Trial of the Century: A Hitler is Captured Collaborative Timeline

January 30, 1948: 1948 Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

February 25, 1948: 1948 Czechoslovak coup d'état, where the communists took control of the nation.

April 3, 1948: Jeju Uprising – residents revolt on Jeju island, South Korea, eventually leading to the deaths of between 14,000 and 30,000.

May 14, 1948: The state of Israel is born.

June 3, 1948: The Palomar Observatory telescope is finished in California.

July 29, 1948: The 1948 Summer Olympics begin in London, the first since the 1936 Summer Olympics.

August 15, 1948: The southern half of Korea is established as South Korea.

September 9, 1948: The northern half of Korea is formally declared North Korea, with Kim Il-sung as prime minister.

October 10, 1948: R-1 missile becomes the first Soviet object to enter space.

November 12, 1948: In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.

December 31, 1948:
Arab–Israeli War: Israeli troops drive the Egyptians from Negev.
 
January 31, 1949: Chinese communist forces enter Beiping/Beijing.

April 4, 1949: NATO is formed.

April 17, 1949: Notorious Nazi SS member Josef Mengele fled Germany.

April 23, 1949: Chinese Communist troops take Nanjing.

June 8, 1949: Second Red Scare in the United States - Celebrities including Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in a Federal Bureau of Investigation report as Communist Party members. George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four is published in London.

June 14, 1949:
Albert II, a rhesus monkey, becomes the first primate to enter space, on U.S. Hermes project V-2 rocket Blossom IVB, but is killed on impact at return.

August 2, 1949: The communists took control of Hungary.

August 29, 1949: USSR tested its first atomic bomb.

October 1, 1949: The People's Republic of China is proclaimed. The losing KMT would flee to Taiwan afterwards.

January 31, 1950: US President orders the development of a hydrogen bomb.

May 14, 1950: The Huntsville Times runs the headline "Dr. von Braun Says Rocket Flights Possible to Moon."

June 28, 1950: The start of Korean War.

July 14, 1950: Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann arrives at Argentina.

October 19, 1950: PR China enters the Korean War to support the North Koreans.
 
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January 15, 1951: In a court in West Germany, Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment.

February 27, 1951: The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.

March 29, 1951: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. On April 5 they are sentenced to receive the death penalty.

December 24, 1951: Libya becomes independent from Italy.

February 6, 1952: Elizabeth II is crowned the Queen of England.

March 22, 1952: Wernher von Braun publishes the first in his series of articles titled Man Will Conquer Space Soon!, including ideas for manned flights to Mars and the Moon.

July 19 - August 3, 1952: The 1952 Summer Olympics are held in Helsinki, Finland.

November 1, 1952: The U.S. detonates the first hydrogen bomb.

March 1, 1953: Joseph Stalin suffers a stoke and dies. Nikita Khrushchev will succeed him.

June 19, 1953: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York, for conspiracy to commit espionage.

July 27, 1953: The end of Korean War.

August 12, 1953: USSR tests its first hydrogen bomb.

January 1954: The first nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, is launched in Groton, Connecticut, by First Lady of the United States Mamie Eisenhower.

April 11, 1955: The Taiwanese Kuomintang put a time-bomb on the airplane Kashmir Princess, killing 16 but failing to assassinate the People's Republic of China leader, Zhou Enlai.


May 7, 1955: After being dormant for almost 10 years, the pro-Nazi Werwolf insurgency resurfaced in South America as a terrorist organization when they committed a bomb attack against the Soviet embassy in Chile, killing 3 people.

May 14, 1955: The formation of Warsaw Pact.

July 29, 1955: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced through his press secretary that the United States would launch an artificial satellite during the International Geophysical Year.

August 8, 1955: the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union approved the proposal to create an artificial satellite.

October 23, 1956: The Hungarian revolution erupts, although it failed on November 10th.
 
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January 1, 1957: Saarland joins West Germany.

January 20, 1957: Eisenhower is sworn in as POTUS.

March 15, 1957: Werwolf terrorists kidnap a Soviet diplomat in Brazil, demanding the reunification of Germany.

May 21, 1957: After months of dragging-on, the KGB staged a successful covert operation to free their diplomat.

September 26, 1957: The United States sent up the first satellite in the world, Vanguard 1.

October 4, 1957: USSR launched Sputnik 1 thus commencing the Space Race.

