Here is the
twenty-first draft of the ATL, based on the PODS provided so far the section of 1962-1980:
October 3, 1962: Wally Schirra becomes the 9th man in space. It would be almost 20 years before the "Astronaut's Club" would expand to 10.
October 11th, 1962: Opening of the works of the Second Vatican Council. However, the current situation provoked tensions between reformers and conservators.
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October 27th, 1962: B-59 Soviet submarine under Captain Valentin Savitsky with the nuclear-tipped torpedo fires its weapon, sinking the USS Essex, the USS Gearing, and ironically, the USS Kennedy, in response to the depth charges being dropped on it.
October 27th, 1962: At 1800 hours, Task Force Essex receives word from the Pentagon to seek and destroy the offending submarine "with all convenient speed." At 2000 hours, Ambassador Anatoly Dobrinin arrives at the embassy and relays back to Msocow that they, not the Americans, fired first. 12 minutes after Task Force Essex intercepts and destroys Submarine B-59.
October 28th, 1962: Premier Nikita Krushchev accuses the United States of taking "aggressive and provocative action" citing the use of depth charges against the Soviet B-59 submarine. He also cites Hungarian and Soviet vessels that carry humanitarian aid that have been prevented entry by the U.S. Navy...
October 28th, 1962 - Following the sinking of several US Nayv ships, the United States go on DEFCON 1. All armed forces in Europe and Asia are put under high alert, while President Kennedy calls for a (highly controversial) draft. The NATO-allies in Western Europe also put their troops under high alert. The German Bundeswehr for example places their troops along the inner-German border. As a reaction to DEFCON 1, the Soviet Union announces that they will blocade West-Berlin, this time also with anti-air missiles, to prevent a supply of West-Berlin by air (As seen in 1948). The Warsaw Pact troops also gather on the border between West and East Germany. The American people react in panic, as they either try to buy as much food as possible or flee to the seemingly safer countryside. As a result, riots sweep through the major cities, with many state governors declaring a state of emergency in their states. In some cities, the police even shoots on rioters, such as in Atlanta, Georgia or in Birmingham, Alabama. Similiar scenes can also be witnessed in European cities.
October 30th, 1962: The United Nations calls for a conference at their secondary headquarters in Geneva to resolve the conflict brewing in the Caribbean.
October 31st, 1962: Some of the 32 nukes in Cuba are fired, 21 reach their intended targets. Norfolk, Miami, Atlanta, Mobile, Guantanamo, Cape Canaveral are some of the 11 targets hit in the mainland US. 7 missiles are fired at the quarantine fleet formation, 3 more reach their target but due to shoddy intelligence provided to the commanders in Cuba, all thes hit were water. What is not hit is DC, Chicago, Memphis, Burmingham or New Orleans, All of which were in blast range
November 1st, 1962: US fighter planes drop a 2.5 MT nuclear device on Havana, from a B-52, in retaliation for the Sub attack and a Cuban nuclear attack against the US facility at Guantanamo Bay. 2 million Cubans lay dead including the Castro brothers.
November 2, 1962: US forces in Panama repulse a communist guerrilla attack against the Canal Zone.
November 3, 1962: The Battle of Berlin. Soviet Troops march into West Berlin, there is little fighting and West Berlin quickly falls. The Soviet army marches onto West Germany. In response, Kennedy launches the B-52s, with targets being Soviet military bases, supply stations, naval yards and Weapons manufacture. The strike is partially effective due to the hit or miss intel in regards to Russia's arms manufacture. They launch their ICBMs against Europe, intent on ending British support of a European Theater, and eliminating armies in their path to Paris and Oslo.
November 3, 1962: B-52s hit North Korean Targets, along with Military bases in China (Not sure if Kennedy would hit China in this situation but the generals may force his hand.)
November 3rd-4th, 1962: U.S. B-52s strike at the military districts of the Soviet Union including:
* Yekaterinaburg, Volga-Ural Military District
* Moscow, Capital Military District
* Kaliningrad, Baltic Military District
* Odessa, Odessa/Ukraine Military District
* Leningrad, Leningrad Military District
* Rostov-on-Don, North Caucasus Military District
* Tblisi, Transcaucasian Military District
* Khabarovsk, Far Eastern Military District
* Chita, Transbaikal Military District, Siberian Military District
November 3rd, 1962: African-American author James Baldwin writes about his experiences in "The Fire This Time", which becomes a manifesto for the generation....
November 3rd, 1962: A Soviet missile hit Paris, with the Elyseè as epicenter of the nuclear explosion, destroying the first, second, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and most of the sixtenth and sevententh arrondissements and devasting considerably the surroundings ; The Tour Eiffel was partially toppled, the Louvre devastated (but part of its treasures were previously put in safe), Notre Dame resisted having in front as protection the Hotel de Ville. De Gaulle and Pompidou survived, searching haven in the bunker of Vincennes castle.
November 4th, 1962: In response to the bombings of Soviet positions, the Soviet High Command orders the 26 ICBMs launched at the United States. Of these 26, 7 either fail to launch, detonate early, or break up on re-entry. The 19 which do hit the US are as follows:
-2 missiles hit Washington, DC. Much of the government had already been evacuated to Mt Weather and Cheyenne Mountain, but it was still an important target.
-2 missiles hit Cheyenne Mountain, but do to it's construction, there is little damage.
-1 missile hits Omaha, destroying SAC HQ and killing General Curtis LeMay
-1 missile hits Buffalo by accident, as it had been aimed at the SAC base in Syracuse
-2 missiles hit Oakland, taking out the Oakland naval bases, destroying the Oakland Bay Bridge, and scarring the Golden Gate Bridge
-2 missiles hit San Diego
-1 missile hits the Brooklyn Naval Yard, blowing away Brooklyn and South Manhattan and toppling the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and the Statue of Liberty. Another missile had been aimed at NYC, but it instead detonated in the Mid-Atlantic
-1 missile slams into Hutchinson, Kansas, though it was aimed at the AFB in Wichita
-1 missile loses all guidance and detonates over Singapore
-1 missile destroys Colorado Springs, the HQ of NORAD during peace
-1 missile, aimed at Tucson, instead crashes into Death Valley, killing absolutely nothing
-2 missiles vaporize the industrial center of Birmingham
-1 missile hits Charleston, the primary sub base for the US
- The final missile aims for West Point, but detonates early, destroying Montreal
November 4th, 1962: In retaliation for Europe, the US launches its nuclear arsenal against Europe. Moscow, Vladivostok, Stalingrad, Leningrad, Baikonur, Yakutsk, Irkutsk, Omsk, Kursk, and Arkhangelsk disappear in nuclear fire. Khruschev, Leonid Brezhnev, and much of the Politburo are amongst the dead. Andrei Kirilenko, Deputy Chairman of the Central Commitee, finds himself the highest ranking Soviet official as he had been visiting his hometown of Alexeyevka at the time.
November 4th, 1962: Pope John XXIII, from Rome ( he refused to leave the Eternal City), condemned the nuclear escalation and prayed "for the fallen and for the survivors". The Vatican however secretely moved for a negotiation between the two parts in conflict: also for this reasons, Rome and Italy were spared from a Soviet nuclear attack.
November 5, 1962: Some Soviet bombers bound for America were ordered to change to secondary targets following the near 90% loss of the First wing upon entering North America. Only 8 nukes are dropped.
* Smedley Butler USMC in Okinawa
* Misawa Air Force Base
* Kadena Air Base, Okinawa
* United States Fleet - Yokosuka
* Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni - Near Hiroshima
* Yongson Garrison, outside Seoul
* Port of Pusan
* Kuomingtang (KMT) Capital of Taipei
November 5th, 1962: The Soviet Bombers reach Canada and begin attempting to bomb the Northern US. Only one American city (Detroit) is destroyed, however. Most of the bombers -the 10% which survive the USAF, anyway - instead drop their payloads on Canadian targets - Toronto, Ottowa, Saskatoon, Edmonton, and Vancouver all go up in flames.
November 6th, 1962: The US midterm elections are held. Notable races include the California Gubernatorial (won by former VP Richard Nixon), the Massachusets Senatorial (won by Republican George C. Lodge in a massive upset), and the Illinois 13th (A victory by Donald Rumsfeld). In the end, the GOP gains 7 represantatives, 5 senate seats, and two governorships (Richard Nixon of California, and William Scranton of Pennsylvania). Kirilenko finally gets word to the Americans that he desires an armistace. Given the enormous loss of life already occured, Kennedy agrees.
November 8th, 1962: All land and air forces of the Warsaw Pact and NATO stand down, ending WWIII. Delegates begin to meet in Vienna to hammer out a peace treaty.
November 9th, 1962: Charles, Prince of Wales speaks to the people of the UK from the BURLINQUIST Bunker in Wiltshire. In his speech, he confirms the destruction of London, Edinburgh, York, and huge swaths of the eastern coastal regions. He also confirms the likely deaths of his parents, the Prime Minister, and the Shadow Prime Minister. As per the bylaws of the Conservative Party, he appoints Deputy PM Rab Butler to be head of the Party, and thus Prime Minister.
November 10th 1962 - Despite claims of all of Castros cohorts dieing in the blast reports have surfaced of Che Guavera without Mrs. Aleida Guevera has fled the country. Certain analysts believe he will head back to Mexico city to re-unite with his ex-wife Hilda Gadea. However regardless of his whereabouts, with the virtual collapse of Communist Cuba current regimes across South America breathe a sigh of relief. In other news, geologists forecast a noticeable drop in temperature in the western hemisphere due the nuclear detonation within the southern half of the western hemisphere. Also on this day, De Gaulle moved the French capital to Bordeaux. He had the intention to move initially to Versailles to follow more near the Parisian situation, but his advisors discouraged this proposition because for the radiation danger and because the French could take bad the decision to use the most lavish court of Europe as presidential seat while the country was devastated.
November 11th, 1962: A low yield nuclear torpedo detonates in Pearl Harbor. The USS Arizona Memorial, dedicated 5 months earlier, is destroyed, along with the naval base. While all Soviet land and air divisons have stood down, contact with the submarine flotillas is near impossible. There are many Soviet sub commanders who do not yet realize the war is over.
November 12th 1962 - Prime Minister Rab Butler makes important changes to the Cabinet having spent his first few days in office determining which MP's are still alive. Of the Cabinet;
Lord Dilhorne (Lord Chancellor); Henry Brooke (Home Secretary); Enoch Powell (Health Minister); John Boyd-Carpenter (Chief Secretary to the Treasury); John Hare (Labour Minister); Ernest Marples (Transport Minister); Sir Keith Joseph (Local Government Minister); Lord Home (Foreign Secretary); Christopher Soames (Agriculture Minister); Frederick Erroll (Board of Trade President) and Peter Thorneycroft (Defence Minister) are all dead
While Lord Hailsham (Science Minister); Edward Heath (Lord Privy Seal); Reginald Maudling (Chancellor of the Exchequer); Duncan Edwin Sandys (Colonial Secretary); Iain Macleod (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster); Sir Edward Boyle (Education Minister); Julian Amery (Aviation Minister); Michael Noble (Scotland Secretary) and Bill Deedes (Minister without Portfolio) survived the destruction. As such, Butler appoints an emergency Cabinet consisting of,
Rab Butler (Prime Minister)
Reginald Maudling (Deputy Prime Minister & Chancellor of the Exchequer)
Lord Hailsham (Foreign Secretary)
Edward Heath (Home Secretary)
Duncan Edwin Sandys (Agriculture & Labour Minister)
Iain Macleod (Chief Secretary to the Treasury)
Sir Edward Boyle (Education & Health Minister)
Julian Amery (Aviation Minister & Board of Trade President)
Michael Noble (Local Government Minister & Scotland Secretary)
Bill Deedes (Colonial Secretary)
Winston Churchill (Defence Minister)
The biggest surprise is the appointment of former PM Winston Churchill as Defence Minister. Churchill who survived at his country estate Chartwell agrees to come out of retirement to serve.
Also on this day, Michèle Bernstein, Guy Debord, Attila Kotànyi, Uwe Lausen, J.V. Martin, Jan Strijbosch, Raoul Vaneigem lead student protests against the war in Brussels, Belgium,...
November 18th, 1962: The Grand Theatre of Bordeaux hosted the first session of the National Assembly since the destruction of Paris. De Gaulle (which used the Palais de la Bourse as presidential residence, while the Government used the Hotel des Fermes) requested a delay of a year for the parliamentarly elections pushing for a national unity, and the main political forces agreed, also putting aside any quarrel about the debate of presidential roles.
December 4th, 1962: The Algerian question returned on table in France: 100,000 Pied-Noirs still in Algeria decided to remain considerating their mainland was devastated so with few chance for them to build a new life, but requested proctection and guarantees both from De Gaulle and Algerian authorities.
December 11, 1962: The Copenhagen Conference. Premier Kirilenko and President Kennedy meet in Berlin in Copenhagen to sign the Peace Treaty
December 13, 1962: The US Navy begins Operation Foxhunt, the difficult task of hunting down and destroying the now-rogue Soviet submarines.
December 22th, 1962: Algerian head of government Ben Bella, after returning from a meeting with De Gaulle and Pompidou at Bordeaux, agreed to let stay unharmed at least for ten years the renmaint Pied-Noirs (tecnically still French) as a extention of the Evian treaty. Not all the Algerians were favorable to this decision, but for now the Pied-Noirs could try to rebuild their community...
December 25th 1962 - As the United Kingdom recovers from the loss of London, Edinburgh and York, the newly anointed King George VII makes his first Christmas broadcast in which he pledges to do everything within his power to keep Britain running and to re-build the destroyed areas.
December 28th, 1962: President Kenndey submits the first draft of his peace treaty to the other NATO representatives. In it, he calls for heavy reparations, war crime tribunals, de-Communization, and other such measures. He is immediately criticized by de Gaulle - "You were the first to actually drop bombs on civilians. What right do you have to accuse the Russians of warmongering?" France, Spain, Portugal, and the Benelux nations all sign seperate peace treaties with the Warsaw Pact. The remaining nations all agree to relocate to Vienna in a week's time. Newly appointed Secretary of State Henry Kissinger states bluntly, "Considering the Soviets killed millions of your people, including the destruction of your national captal, and came close to overrunning your country with tanks, I guess, you don't want any reparations or compensation from the Soviets,...", also pointing to his own personal loss of family members in Bavaria, Germany...
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January 8th, 1963: President John F. Kennedy calls for a "New World Concensus" during a speech in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as a sign that he will not seek punitive policies other than reparations....
January 11th, 1963: Betrand Russell, along with members of the "Committee of 100", lead 250,000 people in a call for the abolition of all nuclear weapons, during a march in Cambridge, England....
Jan 15, 1963: Top Business executives who survived the WW III decide to relocate to Boston. This would lead to Massachusetts becoming increasingly more pro business over the years and more conservative.
January 25th 1963- There are reports of artillery barrages from Ecuador into neighboring Peruvian outposts as it seems the Ecuadorian government has honored its pledge that the Rio Protocol was nullified as of 3 years ago due to inconsistencies shown by the American embassy from USAAF aerial photography.
Jan 27, 1963: President Kennedy calls for a new Washington in his State of the Union, calling for it to be an architectural marvel that will be called the 8th wonder of the world.It will be located near the center of the nation.
January 28th, 1963: Congress votes down Kennedy's proposal, and instead simply votes to remove the District of Columbia to the USA's first capital, Philadelphia.
January 30th, 1963: Andrei Kirilenko relocates the Soviet capital to Sverdlosk [Yekaterinburg], the largest city in Russia to survive.
February 3, 1963: Seeing the "Great Satan" weakened and distracted, communist forces in Latin America begin mobilizing.
February 7th, 1963: WHO/CDC reports over 1,710 deaths attributed to cold weather in Western Europe, due to record cold weather and fuel shortages...
February 21st, 1963:
Aux poubelles de l'histoire!(a.k.a. "Into the Trashcan of History") by Guy Debord, presents a nihilistic view of the Cold War, proclaiming that Europe would have been wiped from history, through the actions of the U.S. and Soviet Union...
February 22nd, 1963: WHO/CDC reports thousands of deaths throughout Western Europe, 224 reported in France, due to the cold winter; Lack of heating oil is blamed in many of the deaths...
March 2nd, 1963: Kirilenko managed to restore a certain degree of information into the Soviet Union restarting the stamping of Pravda, or to better say "Nova Pradva". For the first time, the journal had a great degree of indipendence respect to the central power...
March 7th, 1963: Marvel Comics introduces "Iron Man" in Tales of Suspense #39, the last character directly created by the late Stan Lee.
March 11th, 1963: With the death of the Kim family in Pyongyang, a military cabal seizes the reigns of power in North Korea.
April 1, 1963: Border skirmishes erupt between Mexican troops and Guatemalan Communist guerrillas.
April 7th 1963 - Winston Churchill, decaying in health resigns as Minister of Defence. He is replaced by Joseph Godber.
April 14, 1963: In a display of irony, Mexican drug cartels assist the Mexican Army in fighting the insurgency, citing that "communism is bad for profits."
May 3, 1963: The Mexican Governor of Chiapas is assassinated by a communist insurgent. Mexico begins mobilizing its forces.
May 5, 1963: Mexico invades Guatemala to "secure a country in a great state of anarchy."
May 27, 1963: Despite a few bloody clashes, Mexico fully occupies Guatemala. President Adolfo López Mateos declares that the communist cause will not prevail.
June 3rd, 1963: John XXIII died.
June 12, 1963: After much lobbying and a PR blitz from President Kennedy Congress Passes the Congress the Capital Relocation Act ( 300-235, and 60-40) relocating the Capital to a new city (Nova Washingtonia) to be located in the area where the Mississippi and Ohio merge comprising of land from Illinois Kentucky and Missouri. The Nation's best architects have been commissioned to Create the city which will be later become known as the 8th wonder of the world. He succeed in winning public support by arguing that the construction of the new city would create tens of thousands of jobs boosting the postwar economy.
June 12th, 1963:
Cleopatra starring Joan Collins and Laurence Harvey, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, makes its hit debut; Also on this day, Governor Nixon is faced with an unfortunate choice, How to provide the energy necessary to power his state. He commissions a field of power experts, although many would balk at the recommendation, they had no choice. It was that or a delayed reconstruction.
June 21st, 1963: Alfredo Ottaviani, one of the most important voices of the conservative block of the Church, strongly anti-communist, was proclaimed Pope. The cardinals, after the devastations of the war, opted for a conservative candidate who attenuated the effects of the Council. He assumed the name Pious XIII.
July 8th, 1963: Robert Creeley, Allen Ginsberg, and Bobby Louise Hawkins launch the "Vancouver Movement" of poets in Vancouver, British Columbia...
July 22nd, 1963:
An Affair for Three (ABC-TV) starring Ginger Rogers as a set of twins, makes its hit debut,...
July 26th, 1963: "Masters of War" single by Bob Dylan makes its hit debut in Freedom Park in Newport, Rhode Island. It is banned by many radio stations for its condemnation of both American and Soviet governments, becoming an instant underground classic...
August 22nd, 1963: Former Communist Party members begin establishing the ultra-nationalist "Svaboda" movement in Moscow, Russia...
September 3rd, 1963: Marvel Comics introduces "The Mutants" in the same-named comic, based on a pitch by Stan Lee, but written by Steve Ditko and drawn by Jack Kirby.
September 15th, 1963: "Mississippi Goddam" single by Nina Simone makes its hit debut in Birmingham, Alabama, protesting the policy of segregation...
October 9th, 1963: Disaster of the Vajont. A landslide caused the overtopping of the dam provoking the deaths of over 2,000 people.
October 10th, 1963: Communist riots scattered all across Italy after the disaster of the Vajont. The police had many problems to restore the order.
October 14th-17th, 1963: the extreme-right Italian militaries staged a coup in the country, with success; the Parliament, the Government and the Quirinal were put under strict surveillance, the costitution suspended, the PCI banned, while the soldiers opened the fire over the rioters: over 2,400 died, while many members of PCI fled to Iugoslavia. The coup was staged by the Fascist Iunio Valerio Borghese, member of one of the most noble families of Rome.
October 18th, 1963: The IOC selects Mexico City as the home of the XVIX Olympiad.
October 22th, 1963: in the anniversary of the Fascist march on Rome, Borghese in a speech transmitted by RAI proclaimed the return to the order and the birth of a new dawn for Italy. Also, the general proclaimed himself as regent of the country. Borghese was a Fascist, but also a noble, and wanted a monarchical restoration.
October 24th, 1963: Borghese forced the DC ( Democrazia Cristiana) and part of the PSI ( Partito Socialista Italiano) to form a new government where also the MSI ( Movimento Sociale Italiano, a new fascist party) was involved. Its leader, Giorgio Almirante, became the new first minister; meanwhile, the actual President of the Republic, Antonio Segni, was deposed; strong of his self-assumed role of regent, and recognized leader of the armed forces, Borghese de facto became temporally the new Italian head of state.
November 1, 1963: The States of Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky all refuse to give up territory for the new possible Federal District
November 3rd, 1963: Ken Babbs forms the Merry Pranksters in Palo Alto, California, to protest the post-war authority....
