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</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2015/04/after-some-time-not-having-posted-i.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-1032382633744945954</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 12:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-12-20T13:49:05.431+01:00</atom:updated><title>1962</title><description>&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 8th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Thanks to the Netherlands having one of best passenger railway operating companies in the in the world , a train disaster , witch in a different time would happen in Harmelen , killing 93 , and which would be the worst Netherlands rail disaster , dos not happened.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 12th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Royal Netherlands East Indies army and royal Netherlands East Indies air force begin a large scale exercise in Netherlands New Guinea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 18th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The two Maas-class runabout, KNRS Maas and KNRS Marowijne , who have served onboard KNRS Amsterdam for more than 28th years are decommissioned and are stored at Netherlands space centre Guyana ,now that the first Type B class shuttles are about to enter into service whit the royal Netherlands space force (1).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 9th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade pact.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Albania accepts a Soviet Union offer of military and financial aid (2).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;February 3th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The United States embargo against Cuba is announced.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;February 5th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The first Type B class shuttle, KNRS B1, takes off in the middle of the night from Netherlands space centre Guyana, to begin its first test flights.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;February 9th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The Batavia Stock Exchange opens.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;February 10th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for a captured Japanese spy in Geneva, Switzerland.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;February 15th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The Netherlands government rejects the idea of becoming a member of the San Francisco Security Treaty, but approves the idea of becoming a permanent observer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;February 20th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Onboard Friendship 7, astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 9th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;US advisors in the United Republic of China join the fight in the divided border of the province of Sichuan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;April 7th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Flagship of the royal Netherlands space force, KNRS Amsterdam, begins it new mission as a transport ship, ferrying material, supplies and people from the assembly points of Mars base Hellas and Mars base Utopia Planitia (3).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;April 14th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;A small demonstration for a independence Indonesia, free from the Netherlands is held by some 50 people in Amsterdam, Netherlands.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;May 24th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth 3 times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;June 4th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;While waiting to board SS Maasdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, a passenger, called Lee Harvey Oswald falls between the ship and the pier crushing him to death, mister Oswald who was heading to the US from the Soviet Union, was in the Netherlands for a stopover.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;June 16th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;2 US army officers are killed in a mortar attack in the divided border of the province of Sichuan , China.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;July 5th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Algeria becomes independent from France.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;July 11th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Soviet cosmonaut Micolaev sets record longest space flight, lasting four days.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;September 1st&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;A referendum in the Dominion of Singapore, shows, that the majority of Singaporeans, do not support joining the Commonwealth of Malaya, and instead wish to remain an independent nation in the commonwealth of nations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;September 2nd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The Soviet Union agrees to send arms to Cuba.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;September 12nd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the US will put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;September 29th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Launched from Vandenberg AFB, California, Canadian Alouette I, becomes the first satellite built outside the United States and the Soviet Union to reach orbit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;October 14th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;October 15th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;In a televised address, US, president John F. Kennedy announces to the nation the existence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;October 23th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;US navy ships begin a blockade of Cuba, to prevent Soviet ships from bringing in supplies to complete building missile bases.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;October 24th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;During the American blockade of Cuba, Soviet tanker Bucharest approaches the quarantine zone, US military forces go to DEFCON 2, preparing for full-scale war with the Soviet Union.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;October 25th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Royal Netherlands space force command orders Wolf class scout vessel, KNRS Lynx , to move to a position in which it can intercept missile , in case of war between United States and the Soviet Union , despite knowing that the Cuba missile crisis will end whit a the removal of the missiles placed in Cuba.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;October 28t&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;h&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;November 1st&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The Soviets begin dismantling their missiles in Cuba.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;November 2nd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Wolf class scout vessel, KNRS Lynx , departs earth orbit , after being there for more than seven days , watching and being prepared to retaliate at the orders of the prime minister , if war between the United States and the Soviet Union ,was to brake out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;November 16th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The first flight of the Koolhoven helikopter industrie , new helicopter, called KH-3 Falcon (4) , happens at Deelen Air Base , home of the helicopter group of the royal Netherlands air force.