A Daily Updating Blog of Important Events In History That Never Occurred Today.
Imagine what would be, if history had occurred a bit differently. Who says it didn't, somewhere? These fictional news items explore that possibility.

Quick Links

Blog Roll
•Althistory Multiply
•Bull Spec
•Everything Is History
•History Blog
•History is Funny
•John Reilly's Alternate History
•Old is the New New
Editor's Recommendations
•Alt Hist Magazine
•Althistory Wiki
•Bloggapedia
•Changing the Times
•Editor's Postbag
•Etys Artwork
•For and Against It
•Headlines
•Iconic Photos
•John Reilly's Blog
•King and Country
•MLK Memorial
•New Statesman (What If..)
•On This Friday
•Selected Threads
•This Day in AH
•Today in History
•Truth be Told
•Voice Christian Worker
•Zach Timmons AH
Reader's Favourites
•Top 100 Ranked Stories
Site Construction
•Archive Navigator
•Clean DB
•Community Journal
•Facebook
•Get Blogs
•Newsfeed Update
•Survey
•Twitter

Selected threads

Guest Historian Andrew Beane
•  Andrews Posts
Guest Historian Chris Oakley
•  Apollo 1 •  Arnold Hiller
•  Axis Spain •  Baltimore Colts
•  Barbaro 2006 •  Barbarossa 41
•  Battle Alaska •  Belgium 1940
•  Biti Letter •  Blackpool 40
•  British X Files •  Ceaucescu 90
•  Chance Encounter •  Charles Barkley
•  Chicago19 •  Cimino
•  Cleopatra •  CSI
•  Cuba '62 •  Curt Flood
•  D.B. Cooper •  Double Jeopardy
•  Eternal City •  Falklands
•  France 44 •  Francis Urquhart
•  Giant Surprise •  God Save Queen
•  Grey Cup •  GZ Murmansk
•  Hirohito@100 •  Houston 57
•  Ice Bowl •  Ill Wind
•  Iraq NEO Impact •  Jamaica Bay
•  Japan45 •  Jay Sebring
•  Johnny Damon •  Kirk Prime
•  Korea 53 •  Koufax 35
•  Last Broadcast •  Lusitania '15
•  McCain 09 •  Middle East 67
•  Moore 911 •  Necessary Evil
•  New York Knights •  O Tempora, ..
•  Omega Man •  Oswald63
•  Parley •  Roswell '47
•  Salems Lot •  Shirers WW2
•  Shock •  SL Rangers
•  Surprise Attack •  The Devourer
•  Titanic 13 •  Tom Brady
•  Tommies •  Tommy Rich
•  Trek49 •  Valkyrie
•  Weebls •  Worlds Collide
Guest Historian David Atwell
•  Action Jackson •  Hells Doors
•  Hell on Earth •  House Cromwell
Guest Historian David Cryan
•  Swine Flu
Guest Historian Dirk Puehl
•  Dirks Blog
Guest Historian Eric Lipps
•  49th State •  Bonaparte 2
•  Cuba War •  Da Vinci Engine
•  Ford Killed •  Gore Wins
•  JFK Impeached •  Liberty Fails
•  Lifeterm •  Linebacker
•  No Chappaquiddick
•  Whig Revolution
Guest Historian Eric Oppen
•  Malcolm X •  No Tolkien
•  Trotsky's War
Guest Historian Gerry Shannon
•  CSA Today •  Godfather IV
•  Hero Oswald •  JFK Lives
•  Seinfeld Movie
Guest Historian Jackie Rose
•  Happy Endings
Guest Historian Jeff Provine
•  Jeff Provine Blog
Guest Historian John J. Reilly
•  John Reilly Blog
Guest Historian Jackie Speel
•  Conjoined Crisis
Guest Historian Kwame Dallas
•  African Holocaust
Guest Historian Mike Stone
•  WJ Bryan
Guest Historian Raymond Speer
•  Cuba War 62 •  Fall of Britain
•  Fascist Flight
•  Gettysburg Prayer
•  Pacific and Dixie
Alternate Historian Robbie Taylor
•  2nd Coming •  Canadian Rev
•  Chdo Democracy •  King Arthur II
•  Lucifer Falls •  Pete Best Story
•  Protocols •  Richard Tolman
•  Sockless •  Soviet America
•  Speakers Line •  The Sheridans
•  The Baron •  The Claw
•  Warp •  Welsh Wizards
Guest Historian Scott Palter
•  WW2 Alt
Todayinah Editor Todayinah Ed.
•  1860 Crisis •  20c Rome
•  American Heroes •  Anschluss
•  Bomber Harris •  Business Plot
•  Canadian Heroes •  China 4ever
•  Communist GB •  Communist Israel
•  Comrade Hiller •  Comrade Stalin
•  Co presidency •  Deepwater
•  Fed Lost Cause •  Flugzeugtrager
•  Glorious45 •  Good Old Willie
•  Gor Smugglers •  Happy Hitler
•  Hitler Waxwork •  Intrepid
•  Iron Mare •  Islamic America
•  Israel's 60th •  Jewish Hitler
•  Kaiser Victory •  Liberty Beacon
•  Lloyd George •  LOTR
•  Madagscar Plan •  Manhattan '46
•  McBush •  Midshipman GW
•  Moonbase •  No Apollo 1 Fire
•  Obama •  Peace City One
•  POTUS TedK •  POTUS Nathaniel
•  Puritan World •  Resource War
•  Sitka •  Southern Cross
•  The Miracles •  Tudor B*stards
•  Tyrants •  US is Born Again
•  US Heroes •  War on Terror +
•  WhiteHouse Wimp •  Wolfes Legacy
•  Zoroastria
Guest Historian Zach Timmons
•  Alt Indiana Jones
•  Brett as 007