November 4th, 1963: With an orchestrated move with the Americans (Kennedy recognized the coup and the monarchical restoration, but he requested to Borghese to respect in the end the general lines of democracy in Italy) and the Papacy, in the rememberance day of the Italian victory in WWI the members of the Savoia family returned in Italy: Borghese proclaimed null the transitorial amendament of the Costitution which confirmed their exile. Of common decision, it was chose to candidate as future king the son of Umberto II, Vittorio Emanuele.
November 5, 1963: Sergey Korolyov, being in transit between Kazakhstan and Moscow during the nuclear strikes of World War III survives.
November 6th, 1963: 17 year old Laura Lane Welch is killed in a driving accident.
November 7th, 1963:
It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World starring George Burns, Judy Garland, and Jackie Mason in a dramatic thriller...
November 10th, 1963: Borghese forced the parliament to form a new costitutional election to decide the future asset of Italy. Ironically, the election day will be the 2th of June of the next day. In that day, twelve years ago the Italians chose the Republic.
November 15th, 1963: Rio Riots; Riots erupt in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as post-war austerity measures anger local residents...
November 22, 1963: The 1964 Election Season starts up. Barry Goldwater, rallies support among Republicans opposing Nova Washington and the runaway funding "We should be cleaning and rebuilding our cities, not building leisure projects for the President that got us in World War III"; Also that day, With the evacuation of American troops to help restore order at home, a coup removes Ngo Dinh Diem from power. The North Vietnamese are invited in to restore order.
November 23rd, 1963:
Doctor Who, starring William Hartnell, airs on BBC, becoming a smash hit for its escapist concepts.
November 24th, 1963: Senator Goldwater launches an address critisizing the Communist takeover of South Vietnam, calling Kennedy's diplomacy "failed, as he failed in Cuba."
December 1, 1963: The Library of Congress and Smithsonian release a list of the artifacts lost in the blast. It was not as bad as thought thanks to many of the most important treasures being for restoration in the basement or outside the Beltway. However the Original Constitution was destroyed in the blast. The Declaration of Independence has survived however, thanks to a curator.
December 1st, 1963: The Italian government announced the costitution of an " Ufficio per il Decoro e l'Ordine degli Italiani" ( Office for the Decency and the Order of the Italians, or UDOI) with the task to depure any communist infiltration into the national cultural panorama ( films, books, journals) and to preserve the basic valours of the population: God, the Nation, the Family. De facto, the UDOI was an active censure axe over all straits of the Italian society, reinforced by the fact it obtained full control over the RAI.
December 2, 1963: Kirilinko starts looking for a new Soviet Politburo.
December 26th, 1963: The Beatles become a music sensation with their song "Please Save Me", protesting the British government for indecision. This is most noted for John Lennon coining the term "grunge" to describe the style.
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January 2nd, 1964:
The New Adam play by Bernard Willerval makes its hit debut in Paris, France, proclaiming an "Objectivist" view of the "New Man". Also on this day, citing that it has ruled the land for nearly fifty years, South Africa fully annexes and makes Namibia an official province.
January 12, 1964: Sergey Korolyov and Werner von Braun begin a correspondence.
January 23rd, 1964: The 24th Amendment is ratified by the states, abolishing the poll tax. President Kennedy takes credit for the measure.
January 28th, 1964: The IOC selects Calgary, Canada, to host the X Winter Olympics.
January 29th, 1964: The IX Olympic Winter Games open in Innsbruck, Austria. Ultimately, Canada carried home the most gold.
February 4th, 1964: The UDOI enacted dress restrictions for the Italians, specially for women who couldn't wear pants. The restrictions regarded also the abolition of red dresses.
February 6th, 1964: Borghese reorganized the COMSUBIN (COMando SUBacquei e INcursori, in english Diver and Raider Command) marine division ( born from the ashes of Decima MAS he personally leaded during WWII) in order to be able to operate in all possible contexts, not only on naval operations.
February 11, 1964: Hungary votes, and kicks communism to the curb.
February 18th, 1964: After three months of negotiations, Kirilenko finally formed a new Politburo. It was formed by many liberal elements; the common sensation was Kirilenko had in mind new internal reforms...
February 19th, 1964: President John F. Kennedy calls for NATO intervention in the Balkans, citing the situation in Yugoslavia...
March 25, 1964: Poland votes, and kicks Communism to the curb.
April 1st, 1964: The Politburo announced in order to restart the reconstruction of USSR the proclamation of a new NEP (New Economical Program), de facto starting to abandon the collectivism in favour of private initiative...
April 12th, 1964: Italian car company FIAT, which was the principal industrial power in its country, buy at a good price German company Wolkswagen; in fact, since the devastations of WWIII, the European car industry crashed almost everywhere ( for lack of materials, oil, enpoverishment of the infrastructural networks which favored the diffusion of bikes ) and the main companies had problem to restart...
May 1st, 1964: The representatives of every Warsaw Pact member except Poland, the USSR, and Albania meet in Belgrade, where they pledge to form a new Comintern, free from Soviet influence. The New Comintern will, of course, be lead by Marshall Tito of Yugoslavia.
May 2nd, 1964: After hearing that Yugoslavia will be the new leader of Comintern, general Borghese increased troops in the Venetian area, and to gather most of the Italian fleet on the Adriatic Sea. And despite the previous events, it was decided to start both civil and militar nuclear program in Italy; after the elections, Almirante will go to Washington to request help from Kennedy to start the projects.
May 4th, 1964: Kirilenko said USSR will recognize the indipendence and authonomy of new Comintern, but also confirmed to not be interested to partecipate for now.
May 15 1964: All Government offices, including the White House, Capital and Supreme Court will be located in the Newly proposed Federal Tower, which will be located in the dead center of Nova Washingtonia. The Federal Tower will be the first building in the world to surpass 2,500 feet. It has a completion date scheduled for July 4, 1976. when the Capital will move to the new city.
May 16, 1964: When the plan for Federal Tower is unveiled, the public reacts badly. Gallup shows that 78% of Americans oppose the centralization of all three powers into one structure, especially in the aftermath of the War. Republican Candidate Goldwater makes the public statement, "If elected, I will be President in the White House or the Brick Manor in Philadelphia, not in some Art Deco monstrosity."
May 17, 1964: The Department of Defense expresses, "grave misgivings over the proposed Freedom Tower"
May 18th, 1964: Borghese, fascinated by the project of the Freedom Tower, ordered to plan a construction of a similar building in Rome in the EUR quarter.
May 20th, 1964: IWW members are arrested in Chicago, Illinois, protesting the lack of union and labor protections...
June 2th, 1964: Results for the constitutional referendum in Italy. The electors clearly voted for a restoration of the monarchy under the son of Umberto, now Vittorio Emanuele IV. The Italians searched in the restoration a sign of stability. Also, the votations for the new costitutional assembly said a preponderance towards MSI and the right-wing parties; however the DC and PSI gained still many seats. Borghese still retained full control of the army.
June 7th, 1964: On the 20th anniversary of the D-Day Landings, France, Spain, Portugal, and the Benelux countries leave NATO, citing it obsolete and "A tool for American Imperialism" according the Spanish leader Francisco Franco. In its place, the six countries form the Bordeaux Pact in Frnace's interim capital. Also on this day, ( suggested addiction for Western Europe leaving Nato event) Italy instead decided to remain into the Atlantic alliance. For Borghese, Almirante and their supporters the American aid was necessary both for having protection against Yugoslavia and also for starting the nuclear project. For Kennedy the Italian decision was essential to keep a US presence in the Mediterranean, but part of the american population wasn't so happy to support a country which seemed to have adopted an authoritarian way.
July 1st, 1964: Jack Warner is talked out of shutting down the Warner Brothers Cartoon Division, when it is pointed out Disney and Hanna-Barbera are amongst the only studios turning a noticeable profit in the post-war market.
July 6th, 1964: Almirante reached the USA for an official state visit to bring the greetings of the king Vittorio Emanuele IV, the general Borghese and all of the Italian people to America. In truth, the Italian first minister opened with Kennedy a negotiation to start an Italian nuclear project.
July 8th, 1964 : Kennedy signed with Almirante two treaties: in the first, official, USA agreed to sell materials and knowledge to Italy for start a civil nuclear program; in the second, secret, the Americans will grant aid also to build an Italian nuclear arsenal, and also to sell weapons and other stuff to the Italian army; because USA didn't have the capacity to start a new war in Europe in the next years, it will better to give Italy the capacity to beat Yugoslavia, and the fact the peninsula lacked of democracy in that moment it was irrilevant.
July 9th, 1964 : Mareshal Tito denounced the agreement between Italy and USA, as a praetext to give the Italians the possibilty to get the Nuclear bomb; the Italian government replied that it was interested only in a civil development of nuclear energy.
July 10th, 1964 : In a speech in front of the Congress, Almirante made a violent speech against the Communists with some racists considerations. In the USA the speech contribuited to raise the general tension.
July 18th-23rd, 1964: Harlem Riots; Bill Epton leads demonstrations that erupt in violence in New York City, New York over allegations that African-Americans are not being given jobs in the reconstruction....
July 21st, 1964: IWW leaders protest food rationing in Grand Junction, Michigan, sparking international attention...
July 24th-25th, 1964: Race riots erupt in Rochester, New York as people of color demand greater job opportunities in regards to the reconstruction...
July 28th, 1964: African-American Robert F. Williams establishes Radio Free Dixie, calling for African-Americans to "meet violence with violence..."; Also onthis day, The Italian parliament voted the MSI proposal to establish an Agency for the Development of Nuclear Energy ( Agenzia per lo Sviluppo dell'Energia Atomica in Italian, or ASEA). The DC, under Papal pressures ( Pious XIII feared the Yugoslavian activity, and was convinced that Italy must have a nuclear deterrent), voted for the approval, while the majority of the PSI refused.
August 4th, 1964: The new ROC congress votes for re-unification with the mainland, asking the PRC to help restore order to the island.
August 5th, 1964: Robert F. Williams, Radio Free Dixie, popularizes "Freedom Jazz", playing music by Thelonius Monk and other African-American musicians...
August 7th, 1964: In response to the annexation of Taiwan comes further criticism from Goldwater directed to President Kennedy.
August 16th-17th, 1964: Race riots erupt in the Dixmoor area of Chicago, Illinois, National Guard units clash with African-American demonstrators...
August 28th-30th, 1964: Race riots erupt in the temporary capital in Philadephia, Pennsylvania led by members of the Nationa of Islam...
September 7th, 1964: The People's Liberation Army lands on Taiwan, marking the reunification of China. Chairman Mao Zedong declares September 7th to be "Reunification Day"
September 8th, 1964: Borghese recalled the Italian ambassador in Beijing as protest for the invasion of Taiwan; for almost twenty years the relations between the two countries will be rather cold.
September 11, 1964: Due to heavy Mexican crackdowns in occupied Guatemala, the communist insurgences flee to Honduras. President Mateos of Mexico decides not to follow.
September 14th, 1964: The Union of South Africa and Federation of Rhodesia-Nyasaland break their ties with the Commonwealth and join the Bordeaux Pact. South Africa sends troops to aid the Portuguese against the Angolese.
September 17th, 1964:
Live and Let Die, the first attempt to make a film based on Ian Fleming's famous secret agent (with Peter Anthony in the lead role), flops at the box office.
September 22th, 1964: The Soviet Politburo declared the restoration of pre-revolutionary name of many cities: Leningrad (or what it remained) was renamed Saint Petersburg, Stalingrad now will be known as Caricyn, the capital Sverdlosk returned Yekaterinburg...
October 10th, 1964: The Games of the XVIII Olympiad open in Tokyo, Japan. They are noteworthy as the first games to bar South Africa from competing. The Soviet Union, Germany, and Poland also don't compete, but cite the troubles caused by the war as the reason.
October 11th, 1964: The United States Rowing team is booed and pelted by a Japanese mob in protest of the Soviet attacks on Okinawa and Hiroshima
October 14th, 1964: On the anniversary of the coup in Italy, the government announced the construction of the "Torre del Progresso" (Progress Tower), a 500 meters tall cilindrical building in rationalistic style ( so recalling the old Fascist architecture) which will be used as administrative, cultural and commercial hub. The works will be started in the start of 1965 in the EUR quarter, renewed for the occasion.
October 24th, 1964: The XVIII Olympiad closes with Japan having the most gold, followed by the US and Italy
October 27th, 1964 : A nuclear reactor for military purposes was built in secret in Sardinia; the area was encircled by military forces.
November 3, 1964: Barry Goldwater is elected the 36th President of the United States. In a 486 to 52 electoral count against Kennedy/Johnson. Historians would name his handling of the start of World War III and the lack of rebuilding legislation. The republicans jumped on the slogan, "Rebuilding, not New Cities." It goes down as one of the most lopsided elections in history as the Republicans regained the Presidency, and Congress. The 89th US Congress has 61 Republicans in the Senate, and 252 in the House of Representatives
November 4th, 1964 : At the presence of king Vittorio Emanuele IV, the first minister Almirante and the general Borghese the works for the construction of the first Italian civil nuclear reactor near Piacenza, in Lombardy, started: the Italian government wanted ASEA to focus the production of nuclear energy in the more industrializated north.
December 1st, 1964: The military government in North Korea and the post-Park Chung-hee government in South Korea begin meeting to discuss reunification
December 11, 1964: Czechslovakia votes, and it is the closest vote. They maintain a socialist government but Soviet domination of them is now over. Also on this day, The media first gains wind of Nixon's support for 4 nuclear reactors in California. the incident would be a valuable learning experience for Nixon for dealing with the media. Allegedly Nixon began listening to FDR's fireside chats and reading old press conferences to mimic Roosevelt's handling of the press. In the end the electorate liked lower electric bills and clean skies than the stigma of nuclear power. Although briefly there was recall Nixon campaign, but failed to gain much traction, thanks to California's "Atoms for the Future" campaign which hit upon the futuristic idealism tying nuclear power to the peaceful uses for a terrible weapon
December 26th 1964- Negotiations between Francisco Franco which are fully endorsed by the newly formed Bordeaux Pact and the Argentinian government of Arturo Illian has allowed Juan Peron and his extravagantly beautiful wife Isabel to re-enter Buenas Ares. However conditions do apply as per the request of other more anti-Peronist politicians that the couple be put under house arrest and ensure that all of his political backing are done within the government's framework.
December 27th, 1964: 892 deaths are reported in Western Europe by the WHO/CDC, despite failed efforts of the Bordeaux Pact to purchase heating fuel for the winter...
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January 1st 1965 - Having previously suspended elections, King George announces that Prime Minister Rab Butler has asked for a dissolution of Parliament in preparation for a General Election to be held on February 3rd 1965. Also on this day, The Bordeaux Pact recognizes the State of Katanga. Also on this day, The Koreas officially reunify. Kaesong is selected to be the new capital.
January 6, 1965: Nixon writes: Seventh Crisies. It recorded his political involvement as a congressman, senator and vice president and used six different crises Nixon had experienced throughout his political career to illustrate his political. the Seventh crises is the only one that doesn't occur while holding political office, and recounts the harrowing tale of California during the first few months after World War III, "If only peace were maintained, and a peaceful dialog opened with the Soviet Union, the whole blasted war might have been avoided."
January 20, 1965: President Goldwater is inaugurated, although Nova Washingtona's budget was already secured by the outgoing Congress, he promises, "in 1966, not one dime will go towards it." Congress begins its first session outside of its shelter. COngress Hall in Philadelphia houses the House of Representatives (although it is a tight fit). The Senate uses Independence Hall next door. The President resides at Brick Manor, a historic Philadelphia Manor, with an historic hotel next door being converted to an Executive Office building. Barry Goldwater takes the Oath of Office in front of the Liberty Bell.
January 24th 1965 - Winston Churchill dies aged 90 at his home Chartwell
January 25th, 1965: Malcolm X broadcasts his "'Power in Defense of Freedom Is Greater Than Power in Behalf of Tyranny" speech on Radio Free Dixie, sparking civil unrest throughout the South.
February 3rd 1965 - The Labour Party wins the general election with a majority of 66, mostly due to the death's of many MP's in 1962 and the prorogation of Parliament for nearly two and a half years causing a sense of people wanting power, which was played upon by the Labour Party Leader Barbara Castle (elected after the deaths of Gaitskell, Wilson and Brown in the war) who becomes Britain's first woman Prime Minister. Rab Butler resigns as Leader of the Conservative Party.
February 7th, 1965:
Im Namen des Volkes (In the Name of the People) play by J.V. Martin, makes its hit debut in Amsterdam, Netherlands,condemning American and Soviet actions...
February 16th 1965 - Reginald Maudling is elected Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition.
February 21st, 1965: Malcolm X is assassinated after condemning the Goldwater administration, during a rally in Washington D.C., sparking riots and civil unrest nationwide, ironically his assassin is John Ali, a fellow member of the Nation of Islam...
February 26th, 1965: 2,230 deaths are reported by the WHO/CDC, due to heating fuel shortages across Eastern and Western Europe....
March 1st 1965 - Prime Minister Castle, at the temporary Parliament in Manchester's Council building announces construction of a new Parliament building in York. Former PM Butler who commanded the government from Turnstile, the underground bunker supports the move and Castle's "openness to return to a sense of normality"
March 7th, 1965: Steve Ditko writes his last "The Mutants" comic (#10) for Marvel, before handing Kirby complete control over the franchise and moving over to "Iron Man"
March 8th, 1965: Chicksands Riots; Anti-American protests erupt outside the American military base at Chicksands, England...
April 12, 1965: During the famines of the Soviet Union, many Russians flee towards other countries. Korolyov decides to risk it and boards a train bound for France.
April 19th-20th, 1965: West End Riots; Anti-American riots erupt in the West End of London, England, targetting American tourists and servicemen...
May 12th, 1965: Without no valuable help from Western Europe or USA, the already weak Polish economy crashed, bringing the country into chaos.
May 24, 1965: FIAT received public funds in order to reactivate its military sector (productions of planes, tanks and trucks), closed after the Italian defeat in WWII.
June 5th, 1965: Hearing that General Mobutu plains to coup the government in Leopoldville, several Congolese generals counter-coup him, placing Albert Kalonji in charge. Kalonji recognizes the Katangan and Stanleyville splinter states, ending the Congo Crisis.
June 7th, 1965: Stanleyville is renamed Lubumbashi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
June 11th, 1965: Wholly Communion; 25,000 people led by Adrian Mitchell protest post-war austerity measures in London, England...
June 18th, 1965: In the crescent Polish chaos, the general Jaruzelski with the support of DDR seized control of Krakow, new capital of the country, restauring the proletarian dictatorship all over Poland. The population, disillused from the democratic tentative, didn't oppose resistance.
June 19th, 1965: With the general world surprise, Kirilenko condemned the "violent" restoration of the proletarian dictatorship in Poland...
June 26th, 1965: Jaruzelski signed at Warsaw in recostruction the enter of Poland in the second Comintern, now know also as the new Warsaw Pact.
July 4, 1965: Ground is broken on the Federal Tower, with full blown construction of the tower beginning one week later. 2,000 men are employed on that site alone by year's end.
July 23rd, 1965: Mayor Ralph Locher of Cleveland, Ohio bans rock music within the city limits, blaming the music for the riots....
August 10th, 1965: Ginés Alonso and Jesús Guillen Bertolin bomb Bordeaux Pact offices in Montpellier, Spain...
August 11th-15th, 1965: Watts Massacre; 40 African-American demonstrators are killed in Watts, California after police and National Guard units fire on demonstrators; permanently harming African-American relations with the Republican Party nationwide....
August 14th, 1965: The Beatles perform live at the Matrix in San Francisco. The opening act is by another Grunge band, Blind Thomas.
August 15th, 1965: Clotario Blest, Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (MIR), leads Communist insurrection against the government in Montevideo, Chile...
August 16th 1965 - Was the first official press release on successor of the Pulqui II, the Argentinian FMA I.Ae 37-P single seat fighter.It is said to be the first flying wing to be mass produced. Even though many note it is still technologically behind superpower counterparts it is still noted as a great leap in Argentinian aviation. And with the two major powers at war Argentinian generals are confident there is no readily available counterpart to suite the needs of the nation.
August 21, 1965: The Politburo admitted the possibility of formation of "civic lists" indipendent from PCUS for municipal elections, admitting the formations of new political forces not necessarily communist.
September 25th, 1965: "Path of Destruction" musical single by Barry McGuire is banned, after the FCC deems the song "inappropriate in the face of national tragedy" in Los Angeles, California, the song becomes an underground hit....
September 27th, 1965: Former President John F. Kennedy represents the United States during the opening of the United Nations General Assembly at its temporary headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland....
September 30th, 1965:
Thunderbird Rescue airs on ATV Midlands, featuring the voices of Shane Rimmer and Ray Barret.
September 30th, 1965: President Kusno Sosrodihardjo (a.k.a. Sukarno) is overthrown by Pono (Supono Marsudidjojo), Dipa Nusantara Aidit and Kamaruzaman Sjam in a coup in Jakarta, Indonesia...
October 8th, 1965: Mass arrests of Sukarno supporters are made in Jakarta, as the PKI seizes control of the Presidential Palace; Many American and British officials blame Goldwater for "losing Southeast Asia"...
October 15th, 1965:
Star Trek first airs on NBC, starring Jeffrey Hunter, Leonrad Nimoy, and John Hoyt. NBC had initially rejected the idea, but, seeing the success of Doctor Who, decided "futurist escapism" was the way of the future.