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;November 20th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, US president John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;November 28th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;"&gt;Former queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands dies at age 82, despite knowing that she would die at this age, she refused any medical help to prolong her life, and dies happy knowing that the Netherlands is still a strong nation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;December 2nd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;After a trip to the United Republic of China, at the request of US president John F. Kennedy, US senate majority leader Mike Mansfield tells the US media traveling whit him , the fighting at the divided border of the province of Sichuan between the United Republic of China and Republic of China-Nanking , looks more like world war I , then world war II.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;December 8th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Former Netherlands queen Wilhelmina is buried at the New Church in Delft.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;December 17th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;On Alpha Centauri III , the third colony is founded , and is named Port Wilhelmina , after the former queen Wilhelmina , who died nineteen days ago (5).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(1) the Type B class shuttles are a vastly improvement over the Type A class shuttles, who are now in service whit the royal Netherlands space force, and can reach a top speed of warp 2, have a seat capacity of eight people, and shield to defend itself as regular Type B class shuttle will not be armed, the Type B class shuttles is mostly to be used onboard the Holland class destroyer which is being built at L3 space yard.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(2) ,whit no People's Republic of China , to have relations whit , the People's Socialist Republic of Albania is forced to swallow its pride and to accept and to obey , many of the Soviet demands.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(3) Despite its new function as transport ship, KNRS Amsterdam is still the most powerful vessel in the royal Netherlands space force, and even whit it now reaching its 28 years of service whit the royal Netherlands space force.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(4) the KH-3 Falcon is based on the OTL polish build PZL W-3 Sokół medium-size, twin-engine, multipurpose helicopter several version are being planned ranging from military passenger version to medical evacuation version , to the first gun ship version armed whit twin cannons and four pylons for weapons.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(5) Port Wilhelmina is the third colony and the smallest and newest of the three, the largest is New Batavia whit a population of 5,000, Fort Doorman, whit a population of 2,000 and Port Wilhelmina who consist mostly out of personal belonging to the royal Netherlands engineering corps , then there is also new Veenhuizen penal settlement, which is not considered a colony but has a population of 100 prisoners and a 60 member staff.&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2013/12/1962.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-6815764065470919045</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2013 12:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-10-04T14:13:43.117+02:00</atom:updated><title>1961</title><description>&lt;div class="wiki wikiPage" id="content_view" style="background-color: white; 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&lt;strong&gt;January 3rd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;US president Dwight Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;February 3rd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The United Republic of China, in order to feed it 90 million people, using a 30 million dollar loan from the United States, buys grain from Canada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;January 11th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard and L3 space yard , at their new location at Sun–Earth L3 point begin building each a new type of space vessel , at L3 space yard , construction of a new type of destroyer called the Holland class destroyer begins , while at New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard construction of a freighter begins (1).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;January 20th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John F. Kennedy becomes the 35th president of the United States (2).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;February 9th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Escorted by an Andorian imperial guard battle cruiser, KNRS Jaguar arrives into orbit of Andoria, capital world of the Andorian Empire, for a short orbital visit before it is escorted out of Andorian space by the same Andorian imperial guard battle cruiser witch was its escort when it arrived (3).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;February 16th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Empire of Japan uses its first nuclear reactor.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;March 6th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Queen Juliana of the Netherlands celebrates here seven years on the throne.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;March 9th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A report is presented to rear admiral De Jong , commander royal Netherlands space force , in witch is written , that KNRS Amsterdam will reach its end of its operational capacity in 1965 , and that it will not be recommended to operate the flagship of the royal Netherlands space force after that , the report suggest , to strip KNRS Amsterdam , and to use it as a transport vessel , from Mars to Alpha Centauri for the four years it has remaining , and then to convert it to a space station , and let it orbit Alpha Centauri III (4).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;April 5th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pieter Platteel becomes the new governor-general of the Netherlands East Indies, taking over from Jan van Baal who was governor-general of the Netherlands East Indies from 1953 to 1961.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;April 10th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Foreign minister Luns of the Netherlands talks to US president John F Kennedy about establishing closer relations between the two countries, and invites the president to visit the Netherlands.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;April 11th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A day before the Soviets, will send their first man in space, the royal Netherlands space force command orders, Wolf class scout vessel KNRS Panter, to monitor and observe the event.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;April 12th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space onboard Vostok I, his entire 108 minutes of space flight is observed and tracked by KNRS Panter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;May 5th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3; his flight is observed by a royal Netherlands space force shuttle, KNRS A5 operating from Netherlands space center Guyana, who flies’ far enough, to not be spotted by him or radar on the ground.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;May 16th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;General Park Chung-hee, becomes the first Korean born citizen, who is made commander of a Manchukuo Imperial army division, when he takes command of the 4th infantry division of the Manchukuo Imperial army, state of Manchuria.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;May 17th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Vulcans, whit permission of the royal Netherlands space force begins building the Vulcan compound, at Fort Doorman, Alpha Centauri III (5).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;May 23rd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The royal democratic party becomes for the seventh time, the largest party in the Netherlands house of representatives, and prime minister Willem Drees, begins his fourth and last term as prime minister of the Netherlands (6).