Here is the ninth update of the ATL:
1945- Plane of French officials heading to discuss possible post-war borders explodes mid-air. France's negotiations strangled. Other French officials are assasinated by Algerian nationalists.
January 5nd, 1945: Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the British Labour Party Clement Attlee is killed when he slips on an icy pavement in the streets of London, breaking his neck. As a result, Herbert Morrison is appointed deputy Prime Minister under the National Government and Leader of the Labour Party.
January 12th, 1945: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt announces that he has stopped smoking, upon the advice of Secretary Lucy Mercer.....
Febuary 2nd, 1945: British Prime Minister Winston Chruchill, US President Franklin Roosevelt fly to Yalta to meet with Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin to disscuss the Post War Situation in Europe aswell as the conclusion of the war agaisnt Japan in the far east. Also on this day, Iosif Stalin dies of heart attack, throwing the Soviet Union into chaos for 9 long years. This will cripple Soviet nuclear capabilities and post-war borders.
February 4, 1945: General Zhukov was killed in a car accident somewhere in Poland.
February 15, 1945: A MI-6 report arrived on Churchill's desk, stating that the Alpine Redoubt is nothing more than a myth. A similar OSS report reached Roosevelt. The decision is made: the Allies will take Berlin, come hell or high water.
February 28, 1945: General Gotthard Heinrici replaced Heinrich Himmler as commander of Army Group Vistula.
March 21, 1945: The last divisions evacuated from the Courland Pocket arrived in Germany. Army Group Courland is then disbanded, its units sent to the Oder Line, waiting for the inevitable Soviet offensive.
April 4, 1945: The Ruhr Pocket is cut off. Fifteenth Army under Major General Gerow is order to contain the pocket. First and Ninth Army heads east, and prepares for the offensive towards Berlin.
April 5, 1945: 1st Infantry Division, the Big Red One, was reassigned to the XIX Corps.
April 5th-6th, 1945: Freeman Field Mutiny; African-American members of the 477th Bombardment Group under Captain Anthony A. Chiappe are placed under arrest after attempting integrate an officer's club in Seymour, Indiana...
April 20, 1945: The long-awaited Soviet assault on Berlin has begun. The 1st Belorussian Front, now under command of General Chuikov, crossed the Oder, but is blocked by German forces at critical locations such as the Seelow Heights.
April 21, 1945: Operation Mjolnir, the Allied offensive towards Berlin, commences.
April 23rd, 1945: In an incredibly risky operation, the 101st Airborne is airlanded on airports and airfields on the western outskirts of Berlin. General Taylor is killed, and General McAuliffe takes command. This is later made permanent.Also landed is the British 6th Airborne to the north.
April 29th, 1945: The 506th PIR attacks SS and Wehrmacht positions around the Reichstag.
April 30, 1945: 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division stormed the Reichstag. Joseph Liebgott, Donald Malarkey, George Luz, David Webster, Frank Perconte, Eugene Roe, Floyd Talbot, and Denver Randleman raised the Stars and Stripes on the roof. Their Soviet counterparts, Dmitri Petrenko and Viktor Renzov, arrived 3 hours later. Also on this day, British Paratroopers attack the Reichs Chancellory. The Führerbunker is fanatically defended by a few guards. As the British break into it, they hear a shot in one of the rooms. Eva Braun is dead, but Hitler's poison capsule failed, and the shot merely removed his lower jaw.
May 5th, 1945: Members of the 477th Bombardment under Captain Anthony A. Chiappe are charged with mutiny before a military tribunal in Fort Knox, Kentucky, sparking outrage by African-American community leaders....
May 6, 1945 : at a temporary detention facility at a secret location in Germany, a fire, some surpisingly well-organized rioting, and about two dozen very capable and heavily armed men in gas masks and civilian attire forcibly infiltrate the British-guarded location. When the invaders find and get a gas mask on the sedated prisoner Hitler, the British survivors are hit with poison gas, explosives, and probably the kitchen sink too. Half of the invading group disperses immediately on foot, by bicycle, by motorcycle, all in different directions. The other dozen and the rescued prisoner drive away in a pair of stolen Allied staff vehicles.
May 7th-8th, 1945: For the 24 hours after Hitler's rescue from prison (they presume it was a rescue, it would be too much to hope that the well-fed muscular brutes who broke Hitler out were perhaps Jewish concentration camp survivors interested in memorable vengeance), a handful of allied officials know at least part of the truth of Hitler's whereabouts. There is a discreet and intensive search for any clues of where those with Hitler might have gone. Those in the know can only hope that those who have Hitler decide to go far away and remain underground, at best the prison-break is an embarassment and at worst it could respark the war to a very limited but nonetheless unwanted extent. The latter is a strong argument for keeping the non-imprisonment of Adolf Hitler a secret. A couple of those in or close to a decision-making capacity speculate that claiming Hitler had died of injuries sustained during his capture could both lighten their burden and perhaps "smoke out" a prideful hidden Hitler into revealing his location. Others declare this notion to be dangerous nonsense. Within 48 hours of the break-out, Hitler and a determined entourage are on a small, fast-moving boat, crossing the Atlantic, and heading south.
May 10, 1945 - A nervous American official, pressed by hard-nosed reporters, blurts out that Adolf Hitler is dead. An ocean away, some sun-burned German commandoes, who hear the "news" about their fuhrer in a bar, find this information to be darkly amusing and agreeably convenient.
May 20th 1945: British PM Winston Chruchill gives to go ahead for "Operation Printer", with the objective of capturing top German Rocket Scientists and as much of thier work as possible in order to give the British Empire and Commonwealth a lead over both the US and the USSR. However, he is forced to share some of the infomationa nd technology with Americans, the top rocket scientists, including Werner Von Braun, are to remain in British hands.
July 5th 1945: Winston Churchill, at the insistence of Herbert Morrison and Labour Members of the National Government is forced to disband the National Government, despite his wish for the National Government to continue until the defeat of Japan. with elections to be held on August 15th 1945. Both sides immediately begin their elections campaigns.
August 6 and 9, 1945- Coincidences allow for the dropping of the bombs on Kokura and Niigata, in that order. Kokura had the stronger blast, and the devastation was on a scale never seen before in human history.
August 12th, 1945: Japan surrenders.
August 15th 1945: The UK General Election of 1945 takes place. However, it will take an estimated two weeks for the results to announced due to the time it will take for military votes from overseas to be counted.
August 30th 1945: Winston Churchill and the Conservatives win the UK general election after the final results have been counted. In his victory speech, Churchill states that "Our policy is the restoration and maintenance of the greatness of Britain and of the British Empire. As during the war, there will be no surrender". However, he accepts that if Britain wants American support for maintaining the empire, Indian independence is inevitable.
September 2nd 1945: Herbert Morrison steps down as leader of the Labour Party and leader of the Opposition. He is repalced by former Minsiter for Labour and National Service, Ernest Bevin.
September 4th-7th, 1945: Soviet military forces launch a brutal anti-Semitic pogrom in Kiev, Ukraine SSR, sparking national attention...
September 9th, 1945- A meeting between Klaus Fuchs, and other Americans or expatriate scientists selling secrets to the Soviets, and NKVD agents is ended abruptly when a gas leak meets a spark. All people inside die.
October 6th-8th, 1945: Anti-American protests erupt in Toulousse, Nice, and Paris, France, condemning what is seen as the massive slaughter of innocent civilians through nuclear weapons...
October 20th, 1945: Jaime "Abisinio" Pares Adán and Juan "Roget" Salas Millón launch an armed insurrection against the fascist regime of Generalisimmo Francisco Franco in Madrid, Spain...
December 21st, 1945: George Patton is caught in a car crash with an car carrying a fellow American officer. Although his arm is broken Patton will live.
December 25th, 1945- The assasination of major Chinese communist leaders sparks the Chinese civil war. Also on this day, Christmas Mutiny; 4,000 soldiers attached to the 21st Replacement Depot are accused of mutiny in Manila, Philippines after demanding the right to return home, "We Want Ships!" demand protesters....
Post-War, 1945: Successful Allied offensive into Berlin and Soviet turmoil prompts a different peace. At the Sansoucci conference, Germany is given back all of Silesia and Prussia (not Danzig/Corridor, of course) by Germanophiles, at the expense of a navy, an air force and a good chunk of her army. Most officials are captured and put on trial. However, it is clear that this larger Germany is a paper tiger- emasculated in heart while strong still on paper. The German monarchy is restored to bring legitimacy to the new democracy and to ward off communist influence. They, like the country they now rule, are largely figurative. Germany would not regain full sovereignty until 1963.
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January 8th, 1946: American troops in Paris, France demand to be able to be shipped home, marching along the Champs d'Elyssee....
January 10th, 1946: Seoul Declaration; American troops stationed in Seoul, South Korea demand the right to return home, sparking international attention, when the declaration is published in the New York Times...
February 18th-21st, 1946: Second Sepoy Mutiny; General Shah Nawaz Khan launches a massive armed insurrection against British forces in Pune, Karachi, Calcutta, and Bombay, after members of the Indian National Congress including Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohandas Gandhi are arrested by British officials,.....
March 3, 1946: thanks either to being distracted by a lovely large butterfly alighting on the drawing board, or insights shared over beers the previous night with some ex-Nazi rocket and jet scientists, a designer at British aeroplane giant de Havilland decides to go with round windows for its revolutionary jet-driven Comet airliner.
April 20th, 1946: Korean nationalist Li Jung-Kyu, calls for the American withdrawal from Korea in Anwui, South Korea....
April 21st, 1946: Socialist-led insurrection erupts in Lucerne, Switzerland, amidst disputes over labor union rights...
May 11th, 1946: The British Governement flat-out refuses to sell the Soviets plans, parts or completed Units of the Rolls-Royce Nene Jet Engine.
June 2nd, 1946: People of Italy decides on referendum that Italy stays monarchy.
June 6th, 1946: In Milan riots by leftist and republicans.
June 15th, 1946: Amintore Fanfani says that Northern Italy should secede from Italy. He calls new state Padania.
June 16th, 1946: Prime Minister Giuseppe Pella says that Italy wouldn't allow secession.
June 22th, 1946: In Milan republic-favor politicians declare republic of Padania independence.
June 24th, 1946: Members of Aosta Valley region say being intressing secede from Italy and joining to France.
June 25th, 1946: Italy sends troops to Northern Italy. Later same day king Umberto II keep speech on radio and says hoping peaceful solution.
June 26th, 1946: Army of Italy says that it just keep order in Northern Italy and not open fire if anybody don't attack against that.
June 27th, 1946: Members of Southern Tyrol says that region might secede from Italy and join to Austria.
July 2nd, 1946: Government of Italy resing because of crisis of Northern Italy.
July 4th, 1946: Brutal anti-Semitic pogroms are launched by the Polish government in Białystok, Krakow, Lublin, Łódź, Rzeszów, and Warsaw...
July 22th, 1946: Intermin government of Italy says allowing referendum about secession of Northern Italy.
