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June 23

In 1956, on this day, UN resolutions affirmed the separation of Egypt into the Egyptian Republic and the Sudan and the UN-takeover of the canal as international territory. While ruling its own ancient empires for millennia, Egypt became a prize in modern times that rarely had its own independence. Centuries of rule by the Ottomans ended with occupation by the French under Napoleon in 1798.

Egypt Formally DividedMuhammad Ali seized power upon the departure of the French, creating a sultanate with British backing still nominally under the banner of the Ottomans. European influence continued and increased as the French-constructed Suez Canal was completed in 1869, making Egypt a nexus of world commerce. Britain began a new occupation of Egypt in 1882, though growing opposition from the populace caused them to establish a sultanate under Hussein Kamel in 1914. In 1922, the British ended Egypt's protectorate status, though British troops remained, and Fuad I declared himself king.

After the Second World War, the empires of Europe were exhausted, and a new era of Post-Colonialism came upon regions of the world that had been ruled for years by faraway governments. Egypt was particularly eager to rid itself of British involvement and a royal family whose government was considered impossibly corrupt. Soviet and American propaganda contributed to the feelings of the Egyptians, who had already begun to form a society known as the Free Officers aimed at ending dominance by elites and establishing democracy. They came under command of Gamal Abdel Nasser, who coordinated and recruited key men within the military and bureaucracy. Defeat in the 1948 war with Israel firmly set the nation against the British-friendly royals, and action began to overthrow King Farouk I.

A new article by Jeff ProvineIn 1952, resistance fighters known as the fedayeen attacked British points of strength, particularly at the Suez Canal, where violent measures and strikes had been carried out for years. The British pursued a group of fedayeen to a police station in Ismailia, where the police refused to cooperate with British demanding the attackers be turned over. A firefight ensued, and fifty Egyptian police were killed along with a hundred wounded. Free Officers instigated riots that became the internationally notorious Cairo Fires. King Farouk ended the government and attempted to install a series of prime ministers who could alleviate the turmoil, but the end had come. General Muhammad Naguib, the face of the Free Officers Movement, announced a coup as Nasser's allies took control of communication and transport hubs. The king fled to Italy, and the government was placed in the hands of the Revolutionary Command Council with Naguib as chairman and Nasser as vice-chairman.

The RCC quickly began reforms on land ownership, ending the power of former royals. Land reform seized property from anyone white as well as anyone Jewish, Greek, or Coptic. Naguib envisioned a fast transition to civilian government, but other RCC members such as Nasser were more comfortable with military rule during the turbulent times as political parties (which became banned) could challenge their control. Nasser began to chafe under Naguib's conservatism and expanded his own powers. Naguib gradually became a puppet holding executive offices and was forced to carry out RCC mandates despite his own voice being ignored. Finally Naguib began to call for support from the banned political parties, such as the Muslim Brotherhood and the Wafd, who had served as a liberalizing faction in the past decades.

Nasser responded by having his allies in the military arrest Naguib in February of 1954. Following the announcement, however, protests rose up from the people so much that Naguib was released and reinstated. Even as Naguib came back into his position, Nasser moved to make himself prime minister and strip the office of commander of the army from Naguib, whom Nasser accused of aspiring to become dictator. Defying the majority of RCC opinion, Naguib determined to denounce Nasser publically and called for immediate elections to a constitutional convention, riding the wave of anti-Nasser sentiment from his unlawful arrest.

Much of the army was still loyal to Nasser, but Naguib had been an influential commander and, using what was left of his command, relieved many of Nasser's allies. The populace reaffirmed his demand for elections with demonstrations, and Nasser could not muster enough support to stop the movement. Having cut out much of Nasser's support, Naguib reappointed Nasser as a representative to Europe to push for British withdrawal from the Suez Canal. Nasser refused to leave Egypt and determined to continue RCC government while Naguib pressed for elections with his own staff. Fighting ensued and spread to become the Egyptian Civil War. Nasser's forces held the north while Naguib, half-Sudanese himself, controlled the south. Britain and France eagerly moved to aid Naguib, while Nasser, who eventually sought to nationalize the Suez Canal, gained aid from the Soviet bloc. The war dragged on to a standstill, much as had been seen in Korea between the American-aided south and Chinese-aided north. Sinai and the Suez Canal were occupied by Israel, whose armies devastated any forces sent by Nasser to retake it.

In 1956, UN resolutions affirmed the separation of Egypt into the Egyptian Republic and the Sudan and the UN-takeover of the canal as international territory, which was demanded by US President Eisenhower. Ideas of pan-Arabism had been shattered along with the Arab League, and instead the Cold War carved up the region into clear Soviet-leaning and West-leaning nations. Revolutions were suppressed by dominant parties while funding from economic patron countries allowed for development within the nations and pacification of despondent peoples. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, much of the foreign political influence diminished while the price of oil remained low through the 1990s and early 2000s. Global development increased demand for oil, creating a new era of wealth for the region.

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Todayinah Editor Editor says, in reality Naguib did not oust Nasser and lost the power struggle in 1954 when Nasser declared himself prime minister and removed Naguib from Commander of the Armed Forces. After a new constitution was readied in 1956, Nasser won the election to the presidency that June and began the Suez Crisis as he successfully nationalized the canal. His victory over the West solidified his rule, and Nasser inspired many other coups throughout the region. Nasser's ideals of modernization, socialization, and pan-Arabism increased, even forming the short-lived United Arab Republic with Syria. Ultimately, however, the Six Day War with Israel would lead to Nasser's resignation in 1967, although his followers' dominance in Egypt would continue until 2011, heralding the Arab Spring.

Readers Comment Stan Brin commented on 2012-07-26 09:20:15 ~ The Muslim Brotherhood were bloody, murderous fascists. They had nothing in common with the Wafd, which was the governing party before the coup. The "fedayeen" were, essentially, a branch of military intelligence -- their depredations against Israel led directly to the 1956 war with Israel. A partition of Egypt for the proposed reasons is impossible. The UN couldn't have come up with the suggested solution -- the Soviet veto was in play. Under these circumstances, Nasser wouldn't have been able to fight anyone. There can never be a new era of wealth for Egypt -- it is systemically corrupt and over-populated. I could go on. A better scenario would be for Nasser to die at Faluja and Naguib take power on his own.

Readers Comment Stan Brin commented on 2012-07-26 09:20:15 ~ Perhaps I should have delved into the Brotherhood's murderous ways. They assassinated the prime minister in 1949, blaming him for the defeat in the war that the brotherhood started. (A batallion of brotherhood idiots led the Egyptian charge into Israel on May 14, 1948, all equipped with amulets protecting them from "all manner of steel and lead." They didn't work. The brotherhood was slaughtered during a reckless assault against a fortified Jewish village.

Readers Comment Stan Brin commented on 2012-07-26 09:20:15 ~ After they murdered the prime minister of Egypt, government agents took revenge on the brotherhood and killed their founder and supreme leader, Hassan al-Banna. I also should have added that the brotherhood "warriors" who led the way into Israel were equipped with razors with which to castrate Jewish captives, according to Muslim tradition. Re Prime Minister Mahmoud al-Nuqrashi, assassinated 28 December 1948.If you want to read an interesting account of Egypt in 1948, and its war against Israel, find a copy of "Cairo to Damascus" by John Roy Carlson. Absolutely fascinating.

Readers Comment Jared Myers commented on 2012-07-26 09:24:24 ~ This definitely changes the dynamic of northern Africa. One has to wonder if the imperialistic ambitions of a certain Libyan colonel would shake things up a bit later on. With the Sinai and Suez in their pocket, no doubt Israel becomes the unparalleled Middle Eastern superpower.

Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2012-07-26 19:04:34 ~ If Naguib was a more competent leader, Egypt might have been better-run.

Readers Comment Stan Brin commented on 2012-07-26 20:51:15 ~ Actually, all Egypt needed in 1952 was to forget about the 1948 war, avoid revolutionary politics, and get on with developing the country. It didn't need a revolution at all (except in rural areas, where peasants deserved their own land). But I do admit that avoiding Nasserist jingoism, 100 percent tax rates, and the Aswan Dam could have allowed the country some time to deal with its exploding population.

In 1864, on this day a Confederate relief force was sent to assist the Republic of Texas suppress the Cherokee panhandle rebellion.

Cherokee Panhandle Rebellion
by Ed and Jeff ProvineCommander P.G.T. Beauregard was a veteran General of the States War. That conflict had ended in stalemate after the Border States seceded. And inevitably the successor states in the South were now facing their own challenge to maintain territorial integrity. The creation of an Independent Texas had caused border issues with Indian Territory out in the panhandle which was a legal/geographic mess in its own as many of the Cherokee had refused to join the Confederacy.

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Readers Comment Jared Myers commented on 2012-06-24 09:03:47 ~ It would have been interesting to see how the Confederacy would have handled a secession of one of its own states.