October 21st, 1965: Exxon signs a contract with Turkmenistan to export $8 billion worth of natural gas through a $3 billion pipeline which would go from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan.
November 9th, 1965: Roger Allen La Porte, torches himself outside Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
November 12, 1965: Mexican officials begin wondering what to do with Guatemala. With the guerrillas largely across the border, the reason for occupation is largely over, but the new President, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, is concerned that communist insurgents will simply return once the Mexicans go home.
December 1st, 1965: Defense Department reports that the Caspian Sea contains 2/3 of the world's known oil reserves....
December 7th, 1965: The Second Vatican Council was closed. Few reforms were taken, the conservative line won. Also, Pius XIII reaffirmed the principle of Papal infallibility.
December 9th, 1965:
A Charlie Brown Christmas airs on ABC.
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January 1st, 1966: The new Italian Costitution was proclaimed. It was more restrictive and conservative than the previous, but the essential democratical bases were preserved. Many decisional powers however were assigned to the Royal Crown or to the militaries.
January 15, 1966: The Republicans propose removing all federal funding for Nova Washingtonia. Effectively they leave the Democrats an Either/Or. Either we will let you have your social welfare programs OR Nova Washingtonia. Take your pick.
January 24th, 1966: Senators Wayne Morse (D-OR) and Frank Church (D-ID) call for a greater isolationism for America, citing the need to "get affairs straight at home..."
March 3, 1966: Nicaragua collapses into revolution.
March 11th, 1966: PKI officials led by Pono (Supono Marsudidjojo) proclaim a "New Order" in Jakarta, Indonesia...
March 12th, 1966: Jack Kirby introduced Galactus in
The Fantastic Four, many readers comment on the symbolism of Galactus and his devastation, as symbolic of the World War III. Also on this day, Governor Richard Nixon is applauded as he and his motorcade lead the first cars from San Francisco to Oakland across the new Norton Bay Bridge, three months ahead of schedule. California leads the nation in finish reconstruction. One of the iconic pictures of the day is from a political flyer that has Nixon with a construction hat on, with a paintbrush in hand working on the Golden Gate Bridge.
March 15, 1966: President Goldwater breaks ground in Washington DC on the New White House. Speaker of the House Gerald Ford, and Senate Majority Leader Everett Dirksen break ground on the U.S. Capital.
March 29th - April 8, 1966: XXIII congress of PCUS at Yekaterinburg. With a sense of awareness, the majority of the delegates voted for the evolution of the USSR into a "Confederation of Russia", for the calling of costitutional elections free for all, and the change of the party's name in " Social Democrat Russian Party " (SDRP). The bells called the USSR to death...
April 26th, 1966: The IOC selects Madrid, Spanish State, to host the XX Olympiad in 1972, and Sapporo, Japan, to host the XI Winter Olympics that same year.
May 10th, 1966: Vittorio Emanuele IV married Irene of Greece, younger sister of the King Costantine II. The marriage was the results of negotiation between Italian and Greek government, both of them searched a more strong cooperation against Yugoslavia.
May 12th, 1966: A teenager named "Charles T." dies of an unknown ailment in a Chicago hospital. Though no one is able to tell at the time, this would be the first recorded death in the United States from HIV/AIDS.
May 30th, 1966; 60,000 people protest against American military presence in Tokyo, Japan....
June 12th-14th, 1966: Chicago Riots; Puerto Ricans and African Americans led by Jose Cha-Cha Jimenez riot in Humboldt Park, Chicago, Illinois over the lack of civil rights and jobs for people of color...
June 13th-15th, 1966: Amsterdam Riots; Anti-Bordeaux Pact riots erupt in Amsterdam, Netherlands, sparking international attention and concern...
June 24th, 1966: Uzbekistani officials sign an agreement with Exxon "that could lead to joint development of the central Asian nation's potentially rich natural gas fields." in Houston, Texas, angering many Soviet officials, under the advice of Senator Prescott Bush...
July 1st, 1966: The US Senate passes the Civil Rights Act of 1966, after a lengthy filibuster by Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd. It basically outlaws segregation against all people, regardless of race, creed, gender, or sexual preferance. President Goldwater, who sponsored the Act, praises the Act, saying that "At last, all Americans have the Rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. We the People now means We the People." The Act, needless to say, causes controversy in the South.
July 4th, 1966: Anti-American protesters firebomb the American embassy in Tokyo, Japan, protesting American military presence in the region...
July 8th, 1966: The US government agrees to give $400 million to help Exxon and Uzbekistani nationalists develop natural gas fields in Uzbekistan, in defiance of the Soviet authority...
July 12th, 1966 Edward Fields of Marietta, Georgia wins a motion of "stay of action", from the U.S. Court of Appeals in Atlanta, Georgia, arguing that the law is in violation of the 10th Amendment, effectively blocking the law, citing the law's sections regarding sexual orientation and gender...
July 18th-23rd, 1966: Cleveland Riots; National Guard units brutally crackdown on African-American demonstrators in Cleveland, Ohio,...
September 8th, 1966: Bill Gale publishes "Racial and Our National Identity" in the Los Angeles Times, defending the actions of National Guard, questioning the "supposed loyalty of Negro-Americans"...
September 16th, 1966: FIAT continued its shopping in Europe, this time acquiring French company Renault
September 22nd, 1966: Christopher Gray and Charles Radcliffe launch student riots in Cambridge, England...
October 11th, 1966:
The Daily Telegraph (UK) proclaims the Central Asian oil fields, "One of the great prizes of the Third World War..."
October 23rd, 1966: Former President John F. Kennedy condemns the rise of isolationism during a speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California...
November 5th, 1966: Walk for Love, Peace & Freedom is organized by Allen Ginsberg, & Gary Snyder, Paul Krassner, in Boston, Massachusetts, c.10,000 people participate...
November 7th, 1966: Ironically, in the forty-ninth anniversary of the October revolution, it was proclaimed the birth of the United Confederation of Russia. The USSR now was officially died.
November 8th, 1966: Democrats take back both the House of Representatives and the Senate, amidst voter dissatisfaction over the rise of anti-American sentiment abroad, a failing economy, increased race riots, along with divisions over foreign policy within the Republican Party...
November 24th, 1966: Singer James Brown is arrested in New York City, New York on charges "obscene dances" and "inciting race riots" , sparking national attention...
December 12th, 1966: Indonesian PLA General Basuki Rahma announces "police actions" against West Papua...
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January 1st, 1967: President Goldwater announces over CBS that the Civil Rights Act has officially gone into effect. He comments "The concept of judicial review might be tradition, but it is a tradition lacking any constitutional merit. To paraphrase President Jackson, Mr Harlan has made his decision, now let him enforce it!"
January 10th, 1967:
The Invaders (ABC-TV) starring Roy Thinnes, makes its hit debut, with a conspiracy laden storyline of aliens promoting war and civil unrest to transform the planet....
January 12th, 1967: In a rare sign of bipartisan unity Speaker of the House JCarl Albert (D-OK) and Minority Leader Gerald Ford (R-MI) launch Impeachment Hearings against President Barry Goldwater in the House of Representatives, the first since Andrew Johnson's administration...
January 15th, 1967: The First AFL-NFL World Championship Game, colloquially called "Supergame I", occurs in Los Angeles, with the Buffalo Bills crushing the Green Bay Packers, 42-17.
February 25th, 1967: Anti-American protests erupt in Birkenhead, England over American military presence in Great Britain,...
March 4th, 1967: Haile Seilasse, Emperor of Ethiopia, faced a internal crisis on the brink of the civil war: after considering many options, with bitterness requested the help of the most near and familiar great power: the Kingdom of Italy...
March 10th, 1967: Borghese will agreed to help Seilasse in exchange for a partial revision of the WWII treaties: the restitution of Eritrea...
March 19th, 1967: After refusing in a first time, seeing the deterioration of the Ethiopian crisis, Seilasse accepted the Italian request.
March 21st, 1967: General Lewis Hershey, head of the Selective Service System, is assassinated at Howard University in Atlanta, Georgia...
April 4th, 1967: Italian soldiers, essentially paratroopers from Folgore and marines of COMSUBIN, landed in Ethiopian lands with the placet of Haile Seilasse "in order to save Ethiopia from a Communist coup". Soon, the Italians extended all over the country.
April 6th, 1967: The heir of the Italian crown was born. He received from his grandfathers the name of Umberto Paolo, to simbolyze the union and the renewed concordy between Italy and Greece after the WWII. Also on this day, The Ethiopian dissidents, mostly of Communist ideology, created a revolutionary government against "the new Italian invasion and the traitor Haile Seilasse". However, Folgore already secured Addis Abeba and the COMSUBIN the Eritrean ports...
April 8th, 1967: Gordon Kahl of Medina, North Dakota, an opponent of Nova Washingtonia, launches a tax protest against the IRS, proclaiming that "never to give aid and comfort to the enemies of Christ..."
April 15th, 1967: U.S. Army troops and former personnel launch a march on Fifth Avenue for a "peace parade" in New York City, New York, calling for a reduction in troop deployment...
April 21th, 1967: A group of Greek high officers leaded by Georgios Papadopoulos, in order to halt the growing anarchy in their country, seized the power with the support of Italy. Costantine II accepted to collaborate.
April 22th, 1967: In a fight between COMSUBIN forces and Ethiopian rebels, the leader of the rebellion Menghistu fell.
April 30th, 1967: Attorney General John Grenier and Presidential advisor Prescott Bush resign after refusing to testify before the House of Representatives regarding whether or not President Goldwater was in violation of the Constitution....
May 2nd-3rd, 1967: Black Panther leaders seize control of the State Capitol in Sacramento, California, holding Governor Richard M. Nixon (R-CA) hostage...
May 4, 1967: The California National Guard, is deployed to retake the State House by order of Lieutenant governor Mulready. 3 Black Panther members are captured, two killed in the raid. IN the ensuing Court Case the leaders are convicted of attempted murder, conspiracy, and a host of other charges. The death penalty is invoked. Nixon faced a crisis, he believed that Capital Punishment was a determent against murder, but this could set a precedent in the future, and he did not want to his state go down the road that led to lynch mobs and the KKK. Nixon stunned the nation by commuting their sentences to Life in Prison at San Quentin
May 5th, 1967: In the anniversary of the fall of Addis Abeba in the second Italo-Abyssinian war, Borghese announced the pacification of Ethiopia and the retirement of the Folgore and COMSUBIN
June 5th, 1967: Reies López Tijerina, Alianza Federal de Mercedes, leads the armed takeover of the state capitol in Albuquerque, New Mexico, demanding rights for Chicano/Latinos nationwide...
June 6th, 1967: Treaty of Addis Abeba. Seilasse announced the cession of Eritrea under Italian government " in order to assure peace in the African Horn." Rome reassured the control of Eritrea will be temporary until the population will not be ready to manage full indipendence.
June 13th, 1967: Supreme Court overturns the Civil Rights Act of 1966; The Justices led by Chief Justice John M. Harlan II, point that the law is "too broad in its scope, overriding the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment..."
June 22th, 1967: Formation of a "Eritrean government" in Asmara: it was composed in the key roles by Italian military. It was clear Italy wanted to restabilish a colonial rule over Ethiopia, in fact many soldiers of COMSUBIN received lands and important roles in the region.
July 1st, 1967: George Habash establishes the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Ramallah, calling for the establishment of a Palestinian state...
July 19th, 1967: President Barry Goldwater declares a national "state of emergency" in Philadelphia, during a televised address...
July 23rd, 1967: "War" single by Edwin Starr, makes its hit debut in Detroit, Michigan protesting the war policies of the Goldwater administration...
August 3, 1967: Mexican influenced Jazz and Rock begins to become popular in the Border States, particularly in Texas.
August 5th, 1967: Bill Gale launches protests against the federal government in Los Angeles, California....
August 11th, 1967:
The New York Post releases a story revealing that Strom Thurmond had a daughter with a black maid when he was 22. Thurmond, after some reluctance, admits this and announces he will not stand for re-election in 1972.
August 13th, 1967:
Bonnie & Clyde starring Steve McQueen and Jane Fonda, makes its hit debut, many cities ban the film, fearing that it will encourage violence....
August 29th-September 1st, 1967: Black Panther Party members led by H. Rap Brown, launch patrols through Washington D.C.
September 3rd, 1967: Muhammad bin Laden narrowly survives a plane crash in Hamis Musayt, Saudi Arabia...
September 11, 1967: Mexico consolidates its control over Guatemala, citing that it wants to create a "buffer state" between it and the communist extremists.
September 14th, 1967: Civil rights workers Al and Margaret McSurely, Carl and Anne Braden and Joe Mulloy are brutally murdered in Lexington, Kentucky,...
October 1st, 1967: The Eritrean opposition against the second Italian colonization in their region started to organize, but into two divided branch: the Eritrean Liberation Front (communist) and Eritrean Islamic Jihad Movement (integralist). The division in the fight against the Italians pushed both the organizations, with very scarce manpower, to use the most economical warfare: the terroristical attack...
October 5th, 1967: The British government enacted protectionistic measures for its car industry (de facto starting its statalization), preventing FIAT to buy something also in their country. However, FIAT at that point was the main European car producer.
October 16th, 1967: Former President John F. Kennedy speaks in Houston, Texas, condemning Republican attempts at isolationism....
October 17th, 1967: Bloody Tuesday; Black Panther leader H. Rap Brown is killed by police after leading a rally in Oakland, California...
October 20th, 1967: Attorney General Robert Bork resigns amidst massive disagreements over the defense of President Barry Goldwater's administration, ...
October 23, 1967: In exchange for protection for the communist insurgency in Central America, President Goldwater quietly negotiates a permanent handover of the Panama Canal to the United States.
November 4th, 1967: Ralph Abernathy leads non-violent demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama calling for a greater role for African-Americans in "achieving a small portion of the American Dream.."
December 2, 1967: Mexican "advisors" begin aiding the pro-Capitalist Hondurans fight the communist insurgency in their country.
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January 10, 1968: During a press conference, President Goldwater says, "I will not seek a second term as President of the United States"; Also on this day, Fort Jackson Mutiny; Fred Gardner leads a mutiny of troops in Fort Jackson, South Carolina...
January 14th, 1968: Supergame II opens in Miami, with most of the funds dedicated to repairing damage from WWIII. The LA Rams defeat the Houston Oilers, 28-20.
January 19th, 1968: Reverend Ralph Abernathy speaks at the site of Nova Washingtonia, voicing his concern that,"Let this not be an attempt by one government to erase the contributions nor the wrongs committed by past generations..."
January 22nd, 1968: Anti-American protests erupt in Sasebo and Tokyo, Japan, as local residents protest American naval presence in the region...
February 6th, 1968: The X Olympic Winter Games open in Calgary. Norway, France, and Italy would carry home the most gold.
February 8th, 1968: Orangeburg Massacre; State militia fires on African-Americans in Orangeburg, South Carolina, killing 9 people, injuring 30 people...
March 4th, 1968: FBI offcials through the COINTELPRO program, begins a crackdown on the radio broadcasts of Robert F. Williams as a "threat to national security..."
March 19, 1968: Governor Nixon is sent by President Goldwater to talk to Mao Zedong of China. Goldwater expected the result to slime his rival in the Republican party, making Nixon seem soft of communism, but was more surprised when Nixon brought along the press. For about two weeks American newspapers were distracted following "Nixon goes to China" and commend the opening of U.S.-China relations. Nixon would go onto to be
Time's man of the Year. Foreign expert Henry Kissinger would say famously on a news program "Only a man like Nixon could go to China."
April 5th 1968- After rumors of Che Guevera's involvement in the Mexican and subsequent Guatemalan uprising. A surprise coordinated strike being Central American Communist forces and those of the Colombian FARC-EP penetrate Panama. The attack was done with such coordination and precision that many western outlets suspect ex-Soviet training and Chinese arms sent through Peru were behind it. What is well known is that Che Guevera through his pirate radio broadcasts whipped most of the people there into a ferocity not seen since Mao's takeover of China.
April 6th, 1968: Black Panther Party leaders Bobby Hutton and Eldridge Cleaver are brutally gunned down by police in Oakland, California
April 12, 1968: The Mexican-influence rock song "Serenity" by Los Banditos reaches #6 in the Top Forty
April 14th, 1968: City officials in El Paso, Texas ban music by Bob Dylan fearing "inappropriate messages", sparking national attention...
April 17th, 1968: Republicans led by Senator Alexander Wiley (R-WI) condemn Goldwater's foreign policy as "dangerous and reckless", during a speech in Washington D.C.,...
May 2, 1968: Mexico begins funneling arms to the government of Honduras to help fight the communists.
May 10th 1968- An armistice has fallen effectively splitting the canal zone between the US backed government and those of the newly formed La Panamá Pueblos Protectorado (The Panamania Peoples' Protectorate) beyond the Isthmus of Panama.
May 12th, 1968: Ralph Abernathy leads a massive demonstration against the Goldwater Administration, forming the "Resurrection City" neighborhood in Washington D.C.; Also on this day, COMSUBIN agents sent a report of Rome about the possible insurgence and organization of hostile Eritrean movements against the Italians and suggesting an immediate intervention, but it wasn't taken too seriously...
May 19th, 1968: "The Revolution Will Be Televised" single by Gil Scott-Heron makes its hit debut in New York City, New York, introducing the world to "rap music"....
June 1, 1968: Pilot Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong join the Dyna-Soar Air Force Project, to create a sub-orbital strategic bomber.
June 5th, 1968: Sirhan Bishara Sirhan launches al-Fatah attack against American tourists in Jerusalem, Israel, demanding Palestinian independence...
June 12th, 1968:
Rosemary's Baby starring Faye Dunaway and Burt Reynolds, makes its hit debut,...
June 23rd, 1968: Presidential advisor Prescott Bush discusses the importance of oil reserves in the Caspian Sea Basin, during a meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
July 11th, 1968: "Fallen Soldier" single by the Doors is released, immediately it is banned in many cities for its "disrespectful nature towards the military"....
July 29th, 1968: After considerable debate, the Democrats finally nominate their ticket in Chicago. With most of the big names (The Kennedys, Johnson, Humphrey) refusing to run, and Wallace and McCarthey already declaring third-party runs, the party bosses nominate the unispiring George McGovern for president. Governor Dan Moore of North Carolina is named running mate in an attempt to shore up Southern support.
August 5th, 1968:
Star Trek concludes after three moderately succesful seasons, ending early due to conflict between Rodenberry and Hunter.
August 5th-8th, 1968: New Orleans Riots; Riots erupt in New Orleans, Louisiana outside the Republican National Convention; National Guard units are deployed in an effort to deal with demonstrators; Challenges are made for the nomination by Nelson Rockefeller, James A. Rhodes, and George Romney...
August 7th, 1968: The Arizona delegation to the RNC finally agrees to back Rockefeller, after 2 days of voting for Goldwater in protest. Also on this day, "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud" single by James Brown makes its hit debut in Los Angeles, California; it becomes a major hit, banned by many radio stations, for its "Black Power" message...
August 8, 1968: The RNC nominates Nelson Rockefeller for President, and General William Westmoreland for Vice President. In one of the great moments of the 1968 election, Rockefeller takes the unusual step of inviting the protest leaders to talk with him personally about their grievances. Also on this day, George Walker Bush, son of Rockefeller's campaign manager, meets intern Hillary Rodham at the RNC. The two find they have a lot in common and start dating.
August 9th, 1968: The American Union Party is formed under Jim Rhodes in Columbus Ohio; James Rhodes leads his followers out of the convention, declaring "I'd rather let a weakling like McGovern run the country than an adulterer like Rockefeller." Rhodes announces the formation of his own presidential run. With the Democrats split into thirds,and the Republicans split in half, the nation looks toward the most divisive election in 108 years.
August 10th, 1968: Al-Fatah and PFLP guerillas begin training in Izmir, Turkey....
August 11th, 1968: Deutsch-Soziale Union (DSU) members led by Otto Strasser launch attacks against Russian refugees in Hoyerswerda, Rostock, and Berlin...
August 22nd, 1968: Indonesian PLA reports the "liberation" of Papua New Guinea, sparking international outrage...
September 11, 1968: Mexico sends in a small number of troops to keep the Honduran government propped up. Over the course of the expedition, the Mexicans are moderately successful.
September 13th, 1968: Anti-American protests erupt in Sicily, over proposed deployment of American forces into the region..
October 1st, 1968:
Night of the Living Dead directed by George Romero, makes its hit debut, many people comment on the socio-political symbolism of World War III....
October 12th, 1968: The Games of the XIX Olympiad open in Mexico City. Once again, the Soviet Union, Germany, and Poland decline to compete, while the RSA is disbarred from competing.
October 26th, 1968: Anti-Communist Croatians call upon the Italian government to support Croatian independence from Yugoslavia...
October 27th, 1968: The XIX Olympiad closes, with the US, Japan, and Hungary holding the most gold
November 1st-5th, 1968: Free the Army (FTA) rallies organized by Carl Rogers, are held across the country, calling for a reduction in deployment of troops across the country...
November 4th, 1968: Premier Andrei Kirilenko warns of the rise of neo-fascism within Germany, calling for "immediate action"...