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;May 25th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Kennedy announces before a special joint session of Congress his goal to put a man on the Moon before the end of the decade.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;May 27th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The prime minister of the Commonwealth of Malaya holds a press conference in Singapore, announcing his idea to have the Dominion of Singapore and Brunei join the Commonwealth of Malaya (7).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;May 31st&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;US president Kennedy visits prime Minister Drees in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where the discuses the possible entry of the Netherlands into the San Francisco Security Treaty, either as a member ore as a permanent observer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;June 1st&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having spent a day in the Netherlands, meeting whit prime Minister Drees and Queen Juliana, president Kennedy travels to Paris, where he will meet whit French president Charles De Gaulle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;June 2nd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;President Kennedy and president Charles De Gaulle meet in Paris , French republic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;June 4th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;US president Kennedy and Soviet prime minster Nikita Khrushchev meet in Vienna, where the begin discussion about nuclear tests, disarmament, the increasing conflict in China and Berlin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;July 18th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The royal Netherlands space force command, decides, that all American and Soviet manned space flights in the future will be tracked by monitoring installations at Netherlands space center Guyana and long range monitoring installations at Moon base Eisinga and New Amsterdam moon base.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;July 21st&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gus Grissom, piloting the Mercury-Redstone 4, capsule Liberty Bell 7, becomes the second American to go into space.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Augustus 6th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov becomes the second human in space, onboard the space capsule Vostok II.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Augustus 7th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vostok II with Soviet cosmonaut Titov onboard lands in the Soviet Union.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Augustus 13th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Construction of the Berlin Wall begins, restricting movement between East Berlin and West Berlin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;October 27th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A standoff between Soviet and American tanks in divided Berlin, Germany heightens Cold War tensions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;November 17th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and his traveling companion are found in the jungles of Netherlands New Guinea after their boat sunk, by a KH-2 Kolibrie II helicopter of the royal Netherlands East Indies air force, and brought to Hollandia, capital of Netherlands New Guinea.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;November 18th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;US President John F. Kennedy sends 1,800 military advisors to the United Republic of China, bringing the total of US military advisors in the United Republic of China to 3,200.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December 11th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First United States air force planes carrying 400 US army personnel arrive in the United Republic of China capitol of Xining.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December 18th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;India occupies the Portuguese colonies of Goa, Damao and Diu.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December 19th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Goa is officially ceded to India after 400 years of Portuguese rule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;December 27th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Alpha Centauri III, the newly created Netherlands bureau of penology (8), establish on a small island in the West Centauri sea , the new Veenhuizen penal settlement, which will house all , prisoners which are sentence to life , ore who are considered a treat to the Netherlands ore here colony’s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(1) the Holland class destroyer will be 200 meters in length, have a crew of 150, a maximum speed of warp eight ,shields , two transporter rooms , a holo deck, front and aft tractor beams , 3 twin-mounted phaser banks , two torpedo banks carrying a total of 56 Mark-3 spatial torpedo’s , and two new B class shuttles onboard , the first, the freighter which is being built at New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space will be 100 meters long , a maximum of warp 3 , no weapons and shield and has a crew of 12.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(2) John F. Kennedy is the same person as in OTL, except that he served in Europe during World War II.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(3) the Andorian chancellor decided, that if the Netherlands dos not allow the Andorians to visit earth, then the Netherlands may not set foot ore establish an embassy on Andoria, but he did allow a vessel belonging to royal Netherlands space force to visit the capital world of the Andorian Empire, as he considers the Netherlands people a valuable ally against the Vulcans.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(4) in 1965,KNRS Amsterdam will reach it 31 year of service whit the royal Netherlands space force.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(5) the Vulcan have decided to move the Vulcan embassy located at Mars base Hellas , to a compound near Fort Doorman , as the feel restricted in their movement at Mars base Hellas, by the royal Netherlands space force , the reason that Fort Doorman was chosen , was that the Vulcans did not want to be near the Andorian embassy at New Batavia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(6) prime minister Willem Drees is whit the fourth term the longest siting prime minster in the Netherlands sins 1848, and he has mentioned that the fourth term will be his last, as he will be in office for more than sixteen years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(7) former British Malaya was given its independence from Great Britain in 1957 , becoming the Commonwealth of Malaya.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(8) the Netherlands bureau of penology falls under the supervision of the royal Netherlands space force , and has only one settlement at its disposal , which is the new Veenhuizen penal settlement which has a capacity of 800 prisoners.&lt;/div&gt;