Readers Comment Eric Lipps commented on 2012-06-24 16:02:21 ~ It's worth noting that for all its huffing and puffing on the matter, the Confederacy managed to forget to explicitly recognize in its own constitution the right of states to secede. Apparently its leaders took the view that that right was so obvious it didn't need to be acknowledged--which I think was an absolute guarantee of later trouble had the CSA won its independence.

Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2012-06-24 18:17:47 ~ The CSA were big hypocrites on secession---when WVA seceded, and East Tennessee tried to, to rejoin the Union, they did all they could to bring them back into the CSA.

Readers Comment Jared Myers commented on 2012-06-24 20:24:29 ~ The Southern Slave Power wanted a huge, expansive, intrusive Federal government, contrary to what the neo-Confederates of today maintain. The Democratic Convention of 1860 (held in Charleston, SC ironically enough) proves it.

Readers Comment Jeff Provine commented on 2012-06-25 14:42:59 ~ Stand Watie and Opothleyahola teaming up to create an independent Indian Territory... It could turn into another Seminole War and make the South wonder whether it's worth trying to hold onto treaties (which I assume were already fudged upon, given general White attitudes at the time).

Readers Comment Jackie Rose commented on 2012-06-25 17:39:19 ~ I seem to remember that Lincoln warned the Confederacy that if they could secede from the Union, then their own Confederate states could leave the Confederacy as well.

In 1983, on this day socialite and former Studio 54 disco regular Valerie Scott met with 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer in Los Angeles to recount her experiences with the time-space rift described by Lt. Cmdr. Alexander Fitzhugh to his doctors at Bethesda shortly after his admission to the hospital's psychiatric ward.

Giant Surprise
Part 2Scott's interview was the first account by someone other than Fitzhugh about the so-called "land of giants" the commander had alluded to in his initial therapeutic session; her story, like his, was at first viewed with skepticism as she had been known as a serious drinker in her Studio 54 heyday. In fact, at the time the 60 Minutes interview was broadcast Scott was preparing to file a libel suit against the National Enquirer for printing a story which alleged she had relapsed into alcoholism.

Scott's comments about the rift might have been dismissed as a hallucination but for two small yet important events. First, on the day after CBS aired the Scott interview a routine pass by a U.S. weather satellite over England picked up unusual electrical surges in the vicinity of where Fitzhugh said the phenomenon had originated; second, in early July energy tycoon and amateur film buff Mark Wilson released to the press a series of home movies clearly showing the rift's outline as well as brief glimpses of the so-called "land of giants".

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Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2011-05-06 19:50:17 ~ This would throw the perfume into the soup among the scientific community...to put it very mildly.

Readers Comment Jeff Provine commented on 2011-05-08 18:31:38 ~ It'd give good clout to the story that Bigfoot's a trans-dimensional traveler.

In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge was made an honorary member of the Sioux Nation, and a special ceremony was performed in a stone lodge on a North Dakota tribe's reservation.

Coolidge's New NationsAfter this ceremony, President Coolidge officially apologized for the warfare between the United States and the various native nations that it had assimilated over the years, and vowed, "We can never give back to these people the lives lost nor the time spent imprisoned, but there is something we can give back". Huge portions of the western United States were pledged by the Coolidge administration to any native nation that wished to claim them.

This created the "Great Indian Rush" of '27 in which tens of thousands of Native Americans left their reservations to make a new life for themselves in the west. After the Great Depression hit, even more Native Americans took advantage of the western land, and the New Nations, as they became known, were the most prosperous region of the country. Many non-natives trekked to the New Nations to plead for work, and soon there was friction between the white man and the native again. This spilled over into physical violence after the Whitley Incident, which was allegedly staged by the Ku Klux Klan.

A new article by Robbie TaylorFor a few years in the 1930's the New Nations were able to handle their own territory, but as more whites came to battle them, they were forced to turn to the government in Washington, DC and ask for assistance. Although President Roosevelt would have preferred dealing with the war situation that was brewing in Europe, the internal strife in his nation forced him to send troops to keep order. In 1940, German and Japanese agents sparked a confrontation at Tashunka-Uitco in the Rockies, a couple of hundred miles north of Denver. This turned the tense situation into all-out war as both sides felt that they had been pushed too far - New Nations President Carl Sitting Bull ousted all white settlers in the New Nations, and the white settlers called out to Washington for help to keep their land; also, the states around the New Nations were agitating for Washington to "do something" about the trouble within their borders. President Roosevelt ordered in troops, much to his regret.

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Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2011-03-30 19:19:09 ~ Highly unlikely---most of the High Plains are thinly populated for good-and-sufficient reasons.

Readers Comment Jeff Provine commented on 2011-03-30 19:24:59 ~ A good example of too much, too quickly causing jealousy and tension. Much better to have good tribal government and income through mineral rights and lottos.

In 1980, on this day food riots erupted in Kiev and Minsk, prompting Soviet authorities to declare martial law in both cities.

Martial Law declared in Soviet UnionEnforcing the martial law decree, however, proved easier said than done as some of the militia units assigned to carry out that duty chose instead to side with the rioters; this forced the Kremlin to recall its 10,000-man troop contingent from Afghanistan as well as withdraw substantial numbers of military units from East Germany and Poland. CPSU leader Konstantin Chernenko (pictured) assured his generals these re-deployments were only temporary and the military units involved would return to their original assignments once order had been restored.

But Chernenko would turn out to be dead wrong on that score; Soviet forces would never return to Afghanistan and by 1983, when the civil war in Russia was at its peak, the once-massive Red Army contingents in Poland, East Germany, and Hungary had been reduced to a shadow of their old formidable selves. A new post from the Necessary Evil Thread by Chris OakleyIndeed, an ironic consequence of these withdrawals was that at the end of the civil war the only major Red Army detachment left in Germany was the security guard detail at the Soviet embassy in Bonn, capital of the United States' longtime NATO ally West Germany. Even the Soviet defense advisory brigade in Cuba wasn't spared from manpower cutbacks; by the time of Chernenko's death there were less than 100 advisors left on Cuban soil.

The massive Soviet troop withdrawals from East Germany hastened the fall of the Berlin Wall and were later credited by Western historians with paving the way for Germany's reunification after the Russian civil war ended.

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Readers Comment Scott Palter commented on 2010-09-26 03:34:34 ~ 1980 SU was still raking in giant petro profits. So why would they not buy more grain from US, Canada, Argentina etc? Why recall troops instead of mobilizing reserves? Why would the wall fall in 1980? It fell in 1989 because Gorby went outside the East German chain of command and ordered the army and police units mobilized to stop the crowds who were tearing down the wall to stand down.

Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2010-09-26 05:04:40 ~ The Soviets remembered how they had come to power, and would have taken whatever steps they would have had to to suppress rioting in the cities. They didn't want to play the Tsars in "Ten Days That Shook The World---The Revenge."

Readers Comment Jeff Provine commented on 2010-09-26 20:04:45 ~ With the recall of troops, this will have major impact on Eastern European independence uprisings.

Readers Comment Chris Oakley commented on 2010-09-27 17:43:34 ~ You can say that again. :)

In 2010, on this day the newly appointed Secretary of General Affairs David Petraeus appeared on the White House Lawn to re-assure the American people that he had ordered Commander General Stanley A. McChrystal to fly back to Kabul to resume his leadership of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.

Run It His Way GeneralThe publication of a critical article in Rolling Stone Magazine had demonstrated that civilian control of the military was no longer workable because politicans had eroded the trust necessary for the team to work together to achieve our objectives in Afghanistan, declared Petraeus. "Whilst McChrystal's behaviour did not meet the standard that should be set by a commanding general, he had nevertheless earned a reputation as one of our nation's finest soldiers".

"Obama clearly didn't know anything about him, who he was. Here's the guy who's going to run his f*#king war, but he didn't seem very engaged. The Boss was pretty disappointed"The creation of an all-powerful Cabinet position would enable Barack Obama to focus on the financial crisis, whilst the military focused on achieving a successful outcome to the Aghanistan mission before the intended withdrawal scheduled for summer 2011.

President Obama confirmed that there was "no difference in policy with General McChrystal because we are in full agreement about our strategy" and he would not stand in the way of the US Government's decision through "any sense of personal insult" arising from McChrystal's recorded statements. The President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai had expressed his hope that "We hope there is not a change of leadership of the international forces here in Afghanistan and that we continue to partner with Gen. McChrystal".

To demonstrate the vital importance of continued American presence in the region, Petraeus was pleased to confirm that Halliburton had been awarded a no-bid contract to extract a large mineral deposit of lithium worth an estimated $1 trillion which had been recently discovered in Afghanistan.

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Readers Comment David Atwell commented on 2010-06-24 23:22:22 ~ So the military are now free to do whatever they want eh? Expect a global nuclear war sometime in the near future... Doctor Strangelove, I presume?

