crusaders had landed in North Africa without much trouble and encamped near a fort built at the site of old Carthage, awaiting the arrival of the Sicilian contingent under Charles of Anjou. However the North African summer, poor sanitation and lack of experience in the climate, bred pestilence; an epidemic of dysentery swept through the Crusader's ranks, killing Louis and his son John Tristan, amongst many others. The disease led to the siege of Tunis being abandoned with the Treaty of Tunis. In that agreement the Christians gained free trade with Tunis, and residence for monks and priests in the city was guaranteed.
In 1340 during the Reconquista, the combined Portuguese and Castilian forces halt a Muslim invasion at the Battle of Río Salado.
In 1657 during the Anglo-Spanish War, Spanish forces fail to retake Jamaica at the Battle of Ocho Rios. While the English had occupied Jamaica in 1655 their forces had been considerably reduced by disease in the aftermath, including a series of governors of the island.
In 1806 the Capitulation of Stettin, sees the city (now Szczecin in Poland), with a garrison of about 5,800 troops and extensive artillery, commanded by the Prussian General von Romberg, surrender to a force of around 800 French light cavalry with a mere two artillery pieces. This was one of a number of surrenders by demoralised Prussian forces to equal or inferior French forces after their disastrous defeat at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt during the War of the Fourth Coalition.
In 1817 Simón Bolívar becomes President of the short lived Third Republic of Venezuela.
In 1831 more than two months after his rebellion failed, Nat Turner is arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history. Turner had eluded capture for nine weeks until a white farmer named Benjamin Phipps discovered him hidden among the local Nottoway people. He was tried on 05NOV1831 for "conspiring to rebel and making insurrection", convicted and sentenced to died. He was hanged on 11NOV in Jerusalem, Virginia.
In 1863 Danish Prince Vilhelm arrives in Athens to assume his throne as George I, King of the Hellenes. This wasn't than unusual an event in the nineteenth century, 'borrowing' royalty was a useful way to create alliances. Vilhelm was only 17 years old when he was elected king by the Greek National Assembly, which had deposed the unpopular Otto; his nomination was both suggested and supported by the Great Powers of Europe. He married Grand Duchess Olga Constantinovna of Russia in 1867 and became the first monarch of a new Greek dynasty. Two of his sisters, Alexandra and Dagmar, married into the British and Russian royal families. Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Alexander III of Russia were his brothers-in-law, and George V, Nicholas II, Christian X of Denmark and Haakon VII of Norway were his nephews. His reign of almost 50 years (the longest in modern Greek history) saw significant territorial gains as Greece established its place in pre-World War I Europe.
In 1905 in the wake of the 1905 Revolution, Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a Duma (parliament). The Manifesto was issued, rather willingly, by Tsar Nicholas II under the influence of Sergei Witte as a response to the revolution; Nicholas strenuously resisted these ideas, but gave in after his first choice to head a military dictatorship,[1] Grand Duke Nicholas, threatened to shoot himself in the head if the Tsar did not accept Witte's suggestion. [1] Nicholas reluctantly agreed, and issued what became known as the October Manifesto, promising basic civil rights and an elected parliament called the Duma, without whose approval no laws were to be enacted in Russia in the future. The Manifesto was short-lived; while the strikes and much of the violence ended almost as soon as it was published, the enthusiasm waned when reform was slowed by reactionary forces and society returned to the cycle of strikes and violence as the Autocracy gradually reaffirmed its power. Within six months over a thousand people had been executed, the Russian government began suppressing political parties and within two years much of Russia was under martial law.
In 1938 Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast his radio play adaption of of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing some anxiety in parts of the audience. The reaction was greatly over-blown by newspapers hostile in general to radio; in fact there was no widespread panic, and most reports of panic were false or exaggerated. The one-hour play was performed and broadcast live as a Halloween episode at 8PM that Sunday on the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. It began with the theme music for the Mercury Theatre and an announcement that the evening's show was an adaptation of The War of the Worlds, followed by Welles reading a prologue closely based on the opening of the novel. For about the next twenty minutes, the broadcast was presented as a typical evening of radio programming being interrupted by a series of news bulletins. These includes lights on Mars, an unusual object falling on a farm in Grover's Mill in New Jersey, then a report from that site and the emergence of the Martians. Next the viewpoint moves to a Manhattan rooftop as giant Martian war machines release clouds of poisonous smoke across New York City, with references to Martian cylinders having landed all over the world.
In 1942 while boarding the damaged German submarine U-559 British sailors recover valuable cryptographic materials but two of them,Lieutenant Anthony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier, drown when the submarine sinks. The incident occurred about 110km north of the Nile Delta when the sub was spotted and attacked by aircraft and destroyers and lasted for more than twelve hours; after dark the sub was forced to the surface and attacked with gunfire. The crew hurriedly scrambled overboard without destroying their codebooks or Enigma machine and having failed to open all the sea-water vents to scuttle the U-boat properly. Three Royal Navy sailors (including a NAAFI canteen assistant, Tommy Brown, the only survivor) then boarded the abandoned submarine and retrieved the U-boat's Enigma key setting sheets with all current settings for the U-boat Enigma network.
In 1944 Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of the war.
In 1948 a small Maltese fishing boat acting as a ferry and overloaded with passengers capsizes and sinks in the Gozo Channel off Malta, killing 23 of the 27 people on board.
In 1953 US President Eisenhower approves the Solarium plan, concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.d thus U.S. national security.
In 1956 during the Hungarian Revolution, the government recognizes the new workers' councils and Army officer Béla Király leads an attack on the Communist Party headquarters.
In 1959 Piedmont Airlines Flight 349 crashes on approach to Charlottesville–Albemarle Airport in Albemarle County, Virginia, killing 26 of the 27 on board.
In 1961 the Soviet Union detonates the RDS-220 fusion bomb ('Tsar Bomba') the most powerful explosive device ever detonated. The weapon, and it's projected higher yield derivative, was of limited military use; at 27 tonnes it was too heavy and bulky for easy deployment and less flexible than lower yield weapons The bomb detonated 4,000 metres above the Sukhoy Nos ("Dry Nose") cape of Severny Island in Novaya Zemlya, 15km from Mityushikha Bay. The test was supposedly secret but was easily detected.
Also that day in 1961 it was announced that Joseph Stalin's body would be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker.
In 1973 the 1,560m Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosphorus for the second time.
In 1975 Prince Juan Carlos I of Spain becomes acting head of state, taking over for the country's ailing dictator, Francisco Franco.
In 1985 the Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
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Post by missyfan45 on Oct 31, 2020 22:49:07 GMT
Juan Carlos I,Anne and Margot Frank,Sergei Witte,Anthony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier, Simón Bolívar, George I, King of the Hellenes.Charles I of Anjou and Ranulf, Count of Apulia are good people to meet.The Battle of Río Salado could be a pure historical about the reconquista. The Tsar Bomba is a good model for a doomsday weapon scenario. And The Bosphorous bridge could be a great place for a chase scene.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 1, 2020 16:11:38 GMT
OK, hopefully this try works better.
31OCT
In 475CE, at the age of about fifteen Flavius Romulus Augustulus is proclaimed Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. He will reign, though in fact a figurehead for his father Orestes, until he is deposed by Odoacer less than a year later on 04SEP0476 and the formal end of the Roman Empire. He is generally considered to have been utterly inept as emperor, and was derisively nicknamed Augustulus ("Little Augustus") and Momyllus ("little disgrace"), though almost all of the factors that ended Rome were outside his control. Stories that he, and a loyal Roman cadre, fled Ravenna (then the capital) and travelled to Britain, later inspiring the Arthurian legends, are almost certainly not true.
- Unless they are of course; perhaps a PC inspired (or accompanied) young Romulus to gather followers, perhaps including members of the Legion of Smoke or the Vigiles Umbrum and strange artefacts in their care, and head to the fringes of civilisation? It's make an interesting story, replete with odd powers, battles with strange creatures and acts of heroism that would echo down the ages. Just who inspired Merlin anyway?
- Then again the historical record contains few details of Romulus's life, perhaps someone is doing some on-site research and gets embroiled in events?
In 683 was part of the conflict known as the Second Fitna, between the Umayyads and 'Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr, the town of Mecca is under siege; during the fighting the Kaaba catches fire and is burned down. The Kaaba is a building at the center of Islam's most important mosque, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, and the most sacred site in Islam, the Bayt Allah ('House of God'). While the Kaaba has been repaired and reconstructed many times it's origin is unknown, almost certainly preceding Islam.
In 802 the Byzantine Empress Irene is deposed and banished to Lesbos to spin wool; the conspirators place Nikephoros, previously the minister of finance, on the Byzantine throne. Nikephoros was a moderately capable, if harsh and autocratic, emperor and cetainly energetic; however his relations with the Holy Roman Empire and Charlemagne (remember him?) soured and a war began between the two "Roman" empires. Irene was a capable ruler, in her own right, as Empress Consort with Leo, and as regent for their son Constantine. The period of the 790s saw several revolts and plots to diminish the influence of Irene and proclaim him as sole ruler. These ended in 797 when (under extremely murky circumstances) Irene worked with Byzantine bishops, generals and ministers to disable him; Constantine's eyes were gouged out, maiming him so severely that he (probably) died soon afterwards. (Other accounts have him surviving imprisoned, until 805CE). Irene proclaimed herself sole ruler and this unprecedented status (and power-grab) by a woman was a factor leading Pope Leo III to proclaim Charlemagne emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. (The justification being that a woman could not rule and so the throne of the Roman Empire was actually vacant). Irene died in exile less than a year after being deposed.
In 932 the Abbasid caliph al-Muqtadir is killed while fighting against the forces of general Mu'nis al-Muzaffar. Al-Muqtadir's brother al-Qahir is chosen to succeed him. Al-Muqtadir's long reign had brought the Abbasids to their lowest ebb; they'd lost control of Northern Africa and Egypt, Mosul had was effectively independent Greeks could raid the poorly protected borders.
In 1517 while this date is often given as the start of the Protestant Reformation (it's really a matter of opinion) this is not the date on which Martin Luther posts his '95 Theses' on the door of All Saint's, the Castle Church in Wittenberg, even if he ever did (which is unlikely) The true story is more complicated; certainly on 31OCT1517 Luther wrote a letter to the Albert of Brandenburg (Archbishop of Mainz) to discuss his qualms regarding the sale of indulgences. In the letter Luther discusses the pastoral problems created by the sermons being preached, at the Archbishop's instruction, to sell the indulgences.
- Basically an indulgence was a Church granted reduction of divine punishment that a person would suffer, after death, for their sins. They were either purchased (cash or services) or earned for pilgrimages or services (such as in the Crusades). They were highly profitable.