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</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2013/10/1961.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-4960275864174585703</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Sep 2013 12:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-09-21T14:57:26.280+02:00</atom:updated><title>1960</title><description>&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;1960&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 2nd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;United States senator John F Kennedy announces his candidacy for president.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 4th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The European free trade association treaty is signed in Stockholm by Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the Netherlands, forming the European free trade association, an 8-member alternative to nations that cannot, or do not want, to be in the 5-nation European Economic Community (1).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 9th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Vice-president Richard M. Nixon becomes a candidate for the Republican nomination for the president of the United States.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 17th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;It is announced that United States president Dwight D. Eisenhower will make a ten day tour of the Soviet Union from June 10th to June 19th, as the guest of Soviet first secretary Nikita S. Khrushchev.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 18th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;L3 space yard is towed to its new location at Sun–Earth L3 point.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 19th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The treaty of mutual cooperation and respect between the Soviet Union and the empire of Japan is signed in Moscow, Soviet Union (2).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;February 13th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;France becomes the world's fifth nuclear power, when it successfully explodes a atomic bomb near Reggane, at Algeria in the Sahara Desert.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;February 19th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The empire of Japan begins its first step "in reaching outer space", with the launch of a liquid-propelled rocket , the missile, made entirely in the empire of Japan , makes a successful sub-orbital flight , and is detected by a orbiting class 5 probe of the royal Netherlands space force.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 6th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;President Eisenhower announced that 3,500 American troops will be posted to the United Republic of China.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 7th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The first 20 Soviet cosmonauts are selected in preparation for manned spaceflight.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 11th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Pioneer V is launched from Cape Canaveral.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 25th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The Euromast, a 101m high structure, is dedicated in Rotterdam by crown princess Beatrix.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 23rd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Explorer VIII fails to reach Earth orbit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;April 11th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;First weather satellite launched, Tiros I.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;April 19th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;United Republic of China prime minister Mao Zedong is welcomed in New Delhi by India's prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;April 20th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The empire of Japan struck oils, six’s days after Japanese workers began drilling at Taching, state of Manchuria.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;May 1st&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;An American U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, enters republic of China-Nanking airspace ten minutes after takeoff from a United States base in the United Republic of China, his plane is hit by shrapnel from an exploding Japanese air to surface missile, while flying at 70,500 feet , Powers manages to parachuted and chose not to commit suicide, before he is captured alive by the imperial Japanese army.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;May 5th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Japanese prime minister Hideki Tōjō announced to the supreme council (3), that an American military plane has been downed in the republic of China-Nanking territory on May 1st.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;May 6th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Japanese prime minister Hideki Tōjō surprised the world by announcing that U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, has been captured "alive and well" in the republic of China-Nanking territory , along with film taken of military bases, and China-Nanking currency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;May 11th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;At a press conference, president Eisenhower of the United States accepts full responsibility for the U-2 incident, and said that spying on the republic of China-Nanking and the Japanese empire is justified "No one wants another World War," he said, adding "In most of the world, no large-scale attack can be prepared in secret, but in the Japanese empire there is a fetish of secrecy, and concealment."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;May 12th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Japanese prime minister Hideki Tōjō in a statement to several newspapers said that if the United States attempts further over flights of the Japanese empire ore greater east Asia alliance members "this might lead to war" and added that further aggression will be met "with atom bombs in the first few minutes".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;May 15th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The Soviet Union launches Sputnik IV, a five ton mockup of a manned spaceship, as a prelude to putting human beings into outer space, however recovery of Sputnik IV fails.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;June 10th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;President Eisenhower arrives in Moscow to begin a ten day tour of the Soviet Union.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;June 18th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Nikita Khrushchev and Dwight D. Eisenhower hold their final conversations in Moscow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;June 19&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;After having toured the Soviet Union for ten days, visiting Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad, president Eisenhower returns back to the United States.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;June 23rd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Last of the four Wolf class scout vessel , named KNRS Lynx enterers in service whit the royal Netherlands space force , whit this , all four Wolf class scout vessel are now in service , and New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard ,can be prepared to move to its new home at Sun–Earth L3 point.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;July 8th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is moved from republic of China-Nanking to the Japanese empire , where he will stand trial for espionage.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;July 28th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Fort Doorman, is founded, becoming the second colony on Alpha Centauri III, to be establish by the royal Netherlands space force, and which is named after the first commandeer of the royal Netherlands space force , former rear admiral Karel Doorman (4).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Augustus 10th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;KNRS Lynx, begins its shakedown cruise in the Alpha Centauri system.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Augustus 17th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The trial of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers begins in Tokyo, Japanese empire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Augustus 19th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;In Tokyo, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is convicted of espionage against the republic of China-Nanking and here allies and sentenced to twenty years of hard labor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The Soviet Union launches , Sputnik V satellite with dogs Belka , Strelka , 40 mice, 2 rats and a variety of plants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Augustus 25th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="highlight" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;1960&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Summer Olympics open in Rome.