Readers Comment Chris Oakley commented on 2010-06-25 00:35:02 ~ I'm guessing Mr. Payne doesn't like Obama much... :D Actually, I do however he has given McChrystal the Tony Hayward treatment, misunderstanding one is a lieing self-serving businessman, the other is a fine soldier who has made an error in being too candid about the truth.

Readers Comment Eric Lipps commented on 2010-06-25 01:02:28 ~ Somehow I suspect Congress would have something to say about any president's unilateral creation of an "all-powerful Cabinet position"--and I suspect that what it had to say would contain a lot of words we wouldn't use on this site.

Readers Comment Todayinah Ed. commented on 2010-06-25 02:34:14 ~ Truth is when politicans did run the show we got that prize fool called Jerry Bremer who was straight out of the Avatar movie. Remotely managing the missions in Afghanistan and Iraq with fractured local management teams is also completely unworkable and if I was General McChrystal I would have felt EXACTLY the same way about the situation because its completely untenable. Its no good sending professional soliders (I dont say trained killers) into these countries and then complaining they cant parley with local politicians, that isnt their skill-set and they are unfairly being used as whipping boxes. As soon as McChrystal talked about rolling out "government in a box" in secure areas, Obama / Biden should say - leave that to us bud, you're job is just chasing the terrorists out of the area. Which it is or at least should be. Look at the two faces in this picture of David Petraeus and tell me which one fawning politican / trained killer is the real him? Case closed. The key problem in Afghanistan is the lack of political development, and that absolutely isn't for McChrystal to solve, he's a special ops guy and a fine soldier.

Readers Comment Eric Lipps commented on 2010-06-25 11:48:09 ~ The problem isn't what McChrystal thought about his civilian superiors--and make no mistake, they are, legally, his superiors. The problem is that he chose to go loudly public with his contempt, and in Rolling Stone, of all places. Even if he's right, that's not the way to handle things. The General's choice of venue is revealing. Rolling Stone isn't a news magazine in the usual sense--it's a celebrity tabloid more than anything else. Evidently McChrystal has cme to see himself as a star--a failing MacArthur had to such a degree that he frequently referred to himself in the third person, as if composing his memoirs on the fly.

In 1870, on this day the somewhat appropriately named 26th US Secretary of State Hamilton Fish (pictured) signed the Rupert's Land and North-Western Territory Order purchasing a staggering fifteen percent of the land mass of North America from the Hudson Bay Company (HBC).

Manitoba joins the UnionAt the price of a mere $1.5m the incorporation of the new State of Manitoba (trans "Great Spirit") was the biggest real estate in human history, even bigger than the purchases of Louisiana and Alaska.

The fact that the United States and Great Britain were involved in a rather distasteful land grab became clear when Alaska was purchased from Russia the very next day after Queen Victoria signed the British North America Act. Predicting American success, the architect of the Alaskan purchase, W.H. Seward had complemented Canadian colonists for their hard work "It is very well, you are building excellent states to be hereafter admitted to the American Union". It was a threat fully understood by the 1st Prime Minister of Canada John A. MacDonald "The Americans are resolved to do all they can, short of war, to get possession of our western territory, and we must take immediate and vigourous steps to counteract them".

Unfortunately for MacDonald, the First Nations of the Pacific Northwest who greatly outnumbered the settlers discovered that the HBC was about to sell of its vast holdings. Led by a young man called Louis Riel, the Métis seized the HBC trading post at Upper Fort Garry and declared a provisional government. Before long, American annexationalists had persuaded the Métis to ditch Canada and join the United States.

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Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2010-05-06 07:17:05 ~ Is this the modern Canadian province of Manitoba, or everything west of Ontario and south of Yukon/NWT/Nunavut? I'm not clear on Canadian historical geography.

Readers Comment Eric Lipps commented on 2010-05-06 11:46:06 ~ Considering that the purchase of Alaska (several years earlier) in OTL was widely ridiculed as "Seward's folly,"' a huge exp[ense for what was seen as a vast amount of worthless land, combining it with the purchase of Manitoba seems unlikely. (Or is it the British who buy Alaska ITTL? I'm not sure from the text.) And why the delay? Why wasn't Alaska purchased by Seward in this timeline? Again, this post doesn't seem to say. Am I missing something?

Readers Comment Chris Oakley commented on 2010-05-06 14:39:30 ~ Interesting spin on North American history...

Readers Comment Michael N. Ryan commented on 2010-05-06 17:26:56 ~ The Russians sold us Alaska because the Czar needed money and the idea of America holding two borders with the British colony certainly appealed to them The British Empire did not need money nor us in a stronger position to invade at the time so this scenerio is not possible. If something like this were tried by America, we would probably come into a shooting conflict.

Readers Comment Stan Brin commented on 2010-05-06 17:26:56 ~ Actually, this one is based on real history. The state of Minnesota had more right to Prince Rupert's Land than Canada did -- the only way into the territory was north up the Red River from St. Paul, Minnesota. It was both settled and supplied from there. Washington failed to support Minnesota's claim, and the result was Prairie Provinces. Ask the local Metis and Indians whom they preferred, and it would have been Minnesota hands down.

In 2009, on this day five veterans of Kenya's struggle for independence presented the London High Court with a case against the British government for human rights abuses in the 1950s and 1960s.

Mau Mau Veterans Sue British GovernmentThe five Kenyans, three men and two women all in the their seventies and eighties, have called for the British government to acknowledge its responsibility in the alleged crimes which it committed in the pre-independence era, in particular during and in the aftermath of the Mau Mau uprising. "We want the British government to say what we did was so wrong"They have also demanded the government to offer them adequate compensation for the atrocities which they suffered.

The claim was presented to the London High Court by the Mau Mau War Veterans' Association and the Kenya Human Rights Commission, through the US law firm Obama & Obama Co. Quoted in an article on the BBC website, the veterans' lawyer, Barack Obama (pictured), said that he believed his father's comrades had "a good chance of success".

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Readers Comment David Atwell commented on 2009-08-19 00:54:40 ~ After they win, they should place an extradition order against Queen Elizabeth to face trail in Kenya.

Readers Comment Chris Oakley commented on 2009-08-19 01:00:20 ~ If such a case ever does come before a British court, it would seriously shake things up no matter what the verdict.

Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2009-08-19 02:54:19 ~ This would put the cat among the pigeons, for sure. Could the British, or the descendants of British people who died at the hands of the Mau Mau, countersue?

Readers Comment H. Torrance Griffin commented on 2009-08-19 09:46:19 ~ That would actually be a solid point. For that matter there are a fair number of Kenyans in the same position.

In 1722, on this day Oliver Cromwell II was crowned King of England.

Known as the "Great Reformer", Oliver pushed through many reforms during his reign that saw the voting franchise in Britain drastically increase to include 50% of the male population. This new franchise was based upon higher educational standards & the "new money classes", as against the previous franchise qualification of "right by ancestral position". Furthermore, Oliver II continued his father's wishes & America got its own Parliament with the same powers, responsibilities & duties as the British Parliament in Westminster.

The Royal House of Cromwell, Part 6 - Oliver II (1722-1749) by David AtwellIn 1745, an aging Oliver had to fight off the final invasion attempt of the Stuarts. This time "Bonnie" Prince Charlie (pictured) landed in Scotland, raised a Highland Stuart Army & invaded England. After some initial success, forces loyal to the Cromwell Royal Household (that being most of the army in England & Wales), chased the Stuart Army out of England & eventually destroyed it at the Battle of Culloden. "Bonnie" Prince Charlie managed to escape, but not his followers. Little mercy was shown to the Highlanders.

Although Britain had already established its empire by 1730, this was greatly increased in 1748 by conquests in India. Even though not all of India was in British hands, over half nonetheless came under direct British control. Much of the remaining regions were in one type of allegiance or another with the British, whether it be military, trade &/or political.

	On this day in 1999, the Boston Red Sox selected Tom Brady with their first pick in Major League Baseball's Rule V amateur draft. He was the sixth pick overall; at the time of his selection he'd pitched the Michigan Wolverines to a third-place finish in the 1998 College World Series, their highest rank in that tournament since 1984.

Tom Brady

In 2003, Australian forces reach the coast of Antarctica and discover that the huge layer of ice that should be covering the continent has been greatly reduced. They see ships, laden with ice, leaving the surface and heading into an apparent orbit.

In 1972, President Nixon vetoes an act barring sexual discrimination in college sports. 'Women need to be able to stand on their own, without help from the government. This is the only way in which they can be truly independent.' The Republican Party never regained the women's vote after that statement.

In 1969, Coleman Young is sworn in as Chief Advocate of the Supreme People's Court. The lifelong Communist Party member and activist for local soviets had risen to distinction by chairing the investigation into the assassination of Comrade President Rosenberg. Many claimed that the investigation was a thinly-disguised party whitewash of the truth, but most of the public accepted its finding that the counter-revolutionary, Oswald, had acted on his own.