In the latter Luther assumes that Albert is unaware of what is being preached under his authority, and speaks out of concern that the people are being led away from the his (Luther's) view of the Christian gospel. Note that Luther did not condemn indulgences, or the then current doctrine regarding them. An addendum to the letter contained the '85 Theses' Now at the time it was customary when proposing a disputation (i.e. a public debate, either in person or in wiriting) to have the theses printed by the university press and publicly posted, usually on church doors or ante-chambers that acted as noticeboards. In Wittenberg the university statutes demand that theses be posted on every church door in the city, something that certainly didn't happen. If Luther did post the Theses to the church door, it was rather later, sometime in mid-November, but he may not have posted them on the door at all. However copies circulated, either by Luther or by others, among the Wittenberg intellectual elite. Albert received Luther's letter with the Theses around the end of November and requested the opinion of theologians at the University of Mainz; this led to a recommendation to have Luther prohibited from preaching against indulgences, though there were stronger responses, with some (like Johann Tetzel) accusing Luther of heresy and calling for him to be burnt. Soon this obscure preacher was a major topic of conversation...
In 1863 the New Zealand Wars resume as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron begin their Invasion of the Waikato, the largest and most important campaign of the New Zealand Wars, involving about 14,000 Imperial and colonial troops and about 4,000 Māori warriors.
In 1903 two 'special' trains (unscheduled privately hired) collide with a coal train at around 10AM in Indianapolis. The event is known as the Purdue Wreck, as the specials had been hired to carry the Purdue University football team and supporters from Lafayette to Indianapolis, for the annual Indiana University/Purdue University football game. Seventeen people died, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team, and about fifty people were injured. The collision occurred due to a breakdown in communication the schedukled coal train was not aware of the two approaching specials.
Smith and Acres were pushing their train of coal cars northwest on the main track just as the lead special began rounding the bend at 18th Street. Engineer Shumaker was able to throw No. 350 into reverse and set the brake when he saw the coal train emerge around the bend of the track ahead. He and Conductor Johnson then jumped clear of their engine, but they were not able to prevent the collision. Engineer Smith was also able to set the brakes on No. 84.
In 1913 the Lincoln Highway is dedicated, the first automobile highway across United States. It would eventually run coast-to-coast from Times Square in New York City, to Lincoln Park in San Francisco through thirteen states. The highway took years to complete and was a moderately popular adventure trek for motorists.
In 1913 Indianapolis begins a week of civic strife and violence when union employees of the Indianapolis Traction & Terminal Company and their allies go on strike, stopping all public transportation in Indianapolis, in an attempt to unionise the company's workforce. Sporadic violence occurred as the company brought in strikebreakers but matters erupted on 02NOV when rioting began that lasted four days, saw six killed and city police refused orders to combat the rioters. As elections were being disrupted the state governor, Samuel Ralston, called out the Indiana Militia (National Guard) and put the city under martial law on the evening of 05NOV.
In 1917 the Battle of Beersheba in Southern Palestine sees the last (moderately) successful cavalry charge in history by the Anzac Mounted Division (the Desert Mounted Corps) against the defences which dominated the eastern side of Beersheba, resulting in their capture during the late afternoon. In fact the troops were mounted infantry, rather than true cavalry.
In 1923 the town of Marble Bar in Western Australia experiences temperature of 38°C; this will continued for 160 days, a world record.
In 1941 the destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed at dawn by a German submarine U-552 near Iceland, killing more than 100 US Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWI (though the United States is not officially at war). The destroyer, and four others, was escorting an eastbound convoy (HX 156) and had positioned itself between an ammunition ship in the convoy and the known position of a German 'wolfpack'. Almost certainly the torpedo that hit the Reuben James was meant for a merchant ship.
In 1956 during the Suez Crisis, the United Kingdom and France begin Operation Musketeer, bombing Egypt to force the reopening of the Suez Canal. The first wave is aborted by Prime Minister Eden personally as he had learned that American civilians were being evacuated at Cairo airport and was fearful of the backlash that might result if American civilians were killed in a British attack.
In 1956 The Soviet Politburo makes the decision to crush the Hungarian Revolution.
In 1963 a propane tank explosion at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum in Indianapolis kills 74 people and injures another 400, who had gathered to watch the “Holiday on Ice” show. at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum on Oct. 31, 1963. In the final minutes of the show, a 100-pound propane tank exploded beneath a seating area. The blast sent spectators and large pieces of debris flying into the air. Seventy-four people were killed and more than 400 were injured.
In 1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards. That night riots break out in New Delhi and other cities and over the next few days at least 3,000 Sikhs are killed. The assassination was in response to Operation Bluestar, an Indian military action in JUN1084 that remove the Sikh Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his armed followers from the holy Golden temple of the Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar. At the time (around 9:20AM) Ghadhi was on her way to be interviewed by Peter Ustinov as part of a documentary for Irish television. The killing sparked massive retaliatory violence in which some estimates suggest 8,000–17,000 people died.
In 2000 the Soyuz mission TM-31 launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 07:52AM GMT, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then. The crew consisted of Russian cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev, and American William Shepherd. Gidzenko was Commander of the flight up, but once aboard the station, Shepherd became Commander of the long-duration mission.
In 2011 the Day of Seven Billion sees the global population of humans reaches seven billion.
In 2014 during a test flight, the VSS Enterprise, a experimental Virgin Galactic test vehicle, suffers a catastrophic in-flight breakup and crashes in the Mojave Desert, California,
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Post by missyfan45 on Nov 1, 2020 19:33:38 GMT
Byzantine Empress Irene, al-Muqtadir,and Flavius Romulus Augustulus(could be a good fantasy-like adventure) could be good people to meet.The Day of Seven Billion could be a good milestone for time tourists to visit.Indira Gandhi's assassination could be altered, meaning PC's have to make a tough choice to preserve history or change it. And the 95 theses could be a good pure historical or psuedo historical with zygons.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 2, 2020 22:39:31 GMT
01NOV
In 365CE the Alemanni cross the Rhine and invade Gaul. Emperor Valentinian I moves to Paris to command the army and defend the Gallic cities. Valentinian I (Valentinian the Great) was one of the more capable emperors of the lateer Roman period, reigning from 364 to 375 with his brother Valens as his co-emperor (administering the eastern provinces while Valentinian retained the west under his direct control). Valentinian was the last emperor to conduct campaigns across both the Rhine and Danube, in addition to improving the fortifications along the frontiers. It is mainly due to the successful nature of his reign and the rapid decline of the empire after his death that he is often considered to be the "last great western emperor". The Alamanni invasion of Gaul was nit the only crisis Valentinian faced in365; simultaneously, Procopius (the last scion of the Constantinian dynasty) began his revolt against Valens in the east. Valentinian decided to remain in Gaul and fight the Alamanni.
In 1009 Berber forces led by Sulayman ibn al-Hakam defeat the Umayyad caliph Muhammad II of Córdoba in the battle of Alcolea.
In 1141 Empress Matilda's reign as 'Lady of the English' (she was never crowned Queen of England due to, basically, being run out of London) ends with Stephen of Blois regaining the title of 'King of England' and being formally crowned. This did not end the period known as 'The Anarchy' however as civil strife continued for more than a decade.
In 1179 Philip II is crowned as 'King of France', the first monarch to bear the title, rather than 'King of the Franks'
In 1214 the port city of Sinope, on the Black Sea coast of modern Turkey, surrenders to the Seljuq Turks under their Sultan, Kaykaus I.
In 1348 the anti-royalist Union of Valencia, in the Kingdom of Valencia, attacks the Jews of Murviedro on the pretext that they are serfs of the King of Valencia and thus "royalists".
In 1512 the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
In 1555 French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The settlement and migration is organised by vice-admiral Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, a Catholic knight of the Order of Malta, who later would help the Huguenots to find a refuge against persecution. Two ships and avout six hundred soldiers and colonists took possession of the small island of Serigipe in the Guanabara Bay, in front of present-day Rio de Janeiro, where they built a fort named Fort Coligny.
In 1570 the devastating All Saints' Flood (Allerheiligenvloed) strikes the coast of Northern Europe, mainly effecting the Dutch coast. A storm surge pushed the water to unprecedented heights, even higher than those of 1953 and broke innumerable dikes on the Dutch coasts, leading to enormous floods and immense damage. The death toll is estimated at about twenty thousand. The event also inspired the Saeftinghe legend, about the people of a fictional town called Saeftinghe, who were preoccupied with greed and were destroyed in the flood.
In 1604 William Shakespeare's tragedy "The Moor of Venis" [Othello] is performed for the first time at Whitehall Palace in London. The event is mentioned in a Revels account: "on Hallamas Day, being the first of Nouembar", 1604, when "the Kings Maiesties plaiers" performed "A Play in the Banketinge house at Whit Hall Called The Moor of Venis". The play is there attributed to "Shaxberd".
Some even years later, in 1611, Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time, also on 'Hallowmas night' and at Whitehall Palace in London, before James I and the English royal court at Whitehall Palace. The performance was by the troupe The King's Men. The play was one of the six Shakespearean plays (and eight others for a total of 14) acted at court during that winter as part of the festivities surrounding the marriage of Princess Elizabeth with Frederick V, the Elector of the Palatinate of the Rhine.
In 1688 William III of Orange sets out a second time from Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands to seize the crowns of England, Scotland and Ireland. This attempt to usurp the thrones of King James II of England would succeed and lead to the Glorious Revolution.
In 1755 an enormously powerful, magnitude 8.4, earthquake devastates the city of Lisbon in Portugal. The earthquake and tsunami destroys the city and kills between 60,000 and 90,000 people. The Great Lisbon earthquake struck at around 09:40AM local time; in combination with subsequent fires and a tsunami, the earthquake almost totally destroyed Lisbon and adjoining areas. The quake's epicentre was in the Atlantic Ocean about 200 km west-southwest of Cape St. Vincent. The earthquake accentuated political tensions in Portugal and profoundly disrupted the country's colonial ambitions. The event was widely discussed and dwelt upon by European Enlightenment philosophers, and inspired major developments in theodicy as well as being the first earthquake studied scientifically for its effects over a large area and hence it led to the birth of modern seismology and earthquake engineering.
In 1765 the British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in British North America order to help pay for British military operations in North America. The act imposed a direct tax on the British colonies in America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, and carrying an embossed revenue stamp.
In 1790 Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.
In 1800 John Adams moves into the Executive Mansion in Washington, becoming the first President of the United States to live in what will later be renamed the White House. Adams had made his first official visit to the nation's new seat of government in JUN1800. Amid the "raw and unfinished" cityscape, the President found the public buildings "in a much greater forwardness of completion than expected". The President's Mansion wasn't entirely finished when he and his retinue arrived (his wide Abigail arrived a few weeks later).