Archive Navigator

•January •February •March
•April •May •June
•July •August •September
•October •November •December

Editor's Postbag     |     Feed

• All Postbag Items
• Reader's Favourites
• Fall of Aquileia
• President Ferraro
• Baron Jean de Batz
• Upper Carolina
• Tokhtamysh Victorious
• Comrade Stalin 3
• Defenestration of Prague
• Margaret of Anjou
• Comrade Stalin 4
• Nova Roma
• Nixon killed
• President Heston dies
• Happy Endings 20
• POTUS Howard Baker
• King Arthur II
• Haunting Ruin
• Concert of Europe
• King Henry IXth
• Farthest West
• Battle of Nafels
• Cosmonaut Leonov
• Space Age and Dog Years
• Siege of Siena Lifted
• Fed Lost Cause 4
• Fed Lost Cause 3
• Happy Endings 26
• President Bentsen
• James Bond
• Happy Endings 25
• American Napoleon
• Nieuw Zwolle
• Steve Jobs, Google CEO
• Battle of Lincoln
• VP Herter
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Malcolm X
• Council of Pisa
• Happy Endings 24
• President Seward II
• Breckinridge dies
• President Seward
• Fed Lost Cause 8
• Mayor for Life
• President Fonda
• Fed Lost Cause 10
• Madeleine Albright
• Fed Lost Cause 7
• Fast Heinz
• Lewis and Clark
• Fed Lost Cause 6
• The Candyman
• Fed Lost Cause 9
• PM Beckett
• Ellsberg Sentenced
• PM Halifax
• FBI Dir Burns
• Fed Lost Cause 5
• Sic semper tyrannis!
• Lavoisier Survives
• Monty in Berlin
• Ethiopia Falls
• 3-term Truman
• Fed Lost Cause 2
• Orson Welles born
• Happy Endings 23
• The Oyster
• Happy Endings Part 22
• 49th State, Redux
• Birth of Flashman
• Lake Peipus
• Mission STS-51-L
• Escape from Loch Leven Castle
• Conte di Savoia
• Fed Lost Cause 1
• President Thornburgh

Site Meter


August 1

In 1944 on this day American and Free French troops surrounded Waffen-SS units at the town of Dijon. The resulting five-day siege would be immortalized in the American press as "the Battle of the Bulge".

-

Entry posted by Guest Historian Chris Oakley Email the AuthorVisit the Authors Web Site © Chris Oakley,2008-.
Story Tags Click on the hyperlinked metadata to surf the site! Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: France44 Source: Wikipedia Labels: Battle of the Bulge, D-Day, America, Adolf Hitler, Axis Powers.



Yes I want to receive email alerts for subsequent comment(s) on this article.



comments powered by Disqus


Related posts from the same era that you may also like
In 1992 upon the death of founder Sam Walton his successors on the board of Wal-mart committed the long-term future of the retailer to American-made merchandise.Sam Waltons successors commit to "Made in U.S.A."In 1867 on this day in Richmond, Virginia, Robert E. Lee officially began his term of office as the second Vice President of the Confederate States.Robert E. Lee continues to serve the "Confederacy" after the Civil WarIn 1793 John Hancock, first president of the United States of America, celebrated his fifty-seventh birthday. President "John Hancock" celebrates his fifty-seventh birthday
In 1868 on this day Andrew Johnson became the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He was later convicted in the Senate.The American Civil War was coming to a close with Lees surrender at Appomattox Court House, but a new crisis gripped the government as Tennessee Democrat Andrew Johnson came into the highest office in the US following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. President "Andrew Johnson" Removed from OfficeIn 1856 on this day the tenth President of the Confederate States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia.President "Woodrow Wilson" tries to take the Confederacy into League of Nations.In 1977 newly inaugurated U.S. President James Earl Carter ignites a storm of controversy when, in response to a reporters question, he suggests that American troops should be withdrawn from Cuba and Vietnam. President Carter takes America out of the Cuban and Vietnam "Quadmires"
In 1985 on this day four Palestinian terrorists seize control of the passenger liner MS Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt. Holding the passengers and crew hostage, they directed the vessel to sail to Tartus, Syria, and demanded the release of 50 Palestinians then in Israeli prisons. After being refused permission to dock at Tartus, the hijackers murdered wheelchair-bound American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and threw his body overboard.President Gary Hart bungles the "Achille Lauro Affair"In 2011 <a href=http://www.todayinah.co.uk/index.php?story=39726-O>Occupy Apple Campus</a> was electrified by the unexpected arrival of a new protestor: Steve Jobs.Occupy Apple Campus: "Part 2"In 1776 an eloquently worded demand for republican rule was routinely dismissed by His Britannic Majestys Government.Mr "Jefferson's Letter" reaches London
In 2010 speaking from an underground bunker in an undisclosed location, life-term US President Jimmy Carter denied that the environmental catastrophe caused by geo-thermal drilling was the direct result of his thirty-year "self-sufficient" energy policy outlined to the American people in his "malaise speech" of July 15th, 1979.Life-term US President "Jimmy Carter" appeals for clean energy in the wake of Deepwater.It is 1918 and the Bolsheviks have overthrown the Czar. In the Civil War that follows, they imprison the imperial family in Ekaterinburg.Lenin Orders the Betrothals at "Ekaterinburg"In 1980 on this day the business-oriented <a href=http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Apple/Apple.III.1980.102646176.pdf>personal computer</a> code-named "Sara" was first announced and released as the Apple III (pictured).Launch of "Apple III" Captures Business Computing Market




© Today in Alternate History, 2013-. All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.