In 4561, a sortie out of Hanoi managed to capture two of the air rafts that had been bombarding their city. They crashed one trying to get it back to the city, but managed to salvage the other and used it to fight off other air raft. This small victory was short lived; the stolen air raft was shot down by Chinese forces in 4 days.

In 1848, workers in Paris stage a bloody insurrection against the government. As the king dithered over what to do about them, they attracted support from across the country, and soon were able to topple the government of King Louis-Philippe. Installing Pierre Joigneaux as Prime Minister, they began building a new government based on Marxist ideals.

In the Dreaming, the Pindanjaru began to receive signs that the pale men were approaching, and to be wary. The wise among them heard Wandjina warn them that they would have to endure many seasons under the pale men. They told their people to harden themselves for the days ahead.

In 1999, as Queen Gwen settles into her old cell, Sir Lance guards her outside it; he trusts no one else. She taunted him, 'Will you not be my champion in this, brave Sir Lance?' 'You have bewitched me,' he spat at her. 'Made me betray my king, my country, everything I hold dear.' She laughed at his torment. 'I've done much more than that, Lance.' She rubbed her belly. 'I carry your child.'Lance's face turned grey, and he looked away from the queen. 'I had no will to resist you.' She laughed heartily at him. 'How pathetic. The greatest warrior in the United Kingdom can't resist one little woman? What will the enemy think of that?' He turned back to her cell and pounded the bars. 'Silence! Silence, or I will find a way to silence you.' She shrank back in mock horror, holding her hand to her mouth melodramatically. 'Threatening a pregnant woman - how ungallant of you, sir knight. What would the people think of that?' Sir Lance attempted to calm himself down, whispering, 'When they know everything that you have done, they will forgive me.' Gwen put her face right up against the bars to throw her next barrage at him. 'What I have done? Rally the nation? Cement our alliances? Crush the enemy? What else matters?' The shaken du Lac shrinks back her assault before coming up with an answer: 'Honor, my lady. Honor, above all else.' She sits down on the cell's bed and mutters, 'We'll see.'

On this day in 1973, the Lawnmower Man, after laying low for more than a week, resurfaced in Maine to commit five more murders, this time striking the town of Castle Rock. Among his victims were author Thad Beaumont, sewing shop proprietress Polly Chalmers, and Castle Rock sheriff George Bannerman; it was the Bannerman murder that particularly enraged the citizens of Castle Rock and prompted the FBI to offer a 500,000 USD reward for information leading to the Lawnmower Man's arrest.

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That same day, the mill in Gates Falls where John Hall had once worked was shut down after a massive colony of rats was discovered in the mill's sub-basement; also, Castle Rock resident Johnny Smith woke up in a Portland hospital after a four-year coma and began having premonitions about where the Lawnmower Man would strike next.

The Castle Rock murders, and Smith's visions, would later become the basis for a chapter in The Lawnmower Man titled 'Needful Things' and a documentary film, The Dead Zone.

	In 1944, General Dietrich von Cholitz, commandant of German occupation forces in Paris, ignored a directive by Adolf Hitler to fight to the last man and ordered his surviving troops in the French capital to cease fire. With that act, the battle for Paris effectively ended in an Allied victory and the already shaky Wehrmacht battlefront in western Europe began to weaken even further.

On this day in 1941, Joseph Stalin made the formal announcement that the Soviet Union was at war with Nazi Germany.

In 1973, President Nixon's advisor, H.R. Haldeman, right before counseling a vastly illegal course of action regarding a team of saboteurs they had sicced on the Democratic Party Headquarters in the Watergate Hotel, said to the President, 'Wait, are we being taped?' The tape of this conversation, heard in investigations later in the House, abruptly cuts off at this point, and comes back on to a rather benign conversation between Nixon and Haldeman about the president's resemblance to Abraham Lincoln. It was this kind of foresight in his aides that kept President Nixon's White House running smoothly through to the end of his second term in 1977.

In 1940, while touring Paris after Germany's conquest of France, Adolf Hitler allows a little girl through his security detachment to hand him a small bouquet of flowers. The blond child smiles sweetly as the German leader pats her on the head and accepts the gift. The little girl then ran away at top speed, prompting some suspicion in Hitler's security. When the Fuhrer remarked at how heavy the flowers seemed, they had mere instants to regret their softness; the bomb contained in the bouquet exploded, killing Hitler and three of his men. Rudolf Hess seized control back in Berlin as soon as news reached them, but Herman Goering had other plans. A civil war erupted between Nazi factions, and all of their conquered territory became free as all of their troops became concentrated in der Vaterland, trying to maintain control of their own country.

In 1927, President Calvin Coolidge was made an honorary member of the Sioux Nation, and a special ceremony was performed in a stone lodge on a North Dakota tribe's reservation. After this ceremony, President Coolidge officially apologized for the warfare between the United States and the various native nations that it had assimilated over the years, and vowed, 'We can never give back to these people the lives lost nor the time spent imprisoned, but there is something we can give back.' Huge portions of the western United States were pledged by the Coolidge administration to any native nation that wished to claim them. This created the 'Great Indian Rush' of '27 in which tens of thousands of Native Americans left their reservations to make a new life for themselves in the west. After the Great Depression hit, even more Native Americans took advantage of the western land, and the New Nations, as they became known, were the most prosperous region of the country. Many non-natives trekked to the New Nations to plead for work, and soon there was friction between the white man and the native again. This spilled over into physical violence after the Whitley Incident, which was allegedly staged by the Ku Klux Klan. For a few years in the 1930's the New Nations were able to handle their own territory, but as more whites came to battle them, they were forced to turn to the government in Washington, DC and ask for assistance. Although President Roosevelt would have preferred dealing with the war situation that was brewing in Europe, the internal strife in his nation forced him to send troops to keep order. In 1940, German and Japanese agents sparked a confrontation at Tashunka-Uitco in the Rockies, a couple of hundred miles north of Denver. This turned the tense situation into all-out war as both sides felt that they had been pushed too far - New Nations President Carl Sitting Bull ousted all white settlers in the New Nations, and the white settlers called out to Washington for help to keep their land; also, the states around the New Nations were agitating for Washington to 'do something' about the trouble within their borders. President Roosevelt ordered in troops, much to his regret.

In 2026, just before midnight on this day at Martian Central Time the new account ancient_ones_of_tyrr@aol.com was created. Chosen internet access goal was to grok the fullness of AOL.

In 1959, on this day convicted Project Rainbow spy Klaus Fuchs was released after only nine years in prison. He was allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumed a scientific career into the commercial application of teleportation which was by then no secret at all.

In 1958, on this day the Dutch Reformed Church accepted male ministers. The ordination of men created a schism in the church that remains unresolved to this day.

In 2007, blogger Darth Maddolis discovered a falsehood on the Wikipedia web site. Disturbingly a vandal had changed the text of the Early Years section of the Bruce Springsteen auto-biographical page to read - Springsteen was born dumb and needing special needs grew up in Freehold, New Jersey. After reversing the edit, Maddolis also discovered gaps in his CD collection which had been formally filled by an extensive CD collection of the Boss.

In 2007, on this day discredited civil rights leader Jesse Jackson died in Chicago, IL. He had been part of a crowd protesting at a gun store in Riverdale, a poor suburb of Chicago, IL. Jackson was protesting the fact that the gun store (allegedly) had been selling firearms to local gang members and was contributing to the decay of the community. According to police reports, Jackson refused to stop blocking the front entrance of the store and let customers pass. During a violent scuffle, the 66-old Jackson had suffered heart failure and died. In his last words, he described the scene as 'another Selma'.

In 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser is elected President of Egypt. The visionary leader does the unthinkable in his first year in office - he makes peace with Israel. Egypt under his rule becomes the most open and westernized of the Arab nations, and is the envy of even Israel in freedom and prosperity. Nasser attributed his success to a chance meeting with Albert Einstein in his youth. Taken with the Jewish physicist, he worked his whole life to bring about 'a world where the two of us needn't hate or fear each other for our differences,' he said in his final public speech.

In 1940, General Erwin Rommel received a rather odd transmission from Berlin. Not a conviction Nazi himself, he was not too troubled to hear that the national leadership had been wiped out under occultist circumstances. Still, he was a military man and did not require any instruction to proceed with the D-Day landings on the South coast of England. If anything, he felt the great degree of empowerment would smooth the execution of the invasion plans.

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In 1960, on this day Liberal Party candidates Pierre Trudeau and René Lévesque (pictured) were both elected members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, Canada in the provincial general election.