In 1814 the Congress of Vienna opens; over the following months the Great Powers agree to re-draw the political map of Europe after the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars. The congress was one of the most important international conferences in European history and essentially remade Europe after the downfall of Napoleon I. The meeting of ambassadors and representatives was chaired by the Austrian statesman Klemens von Metternich and attempted to provide a long-term peace plan for Europe by settling critical issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. The goal was not simply to restore old boundaries but to resize the main powers so they could balance each other and remain at peace.
In 1848 in Boston the Boston Female Medical School, the first medical school for women opens.
In 1861 in the early stages of the American Civil War, US President Abraham Lincoln replaces General Winfield Scott as head of the US Army with George B. McClellan. Scott, a Virginian who stayed loyal to the Union, was elderly and perceived as cautious, favouring a the Anaconda Plan, a slow strategy to strange the Confederacy economically and also favouring a larger professional army, while Lincoln relied mainly on volunteers to fight the war.
In 1870 in the United States, the Weather Bureau (later the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast. The Weather Bureau was established under President Ulysses S. Grant with the role to "provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations in the interior of the continent and at other points in the States and Territories...and for giving notice on the northern (Great) Lakes and on the seacoast by magnetic telegraph and marine signals, of the approach and force of storms." The agency was placed under the Secretary of War.
In 1894 on the death of his father, Alexander III, Nicholas II becomes the new (and last) Tsar of Russia. Alexander III died from terminal kidney disease (nephritis) while travelling to Mon Repos, a villa on the island of Corfu, but at the Maly Palace in Livadia, as Alexander was too weak to travel any farther.
In 1894 Buffalo Bill, fifteen of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
In 1897 the first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.
In 1911 the first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs to little effect. After this and further missions, the Ottoman Empire issued a protest. The dropping of bombs from balloons had been outlawed by the Hague Convention of 1899, but Italy argued that this ban did not extend to heavier-than-air craft.
In 1914 the Battle of Coronel, fought in the Pacific, off of the western coast of Chile, is the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany; two armoured cruisers, HMS Good Hope and HMS Monmouth, are sunk by the German East Asia Squadron under Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee. The engagement took place as a result of misunderstandings; neither admiral expected to meet the other in full force and British Admiral Cradock believes his orders were to fight to the end, despite the odds being heavily against him.
In 1916 in Russia, Pavel Milyukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the government of Boris Stürmer.
In 1918 the worst rapid transit accident in US history, the Malbone Street Wreck, occurs under the intersection of Malbone Street and Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn in New York City At least 102 die when a speeding train derails in the sharply curved tunnel beneath Willink Plaza and Malbone Street (now Empire Boulevard). The circumstances leading to the crash included a strike against the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company and the company's use of untrained personnel.
In 1922 the Ottoman sultanate is formally ended when the last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
In 1938 Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" held at Pimlico Race Course. The race was immensely popular; the ground was crammed with spectators and trains were run from all over the country to bring fans to the race; the 40,000 at the track were joined by 40 million listening on the radio.
In 1941 the American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
In 1950 two Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry Truman at Blair House (the Presential guest house, in use while the White House was renovated). Afterwards Truman commented that he was not frightened by the attack, he "had been shot at by professionals [during the Great War]. Truman would support a plebiscite in Puerto Rico in 1952 on the new constitution to determine its relationship to the US; in that the populace voted overwhelmingly in favor of continuing as a Free Associated State.
In 1951 during Operation Buster–Jangle, about six and a half thousand American soldiers are exposed to a series of nuclear explosions for training purposes in Nevada. Participation is not voluntary. Three test weapons were detonated over field fortification constructed by the troops.
In 1952 the United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device (fusion bomb), at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent. While the test was impressive it began a race to develop the concept into a usable weapon; Ivy Mike was an enormous contraption, built on site and using cryogenically cooled liquid deuterium. was the codename given to the first full-scale test of a thermonuclear device, in which part of the explosive yield comes
In 1955 United Airlines Flight 629 is destroyed near Longmont in Colorado At 7:03PM, by a bomb carried on board; all 39 passengers and five crew members on the Douglas DC-6B airliner are killed. The flight was en route from Denver to Portland in Oregon and Seattle in Washington. The bomb was planted by John Gilbert Graham to kill his mother as revenge for his childhood and to obtain a large life insurance payout.
In 1956 during the Hungarian Revolution Imre Nagy announces Hungary's neutrality and withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact. Soviet troops begin to re-enter Hungary, contrary to assurances by the Soviet government.
In 1956 the Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
- This should not be confused with the 1958 disaster, see 23OCT.
The explosion occurred when a mine train bringing fine coal dust up to the surface encountered a heavy flow of ventilation air being forced down the shaft by surface fans. The flow of air disturbed the dust on the cars and dispersed it widely. When several cars broke loose and ran back down the slope they severed a power line, causing it to arc and ignite the coal dust.
In 1963 the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo (Puerto Rico) with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.
In 1993 the Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.
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Post by missyfan45 on Nov 2, 2020 23:42:33 GMT
Ansel Adams ,George B. McClellan,Edmund Burke,Michelangelo, Pavel Milyukov,Kaykaus I,Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo (could be a good point of divergence for a ah or mind control), Empress Matilda,Stephen of Blois, Sulayman ibn al-Hakam,and Muhammad II of Córdoba are good people to meet.The Arecibo Observatory could be a good location for a alien contact or base under siege story. And the Lisbon earthquake could be a silurian base exploding.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 3, 2020 11:39:12 GMT
02NOV
In 1410 the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War is temporarily suspended by the Peace of Bicêtre. However fighting will begin again in 1411 and continue until 1425.
In 1675 during King Philip's War militia from the Plymouth Colony (now southeastern Massachusetts) are led by governor Josiah Winslow against the Narragansetts. The conflict known as 'King Philip's War' was between various Native American groups in New England and English colonists and their Indian allies, between 1675–1678. Governor Winslow had allowed relations between English and Indian to deteriorate (his father, Edward Winslow, had maintained good relations) and violence erupted on 20JUN675 when natives attacked colonial homesteads.
In 1795 the French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
- Presumably the Shadow Directory, tasked with eliminating alien incursions, was founded around then also.
In 1899 during the Second Boer War, the Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith.
In 1912 during the the First Balkan War Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the largest battle in Europe between the Franco-Prussian War and the First World War.The Ottomans are forced to retreat to Çatalca line, only 30km from the Ottoman capital of Constantinople.
In 1913 the last gathering of European monarchs before the outbreak of World War occurs in Berlin to see Prince Ernest Augustus marry Princess Victoria Louise. Present are Kaiser Wilhelm and his wife, the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, King George V and Queen Mary of the United Kingdom and Tsar Nicholas II, amongst others.
- One of the wedding gifts was the pardon of two imprisoned British spies, captains Stewart and Trench.
In 1917 the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting in the Smolny.
In 1920 in the United States KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election (read from a newspaper). The station will be the lone voice on the radio for ten months, transmitting to about 600km range from Pittsburgh. Within two years the US would have thirty commercial stations and over five hundred in four years.
On that same day a series of referenda were held in towns across Scotland on the issue of whether to ban the sale of liquor, with 18 districts banning the sale, 24 restricting sale of certain types of alcohol, and 149 staying "wet".
Also on that day the black community of Ocoee in Florida is subject to a series of white mob killings and violence. Six African Americans are murdered after two white men were shot to death while trying to arrest Jules Perry, a black man who had attempted to vote earlier in the day but was denied on grounds that he hadn't paid the poll tax. The white mob then burned down the house from which the shots had been fired to kill the white vigilantes, killing the five men inside. Perry was then taken from the city jail and lynched.
In 1936 the British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular television service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day. Test transmissions had begun earlier that year, and the broadcasts alternated the Baird and Marconi-EMI systems for transmission. The service broadcast from Monday to Saturday between 3PM and 4PM and 9PM to 10PM; the first programme broadcast was "Opening of the BBC Television Service" at 3PM. While the the station's range was officially a 40km radius of the Alexandra Palace transmitter, it could be picked up at greater distances; in one case (due to atmospheric 'skip') in New York, by engineers at RCA.
In 1947 Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules flying boat transport (the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built. The aircraft, actually constructed of birch plywood, had been intended as a transatlantic transport for use during World War II but was not completed in time to be used in the war. The flight covered about 1.5km, lasted 26 seconds, and carried 36 people.
In 1956 during the Hungarian Revolution, Imre Nagy requests UN aid for Hungary. Nikita Khrushchev meets with leaders of other Communist countries to seek their advice on the situation in Hungary, selecting János Kádár as the country's next leader on the advice of Josip Broz Tito.
In 1959 a contestant on the Twenty-One television game show, Charles Van Doren, admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance. The scandal seriously damaged the image of the still new medium when it was revealed that such cheating, while not illegal, was widespread in the industry.
In 1959 in the UK the first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.
In 1960 in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd (the Lady Chatterley's Lover case) Penguin Books is cleared of obscenity The jury unanimously found the publisher Not Guilty, agreeing with the defense, under section 4 of the OPA, where a work was "in the interests of science, literature, art or learning, or of other objects of general concern". This landmark case was enormously influential on British publishing and is often cited as the beginning of the 'Permissive Society' of the 1960s. It also demonstrated the changing nature of British society, especially the (in)famous remark of the prosecuting counsel, Mervyn Griffith-Jones: "Would you approve of your young sons, young daughters—because girls can read as well as boys—reading this book?"
In 1964 King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal. Saud's family were worried about his profligacy and his inability to meet the challenge of Nasser's Egypt, corruption and backwardness weakened the regime.
In 1988 the Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
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Post by missyfan45 on Nov 3, 2020 13:55:13 GMT
Charles Van Doren, Howard Hughes, Prince Ernest Augustus Princess Victoria Louise.(could be good for a assasination to happen thereby making WW1 happen earlier),Josiah Winslow and Mervyn Griffith-Jones are good people to meet.The BBC Television Service starting could be good for the wire to infiltrate. And the Morris worm could be uses to hack computers in a digital themed adventure.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 4, 2020 14:43:47 GMT
03NOV
In 361CE the Roman Emperor Constantius II, son of Constantine the Great, dies "of a fever" at Mopsuestia in Cilicia at the age of 44; on his deathbed he declares his cousin Julian (the emperor known as Julian the Apostate) rightful successor. Constantius's reign had seen constant warfare on the borders, against the Sasanian Empire and Germanic peoples, while internally the Roman Empire went through repeated civil wars, court intrigues and usurpations. Not to mention ensuring his reign by organising the massacre of his father-in-law, an uncle and several cousins to consolidate his hold on power.