August 1st, 1946: General Andrey Andreyevich Vlasov launches an armed insurrection against the Soviet government in Moscow, calling for aid
from American and British governments....
August 14th, 1946: XVth SS Cossack Cavalry Corps led by Major I.N.Kononov, leads an armed insurrection against the Soviet government in Rostov-on-Don, sparking international attention. Also on this day, Soviet Politburo passes a resolution by Andrei A. Zhadanov, proclaiming "Zionism as bourgeois nationalism..."
August 22, 1946: Through intelligence gathered by one Ian Fleming of British Naval Intelligence, a British black operation in Sao Paulo resulted in the successful capture of Adolf Hitler, previously escaped his imprisonment with help of several German commandos. Otto Skorzeny was killed in the firefight.
August 26th, 1946: To forestall further issues, Hitler is quietly taken behind a shed and shot. The body is dropped from a plane somewhere over the rainforest.
October 10th 1946: British test pilot Eric "Wrinkle" Brown becomes the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound, acheiving a speed of Mach 1.07 in a Miles M.52 supersonic reasearch plane, later dubbed Pioneer
October 4th, 1946: In Northern Italy is three referendums. Aosta Valley says yes for joining to France, Northern Tyrol says yes for joining to AUstria and Padania (Piedmont, Lombardy, Alto Adige, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Veneto, Liguria and Emilia Romagna) says yes for Independence.
December 8th, 1946: Tebhaga Insurrection; Members of the Communist Kisan Sabha (KS) led by Jyoti Basu launch an armed insurrection in Rangpur, North Bengal, demanding massive land reforms....
December 16th, 1946: Albert Einstein and Paul Robeson speak before a rally of the "American Crusade Against Lynching" in New York City, New York....
December 19th, 1946: Anti-tax protesters re-enact the Boston Tea Party in Boston, Massachusetts, sparking national attention...
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January 26th, 1947: Prince of Sweden, duke of Västerbotten Gustav Adolf's plane not explose on airport of Coepenhagen.
February 1947: during a visit do the Empire State Building, Henry J. Kaiser and Preston Tucker share an elevator ride to the top. They recognize each other as a pair of visionaries set on transforming the automotive industry. The heady air on top of the world fuels fruitful discussions.
February 15th, 1947: Duncan Sandys, head of Operation Crossbow during the war sufferes a fatal car crash. It is later found out that the brake cables were cut.
February 20th, 1947: Von Braun approaches Churchill, claiming that a primitive artificial sattelite by 1953 at a minimal cost, using salvaged and reverse-engineered V2 components and developed technologies.
March 15th, 1947- Chinese communists defeated and executed. However, a radical Communist agitator assasinates Chiang as he makes his exultation of victory over the radio. The bomb destroys a good portion of the Kuomintang government, and the Chinese nation dissolves into ethnic enclaves, warlord states, and all-out war. The new nations would not reach full peace until 1969. In that period, China would undergo the greatest loss of life in human history, through famine, biological warfare, and genocidal methods.
April 15th, 1947: African-American baseball player Jackie Robinson is shot and killed by a bigot in Brooklyn, New York...
May 9th, 1947: General Andrei Shkuro is captured and brutally executed by Soviet troops in Rostov-on-Don, claiming that he was backed by American and British troops....
May 27th, 1947: Anarchist Enrique Marco Nadal takes credit for the bombing of government barracks in Madrid, Spain, killing 23 people....
June 13th, 1947- British finally leave India.
July 4th, 1947- A reactor explosion at Arzamas-16 explodes, taking out most of the project. Also on this day, the Kaiser-Tucker Torpedo flagship sedan, the do-it-all Kaiser-Tucker Special midsize sedan/hatchback and the Kaiser-Tucker Henry J compact sedan debut on the American market...
November 2nd, 1947: Howard Hughes is killed while testing the Spruce Goose. A unforeseen flaw in the starboard wing would bring down the plane seconds after lifting off the water.
December 30th, 1947: Romanian Civil War erupts; Monarchist and Soviet-backed guerillas clash in Bucharest, Romania, sparking concerns of a growing Balkan conflict....
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February 21st, 1948: Movimiento Libertario de Resistencia (M.L.R.) led by Liberto Sarrau, proclaims a "government-in-exile" in Paris, France, embarassing American occupation forces....
May 5, 1948- Indian Communist Revolution begins.
June 26th- July 26th, 1948: Montjuich Uprising; Raul Carbeillera leads an armed insurrection in Montjuich, Spain, saying, "If America truly believes in liberty, then why do they reject helping us?"
July 29th- August 14th, 1948: The Swedish fotball team goes undefeated through the tournament to win. The Swedish athletics association decided that Gunder Hagg and Arne Andersson had not been professionals and that they were free to compete in the olympics. Gunder Hagg wins 1500 m with Arne thrid and in the 5000 m race Arne wins and Gunder comes in second.
September 12th, 1948: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is killed by a bomb in San Sebastien planted by Socialist Antonio Ortiz, causing a massive succession crisis...
September 17th, 1948: British-backed Usman Ali Khan Bahadur is captured and executed by Communist guerillas in Hyderabad, India....
November 7th, 1948- Douglas MacArthur, riding upon his WWII popularity in the Pacific War, and having passed on leadership of SCAP, wins the Presidency of the United States. His vice-president is Robert Taft. His presidency would be one of balanced isolationism unless provoked. Upon provocation, he would strike with deadly military force.
November 11th, 1948: The Presley family relocates to Lubbock, Texas.
November 19th, 1948: U.S. Army Spc. 1st Class, Garry Davis leads a rally in Paris, France calling for the withdrawal of American troops from Europe....
December 16th, 1948: Party Secretary Andrei Zhdanov is purged from the Politburo in Moscow for "harboring counter-revolutionary sympathies"....
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January 8th, 1949: Triad warlords proclaim control of Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai....
January 29th, 1949: Hyderabad Declaration; Communist Party Chairman Puran Chand Joshi launches a proclamation calling for British and American forces to leave India...
March 24th, 1949: Professor Jan Dembowski leads a Communist uprising in Warsaw, Poland, sparking international attention....
June 17th, 1949: Geza Losonczi leads a Socialist uprising in Budapest, Hungary, raising tensions throughout Eastern and Central Europe...
July 5, 1949- Cuba undergoes a Communist putsch, supported by Beria.
July 6th, 1949- A gathering of the German royal family is attacked by anarchists. Only Kaiser Wilhelm III and Prince Franz Wilhelm, son of Karl Franz, survive.
July 27th, 1949: Jean Roumilhac leads protests in Paris, France against the American and British military actions in India, as part of an "imperialist offensive..."
September 19th, 1949: Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly meet during music class at Hutchison Junior High School.
October 2nd, 1949: Friedrich Ebert leads a Socialist uprising in Berlin, setting the Berlin Opera House on fire....
October 11th, 1949: Jawarhalal Nehru demands that the United States and Great Britain "get out of India" during a speech in New York City, New York....
October 17th-21st, 1949: Barcelona Uprising; José Sabater Llopart leads an armed insurrection in Barcelona, Spain....
November 8th, 1949: Eugenio de Luchhi, Gaetano Busico, and Gaspare Mancuso bomb the American embassy in Rome, Italy, citing the Anglo-American military actions in India...
November 13th, 1949: Triad leaders proclaim control of Hong Kong, despite efforts at a crackdown by British officials...
December 11th, 1949: American officials begin backing General Lu Han in Nanjing, China, in an effort to prevent a political takeover by Communist forces....
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January 9th, 1950: Muslim leader Ma Bufang leads an armed insurrection in Xinjiang, calling for a Muslim state.....
January 16th, 1950: 93rd Division, 26th Army, General Li Mi marches into Nanjing, China, in an effort to support General Lu Han...
February 2nd, 1950: Manuel "Manolo" Sabaté is executed as a "Communist spy" by government officials in Barcelona, Spain....
February 18th, 1950: Austria becomes constitutional kingdom. Otto von Lothringen-Habsburg becomes king of Austria with regnal name Otto I.
March 9th, 1950: President Douglas Macarthur approves $100 million in military aid to the Kuomintang government in Nanjing, China...
March 10th 1950: British Prime Minister Winston Chrcuhill steps down citing increasing i'll health, declaring that "We won the war, now i feel we have won the peace." Fromer Deputy Prime Minister Anthony Eden replaces Chruchill as Prime Minister and calls a General Election set for June 25th.
March 13th, 1950: Belgium decides on referendum become republic.
March 24th, 1950: Flanders Declare independence.
March 27th, 1950: Prime Minister Jean Duvieusart says that he don't accept independence of Flanders.
April 3rd, 1950: Deposed king of Belgium, Leopold accepts offer for king of Flanders.
April 5th, 1950: Leopold warns that civil war of Belgium is surely very disastrous both sides.
April 6th, 1950: American pacifists led by Norman Thomas launch the "Fast for Peace" hunger-strike in Washington D.C., calling for the end to the military draft...
April 8th, 1950: Lonja Uprising; José Lluis Facerias leads an armed insurrection against the government in Lonja, Spain....
April 9th, 1950: Serge Berna, Jean-Louis Brau, Ghislain Desnoyers de Marbaix and Michel Mourre lead student riots against the British and American embassies in Paris, France, in opposition to the military involvement in India...
April 10th, 1950: Prime Minister Duvieusart resign. New prime minister Jean van Houtte is ready negotiate future of Belgium.
April 19th, 1950: Elvis and Buddy sing and play guitar on KDAV radio, gaining a lot of local recognition.
April 26th, 1950: Flanders and Wallones decides that Belgium divide to two independence countries and Brussels goes to Flanders. Belgian Congo give to France and protectorate Ruanda-Burundi give to United Kingdom.
June 24th-July 16th, 1950: The Swedish football association has decided to forgive the professional players for beeing professional and the following players are included in the team:Gunnar Gren, Nils Liedholm and Gunnar Nordal. The Swedish team storms ahead and wins the gold.
June 25th 1950: Anthony Eden and the Conservatives win the UK General Election.
July 5th, 1950: Salvatore Giuliano leads an armed insurrection in Castelvetrano, Sicily, further destabilizing Italy
September 25th, 1950: William Drury is installed as Chief of Police in Chicago, Illinois, while being blackmailed by crime bosses Paul Ricca and Louis Campagna....
October 31st, 1950- Communists overthrow the Indian government after a two-year civil war. President MacArthur quickly organizes a mass bombing campaign, and starts the Indian War.
November 11th, 1950- American battleships ready for strike on India. Ground operations begin with an invasion of the Bengal.
December 25th, 1950- Franklin Delano Roosevelt dies in Warm Springs, GA, in the arms of his mistress.
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January 1st, 1951- Major industry in India bombed by air.
January 4th, 1951: "The Door" single by George Jones protests against the military draft, and the continued military involvement in India...
January 7, 1951- Chennai and Hyderabad attacked by nuclear fire.