Trudeaumania Lite, ReduxDuring the previous twelve months, the political atmosphere had been transformed by the death of Maurice Duplessis, the controversial premier of Quebec from 1936 to 1939 and 1944 to 1959. And then his successor Paul Sauvé died after only three months in office. The result was one of the most significant elections in Quebec history, in which the incumbent Union Nationale, led by Antonio Barrette, was defeated by the Quebec Liberal Party, led by Jean Lesage.

The pace of change accelerated over the next two decades. And Trudeau and Lévesque both emerged as potential candidates for Québécois President. Due to his charisma, and modern-outlook, Trudeau would be the beneficiary of the referendum, greeting the razor-thin victory with the memorable phrase "Welcome to the Eighties!".

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Readers Comment Jeff Provine commented on 2013-02-06 17:49:20 ~ Always reminds me of Clinton's line on the Simpsons, "Ah, man, Quebec has the Bomb."

In 1941, on this day the Red Army launched a full-blown attack on Northern Germany and Romania that confirmed the worst Nazi fears about the true extent of Stalin's military buildup.

Flugzeugträger Part 5:
The Zhukov PlanFor the past two years, the Führer had diverted limited resources to the Nazi German Navy. Significantly, he had also overruled Hermann Goëring by giving the Kriegsmarine operational control of aviation assets aboard the aircraft carriers Peter Strasser and Graf Zeppelin. Both decisions had enabled Grand Admiral Erich Raeder to pull off the invasion of Iceland, a stunning victory that redefined the balance of power in the Western hemisphere.

And yet the hidden price of that pyrrhic victory became immediately apparent as soon as German counter-espionage teams intercepted code "icebreaker". Significantly outnumbered on the ground, the Luftwaffe was unable to turn the tables by striking a decisive blow on the Red Airforce. And within days Hitler's regime was facing a crushing defeat.
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Readers Comment Scott Palter commented on 2012-06-23 02:00:11 ~ This is a qualified maybe. In OTL Stalin was in the midst of both a radical army reorganization and a radical force enlargement in 1941. Both would have to have been put aside in 1940 for this to happen.

Readers Comment Chris Oakley commented on 2012-06-23 14:15:06 ~ Interesting spin on Barbarossa...

Readers Comment Jeff Provine commented on 2012-06-23 15:37:51 ~ Stalin definitely was doing his reorganization in prep for a European operation, but he wanted to wait a few more years to get everything ready (ideally, to clean up Europe as he did post-war). But, Hitler got the jump on him. If Stalin started early, then Europe is his. Spooky.

Readers Comment Matthew Dattilo commented on 2012-06-23 21:19:48 ~ Interesting to consider post-war Europe without the devastating losses suffered by the USSR in the OTL. I think a third world war would have been a much stronger possibility.

Readers Comment Jackie Rose commented on 2012-06-23 21:51:01 ~ A crushing defeat for Hitler in 1941? No Pearl Harbor, D-Day or Holocaust? I'll drink to that!

Readers Comment Jackie Rose commented on 2012-06-23 22:10:37 ~ Oh, and with no Pearl Harbor, there is no Hiroshima, either. It just gets better and better! And as for Stalin taking over all of Europe...I think the logistics would have limited him to Russia's traditional conquered territories, like Poland. That was SO traditional, in fact, that Catherine the Great used the Polish throne for a toilet, no kidding.

Readers Comment Jared Myers commented on 2012-06-23 22:38:43 ~ I think Hitler would have been able to rally the German people to his banner (so to speak) to resist the Russians, much in the same way Stalin did -- many Germans who opposed Hitler was also anti-Communist and very pro-Germany types. This very well could have turned out to be a bloody affair on almost WWI levels. Could an invasion of Romania have ushered in a Yugoslavian/German alliance against the Reds?

Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2012-06-24 02:26:46 ~ There'd have been a Holocaust, just not one directed mainly/exclusively at the Jews. Stalin had a long list of people who he thought needed to be dead. That said, in 1941 the Red Army was in no shape for anything of the sort, and without the Nazis' atrocities to steel the soldiers' spines, they'd have had a lot of trouble with defections and turncloaks.

Readers Comment Mike commented on 2012-06-24 02:54:21 ~ Hitler only got the jump on Stalin. Stalin would have inveded Europe at some point.

Readers Comment Jackie Rose commented on 2012-06-24 03:04:01 ~ Mike, of course Stalin would have invaded Poland, Hungary and other nations of Eastern Europe...so the question is, would Stalin have gone on to conquer Western Europe as well? Or was it just too far away.

Readers Comment Eric Lipps commented on 2012-06-24 15:56:32 ~ I don't see the Red Army as readyin '41 to inflict a "crushing defeat" on the Nazis. Remember, this is the same Red Army which was forced back to the suburbs of Moscow by the Wehrhacht before it finally turned the tide (with western aid).

Readers Comment Jackie Rose commented on 2012-06-24 17:05:06 ~ And Stalin did have a nasty habit of killing his best generals. Among many other nasty habits, needless to say.

Readers Comment Scott Palter commented on 2012-06-24 18:52:30 ~ @Eric - the best units were packed in close to the frontier and got pocketed early. Plus Stalin was in the middle of one of his reorganization/expansion drives so there were a plethora of half formed units, especially mech and tech services. Makes the Suvorov thesis unlikely. The cards read a Soviet attack in 1942-43 not 1941.

Readers Comment Stan Brin commented on 2012-06-28 12:25:39 ~ Red Army was still reeling from the loss of experienced officers and weapons engineers during the Great Purges. They were very good at attacking the Baltic States, they succeeded against Finland, barely, and stabbed Poland in the back. They were in no position to take on hitler, certainly not with Gehlen and Canaris watching the Russians' every move. An attack of this kind might have crossed the Vistula, but would not have passed the Oder-Neisse.

Readers Comment Scott Palter commented on 2012-06-28 16:02:03 ~ 1941 the head of Foreign Armies East was Kinzel. Gehlen takes over OTL 1942. Also German military intelligence against the Soviets was pathetic. They were totally surprised 1941 by how many trained reserves the SU had. They were surprised by Stalin's December counterattacks and by his ability to carry them out. They were surprised by the planet offensives that surrounded Stalingrad and almost won the war. They were repeatedly surprised by the strength and direction of the Soviet offensives in Ukraine from Kursk to the spring 44 thaw. They were totally fooled by Bagration. Germany was good at operational level OOB but hopeless beyond.

Readers Comment Stan Brin commented on 2012-06-29 03:20:03 ~ It is difficult to believe that Soviets were ready to take on Germany in 1941. Or while German and Soviet forces eyed each other across occupied Poland, Goring's Luftwaffe wouldn't have been overflying the new border. Remember, central Poland is a vast plain, not the hills and forests of the Ardennes, where tank armies could hide between hills and under trees. (German aircraft carriers in 1941 are problematic. It not only takes many years to design and build them, it also takes a long time to learn how to use them. Just ask the Soviets, who never figured it out, or the Chinese, who have decided to start slow and small. Only three countries ever really mastered carrier warfare by 1941 -- the US, Britain, and Japan, and they had been at it a long time.)

Readers Comment Scott Palter commented on 2012-06-29 05:40:25 ~ The Germans did a decent job on tactical and lower level operational intelligence. They were normally pretty good on OOB and immediate reserves. That said Ivan spoofed them repeatedly. The depth of the Kursk defenses were a surprise. The early December counterattacks at Moscow were a surprise. Bagration was a total surprise. Maskirovka was a Soviet specialty.

In 1915, on this day Militia Major Michael Collins (pictured) was awarded the Victoria Cross for his gallant actions in the defeat of the Ulster Volunteers in Derry.

Irish Home Rule in 1914: Part #1"The troubles" had begun in the difficult months before Irish Home Rule began on schedule in September 1914. Even the choice of location for the bicameral Irish Parliament in Dublin was in dispute. Unionists argued that the fast-growing city of Belfast also deserved of an assembly, having seen a population expansion from 20,000 in 1800 through to a twenty-fold increase to 400,000 by the turn of the twentieth century. Few argued that Cork, on the West Coast, deserved an assembly. And many held the view that the disproportional rise of Belfast was merely a lop-sided indication of the British Government's investment in the Protestant population.

The late summer of 1914 revealed other truths about the British Government's narrow pursuit of its "national interest". Because as the continent of Europe stumbled towards conflict, the German ambassador published details of the secret staff talks which proved that the UK was committed to war regardless of what the Germans did or did not do in Belgium. Although democratic processes had not fully played out towards a consensual decision, it was generally considered probable that the Imperial Parliament would agree to declare war on Germany, and suspend Irish Home Rule for the duration of the war. But as matters transpired, Britain declared partial neutrality by blocking the English Channel as a matter of honour, a small reciprocation given that the French Fleet had already sailed to the Mediterranean on the private assurance that their coast was secured by the Royal Navy. This was a worthless compensation from "perfidious Albion"; deprived of the British Expeditionary Force, the French Army was hammered into defeat before Christmas.