In 644 Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is assassinated by a Persian slave in Medina. Umar, or Omar, was one of the most powerful and influential Muslim caliphs in history; he had been a senior companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and succeeded Abu Bakr in 634 to become the second caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate. He was an expert Muslim jurist known for his pious and just nature. Under Omar the caliphate expanded greatly, to rule the Sasanian Empire and more than two-thirds of the Byzantine Empire, including the conquest of Persia in less than two years. Omar was eventually killed by the Persian (known as ’Abū Lu’lu’ah in Arabic) in 644 CE.
Omar was assassinated by a Persian slave named Piruz Nahavandi (or Abu Lulu), though the motive for the assassination is unclear. Certainly there were others involved in a longer plot; while on Haj to Mecca in OCT0644 a group pronounced Omar's imminent death from within a concealing crowd. The attack occuured on 31OCT0644 while Omar was leading morning prayers Piruz stabbed him seven times in the stomach; he would linger unttil finally dying on 03NOV. Piruz tried to flee the crowd rushed to capture him; in his efforts to escape he is reported to have wounded twelve other people, six or nine of whom later died, before slashing himself with his own blade to commit suicide.
In 1333 the River Arno floods causing massive damage in Florence This was the first great recorded flood of the Arno and reportedly killed more than 3,000 people. According to the contemporary historian, diplomat, and banker Giovanni Villani who chronicled the event by noon that Thursday the flood along the Arno River spread across the entire plain of San Salvi, and the eastern wall of the city that was damming the water became damaged and then washed away in the flood, allowing the flood waters to breach and fill the city streets. The water rose above the altar in the Florence Baptistry and reached a height of three metres in the courtyard of the commune’s palace Most of the Carraia bridge collapsed, with only two arches surviving; the Trinità bridge collapsed except for one pier and one arch located towards the church of the Santa Trinità.
In 1468 the city of Liège falls to the troops of Charles I of Burgundy, after a lengthy and bitter siege. This was basically the end of the Liège Wars, a rebellion against rule from Burgundy. The city was brutally sacked and largely destroyed.
In 1492 the Peace of Etaples ends the invasion of France by Henry VII of England and the consequent war against Charles VIII of France. Henry had launched the invasion of France mainly to stop France's support for the pretender Perkin Warbeck.
- Warbeck claimed to be Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, who was the second son of Edward IV and one of the so-called "Princes in the Tower" who were imprisoned and (probably) died under Richard III. Of course in the Whoniverse that certainly isn't true, though there are some who believe he was in fact the rightful claimant to the throne.
The English had landed at Calais and laid siege to BoulogneL; under the treaty France agreed to expel Warbeck and pay an indemnity of £159,000.
In 1493 Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
In 1793 at 7AM the French playwright and political activist Olympe de Gouges is executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror for attacking the regime of the Revolutionary government and for her association with the Girondists.
In 1812 during the retreat from Moscow Napoleon's armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma. The French rearguard was opposed to Russian forces commanded by General Mikhail Andreyevich Miloradovich; while Marshal Davout repelled Miloradovich's attempt to encircle and destroy his corps, the French withdrew in a partial state of disorder after suffering, comparatively to the Russians, fairly serious casualties from continued Russian harassment.
In 1867 Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana, north-east of Rome, and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (though this would happen three years later).
In 1898 French troops withdraw from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident, one of the imperial territorial disputes between Britain and France in East Africa. A French expedition to Fashoda on the White Nile river sought to gain control of the Upper Nile river basin and thereby exclude Britain from the Sudan. The French party and a British-Egyptian force (outnumbering the French by 10 to 1) met on friendly terms, but back in Europe, it became a war scare.
In 1918 around 40,000 mutinous sailors in the German port of Kiel begin to take control of the port. The Kiel mutiny was a major revolt by sailors of the German High Seas Fleet and triggered the German revolution which was to sweep aside the monarchy within a few days. It ultimately led to the end of the German Empire and to the establishment of the Weimar Republic.
That same day in Moscow the Robespierre Monument is unveiled in Moscow to commemorate the first anniversary of the October Revolution. Either due to shoddy concrete and steel wire design or "counter-revolutionary sabotage" the statue collapses four days later.
In 1943 over five hundred aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven harbour in Germany.
In 1954 the first Godzilla film has its premiere in Tokyo. In total around 9.6 million tickets will be sold, making it the eighth best-attended film in Japan that year.
In 1956 during the Suez Crisis a number (estimated to be 200-275) of Palestinian are killed in the Khan Yunis killings in the Palestinian town of Khan Yunis and the nearby refugee camp in Egyptian-controlled Gaza.
In 1956 during the Hungarian Revolution, a new Hungarian government is formed, in which many members of banned non-Communist parties participate. János Kádár and Ferenc Münnich form a counter-government in Moscow as Soviet troops prepare for the final assault.
In 1957 the Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2, the second spacecraft launched into Earth orbit and the first human craft to carry an animal into orbit, a dog named Laika. Laika died on the fourth orbit due to overheating caused by an air conditioning malfunction.
In 1960 the land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (about 32km2 of land in Morris County, New Jersey) is established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
Also that day Explorer 8 is launched to study the Earth's ionosphere; the satellite was battery powered rather than relying on photovoltaic cells confirmed the existence of a helium layer in the upper atmosphere and made a number of other measurements of the ionosphere. While the craft (officially) stopped transmitting after 54 days it was still in orbit almost fifty years later.
In 1973 NASA launches the Mariner 10 probe toward Mercury, reaching the planet in MAR1974, after flypasts of Venus, and becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
In 1979 clashes between members of the Communist Workers Party and others, and members of the Ku Klux Klan and other neo-Nazis lead to five deaths and many injuries in the Greensboro massacre.
In 1982 a mysterious fire breaks out in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan and kills between one hundred and three thousand people. The Salang Tunnel is a 2.7km long tunnel at the Salang Pass in the Hindu Kush mountains, between the Parwan and Baghlan provinces of Afghanistan and about 95km north of the city of Kabul. It was completed by the Soviet Union in 1964 and has been used to connect the northern Afghanistan with the capital, Kabul, and southern parts of the country. That day the tunnel was being used by one or more Soviet military convoys and something happened, either a build up of carbon monoxide or the crash of a fuel tanker. Very few facts are known about the fire. It is believed that two military convoys collided in the Salang tunnel causing a traffic jam, causing a fuel tanker to explode, triggering an explosive chain reaction.
In 1988 a force of about eighty Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries attempt to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, the Indian military suppresses the rebellion within 24 hours. The coup d'état was organised by a group of Maldivians led by businessman Abdullah Luthufi and assisted by armed mercenaries of a Tamil secessionist organisation from Sri Lanka, the People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam. When the initial attempt was defeated the rebel group hijacked a Maldivian freighter named MV Progresslight and attempted to escape to Sri Lanka; the ship was intercepted and captured by the Indian Navy.
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Post by missyfan45 on Nov 4, 2020 18:46:12 GMT
Maumoon Abdul Gayoomm,János Kádár and Ferenc Münnich,Umar ibn al-Khattab, Piruz Nahavandi, Olympe de Gouges,Perkin Warbeck,Giuseppe Garibaldi, and Abdullah Luthufi are good people to meet. The Greensboro massacre could be a good sequel for Rosa.The River Arno flood could have been more devastating in a AH story thereby preventing the Renaissance era. And the Peace of Etaples could lead to a French-Anglo war in a ah.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 5, 2020 19:36:19 GMT
04NOV
In 1429 during the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War, Joan of Arc leads the forces that liberate.capture Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier. The Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War was a civil war between two branches of the French royal family; the House of Orléans (the Armagnac faction) and the House of Burgundy (the Burgundian faction) that lasted from 1407 to 1435 (during a lull in the Hundred Years' War against the English) The siege of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier was a part of war; the small town was heavily fortified and surrounded by a deep moat. The initial assault failed and the retreat was sounded but Joan managed to initiate a second assault which, according to her supporters, was meet 'without much resistance'.
In 1501 Catherine of Aragon (who would later be Henry VIII's first wife) meets Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII's older brother, for the first time; they would later marry, an arrangement between the royal families. Arthur Tudor was the first son of Henry VII and heir presumptive until his death on 02APR1502 at the age of fifteen; he was viewed by contemporaries as the great hope of the newly established House of Tudor. Arthur and Catherine had been married (by Papal dispensation as Arthur wasn't 15) by proxy in 1499; their formal wedding took place in at Saint Paul's Cathedral on 14NOV, followed by a 'bedding' ceremony (that would later prove important in Henry's attempt to divorce Catherine).
In 1576 during the Eighty Years' War (or Dutch War of Independence) Spain captures Antwerp in Flanders and soon afterwards the city is brutally sacked by unpaid Spanish troops, one of a number of events known as Spanish Fury. The Spanish tercios of the Army of Flanders mutinied due to the delay in payment owed to the soldiers by Philip I (Spain was effectively bankrupt); the troops began the sack of Antwerp, leading to three days of horror among the population of the city, which was the cultural, economic and financial center of the Low Countries. The savagery of the sack led the provinces of the Low Countries to unite against the Spanish crown. The devastation also caused Antwerp's decline as the leading city in the region and paved the way for Amsterdam's rise. Monies had been sent by Phillips but as local bankers refused to honour letters of exchange the Spanish government had to transfer the actual cash by sea; about 400,000 florins intended as payment to the troops were seized by the government of Elizabeth I when ships containing the florins sought shelter from a storm in English ports.
In 1737 the Teatro Reale di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated in Naples in Italy, connected to the Royal Palace and adjacent to the Piazza del Plebiscito. The opening performance was Achille in Sciro, with music by the Neapolitan Domenico Sarro (now largely forgotten); the libretto was by Pietro Metastasio, thegreat court poet to the Emperor of Austria and to this day considered a giant among librettists. King Charles III was present.
In 1780 the Rebellion of Túpac Amaru II against Spanish rule in the Viceroyalty of Peru begins. The rebellion mainly involved of native and mestizo peasants against the so-called Bourbon reforms in Spanish South America, it lasted into 1782 though Túpac Amaru II, an early leader of the rebellion, was captured and executed in 1781., The reforms sought to streamline the operation of its colonial empire; splitting up the imperial lands and (importantly) moving the silver mines at Potosí into a different jurisdiction. This introduced economic hardships which, combined with the systemic oppression of Indian and mestizo underclasses led to the revolt. On 01NOV 1780 Túpac and supporters seized Antonio Arriaga, the corregidor (administrator) of his hometown of Tinta and forced him to write letters to his treasurer in Tinta requesting money and arms and to other powerful individuals and kurakas ordering them to congregate in Tungasuca.
In 1783 Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz in Austria; the symphony had been written by Mozart during a stopover in the town while he and his wife were travelling home to Vienna from Salzburg.
