Very Minor PODs

Plateosaurus

In 1963, the Zoological Society of London lets one of its members, one George H. Martin, have a band known as the Beatles, have a shoot outside the London Zoo's Insect House for an album of theirs. However, this didn't happen in OTL, where they declined it.

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Perhaps having the Beatles using the house for the cover results in at least two things I can think of:
  1. The London Zoo gets a boost in visits thanks to it, which gives it and the ZSL more money. That could brings Butterflies (pardon the pun) conderning populations of animals and conservation worldwide.
  2. Depending on the time the photo is taken, like whether before or after the day of recording, the production of this album is altered oh so slightly.

Sources
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Zoo uses beetles to recreate Abbey Road album cover on 50th anniversary - Extra.ie

Beetles have been used at ZSL London Zoo to recreate The Beatles’ famous Abbey Road album cover artwork on its 50th anniversary.
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Vinization

Brazilian president Afonso Pena (wikipedia page in Portuguese) doesn't die from pneumonia in 1909. With him still alive, the 1910 presidential election (the first "close" race of the Brazilian Old Republic, the others being 1922 and 1930) is even messier, since his OTL successor, Nilo Peçanha, immediately endorsed Hermes da Fonseca while the old and tired Pena might very well choose not do anything about it.
 

Brazilianguy

The ex girlfriend of Lula doesnt give a interview to the Globo television network talking about he saying to her to make an abortion of his son when she was pregnat. This severely affect his campaign and perhaps if this not happen, a more radical Lula can be elected to the brazilian presidency 3 elections before the election that he was elected in real life.
 

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Brazilianguy said:
The ex girlfriend of Lula doesnt give a interview to the Globo television network talking about he saying to her to make an abortion of his son when she was pregnat. This severely affect his campaign and perhaps if this not happen, a more radical Lula can be elected to the brazilian presidency 3 elections before the election that he was elected in real life.
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Now that might make an interesting story. Not often we see a Brazilian TL on recent politics and one where a simple lack of an interview could give us Lula, but not as we in the rest of the world know him.
 

Peg Leg Pom

One of Titanic's prop shafts overheats forcing the crew to stop it before it seizes up. As a result of the reduction in speed the ship doesn't hit the iceberg. After a few hours the stopped engine is restarted and Titanic arrives in New York on schedule.
 
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Peg Leg Pom said:
One of Titanic's prop shafts overheats forcing the crew to stop it before it seizes up. As a result of the reduction in speed the ship doesn't hit the iceberg. After a few hours the stopped engine is restarted and Titanic arrives in New York on schedule.
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A couple of divergences: No Titanic tragedy that's echoed for more than a century in public consciousness. Also, the lifeboat and safety issues get ignored - until the next time a big liner has a disaster(natural or man-made).
 
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Peg Leg Pom

There's a competent Doctor and Midwife overseeing the birth of the future Kaiser Wilhelm II so his arm is not crippled and the consequent mental insecurities are avoided.
 

Peg Leg Pom

Amongst those who claim to have witnessed Richard Pearse's flight some 9 months before the Wright Brothers there's a reporter who snaps a photograph of the event with a Box Browning camera. This is reported in the local paper but doesn't gain wider circulation until news of the Wright Brothers flight breaks. Because of this the Wright Brothers many law suits of other aviation pioneers fail because he did it first and can prove it.

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Peg Leg Pom said:
Amongst those who claim to have witnessed Richard Pearse's flight some 9 months before the Wright Brothers there's a reporter who snaps a photograph of the event with a Box Browning camera. This is reported in the local paper but doesn't gain wider circulation until news of the Wright Brothers flight breaks. Because of this the Wright Brothers many law suits of other aviation pioneers fail because he did it first and can prove it.

en.wikipedia.org

Richard Pearse - Wikipedia

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The failure of the Wright lawsuits, or the general lack of lawsuits would advance aviation progress by a few years. About the only thing they may be able to claim is wing-warping replications.
 

Kloka

Here’s a relatively minor one:

I don’t think many of you remember this,but in 1990 the TV movie Archie:To Riverdale and Back Again came out. It was a look into the lives of the major Archie Comics characters ~10 years down the road from their high school days,and was supposedly intended as a series pilot. Suppose that’d been picked up on?
 

Codae

If the United States 1980 Olympic ice hockey team had given up one more goal to the Swedes (converting a tie into a loss), and the rest of the tournament proceeded as in OTL, then despite beating the Soviet Union head-to-head, they would have finished with the same record as the Soviets and missed out on the gold medal on goal differential.

EDIT: Upon further inspection, I think I assumed the wrong tiebreaker rules (judging by how Finland beat out Canada to make it to the final round). So that would make this POD even more minor.
 
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Emperor Norton I

Emperor Norton I

In retrospect, when the Beach Boys matured, why didn't they change their names to something like the Wilson Brothers or Wilson? That name became an albatross.
 
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There's the matter that Jerry Van Dyke turned down the role of replacing Don Knotts on Andy Griffith and the role of Gilligan on Gilligan's Island. He did My Mother the Car instead.

If "Ghosts" had been a 1960s series, I think that could have easily happened if My Mother the Car were just retooled into that in the pre production stage.
 
ramones1986

ramones1986

Established in 1951, the Trier studios of Südwestfunk (SWF) had expanded its coverage to include the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg as the distance between the two areas are short, as well as the fact that the both regions in general spoke dialects/varieties of Moselle Franconian, Luxembourgish included.

As part of the agreement between the Government of the Grand Duchy and the management of SWF a year earlier, with the permission from the rest of the ARD (federal-level association of (West) German regional broadcaster), a distinct version of Südwest-3 was formally launched on the 5th of April 1969 from Trier, with a permanent presence of correspondents across the Grand Duchy. The mission is still the same: Provide a fully dedicated public service television service in Luxembourgish (and by extension, to other Moselle Frankish dialects).

The success of Tréier-Lëtzëbeurg 3 forced RTL, then known as Télé-Luxembourg to launch "Hei Elei Kuck Elei" within the same year (21st September).
 
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