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Here is the latest draft of the ATL:

January 2nd 1960: While standing with her husband as he announced his candidacy for the democratic nomination for presidency of the United States, Jaquelin Kennedy is shot three times by a lone-gunman from an abandoned office-building across the street. Her condition is varys from critical to stable. The Kennedy campaign has not made any press releases so far.

January 5 1960: A Belgian government commission recommends delaying Congolese independence until 1970, to 'prepare the African for democratic and stable government'.

January 12, 1960: Ethiopion soldiers discover a coup against Emperor Haile Selassie, they destory it.

January 22nd, 1960: Something happens to the Bathyscape triste as it descends into the Mariana Trench and the cabins depressurise killing Jacques picard and Don Walsh.

January 24th 1960 Algeria: Under the orders of Primer Minister Debre, the French army begins a "scorched earth" campaign against anti-colonial insurgents; leading to the deaths of thousands on both sides.

January 25th 1960: Belgium reneges on a promise to grant independence to the Congo.

January 29th 1960: Shortly before a speech to the nation, General Charles DeGualle is assassinated by a maimed Algerian veteran.

In early April 1960, The Tacuara Nationalist Movement in Argentina receive an anonymous tip-off concerning Shin Bet agents presence and their interest in Ricardo Klemen a seemingly unremarkable factory foreman.

April 1960 Blue Streak narrowly escapes cancellation as it becomes dual purpose ICBM and civilian satellite launcher.

April 10th, 1960: 6.7 earthquake hits Qir, Iran, killing 5,374 people, sparking civil unrest and concern nationwide....

April 24th, 1960: L. Ron Hubbard launches the "Anyone But Nixon" campaign against the Vice-President's presidential ambitions in Washington D.C.,. Also on thid day, 7.2 earthquake hits Ruisui, Taiwan, killing 5 people, sparking concern nationwide....

May 1960, the National Legion of Decency objects to several scenes in the film Psycho, the film is censored in several states leading to a media storm pitting decency campaigners against free speech advocates.

May 27th, 1960: President Celal Bayar and Prime Minister Adnan Menderes successfully crackdown on a coup attempt in Ankara, Turkey...

August 1960, during a break in filming "The Misfits" Arthur Miller is killed in a road accident, his distraught grief stricken wife Marilyn Monroe comes under the fulltime care of Dr Ralph Greenson.

September 3rd-5th, 1960: James Blish calls for support for the "World Federalist Movement" at Pittcon-18 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...

September 11, 1960: Gen. Aman Andom overthrows the Ethiopian government in a bloodless coup. While the Imperial Family flee to London, the General, proclaiming himself Prime Minister, avows his theoretical loyalty to the Crown.

October 1960 A Nixon shifts his campaign focus towards swing states.

December 23rd, 1960: 6.2 earthquake hits Managua, Nicaragua killing c. 6,000 people, sparking civil unrest and panic nationwide....

December 25th, 1960: L. Ron Hubbard meets with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover in Washington D.C., to discuss the efficacy of the "e-meter readings" as a security measure....

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April 15th 1961: Eli Cohen Moves to Argentina under the cover of Kamel Amin Thaabet, he will soon gain the trust of the Baath party.

May 16th, 1961: South Korean President Yun Po Sun successfully resists a military coup attempt by Park Chung Hee in Seoul, South Korea....

September 1st, 1961: Military forces loyal to Isaias Afewerki proclaim an indpendent state of Eritrea, away from Ethiopia, in the capital city of Asmara...

September 2nd-4th, 1961: Robert A. Heinlein calls upon science-fiction enthusiasts to become politically active at Seacon-19 in Seattle, Washington...

September 11th, 1961: Iraqi Civil War; Kurdish guerillas led by General Mustafa Barzani call for secession from Iraq, proclaiming a Kurdish homeland.....

September 16th, 1961: General Cemal Gürsel is charged with treason, after his failed attempt to overthrow the government in Ankara, Turkey....