November 7th, 1968: The Italian government agreed to supply the Croate insurgents: members of COMSUBIN entered in disguise into Yugoslavia to offer their help as military advisors...
November 8th, 1968: The people vote for the president of the United States. No man gets more than twenty-eight percent of the popular vote, and no man gets a majority of the electoral votes. It comes down to Rockefeller in first, followed by McGovern, then Rhodes, then Wallace, and finally McCarthy in last
December 11, 1968: President Ordaz of Mexico meets with the Congress of the Union to establish a plan to fight the communists. The Ordaz Plan gets passed by the end of the year. Some major points:
1) Closer relationships with Los Estados Unidos to help keep communism out of the Americas.
2) A major upgrading of the Mexican military and its equipment. So far Mexico has been making due with surplus WWII-era American weaponry.
3) Investment in public works and other social projects to display the "benefits of capitalism" (ironically ignoring Mexico's socialist tendencies).
4) A large industrialization campaign based on that the model of Los Estados Unidos.
December 13th, 1968: Costantine II tried to organize a countercoup at Kavala in the North of Greece, but failed and fled to Rome with his family. Here, he requested the Italian help to retrieve the throne.
December 14th, 1968: Borghese sent an advice towards Greece, requesting the "restoration of the King". Papadoupoulos replied the Greek monarchy wasn't abolished, but Costantine II betrayed the country. At the end of the day, Italy and Greece agreed to search a diplomatic solution...
December 18th, 1968: Anti-American protests erupt in Kyushu, Japan over the proposed deployment of American naval forces into the region....
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January 3rd, 1969: The Senate meets to vote on the Vice President. Dominated by the Democrats, the position easily passes to Moore, who also becomes acting president.
January 5th, 1969: The House meets to vote on the president. Though dominated by the Democrats, the party is split by Wallace and McCarthy supporters who don't want to see McGovern in the New White House. The vote reaches an impasse.
January 11th, 1969: Papadoupolous reached Rome to talk with the Italian authorities: he had a proposal to suggest...
January 12th, 1969: Supergame III, the first to officially hold that name, opens in Miami. The New York Jets go on to obliterate the Cleveland Browns, 33-0.
January 13th, 1969: In a Worldvision transmission, Borghese and Papadoupolous announced that the Greek government will offer the crown of Greece to Umberto Paolo of Savoia-Glucksburg. Greece and Italy will be continue to be indipendent and separate countries but one day they will have an only ruler; until that moment, Papadoupolous will be the regent of the infant king. Meanwhile, the Italian and the Greeks will cooperated as a only people to defend themselves from the communist menace and to be a bastion to all of free Europe.With a Western Europe not friendly with them, the USA as their supporter but still unable to defend them from a Communist attack, Italy and Greece chose to strenght more their ties... towards an union of their crowns. Enraged for that announcement, Costantine II leave Italy for Great Britain.
January 21st, 1969: Barry Goldwater arrives in Arizona, where he is cheered as a favored son coming home. He announces to the crowd that he is done with politics. "I tried to make America a better place for all of us. I tried, but the MIC wouldn't let me. I see now what Ike warned us against when he left."
February 2nd, 1969: Wallace and Rhodes each reach an agreement with Rockefeller:
-Rockefeller will not run for a second term in 1972, instead he will endorse Rhodes's bid for the presidency that year
-Rockefeller will appoint Strom Thurmond (a Wallace supporter) and Donald Rumsfeld (Rhodes's campaign manager) to cabinet positions
-Rockefeller will respect States' Rights with regard to Civil Rights
-Rockefeller will adopt a Conservative stance with regards to Domestic issues like abortion
February 5th, 1969: The House reaches a majority decision, and votes Nelson Rockefeller to be 37th President of the United States.
February 6th, 1969:
Turn-On (ABC-TV) starring Tim Conway, Teresa Graves, and Chuck McCann, makes its hit debut,...
February 17th, 1969: Rockefeller unveils his cabinet:
-Vice President Daniel K Moore
-Secretary of State Strom Thurmond
-Secretary of Treasury David Kennedy
-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
-Attorney General George Romney
-Postmaster General William Blount
-Secretary of the Interior John Volpe
March 1st, 1969: Student riots at Rome, in the quarter of Villa Giulia, to protest against the military and to request more democracy. The policy charged, causing 47 deaths and over 1,200 arrests.
March 2nd, 1969: Zhenbao Island Incident; Chinese soldiers fire on American and Russian troops , along the Chinese border, near Damansky Island...
March 4, 1969: As per the Ordaz Plan, Mexico begins funding the build up of infrastructure in Guatemala. Thousands of Guatemalans find jobs in the new construction boom. Also on this day, Under internal and foreign pressures, Borghese agreed to release the arrested students.
March 15th, 1969: Chinese government officials claim Danasky Island as "Zhenbao Island", in defiance of American and Russian political concerns...
April 19th, 1969: Following Oakland's continued inability to support them, the Oakland Raiders move to Philadelphia, where they are renamed the Philadelphia Bells
May 3rd 1969 - The Government of Barbara Castle is re-elected as the new Parliament nears completion in Windsor, which after an urban renewal and expansion program is being intended as the central base of the Monarchy and Government. Also on this day, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko announce the "SPQR" storyline within the Marvel Comics titles, putting into question the nature of superheroes...
May 10th, 1969: The Italian government, in order to show a more reformist facade, enacted a law with the abolition of the death penalty for all crimes except for that of high treason (which could means all and nothing...).
May 22nd, 1969: Israeli Prime Minister Ben Guiron is assassinated by PFLP guerillas in Jerusalem, sparking a "state of emergency"...
May 25th, 1969:
Midnight Cowboy starring Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman, makes its hit debut telling the story of a man who prostitutes himself to live in radiation-free California.
June 17th, 1969: Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) guerillas bomb shopping center in Rome, Italy killing 12 people demanding Italy leave the region...
June 22th, 1969: Wave of arrests in Asmara and Massaua taken from COMSUBIN agents against suspected affiliates of the ELF.
June 26, 1969: The Congress of the Union approves of an addition to the Ordaz Plan: a complete overhaul of the secondary education system. President Ordaz cites that he wishes for "Mexico to have a higher education system with the same prestige of that of the Americans."
July 13th, 1969: Robert DePugh is killed in Santa Fe, New Mexico after launching a series of brazen armed robberies aimed at the "Zionist Overlord Government(ZOG)"...
July 15th, 1969: Ralph Abernathy calls for the shutdown of NASA in Washington D.C., calling the funding of space travel, while the reconstruction of America is still taking place is an "inhumane priority"...
July 31, 1969: A Department of Transportation study, shows that California following reconstruction is #2 in the country for best transportation infrastructure
September 1st, 1969: King Idris of Lybia was deposed by a Nasserian coup of state. Mu'ammar al Gheddafi leaded the provisorial government.
September 3rd, 1969: The Italian government offered political asylum to king Idris and condemned the coup. More secretely, Borghese planned a military intervention on Lybia to prevent Gheddafi to nationalize the oil; also, there is the fear the Italian residents could be in danger.
September 9th, 1969: American Consul General Murray Jackson, is killed in Asmara, Ethiopia, by Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) guerillas...
September 13th, 1969: Islamic Eritrean Liberation Front takes credit for the bombing of an Ethiopian Airlines flight killing 69 people in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia...
September 16th, 1969: Former President John F. Kennedy is injured and Jacqueline B. Kennedy is killed while attending a conference in Muenster, Germany; world leaders voice their sympathy...
September 20th, 1969: Former First Lady Jacqueline B. Kennedy is buried in Arlington, Virginia, at the request of the Kennedy family....
September 28th, 1969: President Nelson Rockefeller tells the Chicago Tribune that he did not pay "one shiny dime" of federal taxes in 1964, sparking controversy in Washintgon D.C.,...
October 15th, 1969: Nuclear Moratorium Rallies; organized by Ron Kovic and Max Inglett, call for a comprehensive ban on nuclear weapons...
October 16th, 1969: Russian ultra-nationalists begin backing Islamic fundamentalists with weapons and training, according to CIA reports...
October 18th, 1969: After reading the CIA report, Goldwater gave the green light to Italy.
October 21st, 1969: Singer Paul McCartney of the Beatles dies of cancer in Liverpool, England, sparking international attention...
October 28th, 1969: After a refused ultimatum to restore king Idris on the Lybian throne, The Italians launched a massive air bombardment towards militar targets in Lybia.
October 29th, 1969: The Warsaw block condemned the Italian aggression to Lybia; but also Great Britain protested for the action, fearing that in case of Italian victory the British oil companies will be lose ground in the area.
November 2nd, 1969: The Italian army made amphibious and airborne assaults in Tripoli and Benghazi. The Lybians fought bravely house by house but the Italians, supplied from the Americans, were superior in forces and power.
November 5, 1969: Queen Anne II calls to order the new session of Parliament in the newly rebuilt Houses of Parliament on the Thames. The flag flies over the New Buckingham Palace
November 8th, 1969: Tripoli was considered "pacificated"; however, Gheddafi and its supporters fled in the desertic region of Fezzan, starting a guerrilla across all of Lybia.
November 12th, 1969: King Idris returned in Tripoli, ufficially restoring the monarchy; in truth, now was a puppet in Italian hand.
November 15th 1969 - In the first King's Speech by King George VIII, the new Houses of Parliament is officially opened. Also on this day, Nuclear Moratorium Rally is held in the National Mall in Washington D.C., 750,000 people attend the rally...
November 20th, 1969: King Idris reorganized the oil assets in Lybia, giving de facto to Italy the monopoly of the resource; also USA obtained part of the cake. The British pratically were extromised from Lybia, with the excuse they supported Gheddafi, so enraging London.
November 21st, 1969: Speaker of the House Carl Albert (D-OK) leads a shutdown of the federal government, in defiance of the proposed budget of President Nelson Rockefeller...
December 1st, 1969:
Playboy publishes an article citing that Korean businessman Tongsun Park had offered bribes to several key Democratic leaders to support military action in Korea, to replace the current government and "protect" Korea from Chinese expansion. Amongst those listed is Speaker Carl Albert.
December 4th, 1969: After over a month of war, most of Lybia was in Italian control; however Gheddafi, supplied by the Russians and the Warsaw pact, organized the guerrilla in the near countries ( Chad and Algeria) causing troubles in the region...
December 5th, 1969: PFLP and al-Fatah takes credit for the bombing of a American airliner at Heathrow Airport in London, England, killing 138 people...
December 12th, 1969: Islamic Eritrean Liberation Front takes credit for the bombing of an Italian airliner, killing 144 people in Madrid, Spain...
December 13th, 1969: The Italian government after the Madrid terroristical attack opted for the hard line, proclaming with an emergence parliamentary session the state of siege in Etritrea, sending other 20,000 soldiers. Both EFL and IEJM were declared enemies of the state, while to any Ethiopian who decided to help smashing the terrorists will received the Italian citizenship.
December 15th, 1969: Nuclear Moratorium Rally is led by Sgt. Al Hubbard in Washington D.C., calling for a comprehensive ban on nuclear weapons..
December 17th, 1969: In the wake of "KoreaCourt" Speaker Carl Albert announces he is stepping down from the position of Speaker, and will not run for re-election. Hale Boggs (D-LA) becomes the new Speaker.
December 21st, 1969: President Nelson Rockefeller calls the members of the White House Press Corps as "Merry Marauders" in Washington D.C.; Also on this day, PFLP guerillas hijack a TWA plane in Athens, Greece, killing 2 passengers for "aiding Israeli imperialism..."
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January 1st, 1970: Movement to Restore Democracy (MRD), backed by Christian fundamentalists calls for a ban on rock music and rhythm & blues, blaming the music for the "near destruction of society..."
January 11th, 1970: Supergame IV opens in New Orleans. The Minnesota Vikings defeat the Philadelphia Bells with an OT field goal, 24-21; Also on this day, Eritrean Islamic Jihad Movement launches a series of attacks against Italians in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia...
February 17th, 1970: PFLP guerillas fire on a El Al boarding gate in Munich, Germany, killing 8 people in the process...
February 26th, 1970: African-American Robert F. Williams, head of Radio Free Dixie is arrested by FBI agents in Atlanta, Georgia...
March 1st, 1970: Eritrean Islamic Jihad Movement guerillas bomb Air Italia 707 in Rome, Italy, killing 133 people....
March 4th, 1970: In the effort to stop the Ethiopian terroristical attacks of Italian planes, the Italian government enacted the "Sky security law": all the civil airports will be placed under military authority, detectors were placed everywhere, and every Italian plane will have on board in disguise a soldier (generally taken from COMSUBIN); meanwhile, it was also enacted the most repressive law since the Fascist dictature: the denial to all the Ethiopians to leave with any means their country until the surrender of both ELF and IEJM.
March 23rd, 1970: Former President John F. Kennedy writes for reconciliation measures to be made with Russia, citing the rise of extremism...
March 28th, 1970: Members of "The Angry Brigade" bomb Waterloo Station in London, England killing 14 people, sparking concern of a crackdown...
April 12th, 1970: Italian-translated Marvel "SPQR" comic recieved a good success in Italy, opening the road to the diffusion of other comics of the company in Italy, and to reflex in Greece and Lybia. However, the principal comics sold in the country were "Topolino" ( Mickey Mouse) and the catholic "Giornalino", of San Paolo company. San Paolo realized also the weekly journal "Famiglia Cristiana", which was not so hiddenly the principal voice of opposition against the wave of authoritianism exerced by Borghese. Also Topolino ( which was under supervision of Mondadori and not of Disney, onwer only of the author rights) somewhat in its stories made some criticism against the military, but Borghese decided to not use the axe of censure ( also, the Italian Disneyian school was very apreciated outside of the country, and a censure could be antiproducent...).
May 4th, 1970: “I Feel Like I’m Fixin’ To Die Rag.” single by Country Joe McDonald is banned on most radio stations, with its anti-nuclear war message, becoming an underground hit...
May 8th, 1970: In the Lybian desert, the Italians scientists of ASEA managed to explode a Plutonium enriched ( from the military nuclear complex in Sardinia) A-Bomb. The power of the explosion was a little inferior than of Hiroshima.
May 10th, 1970: The members of Warsaw pact entered into panic when they know Italy got the atomic bomb. Many people tried to flee from these countries fearing the Italians and the Greeks were ready to invade Yugoslavia with their nuclear deterrent, the cities started to depopulate and local riots scattered everywhere. Also on this day, PFLP guerillas kill 2 U.S. soldiers in Amman, Jordan, sparking tensions in the region,...
May 12th, 1970: Borghese made a public statement saying that Italy will used the nuclear bomb only if attacked and only as retaliation in case of enemy nuclear bombardment; also, he declared the Italians weren't interested to attack the Communist block, sure it will fall from the internal. In truth, Borghese was interested to launch an attack in Yugoslavia, but the Americans denied their approval.
May 16th, 1970: In the Warsaw Pact countries, the situation gradually returned to normality; however, the various government started to build anti-atomical refuges almost everywhere.
May 22th, 1970: The Italian government founded the "Agenzia Spaziale Italiana" (ASI), in order to relaunch the space race. In truth, it will be a demise to camouflage to start a rocket program, as requested by the military.
June 2nd, 1970: Rockfeller was very cold about the Italian request to receive aid for the rocket program: in many ambients of American estabilishment developed the doubt in the Mediterrean they gave birth to a monster...
June 6th, 1970: Communist guerillas attack the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines, detonating a car bomb, killing 6 people....
June 9th, 1970: King Hussein is assassinated by PFLP and al-Fatah guerillas in Amman, Jordan, sparking civil unrest and violence nationwide...
June 20th, 1970: Russian authorities impose the Anti-Extremism Act, in an effort to prevent the rise of neo-fascism in Sverdlodsk, Russia; Also on this day, In a surprising upset long time activist and political upstart Dardo Cabo won the Presidency. Many feel his ballot was ensured with Juan Peron's newfound appreciation for him following his Spanish exile. It is also the year rumors surface of the secretive FMA I.Ae 48 two seater inceptor that is said to reach speeds of Mach 2.
June 26th, 1970: IRA takes responsibility for the bombing of a British military barrack in Creggan, Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 3 people...
June 27th, 1970: Former President John F. Kennedy visited Italian and Vatican City leaders; he was received with the highest regards, as he was still the president in rule. Pious XIII announced that Jackeline B. Kennedy was worth to be recognized as a blessed, so de facto starting her canonization process.
June 27th-June 28th, 1970: Battle of St. Matthews; Ulster Defense Association and IRA forces clash in Clonard, Northern Ireland, sparking calls for martial law...
July 11th, 1970: Russian ultranationalists led by Eduard Limonov launch anti-American riots in Saratov, Russia, killing "Jewish agents"; Also on this day, Dr. Wadi Elias Hadad, survives a rocket attack in Beirut, Lebanon, blaming the Israelis, the Italians and the United States for the attack on him...
July 30th, 1970: Gordon Carr, Minister of Labor, is assassinated by members of "the Angry Brigade" with a pipe bomb in London, England..
August 18th, 1970: President Nelson Rockefeller publicly clashes with Governor Richard M. Nixon during a GOP function in Sacramento, California...
August 21st, 1970: Russian activist Aleksandr Prokhanov launches an aultra-nationalist rally condemning American-imposed austerity measures, in Moscow, Russia...
August 30th, 1970: Sir John Waldron, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police is killed by "the Angry Brigade" in London, England...
September 4th-6th, 1970: Belfast Blackout; Riots erupt in Belfast, Northern Ireland after Michael Kane bombs the local electrical transformer....
September 5th, 1970: Staff Sergeant Ervin Graham, U.S. Army is killed in Amman, Jordan, PFLP guerillas claim credit for the killing...
September 7th, 1970: Former President John F. Kennedy announces the formation of a foundation in Boston, Massachusetts to study and help environmental cleanup around the globe....
September 8th, 1970: Eritrean Islamic Jihad Movement bomb the international air terminal in Athens, Greece, killing 5 people in the process...
September 16th, 1970: The Greek military junta applied a protection of Greek airports similar to the Italian Sky Security Act.
October 2nd, 1970: Italian translated "Star Trek", with the opportune omissis from UDOI, was aired by RAI. It received a great success (considering the Italian televisive panorama was somewhat monotone because of the censure), pushing many, even in the highest spheres of command, to dream about the possibility of Italian expansion in space throught the ASI. Also on this day, PFLP and al-Fatah attack a U.S. commissary in Imir, Turkey, killing 4 people....
October 14th, 1970: Pat Buchanan proclaims the rise of "New Americanism" (isolationism), during a rally along the National Mall in Washington D.C.,
October 23, 1970: With the retooling of the Mexican army in effect, the communist guerrillas are pushed into Nicaragua. Guatemala is largely quiet and prosperous under a socialist/capitalist Mexican-backed regime, and Mexico is slowly consolidating its control of Honduras. El Salvador is largely spared the fate of the communist uprisings.
November 2nd, 1970: Jack introduces the character "Darkseid of Apokolips" in
Fantastic Four, as a being who is trying to force humanity into a war...
November 4th, 1970: The first Italian carrier, the Aquila, nuclear propelled, with its lenght of 290 meters, entered in function.
November 11th, 1970:
Tarantula by Bob Dylan is published, expressing disappointment in the country; Also on this day Guy Debord, René Riesel and René Viénet launch a student campaign against the Bordeaux Pact in Paris, France....
December 24th, 1970: PFLP and al-Fatah guerillas take credit for the gate for the USAF base in Ankara, Turkey, killing 3 people,...
December 29th, 1970: Student anarchist Christian Sébastiani is arrested in Paris, France, after calling for the collapse of the Bordeaux Pact...
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January 12th, 1971: Eritrean Islamic Jihad Movement launch attacks on Italian troops in Asmara and Massawa...
January 15th, 1971: Borghese gave the authorization to COMSUBIN to conclude once and for all the Eritrean question with any means.
January 16th, 1971: Republican leaders attempt to call upon former President John F. Kennedy to testify to allegations of "misused government spending" regarding Nova Washingtonia...
January 17th, 1971: Supergame V returns to Miami. The Dallas Cowboys defeat the Pittsburg Steelers with a 33-28 score.
January 23rd, 1971: al-Fatah and PFLP take credit for a bomb exploding outside the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey..
February 10th, 1971: Croatian insurgents launch an attack on Yugoslavian forces in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia....
February 14th, 1971: COMSUBIN military advisors convinced the Croatian insurgents to call off any open attack and to press for more unconventional warfare
February 20th, 1971: al-Fatah takes credit for the bombing of an American housing complex in Ankara, Turkey....
February 21st, 1971:
No Apologies by Aleksandr Prokhanov condemns Soviet leaders of weakness, and the need to "negotiate from a position of strength", becoming a major bestseller amongst Russians...
March 28th, 1971: Imari Abubakari Obadele (Richard Henry) seizes control of the state capitol in Jackson, Mississippi, proclaiming the "Republic of New Africa" (RNA)...
April 4th, 1971: ASI stipulated a contract with the Keniote government to estabilish a rocket-launch site in their territory, near Malindi. After all, the Italians decided to partecipate to the space race. Kenya, for its position, was a suitable choice to estabilish a rocket base; also, the Keniote government will received subsides from Italy. And Malindi, in the next years will become one of the most important turistical hubs for the Italians.