January 9th, 1951- Women Strike for Peace led by Bella Abzug and Dagmar Wilson, launch a protest outside the White House in Washington D.C., in opposition to the nuclear bombing of India....
February 6th, 1951: Marcelino Massana leads a rally of 750,000 people in Paris, France calls for "volunteer militias" to "drive out the last vestige of fascism..."
February 28th, 1951: INTERPOL reports that Chinese Triads have the world's largest criminal syndicate, with 3,000,000 active members...
April 20th, 1951: Guy-Ernest Debord bombs a movie theater in Paris, France that is featuring American and British films as "diabolical propaganda"...
May 14th, 1951: Nuclear scientist Linus Pauling sparks international controversy after leading an anti-nuclear protest rally in Los Angeles, California....
May 27th, 1951: Folk singer Woody Guthrie releases the single "Masters of War", condemning American military action in India,.....
June 1st, 1951: Communist Party Chairman Puran Chand Joshi vows to continue the armed struggle against British and American forces, during a rally on the outskirts of the remains of Hyderabad, India....
June 3rd, 1951: "Suicide is Painless" musical single by Johnny Mandel, makes its hit debut, protesting the war in India....
June 7th, 1951: Comedian Lenny Bruce is placed under arrest on obscenity charges in New York City, New York after pointing out,"Isn't it ironic that less than 200 years ago Americans fought against the British for independence, and now we are killing Indians for the British to prevent them from gaining independence..."
June 25th, 1951: Who's Whose (NBC-TV) game show hosted by Phil Baker, makes its hit series debut....
July 14th, 1951: CIA Director Allen Dulles resigns over disagreements with the Macarthur administration over nuclear policies....
July 19th, 1951: Second Barcelona Uprising; César Saborit Carrelero leads an armed insurrection against the government in Barcelona, Spain....
August 6th, 1951: World Peace Day rallies against the American and British governments are held throughout Japan, with the largest rallies held in Tokyo, Hiroshima, Kyoto, and Nagasaki....
August 16th, 1951: Triad boss Du Yuesheng seizes control of the begins massive shipments of heroin to Western Europe through Hong Kong, China...
September 25th, 1951: Muslim leader Bai Chongxi calls for "holy war" against the Kuomintang government in Xinjiang...
November 14th, 1951: Seville Uprising; César Saborit Carrelero launches an armed insurrection in Seville, Spain....
November 20th, 1951: Governor Thomas Dewey (R-NY) is forced to resign after allegations of ties to organized crime are leaked to the press in Albany, New York...
November 22nd, 1951: Chinese Triads begin transporting, with CIA help, shipments large shipments of heroin by C-47s at Mong Hsat, through American troops into the United States....
December 24th, 1951: NAACP leaders Harry Moore and Harriette Moore are brutally lynched in Mims, Florida.
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January 11th, 1952: Bertrand Russell leads a protest against the War Office in London, England, sparking international attention...
January 20th, 1952: Countess Alexandra Lvovna Tolstoy calls for the formation of a Russian "government-in-exile" during a rally in Los Angeles, California, sparking tensions between the United States and Soviet Union...
February 11th, 1952: Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell condemns the Macarthur administration in a letter published in the New York Times...
April 8th, 1952- Lavrentiy Beria, leader of the KNVD, seizes power after 7 years of civil chaos. The Soviets, due to this, have only gained Congress Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and the Balkans (outside of Greece) under their influence (in name) . However, Beria would spend 2 years "conquering" these territories.
April 27th, 1952: Raymond L.S. Patriarca seizes control of organized crime in Boston, Massachusetts, taking advantage of the demand for drugs...
May 12th-18th, 1952: Nagchuka Uprising; Muslim leader Ma Liang launches a massive armed insurrection in Nagchuka, Xinjiang...
June 15th, 1952: War Resisters League (WRL) led by A.J. Muste and Dorothy Day lead a major protest rally against the Macarthur administration in Washington D.C., sparking national attention....
July 11th, 1952: Gerald L.K. Smith speaks at the Republican National Convention in support of President Douglas Macarthur, claiming Democrats are "the tools of Communists..."
August 1st, 1952: First World Conference Against Atomic Weapons is held in Tokyo, Japan, causing embarassment for the Macarthur administration....
August 19th, 1952: Battle of Kokang; Chinese forces under General Li Mi, battle against Indian forces at Kokang in an effort to secure shipment routes for heroin...
October 30th 1952: The East Prussia crisis begins after Soviet Premier Lavrentiy Beria, in an attempt to force the allied armeis stationed in East Prussia to leave, orders the German Exclave to be blockaded and secretly begins sending supplies to German Communists in East Prussia in order to start an uprising.
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1953- Indian War is over. With the Soviets weak and lacking in nuclear capabilities, the Americans quickly took India. India would have American military presence for years.
January 13th, 1953: CPLR forces begin rounding Jewish people in the major cities throughout the Soviet Union, in a popular anti-Jewish pogrom....
February 9th, 1953: Newspapers throughout the Soviet Union begin publishing stories of "Anglo-American Zionist conspiracies...", with the arrests of Georgi Malenkov and Nikita Khrushchev as "potential agents"...
March 1st, 1953: Al Fago's Atomic Mouse makes its hit debut at Charlton Comics. It proves to be a cult classic, and is commonly cited as one of the originators of what will soon come to be known as the 'furry subculture'...
March 5th, 1953: Jewish groups around the globe begin reporting about massive internment camps throughout the Soviet Union. President Douglas Macarthur nor Vice-President Robert Taft believe the reports as "interventionist hype"....
April 3rd, 1953: President Douglas Macarthur backs the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (CLPR) in Washington D.C., sparking international controversy...
May 20th, 1953: Wallonia decides join to France on referendum.
July 8th-13th, 1953- President MacArthur launches the successful Bay of Pigs attack, and declares an American protectorate.
August 5th, 1953: U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. is forced to resign after ties to organized crime figure Joe Adonis are leaked to the press in Washington D.C.,...
August 19th, 1953: Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh successfully blocks a CIA-backed coup to install Shah Reza Pahlavi as a head of state in Tehran, Iran, sparking many Iranians to openly oppose the American and British governments....
September 30th, 1953: Glen or Glenda underground documentary film by Ed Wood detailing the oppression of the LGBT community makes its debut. It will be considered a major historical record of the period.
November 27th, 1953: American Vice-President Robert Taft narrowly survives an assassination attempt in Nanjing, China...
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January 12th, 1954: Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Paul Richards, and Jerry Allison are signed to RCA Records under the band name The Beetles.
April 23rd, 1954: Humanitarian leader Albert Schweitzer condemns the United States and Great Britain for their use of nuclear weapons on civilian sites....
May 1st, 1954: Lavrentiy Beria is assassinated by several members of the Red Army while inspecting the troops. he is quickly succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev.
May 9th, 1954: General Albert C. Wedemeyer briefs President Macarthur that withdrawal of troops from China would have "catastrophic results" during a meeting in Washington D.C.,...
May 17th, 1954: Thurgood Marshall helps Brown vs. Board of Education win in the Supreme Court, which establishes that public segregation is illegal.
June 28th, 1954: Muslim leader Ma Hushan proclaims himself the chief imam in Xinjiang, demanding the expulsion of all Kuomintang...
July 4th, 1954: Miracle in Bern. After loosing to Hungary with 8-3 in the groupstage Italy plays a different game in the final, 4-4-2 formation is born, and win the game with 5-1.
July 10th, 1954: Calogero Vizzini proclaims Sicilian independence in Villalba, Sicily, sparking international attention....
August 16th, 1954: Douglas McArthur is the first President since McKinley to be assasinated in Office by an Indian Nationalists as he tours American Army bases in India. Vice President Robert Taft is sworn in and later speaks on Radio and TV. He vows to end the unpopular semi-occupation of India and increase American commitment to Europe.
August 17th 1954: Vice-president Robert Taft takes the oath of office and officially becomes President.
August 21th 1954: George Patton begins a series of talks and speeches across America about how the US should be more active in the world. Many believe that this the start of Patton making a grab for the Republican nomination in 1956.
August 22nd, 1954: Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill and current Prime Minister Anthony Eden visit the British Army of the Oder in Silesia. They make a series of speeches, saying that 'by 1970 Germany will be fully reintegrated into the world Community', praising the efforts at de-nazification that have taken place over the last decade.
September 3rd 1954: The 1954 British Genral Election is held not long after Anthony Edens return from Germany. However, the Labour Party under Hugh Gaitskell come out victorious, forming the first labour Government since 1935.
September 17th 1954: New York governor Thomas Dewey welcomes George Patton to his state and arranges for him to speak at several high attending events. Newspapers talk of an Anti-Taft wing of the Republican party which may influence the Republican convention in 1956.
November 8th, 1954: Thomas Stanley is re-elected to the House of Representatives, where he will serve for the remainder of his political career.
December 9, 1954: The future leaders of the Hong Kong Resistance meets for the first time
December 22nd, 1954: Pope Pius XII condemns the nuclear policies of President Douglas Macarthur for "destabilizing peace around the world", during his Christmas radio message....
December 24th, 1954: Singer Johnny Ace leads an anti-war concert in Houston, Texas, with his new single "Do They Know It's Christmas Time?"
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March 4, 1955: A fire in a Kowloon sauna wiped out most of the upper echelons of the Triad. It was later determined to be an accident. In a secret location, Lee Jun-Fan received a standing ovation from HKR leaders.
March 7th, 1955: The first single is released from The Beetles eponymous debut album, receiving moderate success in America. It is titled "Not Fade Away".
April 2nd, 1955: The second single is released from the Beetles eponymous debut album, receiving great success in America, hitting number one on the top hits chart and creating a lot of buzz for their album. It is entitled "Heartbreak Hotel".
April 12th, 1955: The first album is released by the Beetles, and it rockets it's way to number one on America's hits chart. They are praised for their original new style, which is dubbed rockabilly by the press.
April 20th, 1955: French officials announce the withdrawal of non-essential diplomatic personnel from Beijing and Shanghai,..
May 19th, 1955: The Beetles begin the first of three separate tours across America, giving rise to "Beetle-mania".
June 25th, 1955: Pierre Morain is arrested in Paris, France for aiding Spanish Republican guerillas with weapons....
July 14th-16th, 1955: Chinese Triad forces led by Chan Shee-fu seize Kengtung City, Laos in an effort to secure heroin trade efforts...
October 28th, 1955: American Christian missionaries are brutally attacked in Shanghai, China, sparking tensions within the region...
December 21st, 1955: The second Beetles album is released, entitled "Blue Moon Boys", and makes a record by selling a million copies.
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February 24th, 1956: Senator Harry F. Byrd (D-VA) challenges President Robert Taft to enforce any civil rights legislation during a speech in Washington D.C.,....
March 3, 1956- Montreal, Quebec Province, Canada: Citroen announces the production of its 100,000th Canadian-built 2CV "Quebecois Edition," with special-for-Canada features such as extra-strength auxiliary heating, and, as an option for the outdoorsier types, an extra engine in the back to drive the rear wheels too.