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;September 24th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The world's first nuclear powered carrier aircraft carrier USS Enterprise is launched at Newport News, Virginia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;November 1st&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The Belux treaty between Belgium and Luxemburg goes into effect.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;November 8th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;In a close race, John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard M. Nixon, becoming the youngest elected president of the United States.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;November 19th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;A Andorian imperial guard battle cruiser enters Alpha Centauri , after it was ordered by the Andorian imperial command to investigate , why the Vulcan’s have so much interest in this system , immediately the captain of the battle cruiser receives world that two unknown vessels are closing its position , those two unknown vessels are KNRS Lynx and KNRS Jaguar , who intercept the Andorian battle cruiser , who’s captain decides to hail them , instead of opening fire , and so first contact between the kingdom of the Netherlands and the Andorian Empire is made.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;November 20th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;A day after first contact , the Andorian battle cruiser captain has contacted the Andorian imperial command ,telling them , that he has found why the Vulcan’s are so interest in the Alpha Centauri system , as there is a colony on a planet in the system occupied by a race called humans , who are ruled by the kingdom of the Netherlands , he also mentions that he has spoken whit the governor of Alpha Centauri III , who informed him that the Netherlands will treat the Andorian empire will be treated the same way as the Netherlands is treating the Vulcans , and that is earth solar system is off limits to any for any Andorian vessels whit out permission of the royal Netherlands space force.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;December 13th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The Andorian empire establishes a embassy in New Batavia, Alpha Centauri III.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;December 27th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;France sets off its third nuclear test blast at its atomic proving grounds at Reggane, Algeria.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;December 31st&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Soldiers belonging to the royal Netherlands marine special operations battalion , station at New Batavia , break up a fight between Vulcans and Andorians at a New Batavia bar , several hours later when the bar fight has been dealt whit , the Andorian ambassador and the Vulcan consulate general (5) are informed by the governor of Alpha Centauri III ,that the Netherlands will not get involved ore chose side in the Vulcan-Andorian cold war , and that , if both sides cannot behave themselves , ore show restrained when in the Alpha Centauri system ,than both sides are not welcome anymore , both the Andorian ambassador and the Vulcan consulate general , inform the governor , that they will not cause trouble anymore , before continuing accusing each other for starting the bar fight as the leaf the governor office.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(1) the European free trade association treaty is the first major treaty the Netherlands has signed so far in Europe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(2) the treaty of mutual cooperation and respect replaces the third Soviet–Japanese neutrality pact which was signed in 1950.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(3) the supreme council is the de facto inner cabinet of Japan, and was establish in 1945 , replacing the earlier created supreme war council.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(4) former rear admiral Karel Doorman is still alive , and is 71 years old , and enjoying his retirement in the Netherlands.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(5) while the Vulcans have their embassy at Vulcan embassy at Mars base Hellas, the also have open a consulate in New Batavia , who main mission is to observe and report the Andorian present at Alpha Centauri III.&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2013/09/part-26-1960.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-7887257606979159594</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-03-21T20:30:12.429+01:00</atom:updated><title>1959 </title><description>&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;1959&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 1st&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Fidel Castro leads Cuba to victory.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 2nd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Soviet Union successfully launches Luna I spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 4th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;After 34 hours of flight , Luna I impacts the Moon , which is tracked and observed by both Moon base Eisinga and New Amsterdam moon base personal and its sensors (1).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 7th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 19th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;KNRS Amsterdam visit Alpha Centauri VII ,this is the seventh visit to Alpha Centauri by the flagship of royal Netherlands space force sins its first visit to Alpha Centauri in 1958.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 22nd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;United States air force concludes ,that less than 1 percent of UFOs are unknown objects (2).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 23rd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Wernher Von Braun predicts that men will be living and working on the moon by 1974 , he also adds that "the Soviets can put a man on the moon this year , but can not bring them back yet’’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 27th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;NASA , director T. Keith Glennan discloses that the first 110 candidates have bin selected , to be the first American in space, and that he believes that man will land on the moon by 1969.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;February 17th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Vanguard II, the first weather satellite, is launched by the United States, from Cape Canaveral.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;February 20th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Canada cancels the Avro Arrow program.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 3rd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;First United states probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer IV, is launched.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 4th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;United states Pioneer IV misses the Moon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 13th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Third Wolf class scout vessel , named KNRS Jaguar enterers in service whit the royal Netherlands space force , whit the third Wolf class scout vessel now in service , only one more Wolf class scout vessel is going to be build at New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 30th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Another Type A class shuttle designated KNRS A8 begins its test flight out of Netherlands space centre Guyana , whit this more then eight Type A class shuttle are in service whit the royal Netherlands space force , and two of them are deployed out of New Batavia outpost.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 31st&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Dalai Lama visit India , his first visit to a foreign country ever.