April 8th, 1971: Croatian nationalists murder the Yugoslavian ambassador in Stockholm, Sweden, calling for support from the Bordeaux Pact...
April 10th, 1971: In order to secure the ASI shipments to Kenya, COMSUBIN officials received full control of the Eritrean territory.
April 11th, 1971: COMSUBIN launched air strikes against both bases of EFL and IEJM, while land troopers terrorized the civil population with flamethrowers...
April 18th, 1971: Soldiers of both EFL and IEJM tried to fled through the Ethiopian borders, but the Italians forced Seilasse to react with force. The Ethiopian forces arrested or kill almost everyone tried to cross the border.
April 23rd, 1971: National Guard members launch a protest against the Rockefeller administration with "Operation Dewey Canyon" in Washington D.C.,...
April 24th- May 5th, 1971: Anacostia Falls Disaster; Former Army members led by Lieutenant John Kerry are driven out of "Resurrection City" by National Guard members in Anacostia Falls, Maryland, after demanding benefits for families of military personnel...
April 26, 1971: Nicaragua begins working with Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras to finish off the communists. Mexican boots are landed near Managua to help suppress the worst of the insurgents
May 1st, 1971: With its brutal repression, COMSUBIN declared the pacification of Eritrea. In effect, both EFL and IEJM were on pieces...
May 10th, 1971: Even with some hesitation, the Italian government declared the end of the state of siege in Eritrea and lifted up the denial for Eritreans to leave their country...
May 16th, 1971: Pentagon officials report "military implications" for Caspian Sea oil pipelines, sparking outrage amongst Soviet officials...
June 1st, 1971: Bill Gale of Los Angeles, California calls for the formation of "Christian Posses" across the country to defend against "all enemies to the Constitutional Republic, foreign and domestic..."
June 2, 1971: Mexico reaches a deal with the United States to allow more Mexicas to attend college in the latter country.
June 21st, 1971: New York City Mayor John Lindsay (D-NY) warns that it is in danger of bankruptcy due to the failure of municpal bonds created by Governor, now President Rockefeller...
July 1st, 1971: Indonesian PLA forces announce the capture of West Papua guerilla leaders Seth Jafeth Roemkorem and Jacob Hendrik Prai...
August 7, 1971: At the request of Mexico, Costa Rica secures its border with Nicaragua and sends agents to help qualm the communist guerrillas.
August 9th, 1971: British military officials announce a policy of mass internment in an effort to deal with the rise of IRA terrorism in Northern Ireland...
August 11th, 1971: 4 British soldiers are killed after IRA bomb a military transport in Andersontown, Belfast, Northern Ireland...
August 15th, 1971:
The Phil Silvers Show (CBS-TV) starring Phil Silvers and Patricia Barry makes its hit debut,...
August 21st, 1971: Black Panther Party leader George Jackson is gunned down in Oakland, California during a rally outside City Hall...
August 24, 1971: Mexico continues to peacefully "Mexicanize" Guatemala
August 29th, 1971: IRA guerillas take credit for the bombing of Edinburgh Castle, in Edinburgh, England...
September 9th, 1971:
Guide for Volunteer Christian Posses by Bill Gale is published, becoming a national bestseller, especially in the Midwest and Bible Belt...
September 11, 1971-December 31, 1972: The communists begin fighting tooth and nail against the Mexican led coalition of Central American states. Mexico's massive military overhaul gives the "capitalists" the edge. Thousands of both sides die as a result of the extremely bloody conflict.
September 13th, 1971: A bomb explodes on a train bridge in China, killing Mao Zedong.
September 14th, 1971: The People's Liberation Army, under the command of Lin Liguo, declares Liguo's father Lin Biao Chairman of the CCP - and thus, de facto leader of China. Zhou Enlai throws his support behind Lin, securing the post-Mao government.
September 21st, 1971: Three of the Gang of Four - Yao Wenyuan, Jiang "Madam Mao" Qing, and Wang Hongwen - are arrested for "anti-revolutionary activities" (i.e., the Lins were threatened by them). Zhang Chunqiao, the fourth member, had helped secure the Lins' power and was thusly spared.
October 9th-11th, 1971: New American Movement is launched in Chicago, Illinois, proclaiming the need for "new radicalism"....
October 25th, 1971: Third World Front Against Imperialism leads rallies in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and San Diego. Also on this day, United Nations General Assembly votes to accept the People's Republic of China into the United Nations, sparking accusations of betrayal by conservatives...
October 27th, 1971: Radical Emmett Grogan and model Tuesday Weld become the "celebrity couple" in New York City, New York...
November 10th, 1971: Two Catholic girls are killed "execution style" by IRA members, with signs painted "Traitors" in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, after reports that the two girls were dating British soldiers...
November 23rd, 1971: The People's Republic of China is seated at the United Nations Security Council in New York City, New York; Pat Buchanan leads a rally calling for the United States to leave the United Nations...
December 8th, 1971: Premier Andrei Kirilenko wins re-election, amidst claims of rigged elections supported by the CIA and MI6; Also on this day, During a speech in Dallas, Texas, before the CEOs of several oil companies, President Nelson Rockefeller says US oil companies are likely to invest $200 billion in Kazakhstan alone in the next five to 10 years....
December 15th, 1971: Opposition leader Zaid Rifai is assassinated in Amman, Jordan over his opposition to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism....
December 18th, 1971: 12 British troops are killed in Magherafelt, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland; IRA takes credit for the bombing...
December 22nd, 1971:
Dirty Harry starring Clint Eastwood, makes its hit debut, many critics claim that it symbolizes the mentality of the Rockefeller-era....
December 31st, 1971: Belfast Bombing; British military barracks in Belfast, Northern Ireland are fireboombed, killing 11 people, IRA takes credit...
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January 1st, 1972: After 30 years of waiting, the EUR finally hosted the International Exposition. In that same day, the Progress Tower was unofficially inaugurated ( even if de facto was still under completation).
January 18th, 1972:
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer is published in Sydney, Australia sparking the modern feminist movement....
January 26th, 1972: President Nelson Rockefeller suffers a heart attack after sleeping with 18-year old Megan Marshack in Washington D.C., launching a massive scandal; Also on this day, Croatian Ustashi nationalists take credit for the bombing of a Yugoslavian Airlines DC-9, killing 28 people in Stockholm, Sweden; Also on this day, IRA bombs British military barracks in Castlewellan, County Down, Northern Ireland, killing 15 people...
January 27th, 1972: Croatian nationalists bomb a train in Vienna, Austria bound for Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 6 people....
January 29th, 1972: COMSUBIN warned the Ustashi Italy will retire its support if they continued to strike in not properly Yugoslavian targets, such as the bombing in Vienna. Civil and neutral casualities must be avoided.
February 5th, 1972: IRA bombs a British troop barge in Lough Neagh, Northern Ireland, luckily no troops are killed....
February 18th, 1972: Megan Marshack is revealed to be a White House intern, deepening the scandal against President Rockefeller....
February 19th, 1972: PFLP guerillas take Alia Caravelle DC-9 hostage, demanding the release of "Jordanian revolutionaries" in Cairo, Egypt...
February 21st, 1972: Catholic seminary student Philip Berrigan sets himself on fire in front of the White House in Washington D.C.; Also on this day, White House Press Secretary Shirley Temple informs the associated press that President Rockefeller had passed away at 5:04 AM, EST. VP Moore is sworn in at evening. Moore announces he will not run for the presidency in November. Also on this day, 3 British soldiers are killed when a bomb explodes in Belfast, IRA takes responsibility for the bomb...
March 9th, 1972: 2 people killed and 100 people injured after a bomb detonates in Clonard, Belfast, Northern Ireland;...
March 10th-12th, 1972: National Black Political Assembly (NBPA) issues the Black Declaration and the Black Bill of Rights in Gary, Indiana..
March 14th, 1972: Ultranationalist Oleg Malyshkin leads a rally in Leningrad, claiming to have evidence of "American and British electoral fraud..."
March 15th, 1972:
Saturday Evening Post publishes plans for the "The Great Tax Strike", in a 72-page article, calling for tax protests nationwide...
March 24th, 1972: British government officials announce the imposition of martial law over Northern Ireland in Belfast, sparking civil unrest and violence...
March 25th, 1972: Springfield Road Massacre; 2 IRA units ambush Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) members, killing 16 people in Belfast, Ireland...
March 29th, 1972: Croatian Ustashi guerillas bomb Yugotours office in Stockholm, Sweden, demanding national independence....
April 1st, 1972: French anarchist Guy Debord is assassinated by police officials in Paris, France, sparking civil unrest and violence...
April 7th, 1972: IRA members bomb British troops encampments in Greencastle, Belfast, Ireland, killing 4 people...
May 22nd, 1972: Anti-American riots erupt in Moscow, Russia upon the visit of the American President...
May 26th, 1972:
Ringolevio: A Life Played For Keeps play written by Emmett Grogan makes its hit Broadway debut in New York City, New York...
May 28th, 1972: IRA members bomb Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) in Short Strand, Belfast, Ireland....
May 30th, 1972: Afghan, Pakistani and Turkmen leaders sign an agreement with American and British oil pipelines for the construction of an oil pipeline...
June 10th, 1972:
The Big Bluff by Marvin Cooley, calls for the formation of "tax strikes", pointing to the Nova Washingtonia project as a sign of "government tyranny"...
June 15, 1972: Despite pressure from the RNC, popular Governor of California Richard Nixon refuses to resign as governor to seek the republican nomination. Disgusted with the politics of both parties on the national level, leads him to say "You won't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore." he begins making plans for a 1976 Presidential Run. Also on this day, Croatian Ustashi guerillas bomb the Yugoslavian Embassy in Berlin, Germany, killing 4 people..
June 22nd, 1972: "The United States Christian Posse Association" (USCPA) is formed in Mariposa, California, with representatives from all 50 states; Also on this day, Tito decided it was enough and launched a massive repression on Croatia; with the intervention of COMSUBIN many Ustashi fled in Italy to reorganize.
July 1st, 1972: Palestinian nationalist Dr. Azmi Awad is killed by a car bomb in Beirut, Lebanon; Marwan Dajani, an al-Fatah leader, and Abu al-Hassan, PFLP, Shafiq al-Hout (head of PFLP in Beirut), are killed in similar attacks in Beirut, Lebanon...
July 10th, 1972: In contrast to 1968, the DNC is relatively mild. The party nominates Senator Edmund Muskie for president and Wilbur Mills for vice president.
July 16th, 1972: The Ustashi organized a Croatian government in exile immediately recognized by Italy and Greece ( rest of NATO and Bordeaux Pact ignored it).
July 18th, 1972: Moro guerillas take credit for the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Manila, Philippines with 15 pounds of explosives....
August 7th, 1972: Without Rockefeller's hoped-for endorsement, Rhodes loses out early on in the RNC. The surprising announcement from Nixon that he wouldn't run - saying "My time has passed. You won't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore." - leaves the nomination open for George Romney. John Ashbrook is named running mate as a nod to Rhodes's faction.
August 15th, 1972: General William Westmoreland announces that U.S. troops in Central Asia maybe involved in Central Asia for "the long haul", angering many Soviet officials...
August 27th, 1972: U.S. troops are deployed to Uzbekistan in an effort to secure the oil fields in the region,...
September 9th, 1972: Air France Boeing 747 is bombed in Paris, France, killing 354 people, in one of the most violent terrorist attacks up to this point...
September 17th, 1972: Dr. Atef Harkous, Hussein Harkous, and Adnan Harkous bomb Venezuelan Airlines DC-8, killing 42 people over Beirut, Lebanon...
September 19th, 1972: Al-Fatah takes credit for the bombing of the Israeli embassy in Paris, France, killing 3 people....
September 20th, 1972: al-Fatah takes credit for the bombing of the Israeli embassy in Brussels, Belgium...
September 21st, 1972: al-Fatah takes credit for the bombing of a post office in Jerusalem, Israel, killing 10 people....
October 1, 1972: The United Kingdom's makes its last colony is Africa a country.
October 12th, 1972:
Fall of America by Allen Ginsberg is published, expressing the anger of the post-war generation....
November 1, 1972: Wanting to exploit the war wariness of the Mexican people, Communist insurgents detonate explosives in Mexico City, Mexico, killing 2,563 people and injurying 5,000 more. All they succeed in doing is rallying the people behind the anti-Communist war effort. The Mexican government issues a statement that it will not rest until "Communism is off this continent."
November 3rd, 1972: PFLP guerillas open fire with AK-47s in a drive-by shooting on the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan...
November 5, 1972: Following the passage of the Election Act, November 5 is declared an American holiday named Election Day. Ed Muskie is elected President of the United States
November 9th 1972 - Barbara Castle resigns as British Prime Minister and is succeeded by the Home Secretary Peter Shore
November 25th, 1972:
The Los Angeles Times reports on the presence of a new drug called "Slam" (OTL's crack cocaine) currently travelling through the barrios...
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January 5, 1973: Richard Nixon pens a Foreign Affairs piece, "Pandora's Box: Nuclear Weapons" that shows that even if every nuclear weapon on the planet is dismantled, notes destroyed, there is nothing that could stop it from being invented again. "What we can do, is limit the amount of weapons there are. Like it or not Nuclear Weapons are now a part of every major power's arsenal, what we can do is stem the tide of expansion, we don't need a world where World War IV can happen because of a communications glitch"
January 21st, 1973: "Cheap Imitation" single by John Cage, makes its hit debut in New York City, New York...
January 22nd, 1973:
Roe v. Wade legalizes abortion nationwide, leaving it up to the states to regulate. Both the radical left and radical right use the moment as a rallying point...
February 2, 1973: Mexican industrialization continues to hum along nicely.
February 20th, 1973: Lesbian couple Barbara Grier and Donna McBride are lynched by Christian Posse Association members in Kansas City, Missouri...
February 27th, 1973: Oglala Sioux call for formal secession from the United States in Pine Ridge, South Dakota....
March 3rd, 1973: PFLP takes credit for the bombing outside the U.S. Embassy in Casablanca, Morocco..
March 4th, 1973: The Progress Tower was completed. It was the highest building in the world.
March 5th, 1973: al-Fatah takes credit for a Molotov cocktail being launched at the U.S. Embassy in Casablanca, Morocco...
March 6th, 1973: PFLP and al-Fatah takes credit for the bombing of Idlewild International Airport in New York City, New York killing 7 people...
March 8th, 1973: International Women's Day Riots; Riots erupt in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago, as feminist leaders demand political reforms...
March 15th, 1973: PFLP and al-Fatah guerillas attack the Israeli embassy with a car bomb in Paris, France, killing 5 people....
March 23rd, 1973: Michael Klonsky, Don H. Wright, Mike Hamlin, and Irwin Silber lead a "New America" constitutional convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, calling the federal government "corrupt beyond repair..."
April 1st, 1973: Jordanian Prime Minister Ziyad Al Hilu is assassinated in Amman, Jordan, many suspect Israeli Mossad...
April 30th, 1973: PFLP and al-Fatah take credit for a car bomb exploding outside the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon killing 4 people...
June 17th, 1973: PFLP takes credit for the bombing of the El Al terminal in Rome, Italy killing 4 people...
July 19th, 1973: PFLP and al-Fatah take credit for an attack wherein gunmen with AK-47s fired on an El Al terminal in Athens, Greece, killing 12 people...
August 5th, 1973: PFLP and al-Fatah guerillas take credit for a rocket attack against an El Al airliner in Rome, Italy, killing 71 people...
August 28th, 1973: IRA terrorists take credit for the bombing of the British Embassy in Paris, France, killling 6 people....
September 7th, 1973:
Star Trek: The Animated Series, produced by Filmation, airs on NBC. Noted for its adherance to the canon of the live-action series and its use of the live action cast as voice actors (save Jeffrey Hunter, who had died in 1969 - his character of Captain Pike was written has having been promoted to a new station, while Nimoy's character of Spock was promoted to Captain) the series rapibly becomes popular.
September 11, 1973: Bob Dylan publishes his newest work
Friday. The song goes platinum across the world. Also on this day, "Manifesto" single by Victor Jara, makes its hit debut in Los Angeles, California, protesting American foreign policy in Latin America...
October 13th, 1973: Thai dictator Field Marshal Thanom Kittikachorn is overthrown in a bloody military coup in Bangkok, Thailand...
October 26th, 1973: Islamic fundamentalists take credit for a pipe bomb that explodes outside the Turkish embassy in New York City, New York...
November 5, 1973: Nixon, in his final year as governor begins to push through legislation, despite the Democrat controlled State Senate. It goes down as one of the most productive terms of office in California's history. The press begins to affectionately call him, "Tricky Dick" for his skill at getting things done politically
November 10th, 1973: Christian Posse Association (CPA) members burn copies of
Slaughterhouse-5 in Drake, North Dakota, claiming it is a "work of the devil"...
November 22nd, 1973: Ceasefire between Protestants and Catholics collapses in Northern Ireland. Ian Paisley calls for a military crackdown...
November 29th, 1973:
The Los Angeles Times reports that "Slam" has increased in popularity due to its inexpensive nature, becoming a problem for policie officials throughout California...
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January 1st, 1974: National Rifle Association calls upon members for the "immediate organization of literally hundreds of citizen posses from coast-to-coast..."
January 31st, 1974: PFLP and Japanese Red Army guerillas bomb the Shell Oil Refinery in Singapore, killing 22 people...
February 6th, 1974:
O.M.A.C. (One-Man Army Corps)#1 (Marvel Comics) written by Jack Kirby makes its hit debut, as a cybernetic soldier for the United Nations...
March 3rd, 1974: PFLP takes credit for the bombing of British Airways VC-10, killing 112 people over Beirut, Lebanon...
March 14th-17th, 1974: Battle of Little Rock; Black Panther and Christian Posse members clash in a firefight in Little Rock, Arkansas...
March 23rd, 1974: Eritrean Islamic Jihad Movement led by Sheikh Khalil Muhammad Amer takes credit for a massive attack on Italian forces in Asmara, killing 43 people....
March 24th, 1974: Former President John F. Kennedy calls for renewed relations between the United States and the Bordeaux Pact, during a speech in Brussels, Belgium,....
March 26th, 1974: Eritrean Islamic Jihad bombs the Tennoco oil refinery outside of Asmara, killing 27 people in the process...
April 8th, 1974: Eritrean Islamic Jihad takes credit for a rocket attack on an Italian radio tracking station in Asmara, killing 3 people...
April 10th, 1974: After the new wave of terrorist attacks in Eritrea, the COMSUBIN command in the region was put under accusation from other sections of the army, specially from the land forces. Almirante took in consideration the possibility to relieve the marines division from the control of Eritrea.
April 11th, 1974: Borghese confirmed COMSUBIN in the control of Eritrea but he requested results the more early possible. The officers of the division, which counted over 30,000 effectives (most of the half in Eritrea) and interests all over the kingdom, in Ethiopia, in Lybia and even in Greece, had already a plan but requested the use of the Aquila. The Navy protested but Borghese granted the request.
May 5th 1974 - The Labour Party loses a General Election and fails to win a third term. The Conservatives led by William Whitelaw win with a majority of 29. Prime Minister Whitelaw faces a troubled economy and fractious unions
May 6th-8th, 1974: Operation "Sferzata Rapace" ( Raptor Lash). Using the Aquila relocated in the Gulf of Aden, air forces of COMSUBIN launched for three days raids over the EIJM bases in Somalia; also the Ethiopians were "convinced" to partecipate the operation with a support role. Also Mogadishu was bombarded, while the Somali government received a warning message from Rome: "Oggi siamo tornati ad Asmara, domani se e quando lo vorremo torneremo a Mogadiscio!" ( Today we returned in Asmara, tomorrow if and when we want we will return in Mogadishu!).
May 29th, 1974: British officials declare a "state of emergency" exists in Northern Ireland, after fighting erupts between IRA and UDF militia forces throughout the region...
June 9th, 1974: Former President John F. Kennedy sparks controversy by calling upon American leaders to support women's rights during a speech in Hamburg, Germany; Also on this day, " Black June". Somali forces expelled with violence from their country the renmants of the EIJM. Because was now surrounded by Italian-friendly countries ( Ethiopia, Kenya), EIJM tried to restart its fight from the Middle East...
June 12, 1974: A wave of Nixonian Republicans, trying to be elected campaign on providing benefits for veterans
June 14th, 1974: Second Bonus March led by Max Inglett and Alfred Cabbrezzi is launched in Los Angeles, California, to bring attention to veterans affairs...
June 23rd, 1974: PFLP and al-Fatah take credit for the bombing of the French embassy in Paris, France....
July 3rd, 1974: National Guard members fire into a crowd of protesters, consisting mainly of veterans groups, led by Danny Friedman in Washington D.C., killing 8 people in the process...
July 4th, 1974: Angela Davis and Ralph Abernathy are beaten after leading a demonstration against segregation in Raleigh, North Carolina...
July 15th, 1974: The Greeks, with the support of the Italians, staged a coup d'etat in Cyprus. Also on this day, U.S. Justice Department reports a massive disparity in terms of sentencing between whites and African-Americans over the use of "Slam", sparking debate in the U.S. Senate...
July 17th, 1974: The bulk of Italian fleet started to gather in the Aegean sea; also some divisions started to be relocated in Greek territory.