March 26th, 1956: Strom Thurmond (D-SC) and Richard B. Russell (D-GA) publish the "Southern Manifesto" calling for opposition to the policies of President Robert Taft....
March 28th, 1956: The Conqueror starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward, financed by Howard Hughes makes its hit film debut...
July 11th, 1956: The third Beetles album is released, entitled "Lubbock Rockabilly". It shoots the number one on the American charts.
October 10th-14th, 1956: Triad militias launch an attack against pro-demcracy leaders in Kowloon, killing 44 people in the process...
December 4th, 1956: President Robert Taft reiterates support for the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (CLPR), despite ties to the Nazi Party of Germany, during a press conference in Washington D.C.,..
December 15th, 1956: Singer and entertainer Nat King Cole is lynched during a concert in Birmingham, Alabama by members of the North Alabama White Citizens Council led by Asa Carter....
December 25th, 1956: Civil rights leader Fred Shuttlesworth is killed after his home is bombed in Birmingham, Alabama....
December 30th, 1956: The fourth Beetles album is released, entitled "Beetles '56", and goes from the number 98 spot to the number 1 spot in a week, making history.
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May 10th, 1957: Colombian President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla successfully leads a call for national resistance against the American government in Bogota, Colombia...
May 16th, 1957: Alexander Lvovich Kazembek proclaims the fascist roots of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (CLPR), embarassing American officials in Washington D.C.,...
June 6th, 1957: The U.S. Justice Department reports that it "no longer can control" the amount of heroin from China entering into the United States....
June 17th, 1957: Kuomintang forces brutally crush student demonstrations in Taipei, Taiwan, sparking concern over the Sino-American relationship...
September 24th, 1957: Members of the "1010" (a.k.a. "Double Tenth") Triad militia launch an armed insurrection against British troops in Hong Kong, killing 17 people...
October 1st, 1957: Jet Pilot starring John Wayne and Janet Leigh, makes its hit debut, glamorizing the U.S. Air Force ...
November 14th, 1957: Apalachin Conference; Vito Genovese, Carlo Gambino, Paul Castellano, Joseph Bonanno, Joseph Profaci, Joseph Magliocco and John Montana divide powers amongst the major crime families in Apalachin, New York...
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April 4th, 1958: After years of constant touring, the Beetles finally get around to releasing another album, "Five on Five". It is another smashing success.
May 4th, 1958: Sushi becomes a major fad in the US and much of Western Europe, with cheap tuna rolls becoming a permanent fixture in the American diet. "As sushi has become a popular trend in Europe, red tuna is threatened with extinction in the Mediterranean," reports FOOM Magazine...
May 19th, 1958- Robert Taft makes a televised speech officially and permanently severing ties with the CLPR, citing their anti-Semitic and fascist tendencies. This effectively stops the tumor on his polls- public sentiment was firmly against the CLPR.
June 8th-June 29th, 1958: First and only time its played in Sweden. Sweden looses to Italy in the semifinal. In the final West Germany play Brazil and play rough. The young talant Pele is carried out on a strecher after 15 minutes. West Germany wins the final with 4-1.
August 18th, 1958: West Indies Federation forms.
September 8th, 1958: Peng Chen leads an anti-American rally of 1,000,000 people in Beijing, China....
September 20th, 1958: Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. is killed by Izola Curry while at a book-signing in Harlem, New York.
October 31st, 1958- President Robert Taft makes a grand speech in Washington, in the wake of civil rights tensions.He announces the launch of efforts to enforce all civil rights legislation, including Brown vs. Board. By mid-November, integration is being enforced throughout all necessary areas. Extreme measures, such as busing, are thoroughly rejected
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January 1st, 1959: Financier Meyer Lanmsky warns the U.S. government about the threat of "Communist infiltration" of Cuba in Washington D.C.,....
March 9th, 1959: Clutch Cargo syndicated children's television show, makes its hit series debut....
June 1959: "Twilight Zone" begins airing. The sci-fi show is best known for the dialog at the start and end of each episode along with the occasional cameos by the men who created it, Alfred Hitchcock and Rod Sterling.
August 8th, 1959: The sixth Beetles album is released, entitled "Duck!". It is a noticeable departure in the sound of the previous five albums in that it includes and orchestral accompaniment on multiple tracks.
August 17, 1959: 'Sleep Walk' by Three Farinas is released, "the most covered song of the decade" according to FOOM magazine editor Stan Lee...
August 24th, 1959: Zhang Xinying leads brutal anti-foreigner riots against Christian missionaries in Beijing, China, killing 28 people...
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January 5th, 1960- While in France talking about greater involvement and partnership with Europe, George Patton and other interventionists are killed by an anarchist bomb. The interventionist wing of the GOP is crippled, and isolationism is declared "nigh-irrevocable" by pundits.
January 27th, 1960- President Taft makes another speech supporting greater isolationist measures throughout the world. On February 14th, 1960, all troops remaining in India are evacuated. In Europe, Taft pledges further de-involvement, and troops are removed from all countries except Germany. Tafts words are charismatic and inspiring, and the speech is broadcast across television sets everywhere. Many people are convinced of the goodness of isolationism for America.
April 3rd, 1960: George Lincoln Rockwell leads a rally of 250,000 people on the National Mall in Washington D.C., calling for a "return to sanity..."
June 30th, 1960: Democratic Party Convention is held in Dayton, Ohio; Governor of Arkansas Orval E. Faubus is nominated for President and U.S. Navy Rear Admiral John G. Crommelin of Alabama is nominated for Vice President. Orval Faubus accuses President Robert Taft of "dividing the country..."
July 1, 1960: In the aftermath of the Democratic Party nominating an all-southern (and segregationist) ticket, the Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota ends its merger with the Democrats.
July 2, 1960: Senator Hubert Humphrey announces his departure from the Democratic Party and switches his registration to Progressive. His colleague Eugene McCarthy and the rest of Minnesota's Congressional delegation leave the Democrats.
July 4th, 1960: George Lincoln Rockwell leads a rally in Washington D.C., in support of Governor Orval E. Faubus and his bid for the presidency....
July 5, 1960: Rep. Stewart Udall of Arizona and Senator Frank Moss of Utah, both Mormons, announce that they are leaving the Democrats for the Progressive Party.
July 6, 1960: Rep. Adam Clayton Powell of New York, the leading black politician in the USA, announces his endorsement of President Taft's reelection. Powell will switch his registration to Independent but remain in the Democratic caucus.
October 5th, 1960: Federation of Eastern Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania) forms.
November 7th, 1960- Robert Taft is re-elected. His second term will prove to be the great turning point of the isolationist debate.
November 11th, 1960: Kuomintang nationalist soldiers launch a military coup in Nanjing, China, calling for a unified national government....
November 12th, 1960: The seventh Beetles album is released, entitled "A Summer's Day". Some comment on the change of sound, which has clearly morphed to include a soul influence. They go on tour with the newly signed soul group, the Elgins, to support it.
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January 17th, 1961: African-American Rob Williams establishes "Radio Free Dixie" in Monroe, North Carolina, calling for armed insurrection against the government....
January 20th, 1961: You're In The Picture (CBS-TV) game show hosted by Jackie Gleason makes its hit series debut
April 1st, 1961: Japanese SDF forces call upon members of the Diet in Tokyo, Japan, to consider the idea of "police actions" into Chinese territory...
April 15th, 1961: GOP leader Robert Welch leads a rally in Belmont, Massachusetts, claiming that "Jews are trying to drag America into a war with Russia..."
May 4th, 1961: Kansas City, Missouri is ruled the "most vile and corrupt city possible" in a report by the Justice Department regarding organized crime....
August 17th, 1961: African-American leader Rob Williams and members of the staff of "Radio Free Dixie" enter into a gun battle with KKK members in Monroe, North Carolina; Mabel Williams, wife of Rob Williams is killed in the battle....
September 1st, 1961: Belgrade Declaration; 77 nations sign an agreement voicing their anger and opposition to the United States led by Sukarno of Indonesia; Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia; Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt; and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, citing the racist and totalitarian policies imposed...
September 9th, 1961- Cuba is declared the 51st US state, after Soviet support for Communist rebels throws the nation into near panic. This is immensely unpopular at the time, but American tourists soon flock to Cuba, and Havana soon eclipses Las Vegas as the gambling capital of the world. Guantanomo Bay is set up as a prison for the worst foreign criminals acting against America.
November 2nd, 1961: General Edwin Walker is appointed head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington D.C., sparking national attention....
December 30th, 1961: while waiting for a train, recently released ex-convict Malcolm Little and rangy, craggy Holocaust survivor Irving Schwartz start by talking about the weather. The train is delayed. In the midst of their shared disappointment, common feelings about certain circumstances in the world start to emerge. They take turns sharing increasingly extreme (but, prudently, sotto voce) diatribes about society. To each others' tortured souls, the exchange of the strongly held views are water for the desert, balm for old sores, and the pair increasingly see each other as unlikely but powerful mirror images. The commonalities between them include sharp self-honed intellects, tragic family losses at the hands of "fascistic racist" oppressors, and twisted acute senses of humor and irony. Slowly, but powerfully, they begin to absorb the information that both are men of action, and that both men had no fixed agendas, nothing compelling on their schedules. They both would very much like to have an impact. They both share a strong sense of needing to inflict a concrete, palpable justice where sorely needed. Finally, Schwartz leans forward, and whispers, "You and I, Malcolm, you and I, we need to do G-d's work. It cannot be done by itself." Malcolm Little's wide, knowing and predatory smile of agreement in response to Schwartz's statement is a sight that will be seen by a number of evil men in years to come.
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January 18, 1962: George Lincoln Rockwell, after being declared missing for several weeks, is found in an Alabama outhouse in a run-down rural area. He is dead, his face is done up in blackface with a clown-like grin, and an "X" is carved on his crudely shaved scalp. He is naked save for a "diaper" made from a white sheet, and the words "LIBERTY OR DEATH" are painted on Rockwell's chest.
January 26th, 1962: Luciano: An American Story based on the life of Lucky Luciano, starring Frank Sinatra, makes its hit film debut...
January 27, 1962: an audio-tape reel, labeled as "ROCKWELL'S LAST WELL AND TESTAMENT" is dropped off at the New York Times lobby. Editors are horrified by the apparent recording of Rockwell's tortured howls and screams with several men laughing heartily in the background. This continues until an apparently large blunt object silences Rockwell, and then a somewhat recognizable voice sharply addresses the listeners with a pungent diatribe against Rockwell and his ilk. The unnamed speaker closes by stating, "Know that we will take measurable and observable steps to defend ourselves by any means necessary!"
