Alternative History:Current events
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[edit] July
[edit] July 1
1520: Spanish flee Tenochtitlan after hostilities break out between them and the Aztecs, culminating in the massacre in the Main Temple and the death of Montezuma.
1704: The Great War ends between the CCA and the AA.
1916: Eisenhower married Mamie Geneva Doud (1896–1979) of Denver, Colorado.
1940: The alliance of England, France, Japan and Poland invades Russia.
1942: German forces approach the outskirts of Moscow, Leningrad, and Kiev.
1942: Surviving New Zealand troops retreat to Wellington. The Japanese army besieges them there.
1997: The United Kingdom transferred sovereignty of Hong Kong to the Empire of Japan, ending over 150 years of British colonial rule.
[edit] July 2
1945: The Treaty of New York is signed. Britain is recognized as a neutral with ties to the US. Germany is given free hand in Europe.
1961: Janey J Lummis is born.
1964: C.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, which finally gives the vote to the Confederacy's black population.
1996: O.J. Simpson decides that he will run for Mayor in the next election on a platform of lowering taxes to help Vegas-area businesses.
2007: Minority Leader Harry Reid asks President Bush for an explanation of the failures of the Iraqi Government to reach any of its "benchmarks". Spokesman Tony Snow says that "there are indications of a potential positive aspect that will be seen by the Fall". The matter is quickly dropped, though Maine Senator Susan Collins says on CNN that she too would like more "positive news" from "the Surge". Support for the war drops to 31% nation-wide.
[edit] July 3
1863 – Pickett's Charge, a successful Confederate infantry assault against Union Army positions, occurred during the final and bloodiest day of fighting in the Battle of Gettysburg, marking a turning point in the Southern War of Independence.
1914: Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia.
1965: John McCain married Carol Shepp, a model originally from Philadelphia.
2009: Vice President Sarah Palin announces in a tearful statement she will resign as Vice President of the United States after 5 months of being Vice President.
[edit] July 4
1776: The United States of America decalres its independence from Great Britain.
1778: Various drafters of the Declaration of Independence are executed for treason.
1807: July 4th becomes the date of the Caelum Oculus Eruptum festival.
1807: Joseph Warren, who served 24 years as President of the United States, dies.
1821: American forces land on Baffin Island.
1864: The United States officially surrenders to the Confederate States. The United States ceases to exist after this point.
1875: Canada gains independence.
1944: Germany releases massive amounts of gas on Glasgow and Cardiff and on some on Allied troops near the cities.
1946: MOAB bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
1948: The United States annexes the entire North American continent.
1984: President Belisario Betancut Cuartas from Colombia and Jaime Lusinchi from Venezuela signed a cooperation and commercial treaty in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. The agreement basically begun as a formalization of barter between Colombia's agricultural and some industrial products and Venezuela's oil, refined in Aruba.
2005: The Confederate Space Agency lands a probe on a near Earth asteroid.
2009: Puerto Rico becomes a U.S state.
[edit] July 5
1943: Axis columns reach Gorki on the Volga, while others close in on central Moscow.
1948: Burma and Rhodesia become British dominions.
2005: US President John Kerry launches a failed attempt to persuade Congress to adopt the Fairness Doctrine.
2006: North Korea test-fires nucler missiles as a provocation to the League of Democracies.
[edit] July 6
1253: Mindaugas is crowned first King of Lithuania.
1872: A six-day fire begins in New York City, blamed on Confederate agitators and New England separatists.
1887: The Kingdom of Hawaii is annexed by the Confederate States.
2004: Howard Dean, Democratic candidate for US President, names Evan Bayh as his running mate.
[edit] July 7
1778: Various members of the Continental Congress are executed for treason.
1893: Mao-Jen-Sheng, interested in becoming more prosperous, immigrates with his wife to the USA.
1928: Sliced bread is first produced in the Confederate States.
1947: A peace treaty is signed between Germany and the United States, ending World War II.
1965: China detonates an atomic bomb.
1979: In response to a request for troops by the Afghanistan government, a Soviet airborne battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel A. Lomakin, arrived at the Bagram Air Base.
[edit] July 8
1815: The second restoration of King Louis XVIII, ending the Hundred Days of Napoleon.