In 1791 during the Northwest Indian War, the Western Confederacy of American Indians wins a major victory over the United States in the Battle of the Wabash.
In 1798 the Russo-Ottoman siege of Corfu, against French forces, begins.
In 1839 in the town of Newport in Monmouthshire mainland Britain sees the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority, the Newport Rising, when about 10,000 Chartist sympathisers, led by John Frost, marched on the town, intent on liberating fellow Chartists who were reported to have been taken prisoner in the town's Westgate Hotel. About 22 demonstrators were killed when troops opened fire on them. The leaders of the rebellion were convicted of treason and were sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered. The insurrection began at around 9:30AM when the crowd demanded the release of the imprisoned Chartists; a brief, violent and bloody battle ensued with shots were fired by both sides.
In 1847 Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform. Simpson was a significant figure in the field of obstetrics and medicine in general, though (as did many at the time) he dabbled in fields as diverse as archaeology to the study of hermaphroditism and trans-sexuality. The obstetric forceps he designed ("Simpson's Forceps") are still used and he experimented with the vacuum extractor to assist childbirth. While nitrous oxide and ether were known anaesthetics at the time, though the safety and effectiveness of chloroform was unknown until Simpson's experiments. Simpson first demonstrated the properties of chloroform upon humans during an experiment with friends; with two of his assistants, Dr George Skene Keith and James Matthews Duncan, Simpson used to sit every evening in his dining room to try new chemicals to see if they had any anaesthetic effect. On 04NOV they tried chloroform; on inhaling the chemical they found that a general mood of cheer and humour had set in. But suddenly all of them collapsed only to regain consciousness the next morning. Simpson knew, as soon as he woke up, that he had found something that could be used as an anaesthetic.
In 1864 during the American Civil War Confederate troops bombard a Union supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material at the Battle of Johnsonville, in Benton County, Tennessee.
In 1868 the Cuban revolt against Spain, the Ten Years' War, spreads to the town of Camagüey.
In 1890 the City and South London Railway, London's first deep-level tube railway, opens between King William Street and Stockwell, a distance of 5.1km and six stations. The railway was officially opened by Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII).
In 1921 the Japanese Prime Minister, Hara Takashi, is stabbed to death by Nakaoka Kon'ichi, a right-wing railroad switchman, at Tōkyō Station while catching a train to Kyoto. Hara was appointed Prime Minister following the Rice Riots of 1918 and positioned himself as a moderate, participating in the Paris Peace Conference, founding the League of Nations, and relaxing oppressive policies in Japanese Korea. He was the first commoner and first Christian appointed to be Prime Minister of Japan.
In 1922 in Egypt British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. Tutankhamun was buried in a tomb that was unusually small considering his status, perhape because he died before the completion of a grander royal tomb, causing his mummy to be buried in a tomb intended for someone else. There were 5,398 items found in the tomb, including a solid gold coffin, face mask, thrones, archery bows, trumpets, a lotus chalice, two Imiut fetishes, gold toe stalls, furniture, food, wine, sandals, and fresh linen underwear. Carter took 10 years to catalog them; they are still being studied.
- The perfect opportunity to drop in some Osiran artefacts.
- By the way the story of the "curse" is utter nonsense; of the 58 people who were present when the tomb and sarcophagus were opened, only eight died within fifteen years.
In 1952 the United States government establishes the National Security Agency.
In 1956 Soviet troops enter Hungary to end the Hungarian Revolution against the Soviet Union that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded, and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
In 1960 at the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observes chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals.
In 1962 the United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, the last round of above-ground nuclear weapons testing. Many of the tests were conducted in the upper atmosphere or in near-Earth space. The final test of Operation Fishbowl was detonated at 07:30 GMT, a 400kt warhead launched on a Nike-Hercules missile, and detonated at a around 60km altitude.
In 1966 the Arno River floods Florence in Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7m leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. That same day much of Venice was also submerged by an unusual occurrence of high tides, rain-swollen rivers and a severe sirocco wind caused the canals to increase by almost two metres.
In 1979 a group of Iranian college students overruns the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages. The diplomatic standoff would last for 444 days.
In 2010 Aero Caribbean Flight 883, a scheduled passenger service from Port-au-Prince in Haiti to Havana in Cuba, crashes into Guasimal, Sancti Spíritus. All 68 passengers and crew are killed.
In 2015 an An-12 cargo plane crashes shortly after takeoff from Juba International Airport in Juba, South Sudan, killing at least 37 people One adult passenger and a baby girl were the only survivors.
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Post by missyfan45 on Nov 5, 2020 20:24:07 GMT
Howard Carter(could have discovered a osiran curse), John Frost,Túpac Amaru II, Hara Takashi,and Nakaoka Kon'ichi, Arthur Tudor (could be king in a ah story), Joan of Arc, and, Dr. Jane Goodall are good people to meet.The Arno River floods could have been leftover Saturnyne children witch is why Venice flooded as well. And the Battle of Johnsonville could be a good pure historical.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 6, 2020 10:38:12 GMT
Howard Carter(could have discovered a osiran curse), John Frost,Túpac Amaru II, Hara Takashi,and Nakaoka Kon'ichi, Arthur Tudor (could be king in a ah story), Joan of Arc, and, Dr. Jane Goodall are good people to meet.The Arno River floods could have been leftover Saturnyne children witch is why Venice flooded as well. And the Battle of Johnsonville could be a good pure historical. I rather like the idea of the Egyptians placing Osiran artefacts in some of the tombs, perhaps not knowing what they were but retaining folklore of their importance. These could end up in museums or private collections and cause all sorts of problems later. The two Hammer 'Mummy' films, Blood from the Mummy's Tomb and The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb have ideas that can be used as inspiration. The former is a favourite of mine, with it's plotting Egyptologists, mysterious artefacts and reembodied minds, it's quite suitable as a Who plot in the early UNIT era. In fact I used the extremely troubled production of the film as a scenario idea for the EDC. Given the general oddness and symbolism of Osiran technology all sorts of oddly powerful artefacts could turn up:
- A serpent headed ring that, when touched to a victim's forehead, injects something that enslaves them to the will of the ring-wearer.
- A device in the shape of a canoptic jar that actually stores the mind of a priestess who served the human pharaohs who succeeded the Osirans. From it she can posess a new body. The opportunity to introduce a new antagonist.
- A scarab styled pendant that provides a protective force field around the wearer. Every villain needs a good defense.
Stargate can be used to provide other examples.
Personally I'd copy The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb or The Curse of the Bronze Lamp and have the "curse" a purely mundane plot, or one with a human using a discovered artefact for their nefarious ends.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 6, 2020 12:46:59 GMT
05NOV
In 1138 at the age of two Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam, beginning a successful 37-year reign. The reign of Lý Anh Tông was considered the last relatively stable period of the Lý Dynasty before the turbulence during the reign of Lý Cao Tông.
In 1556 the Second Battle of Panipat is fFought between the forces of Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, the Hindu emperor of north India (based in Delhi) and forces of Muslim Emperor Akbar. Akbar and his guardian Bairam Khan who, after learning of the loss of Agra and Delhi, marched to Panipat to reclaim the lost territories. The battle ended in a decisive Mughal victory after Hemu was wounded by an arrow and fell unconscious; seeing their leader going down, his army panicked and dispersed. Unconscious and almost dead, Hemu was captured and subsequently beheaded by Bairam Khan.
In 1605 with the discovery of 36 barrels of gunpowder under the House of Lords the Gunpowder Plot is revealed and Guy Fawkes is arrested. The reality of the plot is debated by historians today and the Doctor has already meddled in matters.
In 1688 the future William III of England lands with a Dutch fleet at Brixham.
In 1757 during the Seven Years' War, Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach in Saxony. Despite being outnumbered almost two-to-one Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, defeated the Allied army in less than two hours; using rapid movement, a flanking maneuver and oblique order to achieve complete surprise.
In 1780 French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
In 1811 the 1811 Independence Movement begins when Salvadoran priest José Matías Delgado rings the bells of La Merced church in San Salvador, calling for insurrection and independence from Spain. launching the
In 1828 during the Greek War of Independence the French Morea expedition (discussed previously) recaptures Morea (now the Peloponnese) when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula.
In 1862 during the American Civil War, president Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac. At the time the 'Little Napoleon' considered turning his troops on Washington and making himself dictator.
In 1898 Negrese nationalists revolt against Spanish rule and establish the short-lived Republic of Negros in the Phillippines.
In 1913 the mentally ill King Otto of Bavaria is peacefully deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumes the title Ludwig III. Otto never actively reigned because of alleged severe mental illness, with his uncle, Luitpold, and his cousin, Ludwig, serving as regents.
In 1916 the Everett massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences, and agitation by an agent provocateur, lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
In 1925 secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is allegedly executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
In 1955 after being destroyed in World War II, the rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with a performance of Beethoven's Fidelio.
In 1983 an accident involving a decompression chamber on the Byford Dolphin drilling platform in the North Sea kills five and leaves one severely injured.
In 1995 an attempt by André Dallaire to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks their bedroom door.
On November 5, 1995, Chrétien and his wife escaped injury when André Dallaire, armed with a knife, broke in the prime minister's official residence at 24 Sussex Drive. Aline Chrétien shut and locked the bedroom door until security came, while Chrétien held a stone Inuit carving in readiness.[207] In November 1995, the
In 2007 China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
In 2013 India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
In 2015 an iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais flooding a valley and causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues; at least seventeen people are killed with more missing.
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Post by missyfan45 on Nov 6, 2020 23:46:31 GMT
André Dallaire,Little Turtle.,Guy Fawkes,Ludwig III.Lý Anh Tông, Frederick the Great, King Otto of Bavaria, Sidney Reilly, José Matías Delgado,and Hem Chandra Vikramaditya are good people to meet.the Vienna State Opera could be good for time tourists to visit. And the Mars orb iter mission could have been visited by ice warriors.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 7, 2020 16:50:12 GMT
06NOV
In 447 a powerful (magnitude 6.4) earthquake effects the area around the city of Constantinople; amongst the destruction are large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers and bastions. The exact (or even approximate) death toll isn't known though historical records refer to "many thousands of people" having died in the aftermath due to starvation and a "noxious smell", whatever that might have been.
- A natural explanation is hydrogen sulphide but the Whoniverse has other options.
A number of subsequent earthquakes, including another major one in JAN0448, compounded the damage.