February 14, 1962: an anonymous tip leads FBI agents to another Alabama outhouse scene of carnage-wracked revenge: Asa Carter, his lifeless face done up in black shoe polish, with an "X" carved on his roughly shaved scalp. On a wall inside the outhouse, the cartoon-like outline of a heart is painted in the dead terrorist's blood.In some circles, excited observers begin to discuss the emergence of "The X Man"
February 27th, 1962: Kuomintang soldiers blame insurgent rebels for the bombing of the Imperial Palace in Nanjing, China, killing 6 people, injuring 60 people in the process...
March 15, 1962- Despite the setbacks of the loss of American support, the CLPR has gathered funds from the more sympathetic European powers. They have been planning Operation Brutus for 4 years, and it is set into motion. The Politburo and Soviet military are meeting in Volgagrad for a Party rally. About halfway through, multiple bombs go off in all around the area, and gunfire rakes through the crowd. In Moscow, CLPR leaders seize the Kremlin, and other members do so in other major cities. With the loss of the Soviet leadership, the Communists are crippled. Control of central Russia quickly falls to the CLPR, but monarchist-democratic counter-revolutionaries seize Leningrad and other Russian areas. Russian puppets are soon free of their bonds.
April 1st, 1962- The Polish state has stabilized in the aftermath of Operation Brutus, and quickly declares war on a perceivedly weak German constitutional monarchy in order to "liberate the oppressed Polish workers of Prussia and Silesia". On the same day, Polish agents assasinate Kaiser Wilhelm III. Kaiser Franz Wilhelm I, only 19, makes a stirring speech against the Poles and vows vengeance. It proves to be a mistake. The Bundeswehr, revitalized by delayed reparations and energetic generals, performs a repeat of Fall Weiss, and crushes the Polish forces at Stettin. The German forces invade, but are unable to take the whole country. By May 1962, a stalemate has formed.
June 2nd, 1962- Famine and failed industrialization cause awful riots in Warsaw beginning on May 8th. Polish Communist leaders realize that the stalled war with Germany cannot continue. Germany, buoyed by Western investment and grain, has the upper hand. Poland, humiliated and beset by foreign and domestic troubles, signs over Poznan, the Corridor, all parts of Silesia they own, and Thorn. Germany is restored to its Eastern 1917 borders, and Germans, returning from exile amongst the Soviets, rejoice at reclaiming their homeland. Nationalistic fervor sweeps the German people. The Volk have reason to rejoice once more. France and England are divided. Germanophobes rail against the Germans, but the hatred of Communism generally keeps the publics of both countries against Poland.
June 7th, 1962: African-American SCLC leader Roscoe Funderburk is lynched in Little Rock, Arkansas after calling for an end to segregation....
January 26th, 1962: Luciano: An American Story based on the life of Lucky Luciano, starring Frank Sinatra, makes its hit film debut...
June 21st, 1962: With the completion of what the Beetles say will be their last tour, they release their eighth studio album, entitled "The Hollow Men". It is a politically charged album, lamenting the racism in the south. It also is noted for it's heavier, darker sound, in comparison to earlier, happier albums by the Beetles.
June 30th, 1962: African-American CORE leader James Poston is killed while delivering a speech in Birmingham, Alabama calling for armed resistance...
August 1, 1962: John Romita's Spiderman Loves Mary Jane is released by Atlas Comics, marketed as a romance comic with a fantasy twist. Still, despite becoming a major cult phenomena on high school and college campuses it does not revitalize the superhero genre.
September 29th, 1962: Governor Ross R. Barnett defies calls by President Robert Taft at desgregation, carrying a rifle in Oxford, Mississippi...
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January 23rd, 1963: Wisconsin Governor John W. Reynolds (D-WI) is killed in Kenosha, Wisconsin, after reporting massive corruption by organized crime....
March 5th, 1963: Singer Patsy Cline condemns the Administration during a rally in Camden, Tennessee, sparking national attention...
June 12th, 1963: Cleopatra starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, and Roddy McDowell, makes its hit film debut...
October 8th, 1963: "La Alianza Federal de los Mercedes" is formed by Reies Lopez Tijerina, calling for an end to "American imperialism"...
December 29th, 1963- Communists attempt to conquer Austria. The Western Europeans quickly spring to action, and Germany, led by right-wingers and non-Nazi nationalists, are first to attack. Also on this day, after months of searching, Southerners find the X Man, a Malcolm Little, in Mississippi. He is put up for show trial, and then thrown to the mobs. After 5 hours of "vengeance", he is little more than a quadraplegic body with limbs cut off and the stumps cauterized. He is without a nose and has no teeth left. They find with him most of his relatives. The women are shot quickly, due to Southern chivalry, but the younger female relatives are brutally raped. His male relatives are tied to crosses and burned. Malcolm himself is kept alive as a show of force to "other nigger savages and their ilk".
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January 1, 1964 : on the side of a rural dirt road in Mississippi, three men are sitting in a dusty cream Kaiser-Tucker Torpedo. It is not a rare car, but it is distinctive, very roomy, and, thanks to its unusual rear-engine configuration, the front "trunk" allows for the creation of a number of useful hiding places that will be overlooked by the casual observer. In this particular car, the hidden items include parts for a sniper-quality rifle, a rather enchanting antique long-barreled shot-gun, and special hand-made shells for that shot-gun. The shells are filled with large shot filed into diamond shapes, with lovely sharp edges. These three men spend considerable time on the road, and filing the shot into shape is a satisfying way to pass time. Thusly, it takes hours to make a single shell, but the results of using the custom shells are nothing short of spectacular. In the driver's seat of the Torpedo, an immense man of pale complexion rests his very, very large hands on the steering wheel. Samson Rapp is a man of few words, and this characteristic of his is rarely an issue for his compatriots. Rapp in action inspires confidence in his peers. His actions also inspire fear and loathing in those he sees as his and The Lord's enemies. Rapp's usually bluff face is touched with deep melancholy. He misses his friend. Rapp's life-long friend, Irving Schwartz, is seated in back. Schwartz stares out into the night, seeing fields and seeing beyond the fields. He sees fire. He sees darkness. He sees barbed wire, walking skeletons, monsters in uniform, and clownish animals draped in white sheets, mocking a child's halloween costume in the name of frightening good people. The third man, stretched in the front passenger seat, is at least as large as Rapp. The third man, with a deep dark ebony complexion, shares Rapp's tastes in hair-style (both have shaved heads) and clothing (dark, roomy suits) and sense of having lost a friend and comrade. Hercules "Pearly" White, who befriended the "X-Men" when they were still in the contemplative stages of their reign of terror, is fondling in his right hand fingers a mostly-filed shot, no longer a rounded ball, and not yet sharp-edged enough to draw blood with casual handling. "Malcolm," Rapp says in a mournful and deliberate basso profundo rumble to the air in front of him. (Those overhearing him might wonder if he perhaps is related to academic Henry Kissinger, but, he is not.) "Malcolm, we are not done." Pearly inhales deeply through his nostrils, looks at the shot in his hand, and exhales. He says to Rapp, "We are far from done."
January 2nd, 1964: Irving Schwartz gives a speech on television on the attack (and assumed death) of Malcolm Little. His speech is a profanity-laced tirade against "the fascist white American political machine". It sparks national attention.
February 1964- Austrian nationalists launch riots across Austria proclaiming the necessity of an Anschluss with the democratic Kaiserreich.
March 19th, 1964: The Beetles release their first album from Britain, after moving there due to various death threats. It is entitled "The Dark Fields (Of The Human Mind)", and continues the trend of dark and heavy rock music, but the lyrics are less politically charged and are instead angled at humanities dark nature instead.
April 1st, 1964: Brazilian President João Goulart survives an American-backed coup attempt in Rio de Janeiro; Goulart calls upon Latin American nations to oppose the dictatorship that the United States of America has become...
June 25th, 1964: Circus World starring John Wayne, Claudia Cardinale, and Rita Hayworth, makes its hit film debut...
October 5th-10th, 1964: Cairo Conference; Representatives from 77 nations gather in Cairo, Egypt voicing their opposition to the United States, citing the annexation of Cuba as a "threat to world peace..."
October 7th, 1964: Russian officials lynch Jewish leader Dov Satat, as a "Zionist monster" after Satat reports on the brutal conditions of the Jewish internment camps...
November 7th, 1964- The libertarian Richard M. Nixon, a noted anti-corruption crusader, wins the Presidency after support from libertarians across America. He will be a friend to drugs, the environment, guns, civil rights and isolationists. Social programs will suffer under his term, and affirmative action will be crushed in Congress. Also on this day, Previously unsuccesful candidate and Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater is elected as Vice-President.
December 11th, 1964: Singer Sam Cooke survives an assassination attempt during a rally in Los Angeles, California condemning the White House for "hating black people..."
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January 20th, 1965- President Nixon denounces in his inauguration speech all forms of racial violence, maligning both the X Man and the Southern mobs who did him in.
15th February, 1965: Carlos Lacerda grows increasingly disappointed with the United States and it's actions throughout the world. In this day, he writes in his diary: "This just can't go on. Today, I read on the newspaper that the Americans, in a counter-terrorist attack in Lucknow have killed 70 people, 33 of them kids. I cannot stop thinking about those kids and the life they had ahead of them, with everything bright this century had to offer them, turned into ashes by some robotic army.
February 18th, 1965- The National Guard is sent in to stop racial violence in Mississippi. Both sides were violent, and both sides were harshly punished. The leaders are put in federal prison.
March 3rd, 1965- The Harlem Race Riots break out over a bar fight between a group of blacks and a group of whites. This one incident soon engulfs the entire borough. Federal troops are sent in to restore order.
April 1st, 1965: Carlos Lacerda is told not to switch his right-wing rhetoric during the elections by campaign advisors.
April 4th, 1965- With the North quietly racist and inactive, and the South a den of violence, terrorism and hate, the NAACP begins to lose hope. One man brings up the teachings of Marcus Garvey, and utopianists begin to dream of Liberia, of the American black building a new society out in West Africa.
April 7th, 1965: Malcolm Little appears on television, much to the surprise of many. He has learned how to function in life without his limbs, and has gotten surgery on his face to look human once more. He gives a speech which begins uplifting, telling the downtrodden to hold on to hope, but the speech ends on a sour note with him foretelling the destruction of the "corrupt Gestapo that runs things in this country".
April 9th, 1965: The Greatest Story Ever Told starring Charlton Heston, Max von Sydow, and Telly Savalas makes its hit film debut....
June 3rd, 1965: Sergis Hutyrczyk leads a rally in Moscow, Russia proclaiming Nixon a "tool of the Jews..." Also on this day, Sandpiper starring Charles Bronson, Eva Marie Saint, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, makes its hit film debut...
June 17th, 1965: Japanese SDF forces launch a siege on Cihu, in an effort to "protect Japanese interests" sparking immediate international condemnation...
June 24th, 1965: Japanese SDF forces clash with Chinese Kuomintang forces at Zuoying, sparking tensions between the two countries...
July 30th, 1965: African-American Rob Williams, head of "Radio Free Dixie", delivers his "Freedom Now or Death!" speech in Monroe, North Carolina, becoming a hero in most African-American homes....
