Very Minor PODs

AlisonFox66

On the night the Pan Am plane hits Lockerbie , it is delayed further and is less far into its flight and hits a bigger town like Coventry ( no offence , just an example) . Or it takes off on time and just disappears into the ocean . Just a thought - I now have family near Lockerbie and often wonder how a plane hit such a wee town - a town which you could walk across in ten minutes back then before they built the T*sco
 

Edward IX

Banned
Since this is still a active thread, congratulations @Emperor Norton I ! Here's my 2

The morning of November 22nd, 1963 dawns raw, windy, and raining in Ft. Worth, TX. The rain stops, and President Kennedy demands that the "bubble" be left off the presidential limousine, so the crowd can see him. As the car pulls off of Houston St, it is very windy (I lived in Dallas for a time and it often is there, the wind can really whip up). Lee Harvey Oswald takes his first shot at the President. It hits well in front of the limousine, slightly wounding a bystander (as really happened.) The second shot is effected by the wind and is pushed 2" to the left, it misses President Kennedy's left ear by just millimeters. The driver realizes something and speeds off.

Giuseppe Zangara while browsing in a pawn shop in Miami for a pistol, is asked by the store owner "why do you want a sissy gun?" The owner of the store, a fellow Italian immigrant, tells him the .32 pistol he is looking at that the gun is only good for "pimps and card players". The owner tells him he has " a whole box of surplus of M1911 .45 pistols left over from World War 1" he describes it as a "mans gun" and besides holds 2 more bullets. The .32 costs $8 and the .45 is $12. Even though he really does not have the $4 he will not let his manhood to be insulted and buys the .45.

On February 15, 1933 a very disturbed Zangara pulls out the pistol. He fires 7 rounds from the .45. He kills Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, whose last words are "how is Franklin?" Unfortunately, not well, 3 shots have hit President-elect Roosevelt and he is dead 15 minutes later. Vice President John Nance Garner is sworn in that March.

One more:

John Hinckley Jr. Buys a batch of .22 "devastor rounds" the batch passed quality control and works as advertised. On March 30, 1981 he pulls out a pistol and fires 6 rounds in 1.7 seconds. It is particularly devastating, as the "exploding" bullets work as advertised. Killed immediately are White House Press Secretary Jim Brady DC Policy Officer Thomas Delahanty, Secret Service Special Agent Tim McCarthy. President Ronald Reagan is initially thought to be okay. However, Agent Jerry Parr see's that the President is bleeding heavily from a chest wound.

Parr is deeply worried deeply because the President is grey in color and in and out of consciousness. At 2:33 President Ronald Reagan, the 40th man to hold that title mumbles "Nancy... Patty" dies. Vice President George H.W. Bush is sworn in as President upon landing in Washington D.C. there is some confusion as to who is in charge until Bush lands.
 
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Emperor Norton I

Emperor Norton I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Frunze

Frunze had been noted among communist leaders as possessing a very creative and almost unorthodox view on matters of implementation and policy. He gained the respect and admiration of his comrades thanks to his fearless and successful pursuit of complicated military objectives and his endurance during the illegality period of the communist party. He had been considered as a potential successor to Lenin, due to his strength in both theoretical and practical matters of advancing the Communist party agenda, and his seeming lack of personal ambition separate from the party.[7]

Frunze was suffering from a chronic ulceration, and although it had been suggested to him many times that he undergo surgery, he tended to favour more conservative treatments. After an especially severe episode in 1925, Frunze was hospitalised. Stalin and Anastas Mikoyan both came to visit him, and impressed on him the need for an operation.[8]

Not long before his death, Frunze wrote to his wife: "At present I am feeling absolutely healthy, and it seems ridiculous to even think of, and even more-so to undergo an operation. Nevertheless, both party representatives are requiring it."[9]

Frunze died on 31 October 1925. There has been speculation that Stalin or another rival within the party secretly ordered his death, but there is no evidence to support this.[10] However, Frunze was administered a chloroform dose that seven times exceeded the dose normally applied to induce narcosis.[8]
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ramones1986

ramones1986

The former Shaw Brothers studios in Jalan Ampas (Singapore) was brought by the then Radio-Television Singapore in 1967, immediately after the Malay-language film production transferred to Kuala Lumpur.

FYI: I think either @Remitonov or even @Flocculencio could tackle more about this, they're true-blue Singaporeans themselves.
 

samcster94

Banned
Patty Jenkins was nearly the director of Thor 2. She would have been the first female Marvel director. She left in pre-production.
 
Driftless

Driftless

Donor
Change the timing of the Battle of Prairie du Chien in 1814 to the point where British negotiators are aware that their forces control much of the upper Mississippi watershed north of the current Illinois border. Depending on particulars in the negotiations that could leave large portions of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan in British control. That could eventually lead to several large scale economic and social impacts for the region - even if the borders change over time.
 
flippikat

flippikat

John Lennon has writer's block & never comes up with 1967 anthem "All You Need is Love" for the worldwide "Our World" TV show (the first of its kind).

Beatles pick 'Your Mother Should Know" or "It's all too much" to play for a live global audience via satellite instead.
 
Mr_Fanboy

Mr_Fanboy

Think of all the Wikipedia articles you read of entertainment figures, business figures, political figures, etc who started out playing some sport in college or otherwise, but had to give it up due to a career-ending injury and choose a different profession.
 
Emperor Norton I

Emperor Norton I

Lewis and Clark were almost secretly murdered by the Spanish Empire.

https://www.npr.org/2010/04/28/126363998/the-man-who-double-crossed-the-founders

Through these coded messages, Wilkinson informed the Spanish of the Lewis and Clark expedition and its secret goal of finding a land route through the Western mountains and to the Pacific Ocean. He suggested that his paymasters send armed patrols to intercept the expedition — which the Spanish did.

"Only by the grace of God did they fail to find them," Linklater says. If the Spanish patrols had been luckier or more skillful, we might remember Lewis and Clark — if we remembered them at all — as two explorers who vanished in the West. And the course of American history might well have been dramatically altered.

Wilkinson also recommended that the Spanish build huge defensive lines to prevent American expansion westward after the Louisiana Purchase — again, advice that Spain acted upon.
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