November 3, 1957: Sputnik 2 is launched, carrying Laika the first dog in orbit.

December 5, 1957:
Through his adoptive mother a young Oleg Muchkaev (renamed from Heinrich Himmler) learns the secret about his true father. This occurs after their adoptive parents were divorced 1 month ago.
 
February 20, 1947: U.S. send fruit flies up to space with a V-2 rocket, making them the first terrestrial animals to do so.

It wouldn't be surprising if Chicxulub or some other big impact blew a few animals into space.

July 8, 1947:
A supposedly downed extraterrestrial spacecraft is reportedly found near Roswell, New Mexico.

It was found sometime around July 2-5. IIRC July 8 was the date of the press release.
 
January 31, 1958: USA sent up another satellite Explorer I into space.

February 16, 1958: Werwolf ringleader Joachim Peiper is killed by a gun fight in the corners of South America.

March 5, 1958: NASA's Explorer II is launched into orbit.

May 15, 1958: Sputnik 3 launched into space.

October 1, 1958: NASA is formed.

October 11, 1958: NASA's Pioneer 1 is launched into the lunar vicinity and beyond into orbiting the Sun.

November 8, 1958: Pioneer 2 became the first object to impact the Moon.

January 1, 1959: Fidel Castro takes over Cuba.

January 2, 1959: SU takes one step further by sending Luna 1 into the cislunar space and beyond, akin to Pioneer 1.

September 13, 1959: Luna 2 followed Pioneer 2's footsteps by impacting on the Moon.

October 4, 1959: USSR shocked the world once again when Luna 3 sent back first images of lunar far side.

Circa 1960: Project Ozma the first modern SETI experiment is started by Frank Drake, just like in OTL. Israeli Mossad captures Eichmann at Argentina.

January 20, 1961: Inauguration of President Kennedy.

January 31, 1961: NASA sent up Ham the Chimp into space.

March 24, 1961: Astronaut Alan Shepard became the first human in space.

April 12, 1961: Once again, the USSR stunned the world when they sent up Yuri Gagarin into orbit.

May 25, 1961: US President Kennedy delivers his speech to put a man on the Moon in the Congress. Afterwards Khrushchev orders Korolev to do the same thing.

August 13, 1961: The construction for the Berlin Wall is started.

October 30, 1961: The Soviet Union explodes the Tsar Bomba.
 
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February 20, 1962: John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.

June 1, 1962: Eichmann is executed by hanging.

July 22, 1962:
Mariner 1 is launched, and would become the first probe to fly by a planet (Venus) later.

November 1, 1962: Soviet probe Mars 1 is successfully sent to the direction of Mars.

June 16, 1963: Valentina Tereshkova is the first woman in space.

June 19, 1963: Mars 1 closest approach at 193,000 km from Mars. It also sent back first close-up images of the red planet.

November 22, 1963: JFK is assassinated.

July 15, 1964: Josef Mengele is captured by Mossad agents in Brazil.

March 18, 1965: Alexei Leonov is the first person to do a extravehicular spacewalk.

June 5, 1965: Oleg Muchkaev/Heinrich Hitler is drafted into the Soviet Armed Forces, paving the way to a career for him.

September 1965: A go-ahead is given to NASA's Gemini program to conduct a manned circumlunar mission to catch up with Russia.

November 2, 1965: Voskhod 3 lifts off into space and flew into the vicinity of the Van Allen Belt.

February 3, 1966: Luna 9 is the first object to soft land on the moon.

March 15, 1966: Irina Solovyova is the first woman to spacewalk in the Voskhod 4 mission.

October 24, 1966: Mengele is executed by hanging.

January 27, 1967: Apollo 1 disaster.

April 17, 1967: The crew of Gemini 15 mission became the first humans to flyby the Moon, upping the tempo of the Space Race.

April 26, 1967: Soyuz 1 performed a hard landing onto the ground. Vladimir Komarov survived but is permanently left disabled.
 
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January 5, 1968: Eruption of the Prague Spring.

August 21, 1968: Prague Spring is suppressed.

November 15, 1968: USSR launched Alexey Leonov and Valery Bykovsky in a Soyuz 7K-L1 spacecraft to do a lap around the Moon like Gemini 15.

December 24, 1968: Apollo 8 became the first manned mission to orbit the Moon.