August 6th, 1965: Japanese naval vessels lay siege ot Dongshan, sparking tensions within the region...
August 11th-18th, 1965: Watts Massacre; U.S. Army launches a massive crackdown on Watts, Los Angeles, California, with 42 killed and 4,000 people arrested in a week of rioting and civil unrest....
September 9th, 1965- After cracking a joke about racial tensions on stage, George Carlin is shot by an irate black man and a Southerner. He survives, and then wryly comments about how mutual hatred of his person brought about temporary, if fleeting, unity. On the same day, Cassius Clay beats a group of white attackers into comas after they assault him for addressing racial violence.
September 11th, 1965- George Carlin and Cassius Clay meet President Nixon at White House. Nixon is a fan of the libertarian comic and lauds him and Clay for frankly speaking about and surviving the troubling racial violence plaguing America.
September 14th, 1965: My Mother the Car (NBC-TV) comedy series starring Jerry Van Dyke makes its hit series debut...
September 16th, 1965: Larry Itliong leads an armed insurrection against the American-backed government in Manila, Philippines...
October 15th, 1969: Paint Your Wagon musical starring Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin, makes its hit film debut....
October 25th, 1965- 48 years after the Communist revolution, the Russian Empire is restored to power as a fully constitutional monarchy. In the 3 years of chaos, Finland seized Karelia, the Caucasus and Armenia declared independence as democracies and fascist states (Armenia and Georgia) and Central Asia dissolved into absolute anarchy. The spectre of communism in Russia and the threat of fascism are overthrown forever. The Russian democrats know that their state will rely heavily on US support. Within Europe, they rely on wealthy exiles for funding and arms. Since the US had cut ties with the CLPR, which included the entirety of the Romanov line, a new Tsar had to be crowned. All of the Romanovs were dead due to the civil war with the exception of 12 year-old Maria Vladimirovna. She was quickly crowned Tsarina Maria I, Autocrat of All the Russias, Empress of Russia, Byelorussia and the Ukraine. To ensure further legitimacy, it is announced that any marriage of hers is to be declared legitimate, with the children taking the name of the father. The country is officially and fully democratic, propped up by the Army and the middle-class emigres of Europe.
November 15th, 1965: Carlos Lacerda wins the presidency by a handy margin.
November 22nd, 1965: Speaker of the House John McCormack retires from politics, citing old age.
December 11th, 1965: Thomas Stanley appears as the front-runner for Speaker of the House, after the Democratic seniors chose him as the candidate.
December 20th, 1965: Thomas Stanley is officially voted in as Speaker of the House, and is sworn in by the Dean of the House.
December 29th, 1965- The West has quashed the Austrian Workers Republic. The new democratic elections take place, and the Nationalist Union Partei takes power. On the same day, a second Anschluss is declared with Germany. France and Britain, although worried, are just pleased that communism has been stopped. With the US firmly isolationist, it is up to them to stop communism in Europe. Kaiser Franz Wilhelm celebrates by marrying his love, Princess Birgitta of Sweden, whom he had met through a relative. Although she is older, the two had grown to love each other rather fast. Germany (and now Austria) were swept up in royal fever.
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January 1st, 1966: In his innaugural speech, President Lacerda surprises everyone by saying that his government will be one of "Commitment to our allies in the Third World and strenghtening of the national industry".
January 3rd, 1966: The tenth and final studio album is released by the Beetles, entitled "The Raven". Despite it's anti-racist/fascist message, it hits the number one spot in both the UK and the United States.
January 21st, 1966: African-American Rob Williams, head of "Radio Free Dixie" reveals government plans to transport African-Americans to Liberia, calling it "racism on the worst levels, performed by those in power..."
March 26th- June 6th, 1966: Chinese Buddhist Uprising; Tibetan nationalists led by the Dalai Lama launch an insurrection against the Kuomintang in Nanjing, China...
April 29th, 1966: Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzalez is killed in Boulder, Colorado, after leading a protest against the federal government...
May 16th, 1966: "Sheng Wu Lien" militia members seize control of Sichuan, Anhui, Hunan, Fujian, and Hubei, in an effort to "restore order"....
May 31st, 1966: Organized crime figure Sam Giancana meets with Brazilian leaders in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, warning of the dangers faced....
June 16th, 1966- The first flight of Liberia Airlines sets forth, taking families from the Deep South to live in Liberia, where they are welcomed by the government.
July 2nd, 1966: Russian Orthodox Metropolitan John Maximovitch condemns President Richard Nixon in San Francisco, California for "challenging the religious freedom of those who practice it...."
September 9th, 1966- Kronprinz Sigurd Hercules Achilles von Hohenzollern is born to Kaiserin Birgitta in Berlin. Germany celebrates.
November 22nd, 1966: after a long national debate, the controversial Reformas de Base(Basic Reforms), originally planned by João Goulart, are greenlit by the president himself. These include heavier taxes on multinational corporations, the seizing of lands in the margin of roads, and a massive land and housing reform.
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March 7th, 1967- The modern borders of Russia are set, with the Ukraine and Belorussia unified permanently with Russia. On its borders are Fascist Romania, Democratic Hungary, Communist Poland, Communist Slovakia, Democratic Bohemia, Fascist Georgia, Fascist Finland, and the Great Transoxanian Hellhole, known in intellectual circles as Centrasia.
March 22nd, 1967: Frank Balistrieri seizes control of the criminal underworld in Milwaukee, Wisconsin amidst the civil unrest taking place across the country...
April 22nd, 1967: Naxalite rebels launch an armed insurrection against American and British troops in West Bengal, India....
May 2nd, 1967: Bobby Seale leads an armed insurrection demanding the end to the federal government's policy of transporting people to Liberia, attacking a transport center in Sacramento, California....
June 5th, 1967: Reies López Tijerina begins transporting Mexican weapons to rebel forces at Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico...
June 9th, 1967: Battle of El Chimazal; Vicente Ximenes leads Mexican insurgents against American forces outside of El Paso, Texas, sparking national attention....
June 10th, 1967: Tsarina Maria I, backed by the CPLR, orders a pogrom against the Jewish population in Russian , announcing that they are "a threat to world peace..."
June 23rd, 1967: Corsican Antoine Guerini is elected President of France, sparking immediate comparisons to Napoleon Bonaparte...
July 12th, 1967: Stokely Carmichael calls for armed insurrection on "Radio Free Dixie" in Monroe, North Carolina...
July 24th, 1967: Tensions mount as Francophone leader Charles de Gaulle, proclaims "Vive le Québec libre !" in Montreal, Quebec....
September 5th, 1967: "Sheng Wu Lien" militia members announce the capture of Hunan, sparking a major power struggle in the region....
September 27th, 1967: African-American journalist John A. Williams, leaks to the New York Times and Washington Post documents proving federal government support for the "cordoning off black people into concentration camps and deportation to an African state..." dubbed the "King Alfred Plan"...
October 7th, 1967: Che Guevara is shot and killed by police officials in New York City, New York....
October 16th, 1967: Bloody Tuesday; National Guard troops fire on armed insurrectionists in Oakland, California killing 17 people.....
November 19th, 1967: René Lévesque establishes the Mouvement Souveraineté-Association in Montreal, Quebec, sparking concern throughout Canada...
December 10th, 1967: The Bar-Kays, led by Ronnie Caldwell, launch a rally condemning the African-American transport program in Madison, Wisconsin...
December 29, 1967- in the very early morning, about 2am: The state-houses in five "Dixie" capitals erupt in flame almost simultaneously. While the hour makes the operation more doable, it also limits the body-count to double-digit, much to the chagrin of the event's organizers. Nonetheless, the coordination of the carnage combined with the letter "X" painted on the sidewalk across from each targeted state-house make for a memorable addition to New Year's contemplations across the south. In some circles, a grin and marking an "x" in the air with an index finger is an easy way to get enthusiastic social response.
December 31st, 1967: Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, and Dick Gregory announce the formation of a "government-in-exile" in Toronto, Ontario, Canada....
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January 5th, 1968: Reverend William Sloane Coffin Jr. sets himself on fire outside of Yale University in protest to American political policies....
February 3rd, 1968: Student protesters are fired upon by National Guard units in Orangeburg, South Carolina, 3 people are killed, 30 injured, fueling anger within the African-American community...
February 27th, 1968: Singer Frankie Lymon leads a rally in New York City, New York condemning the African-American transport program, sparking national attention....
March 3rd, 1968: Los Angeles Insurrection; Brown Berets led by Carlos Muñoz and David Sanchez lead an armed insurrection against the government in East Los Angeles, California....
March 19th, 1968: African-American students seize control of Howard University in Atlanta, Georgia, stating, "We will not be moved!!"
April 19th, 1968: René Lévesque publishes his manifesto Option Québec calling for an independent Quebec...
May 28th, 1968- 15% of Northern blacks and 69% of Southern blacks have moved to Liberia, citing overt racial violence and economic failures. The severe loss of population hurts the Southern economy, despite the celebratory mood of many Southerners. In the North and South, black culture begins to center around certain areas to the exclusion of everywhere else. Detroit, New Orleans, Pittsburgh and Miami become major areas of black settlement. Harlem, once THE center for black culture, had lost its lustre in the wake of the Harlem Race Riots.
June 2nd, 1968- The majority native population in Liberia rises up in riotous outrage over the flow of new immigrants. The riots are put down, but it does sully the utopian image used to bring American blacks over to the country. Liberia, in contrast to other African nations, is fairly industrial due to the flow of immigrant labor, skills, and technical knowledge.
June 24th, 1968: U.S. Army troops set fire to "Resurrection City" shantytown outside the Capitol in Washington D.C.,...
September 23rd, 1968: Havanna Uprising; Cuban nationalist Raul Castro leads an armed insurrection in Havana, Cuba, sparking calls for Cuban independence....
October 14th, 1968: CIA agents meet with members of Mouvement Souveraineté-Association (MSA) in Quebec City, Quebec with the promise of financial support and weapons....
October 25th, 1968: President Carlos Lacerda, while driving towards a country house of his just outside Brasília, has his car assaulted by several masked men. He is killed with 20 gunshots. A massive national mourning follows. João Goulart is sworn in as president and blames the CIA and the "radical, fascist" right-wing of the UDN for the assassination, though some conspiracy theorists suggest that he might be behind it.
November 7th, 1968- President Nixon is re-elected. His speech that night talks about the need for unity in these troubling times. He rails against the racists, the agitators, and mourns the necessity of black migration outside of America. He opines "When a group of people, whatever color, have to leave America out of fear for their own safety and liberty, then we can say that the United States is dead".
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January 5th, 1969: The troops of Raúl Castro assault the city of Santiago, toppling the mayor and being acclaimed by the populace. Learning of this, Edurado Aguirre Reyes, governor of Cuba, declares state of emergency and asks for troops from Washington DC.
