Second Great Game in Asia China-India-Pakistan
While in the United States the National Basketball Association is born out of the merger of the Basketball Association of America and the National Basketball League an Earthquake in Ambato Ecuador kills more then 5,000 people and destroys a number of villages, quickly resulting in United Nations support and backing for Ecuador itself. While India and Pakistan signs a treaty of friendship with Bhutan, this officially leads internal Buthanese affairs to themselves, but allows India and Pakistan to coordinate it’s foreign policy in fear of an otherwise rise of the Chinese Nationalists, or the Soviet Union in the Area. While the first jet airliner, the Avro Canada C102 Jetliner makes it’s flight to North America and the Forth Geneva Convention is signed, in Sicily, the Salvatore Guiliano Gang explodes mines underneath local police barracks as a show of force, while a military coup in Syria-Lebanon (Greater Syria) results in a new government. In Kemi Finland the Thursday Protests end in blood, killing two protesters, while the Vatican claims bones uncovered in the catacombs underneath it might belong to Peter, the First Pope, which will be confirmed 16 years later. While the 1949 Queen Charlotte Island Earthquake, the largest in Canada since the 1700 Cascadia Earthquake shakes the land, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is officially established, and the Council of Europe meets a week later, to uphold human and liberty rights across it’s members on the continent. Both actions result in the Soviet Union testing it’s first atomic bomb, Joe 1 or RDS-1 a design copied from the American bomb dropped on Nagasaki in Japan 1945. In Greece the last Remnants of the Democratic Army, the Socialists and Communists in the Greek Civil War are defeated, marking its ultimate End for good and cementing Greece in the more pro-Western camp. Remnants of these communist forces fleeing to Bulgaria and Yugsolavia will strengthen the Communists and Socialist there and also bring Albania, including the Albanian Nationalist ambitions against Greece further into the Soviet Union Eastern Bloc, isolating Western Greece in the Balkans k. In Indianapolic, the United States meanwhile six of the last sixteen surviving veterans of the Union Army during the American Civil War meet during a Veterans Celebration of pro-American and pro-Western values targeted against the Soviet Union.