Of course a British Expeditionary Force did set sail during the Autumn of 1914, but to the North of Ireland. Ever since the Curragh Mutiny the British Army had been fully aware of the reluctance of its officers to put down a "loyalist" uprising. Which was why the actions of individuals such as "the Big Man" Mick Collins were so vital to the success of devolved power in Ireland.
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Readers Comment Chris Oakley commented on 2012-06-04 15:41:42 ~ This could have changed everything, and not just for Britain...

Readers Comment Robbie Taylor commented on 2012-06-04 16:52:25 ~ While Britannia's sons with their long-range guns sailed in through the foggy dew...

Readers Comment Jared Myers commented on 2012-06-04 17:49:20 ~ So Michael Collins is fighting on behalf of the English government on the side of the Irish republicans against Ulster Loyalists? Talk about the world being turned upside down, this could have been more confusing than the War of the Roses...

Readers Comment Richard Roper commented on 2012-06-04 18:07:50 ~ The officers would have all resigned their commissions rather than take action against the Ulster Volunteers. Michael Collins was a member of the IRB and working in a stockbroker's office in the City at the time. There was no way nthe Irish Volunteers were going to be allowed to fight with the British army. There is a reason for this that bI hadn't ever realised until I read Jim Beall's Lettersime and went and checked. Key members of the Conservative party were key Irish (NOT ULSTER) Unionists or heir ardent supporters and simply would not have toleated it. Carson was the leader of the Ulster Unionists and and a senior Conservative,mBonar Law the Conservative leader was a violent Unionist ans was Arthur Balfour, who had been secretary for Ireland. The numbers of Cons. and Liberals were almost equally, the Irish Nat. and Labour holding the balance. Relly Britain needed the war to get out of Irish Home Rule and suspend the Home Rule Act,mas has been said. I appreciate this is very highly attractive to people of an Irish background. The publishing of the super secret Military Conventions and military agreements which weren't supposed to exist with France would have cause uproar, but you would have needed another ambassador than the violently pro-Britsh Lichnowsky. But the Liberal Imperialists - Asquith, Haldane and grey - are committed to war come what may. It is likjely the Liberal cabinet would collapse, - in fact without the actual war crisis it almost certainly would - as it nearly did on 1st -"The Millstone 's chapters on-line referring to this. Parliament does not need to declare war, the decision had been taken by the cabinet on the 2nd. It only needed to endorse the decision, vital for national unity.

Readers Comment Jeff Provine commented on 2012-06-04 18:27:21 ~ What does Germany do with the defeated France? Seize many of its colonies in hopes of expanding its empire? If so, we might see an Anglo-German War anyway in disputes over Africa.

Readers Comment Jackie Rose commented on 2012-06-04 19:44:41 ~ An Irish friend told me that IRA men played a key role in the Israeli War of Independence...since they would, after all, go anywhere at any time to fight the British. The King David Hotel bombing does seem like a typical IRA operation, complete with the warning phone call. Even if the IRA did not inspire the Israelis, it certainly did enough for literature, thanks to its unpaid press agents like Joyce, Yeats, O'Casey, Behan and Higgins. In particular, Yeats immortalized the uprising at the Dublin General Post Office with "Easter 1916." It calls on everyone to "Come gather round me players all, come praise 1916" and ends with the unforgettable words, "They are changed, changed utterly...a terrible beauty is born."

Readers Comment Richard Roper commented on 2012-06-04 19:53:36 ~ No matter how much we may sympathise with this, the British Ruling Class are not going to do the decent thing to Ireland in1914. Also they are not going to avoid war - they will go to war to prevent the Balance of Poer being changed in Europe and not over French colonies etc.

Readers Comment Rurri Heakin commented on 2012-06-04 21:07:09 ~ There is a small chance, that Ulster does something really really, stupid. Carson, flirted with making statements about inviting the Kaiser in. Suppose Carson is in a car accident, make it the weekend he met the Kaiser, by accident on the continent. Let rumor abound Suppose the Larne gun running, ends up with a clash with the Police. . Collins was both a member of the Irish volunteers, and the IRB. Most Irish revolutionaries were. Collins is not that important in the movement at this point, so one can see him drifting towards action.l However at this point the volunteers are still dominated by the Irish parlimentary party There was a london unit of the volunteers. Which did fight in the East rising So presuming Ulster acts and than a curragh muntiny occurs. Low odds, but possible. British have had their hand forced. That said, its still unlikely Collins, accepts a VC. However the war in the North may have changed him. In otl, he became less anti clerical as he got older. Here he may be more of a redmondite. In this time line. Redmond wins the war .

Readers Comment Rurri Heakin commented on 2012-06-04 21:12:44 ~ One further point, Irish volunteers, were quietly buying guns from france and belgium at this point. So, if the French are pissed

Readers Comment Paul F Austin commented on 2012-06-04 21:32:02 ~ Ulyanov and Hitler die in obscurity, Dzugashvili is captured while robbing a bank and shot...A generation of Frenchmen would have spat every time Germany was mentioned who would otherwise have pushed up poppies and the demographics and psychology of France and Britain in the 1930s and 1940s would be radically different. I've often thought that the 20th century would have been a happier place if the Miracle of the Marne, wasn't. The carnage over the century would likely have been much, much less.

Readers Comment Richard Roper commented on 2012-06-04 21:32:02 ~ You are up against the British Ruling Class - one of the most ruthless and skilled bunch of operators on the planet. Carson is an important member of the Conswevative Party, and the violently anti-Home Rule Bonar law and Arthur Balfour are its leaders. The Liberal Imperialist liberals nned them for the war and if the secret military conventios have been published likely to be in coalition with them. Remember Redmond promised the Volunteers to defend Ireland and held a grand parade. There is no way the Conservatives will act against Ulster neither will british officers march against it. If B L and A B are in a Coalition in which the Liberal Imperilaiists are in a minority they will be intolerant of the Irish Volunteers and Home Rule.

Readers Comment Jackie Rose commented on 2012-06-06 14:00:06 ~ Or, Paul, if the Archduke Ferdinand had not been assassinated at Sarajevo. That might also have prevented WWI and therefore the Russian Revolution and WWII.

Readers Comment Richard Roper commented on 2012-06-06 15:49:53 ~ "Ulyanov and Hitler die in obscurity, Dzugashvili is captured while robbing a bank and shot...A generation of Frenchmen would have spat every time Germany was mentioned who would otherwise have pushed up poppies and the demographics and psychology of France and Britain in the 1930s and 1940s would be radically different. I've often thought that the 20th century would have been a happier place if the Miracle of the Marne, wasn't. The carnage over the century would likely have been much, much less." I entirely agree, Sir. Also britain would have beem a much more prosperous place and not gone into economic decline and there would have been no "lost generation". But unfortunately Franz ferdinan's assassination was not by a small group of fantatics or an accident, as most assassinations are not, it was fixed and how far the fixing went is open to debate. How far were Russian military intelligence involved?

Readers Comment Jackie Rose commented on 2012-06-23 22:04:04 ~ This just in: Martin McGuinness, head of Sinn Fein, is going to meet with Queen Elizabeth in Berlin, with his organization's full consent. Sometimes truth is even stranger than OUR fiction!

Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2012-07-16 01:50:31 ~ By 1914, some form of Home Rule was on the way, one way or another. If the Ulstermen had been allowed to opt out, as should have been done (what do the Republicans WANT with a million or so people that want no part of their new state, anyway?) the whole thing could have been handled, but WWI came along and that was when everybody became stupid

Readers Comment Richard Roper commented on 2012-07-16 09:58:29 ~ Eric, I think it has to be asked How sincere was the Liberal government? Did they intend it to become deadlockedall along? Much of the Liberal party membership believed in it, The numbers of NP's of the Liberlas and tories were identical in numbers, with the balancebeing dtermined by the Irish Nationalists and Labour. This appears to have been the reson for the disasterous decision not to exclude Ulster.

In 1941, appalled by the true extent of Stalin's military buildup, German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler was forced to postpone Operation Barbarossa; hoping to partner with the British Government he authorised a secret mission for his trusted Deputy Rudolph Hess to fly to Scotland with the new intelligence data evidencing the Communist plot to occupy Western Europe.

Hitler requests British support for Soviet Invasion
Editor, Eric Oppen & Jeff ProvineThe plan spectacularly miscarried when his Messerschmitt Bf 110 was shot down by the RAF and he was forced to eject over Renfrewshire. Worse, his parachute then failed to open and he died on impact at Floors Farm near Eaglesham. And so instead of a clandestine meeting with the sympathetic Duke of Hamilton, the intelligence data arrived directly in Downing Street care of the Scottish farmhand David McLean.

"Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!" ~ SophoclesUnsurprisingly, Churchill summarily summarily rejected the offer of a military partnership with Nazi Germany, but it was a decision he soon came to bitterly regret.