July 20th, 1974: The Turks decided to invade the northern part of Cyprus, as a response to the Greek coup.
July 21st, 1974: The Greek military junta requested the Turks to evacuate Cyprus, or to face the consequences. The army started to mobilize. Also on this day, Chilean ambassador Alfredo Canales Marquis and his wife are assassinated in Beirut, Lebanon by members of al-Fatah....
July 22nd, 1974: George W. Bush and Hillary Rodham marry in Wake, Texas. Also on this day, Borghese declared to support the Greek claim of Cyprus and sent a 48 hour ultimatum to Turkey to retreat its occupation forces.
July 25th, 1974: As Turkey rejected the ultimatum, Italy declared war on Turkey, starting an air bombardment over Ankara. Meanwhile, the Italian airborne division "Folgore" landed to Cyprus, to help the Greek soldiers to repel away the enemy.
July 26th, 1974: The Italian fleet blocked the Dardanelles strait and started to bombard the Turkish strongholds.
July 28th, 1974: The Turk army crossed the Evros River and moved in direction of Salonika; The Greeks seemed unable to manage a defence.
August 1st, 1974: Part of the Italian fleet sunk in the Cyprus waters, thanks also to the superior airforces, most of the Turkish ships, and starting a blockade of the island.
August 2nd, 1974: al-Fatah takes credit for the bombing of the Pan Am Airlines office in Beirut, Lebanon,...
August 4th, 1974: Through sea and air landings, about 18 Italian divisions gathered around Salonika.
August 9, 1974: Former Governor Nixon gets involved heavily in the mid term elections. Many democratic seats began to fear hearing Nixon's private plane had landed in their district. In that year Nixon endorsed about 35 congressmen, including upsetting a few Republican Primaries. A common thread of "New Federalism" and "International Intervention" wove its way through these new "Nixonian Republicans". Also on this day Governor Rhodes is convicted to ordering the break-in of Nixon's HQ at the Watergate Hotel. The press speculates that this "Watergate break-in" gave Nixon even more political clout and ended Rhodes political career.
August 11th, 1974: The joint Italo-Greek stopped the Turk advance and started to recover terrain.
August 13th, 1974: The Turk occupation army on Cyprus was encircled in the coastal town of Girne; the evacution efforts were very difficult because of the naval blockade of the island.
August 15th, 1974: The Turks recrossed the Evros; the government sued for peace recognizing the Greek control of Cyprus, but the Italo-Greek joint high command refused: this was a golden chance to take Istanbul.
August 22th, 1974: The Italo-Greeks crossed in many points the Evros, marching into Turkish Thrace.
August 28th, 1974: Gallipoli was taken. The Dardanelles strait was now open for the Italian fleet.
August 29th, 1974: A squadron of Italian bombers destroyed the recently inaugurated Bosphorus bridge, cutting the main connection between Thrace and the mainland.
August 30th, 1974: Group of Greeks resident in Istanbul staged a revolt in many parts of the city.
September 2nd, 1974: The siege of Istanbul started.
September 5th, 1974: The Folgore parachutists landed near Hagia Sophia and "freed" the complex in name of "Umberto Paolo, King of Greece and future ruler of Italy". In the same day, both Italian and Greek authorities said that Istanbul from that moment to now recovered its rightful name of Costantinople.
September 12th, 1974: Costantinople was declared completely liberated (even if some sacks of Turkish resisted still). Celebrations spreaded in Italy and Greece, specially into Athens; At Rome, Pious XIII ( legend said he cried of joy at the news) congratulated with "the valiant soldiers who finally freed Europe from Islam" while all the bells of the Eternal City sounded together. Also on this day, Thomas Stockheimer, Christian Posse Association (CPA) launches a series of "citizen grand jury indictments" against state and federal government officials in Metaline Falls, Washington...
September 13, 1974: Mexico commissions its first aircraft carrier, the Ordaz.
September 14th, 1974: The Patriarch of Costantinople Dimitrios I reconsacrated the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia. The minarets were destroyed, any islamic symbol removed; the Italians offered their knowledge to restore the ancient mosaics.
September 16th, 1974: Considering too dangerous the invasion of Turkey (because the possibility of a Yugoslave intervention started to be very realistic), the Italo-Greeks offered a truce to their enemy, which accepted (also because the Italians menaced to nuke Ankara if they refused).
October 10th, 1974: Peace of Costantinople. The Turks recognized Cyprus, the island of Imbros, all of Thrace and the "city of men's desire" to Greece. Of common agreement, the passage of the straits will be grant only to civilian ships, in an attempt to demilitarize the Black Sea. Italy, as reward, obtained the military suzeraneity over Rhodes and the Dodecanese, so allowing the return of the Italians in the archipelago after WWII. Also, Italian military garrisons started to spread along the Northern Greek border, in order to prepare against a future Yugoslave attack...
October 19th-20th, 1974: 30,000 people from 15 states gather for the New American Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin...
October 27th, 1974: Juan Norwin Meneses Cantarero begins trafficking "Slam" through Los Angeles, California for Mexican cartels, with the support of the U.S. government...
November 1st, 1974: President Edward Muskie speaks on the dangers of "Slam", during a speech in Saint Louis, Missouri, warning of the dangers to the African-American community...
November 13th, 1974: George Habash, PFLP Director calls for international support for a Palestinian Revolution, during a speech before the United Nations in New York City, New York....
November 22nd, 1974: United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution #3236 stating its support for the PFLP, angering American and Israeli delegations in New York City, New York.....
November 27th, 1974: Seeing a Turk decline after the defeat in the Cyprus war, the Kurdistan's Freedom Party (more known as PFK) was officially instituited and started a guerrilla war, with soon terroristical attacks, against the oppressors of its people.
December 1st, 1974: In the wake of the Italian and Greek invasion of Turkey, and US and UK issue boycotts over the dismemberment of a NATO ally.
December 6th, 1974: A Turkish integralistic organization, the "Sons of Istanbul", was secretely constituited. Its objective was to free the city on the Bosphorus from the new crusaders, by any means.
December 13th, 1974: CPA members clash with federal agents in a gun battle in Abbotsford, Wisconsin.
December 25th, 1974: PFLP takes credit for the bombing of Air India Boeing 747, killing 155 people in Beirut, Lebanon....
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January 1st, 1975: Italy and Greece leave NATO. They, along with Libya, join the Bordeaux Pact.
January 5th, 1975: Don Wright and Carol Kinney are arrested in Saint Louis, Missouri for distribution of "Slam", sparking national attention...
January 10th-12th, 1975: Armed student activists led by Abdul Alkalimat seize control of Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee...
February 8th-9th, 1975: 10,000 people attend New American Convention in Seattle, Washington led by Mike Beach...
February 12th, 1975: Dessie Woods of Atlanta, Georgia is sentenced to the death penalty after killing a white man who raped her...
March 1st-2nd, 1975: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN) launches an insurrection in San Juan, Puerto Rico, demanding independence...
March 5th, 1975: King Faisal is assassinated by members of his own family in a palace coup in Ryadh, Saudi Arabia...
March 22nd, 1975: A secret pact was signed between French and Italian diplomats at Toulon: the Italians will help France to retrieve Algeria in exchange for Rome to control Tunisia if the occasion required.
April 1st, 1975: The French president Alain Poher declared the treaty of Evian null for the continued volence on the Pied-Noirs, de facto declaring war on Algeria. "This time, Algeria will be ours and forever." Italy and Greece followed France as well, forcing all the rest of Bordeaux Pact as well to intervene.
April 5th, 1975: General Chiang Kai-shek is executed as a "war criminal" in Beijing, China, sparking tensions between the United States and China...
April 10th, 1975: In a lavish, worldwide ceremony in Hagia Sophia Cathedral, the 8-year-old Umberto Paolo of Savoia-Glucksburg was officially crowned as King of Greece. Delegates from the Bordeaux Pact partecipated to the event. USA sent a delegation while UK refused. USSR didn't partecipate but sent its greetings, while the Yugoslavian propaganda talked it was an indecent masquerade. Also on this day, The first French soldiers landed on the outskirts of Oran, well protected by Italo-French aviation. The air and naval superiority of the Bordeaux Pact was obvious, and the French well determined.
April 12th, 1975: At the presence of the two Kings Vittorio Emanuele IV and Umberto Paolo I, the ambitious reconstruction of the Blachernae palace, old relic of the Byzantine past, started. The rebuilded complex will be the future seat of the Greek court
April 14th, 1975: French and Italian marines landed in the port of Algiers, starting the invasion of the capital. However the Algerians fought house by house
April 17th, 1975: Vice-President Cyrus Vance (D-WV) is killed by CPA extremists in Little Rock, Arkansas, sparking civil unrest and violence nationwide...
April 21st, 1975: An Italian destroyer was sunked by a vagant mine near the Tunisian sea waters. It was an incident but it was also true the ship was very close.
April 24th, 1975: Using the mine incident as casus belli, with the fact the Tunisian government sent weapons to the Algerians despite the embargo posted by Bordeaux Pact and a COMSUBIN report revealed, Italy declared war on Tunisia. Italian and Lybian forces crossed the Tunisian border.
April 26th, 1975: AFL-CIO leaders launch a massive strike in Washington D.C., demanding jobs and employment...
May 2nd, 1975: Italian and Greek forces landed outside Tunisi started a siege.
May 4, 1975: With the last of the communist cells "officially" quashed, Mexico finds itself with virtual control over Central America with troops, friendly governments and populations, and a sphere of influence spanning from Guatemala (now a de facto Mexican state) to Nicaragua. The Mexican government begins debating what exactly to do.
May 10th, 1975: Algiers fell. Over the 75% of the city was destroyed or damaged.
May 11th, 1975:
Justice Inc. (Marvel Comics) written by Joe Kubert and Dennis O'Neill, reintroduces "the Avenger" back into mainstream comics,...
May 13th, 1975: Also Tunis surrended.
May 16th, 1975: After two succesful seasons,
Star Trek: The Animated Series concludes.
May 20th, 1975: Islamic fundamentalists kidnap U.S. Army officers Colonel Paul R. Shaffer, Jr. and Lieutentant Colonel John H. Turner in Tehran, Iran....
May 22th, 1975: At the University of Athens, the psicanalist and philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis officialy revised its theory on the socio-historical ontology after the liberation of Costantinople (He was born in the city in 1922, but its family fled in Greece a year later): after all, a second Roman Empire could still born...
May 29th, 1975: FBI agents battle against CPA members in El Paso, Texas; New American leaders accuse the federal government of "jackboot tactics"...
June 1st 1975 - Whitelaw announces plans to crackdown on the unions, he goes head to head with TUC Head Jack Jones who threatens universal action.
June 4th, 1975: After the lesson of Castoriadis, a group of students and teachers of the University of Athens formed a group of work to study about the future developments of Greece after the liberation of Costantinople...
June 8th, 1975: Civil rights activist Wilbur “Popeye” Jackson is assassinated in San Francisco, California...
July 5th, 1975: Chinese leaders demand that the President Edwin Muskie establish a time table for the removal of American troops from Central Asia...
July 8th, 1975: The Tunisian government surrended.
July 14th, 1975: On Bastille day, Alain Poher declared the total control of Algeria and the surrender of Algerian government ( but in truth, specially in the Saharian sector, existed still sacks of resistance). All of France rejoiced, while the government already start to let return the Pied-Noirs in Algeria.
July 15th, 1975: Labor union leaders launch a strike against General Electric in Lynne, Massachusetts...
July 26th, 1976: Leonard Peltier, American Indian Movement (AIM) launches an armed insurrection against the U.S. government in Pine Ridge, South Dakota...
August 5th 1975 - A settlement is reached in which the unions agree to freeze strike action in return for a non lay off policy.
August 7th-10th, 1975: New American Convention is held in Oberlin, Ohio, sparking national attention....
August 20th, 1975:
The Naked Anarchist by Lluis Fernandez becomes a major bestseller, protesting the human rights abuses of the Bordeaux Pact...
August 22th, 1975: Peace of Bordeaux. France declared again Algeria as metropolitan part of France, while Italy estabilished a puppet government like the Eritrean example, with COMSUBIN deeply involved
August 27th, 1975: Hailé Seilassié died. His son Ahma (Asfaw Wossen) took the throne with the doubtful placet of the Italians; in 1960 a group of insurgents tried to depose his father in his favour. COMSUBUIN looked with suspect to the new monarch's moves...
September 16th-18th, 1975: Russian ultranationalists led by Oleg Malyshkin, Andrei Lugovoy and Aleksandr Prokhanov hold the convention of the Svaboda Party in Leningrad, Russia...
October 4th, 1975: PFLP hijacks Lufthansa Airlines flight in Madrid, Spain diverting the flight to Beirut, Lebanon, killing 17 hostages,....
October 7th, 1975: Lin Biao dies of natural causes.
October 17th, 1975: After a ten day power struggle between Lin Ligou and Hua Guofeng, Lin come out on top with the support of Deng Xiaoping. Lin becomes the new Chairman, while Deng becomes Premier.
December 21st, 1975: Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal"), backed by PFLP and al-Fatah, takes credit for the killing of 18 OPEC representatives in Vienna, Austria....
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January 25th, 1976: PFLP guerillas fire on El Al Airline jetliner at Embaski International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya with SAM-7 heat-seeking rockets, killing 169 people...
January 30th-February 1st, 1976: 22,000 people attend the New American Convention in Chicago, Illinois, calling for massive social reforms...
March 1st, 1976: Former President John F. Kennedy delivers a speech condemning the administration of "bringing the world to the brink unnecessarily...", during a speech in Washington D.C.,...
March 2nd, 1976: Russian troops launch "police actions" into Armenia, despite American diplomatic concerns....
March 4th, 1976: Italian and Greek authorities announced they will formed a unique team for the upcoming Olympiad, and there were plans to merge their National Football squads for the next World Footbal Championships. The Comintern nations protested to the International Olympic Organization requesting at least the mixed team didn't open the march of the opening ceremony ( Greece had the right to march for first).
March 10th, 1976: The University of Athens printed the essay "Megali Idea: an impossible dream in the 20th Century?", results of the discussions of the group of work. The plot focused on the fact the liberation of Costantinople and Cyprus was the turning point of the entire Greek history, but the rightful Greece wasn't still reunited yet: it remained to liberate the Turkish ( they called often Turkey as "Anatolia") coastine, with the cities of Smirne, Nicea, Trapzon, and the historical sites of Troy, Pergamon, Ephesos... The essay gave an important role to the Italians, "brothers linked by a common empire", and bet on the future fall of Turkey. Soon, the essay obtained a great success in all of Greece.
March 27th-28th, 1976: New American Movement leaders gather in New York City, New York, calling for a constitutional convention...
May 28th, 1976: Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline is unveiled, bypassing the Soviet government, and owned by British Petroleum (BP), many Russian officials complain that the pipeline robs Russia of an ability to pay off its reparations...
June 7th, 1976: Peggy Dennis calls for the New American movement, uniting ideas of the radical right and left, to form a "New American Revolution" during a rally in New York City, New York...
June 15, 1976: The Republican National Convention is tense. Nixon over the last 4 years has come back and seems poised to clench the Republican Nomination for President. He does although it was a tight race. Nixon receives the Republican Nomination for President.
July 4th, 1976: Celebrations of Bicentennial of the USA: The Americans celebrated the fact they survived till now even after the WWIII. In Washington D.C., President Muskie pronounced a speech where " despite all, America will survive for other 200 years and over, thanks to his unitarian spirit. Until we believe on the ideals of our Foundator Fathers, America will live." Queen Anne II was invited to partecipate to the celebrations after the release of that previous statement: "Despite all, Britain is still our old brother". Delegations from almost all the world, even from China and Russia, arrived to congratulate with the American President. Celebrations of various nature scattered all around the country: at New York, at Times Square, NY Authority gave the permission to host a rock concert transmitted nationwide, where gathered over 150,000 people. Singers and bands as Bruce Springsteen, Linda Ronstadt, The Eagles, and Paul Simon, for one day put aside their ideologies to sing their love for their country; in the end, all sang togheter "the Star-Spangled Banner", followed by a rain of fireworks. Also on this day, A six year old Amber McKlane from Albany is inspired by the whole Bicentennial celebration, this patriotic inspiration will spark her future political career. Imagine if only her father convinced her mother to go to the rock concert instead that night, instead of the Statue of Liberty rededication.
July 15th, 1976: Indonesian forces, with the aid of Chinese PLA "volunteer forces" seize control of East Timor, as the 27th province, sparking international outrage...
July 19th, 1976:
The Eternals#1 (Marvel Comics) makes its hit debut, creating a race of immortal super-beings who are trying to guide the course of human evolution....
August 5th, 1976: Somali Liberation Front (SLF) guerillas attack Italian troops stationed in Moyale, Ethiopia, killing 46 people, demanding that Italy leave the region...
August 6th, 1976: Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Haitham is assassinated by Islamic fundamentalists, sparking civil war in South Yemen...
August 11th, 1976: Senator Jacob Javits (D-NY) is assassinated by PFLP guerillas, while visiting Jerusalem, sparking calls for "tough action"....
August 21st, 1976: The Sex Pistols perform in Paris, France, sparking anti-authoritarian riots...
September 1st, 1976: Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal angers many Arab leaders after signing an agreement that would prevent any nationalization of of Saudi Arabian oil supplies...
September 10th, 1976: The RAI, on the success of Star Trek, aired "Attacco da Marte" (Attack from Mars), a fantascientifical series where Martian aliens governed by a ruthless dictator ( naturally a recalling of Tito) invaded the Earth. The resistance was leaded from a group of Italo-Greeks (already merged in an only nation) and other soldiers of the Bordeaux pact ( which in that futuristic TL already liberated the world from Communist menace), which soon repeal the enemy invasion and started a massive war into space with futuristic spaceships. Obviously, our heroes in the end of any episode gained the victory. The series, even if was clearly a propaganda instrument, obtained a great success.
September 14th, 1976: Despite the negative opinion of UDOI, the Italian government allowed the development of private broadcasters.
September 29th, 1976: Musical singles "Renga" and "Apartment House 1776" by John Cage, make their hit debut...
September 30th, 1976:
Snip (NBC-TV) starring David Brenner and Leslie Ann Warren, makes its hit debut,...
October 6th, 1976: Thai military forces launch a brutal crackdown on student demonstrators in Wat Bowonniwet, Thailand...
October 10th, 1976: PFLP guerilla leader Ali Hassan Salamah survives an assassination attempt in Munich, Germany; Salamah blames Israeli and American forces for the attempt....
October 12, 1976: The first Presidental debate between Muskie and Nixon. One particularly contentious note came under the point of foreign policy. Muskie who clung to a more isolationist stance, has an outburst that insulted the Eisenhower's handling of the Interwar Peace. Nixon responded with a laugh, "The greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. Better Peace then let the world descend into chaos"
October 16th, 1976: al-Fatah takes credit for the bombing of the Pan Am office in Izmir, Turkey....
November 5, 1976: Richard Nixon is elected President, with 275 electoral votes. The influence of Nixonian Republicans Southern Strategy pigeonholes the Democrats in the Deep South, and the Republicans make large gains in the Northeast.
November 13th-14th, 1976: Battle of Camp Pendleton; U.S. Marines affiliated with the Black Panther Party and the Christian Posse Association clash at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California; 8 killed, NAACP leaders point out that African-American officers receive the death penalty, while the CPA members receive 10-15 years...
November 20th, 1976: Using the Battle of Camp Pendleton as a basis for recruitment, the New American Movement hold a convention with 23,000 people in New York City, New York....
December 1st, 1976: Syrian Prime Minister Abd-al-Halim Khaddam is assassinated in Damascus, Syria by Islamic fundamentalists, sparking national civil unrest and violence...
December 8th, 1976: Police officials in Des Moines, Iowa report a bust on the distribution of "Slam", sparking national attention...
December 11, 1976: A young Hilary Rodham is hired to work in Legislative affairs in the Nixon Administration.
December 15th, 1976: Iraqi Islamic fundamentalists bomb an Egyptian Airlines flight, killing 340 people in Baghdad, Iraq...
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January 6th, 1977: PFLP and al-Fatah militants take credit for a grenade tossed at the U.S. embassy in Chittagong, Bangladesh, killing 3 people....
January 14, 1977: Nixon is interviewed by
Washington Post writing team, Woodward and Bernstein.
January 16th, 1977: The Italian government accepted to give funds to PFK to support their liberation effort.
January 20, 1977: Nixon's inaugural address spoke about turning partisan politics into a new age of unity.
In these difficult years, America has suffered from a fever of words; from inflated rhetoric that promises more than it can deliver; from angry rhetoric that fans discontents into hatreds; from bombastic rhetoric that postures instead of persuading. We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another, until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
January 20th, 1977: Veterans group leaders Max Cleland and Stuart Feldman meet with President Richard Nixon, calling for action regarding veterans affairs. Also on this day, After Nixon's inauguration, the position of Secretary of State is confirmed to Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat who had previously served as Ambassador to the UK and India. Also, the moderate former Governor of Pennsylvania William Scranton is confirmed as Secretary of the Treasury
January 22nd 1977 - Former House Minority Leader (1965 - 1975) Gerald Ford is confirmed to the position of Attorney General in the new Nixon administration. In addition, former Commerce Secretary (1969 - 1971) in the Nelson Rockefeller administration Elliot Richardson is confirmed as the new Secretary of Defense.