In 963 Holy Roman Emperor Otto I calls a council at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, the Synod of Rome, principally to depose the Pope, John XII, on a charges of an armed rebellion against Otto. The council demanded that John present himself and defend himself against a number of charges; the pope responded by threatening to excommunicate anyone who attempted to depose him which didn't stop the emperor and the council from doing just that. The people of Rome even before attempted a revolt in support of John, which was put down brutally by Otto's troops. After Otto left John XII returned at the head of a large company of friends and retainers, causing Leo VIII (ho'd been 'elected' by the Synod) to flee to the emperor for safety. On entering Rome in FEB0964 John summoned his own synod which pronounced his deposition as uncanonical. Attempts to resolve the latter ended when John XII died on 14MAY0964 *supposedly wither during a sexual encounter, at the hands of an outraged husband or by poison).
In 1217 the Charter of the Forest is sealed at St Paul's Cathedral, London by King Henry III, acting under the regency of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke which re-establishes for free men rights of access to the royal forest that had been eroded by William the Conqueror and his heirs. This is arguable a more important document and event than the better known Magna Carta, specifically referring to the rights of free commoners rather than the nobility, including gathering firewood, pasture for pigs, grazing, turf cutting and others.
In 1792 the Battle of Jemappes one of the first major offensive battles of the French Revolutionary Wars, is fought in Hainaut (then in the Austrian Netherlands, now Belgium), and saw the French Armée du Nord (which included many inexperienced volunteers) defeat a substantially smaller regular Austrian army.
In 1936 during the Spanish Civil War, the elected Republican government flees from Madrid to Valencia, leading to the formation of the Madrid Defense Council in its stead.
In 1971 the United States Atomic Energy Commission carries out the largest US underground fusion bomb test, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. The weapon was a prototype for the five megatonne W71 warhead planned for the LIM-49 Spartan ballistic missile interceptor. The Cannikin test faced considerable opposition on environmental grounds and effectively created the environmental organization Greenpeace.
In 1977 at 1:30AM the Kelly Barnes Dam, an earthen embankment dam located above Toccoa Falls College near Toccoa in Georgia, fails catastrophically after years without maintenance and heavy rain. The resulting flood killed 39 people.
In 1985 in Colombia leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement, sponsored by drug cartels, seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá. Twelve judges of the Colombian Supreme Court, and about one hundred others, die in the incident.
In 1986 the Sumburgh disaster sees a British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crash 4lm east of Sumburgh Airport in the Shetland Island killing 45 people.
In 2004 1t 18:12 an express train collides with a stationary car, stopped on a level crossing, near the village of Ufton Nervet in England; seven people are killed, including the suicidal car driver.
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Post by missyfan45 on Nov 7, 2020 22:19:33 GMT
the Synod of Rome could be a pure historical like the council of Nicaea. The cannikin test could have been a cover for a explosion to kill a alien. The Constantinople earthquake could have been a silurian base exploding. And the battle of Jemapennes could be a good ah about France breaking up.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 8, 2020 19:02:49 GMT
07NOV
In 335CE the bishop of Alexandria, Athanasius the Great, is banished to Trier by Constantine after accusations that he was interfering with the Egyptian grain fleet, thus threatening the prosperity and security of Constantinople. Some of his accusers claimed that Athanasius had been using "magical means" to control the winds which would prevent the sailing of the grain fleet for Constantinople.
In 680CE the Sixth Ecumenical Council or Third Council of Constantinople, opens in Constantinople. One of the more interesting occurrences during the council is then a Monothelite priest claimed he could raise the dead, thereby proving his faith supreme. A corpse was brought forth but his whispered prayers in its ears failed to revive the deceased.
In 921 the Treaty of Bonn is signed by the two Frankish kings, Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler, on a ship in the middle of the Rhine not far from Bonn. The pact agreed that both would recognise and accept their borders along the river. The "pact of friendship" had little impact in the ongoing rivalries between the Frankish kings; by February 923 Henry had effectively abrogated the treaty by making a pact with the usurper against Charles, Robert I Robert subsequently sent a legate to Henry with the relic of the hand of Dionysius the Areopagite; a human hand sheathed in gold and studded in gems. By JUN0923 Charles was a prisoner (after the Battle of Soissons) and lost his kingdom.
In 1426 after winning the decisive Battle of Tốt Động, in the Red River Valley between Tốt Động and Chúc Động, not far from Nahoi, the Lam Sơn rebels emerge victorious against the Ming army and establish Vietnam as an independent state after fourteen years of conflict.
In 1492 the Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim in the Alsace region of France (though then in Further Austria). The meteorite,or at least what is now publicly on display in Ensisheim's museum, is an LL6 ordinary chondrite, weighing about 127kg. The fall of the meteorite through the Earth's atmosphere was observed as a fireball at a distance of up to 150km from it's impact site and caused a degree of commotion in the area; residents of the walled town and nearby farms and villages gathered at the location to raise the meteorite from its impact hole and began removing pieces of it. A local magistrate interfered with the destruction of the stone, in order to preserve the object for King Maximilian, the son of the reigning Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III. A piece of the meteorite was sent to Cardinal Piccolomini (later Pope Pius III) at the Vatican.
In 1619 Elizabeth Stuart is crowned Queen of Bohemia, though her reign will be brief. Elizabeth was the second child and eldest daughter of James VI and I, King of Scotland, England, and Ireland, and his wife, Anne of Denmark. With the demise of the last Stuart monarch in 1714, Elizabeth's grandson succeeded to the British throne as George I, initiating the Hanoverian dynasty. Because her husband's reign in Bohemia and Palatinate lasted for just one winter, Elizabeth is often referred to as the "Winter Queen".
In 1665 the London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published. It was the first, and initially only, official journals of record or Government gazettes of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published (hence the term "gazetted"). Initially it was The Oxford Gazette as Charles II and the Royal Court had moved to Oxford to escape the Great Plague of London. After the king returned to London, as the plague dissipated, and the Gazette moved too, with the first issue of The London Gazette being published on 05FEB1666. The Gazette was not a newspaper in the modern sense: it was sent by post to subscribers, not printed for sale to the general public.
In 1811 during Tecumseh's War, the Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground in Indiana, and ends with a significant victory for the American forces led by Governor Harrison, over confederal Indian forces associated with Shawnee leader Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa. The defeat was a setback for Tecumseh's confederacy from which it never fully recovered and a significant factor in Harrison's election to the US presidency in 1840.
In 1837 in the town of Alton in Illinois a pro-slavery mob attack a warehouse in which the abolitionist, Presbyterian minister and printer Elijah Lovejoy has established a print shop; Lovejoy is shot dead while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed for the third time. The warehouse was owned by Benjamin Godfrey and W. S. Gillman who were sympathetic to Lovejoy's anti-slavery views, The incident inspired the notorious John Brown on his crusaded to end slavery. No-one was convicted of the murder, or attempted arson, which is perhaps unsurprising when the leader of the mob was foreman of the jury and the trial judge a witness to the attack.
In 1861, early in the American Civil War, a small battle is fought in Belmont, Missouri between Union forces led by General Ulysses Grant and Confederates (led by Major General Leonidas Polk); while Grant's forces overrun a Confederate camp they are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive. Most depart safely on the riverboats that had brought them and return to Paducah in Kentucky. The battle was relatively unimportant but as little else was happening elsewhere it received considerable attention in the press and helped Grant's career.
In 1861 the Melbourne Cup horse race, the idea of Frederick Standish, a member of the Victorian Turf Club, is held for the first time in Melbourne, Australia. Seventeen horses ran, in front of a crowd of about 4,000, for the modest prize of 710 pounds in gold. The inaugural Melbourne Cup was an eventful affair; one horse bolted before the start, and three of the seventeen starters fell during the race, two of which died. The winner was Archer, an "outsider" from Sydney who won at 6-to-1 odds.
In 1881 Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed. The The Mapuche uprising was the last major rebellion of the indigenous Mapuches of Araucanía.
In 1885 at 9:22AM, the completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie in British Columbia, driven in by CPR railway financier Donald Smith.
- Though actually there were several "last spikes", at least three. The ceremonial silver spike created for the Governor General, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, to hammer in wasn't used as neither it, nor in fact the Governor General, made it to the ceremony due to bad weather. A standard iron spike was drive in by Smith, but his first attempt failed and the spike bent, so it had to be extracted and the spiking repeated.
While not as famous as the American transcontinental railway project (see Hell on Wheels) the Canadian project was just a lengthy, complex and fascinating a saga of natural disasters, financial crises, armed rebellion and corruption.
In 1900 the Battle of Leliefontein is fought during the Second Boer War. The engagement occurred at the Komati River about 30km south of Belfast, near the present day Nooitgedacht Dam. During the engagement, the Canadian rearguard successfully repelled Boer assaults against the column, facilitating the successful retreat of the British-Canadian force from the area.
In 1907 a Mexican railway brakeman named Jesús García saved the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers away before it can explode. García was the brakeman (guard in UK terms) for the train that covered the line between Nacozari in Sonora, and Douglas in Arizona; he noticed, when the train was stopped in the town, that some hay on the roof of a car containing a huge consignment of dynamite had caught fire. García drove the train in reverse downhill at full-steam six kilometres out of the town before the dynamite exploded, killing him and sparing the population of the mining town.
In 1912 the Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
In 1913 the "Big Blow" began on the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes Storm of 1913 was an enormous blizzard that ultimately killed more than 250 people and caused millions of dollars in damage, devastating the Great Lakes Basin. Nineteen ships were sunk or destroyed, and another nineteen stranded. The storm, technically an extratropical cyclone, originated as the convergence of two major storm fronts, fueled by the lakes' relatively warm waters; this is known locally as the Witch of November. 1913 saw gusts of over 150km/hr and 15 metre waves, plus heavy and torrential rain and whiteout snowsqualls. This was neither the first, not the last, such storm on the Great Lakes; there have been at least 25 killer storms in the region since 1847.
In 1916 the Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the freezing waters of Fort Point Channel; 46 people die.
In 1919 as part of the First Red Scare the first Palmer Raid is conducted at 9PM, on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 250 "suspected dangerous communists and anarchists" (mostly Italian and Eastern European immigrants) are arrested in 23 American cities and great brutality is demonstrated by the 'law enforcement' personnel involved. More will be arrested over the next few days (over ten thousand in total) bu authority of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer,
In 1929 the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public in New York City
In 1940 in Tacoma in Washington state "Galloping Gertie", the newly completed Tacoma Narrows Bridge, spanning the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula, collapses spectacularly in a windstorm; it is a mere four months after the suspension bridge was completed. The bridge's collapse had a lasting effect on science and engineering and influenced the designs of all later long-span bridges.
In 1941 at 11:30AM the Soviet hospital ship and transport Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees and wounded military and staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people died in the sinking. The ship was attacked about 40km Yalta in Armenia by a Heinkel He 111 medium bomber which dropped two torpedoes. One torpedo missed; the other scored a direct hit. The ship broke in two and sank within four minutes. Only eight people were rescued. The ship has never been definitively located.