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;April 2nd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;NASA announces the names of the seven men chosen as astronauts for project Mercury.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;April 4th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;In a speech at Gettysburg College, president Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the American commitment to keeping the United Republic of China , a independent nation , and says "that our own national interests demand some help from us in sustaining the United Republic of China the morale, the economic progress and the military strength necessary to its continued its existence in freedom".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;April 7th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Prince Bernhard visits New Batavia outpost , Alpha Centauri III , flying onboard KNRS Wolf.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;April 9th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The first seven Mercury astronauts are introduced at a press conference held by NASA in Washington , by rank, they are Lt. Col. John Glenn, lieutenant commanders Wally Schirra and Alan Shepard, , air force captains Gordon Cooper, Gus Grissom and Deke Slayton, and navy Lt. Scott Carpenter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;April 10th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The powerful Japanese Imperial household ministry , begins selecting select a bride for crown prince Akihito from among the daughters of the court nobility.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;April 11th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Prince Bernhard onboard KNRS Wolf fly’s back to Mars after having spend four days at the New Batavia outpost.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;April 13th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The United States and Great Britain ask the Soviet Union and the Japanese empire to join them , in a moratorium on above-ground nuclear weapons testing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;April 16th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Royal Netherlands space force command makes a decision to move New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard, and Utopia Planitia space yard to a new location at Sun–Earth L3 point ,which is located behind the Sun , and relocating most of the royal Netherlands space force of world activity to Alpha Centauri III.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;May 5th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;KNRS Jaguar , becomes the first royal Netherlands space force ship to conduct its shakedown cruise in the Alpha Centauri system.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;May 20th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Shah of Persia arrives in the Netherlands , onboard the Tromp class cruiser HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck , for a three day visit of the country.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;May 26th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The 1964 summer Olympic games are awarded to Detroit , United States(3).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;June 3rd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Lee Kuan Yew becomes the first prime minister of the Dominion of Singapore.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;June 14th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Vulcan survey ship D'pra arrives at orbit of Alpha Centauri III , where it will observe what the Netherlands are doing on the planet by order of the Vulcan High Command.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;July 8th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Two American military advisors become the first Americans killed in the United Republic of China , by a imperial Japanese army attack in the divided province of Sichuan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;July 9th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The United States resumes U-2 spy plane flights over the republic of China-Nanking after several months of not having flown over areas controlled by the Japanese puppet state.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;July 13th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;New Batavia outpost , Alpha Centauri III , population reaches 500 , is elevated to a colony status by the royal Netherlands space force command.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Augustus 14th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Earth is photographed from outer space for the first time , by American satellite , Explorer VI, which had been launched on August 7th.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Augustus 28th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru declares in a speech , that India will protect the borders and independence of the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan and in some extent the independent nation of Tibet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;September 3rd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;A new Singaporean flag is raised , the new flag is based on the old flag it replaces , who was used for more then 140 years , is another indication that the Dominion of Singapore is a independent nation in the Commonwealth of Nations ,wile retaining its relation to Great Britain.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;September 13th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The first Soviet satellite , Luna II crashed near the Sea of Tranquility ,on the Moon , several hours latter , four royal Netherlands space force personal operating from Moon base Eisinga arrive at Luna II impact side to investigate it , and recover it for study at Moon base Eisinga.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;September 14th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The Soviet Union announced the success of Luna II on Moscow radio with the words ‘’yesterday on the 13th of September, the second Soviet cosmic rocket reached the surface of the moon’’.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;September 17th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;A typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan and Japanese Korea.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;September 24th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;In the race to be the first to photograph the dark side of the Moon, the United States suffers a setback when the Atlas-Able rocket explodes on the launch pad during tests.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;October 4th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Luna III , is launched by the Soviet Union.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;October 6th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Just before it is about to send the first pictures of the far side of the Moon , Luna III suffers a malfunction of a unknown kind , preventing it from sending pictures to the Soviet Union (4).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;October 7th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;A Philippines RB-57 surveillance plane, flying at an altitude of 20,000 meters, is downed by three ground to air missiles as it flew over Tahoka (5) , becoming the first aircraft downed by a surface-to-air missile.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;October 12th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Yuri Gagarin and Georgi Shonin are among the first test pilots selected to be Soviet cosmonauts, following evaluations at the air base at Murmansk.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;December 14th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The strategic rocket forces is created in the Soviet Union as a separate branch of the military, with responsibility over all Soviet ballistic missiles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;December 17th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;United Nations committee on peaceful use of outer space is established.