The resources set aside for Barbarossa were soon redeployed for Sealion. By the time that next generation technology was available for Barbarossa 2, Stalin had been overthrown and his generals and the politburo had built a lean and mean nationalist state stripped of the inefficiences and excesses of Stalinism.

And when Nazified Europe was finally liberated by nationalist Russia Churchill was already a prisoner at Spandau Prison where he would remain incarcerated until his death in 1965.

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Todayinah Editor Editor says, in reality Soviet leaders were convinced that the Hess Mission was an attempt to entice Britain into an anti-Soviet alliance however he was almost incoherent at the Nuremberg Trials and the issue was never openly involved. The trust of the matter is permanently sealed in British Cabinet Records held under the Official Secrets Act.

Readers Comment Robbie Taylor commented on 2011-07-12 03:26:04 ~ Ah, but if the blackshirts were in charge of England - what a change that might have been!

Readers Comment Mike commented on 2011-07-12 06:15:44 ~ I wonder what Hess was really up to on his flight. I think the powers that be knew but never let history know. I don't buy that Hess did this on his own or that he was crazy.

Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2011-07-12 06:46:09 ~ I see you incorporated some of my own ideas. Good on you! And I've often wondered just _what_ the hell Hess was up to.

Readers Comment Stan Brin commented on 2011-07-12 12:30:05 ~ Sealion was always a bad idea -- the Germans simply didn't have the necessary resources. They had no specialized landing ships, only barges that had to be towed across the channel. They would have been chewed up. I also don't see Stalin as willing to take on Hitler at that time. He was still afraid of Japan.

Readers Comment Eric Lipps commented on 2011-07-12 14:15:14 ~ I don't know why Stalin would have been afraid of Japan. Even while fighting the Nazis, the USSR maintained good terms with the Japanese Empire--until three months (to the day) after the fall surrender of Germany. Stalin actually entered the war against Japan two days after Hiroshima; previously, Russian military ships had ben allowed to dock and even reprovision in Japanese ports.

Readers Comment Jeff Provine commented on 2011-07-12 15:09:10 ~ As terrible as Hitler was, he really did weaken the massive buildup Russia was doing.

In 1941, upon the receipt of confirmed espionage of the military preparedness of the Soviet Union, German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler gave the last-minute order scrubbing his intended invasion.

Hitler Calls off Invasion of Soviet Union Knowledge of Stalin's military buildup was well known, but the exact numbers were suddenly daunting. As seen by Hitler then and later calculated upon declassified documents by state historian Mikhail Meltyukhov in his work, Stalin's Gift, Russians outnumbered the Germans and their allies 1.4-to-1 in infantry and artillery, 2.6-to-1 in aircraft, and stunningly more than 3.8-to-1 in tanks. Hitler had surprise on his side as Stalin, despite the advice of several spies who had given him the exact date of invasion, believed Hitler would hold longer than two years to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and wait until he finished war with Britain. Hitler had already postponed the intended Operation Barbarossa several weeks from its initial deadline in May due to logistical problems, and now he knew certainly he was too late.

A new story by Jeff ProvineGermany and the Soviet Union seemed doomed to fight each other, however. Stalin addressed military academy graduates with, "War with Germany is inevitable," just weeks before the intended invasion. Both nations were diametrically opposed with policies in Hitler's fascism and Stalin's communism. Both were hopeful for expansion as Hitler called for "elbow room" and Stalin worked to rebuild the Russian Empire, such as dominating Finland in the 1939-40 Winter War. Because Stalin understood Hitler's need for oil to fuel his power would bring him to Baku, the Soviet leader began programs to expand the Russian military by leaps. From '39 to '41, he more than doubled the size of the army and especially built aircraft, which increased from 7,700 to 18,700.

As Hitler and his staff reviewed the numbers, he knew that Germany would be unable to maintain the blitzkrieg he had used successfully against Poland and France without control of the air and against numerically superior tanks, with Russian heavy tanks even arguably superior to Panzers one-on-one. Finally Hitler realized that the Russians were simply too powerful by weight and determined that he would need new kinds of weapons to fight, redoubling his already heavy investment in research and development for rockets, atomic bombs, and more. He let continue the lie that his massing troops on the border with the Soviet Union was keeping them away from attacks by Britain and eventually recalled them for Operation Sea Lion, which had been postponed indefinitely since September, 1940.

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor brought Britain's near-ally America into the war fully that December. With American resources turned toward the Pacific, Hitler's invasion of Britain began, which quickly turned into a quagmire of resistance and sabotage of nearly every public work. Although Hitler held Western Europe for several years, the Allied counter-attack through Africa enabled Britain to be liberated by the D-Day landing at Devon, June 6, 1944.

In early 1945, with Hitler reeling despite some Soviet support Stalin made good on his original strategy of waiting. Called the "Icebreaker" theory by exiled historian Viktor Suvorov, Russia swept in as liberators across Europe, meeting with American and British allies as they took Berlin and continued toward the Western Front, spreading as far as France and Italy. Churchill and Roosevelt encouraged Russia to relinquish their control of Europe as soon as order could be maintained, but Stalin decided to stay. As war with Japan ended with the new A-bomb, political stakes were raised with the Americans holding a powerful card, but Russia practically fresh for a fight.

War-weary President Truman decided to leave the Russians in Europe, establishing doctrine that would work just to keep the Soviets from expanding further. This, too, would prove a blunder of waiting as the Russians would use captured German scientists, now pampered celebrities outside Moscow, to surpass the atomic bomb with an H-bomb and rocketry capable of intercontinental delivery by the 1950s. An Iron Curtain fell from East France to North Italy and across the Soviet Balkans that looked to expand through the Middle East, Africa, even Latin America, and absorb Chinese Communism into the Soviet-led World Community. Any opposition to the world superpower had to be covert, such as escapes across the Swiss border and arming of Afghan guerillas, as no nation could stand against Stalin's legacy until it eventually collapsed into corruption and civil war.

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Todayinah Editor Editor says, in reality Operation Barbarossa proceeded. With army strengths of more than seven million, Hitler and Stalin fought bitterly over Eastern Europe for months until the Germans were finally stopped and held by sheer numbers. Eventually, the tide would favor the Russians, who would come to take much of Eastern Europe under their influence after World War II and hold it until the wave of independence movements in 1989.

Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2011-07-11 05:31:25 ~ Would Hitler have listened to his spies? He was absolutely convinced that the Reich had to have lebensraum, and the USSR was the only place to get it.

Readers Comment Matthew Dattilo commented on 2011-07-11 13:22:24 ~ Two things: first, this timeline disregards Stalin's purge of his officer corps in the late 1930's, just a few years before the German invasion. Hitler knew of the purge and it was a tremendous boon to his 1941 offensive. Even imaging the purge had never happened, I still believe the Red Army was no match for the blitzkrieg tactics of the Germans. I believe a German invasion of the USSR was inevitable as long as Hitler held power. He spoke of it openly in Mein Kampf, believing that the steppes would provide the "living space" the Aryan race would need (Thanks, Eric; I had forgotten the German term!) in the future.

Readers Comment Todayinah Ed. commented on 2011-07-11 13:22:24 ~ Comment from Dan Goodman on Google Groups - I think this is in the "What if Hitler hadn't been Hitler?" category.

Readers Comment Todayinah Ed. commented on 2011-07-11 13:22:24 ~ Comment from Robert Woodward on Google Groups - Even if they had accurate numbers on the size of Red Army's reserve, Adolf would still order the invasion. The real change comes in August, when German High Command has a better idea of what they were facing than they did in OTL.

In 1951, on this day the Head of the Nazi Space Flight Programme in Peenemünde Herr Direcktor Wernher von Braun determined that oxygen shortage was the probable cause of hallucinations in which his astronauts had experienced recurrent visions of Judeo-Christian imagery during their maiden voyage to the Moon.

Iron NightmareMission Commander Hans-Ulrich Rude had experienced a vision of a golden ram passing through the hull of the spacecraft. A Stuka dive-bomber flying ace and card carrying member of the Nazi party, he was the most highly decorated German serviceman of the recent war, one of only twenty-seven military men to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds, and the only one to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds

And so plans for the crew to accompany the Fuehrer on a celebration tour of Germany had been scrapped because the astronauts were ideologically compromised. In any case Second in Command Erwin Hentschel had already escaped to neutral America where he was sharing his new vision of the wonder of God's creation. It was an Iron Nightmare threatening to undermine the thousand year future of the Third Reich.

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Readers Comment Robbie Taylor commented on 2011-06-22 03:56:00 ~ A dream to some - A NIGHTMARE TO OTHERS!

Readers Comment Mike commented on 2011-06-22 04:48:02 ~ So the USA stayed out of the war and the Germans won? Eventully Hitler would have died off and Germany would have become more moderate. As for seeing things due to lack of Oxygen? Sounds like something the U.S. government would come up with.