13th October 1961 William Mulder in born in Chilmark, MA.


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March 2nd, 1962: Prime Minister U Nu survives a military coup attempt by General Ne Win in Rangoon, Burma, proclaiming calls for democratic reform. Also on this day, Kamel Thaabet moves to Damascus, Syria. There he is introduced to the inner circle of the Baath Party later in the year.

May 8th, 1962: 6.5 earthquake hits the Izu Peninsula, Japan, killing 25 people, sparking civil unrest and panic within the region....

May 10th, 1962: 7.0 earthquake hits the Yunnan, Sichuan, China area, killing c. 20,000 people, fueling tensions between the USSR and China....

June 1st-2nd, 1962: Novocherkassk Massacre; 52 people are killed, 87 wounded by Red Army forces in bread riots in Novocherkassk, USSR, sparking attention to food shortages within the Communist state....

August 17th, 1962: Members of the World Federalist Movement (WFM) led by Max Habicht gather in Montreux, Switzerland calling for "greater global action"...

Late September 1962 Details of English Electric Lightning's ability to perform GCI interception of the U2 are leaked to the press.

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February 4th, 1963: 7.0 earthquake hits Haicheng, Liaoning, China killing c. 10,000 people, fueling tensions between the USSR and China over humanitarian aid...

March 8th 1963: The Baath Party over throw the al-Kudsi Government.

June 30th, 1963: 6.1 earthquake hits Norris Junction, Wyoming in Yellowstone National Park, sparking fears of a Yellowstone Caldera eruption....

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February 4th, 1964: 7.5 earthquake hits Guatemala City, Guatemala, killing c. 23,000 people, destroying the government and sparking civil unrest and panic...

May 27th, 1964: Socialist guerilla organizations Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), and the National Liberation Army (ELN) led by General Manuel Marulanda Vélez overthrow the government in Bogota, Colombia....

July 27th, 1964: Tangshan Earthquake; 7.6 earthquake devastates Tansha, China, killing 242,419 people, fueling tensions between the USSR and China....

September 10th, 1964: "World Federalist Movement" (WFM) leaders led by Mario Savio begin holding rallies at the University of California at Berkeley.....

October 15th, 1964: Central Committee of the Communist Party selects Alexander Shelepin as Premier of the Soviet Union in Moscow, replacing Nikita Khruschev, sparking international attention and concern...

November 8th, 1964: Soviet Premier Alexander Shelepin meets with Chinese Premier Mao Tse-tung in Moscow, proclaiming the need to reaffirm the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship....

December 11th, 1964: R&B Singer Sam Cooke arrowly survives a shooting attempt by Bertha Franklin in Los Angeles, California....

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March 4th, 1965: Bucharest Earthquake; 7.5 earthquake devastates Bucharest, Romania, killing c.1,560 people, sparking international attention and concern...

March 5th 1965: Kamel Thaabet (Eli Cohen) is made deputy defense Minister. Cohen has been spying for Israel for years, revealing defense Secrets like the guns in the Golan heights, Soviet weapons advisors, and so forth.

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February 23rd, 1966: Kamel Thaabet is made Defense Minister in Syria, this is following the coup in the government.

May 16th, 1966: Chinese Premier Mao Tse-tung warns of traitors within the Politburo, proclaiming a "great civil war" stating,"representatives of the bourgeoisie who have sneaked into the Party, the government, the army, and various spheres of culture are a bunch of counter-revolutionary revisionists. Once conditions are ripe, they will seize political power and turn the dictatorship of the proletariat into a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Some of them we have already seen through; others we have not...."

May 25th, 25th, 1966: Second Chinese Civil War erupts; Beijing Riots; Nie Yuanzi leads the People's Liberation Army in the arrest of alleged "counter-revolutionaries" including University Chairman Lu Ping at Beijing University and Peng Zhen, Beijing Party Committee....

June 12th, 1966: 7.7 earthquake hits Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, killing 28 people, sparking concern over the safety of the region....