January 13th, 1969: US troops defeat the Frente Nacionalista Cubana and recapture Santiago. Raúl Castro flees into the hills with the rest of this troop. By this time however, several villages in all of Cuba have started revolting.
January 22nd, 1969: Third World Liberation Front (TWLF) begins transporting guns to rebel groups in Berkeley, California....
February 1st, 1969: President Nixon, in a televised speech, reassures that "American authority shall return to Cuba soon. As Americans, we will not live under fear." American troops have indeed quelled the revolution in most of Cuba.
February 5th, 1969: Turn-On (ABC-TV) variety show hosted by Tim Conway makes its hit series debut...
February 10th, 1969: The napalm bombing of Sierra Maestra officially ends.
February 15th, 1969: A bomb explodes in a car next to the Gubernatorial palace in Havana. It misses the governor as he got in his car two late, instead killing his driver and two bodyguards.
March 28th, 1969: Quebecois leader François Mario Bachand leads a nationalist rally at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, sparking civil unrest and violence....
April 1st, 1969: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn leads an anti-government rally in Novosibirsk, sparking national attention.
April 2nd, 1969: Dhoruba Moore and Afeni Shakur bomb a federal transport center in New York City, New York....
April 15th, 1969: Andrei Sakharov leads an anti-government rally in Moskva, sparking national attention.
April 18th, 1969: Governor Patricks of Massachusetts declares support for the African-American "fight for freedom and liberty", sparking national attention.
April 21st, 1969: A demonstration in the Red Square results in a massacre of the nine protesters there. A small riot forms as a reaction.
June 9th, 1969- The first white emigre lands in Liberia as a husband to another emigre. This brings scrutiny from nationalists and attention from the Liberian media.
July 13th, 1969: Robert De Pugh leads a militia group in Albuquerque, New Mexico; in an effort to "defend against Mexican invaders..."
September 10th, 1969: Martial law is declared in Saint-Léonard, Quebec, after nationalist riots erupt, sparking national attention....
September 29th, 1969: Reconnaissance flights discover dozens of camps hidden in the jungle of Sierra Maestra. The amount of Cuban troops estimated to have deserted is 10,000. Also on this day, Mayor Jean Drapeau of Montreal, Quebec is assassinated by members of the FLQ, sparking concerns of a civil war...
October 23rd, 1969: Hylam-kia, "Ah Kong" militia seize control of Singapore, in an effort to secure the heroin trade to the United States and Western Europe....
November 2nd, 1969: US troops assault Sierra Maestra, by now a full fledged fortress. Three divisions are sent.
November 4th, 1969: Carlos Marighella meets with President João Goulart, on ways to support the American rebels in Rio de Janeiro....
December 7th, 1969: The intervention in Sierra Maestra is now relatively known by the US public- what with all the black bags returning from there. An estimated 970 soldiers have already died there, against 2000+ Cuban rebels.
December 8th, 1969: Elvis Presley is shot by a KKK member in Nashville, Tennessee, sparking international attention.
December 19th, 1969: British officials annnounce that they will launch a major crackdown on the Quebecois movement, during an international broadcast of the BBC-TV,...
December 20th, 1969: The singer Cher, down on her luck, releases the single "Living under the Fear", a grim satyre of Nixon's speech earlier that year. The song criticizes institutionalized racism, the transportation of african-americans to Liberia and the intervention in Cuba. It is a huge success and establishes sets for protest songs for years to come. It also establishes Cher as the poster girl for the 'Awon'(a corruption of I won't) generation and musical movement(Think Metal, with lower pitch guitars and vocals and generally darker themes)
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January 1st, 1970: Leftist guerillas bomb a munitions plant in Baraboo, near Madison, Wisconsin, sparking national attention....
January 26th, 1970: Rebel elements associated with the Frente Nacionalista Cubana seize supply routes between Santiago and the Sierra Maestra, cutting communications between the US troops in the region and the HQ.
February 7th, 1970: Communication with the US troops at Sierra Maestra is reestablished with the bombing and capturing of the supply routes, in a daring operation that cost the lives of 600 cuban rebels and seven american pilots. By now, however, the situation at Sierra Maestra has deteriorated beyond imagination. American troops, lost in the jungle, facing an enemy they can't see with limited means, are now largely shellshocked skeletons. The return to Sierra Maestra, even though it meant a temporary boost to President Nixon's popularity, very soon revealed the real face of the war to the American people. By now, 2000 American GIs have died.
February 11th, 1970: Operation Hiking, the largest military operation ever undertaken in American territory begins. 300 000 troops begin a full frontal assault of Sierra Maestra, punctuated with napalm bombings.
February 15th, 1970: Rob Williams, head of "Radio Free Dixie" calls for the assassination of President Richard Nixon, saying,"the tree of liberty must be fed by the blood of tyrants..."
February 17th, 1970: Several villages throughout Cuba are seized by, the US Army is informed, dormant FNC agents and the populace herself. The military discovers a huge blunder in their own plans: The FNC, installed as they were in the harsh Sierra Maestra, knew the danger of being encircled, and had been mounting an "underground railroad" system of sorts, escaping agents from the Sierra Maestra into villages through all of Cuba.
February 18th, 1970: Operation Hiking is disbanded as the swift Cuban counteroperation has resulted in the taking of almost half of the island. US troops start being redeployed in other places of the island.
March 18, 1970: a wounded but recovering Elvis Presley, walking with the use of a cane, makes a press conference at Graceland. Standing with an ethnically diverse group of dignitaries from various fields –Jesse Jackson, Jesse Owens, Ravi Shankar, Dick Cavett, and others— Presley makes a heartfelt call for “more love and an end to hate.” At the end of the conference, Presley et al hold hands and sing “We Shall Overcome.”
April 19th, 1970: La Raza Unida guerillas seize control of Crystal City, Texas backed by Mexican forces....
April 25th, 1970: Cuban-born Colonel Armando Gaspár of the US Army organizes the takeover of Havana, arrests the governor and proclaims "The dawn of a new future, a new hope for the Third World, for the oppressed masses of Latin America, Africa, Asia, to the workers of the world, to the slaves of imperialism through whose lives there is never light: This is the dawn of the Socialist People's Republic of Cuba!"
April 26th, 1970: Havana is bombed and the Gubernatorial Palace, destroyed. Armando Gaspár is found neither by the Ejército Rojo de Cuba or the US Army. It is assumed he fled.
April 28th, 1970: The waterborne attack in Havana by US Marines fails, even though they are able to capture parts of the city. Every single street is disputed.
May 5th, 1970: Bishop Patrick F. Flores announces his support for the rebels in Los Angeles, California...
May 21st, 1970: "Government-in-exile" members Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, and Dick Gregory announce a "declaration of war" in Toronto, Ontario....
June 9th, 1970: Underground leaders bomb federal transport center in New York City, New York led by Fred Hampton and Soledad Brother George Jackson,...
June 24th, 1970: Myra Breckenridge starring Racquel Welch and Mae West, makes its hit film debut...
July 4th, 1970: While giving a speech in Washington D.C., President Nixon is overrun by an angry mob, and a massacre ensues, but the amount of angry protesters trumps even the Secret Service, and a thousand deaths later President Nixon is lynched in the streets of Washington D.C., his face ironically painted black.
July 7th, 1970: In the wake of Nixon's assassination, an all out riot begins in Atlanta, Georgia, calling for civil rights. Also on this day, Asked about if he will change his policy regarding Cuba, recently innaugurated President Goldwater says "No comments" then goes on to say that "Even though the war IS being terribly conduced, the official position of this government is that neither the Cuban Nationalist Front or Cuban Red Army are valid representatives of the Cuban people, and so until a valid, democratic representative steps up to say that the Cuban nation wishes to separate from the United States, Cuba is to be considered as American as Nantucket." Newspapers throughout the country reprint generally only the first 8 and last 9 words of his statement.
July 10th, 1970: Residents of Nantucket Island launch the "Nantucket Secessionist Movement" as a good humoured way to criticize Pres. Goldwater's now famous statement.
July 15th, 1970: American troops, after roughly 4500 killed, start withdrawing from the "disputed zone" at the center of Cuba. The American-controlled part of the island is now only the northeastern part of te country, including most, but not all, of Havana.
July 23rd, 1970: Underground leaders launch an armed insurrection in Detroit, Michigan, killing 10 people in the process,...
July 25th, 1970: The FCN's offensive into northeastern Cuba begins in full force. However, american troops, dug in and better armed, largely win the day.
July 26th 1970: President Goldwater speaks on national TV, saying that a "large-scale counter-offensive will be carried on in a few minutes, with the objective of pushing the vicious enemies of the Cuban people to the sea". Indeed, the US Army begins one of the largest military operations of the war, surpassed only by Operation Hiking. Cuban troops are routed throughout the entire front; the war has become more conventional.
July 29th, 1970: A large protest by hispanics in the Harlem is put down by the police. The peaceful protest ended up becoming a riot and seven people died. "Down with Warlord Goldwater" was seen written in several walls.
August 1st, 1970: The front returns to the center of the island and is stabilizing.
August 5th, 1970: Huey P. Newton launches an armed insurrection in Oakland, California, defying efforts by the Nixon administration at a military crackdown...
August the 8th, 1970: In a surprising move, a cease-fire agreement offered by the FNC is accepted by the US government.
August 11th, 1970: Rebel elements in Atlanta, Georgia, have gained control of the entire city at this point, and declared a new government, sparking international attention.
August 14th, 1970: The Treaty of Norfolk is signed between FNC leader Raúl Castro and President Goldwater of the United States. The treaty splits the country in two parts: the southern, which is controlled by the FNC, and the Northern, still an American state. Elections are scheduled to take place in the southern part in November 1970. Several marxist, racist and civil-rights movements protest in the site of the Treaty. This almost causes a riot. However, even though violence is reported and crime in the city increased, the movements are largely united in their hatred of the President.
September 3rd, 1970: Eldridge Cleaver leads a rally in Algiers, Algeria condemning the administration....
September 4th, 1970: Underground leader Timothy Leary is broken out of Fort Dix, New Jersey and transported to Algiers, Algeria, embarassing many federal officials,...
September 8th-10th, 1970: Lusaka Conference; Representatives from 118 nations gather in Lusaka, Zambia voice their opposition to the United States, citing its support for the fascist CPLR regime in Russia and the deportation policy to Liberia....
September 18th, 1970: Singer Jimi Hendrix is shot and killed after speaking at an anti-American rally in London, England; Conspiracy theorists claim he was killed by CIA agents...
October 6th, 1970: Mitchell Sharp, the Canadian Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, is assassinated in Toronto, Ontario, FLQ guerillas take credit....
October 8th, 1970: Militia leader Wesley Swift is captured by Mexican guerillas in El Paso, Texas....
October 9th, 1970: Speaker of the House Thomas Stanley speaks in front of the House and Senate demanding that they pass a bill giving the government power to "adequately handle the current crisis".
October 10th, 1970: FLQ nationalist guerillas assassinate Canadian Vice-Premier Pierre Laporte, sparking civil unrest and violence....