January 23, 1977: Rumors of an Arabian Oil Embargo, call for newly inaugurated President to create the "Presidental Commission on Energy Policy"
February 5th, 1977: Former President John F. Kennedy warns of the rise of political extremism in Russia, during an address at Harvard University....
February 8th, 1977: IWW President Ed Sadlowski leads a strike of steel workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania....
February 10th, 1977: Karbala Riots; Sunni guerillas are blamed for the bombing of a Shiite mosque in Karbala, Iraq, sparking civil unrest and violence...
February 12, 1977: Following concerns that America is losing its technological edge in the world, he calls in the NASA administrator and the head of the Air Force. Ever conscious of the budget he takes the still Classified DynaSoar II program, and diverts one quarter of its funding and equipment to NASA. "Get us back into space before damn China puts up some beeping tin can". Two Dynasoar II Suborbital bombers are transferred to NASA's control. With the removal of the half the bomb bay for more fuel, the craft easily can achieve Low Earth Orbit.
February 17th, 1977: Reverend Jesse Jackson condemns rhythm & blues and rock music as "promoting promiscuity and drug use..."
March 1st, 1977: New American Movement leaders publish a magazine,
Moving On, with an intial subscription by 750,000 people nationwide...
March 3, 1977: Nixon signs into law OSHA and the EPA, as part of the Clean Water Act of 1977. The act was a result of Nixon and his staff.
March 9th, 1977: Libyan guerillas bomb the railroad tracks in Al-Alamenin, Egypt, killing 78 people during the rush hour commute...
March 12, 1977: Emperor Showa visits the White House, attracting international attention.
March 13, 1977:Following the death of Chief Justice Harlan, Nixon appoints Burger to the Supreme Court. Burger takes the role with pride, many democrats who hope that he will overturn many of the desegregation policies are disappointed.
March 15th, 1977: al-Fatah takes credit for the bombing of the Gulf Oil refinery in Rotterdam, Netherlands, killing 83 people....
March 20, 1977: The Planetary Society, with von Braun,Asimov and other scientist beg Congress to spend 60million to fast track a project of interplanetary exploration. The Enterprise A and Enterprise B Space Probes (replacing Voyager 1 and 2). It is due to an impressive amount of donations from sci-fi fans and foundations, along with many scientists freely donating their time that the probe launch on a Grand Tour of the Solar System. Also on this day, Eritrean Islamic Jihad (EIJ) members bomb Italian military barracks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, killing 13 people in the process...
March 24th, 1977: Russian ultranationalist Svaboda Party seizes the elections in Sochi, Russia, a major Black Sea port...
April 10th, 1977: Socialist dictator Qadi Abdullah Ali Hajri is assassinated by Zuhair Akache, sparking civil unrest and violence in North Yemen...
April 12, 1977: In a national address to the nation, Nixon toes the middle line and announces that "unlike some of my predecessors in the Oval I will follow the judicial review process, I will uphold the decisions of the court that segregation of our schools is illegal" The following August most of the schools in the South would be segregated. A minor clash arose between Governor Connor of Alabama but during the confrontation Nixon won out. When being interviewed by 60 minutes, Wally Schorr notes the protesters outside protesting integration. Nixon points out, "Wally, the people of this country elected me to this office to be President, as President I will always do what's in the best interest for this country. Some Americans may not like this, as you can see plainly, but I don't have the luxury of doing what is always popular, I will do what I think is right with the powers I have as President, and in three years time if the American people don't like me as President then I will be out of a job."
April 26th, 1977: Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) members bomb Ethiopian Airlines, killing 138 people, mainly Italian tourists....
April 28, 1977: President Nixon presents Queen Anne II with the Prince of Wales Desks. A Metal desk that was forged out of the wreck of the HMS Prince of Wales. Considering the Resolute Desks were destroyed in World War III, the Prince of Wales Desks paralleled the Resolutes quite well.
April 29, 1977: Nixon plans to visit: Beijing, London, Rome, Sarajevo, Moscow, Tehran, and Tokyo throughout his first term. One of his goals is to ensure there will not be a World War IV, stopping nuclear proliferation is a key goal of Nixon but he would never speak openly of it, considering the taboo nature of nuclear weapons in American politics.
May 1st, 1977: Punk band The Clash sparks riots at the Roxy in London, England, after police try to disrupt their concert...
May 23, 1977: President Richard M. Nixon meets with Japanese, British and Norwegian heads of State in Reykjavik. The Northern Alliance Organization NAO is created as a successor organization to the decrepit and almost ineffectual NATO
July 6th, 1977:
The Natural Look (NBC-TV) starring Barbara Feldon and Bill Bixby makes its hit debut,...
July 7th, 1977: "War Ina Babylon" single by Max Romeo and the Upsetters, introduces mainstream Americans to reggae music, protesting American military presence worldwide...
July 8th, 1977:
Machine Man #1 (Marvel Comics) featuring the adventures of an escaped android makes its hit debut...
July 13th, 1977: New York Riots; Blackout in New York City, New York sparks race riots throughout the 5 Boroughs, including Brooklyn and Harlem...
July 13, 1977: The National guard is deployed to maintain order during the blackout
July 20th, 1977: PFLP guerillas bomb a marketplace in Nahariya,Israel, killing 18 people...
July 22nd, 1977: NAACP Director Vernon Jordan meets with President Richard M. Nixon, warning that African-Americans expect "real legislation"....
July 25th, 1977: AIPAC Director Morris J. Amitay is assassinated in Rockville, Maryland by PFLP members, after calling for Israeli military action...
July 27th, 1977: Former President John F. Kennedy claims that Russia is "sowing world disorder" during a speech at Harvard University...
August 22th, 1977: ASI announced the first Italian satellite, the Colomba, was launched from Malindi rocket base. Also, the space agency planned to send a man into space, reinvigorating all around the world the space race.
September 5, 1977: Enterprise A and B are launched on their Grand Tour. Nixon uses it to mark the beginning of his Grand Tour of the World, signalling America's isolation coming to an end. His first stop: Rome.
September 7th-10th, 1977: Nixon's state visit in Italy. He met Vittorio Emanuele IV, Umberto Paolo I, PM Almirante and the Pope. The visit marked the restoration of good relationship between the two governments after the Cyprus War. Nixon declared the USA will recognize the peaceful merging of Italy and Greece " as a great bastion for the global peace".
September 11, 1977: Former President John F. Kennedy is appointed head of the PeaceCorps, the 1978-1979 budget would show that PeaceCorps funding has doubled.
November 21st, 1977: "49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs" by John Cage, makes its hit musical debut in Chicago, Illinois...
December 10th, 1977: Members of the CPA and the American Agriculture Movement demand an end to the sale of American food supplies to the "butchers of America" during a rally in Washington D.C.,...
December 11, 1977: A congressional report is released that shows if American food is no longer being purchased abroad, the Agricultural market will collapse. With the loss of international demand, there will be too much supply for the United States. <So effectively Nixon is behind this release and is saying, "You know if we stop selling our surplus, you will be out of a livelihood">
December 23, 1977: President delivers the "New World Order" Speech at the United Nations in Geneva.
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January 3rd, 1978: al-Fatah takes credit for the bombing of the Egyptian Embassy in Berlin, Germany....
January 10th, 1978: PFLP guerillas fire rocket-propelled grenades at teh Israeli Embassy in Brussels, Belgium, injuring 3 people.; Also on this day, American UN Ambassador George H.W. Bush is instrumental in securing Resolution #3411, regarding the rising acts of terror around the globe. Notable is the UN's stance on terrorism condoned by the PFLP outside of the Israeli Palestine Conflict area. The United Nations Anti-Terrorism Coalition is made (UNATCO)
January 11, 1978: Mossad recruits an agent in the Egyptian defense ministry codenamed "Giza".
January 18th, 1978: City Councilman Marion Barry is arrested by federal agents after he is caught smoking "Slam" in a motel with a prostitute during a sting operation in Washington D.C.,...
February 1st, 1978: al-Fatah and PFLP announce they injected posionous amounts of mercury into Israeli food imports in Holland, teh Netherlands, Germany, France, and Belgium in retaliation for "support of Zionism..."
February 3rd, 1978: al-Fatah takes credit for the bombing of a 747 carrying 357 people in Islamabad, Pakistan....
March 4th, 1978: Croatian Ustashi guerillas bomb the Yugoslvian embassy in San Francisco, California, killing 2 people....
March 8th, 1978: The UDOI, in the women's day celebration, abolished the restriction for women to dress pants, but it confirmed the denial to wear miniskirts. However it was a good day for women's emancipation in Italy.
April 2nd, 1978: A group of Albanian which tried to escape into Greece were pursued by soldiers who crossed the border. An Italian patrol squad intercepted them and opened the fire, killing four Albanians forcing the other soldiers to retreat.
April 3rd, 1978: The Albanese requested compensation for the border incident; the Italians replied their soldiers crossed the border without authorization.
April 5th, 1978: Waves of Albanians, fearing an imminent conflict with Italy was imminent, crossed the Greek borders. Rome stopped these fugitives but requested to Tirana to better control their borders.
April 8th, 1978: The Albanian government failed to stop the fugitives, even some soldiers started to defect.
April 10th, 1978: The Italians and the Greeks started to invade Albania " in order to stop the immigratory routes to Greece."
April 11th, 1978: Tito requested to the Italians and the Greeks to retreat immediately from Albania, but he received a refusal.
April 14th, 1978: Tirane fell under Italian occupation. Tito sent an ultimatum to Rome and Costantinople.
April 16th, 1978: Without expecting the expiring of the ultimatum, the Italian army started to bombard the Yugoslave positions at Goritia, while air raids and rocket launches spreaded all over the territory in order to destroy enemy supplies and possible havens of nuclear bombs: the Italian intelligence said Tito probably had some nuclear deterrent previously obtained by USSR.
April 18th, 1978: Both the Bordeaux pact and the second Warsaw pact joined the side of their allies. A new European war started...
April 22th, 1978: Polish and Eastern Germans invaded in many points West Germany, which army, still unprepared to the conflict, retreated towards the Rhine waiting for the French aid. West Berlin was for now abandoned to enemy occupation. Air fights scattered all over the German skies, while once again the country was ravaged again.
April 24th, 1978: Because the Italians didn't consolidated in time the northern Albanian borders, the Yugoslavs managed to advance and to arrive in range of Tirane.
April 26th, 1978: The IOC selected Costantinople, Kingdom of Greece, to host the XXIII Olympiad in 1984. However, the site of the new Olympic stadium was still hidden, the government will declared its location after the end of the conflict.
April 27th, 1978: Taliban guerillas overthrow the government in Kabul, Afghanistan, calling for hte installation of Sharia law...
April 28th, 1978: Bonn fell to the Polish, the German government fled to Cologne.
May 1, 1978: Having had its own experiences with Communism, Mexico and its Central American allies send troops to help fight Yugoslavia
May 2nd, 1978: The Italian launched with no success an attack over the border between Yugoslavia; in that front, the conflict assumed the consistance of a position war.
May 4th, 1978: The Yugoslave and the Bulgarians bombarded Adrianople, trying to encircle it.
May 10th, 1978: Finally, the Bordeaux pact forces, thanks to the massive French intervention, started to stop the Comintern advance and started to recover ground.
May 14th, 1978: The bulk of the Comintern army, even if Adrianople still resisted, broke the Thracian front and marched towards Costantinople.
May 17th, 1978: Russian ultranationalists launch a rally in Kiev, Ukraine, proclaiming that Russia was in its "pre-revolutionary" state...
May 18th, 1978: Thanks to the valliant efforts of the Folgore which managed to obstacolate the enemy, the Italians were able with a naval and air bridge to reinforce the positions outside Costantinople, so saving the city.
May 26th, 1978: Italian and French marine divisions landed near Dubrovnik, in Croatia, so opening a new front. Also on this day, Kenyan nationalist leader Daniel arap Moi, is asassinated by Italian forces in Entebbe, Uganda, sparking civil unrest and violence in Kenya,...
May 29th, 1978: Bonn was freed. The Polish and the DDR forces started to retreat.
June 1, 1978: 44 states now have no National Guard actively deployed to keep order, following the National Civil Protection Act of 1978, which allowed for an injection of federal funds into Local and State Police. Some southern governors rejected the funds following come conditions that the bill required in order for states to receive funds.
June 2nd, 1978: Dubrovnik fell, the Italo-French started to spread into Bosnia. Also on this day, Armenian guerillas assassinate Turkish President Zeki Kuneralp in Ankara, Turkey, citing the 1915 massacre of Armenians....
June 10th, 1978: The Italians and the French overextended too much and were forced to retreat under the Yugoslavian pressure behind more defensive areas, failing to reach Sarajevo.
June 12th, 1978: The siege of Adrianople was relieved thanks to the continued air support of the Bordeaux Pact.
June 14th, 1978: The Bordeaux Pact forces crossed the DDR borders, and marched over Berlin.
June 28th, 1978: Berlin was put under siege.
July 1st, 1978: Conservative Hu Qiamu, comes to power in Beijing, China, voicing his opposition to "peaceful evolution"...
July 3rd, 1878: The Bordeaux Pact requested the intervention in the conflict of Austria, Hungary and Checoslovakia in exchange of land and financial compensations. (essentially, Austria will get Slovenia and part of Croatia except for the pre WWII Italian regions, Hungary Banat and Transylvania, and Checoslovakia Galicia)
July 9th, 1978: Iraqi Prime Minister Prime Minister Abdul Razzak al-Naif is assassinated in Baghdad, Iraq, sparking sectarian and ethnic violence nationwide...
July 10th, 1978: Austria, Hungary and Checoslovakia agreed to enter the Bordeaux pact and launched a full attack towards Romania, Yugoslavia, DDR and Poland. The attack surprised the various Comintern nations, the new Warsaw pact started to melt.
July 12, 1978: The United States goes off the Gold Standard. The resulting release of American capital into international markets, allows for an economic rebirth in the stagnating economies of Japan and Britain.
July 14th, 1978: Berlin was liberated!
July 14th, 1978: "Plutonian Ode" by Allen Ginsberg is published, speaking to the fears of nuclear war that still exist in the post-war world...
July 22th, 1978: The Bordeaux Pact was on full offensive, their members refused any proposal of peace which wasn't an unconditional surrender.
July 23th, 1978: 8 am: Desperating to win, Tito ordered to launch a rocket nuclear attack towards Italy and Greece for revenge. In fact, the Yugoslavians gathered some nuclear bombs from the Soviet arsenals in Eastern Europe, abandoned by their owners during the Soviet retreat after WWIII. The objectives were Rome, Costantinople, Milan, Athens, and Triest.
9,30 am: The Italian anti-air forces managed to destroy the rockets (which were osbolete) ecception for that launched to Triest ( it was the more near target, and the pre-allert was very low), which was devastated.
10 am: As retaliation, an Italian ICBM with a hydrogen nuke was launched over Belgrade, destroying completely the city. It was supposed Tito and his government perished in the explosion.
12 am: the Italian government warned the renmant nations still in conflict to unconditionally surrended into 72 hours, or they launched their ICBM over them.
July 26th, 1978: All the states into the new Warsaw pact, not wanting a second nuclear rain, surrended. It was the fall of Communism in Europe and the dawn of the Bordeaux Pact.
July 28th, 1978: Iraqi President Taha Ahmed al-Dawood is murdered while visiting London, England, causing the government to collapse even further...
August 4th, 1978: The price of Italian agricole products, specially in the North-East of the country, suffered a drastical diminution because of the fallout effects of Triest nuclear explosion, causing a chain events which bringed the costant booming Italian economy ( the only main remaining industrial power in Europe for many years after the devastation of WWIII) to slow down.
August 12th, 1978: The Greek Government revealed the site of the future Olympic stadium of Costantinople: it will rise on the site of the former Byzantinian Hippodrome, one of the most greatest stadiums of all ages. Howewer, the Turkish community in the city protested, because the complex will rise in front of the Blue Mosque...
August 15th, 1978: Croatian Ustashi take credit for a bombing at the United Nations Building and Grand Central Station; remarkably no one is killed in the explosions.
August 31st, 1978: Inman Musa Sadr arrives secretly in Tripoli, Libya, calling for Islamic revolution against "Italian occupation"...
September 1st-9th, 1978: Conference of Berlin. In the finally reunited German city, the delegations of Bordeaux Pact, that of the NATO and that of the defeated Comintern reunited to discuss about the new map of Europe. The discussion routed about the gains of the Eastern members of the pact, but the main quarrell was the revision of the Italian borders and the annexation of Albania, which UK denounced as a treason of the post WWII agreements, but Nixon recognized the right of Italy, behind its promisal to give partial authonomy to the Albanians, to let have a land connection with Greece. The recognition of Italian Albania opened the route to the other decisions.
1) The defeated countries of the dissolved Comintern will be under military occupation for ten years in order to estabilish democraties and to stop possible Communist riots. Also, these countires entered automatically into the Bordeaux Pact.
2) Yugoslavia was broken in pieces. Italy regained Istria and obtained all of the Adriatic coast and Montenegro ( claimed for dynastical rights of Vittorio Emanuele IV), and renounced to a previous claim pver Erzegovina in exchange of its right to annex Albania; Austria obtained Slovenia, a catholic country ruled by centuries from Wien; Greece controlled North Macedonia. Were estabilished two new countries, the Republic of Croatia-Bosnia (under Austrian occupation) and the Kingdom of Serbia (under Italian occupation), ruled by Alexander II Karadjordjevic, son of the previous ruler of Yugoslavia Peter II. Nis will be the new capital of Serbia until Belgrade wasn't properly rebuilded.
3) Albania was directly annexed by Italy as a "semiauthonomous state in the Kingdom", with Vittorio Emanuele IV as head of state.
4) Bulgaria ceded the lands south the Tundaz river and Burgas to Greece (which also keeped the rest of country under militar occupation), while restored the monarchy under Simeon II of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha, previous ruler and cousin of Vittorio Emanuele IV.
5) Romania ceded Banat and part of Transylvania to Hungary ( responsable also for its militar occupation) and restored the monarchy under the rule of prevous king, Michael I of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.
6) Poland ceded to Checoslovakia ( its army was responsable for the militar occupation of the country) most of Galicia and gave Silesia to Germany in a effort to help that country to accelerate its reconstruction.
7) Germany was reunited and also as said in the previous post regained Silesia from Poland.
8) France will receive financial repayments and priority for its companies for the rebuilding of Eastern Europe; also, it saw the recognition of the French of the main language into the Bordeaux Pact ( even if Italian and Greek started to spread and also German started to recover ground).
9) It was recognized the guilt of the Iugoslavian government to start the war, with the aggravating to tried a new nuclear holocaust in Europe; the Italian retaliation over Belgrade was fair, because they were hit for first; and it was to apreciate their moderation, which allowed the other countries to surrended.
10) If their internal populations will gave their approval, the Bordeaux Pact and NATO will recognize in the future the union between Italy and Greece in a new nation ( many thought to the Austro-Hungarian precedent) and to recognize to Umberto Paolo a more higher rank.
The conference clearly saw a French resurgence and the rise of Italy and Greece; Germany, despite its gains, was still very weak and devastated (it was the country after Yugoslavia which suffered most for that war).However, despite the absence of UK, Ireland, the Scandinavian states and former USSR, Europe was united under a single alliance and freed both from American and Russian influence.The Bordeaux Pact was on the path to become a Superpower.
September 7th 1978: Italian business man Silvio Berlusconi inaugurated, thanks to hidden support of MSI ( but also of sectors of DC and PCI which wanted a pluralization of the Italian televisive panorama against the RAI\UDOI monopoly), the private televisive channel of TeleMilano under the control of Fininvest company.
September 20th, 1978: PFLP guerillas detonate a bomb aboard a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, injuring 30 people, killing 8 people...
September 30, 1978: Due to the sharing of intelligence between nations contributing to UNATCO, an Al-Fatah plot to assassinate President Nixon is thwarted.
October 3rd, 1978: al-Fatah shuts the Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline down by destroying the pipeline by firing 42 Katyusha rockets at the refinery complex in Eliat, Israel,...
October 4, 1978: The National Scientific Education Act of 1978 is signed into law by President Nixon, the bill had two purposes. First, it was designed to provide the country with specific scientifically trained personnel. This included providing federal help to foreign language scholars, area studies centers, and engineering students. Second it provided financial assistance—primarily through the National Defense Student Loan program—for thousands of students who would be part of the growing numbers enrolling at colleges and universities. The bill had a last minute amendment from a Nixonian Republican Senator from Nevada, that would go down as Title X "All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin."
October 10th, 1978: President Richard Nixon endorses a legislative plan to shore up veterans' benefits, after over 16 years of "troop fatigue"...
October 15th, 1978: PFLP and al-Fatah claim credit for the bombing of a Jewish restaurant and the Jewish Cultural Center and Synagogue in Berlin, Germany....
October 21st, 1978: Eritrean Islamic Jihad (EIJ) hold Italian humanitarian aid relief workers hostage in Asmara, before executing them,...
November 5th, 1978: Lockheed Corporation begins funding Republican candidates, including the re-election campaign for President Nixon in Washington D.C.,...