June 13th, 1966: Chinese Premier Mao Tse-tung proclaims Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping "enemies of the state" during a speech before the Chinese Politburo....

September 16th, 1966: 7.7 earthquake hits Tabas, Yazd, Iran, killing c. 15,000 people, fueling concern about the stability of the Shah in Iran,...

December 23rd, 1966 - January 23rd, 1967: Battle of Shanghai; People's Liberation Army (PLA) launch a crackdown on Heilungkiang province against "counter-revolutionary cadres"....

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February 23rd, 1967: Chinese People's Liberation Army proclaims the "liberation" of Shanxi province, sparking international attention....

July 9th, 1967:Kamel Thaabet, following the disastrous 6 Day War becomes President in Coup. Thaabet ( Eli Cohen) is now the Israeli's most important intel asset.

July 20th-25th, 1967: Siege of Wuhan; Chinese PLA forces led by Zhou Enlai lay siege to Wuhan, a rebel stronghold, sparking international attention and concern....

August 9, 1967: West German student Patrik Müller is shot by police at a student demonstration.

August 10, 1967: Mass student protests rock West German cities...

August 12, 1967: East German cities are also rocked by mass demonstrations. The Stasi cannot intervene... (you decide what happens in East Germany!) France's cities are also rocked.

August 13, 1967: Pompidou orders police, riot police and the military to crack down on any "communist demonstrators". Chancellor Karl Schiller follows suit.

August 27th, 1967: Brian Epstein, manager of the Beatles, is hospitalized after an accidental carbitral overdose in London, England....

October 5th, 1967: Activists André Bertrand and Gérard Joannès begin a campaign to call for an end to the "dictatorial government" in Paris, France...

October 15th, 1967: 6.4 earthquake hits the Imperial Valley, California, fueling calls for infrastructure projects......

November 8th, 1967: Guy Debord leads the Situationist International rally along with Mustapha Khayati, J.V. Martin, Donald Nicholson-Smith, and Raoul Vaneigem in Nanterre, France....

November 30th, 1967: The Revolution of Everyday Life by Situationist Raoul Vaneigem is published in Paris, sparking a government crackdown in Paris, France...

December 10th, 1967: Otis Redding and the Bar-Kays perform in Madison, Wisconsin, despite intial plane filght problems....

December 12th, 1967: 8.2 earthquake hits Tumaco, Colombia, killing 800 people, sparking concerns over aid to the region....

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January 8th, 1968: Student activist Daniel Cohn-Bendit is arrested by French olice officials as an "insurrectionist", sparking international attention in Nanterre, France....

February 27th, 1968: Singer Frankie Lymon proclaims that he is a "born-again" Christian after narrowly surviving a heroin overdose in New York City, New York....

October 10th, 1968: 7.7 earthquake hits El-Asnam, Algeria, killing c. 5,000 people, sparking panic and civil unrest throughout North Africa....

November 23rd, 1968: 6.8 earthquake hits Irpinia, Italy, kiling 2,735 people, creating a humanitarian crisis for the region...

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January 19th, 1969: 6.7 earthquake hits Irian Jaya, Indonesia, killing 305 people in the process, fueling civil unrest and panic....

January 23rd, 1969: 6.8 earthquake hits Dawu, Sichuan, China, killing 455 people, sparking accusations of corruption and civil unrest...

March 2nd, 1969: Soviet "military advisors" are intercepted by members of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), fueling tensions between the USSR and China....

April 14th, 1969: General Lin Biao proclaims efforts to root out "counter-revolutionary traitors" before the Ninth National Congress in Beijing, China....

August 18th, 1969: Woodstock Riots; Police in White Lake, New York raid the Woodstock Music Festival, amidst complaints of drug use and "lewd acts"....

August 28th, 1969: Hong Kong Riots; Chinese refugees in Kowloon, Hong Kong riot amidst reports that Mao Tse-tung will be preventing any distribution of exit visas,....