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;December 19th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Utopia Planitia space yard construction after vive years is completed , and immediately is renamed L3 space yard , after the new location it will be moved to , New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard which will keep it current name , will be move as soon as the last of the Wolf class scout vessel is completed , to its new location at Sun–Earth L3 point.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(1) Luna I only posed radio equipment, tracking transmitter, telemetry system and five different sets of scientific devices for studying interplanetary space , it was decided that it pose no treat to the two Netherlands Moon bases , and therefore was allowed to reach orbit of the Moon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(2) the sightings that the United States air force concludes , are unknown objects , are , royal Netherlands space force probes , shuttles and the occasional spaceship orbiting earth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(3) OTL the 1964 Summer Olympic Games were awarded to Tokyo , whit second place being Detroit , but here in this timeline the 1964 Summer Olympic Games where awarded to Detroit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(4) the malfunction of Luna III happen , when the royal Netherlands space force jammed it , preventing Luna III from sending its pictures to the soviet Union ,and as a result crashed on the Moon surface.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(5) Tahoka is the Japanese name for Taipei , which is the Japanese colonial government capitol of Formosa.&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2013/03/1959.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-3549906265604412773</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 12:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-03-17T13:23:54.920+01:00</atom:updated><title>1958</title><description>&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;1958&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 8th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 16th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The first mission out of the earth solar system by royal Netherlands space force command is given to KNRS Amsterdam, who will explore and establish a permanent outpost in Alpha Centauri and visits Vulcan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 17th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Captain Jonan Andre , commander of KNRS Amsterdam is briefed by rear admiral De Jong , who informs captain Andre , that the Vulcan’s have offered a liaison officer to be placed on KNRS Amsterdam , and that prime minister Drees has accepted that offer , despite the admiral urges not to do so , as it would give away secrets to them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;January 31st&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The first successful American satellite, Explorer I, is launched into orbit (1).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;February 3rd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Sputnik II , the first successful launched satellite , who was launched on November 4th , 1957 , falls back to Earth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;February 11th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Marshal Chen Yi succeeds Zhou Enlai as the new United Republic of China minister of foreign affairs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;February 3rd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Subcommander T'Mir (2) meets whit Vulcan ambassador Senek , at the Vulcan embassy located at Mars base Hellas , where she is told that she is assigned as the Vulcan liaison officer to KNRS Amsterdam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;February 4th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Subcommander T'Mir , meets whit captain Andre onboard KNRS Amsterdam , as the spaceship prepares itself , before beginning its mission to Alpha Centauri and Vulcan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;February 12th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Whit more then 1,065 crew members and a Vulcan liaison officer onboard , the 24 year old spaceship KNRS Amsterdam leaves orbit of Mars , before going to warp 6 which will take here to Alpha Centauri in less then two days.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;February 14th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Arriving at Alpha Centauri , KNRS Amsterdam drops out of warp near Alpha Centauri I , which it is called according to the star charts available to the royal Netherlands space force.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;February 17th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;After three days , KNRS Amsterdam has spend its time exploring Alpha Centauri , launching several Class-5 probes , beaming a survey team to Alpha Centauri I , visiting Alpha Centauri III , IV and Alpha Centauri VII.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;February 21st&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;A week in the exploration of Alpha Centauri , KNRS Amsterdam now orbiting Alpha Centauri III , establish a small outpost , called New Batavia , whit approval of captain Andre , whit a outpost establish , KNRS Amsterdam heads towards it last mission of visiting Vulcan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;February 22nd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Royal Netherlands East Indies air force , for the first time , using a D-24I tornado M.2 jet fighter against dummy air targets over Sumatra , Netherlands East Indies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 5th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Explorer II , launched by the United States , fails to reach orbit , due to a failure in the rocket during launch (3).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 6th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Flying form more then 12 days at warp 6 , KNRS Amsterdam arrives at Vulcan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 7th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Subcommander T'Mir shows captain Andre , ShiKahr , capitol of Vulcan , before he and Albert Colder a diplomat from the Netherlands ministry of foreign affairs , meet whit administrator T’Pro , head of Vulcan High Command.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 8th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span class="postbody" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The Iowa-class battleship, USS Iowa is decommissioned, leaving the United States navy without an active battleship for the first time since 1896 (4).&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 12th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;After several meetings between Albert Colder and administrator T’Pro , the Netherlands are allowed to establish a embassy in ShiKahr.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 17th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The United States launches the Vanguard I satellite successfully into orbit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 19th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;After spending 13 days in orbit of Vulcan , KNRS Amsterdam departs to Alpha Centauri III , where it will help expanding New Batavia outpost , before heading back to Mars.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 26th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The United States launches Explorer III successfully.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 27th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Nikita Khrushchev becomes prime minister of the Soviet Union.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;March 31st&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Soviet Union suspends nuclear weapons tests, and urges the United States , Great Britain and the Japanese empire to do the same.