Readers Comment Eric Oppen commented on 2011-06-22 06:08:09 ~ I think you're thinking of Hans-Ulrich Rudel. And wouldn't he have been a littlle too old and a lot too senior to do this? Fixed - thanks. Ed

Readers Comment Chris Oakley commented on 2011-06-22 14:08:19 ~ I didn't know we had a closet Norman Spinrad fan at TIAH. :)

Readers Comment Jeff Provine commented on 2011-06-22 16:31:08 ~ By '51, Hitler should still be alive, perhaps retired a bit? Hentschel and Rudel would be in big trouble.

In 1801, on this day William Cromwell was crowned King William I of America.

The Royal House of Cromwell, Part 10 - William I of America (1801-1833) by David AtwellWilliam ensured that a very successful second Cromwell Kingdom was established, this time, in North America. He also oversaw major political reforms at both the provincial & national levels; the most important of which permitted all males over the age of 21 being able to vote &/or participate in elections. As a last act of reform, in 1830, the appointed American House of Lords was reformed into a democratically elected Senate.

Apart from the hurried domestic activity, William I also had to face the problem of war in Europe. Although America was somewhat isolated from the Napoleonic Wars, the British nonetheless demanded all sorts of help. Even though William was a Cromwell, he & the American Parliament were not keen on the idea of getting involved. Nelson?s naval victory at Trafalgar in 1805, however, convinced the Americans that the war was almost over & they should get involved as a matter of honour.

The thought that the French were about to collapse was further reinforced when the Royal American Army invaded the recently acquired French territory of Louisiana in 1806. Only a handful of French troops offered any resistance & these were quickly dealt with. Alas a short ending to the war was not to be the case & the Royal American Army, along with their British counterparts, would have to slog it out in Spain, Portugal & southern France for some 7 years (1807-1814), then get dragged back into the vortex of battle the following year, before victory was finally achieved. Louisiana was annexed after the Napoleonic Wars in 1816.

In 1876, the Generalissimo, Emperor Antonion Lopez de Santa Anna, finally relinquished his grip on the throne of Greater Mexico with his death in his capitol, Mexico City.

Generalissimo
by Robbie TaylorConsidered the greatest general of his era, sparking comparisons to Napoleon, Emperor Santa Anna first achieved power by supplanting the old Mexican Republic with his Mexican Empire in 1833, after winning election as President of the old Republic.

When gringos who had been allowed to colonize the Texas territory rebelled against him in 1836, he crushed them mercilessly, leading his northern neighbor, the United States, to attack him, supposedly in their defense. His war against the US gained Mexico almost half of that country in conquest, and further wars of conquest let the Generalissimo die as ruler of the largest country on the North American continent.

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Readers Comment Jared Myers commented on 2012-04-30 01:38:28 ~ I don't see Santa Anna defeating the U.S. on his own, unless he had half the armies of Central America behind him (or Canada coming down against the States from the North).

Readers Comment Jeff Provine commented on 2012-04-30 21:59:07 ~ We'd need an interesting POD here... Mexico making some kind of great leap forward.

In 1968, "Hanoi" John Wayne directed his controversial movie "The Green Berets".

The Green BeretsSince the 1919 Paris Peace Conference the United States had been a firm regional ally of the Republic of Vietnam.

Yet the decision to send US Marines to assist Ho Chin Minh defend the country against a communist insurgency funded by Red China was controversial.

Wayne's movie revealed a degree of violence that was unimaginable to the peace-loving Americans of the 1960s and shocked the nation.

General	In 1941, on this day, scarcely a week after it started, Operation Barbarossa collapsed as General Friedrich von Paulus' Sixth Army was wiped out by the Soviets in a relentless twelve-hour-long assault during which Soviet troops sustained heavy casualties themselves.

von Paulus


Von Paulus himself was one of the first Germans to be killed in the engagement; in recognition of his bravery under fire, Adolf Hitler gave him a posthumous promotion to field marshal and recommended him for the Iron Cross 1st Class.

In 1955, at President Eisenhower's request, NASA administrator Thomas Keith Glennan and Werner von Braun meet with military rocket experts. Among the military's representatives are several of von Braun's old colleagues from the V-2 era, including Walter Dornberger and Dr. Alexander Lippisch, designer of the Messerschmitt 163 rocket plane. Despite their Nazi pasts, or perhaps partly because of them, they have been welcomed into America's Cold War military establishment, as von Braun himself has been embraced by NASA.

	Dyna-soar

The meeting is the start of NASA-DOD collaboration on development of the booster and glider components of the Dyna-Soar. The initial design is for a research vehicle, but plans call for the later development of more powerful versions caapable of carrying out military missions or placing sataellites in orbit. Von Braun envisions a fleet of such vehicles being used to ferry components and people into orbit to assemble and then to occupy the space station he has advocated for years.

In 2003, Martian ground forces emerge victorious from a desperate fight with the Russians and Canadians. Civilian populations of the 2 countries begin moving south. At the same time, Martian air forces begin making raids in the southern hemisphere. Most of the casualties from these raids were Australian; the island continent, in perhaps a brash move, sent its entire military to Antarctica in an attempt to crush the Martians there.

In 2000, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named burst back forth from the rubble of our solar system to attack the forces of galactic justice. Surprised, they are temporarily driven off.

In 1989, George Harrison, former guitarist for Pete Best, produces an album for a new artist named Madonna Ciccone. The album, Living in the Material World, featuring the song Material Girl, is an international hit.

In 1935, Astrid Pflaume, leader of the Greater Zionist Resistance, is assassinated by her former allies, neo-Nazi time-travelers from the late 1960's. In spite of the loss of one their greatest leaders, the GZR grows even stronger. The neo-Nazis at this point have little choice but to begin shuttling weapons of the future into the past.

In 1770, Great Britain outlaws slavery. This movement, spearheaded by the Mlosh community in the U.K., will spread across Europe by the end of the decade. While it is welcomed by most Europeans, a small number of former slaveholders harbors resentment against the Mlosh for this.They join with people of similar sentiments in the North American Confederation to form the Traditional Values Brigade. This xenophobic movement gives birth to many other anti-Mlosh organizations, such as the Warriors of God, the Sons of Adam, and of course, the Human League.

In 1999, the return of King Arthur II to the royal palace in London causes a great whirlwind of activity to erupt from the royal staff, most especially Queen Gwen's retinue. Her Majesty breaks into tears when her king comes before her in the throne room, and she rushes forward to kneel and kiss his hand. 'Oh, my love, I thought never to see you awake again. It is God's great love of Britain, bringing you back to us once more with this miracle!' Arthur looks down at her and touches her cheek gently, lovingly. You are a supremely gifted actress, my queen,' he whispers to her. 'What a great loss for our stage that you didn't confine your talents to it.' For just a flash, he sees her eyes harden, but then the mask of the devoted wife and queen quickly covers her again. 'My king, I know not of what you speak.' Arthur draws her to her feet and kisses her softly on the lips. 'On many subjects, my dear, I am sure that is entirely true.' He embraces her and continues to whisper. 'I loved you greatly, you know. If you had simply asked me for my kingdom, I would have given it to you. But now,...' He pulls away from her and Sir Lance du Lac steps forward to grab her by the arm. 'Throw her into a cell, Lance. And place only your most trusted men to guard her.' Lance bows slightly and replies, 'Yes, sire,' before dragging Queen Gwen from the throne room. Arthur wearily strides to his throne and sits down on it. Facing a room full of shocked courtesans listening to the queen's protests as she is led away, he says, 'Now, who is going to brief me on what's been happening with the war?'

	On this day in 1941, three million German soldiers crossed the Polish border in an attempt to invade the Soviet Union only to find themselves confronted by an equal number of Soviet troops seeking to enter the territory of the Third Reich. Both armies sustained massive casualties in what would later be recorded as the bloodiest and largest land campaign of the 20th century.

In 1942, the Japanese National Suicide begins, as Japanese Fleet makes a surprise attack on US Navy and simultaneously lands in French Indochina. US President Dewey declared the June 22 to be the Day of Infamy and nationalistic and racist fervor sweeps the United States. Hitler is stunned by the Japanese move, but sees the possibilities. He had considered the Japan as an possible ally, but sees there's no real chance for Japanese effort. Now there's a chance to align with the Britain, as well as to support China as an possible future ally. In a Sportspalast speech he declares war on Japan, members of an inferior race. He reminds the public of the Boxer Rebellion, when forces of civilization put down the anarchy. Just a few days afterwards Mussolini declares war on Japan too, mostly not to look so bad.

In 1998, Judy Garland dies of a heart attack. In her youth, many people thought that the famed entertainer would have died much younger, due to her drug and alcohol abuse. But, in her 40's, she met a young preacher from Georgia named Martin King who convinced her that her life meant something. She went on to win 2 more Oscars and to use her fame to speak out in favor of racial equality and addressing the needs of the poor in America.

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