February 19, 1969: Lunokhod 1 rover is sent to the Moon where it successfully lands, stunning the world.

July 17, 1969: Yuri Gagarin and Viktor Gorbatko became the first Soviet cosmonauts to orbit the Moon in a Soyuz 7K-LOK spacecraft. [1]

July 20, 1969: Apollo 11 landed on the Moon which is the first manned mission to do so. Neil Armstrong is the first man to step foot on the Moon.

September 1, 1969: Gaddafi seized power in Libya.

November 4, 1969: USSR followed suit by sending Alexei Leonov to land on the Moon.

[1]: Yuri Gagarin did not die in a plane crash in TTL.
 
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December 15, 1970: Venera 7 soft lands on Venus.

April 12, 1971: Launch of Salyut 1 the first space station.

April 22, 1971: Soyuz 10 launched which will become the first manned mission to enter the Salyut 1 station.

June 12, 1971: Soviet Russia's Irina Solovyova is the first woman to walk on the Moon.

March 2, 1972: Pioneer 10 is launched to Jupiter.

April 6, 1973: Pioneer 11 is launched to Jupiter and Saturn.

October 6 - 25, 1973: Yom Kippur War.

Circa 1974: Mariner 10 is the first to reach Mercury while Pioneer H is launched as an out-of-the ecliptic mission.

July 15, 1975: Apollo Soyuz test project is launched into space.

July 20, 1976: NASA's Viking 1 lands on Mars and successfully performed its mission.

September 5, 1977: NASA launched Voyager 1 to the outer planets and beyond.
 
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Circa 1979: The USSR launched Mars 5M to retrieve samples from Mars. Iranian islamist revolution.

April 12, 1981: Space Shuttle Columbia makes its maiden flight.

March 19, 1982: Oleg Muchkaev/Heinrich Hitler rose to the rank of colonel in the army. This was way after he graduated from Frunze military academy.

September 1, 1983: Korean Airlines Flight 007 is shot down by Soviet air forces.

May 16, 1987: Andrei Chikatilo is caught in the act of raping a boy by Oleg Muchkaev who then have the police to arrest him.

July 3, 1988: Iran air 655 peacefully passed across the Persian Gulf.

March 9, 1989: Start of a series of revolutions in the Eastern Bloc.

November 9, 1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall.

December 26, 1991: End of the Cold War as the USSR vanish from existence.

August 7, 1994: Heinrich Hitler accepts a job offer in North Korea.

November 16, 1996: Russia's Mars 96 is launched to Mars.

Circa 1997: Asian economic crisis. Lillelid murders are averted as the kids in TTL are stopped and caught by a state trooper in a highway.

December 31, 1999: Russian president Yeltsin resigns from office. Vladimir Putin succeeds him.

January 20, 2001: George H W Bush is inaugurated as the POTUS.

September 11, 2001: 911 terrorist attacks, Yuri Gagarin who was visiting NYC at that time is among the victims killed.

October 7, 2001: U.S. invaded Afghanistan.

March 20, 2003: USA invades Saddamist Iraq.

January 19, 2006: NASA launches space probe New Horizons.

October 9, 2006: North Korea explode its first nuke.

September 10, 2008: The Large Hadron Collider is activated by CERN.

January 20, 2009: Barack Obama is inaugurated as POTUS.

December 18, 2010: Start of the Arab Spring.

October 30, 2011: Libyan dictator Gaddafi is caught by Libyan rebels and would be brought to the ICC.

November 9, 2011: Phobos Grunt is launched to Mars.

April 13, 2012: North Korea launched its first satellite into space.

November 22, 2013: Start of the Ukrainian revolution and eventual civil war.

July 17, 2014: Russian army accidentally shot down Singapore Airlines Flight 351 from the sky at Eastern Ukraine with a Buk missile. TTL's Malaysia Flight 17 was significantly delayed after one of its tyres had burst on take-off from Schipol Amsterdam.

July 14, 2015: New Horizons flew by Pluto.

June 18, 2016: British youngster Michael Steven Sandford shot Donald Trump the presidential candidate at Las Vegas. The latter was pronounced death on the next day.

January 20, 2017: Hillary Rodham Clinton is inaugurated as the President of the United States.

December 25, 2017: At the instigation of Heinrich Hitler, Kim Jong-un launched a nuclear-tipped ICBM into the Pacific.
 
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