In 1944 perhaps the greatest spy in history, Richard Sorge, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring. Sorge was a German journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and Japan. He is most famous for his service in Japan in 1940 and 1941, when he provided information about Adolf Hitler's plan to attack the Soviet Union and that Japan would not attack the Soviet Union.
In 1949 the first offshore oil platform, begins operation at Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları) in Azerbaijan, extracting oil from 1,000, below the Caspian Sea.
In 1996 NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor, a robotic spacecraft that mapping the surface and atmosphere of Mars.
In 2000 one of the world's largest LSD production labs is discovered by a US Drug Enforcement Administration raid inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas. The unremarkable concrete bunker, once a Cold War Atlas E ballistic missile silo was owned by the most prolific LSD manufacturers ever, Gordon Todd Skinner and William Leonard Pickard. They (especially Skinner who possessed a large inherited fortune) converted the mostly underground structure into a strange hidden lair, complete with luxurious hot tubs and baths and imported marble furnishings. Skinner, a self-taught chemist and pharmacologist, is known to have synthesized other psychedelic drugs, while working as an informer for the DEA. Skinner was eventually convicted of kidnapping, assaulting, torturing, and forcibly dosing a number of victims, including his former girlfriend Krystle Cole as well as several minors, with dangerously large amounts of various psychedelic and dissociative drugs.
In 2012 at 10:35AM a magnitude 7.4 earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people.
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Post by missyfan45 on Nov 9, 2020 0:19:40 GMT
Richard Sorge, Jesús García, Charles the Simple and Henry the Fowler,Athanasius the Great,A. Mitchell Palmer,Frederick Standish,Elizabeth Stuart,Gordon Todd Skinner, Krystle Cole, and Leonidas Polkare good people to meet.The Museum of Modern Art's painting could be good sources of inspiration for a adventure. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse could have been caused by a Mothman like creature. And the Battle of Tippecanoe could be a good pure or psuedo historical, after all there is that 20 year curse after all.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 9, 2020 15:30:12 GMT
08NOV
In 960CE the Battle of Andrassos ends with a crushing victory for the Byzantines (led by Leo Phokas the Younger) over the forces of the Hamdanid Emirate of Aleppo, led by the Emir, Sayf al-Dawla. The battle was the end of a campaign started that summer by Sayf al-Dawla, who saw the departure of most Byzantine forces for a campaign against Crete, as an opportunity to reverse his recent setbacks and re-establish his position; he led an invasion of Byzantine territory from Cilicia, through the Taurus mountains in modern Turkey. Sayf al-Dawla refused to accept advice and retreated though the same pass; there his forces were ambushed and massacred by the Byzantines. Christian prisoners taken in the raid were freed, while large numbers of Muslims were enslaved, booty taken was recovered, while the treasure and baggage of Sayf al-Dawla himself were captured.
In 1519 the Conquistador Hernán Cortés enters the Aztec captial Tenochtitlán; the Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration. In fact both men were preparing to betray the other; Moctezuma wished to learn the Spanish strengths and weaknesses while Cortés and his men were seeking the source of the Aztec gold. While in Tenochtitlán Cortés learned that several Spaniards on the coast had been killed by Aztecs and decided to take Moctezuma as a hostage in his palace, indirectly ruling Tenochtitlán through him.
In 1520 the Stockholm Bloodbath, a Danish massacre of over one hundred people in the city, mainly members of the nobility. The backdrop for the killings was the successful Danish invasion of Sweden that year and the coronation of Christian II as the new king of Sweden. Guests in the crowning party were invited to a meeting at the castle where Archbishop Gustav Trolle accused the former Swedish regent Sten Sture the Younger and his supporters of heresy. King Christian II became known in Sweden as Kristian Tyrann, 'Christian the Tyrant'.
In 1576 during the Eighty Years' War (or Dutch War of Independence) the the provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands formally ally to drive Spanish mercenary troops out of the country and to promote a formal peace with the rebelling provinces of Holland and Zeeland, an event known as the Pacification of Ghent.
In 1602 the Bodleian Library (officially Bodley's Library) at the University of Oxford is opened to the public (well some of them). With over two thousand books (including a few dozen in English) it is one of the largest libraries in England.
In 1605 Robert Catesby, alleged ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed with several companions at Holbeche House, by troops under the command of Richard Walsh, the Sheriff of Worcester. Catesby and perhaps six companions had arrived the previous evening, running from pursuit after the plot was revelaed. Interestingly, several of the men were injured in an accidental ignition of gunpowder that night and some of the bodies were unrecognisable except for clothing and possessions. After death the men were beheaded and their heads sent to London for public exhibition.
In 1620 in the early states of the Thirty Years War, the Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive victory for the larger Catholic forces, led by Count Tilly, in only two hours.
In 1644 after the collapse of the Ming dynasty, the Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, is enthroned in Beijing as the first Qing emperor to rule over all China. At the time he is six.
In 1745 during the "Forty Five", Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of around six thousand, many of whom would later participate in the Battle of Culloden. Having taken Carlisle and advancing to Swarkestone Bridge in Derbyshire, the army (over Charles's objections) decided to return to Scotland.
In 1861 the American Civil War almost erupts into a larger conflict with the "Trent Affair". A US Navy warship, the USS San Jacinto (under Captain Charles Wilkes) stops the British mail ship (the RMS Trent) and (illegally) arrested two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US. War between the United States and Great Britain threatens over the action and the British government protested vigorously. Eventually the United States ended the incident by releasing the diplomats.
In 1892 the New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time. The strike was milestone in both unity across racial boundaries (and despite a viciously racist newspaper campaign to disrupt the unions) and peaceful conduct. Despite appeals to racial hatred, black and white workers remained united. The general strike ended on 12NOV with the unions gaining most of their original demands.
In 1895 while experimenting with an electric current though various vacuum tubes at Würzburg Physical Institute of the University of Würzburg, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers a new form of emmanation he calls x-radiation and quickly realises its potential for imaging the human body.
In 1901 the streets of Athens erupt in a series of bloody clashes, known as the Gospel riots, following the translation of the Gospels into demotic (modern) Greek. The context of the rioting is complex, mixing Greek nationalism, the failed attempt to revive Ancient Greek as the working language of the newly independent country and conflicting opinions from the Greek Orthodox Church.
In 1923 the NSDAP stages an attempt to take-over the government of Germany in Munich, known as the Beer Hall Putsch. The NSDAP is led by one Adolf Hitler. The Munich Putsch involved approximately two thousand Nazis who marched to the Feldherrnhalle in the city centre, when they were confronted by a police cordon; both sides fired and around twenty people, including four police officers, were killed. The putsch brought Hitler to the attention of the German nation and generated front-page headlines in newspapers around the world. His arrest and 24-day trial gave him a platform to express his nationalist sentiments to the nation.
In 1936 during the Spanish Civil War, an assault by Francoist troops on Madrid fails, but they begin the three-year Siege of Madrid.
In 1937 the Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich. This was an exhibition of anti-Semitism material and propaganda displayed at the Library of the German Museum, focussing on anti-semitic canards and presenting the supposed Jewish attempts at "bolshevising" Germany.
In 1939 two British agents of the Secret Intelligence Service are captured by Germans agents after being lured to the Dutch-German border. The was a highly successful covert German Sicherheitsdienst operation, which has lasted several weeks, and lured British agents into a series of meetings with supposed German officers who opposed Hitler. The incident was later used by the German Nazi government to link Britain to Georg Elser's failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich
In 1939 in Munich for the anniversary of the failed Putch of 1926, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser. Elser had taken months and great pains to construct a time bomb in the Bürgerbräukeller hall, amassing explosives, tools, and materials without beibg suspected. However Hitler had planned to cancel is speech, but changed his mind and arrived early (at 8PM) and spoke for just over a hour, departing at 9:07PM to catch a train to Berlin. This was thirteen minutes before Elser's bomb exploded at 9:20PM. The bomb brought down part of the ceiling and roof and caused the gallery and an external wall to collapse, leaving a mountain of rubble. Of the approximately 120 people were still in the hall at the time, seven were killed and sixty injured.
In 1942 the French Resistance movement stages a coup in Algiers, in which 400 ( mainly Jewish) French civilians take control of the city of and neutralise the Vichyist XIXth Army, after fifteen hours of fighting. This assisted in the success of Operation Torch, the Allied landings in North Africa.
In 1957 Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later. 44 people are lost.
In 1957 Britain finally detonates a working fusion bomb in the Operation Grapple X test over Kiritimati in the Pacific. This is despite the unexpected arrival of the Liberian flagged steamer SS Effie, an old Victory ship, i the exclusion area that morning.
In 1973 the right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his grandfather to pay US$2.2 million.
In 1977 Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
In 1983 TAAG Angola Airlines Flight 462 crashes after takeoff from Lubango Airport in Angola, killing all 130 people on board. UNITA claims to have shot down the aircraft, though this is not generally accepted.
In 2011 the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances (about 325Mm) from Earth.
In 2013 Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines, killing around 6,500 people.
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Post by missyfan45 on Nov 9, 2020 18:25:44 GMT
John Paul Getty III, Philip II of Macedon, Manolis Andronikos,Georg Elser,(could have been a Tescleta),Charles Edward Stuart,Wilhelm Röntgen,Sayf al-Dawla,Leo Phokas the Younger, Robert Catesby,King Christian II, and Hernán Cortés(could be a good sequel to the Aztecs) are good people to meet.The Beer Hall Putsch could be a good pure historical about a fixed point in time. And the Bodleian Library could be a good location to get information during a adventure.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 9, 2020 19:48:56 GMT
John Paul Getty III, Philip II of Macedon, Manolis Andronikos,Georg Elser,(could have been a Tescleta),Charles Edward Stuart,Wilhelm Röntgen,Sayf al-Dawla,Leo Phokas the Younger, Robert Catesby,King Christian II, and Hernán Cortés(could be a good sequel to the Aztecs) are good people to meet. The Beer Hall Putsch could be a good pure historical about a fixed point in time. And the Bodleian Library could be a good location to get information during a adventure. Don't forget Ace and Doctor7 were around too.
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Post by missyfan45 on Nov 9, 2020 20:07:33 GMT
oh where in?
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 9, 2020 21:11:49 GMT
The Virgin New Adventure novel Timewyrm: Exodus. There's an interstitial section, between the early section (set in alternate, Nazi subjugated, Britain in 1951) and the main section (set in 1939 Germany) that has Doctor7 and Ace witnessing the putsch. They make the acquaintance of Hitler, which comes in handy sixteen years later. Though Ace does try and kill Hitler... Oh and someone takes a shot at them with a laser. There's some detail in The Seventh Doctor Expanded Universe Sourcebook Vol.1
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 10, 2020 12:18:53 GMT
09NOV
In 694CE Egica, king of the Visigoths of Hispania and Septima (Iberia and southeastern France) summons the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, an ecclesiastical assembly, to act on his distrust and dislike of Jews. Amongst other things they're accused of aiding Muslims, participating in an international plot to destroy the Christian church and planning to overthrow the him personally. Eventually the council resolves that all Jewish property be seized and all Jews enslaved.