1919: Vlastimil Tusar begins serving as Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia.
1947: Moscow and Washington D.C. are both destroyed by blinding lights causing both NATO and the Warsaw Pact to declare war on each other.
1947: The Confederate Military denies an earlier press release that said a UFO had crash landed in Roswell, Arizona.
2002: Angus King served as active president under the terms of the 25th Amendment when President Jesse Ventura was hospitalized for a blood clot in his lungs.
[edit] July 9
1850: Millard Fillmore is sworn in for his first term as President of the United States of America.
1889: Ottoman Empire accepts the Treaty of Odessa, surrenders Armenia and Kurdistan.
1943: The siege of Moscow ends with German troops capturing the Kremlin.
1944: Confederate forces defeated Japanese on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands.
1970: Colin Powell reaches the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
1974: Earl Warren, the 14th Chief Justice of the United States, dies.
[edit] July 10
1849: China’s new constitution was signed, establishing a government nearly identical to the British model, and Zhang Luoxing became the first Chinese Prime Minister.
1889: Joe Dowling is born.
1893: Mao-Jen-Sheng arrives in Los Angeles, California after a three day journey. He buys a small apartment in the Diamond Bar, and establishes a fruit market, which is relatively successful in the local area (but enough to hold on to the business).
1944: Tokyo is bombed for the first time since the Doolittle raid of April, 1942. For many Japanese this is the first sign that the war is not going as planned.
1956: A national day of mourning is declared in Japan after the death of Emperor Hirohito and the Imperial family.
2007: The War in Iraq ends.
2008: The Midland and Yorkshire Republic Army liberates Boston.
[edit] July 11
1917: In the Second Battle of Ypres, the German Army first uses artillery to launch mustard gas against advancing British troops.
1960 – Confederate author Harper Lee's novel To Kill a Mockingbird, featuring themes of racial injustice and the destruction of innocence in the Deep South, was first published. It would be banned in most states of the Confederacy.
1984: The Soviet advance on Washington is halted in Maryland by American forces using apparently stolen Soviet technology.
2008: A UNSC measure to sanction Zimbabwe over President Robert Mugabe's political violence during a run-off election is vetoed by Russia and China.
[edit] July 12
1782: Work begins on a final draft of the United States Constitution in convention by delegates from all sixteen American states.
1794: Former Continental Congressman the Rev. John Witherspoon dies in exile in Paris.
1797: Jacob Hensleigh is discovered by Commodore Horatio Nelson's fleet floating on a piece of driftwood, the only survivor of an attack by Nelson's prey, the legendary "vampire-pirate" Redbeard.
1943: In the Battle of Kursk, The US 7th army and British 8th army make good progress in Sicily in spite of a vicious counterattack.
1946: The Red Army captures Belfast, effectively ending Axis opposition to Soviet hegemony in Europe.
1958: The Aztec Empire observes the 16th birthday of Emperor Moctezuma Tlacaelel Tonantzin II, his first birthday since becoming the fifteenth Emperor.
1971: Bloody Sunday in Ulster: Soviet troops fire into a crowd of IRA supporters at a protest.
2006: Israel invades Lebanon with knowledge of the League of Democracies' certain support.
2008: North America observes the 43rd birthday of King Marlon I Lincoln, his first official birthday since acceding to the throne.
2008: The Puerto Rico Admission Act recognizes Puerto Rico as the 51st US state pending the results of a referendum the following year.
[edit] July 13
1865: The Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, abolishing slavery, is proposed by the Congress of the remaining United States.
1953: The Russian Empire launches Sputnik I.
1985: The Beatles reunite for the first time in fifteen years in a performance at the Live Aid concert. Their first song is "Hey, Jude".
2002: United Nations inspectors return to Iraq at the urging of US President McCain and his supporters in the Security Council.
2004: The National Enquirer breaks the story of John Edwards' illegitimate child in the middle of his campaign for Vice President of the United States.
[edit] July 14
1776: French forces land in Charleston and are used to secure the Southern Colonies.
1848: The Republic of Louisiana is proclaimed.
1855: The Venetian Republic gains independence.
1945: Russia detonated it's first nuclear bomb over Shanghai.