September 10th, 1969: Soviet officials warn U.S. officials that they are considering airstrikes against Chinese nuclear facilities, in an effort to "prevent a limited nuclear war"....

September 19th, 1969: Soviet Premier Alexander Shelepin warns Chinese officials of the danger of a "major conflict", implying the use of nuclear weapons, during a speech before the Politburo in Moscow.....

October 25th, 1969: 7.3 earthquake strikes Playa Azul, Mexico, killing 3 people, sparking concerns about the response of the Mexican government...

December 6th, 1969: Kezar Riots; Riots erupt in San Francisco, California after members of the Hell's Angels attempt to breakup crowds to the free concert by the Rolling Stones....

December 22nd, 1969: Chinese peace talks in Warsaw, Poland, sparking concern over the expanding crisis between the USSR and China....

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April 11th, 1970: Chinese officials led by Premier Zhou Enlai call for negotiations to be mediated with the USSR and United States during secret meetings in Paris, France....

September 5th, 1970: Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Tse-tung warns of a possible threat posed by General Lin Biao, in Beijing, China....

October 17th 1970: President Thaabet of Syria vanishes prior to a coup by his defense minister Hafez Al-Assad.

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January 25th 1971: Eli Cohen retries from the Mossad.

August 1, 1971: Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping are killed during the Battle of Changsha.

August 12th, 1971: Chen Boda flees Beijing, China and warns General Lin Biao, warning of an attempt to purge him from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and label them "counter-revolutionaries"....

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Here are a few PODs to show what I have in store for France:

January 26th, 1968: Nanterre Riots; Students launch anti-government protests taking over government buildings at Nanterre University....

January 29th, 1968: Underground pamplet Billy-Club Grappin is released throughout France, denouncing the "fascist police state"....

March 19th, 1968: Amiens Conference; leaders from Amiens, Strasbourg, and Paris, gather to demand greater reforms from the French government...

April 27th, 1968: Student leader Daniel Cohn-Bendit is hospitalized in Paris, after being beaten in police custody, sparking civil unrest and violence throughout France.....

May 1st, 1968: Paris Riots; Black Flag anarchists begin violent attacks against police and government officials throughout Paris, sparking calls for a police crackdown....

May 6th, 1968: French General Strike; Labor unions throughout France join in a general strike demanding the overthrow of the government in Paris, France...
 
Does anyone have any ideas for candidates for the Republican and Democratic Party for 1960 and/or 1964? We certainly don't know the winners as well!
 
Here are a few PODs based on the ida of North Korea beoming a Juche-style nation in the vein of North Korea:

January 23rd, 1968: USS Pueblo Incident; Chinese military forces capture the U.S.S. Pueblo under Captain Lloyd Bucher, and its 81-man crew, on the charges of "international piracy" off the coast of Shanghai....

April 15th, 1969: Chinese PLA forces report shooting down an American reconnaisance plane, killing all 31 people aboard....

April 30th, 1970: Yoshimi Tanaka and a group of students of the Red Army Faction (RAF), including Shiro Akagi, seized a Japan Airlines jet and flew to Beijing, China, sparking international attention and concern...

April 21st, 1972: Mao Tse-tung proclaimed an edict saying up to three generations must be punished in order to wipe out the “seed” of class enemies on state television in Beijing, China....
 
Here are a few PODs to show that things can change drastically without any killing:

May 27th, 1967: Sydney Riots; Riots erupt in Sydney, Australia after the failure of a national referendum to grant aboriginal persons representation in the Australian Parliament....

July 23rd, 1967: In a local plebiscite, 60.4% of voters approve statehood for Puerto Rico, making the territory, the 51st state of the Union....

September 25th, 1972: 53.5% of Nowegian voters call for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC) in a national referendum, sparking international attention....

March 8th, 1973: Northern Ireland becomes a part of the republic of Ireland after a national referendum vote of 58.7% of voters agree to Irish unification...

December 8th, 1973: 56.19% of Australian voters approve measures granting the Australian Parliament price control powers, sparking concerns over the economy....

