11/22/63: A Kennedy Lives Collaborative Timeline

Sept. 13, 1982: Princess Grace survives a near fatal car crash after her car goes off a cliff. Her daughter Princess Stephanie who was riding with her is alive but in critical condition.

Sept 14, 1982: Princess Stephanie's health takes a turn for the worse and she is put on life support.

Sept 18, 1982: In the early hours of that saturday Princess Grace and Prince Rainier III make the decision to take Princess Stephanie off of life support. Later that day they announce her passing.

Dec 27, 1986: Fed up with the abuse of herself and her daughter Maria Barsi decides to press charges on her husband.

Dec 30, 1986: Maria Barsi along with her daughter Judith and a police escort pack their belongings and the police escort hands her husband finalized divorce papers and a restraining order. Her husband doesn't take this lightly and draws a knife and charges his wife. He is shot and due to the wound he goes into a vegetative state.
 
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May 23rd, 1970: With Kosygin and Podgorny's collective leadership of the USSR established through their positions of First Secretary and Premier, respectively, they began to find themselves at odds with one another. Though both are relatively liberal, they disagree over several issues, particularly over the nature of Kosygin's proposed economic reforms.

October 12th, 1970: In another shakeup of the Soviet leadership, Kosygin is able to consolidate his power with the aid of fellow Politburo member Andrei Kirilenko, a former friend and ally of Nikolai Podgarny. Though he is able to secure conservative support, Podgarny subsequently finds himself marginalized and he is removed from the post of Premier and replaced by Kirilenko.

January 3rd, 1971: Kosygin launches the first of his programs aimed to revitalize the Soviet economy. Centered around the decentralization of the economy and the introduction of Western market measures with increased production, the program is known as the Kosygin Plan. It comes under intense criticism from more conservative members of the party, particularly Mikhail Suslov.

July 16th, 1976: After five long years spent working to bring economic reform to the USSR in the face of stern opposition from within his own Politburo, Aleksei Kosygin suffers a massive heart attack. He recovers, but is greatly weakened. Fearing that the gains he has made will be lost if he were to die, Kosygin begins looking for a potential candidate to carry on his work.
 
Here's some ideas for Marvel comics. I had some thoughts on DC and Charlton, but it'd be neat to see someone else's take on those. The IW comics line is a cool idea, but I know nothing about them, so someone else should tackle that.

August 10th, 1961:
Martin Goodwin hires veteran comic writer Joe Simon as editor for a new line of superhero comics. In an initial meeting with writer Stan Lee, it is decided that Atlas Comics will be re-branded as Marvel Comics.

August 13th, 1961: Joe Simon receives two pitches for a superhero team book: one from writer/artist Wally Wood, and another from Jack Kirby and Stan Lee. He selects Wood's pitch, deciding that Kirby and Lee's pitch is too derivative of Kirby's earlier work on The Challengers of the Unknown. He tells Kirby and Lee to rework their pitch as a solo title.

October 26th, 1961: The newly re-branded Marvel Comics publishes Agents of THUNDER (The Higher United Nations Defense Enforcement Reserves) #1, written and drawn by Wally Wood. The comic revolves around a team of men and women given superpowers in order to fight evil on behalf of the UN.

May 15th, 1962: Namor #1 reintroduces the Sub-Mariner. Unlike the Human Torch and Captain America comics from before, the identity of the Sub-Mariner remains the same. Jack Kirby and Stan Lee portray Namor as the proud, philosophical ruler and guardian of a hidden, advanced realm, who is deeply concerned with the wars of the surface world.

June 11th, 1963: In Marvel Superheroes #1, Captain America, Namor, and the Human Torch team up alongside supporting characters Namora and Doctor Strange to defeat the evil Lord Doom and his brainwashed servant, the Incredible Beast.

September 8th, 1970: At Marvel, Roy Thomas reintroduces the golden-age character Black Widow in Mystic Comics #12. The scantily clad Daughter of the Devil becomes an iconic antihero and a central focus of various groups claiming that comics promote degeneracy and poor moral behavior. California governor Ronald Reagan will notably point to the character as “a sign that our country has gone too far in the wrong direction.”

December 19th, 1972: Astonishing Marvel Edition #4 features the debut of a new Yellow Claw feature. Attempting to capitalize on an increased interest in spy-fiction, the story features Captain America supporting character and golden-age FBI agent Jimmy Woo locked in a battle against the criminal Yellow Claw. Eventually the feature will become its own title, running for over 120 issues, and will become critically acclaimed under writer Doug Moench and artist Paul Gulacy.
 
August 5,1962: Marilyn Monroe is found by an assistant after overdosing on barbiturates and is rushed to the hospital.

August 10,1962: Marilyn Monroe checks out of the hospital and tells her agent to make an announcement that she will be putting her acting career on hiatus. She then disappears from the eyes of the world for 10 years.

December 11, 1964: Legendary sniper Simo Hayha dies in hunting accident.
 
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