In 1277 Welsh independence moves toward and end with the signing of the Treaty of Aberconwy, a humiliating settlement forced on Llywelyn ap Gruffudd by King Edward I of England. The treaty brings a temporary end to the Welsh Wars but divides Wales and essentially means that Welsh self-rule would end upon Llewelyn's death. This represented the first stage of the Conquest of Wales by Edward.
- One interesting incident in the campaign occurred when Llywelyn attempted to marry Eleanor de Montfort; Edward paid pirates, operating from the port of Bristol, to seize her ship, en-route to Wales, and kidnap her. She was held prisoner at Windsor for nearly three years. being released after the treaty was signed.
In 1313 a skirmish, known as the Battle of Gammelsdorf, occurs between forces of Louis the Bavarian and his cousin Frederick I of Austria at Gammelsdorf in Bavaria. The cause for the skirmish was the guardianship of the underage duke of Lower Bavaria, and tutelage over the other minor children of the late Duke; whomever exercised this control would also control the tremendous economic power of that region. The weather worked to Louis' advantage, thick fog covered the battlefield, so that Louis's actual strength was hidden from Frederick. Louis' city militias fought on foot and were victorious.
In 1330 at the Battle of Posada, Basarab I of Wallachia defeats the Hungarian army of Charles I Robert, despite being outnumbered 3 or 4 to 1. The small Wallachian army led by Basarab was formed of cavalry and foot archers, as well as local peasants and their local knowledge allowed them to ambush and defeat the 30,000-strong Hungarian army, in a mountainous region near the border between Oltenia and Severin.
In 1456 Ulrich II, Princely Count of Celje and last ruler of the County of Cilli, is assassinated in Belgrade. In fact Ulrich controlled enormous lands; be was (de facto) regent of Hungary, ban (governor) of Slavonia, Croatia and Dalmatia and feudal lord of vast areas in present-day Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Austria, and Slovakia. This accumulation of power prompted his assassination by the hands of the Hunyadi clan which plunged Hungary into civil unrest; on 08NOV he entered the fortress of Belgrade with King Ladislaus and the next day he was killed by agents of John Hunyadi's son László in unknown circumstances.
In 1620 the Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod in Massachusetts.They spent several days trying to sail south to their planned destination in the Colony of Virginia, where they had obtained permission to settle., but the strong winter seas forced them to return to the harbor at Cape Cod hook, where they set anchor on 21NOV.
In 1688 during the Glorious Revolution, William of Orange captures Exeter, after the magistrates had fled the city. He entered n a white palfrey, with the two hundred black men forming a guard of honour, dressed in white, with turbans and feathers.
- At the time William's support was limited and most people took no side in the proposed change of government.
In 1720 in Jerusalem the synagogue of Judah HeHasid is burned down by his Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem. Judah the Pious, as he was known, had led the largest organised group of Jewish immigrants to the biblical land of Israel in the 17th and 18th centuries. Unfortunately he and his followers had gone deeply into debt to build a small synagogue and when his creditors broke into the synagogue they set it on fire and took over the area. The Turkish authorities blamed all Ashkenazi Jews for the mess, holding them collectively responsible for the debts, and banned all Ashkenazim from the area.
In 1729 Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville, formally ending the 1727–1729 Anglo-Spanish War. The Treaty failed to resolve underlying tensions that led first to the War of Jenkins Ear in 1739, then the wider War of the Austrian Succession in 1740.
In 1780, late in the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Fishdam Ford is fought in South Carolina between a force of British and Loyalist troops and the South Carolina Patriot militia under Brigadier General Thomas Sumter. The battle was an attempted surprise night-time attack by British forces on an encampment of Patriot militia; it failed because of heightened security in Sumter's camp.
In 1799 the French Revolution effectively ends when Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup of 18 Brumaire, ending the Directory government, and making himself First Consul of the successor Consulate Government. The affair was a mostly bloodless coup d'état on 18 Brumaire, Year VIII under the French Republican calendar. In fact France was extremely unstable in the period, having suffered a series of defeats on the battlefield in the spring and summer of 1799, which led to the ousting of the Jacobins in the Coup of 30 Prairial VII (18JUN) and tensions between the various Republican and Royalist factions remained high. Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, a member of the five-man ruling Directory, was the dominant figure in the government and he planned to use the immensely popular Napoleon to stage a coup. In fact, from the moment of his return, Napoleon plotted a coup within the coup to take power for himself. On the morning of 18 Brumaire Napoleon's brother Lucien Bonaparte falsely persuaded the assemblies that a Jacobin coup was at hand in Paris, and induced them to depart for safety. The coup was a rather cobbled-together affair; Napoleon's attempt to brow-beat the Council of Five Hundred (the lower house of parliament) went badly wrong and he was assaulted and needed military intervention to escape. Nevertheless the coup ended with Napoleon Bonaparte effectively in control of France.
In 1851 with the connivance of the local sheriff and Governor of Indiana, Joseph A. Wright, Kentucky marshals illegally abduct the abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville in Indiana and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape. Fairbank aided the escape of almost fifty slaves in all, and served a total of 19 years in the Kentucky State Penitentiary where he was frequently flogged.
In 1867 the Meiji Restoration begins in Japan when the Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor. The Meiji Restoration restored practical imperial rule to the Empire of Japan and was completed in 1868 under Emperor Meiji. Although there were ruling Emperors before the Meiji Restoration they exercised little real power. The Tokugawa shogunate came to its official end on 09NOV1867, when Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the 15th Tokugawa shōgun, "put his prerogatives at the Emperor's disposal"; he resigned ten days later.declaration of the restoration
In 1872 the Great Boston Fire of 1872, the largest fire in the city's history, begins at 7:20PM in the basement of a warehouse at 83–87 Summer Street. The fire took twelve hours to contain and burned 26 hectares of the city, including much of the financial district. Thirteen people died in the fire. One exacerbating cause was the lack of horses; North America was beset by an outbreak of equine 'flu.
In 1906 Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country, spending seventeen days in Panama (inspecting progress on the Panama Canal) an Puerto Rico.
In 1907 after languishing without a purchaser for two years he Cullinan Diamond, the largest gem-quality rough diamond yet found, is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday by the Transvaal Colony government. The uncut stone weighed 3,106.75 carats (621.35g) and was tricky to cut into attractive stones. Eventually it was cut by Joseph Asscher & Co. in Amsterdam into a number of stones of various cuts [shapes] and sizes. The largest of these is the Great Star of Africa; at 530.4 carats (106g) this is the largest clear cut diamond in the world. It is currently mounted in the head of the Sovereign's Sceptre with Cross. The second-largest stone, the Second Star of Africa (317.4 carats, 63.5g) is mounted in the Imperial State Crown.
In 1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
In 1938 the Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the gunshot wounds inflicted by Herschel Grynszpan, a Polish Jewish teenager, on 07NOV; his death was used by the Nazis as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, the Kristallnacht ("The Night of Broken Glass"). Vom Rath was a fairly minor diplomat until his assassination in Paris. Grynszpan, then aged 17, went to the German embassy in Paris and asked to speak with an embassy official after he had learned of the deportation of his parents from Germany to the Polish frontier. Vom Rath was the third secretary of the embassy in Paris and Grynszpan shot him five times. Grynszpan was never tried; the attention around the case and his disputes with his lawyer (funded by an international campaign) over the nature of his defense delayed matters until after the German invasion of France. Grynszpan has wanted to use the trial to indict Nazi policies while his French lawyer (Vincent de Moro-Giafferi) wanted to use as the defense the allegation that vom Rath was a homosexual who had seduced Grynszpan, and that Grynszpan had killed Rath as a part of a lover's quarrel.
- There may have been some truth to this. Certainly vom Rath was gay and frequented the Parisian homosexual community. He may have met Grynszpan in Le Boeuf sur le Toit, a popular haunt for gay men in 1938.
Grynszpan was deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where Joseph Goebbels planned a show-trial for him. However on learning the details of vom Rath's sexual activities the idea was quickly dropped. Grynszpan's fate is unknown, he almost certainly died in Sachsenhausen, probably in 1943.
In 1963 the Miike coal mine in Japan sees a catastrophic explosion followed by serious carbon monoxide release. In all 458 people die and 839 are hospitalised. Many suffer serious and permanent brain damage.
In 1965 several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of electrical blackouts lasting up to 13 hours, an event known as the Northeast blackout of 1965. Over 30 million people and over 200,000 km2 were left without electricity. The cause of the failure was the setting of a protective relay on one of the transmission lines from the Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Power Station No. 2 in Queenston near Niagara Falls. The safety relay was set to trip if other protective equipment deeper within the Ontario Hydro system failed to operate properly. On a particularly cold November evening, power demands for heating, lighting, and cooking were pushing the electrical system to near its peak capacity. Transmission lines heading into southern Ontario were heavily loaded. The safety relay had been misprogrammed, and it did what it had been configured to do. At 5:16PM (Eastern Time) the relay tripped causing a cascade failure of other relays and the automatic shut down of generators. Within a few minutes the power distribution system in the Northeast was in chaos.
In 1967 as part of the Apollo program NASA launches the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy carrying the uncrewed Apollo 4 test craft. The launch tested the ability to launch the lunar stage of the craft into Earth orbit and re-ignite the third stage (which acted as the Orbital Transfer State) in space. The ability of the Command and Service Modules to separate and teh Command Module to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
In 1979 after a technician loads a practice tape reel into a computer system, but omits to set the "test" status the NORAD (North American Air Defence Command) computers detected what appears to be an incoming massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled but not before it was sent to continuity of government bunkers and command posts worldwide.
In 1989 the Berlin Wall begins to fall; at 10:45PM East Germany opens checkpoints in the wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin with little or no identity-checking.
In 2005 the Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This was the first Venus exploration mission of the European Space Agency, intended for the long term observation of the Venusian atmosphere.
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Post by missyfan45 on Nov 10, 2020 16:01:39 GMT
Ernst vom Rath ,Emperor Meiji,Ulrich II, Egica, Basarab I,Sir Adam Beck,and Joseph Asscher are good people to meet. They already did the northeastern blackout in a novel. The 1979 missile incident could be a good POD for a nuclear fallout themed story. The fall of the Berlin wall could have been a target for time meddlers (and a chance to meet David Hasselhoff). And the Cullinan Diamond could be the subject of a heist like adventure.
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