May 12th, 1974: 59.26% of Italian voters call for a strict regulation against divorce, after pressure from the Roman Catholic Church in Rome, Italy

June 5th, 1975: Great Britain announces that it will be leaving the European Economic Community (EEC) after a national referendum after 64.5% of voters vote to leave the organization....

June 11th, 1978: 56.4% of Italian voters call for a reduction of police powers, citing police brutality reports; 76.5% of Italian voters call for an end to "special interests" money in politics, severely limiting party funding....
 
Here are a few PODs to show that things can change drastically without any killing:

May 27th, 1967: Sydney Riots; Riots erupt in Sydney, Australia after the failure of a national referendum to grant aboriginal persons representation in the Australian Parliament....

July 23rd, 1967: In a local plebiscite, 60.4% of voters approve statehood for Puerto Rico, making the territory, the 51st state of the Union....

September 25th, 1972: 53.5% of Nowegian voters call for membership in the European Economic Community (EEC) in a national referendum, sparking international attention....

March 8th, 1973: Northern Ireland becomes a part of the republic of Ireland after a national referendum vote of 58.7% of voters agree to Irish unification...

December 8th, 1973: 56.19% of Australian voters approve measures granting the Australian Parliament price control powers, sparking concerns over the economy....

May 12th, 1974: 59.26% of Italian voters call for a strict regulation against divorce, after pressure from the Roman Catholic Church in Rome, Italy

June 5th, 1975: Great Britain announces that it will be leaving the European Economic Community (EEC) after a national referendum after 64.5% of voters vote to leave the organization....

June 11th, 1978: 56.4% of Italian voters call for a reduction of police powers, citing police brutality reports; 76.5% of Italian voters call for an end to "special interests" money in politics, severely limiting party funding....

If we are already into changing the outcomes of referendums...
Wikipedia said:
Erneute Abstimmung in Baden

Die badischen Vereinigungsgegner gaben den Kampf gegen den Südweststaat auch nach 1952 nicht auf. Im Heimatbund Badnerland organisiert, erstrebten sie weiterhin die Wiederherstellung Badens. Art. 29 Abs. 2 GG sah vor, dass in Gebieten, deren Landeszugehörigkeit nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ohne Volksabstimmung geändert worden war, ein Volksbegehren über die Neugliederung möglich sei. Nachdem dieser Passus infolge des Deutschlandvertrags 1955 in Kraft trat, stellte der Heimatbund einen Antrag auf ein Volksbegehren zur Wiederherstellung des Landes Baden in den Grenzen von 1945. Das Bundesinnenministerium lehnte diese Forderung unter anderem mit der Begründung ab, das neue Bundesland sei bereits durch eine Volksabstimmung zustande gekommen. In der darauf folgenden Klage vor dem Bundesverfassungsgericht bekam der Heimatbund 1956 Recht.[10] Das Gericht argumentierte, dass die Abstimmung von 1951 keine Abstimmung in Sinne von Art. 29 GG gewesen sei, da hierbei die zahlenmäßig stärkere Bevölkerung Württembergs und Hohenzollerns die zahlenmäßig schwächere Badens habe überstimmen können. Der Wille der badischen Bevölkerung sei durch die Besonderheit der politisch-geschichtlichen Entwicklung überspielt worden, weshalb ein Volksbegehren nach Art. 29 GG zulässig sei.
Das Bundesverfassungsgericht setzte in seinem Urteil keine Frist für die Abstimmung, weshalb sie immer wieder verschleppt wurde. Es bedurfte einer weiteren Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichtes im Jahre 1969, in der es die Abstimmung bis spätestens zum 30. Juni 1970 anordnete. Diese wurde am 7. Juni 1970 durchgeführt und ergab mit 81,9 % eine große Zustimmung zum Verbleib von Baden im gemeinsamen Land Baden-Württemberg. Die Wahlbeteiligung lag bei 62,5 %.
Die Ablehnung des Volksbegehrens machte den Weg frei zu einer administrativen Neugliederung des Landes. 1971 wurde eine Reform der Landkreise und der Regierungsbezirke eingeleitet, die 1973 in Kraft trat. Seitdem sind die ehemaligen Landesgrenzen kaum noch im Kartenbild zu erkennen.