October 18th, 1970: After much deliberation, the Congress and Senate pass through a bill granting the President emergency powers.
October 19th, 1970: Acting President Goldwater is kidnapped by the X-Men in Pennsylvania.
October 20th, 1970: Thomas Stanley is sworn in as Acting President of the United States. He then adjourns the legislature until further notice, due to "safety concerns". Also on this day, Rebel leader Bernardine Dohrn is executed by federal troops at Fort Dix, New Jersey, angering many youth leaders...
October 28th, 1970: Waterloo starring Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, and Orson Welles makes its hit debut in Europe, many people point to the anti-American symbolism in the film...
October 30th, 1970: Cuban-Americans launch a massive protest outside the United Nations in New York City, New York demanding national independence for Cuba, in defiance of the administration...
November 25th, 1970: With few military allies in the Pacific Rim, Yukio Mishima overthrows the government in Tokyo, Japan, installing a military dictatorship...
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January 6th, 1971: "On Leong Tong" Triad, led by Wing Yeung Chan seize control of Shanghai, sparking international attention....
February 12th, 1971: The X-Men release a video to multiple news stations, who then play said videos on television later that day. It is a video of a beaten and bloodied Barry Goldwater tied to a chair, with Malcolm X coming on screen and demanding the stop of African deportation, and a sum of five million dollars, or the President will be killed.
February 13th, 1971: President Stanley releases a televised speech proclaiming that he "will not negotiate with those damn [N-word] bastards!"
February 19th, 1971: President Goldwater is saved during a Federal raid on an X-Men stronghold. Malcolm X escapes.
February 21st, 1971: Upon hearing the news of Goldwater's escape, President Stanley makes a speech calling that Goldwater an "imposter" and a "spy for the X-Men". This effectively splits the government in half as there are now two Presidents.
March 28th, 1971: Imari Abubakari Obadele proclaims the Republic of New Africa (RNA) in Hinds County, Mississippi, defying federal transport programs...
April 24th, 1971: Dewey Canyon Mutiny; Lieutenant John Kerry, U.S. Army, with 1,000 other soldiers mutiny against the U.S. government in Washington D.C., sparking international attention....
May 5th, 1971: La Marcha de la Reconquista; Rosalio Munoz, David Sanchez and the Brown Berets capture Sacramento, California in an armed insurrection....
June 1st, 1971: Bill Gale establishes "Christian militias" in an effort to "enforce the policies of a Constitutional Republic" in Los Angeles, California....
June 28th, 1971: Joe Colombo, head of the Italian-American Civil Rights League, is assassinated in New York City, New York, causing many organized crime figures to support the rebels....
July 3rd, 1971: Singer Jim Morrison, the Doors, leads an anti-American rally in Paris, France, saying,"I love America, but f*** the government!!"
July 26th, 1971: Reies López Tijerina is executed by federal troops in Taos, New Mexico on charges of insurrection....
September 18th, 1971: Bill Gale is proclaimed a "national hero" by President Barry Goldwater during a rally in Lawrence, Kansas, an area controlled by government forces....
October 1st, 1971: Afeni Shakur leads an armed insurrection in Harlem, New York, with the bombing of a transport center.
October 23rd, 1971: Organized crime boss Meyer Lansky begins smuggling operations in Havana, Cuba, sparking international attention...
October 2nd, 1971: Don Cornelius, leads the "Soul Train", an underground radio broadcast from Chicago, Illinois...
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January 4th, 1972: With the American Revolution in full swing, concerns over the fate of Americas hundreds of nukes results in the creation of a secret squad by non-American NATO members to steal and/or disable multiple American nukes across the USA.
March 3rd, 1972: Singer Gil Scott Heron calls for resistance against the federal government and efforts to deport African-Americans to Liberia with the song "King Alfred Plan"...
March 10th-12th, 1972: Gary Declaration; 8,000 African-American delegates led by Amiri Baraka and Jesse Jackson sign a "Declaration" and "Bill of Rights" in Gary, Indiana demanding an end to the federal transport program of African-Americans,...
May 12th, 1972: Hammersmith Is Out starring Beau Bridges, Peter Ustinov, Elizabeth Taylor, and Richard Burton, makes its hit film debut...
May 19th, 1972: Rebel underground members take credit for the bombing of the Pentagon in Washington D.C., killing 8 people, sparking national attention,...
May 27th, 1972: Owusu Sadauki leads a delegation in front of the United Nations, demanding recognition for the North American secessionist movments, sparking international attention....
August 28th, 1972: Operation Tecolote; Mexican forces launch a massive beachead, capturing Catalina Island, California....
September 1st-4th, 1972: Battle of El Paso; Chicano/Latino leaders backed by Mexican weapons launch an armed insurrection against the government....
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February 14, 1973: California Governor Jerry Brown makes strident case for "radical overhaul of the American culture" to "save our future from consuming itself in a tragic, hateful conflagration."
May 22nd, 1973: Jimmy McBratney is brutally executed by police officials in Staten Island, New York, for alleged ties to rebel organizations...
September 5th-9th, 1973: Algiers Declaration; The 118 nations composing the conference announce massive economic sanctions against the United States, and political solidarity against the American dictatorship...
September 7th, 1973- Tsarina Maria meets young orphan Vladimir Putin at university in Sankt Petersburg. The two quickly hit it off. Putin, after college, opportunistically goes into the intelligence service, despite the Soviet leanings of his ancestors. He is one of the most successful agents of all time.
December 22nd, 1973: Johnny Dioguardi begins a campaign to launder foreign money to rebel organizations in New York City, New York...
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March 29th, 1974: The Great Gatsby starring Robert Redford, Mia Farrow and Bruce Dern, makes its hit debut, with its hauting portrait of pre-war America....
May 19th, 1974: Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism by Clayton Van Lydegraf is published, becoming the manifesto for American revolutionaries....
June 21st, 1974: WPIX-FM sparks controversy by becoming the first radio station to broadcast "revolutionary music" in New York City, New York...
July 19th, 1974: Organized crime figure Sam Giancana meets with Mexican government officials, calling for support of rebels in Mexico City, Mexico...
August 17th, 1974: "Kung Fu Fightin'..." single by Carl Douglas, makes its hit debut, tapping into people's feelings about the civl unrest...
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January 10th-12th, 1975: Siege of Nashville; Abdul Alkalimat leads African-Americans in a massive armed insurrection in Nashville, Tennessee...
April 26th, 1975: Hubert Humphrey is assassinated while speaking at a rally in Minneapolis, Minnesota, sparking civil unrest and violence nationwide....
May 1st, 1975: Weird Fantasy, The Vault of Horror, and Haunt of Fear all celebrate their 25th anniversaries and as part of a month long event contain free complimentary issues with each individual copy purchased. EC Comics announces its readership for Weird Fantasy alone is now estimated to be roughly 25 million, exceeding TIME Magazine...
June 8th, 1975: Rebel leader Wilbur “Popeye” Jackson is executed by federal troops in San Francisco, California, in an attempt to seize control of the region from rebels....
July 26th, 1975: Pine Ridge Uprising; Leonard Peltier, American Indian Movement (AIM) leads an armed uprising in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, sparking concerns of an expanding civil war...
August 7th, 1975: Rebel leaders affiliated with the "government-in-exile" hold a constitutional convention in Oberlin, Ohio...
August 30th, 1975: Matlovich Scandal; Sgt. Leonard Matlovich is charged with "high treason", and blamed for the leak of military documents in Laramie, Wyoming. During his court martial je is "outed" as a "potential sexual deviant"...
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March 3rd, 1976: Power struggle erupts as "Ah Kong" leader Chung Mon is assassinated in Singapore, China, sparking a power struggle over the heroin trade....
November 2nd, 1976: in a three-way presidential election marked with dozens killed in rioting and terrorist activities across the country, Jerry Brown prevails, declaring "a clear mandate to reunite the country and engage in a genuine, ground-up post-war reconstruction." After Brown is declared victor, a number of competing political groups protest the result and in addition to demanding recounts mount their own half-arsed attempts at armed rebellions. president-elect Brown takes the unprecedented step of demanding that the military follow his orders to swiftly suppress the violence, with those captured to be declared prisoners of war and detained at a rededicated Alcatraz prison island
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January 20th, 1977: Brown is inaugurated, hopeful crowds dare to attend. Secret Service presence is nothing short of epic and epically thorough. ("Not on my watch" seems to be the service motto de jour.) There is also a very visible military presence, and Brown and company acknowledge "a state of siege, with progress and unity on one hand, and chaotic destruction on the other."
January 20th- April 17th, 1977: Brown orders that all vestiges of segregation in the country be treated as treasonous, with military enforcement pre-emptively sent to potential trouble-spots. Using "eminent domain," Brown promises to "harness the resources of these United States" to "rebuild the promise of a dignified quality of life for all righteous Americans."
February 14, 1977: Brown gets a very very private Valentines card from Malcolm X. The writing in the card, presumably dictated by the man himself, tells Brown, "I am impressed." A friend of a friend of the head X-man tells that Malcolm cheerily confided that Brown has him "truly disarmed, for the first time."
June 1st, 1977: Journey Into Mystery celebrates its 25th anniversary. "It is arguably the most successful comic of the 'Monster Age," says noted historian, producer and still-active illustrator Jack Kirby.
December 13th, 1977: "Stayin' Alive" musical single by the Bee Gees, becomes a major hit, capturing the post-war paranoia...
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April 15th, 1978: Chinese and Japanese political leaders meet for the first time in 33 years in Manila, Philippines, sparking international attention...
December 25th, 1978- Tsarina Maria marries Vladimir Putin in the Dormition Cathedral in Moskva. The people are cautiously happy, recovering from decades of violence and suppression. The nationalists crow that the Russian monarchy finally has Russian blood within it once more.
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January 13th, 1979: Deney Terrio begins a series of television broadcasts to help promote the government in New York City, New York....
July 12th, 1979: Chicago Riots; Former federal loyalists riot against Brown supporters in Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois...
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February 14th, 1980- Grand Duke Sergei Vladimirovich Romanov-Putin is born.
September 15th, 1980: Vladimir Skulachyov announces a break through in anti-aging technology. Skulachyov, a bioenergetics professor in Moscow, says he has been working on an anti-oxident treatment for more than 10 years. The treatment is based on how oxygen reacts in the body and says the difficult part has been to try and prevent side effects. This is the beginning of a wave of discoveries in the emerging field of "bio-energetics"...
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July 28, 1986: Swan Swan H is released by Michael Stipe. The single's cryptic lyrics and post-war subject matter draw much controversy...
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January 1st, 1991: The House of Mystery celebrates its 40th anniversary, with writer and Academy award winning director Neil Gaiman announcing he will be joining its creative team...
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August 4th, 2000: Hollowman directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Shue and Josh Broslin makes its hit debut. The film is one of many in the 2nd wave of 'Disappeared genre' classics...