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Have the 1850 Senate floor incident between Senators Foote and Benton result in VP Fillmore getting shot and killed when they're trying to wrestle the gun away from Senator Foote. Zachary Taylor still dies, giving the Presidency to the ineffectual William R. King and setting a special election...

Replace the Black Plague with the Black Mange that kills sheep, so that Europe's biggest problem is food and cloth shortages not labor shortages, and there is little demand for labor-saving machinery.

"The Tsars and subsequent Soviet and post-Soviet leaders were all unacceptably bad, in comparison with Finland next door."

If Stalin decreed Esperanto was the new language of Communism and other languages were counterrevolutionary, it'd catch on with everyone who didn't want to go to Kolyma.

[ PHOTO: Resistance leader Winston Churchill poses with British partisans near wreckage of downed LZ 128 Ludendorff ]

His Excellency Saparmurat Niyazov forces everyone in Turkmenistan to speak a conlang devised by himself, where pretty much all words are anagrams of "turkmen". Nerkumt metrunk e runtmek! Kurtemn!

They would presumably have to stage from Ireland, so somewhere on the west coast.

This, for one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kra%C5%BEiai_massacre

The Tsars were perfectly willing to persecute Jews, Catholics, and Protestants for not belonging to the church the Tsar wanted them to follow.

Oswald kills LBJ instead of JFK, then still gets offed by Jack Ruby, leading to the same conspiracy mania as OTL. Without LBJ behind the scenes, Civil Rights continues to be blocked by Senate Dixiecrats for the rest of 1963 and 1964. Kennedy selects North Carolina governor Terry Sanford as...

Could we get them to kick each other in the testicles, while someone else forms a constitutional monarchy?

Paper cartridges probably don't keep well in muddy trench warfare.

Reputable papers: Chancellor Hitler Dead In Plane Crash Investigation Ongoing shitty tabloids EXTRA: HITLER ASSASSINATED!!! Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish! with the latter unfortunately feeding into Göring's narrative

It doesn't matter whether there was a conspiracy or not, they can blame the dead pilot or some unfortunate schmuck at the aircraft hangar. Göring is not one to let facts get in the way of a Big Lie

Exactly. In this scenario, with President Hitler allegedly assassinated by the stigmatized group, would Krystallnacht erupt into an immediate and open genocide of hundreds of thousands? Would that shock the rest of the world into intervening? [ Göring no doubt arranges a huge memorial rally...

Göring would publicly blame Jewish saboteurs for the plane crash, and would covertly arrange a Rwanda-style genocide beginning on Krystallnacht.

His antisemitic tutor Konstantin Pobedonostsev, infamously quoted as saying Jews were parasites upon other races, and that he wanted a third of Russian Jews to be converted, a third to be exiled, and the remaining third to be exterminated.

Having a religious denomination declare you a saint does not prove you are a good political leader, especially if you get overthrown and martyred due to poor leadership ability.

Birch Bayh pushed hard for it, and Eastland didn't have any particular reason to oppose in 1965, since the VP seat wasn't vacant.

The election is less than a year away and the New Hampshire primary is just three months away, there's no way such a Constitutional Amendment could get through Congress and be ratified by 38 states in that short of a time. It took just over two years in OTL and that was unusually fast. That's...