December 7, 1970: The state of Baden is approved in a Referendum, with a majority of a bare 50,8 %.

June 1, 1972: Baden is created as the twelfth Land of West Germany.

@Others: Can we make Alsace-Lorraine join Germany peacefully somehow?
 
If we are already into changing the outcomes of referendums...


December 7, 1970: The state of Baden is approved in a Referendum, with a majority of a bare 50,8 %.

June 1, 1972: Baden is created as the twelfth Land of West Germany.

@Others: Can we make Alsace-Lorraine join Germany peacefully somehow?

I like it!! Definitely go ahead with the Alsace-Lorraine, but consider that there will certainly be some backlash....
 
June 8, 1973: In Strasbourg and Colmar, student protests turn into German nationalist protests demanding a secession and rejoining Germany. THey cite the Saar example...






August 1, 1977: Elsaß-Lothringen joins West Germany as the thirteenth state.


and now you: What happens in between?
 
June 8, 1973: In Strasbourg and Colmar, student protests turn into German nationalist protests demanding a secession and rejoining Germany. THey cite the Saar example...


August 1, 1977: Elsaß-Lothringen joins West Germany as the thirteenth state.


and now you: What happens in between?

Well how about these items for a few PODs to get things into the mess:

April 24th, 1975: Red Army Faction (RAF) seize control of the West German Embassy in Stockholm, Sweden proclaiming that the government are "neo fascists", sparking a massive political backlash....

January 4th, 1977: Red Army Faction (RAF) attack US 42nd Field Artillery Brigade at Giessen, proclaiming the West German government an "American puppet"..

April 7th, 1977: Federal Prosecutor General Siegfried Buback narrowly survives an assassination attempt in Hamburg, West Germany by members of the Red Army Faction (RAF)....

July 30th, 1977: Jürgen Ponto, head of the Dresdner Bank, is kidnapped from his home in Dresden, West Germany, in an effort by the Red Army Faction (RAF) to force the government to drop its claims to Elsaß-Lothringen...
 
Here are a few PODs to show that that should show that the ATL will start deviating wildly in the ATL:

March 14th, 1963: Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale takes responsibility for the derailment of a train carrying Prime Minister John Diefenbaker in Montreal, Quebec, sparking international attention and concern...

June 1st-22nd, 1963: Gabriel Hudon and Raymond Villeneuve launch a series of bombings throughout Quebec at Loyola College, McGil University, and the Black Watch Armoury, sparking international concern....

September 26th, 1963: Robert Hudon and Jean Gagnon launch a series of bank robberies throughout Quebec, in an effort to sponsor their "nationalist revolution"...
 
Here are a few PODs to show that preventing assassinations has a very dangerous effect on the ATL as well:

November 3rd, 1960: Félix-Roland Moumié survives an assassination attempt by French military forces in Yaounde, Cameroon, sparking outrage and violence throughout the region,....

January 17th, 1961: Patrice Lumumba survives an assassination attempt in Elizabethville, Katanga, Zaire, with evidence that the Belgians planned the attack...

October 29th, 1965: Mehdi Ben Barka launches an armed insurrection of the National Union of Popular Forces (UNPF) in Rabat, Morocco, further stretching France to the breaking point with colonial wars....

January 15th, 1966: Sir Ahmadu Bello reports a British assassination attempt on his life in Rabbah, Nigeria, fueling anti-European sentimentthroughout Sub-Saharan Africa...

February 3rd, 1969: Eduardo Mondlane leads Mozambican Liberation Front (FRELIMO) in the overthrow of the government of Mozambique, despite heavy resistance by Portuguese forces...
 
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