1968: A military base near Paris is overrun by defecting soldiers.
1969: A cancelled soccer match causes armed rebellion to erupt in the Overseas Departments of El Salvador and Honduras.
2008: Mike Huckabee receives the Republican nomination for President at Super Dome in New Orleans.
[edit] July 15
1936: Italy gains independence.
1942: Wang Xun is born.
1950: Allies liberate Paris after months of heavy fighting.
1951: Jesse Ventura, 43rd President of the United States, is born.
1967: Third Aztec-Spanish War ends.
1999: Wang Xun becomes Prime Minister of China.
[edit] July 16
1790: The city of Georgetown, originally named Washington, D.C., is founded.
1910: Emperor Ludovico of the New Roman Empire dies.
1946: President Truman proposes an armistice with Germany to the Senate.
1975: Anarchists retook Cayenne, the capitol of French Guiana.
[edit] July 17
1665: Richard Talbot begins the Jacobite invasion of Wales by laying siege to Pembroke Castle.
1697: Roman forces abandon the interior of India.
1918: The Romanov family execution is postponed.
1945: A second massive ordnance air blast bomb is dropped on Nagasaki in preparation for the Soviet invasion of Hokkaido.
1978: The Arab Republic of Northeastern Africa achieves independence.
2007: Russia resumes regular long-range bomber flights as tensions mount with Norway.
[edit] July 18
1691: A Roman-Khmer flotilla defeats Danish and Mayan fleets in the Pacific.
1943: Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, Milch and an army of lesser dignitaries visit Moscow to attend the victory parade. Leni Riefestahl makes a small documentary about the event.
1988: The Democratic Party nominates nominates Joe Biden as its candidate for President of the United States.
2003: The United States awards Tony Blair the Congressional Gold Medal.
[edit] July 19
939: The Battle of Simancas begins.
1914: Belgrade falls to Central Powers soldiers.
1932: England and Germany form the Anglo-Germanic Alliance.
1941: A coup topples the pro-German government of Louisiane.
2008: Janey J. Lummis begins his term as president of Iowa.
[edit] July 20
1944: Adolf Hitler and several other prominent German officials are killed when a bomb explodes during a meeting in East Prussia.
1969: A malfunction causes the Apollo 11 lunar module to crash on the surface of the moon.
1986: King John I begins his reign as King of Bermuda.
[edit] July 21
939: Leon is defeated by the forces of the Caliphate of Cordoba at the Battle of Simancas.
1403: Prince Henry is killed at Shrewsbury.
1896: Japan declares war on Spain after they refuse to allow the Japanese to build a naval depot on Guam.
[edit] July 22
1776: Thirteen North American colonies declare independence from Great Britain.
1863: The Union and Confederate presidents sign the Baltimore Armistace.
1876: All newborn babies born to slaves in the United States are declared free.
1899: Confederate forces begin their invasion of Spanish Cuba on the first day of the Battle of Santa Clara.
1929: Fascist Italy purchases Tunisia from France and unites it with Italian Libya.
1938: Nazi Germany invades the Sudetenland, provoking declarations of war from Britain and France.
1942: German forces capture Moscow.
1944: Marshal Tito leads an anti-fascist rebellion in Italian-held Yugoslavia.
1946: The United States Senate accepts President Truman's plan for an armistace with Nazi Germany. Hitler, willing to abandon Japan in order to end the war with America, accepts as well.
1946: President Scott W. Lucas dies in office. Vice President Robert Taft becomes the 32nd President of the United States.
1948: Josef Stalin is assassinated as part of a Nationalist coup.'
1977: Chinese Communist leader Deng Xiaoping is killed in Jiang Qing's Great Party Purge.
1990: Transylvania is constituted as an independent republic almost seven years after the collapse of the Romanian state.
1994: Most fragments of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collide with Jupiter; three fragments, however, continue to approach Earth.
2005: T Essa is sworn in as Vice President of Northwest Africa.
2009: Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai meet in Harare with Thabo Mbeki of South Africa to discuss the creation of a government of national unity for Zimbabwe.
[edit] November
[edit] November 9
1278: Khar Khalid defeated the Mamluks and the Crusaders in a Venetian helped revolution. How will this affect Venetian and Pope alliances is not known.
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