November 11th, 1978: Croatian Ustashi take credit for the murder of several Serbian nationalists in Konstanz, Germany...
November 12, 1978: Following international pressure from the United States, the Bordeaux Pact and Great Britain, many middle East banks freeze the assets of known PFLP members.
November 14th, 1978: Iranian students fire an AK-47 at a bus carrying American tourists in Tehran, Iran...
November 18th, 1978: "Love Beach" album by British group Emerson, Lake & Palmer introduces British Progressive music, making its hit debut...
December 12, 1978: The Reagan-Nichols Defense Reorganization Act passes the senate. It incorporates several findings to relieve "troop fatigue" and several proposals for reverting policing back to state and local authorities. Also on this day, PFLP guerillas bomb an Israeli settlement in Qiryat Arbaa, Israel, amidst calls for "intifada"...
December 15th, 1978: President Richard M. Nixon announces that he will recognize diplomatically the People's Republic of China, during a speech in San Francisco, California, sparking calls of betrayal by Asian-American groups...
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January 1st, 1979: Russian ultranationalist Andrei Lugovoy launches a rally in Moscow, Russia proclaiming Great Britain a "nation of cheats and bandits"; Also on this day, The NAO is officially founded, Japan as a condition of the treaty begins creating three new military divisions under the newly created Defense Ministry, the JSSDF, The Japanese Strategic Self Defense Force.
January 8th, 1979: Turkish military intelligence officers kill Kurdish leader Masmond Barzani in Vienna, Austria, sparking sectarian and ethnic violence in Turkey...
January 18th-21st, 1979: Chairman Hu Qiamu launches his "Southern Tour" meeting with Pono (Supono Marsudidjojo) in Jakarta and military regime leaders in Bangkok.
February 4th, 1979:
Co-Ed Fever (CBS-TV) starring Heather Thomas and Alexa Kenin makes its hit debut,...
February 11, 1979: The ACIG Carrier Group Aquila is deployed to the Gulf of Aden, in an attempt to stymy pirate attacks, and to lend support in the Yemeni Civil War.
February 17th, 1979: Chairman Hu Qiamu orders the Chinese PLA to enter into Vietnam as a "police action"...
March 8th, 1979: PFLP and al-Fatah detonate 6 bombs throughout Jerusalem, ahead of a visit by President Richard M. Nixon...
March 11, 1979: President Nixon the GI Bill of 1979, which reforms much of the antiquated Veterans Affairs department, and provided opportunities for veterans, along with streamlining the process for receiving the pension checks. One notable thing is that on none of the new forms is a race question listed or asked for, when asked by the Press corps, the President responded, "Why should it matter what race they are? All veterans served their country with honor." Also on this day, PFLP guerilla leader Ali Hassan Salamah issues an edict through the group, stating that they should focus on Israel itself.
March 11th, 1979:
Mr. Dugan (CBS-TV) starring Cleavon Little, sparks controversy as a African-American Congressman, especially in light of the case of Marion Barry...
March 15th, 1979: al-Fatah takes credit for the bombing of a library at the American Consulate in Karachi, Pakistan; Also on this day, "Giza" leaks information that the Egyptian Defense Ministry is supplying Arabia and Syria.
April 1st-4th, 1979: First Conference for nuclear disarmament in Copenaghen. Five of Six powers ( USA, UK, France, Italy, Russia) which had ufficially nuclear armaments partecipated; China refused to sent a delegation, while Bordeaux Pact and UN sent their observers. The partecipants agreed to limitate their arsenals, but above all they signed a convention to not sell bombs to other countries. Following Copenhagen Arms Limitation summit:
Soviet Nuclear Arsenal Guideline
# as of October 1962: 3208
USED IN WW3: 2406
DISMANTLED UNDER VIENNA PACT: 795
REVERSE ENGINEERED BY SECOND COMINTERN: 7
American Nuclear Arsenal
# as of October 1962: 24644
USED IN WW3: 14406 (10238)
DISMANTLED UNDER VIENNA PACT: 3000
VOLUNTARY DISARMAMENT: 2500
NUCLEAR ARSENAL as of 1980: 4738 (with just over 850 in active mode)
COPENHAGEN AGREEMENT: Reduced by 1650
AFTER COPENHAGEN: 3088
Bordeaux Joint Arsenal (Plus Italy)
NUCLEAR ARSENAL as of 1980: 666 (with just over 100 in active mode)
With the addition of Tito's Arsenal: 1143
COPENHAGEN AGREEMENT: Reduced by 661
AFTER COPENHAGEN: 482
Second Comintern
Peak: 493
Taken by Bordeaux Occupation: 477
Unaccounted for: 7
Chinese Nuclear Arsenal
# as of January 1980: 675
UK Nuclear Arsenal
COPENHAGEN REDUCTION: 45
New Total: 100
Total Nukes in the World: 4345
April 10th, 1979: Kao-hsiung Massacre; Chinese PLA crush a pro-democracy demonstration in Kao-hsiung, Taiwan, sparking international condemnation...
April 11, 1979: UNATCO stops an Al-Fatah plot to blow up Tower Bridge, in London. Also on this day, "Giza" reports that troops are mobilizing.
April 12, 1979: Israel PM (NAME) decides not to launch a pre-emptive attack put to wait for Egypt, Syria, and Palestine to throw the first strike.
April 15, 1979: The Passover War has begun.
April 16th, 1979: PFLP bombs a bus in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 9 people, injuring 24 people....
April 21, 1979: What it some worlds would have lead to a quick war, this is not. The Passover War is almost at a stalemate, and Israeli ambassadors go to Europe and the America asking for direct military aid. Unfortunately the rising power of Utaibi and al'Najd threaten it.
April 28th, 1979: Al-Fatah blows up the fuel depot in Berlin, Germany using 400 lbs of explosives....
May 1st, 1979: Iraqi-Turkish pipeline is severed by PKK guerillas led by Jalal Talabani at Iskenderun, Turkey; Also on this day, Italian electronic company Olivetti opened at Cupertino, California, its technological advanced center, near the offices of a similar company, Pear, founded by Steve Jobs. The Silicon Valley so started to live its golden age...
May 14th, 1979: PFLP bombs an open-air market place in Tiberias, Israel, killing 6 people...
May 21st, 1979: Union of Concerned Commies (UCC) led by Jay Kinney and Paul Marvides, launches a series of protests against the Nixon administration and its call for "Atoms for Peace"...
May 23rd, 1979: Croatian Ustashi fire an AK-47 outside the Serbian embassy in San Francisco, California...
May 24th, 1979:
Car Wash (NBC-TV) starring Danny Aiello, Stuard Pankin and Hilary Beane, makes its hit debut....
June 25th, 1979: Red Army guerillas assassinate General Alexander Haig in Brussels, Belgium, calling for the end of "American imperialism"...
July 14, 1979: Communist rebels in Columbia overthrow the Government in Bogota. The elements of the former regime flee to Mexico to ask for assistance and asylum.
July 1979 - January1980: The Communist regime in Bogota solidifies its control over the country.
July 20, 1979: President Richard Nixon attends the first launch of the American Space Shuttle "Constitution" with pilots Gus Grissom and Jim Lovell. Although years later historians would debate whether or not the DynaSoar II Bomber Program achieved orbit during its many test flights in the 60s and mid 70s. Documents regarding the Dynasoar II Military Program were sealed by President Kennedy and will be available for suit under the Government Transparency Act of 1989 in 2014. The launch would inspire a whole generation of children.
July 23th, 1979: 10 am: During his visit to Triest, Vittorio Emanuele IV was hit by a lone gunner, immediately killed by the guards who opened the fire.
10,15 am: ACIG raised the security alarm to red, starting to deploy the troops both in Italy and Greece. Umberto Paolo, who was at Costantinople, was sent to the bunker under the Blachernae palace.
10,30 am: Nixon sent his regards to Queen Irene and his son, hoping the king survived. Similar messages were sent by the other Bordeaux Pact members.
12,00 am: Pious XIII prayed for the survival of the King of Italy "and for the future trials which the King of Greece must face".
17,00 pm: Vittorio Umanuele IV died, but the news was keeped secret for now.
17,15 pm: Secret meeting between ACIG and members of the Italian and Greek governments: the military requested now the unification of the two states or they will impose the new Empire with the force.
17,45 pm: ACIG released a public statement which proclamed the state of siege both in Italy and Greece; even the UDOI was paralyzed.
18,00 pm: The Italian parliament in Rome and that Greek in Athens reunited for a emergency session at closed door and at reunited chambers.
18,10-19,40 pm: The two parliaments voted for a motion which proclaimed the birth of the "Empire of Italy and Greece", declared Umberto Paolo of Savoia-Glucksburg first Emperor of the new country, and the calling of new costitutional elections in all the new nation ( even the Albanians will partecipate). ACIG will guide the transition, while Queen Irene will assumed the regency.
19,45 pm: Umberto Paolo was informed of the last events. Legend says he only said in that moment: " So, my time was already come..."
20,00 pm: The Italian and Greek televisions and radios trasmitted at unificated signal, and in worldvision, the first official speech of the Emperor Umberto Paolo I: he said, in an inexpectely calm voice for his age and after the events of the day, that his father died, that the two parliaments proclaimed the unification of Italy and Greece, and his assumption of the Imperial role... It was a short and planned speech; however, the boy concluded in an unexpected way: " I know i'm still young and unexperienced for this rule. But i want to grow as a good Emperor for all my people, and i hope all of you will give our support. God protect us all."
20,15 pm: After the Emperor's speech a second announcent of ACIG proclaimed the end of the state of siege "in the empire"; then all around the nation all the people went out from their houses and made spontaneous celebrations with a common shout: "Long live the Emperor!"
21,00 pm: Pious XIII declared the blessing of the Holy Church for the Empire, the Emperor, and all its people. He invited Umberto Paolo to return soon in Rome "for the official incoronation in front of God".
21,30 pm: With an emergency session called by Nixon, the US Congress recognized the Italo-Greek Empire. USA was the first nation to make that diplomatic move.
22,30 pm: The Emperor, despite the high risks, met outside the Blachernae complex the common people, even if only for about ten minutes. The news was soon spreaded all around the nation exaltating even more the population.
24,00 pm: A started tragic day ended with the rain of fireworks from all the major cities of the Empire.
July 27th, 1979: ACIG enacted the Imperial languages act. Italian and Greek will be the two official languages of the Empire, but with the priority in the foreign policy to the most diffused language ( so Italian). As for minority languages, the ACIG decided, and it was very indulgent, they could only be studied in the elementary schools, and as second language behind the first between Italian and Greek ( it depended from the region where the schools were located).
August 1st, 1979: ACIG enacted the military merging acts, creating an only Imperial army, fleet, and airforce. Also the ASI was now know as Agenzia Spaziale Imperiale (Imperial Space Agency)
August 2nd, 1979: The organization of Italian industrials, Confindustria, released a report which preveded a new growth of the economy thanks to the birth of the Empire which will give new horizons but warned to keep an open eye to control the costs of the unification...
August 3rd, 1979: Pious XIII died.
August 10th, 1979: The Tunisian militar government, under pressure of COMBUSIN, declared the annexation of Tunisia into the Empire "to let allow to Tunisia a great age of prosperity".
Augut 11th-16th, 1979: With also the help of Lybian and Algerian rebels, Tunisian insurgents tried, without success, to promote a revolt, but COMSUBIN and the Tunisian militiaries who declared loyalty to the Emperor were highly preparated to a similar attempt.
August 20th, 1979: after a three-day conclave, was elected Pope the Archbishop of Florence Giovanni Benelli, considerated more liberal than his precedessor. He assumed the name of Gregorius XVII.
September 3rd, 1979: Muhammad bin Laden proclaims his financial support for Juhaiman ibn Muhammad ibn Saif al Utaibi during a meeting Mecca, Saudi Arabia...
October 11, 1979:
Estate of Corporal Jacobson v. Beach, a suit which resulted from Mike Beach allegedly encouraging people to "civilly resist" deployed forces, reaches the 6th circuit court of appeals. The court finds that Mike Beach through negligence allowed a enlisted man serving in the United States armed forces (notably african american) to be shot. Mike Beach is convicted of being criminally negligent with his rhetoric, and sentenced to jail time.
October 23rd, 1979: Peace activists led by Jeff Dietrich protest outside an Arms Bazaar in Anaheim, California...
November 20th, 1979: Juhaiman ibn Muhammad ibn Saif al Utaibi overthrows the government in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, calling for a Islamic fundamentalist government; The diplomatic talks between the Bordeaux Pact and Israel are exposed in an Iraqi Newspaper. This begins the Two Year Oil Embargo.
November 21, 1979: Secretary of State Kissinger issues a travel warning to any Americans in Middle Eastern countries. Other countries do the same.
November 22th, 1979: Elections for the Costitutitional assembly in Italy-Greece; even the Slavic populations voted. With surprise, the Socialists and the Democratic-Christians gained the majority seats respect to the Government Right forces, which went to minority both in Italy and Greece; the analysts commented the results as a sign the voters wanted a democratic and not an authoritarian Empire.
November 25th, 1979: Juhaiman ibn Muhammad ibn Saif al Utaibi calls upon the American and Bordeaux Pact nations to withdraw their citizens from Saudi Arabia with "all due haste"; Also on this day, Juhaiman ibn Muhammad ibn Saif al Utaibi announces the cessation of all contracts with the United States, Great Britain, France, and Italy....
December 4th, 1979: Juhaiman ibn Muhammad ibn Saif al Utaibi proclaims that the country is now named "al-Najd"
December 13th, 1979: OPEC reports that oil now sells for c$25.00 (US) /barrel,...
December 25, 1979: President Richard Nixon talks with NAO leaders.
December 31, 1979: The Bordeaux Pact and NAO agree to supply Israeli with much needed weapons and equipment. The agreement is kept quiet until after the crisis is over
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January 1st, 1980: Berlin become officially the capital of reunited Germany, with the restaurated Reichstag ( thanks to the Bordeaux Pact sovventions) as seat of the Parliament. Berlin, despite the depopulation and the damages in both WWIII and Albanian war, was the most preserved city of all the country, because it was spared from a nuclear attack. Many Germans of both East and West started to gather here, causing a boom in the housing costruction and revitalizing the weak economy. However, it was the newly reacquired province of Silesia to train the entire country, and generally the eastern regions ( also because the former DDR was less devastated respect to FRG). Silesia however was still a hot point for Germany, because of the Polish communities which lived here. The government conceded the citizenship to them, but the Polish were high hostile even if many remained in the region ( Poland was still one of the most poor areas of the entire Bordeaux Pact, and surely the cession of Silesia didn't help much).
January 15th, 1980: al-Fatah takes credit for the bombing of an Alitalia DC-9, killing 25 people in Rome, Italy; Also that same day, PFLP guerillas detonate a bomb in Bat Yam, Israel...
January 26th, 1980: Senator Alan Cranston (D-CA) calls for Congressional oversight into the dispersement of funds for military personnel...
February 4th, 1980: Demonstrators seize control of the Italian Embassy in Tripoli, Libya, killing the Italian Ambassador and his wife on national television...
February 7th, 1980: COMSUBIN agents ambushed in the embassy of Tripoli, killing all the terrorists and liberating the still alive hostages.
February 7th-9th, 1980: Thirtiest festival of Italian song at Sanremo. For the first time were allowed to partecipate singers (two Greeks, one Albanian and even a Lybian) of another parts of the Empire, even if they must sang in Italian. Some protest came from the Eritrean community which wanted a their singer for the next year.
February 9th, 1980: "I Don't Wanna Get Drafted" single by Frank Zappa becomes a major hit, speaking to fears of a military draft....
February 20th, 1980: The Imperial government announced the intention to reinforce even more their bases in Lybia, to avoid other tragical events as that of the embassy...
February 23rd, 1980: S.S. Irenes Serenade spills 100,000 gallons of crude oil into waters of Pylos, Greece, becoming one of the worst environmental disasters in the region...
March 4th, 1980: Said Ali Salman kills 8 people in a shooting rampage in Madrid, Spain, in support of the Arabian government...
March 14th, 1980: The Imperial Costitutional Assembly enacted the "Imperial Senate Amendament": the Empire will have an unicameral system with 600 members directly elected by the people, choosing the path of a parliamentary monarchy.
March 17th, 1980: Croatian Ustashi bomb Serbian bank office in New York City, New York, killing 3 people...
April 1st, 1980: OPEC reports that oil now sells for c. $28.00 (US)/barrel, sparking concerns about American oil dependency...
April 2nd, 1980: The Imperial Costitutional Assembly enacted the "Imperial Religions Amendament": Christianity ( without distinction between Western and Eastern Church) will be recognized as ufficial religion of the Empire, but it was granted religious freedom.
April 3, 1980: With the rising threat of foreign Oil Dependency, energy policy becomes the leading issue in the 1980 Presidental Election.
April 6th, 1980: Italo-Greek and Israeli envoys met in secret in Switzerland. Israel looked with suspect to the Italian expansion in Africa and above all the diffusion of a neo-fascist wave in the country, but now wanted to normalize relations with the Empire and to discuss a possible partecipation into the Bordeaux Pact.
April 19th, 1980: Libyan nationalists fire rockets at the Italian Embassy in Marseilles, France...
April 21st, 1980: al-Fatah takes credit for the bombing of an El Al Airlines flight, killing 137 people over Tel Aviv, Israel...
May 20th, 1980: Libyan nationalist Mohammed Fouad Buohjar is assassinated in Tripoli, Libya, sparking massive civil unrest and violence...
June 4th, 1980: Croatian Ustashi guerillas bomb the Washington Post building in Washington D.C., for its "support of the Serbian state..."
June 15, 1980: The Republicans for the first time since 1956 have chosen the incumbent Republican president as their candidate.
June 20th, 1980:
Can't Stop the Music film musical starring Bruce Jenner and the Village People, makes its hit debut,...
June 22, 1980: The Democrats are however in a bit of a quandary. RFK normally would run but became a Senator in 1976 for Massachusetts, unfortunately Name Recognition doesn't help him at all since John F. Kennedy is Director of the Peace Corps under Nixon. Two strong camps emerge. The ones supporting the young Cuomo, and another which supports Mondale. The convention would be a nailbiter but, many Democrats were happy with the "Dream Team" they made, Mondale/Cuomo for 1980.
June 28th - July 6th, 1980: Chinese PLA forces launch a massive crackdown on Khmer Rouge guerillas in Pnomh Penh, Cambodia....
July 4, 1980: BP begins pumping Oil from the North Sea.
July 18th, 1980: FIAT, in joint operation with rail engineering company AnsaldoBreda, started to develop a prototype of magnetic levitation (maglev) train...
September 1st, 1980: President Richard M. Nixon meets secretly with Japanese Prime Minister Suzuki Zenkō in Honolulu, Hawaii, for Japan to purchase Lockheed aircraft...
September 11, 1980: After an extremely close vote, Guatemala votes to be annexed by Mexico. The UN deems the election clean and fair.
September 12th, 1980: The Imperial Costitutional Assembly enacted after many discussions the most controversial amendament, that regarding the prerogatives of the Emperor. Under menaces from the ACIG (which wanted a strong head of state), to the Emperor was conceded a great manouvre of movement (also into legislative and judiciary spheres), even if into the respect of the Costitutional rules.
September 18th, 1980: ASI announced the successful launch of a man into space from Malindi: he was the Spazionauta (Spacenaut) Giorgio Rossi (1), ace pilot from COMSUBIN. The Empire showed to USA it was ready to challenge for the race to space...
20th September, 1980: After the successful ASI mission, the Emperor Umberto Paolo announced that the Italo-Greek Empire was ready to accept the challenge of Nixon, in a friendly prospective which could only bring new opportunities both for America and Europe.
September 30th, 1980: with the incorporation of other small television broadcasters in North Italy, TeleMilano (now renamed Canale 5) became the most important private channel in the country.
October 3rd, 1980: "The Man With Bogart's Face" single by George Duning makes its hit musical debut,...
October 5, 1980: Warren Burger delivers the opinion of the court in a 6-3 decision, which holds that Title X of the National Scientific Education Act is constitutional.
12th October, 1980: FIAT controlled company Aeritalia merged with electronics producer Selenia, founding the Alenia Spazio. The move was supported from the Imperial government to give impulse to the aerospacial industry, in fact the ney company joined in a common project with ASI to realize a new type of shuttle.
Ocotber 25th, 1980: Salem bin Laden begins meetings with Taliban leaders in Kabul, Afghanistan, at the request of the Arabian government...
October 26, 1980: Salem bin Laden is killed in an explosion leaving Afghanistan, if the country had RADAR they would have noticed the cruise missile launched by an NAO plane which stuck bin Laden's car.
October 31, 1980: The first weapons shipments from the Bordeaux Pact reach Israel.
November 5, 1980: President Richard Nixon is resoundingly re-elected winning 49 out of 50 states, and having 520 electoral votes, it is the largest landslide in election history since Roosevelt in 1936.
November 8, 1980: The first weapons shipments from the NAO reach Israel. <Yes Nixon did intentional drag his heals here to put it after the election>
December 10th, 1980: OPEC reports oil now sells for $36.00/barrel, futher stalling the economies of the Bordeaux Pact....