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;April 2nd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Back in orbit of Alpha Centauri III , the crew of KNRS Amsterdam are surprised in seeing KNRS Wolf also in orbit , as its is bringing supplies to New Batavia outpost.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;April 8th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;KNRS Amsterdam heads back to Mars , together whit KNRS ER-3 , who arrived two days earlier at New Amsterdam outpost.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;April 12th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Whit KNRS Amsterdam back at Mars , New Batavia outpost receives a platoon belonging to the Netherlands marine special operations battalion who arrived onboard a cramped KNRS Panter , and who are the first garrison unit for Alpha Centauri III , which now has 80 people working and living on the planet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;April 14th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The Soviet satellite Sputnik III disintegrates in space after several orbits.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;May 15th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The Soviet Union launches Sputnik IV ,which is also the first satellite to carry a living dog called Mushka (5).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;May 23rd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;American satellite, Explorer I , ceases transmission.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;May 30th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The body of a unidentified soldier killed in action during world war II is buried at the tomb of the unknowns in Arlington national cemetery.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;June 23rd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The Phobos weapon platform orbiting Mars is activated , becoming the first automated planetary defense system for the royal Netherlands space force , and is armed whit 100 Mark-3 spatial torpedo’s , two phaser banks , each containing two phaser emitters , and a force field to protect the facility , whit its main function to defend Mars , New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard and the almost completed Utopia Planitia space yard.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;July 14th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi army overthrow the monarchy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;July 26th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;American satellite, Explorer IV is launched.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;July 29th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The United States Congress formally creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration , replacing the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Augustus 16th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Third Van Speijk class frigate enters service whit the royal Netherlands navy , called HNLMS Evertsen , it is named after the previous decommissioned Admiralen class destroyer , HNLMS Evertsen , and is slated to replace HNLMS Kortenaer , third Admiralen class destroyer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Augustus 17th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The first Thor-Able rocket is launched, carrying Pioneer 0, from Cape Canaveral air force Station , but the launch fails due to a first stage malfunction.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Augustus 23rd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Japanese imperial army begins bombardment of targets in the United Republic of China controlled part of the province of Sichuan , in responds the United Republic of China army begins counter firing against target in the republic of China-Nanking controlled part of Sichuan (6).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;October 1st&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;NASA starts operations and replaces NACA.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;October 2nd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The Japanese empire and the United Republic of China end their longest continuous border fighting to date in which more then 450,000 artillery shells where fired by both sides , more then 7,000 lives where lost , and which saw the first use of special modified United States air force supplied F-86 Sabres jet fighter for the United Republic of China air force carrying the AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missile , who managed to engage and destroy several Japanese jet fighters.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;October 11th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;American satellite, Pioneer I , launch is unsuccessful due to a failure of its Thor-Able rocket.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;October 17th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;KNRS Amsterdam visit Vulcan for the second time , and brings whit it the newly appointed ambassador Colder to the temporarily Netherlands embassy on Vulcan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;November 8th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;The third launch of a Thor-Able rocket, carrying Pioneer II, is unsuccessful due to a third stage failure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;December 2nd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Belux treaty signed by Belgium and Luxembourg.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;December 6th&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;American satellite, Pioneer III reaches 107,269 km, before falling back to earth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;December 16th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;New Batavia outpost , Alpha Centauri III , population reaches 200.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;December 21st&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;Charles De Gaulle wins seven year term as first president of the 5th Republic of France.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(1) whit the Soviets having have bin delayed in successful launching Sputnik I , the royal Netherlands space force decided not to destroy ore to delay the launching of Explorer I by the Americans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(2) Subcommander T'Mir was one of the four crew members of the Vulcan survey ship D'Vro , who made first contact whit a Netherlands spaceship , and du here having spend time whit humans , was made Subcommander , and assigned as the official Vulcan liaison officer onboard KNRS Amsterdam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(3) the launch was a failure as it OTL , and was not sabotage by the royal Netherlands space force.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(4) Only three Iowa-class battleships where constructed between 1939 to 1944 and of them Iowa-class battleship, USS Iowa is the battle ship to be put out of commission and placed together whit here sister ships into the reserve fleet , Bremerton , Washington , whit this the Japanese imperial navy is the only user of battleships in the pacific , whit two Yamato class battleships still in service , who still remain the largest battleships in the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(5) Mushka was one of three selected dogs whit the other two dogs being Albina and Laika.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" /&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;(6) the Japanese empire feels that the can attack targets in the divided province of Sichuan , as the consider themselves a nuclear power and therefore the United States will not attack ore declare war on them.&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2013/03/1958.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-897215635742176355</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-12-21T14:49:03.765+01:00</atom:updated><title>1957</title><description>&lt;strong&gt;1957&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;January 10th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes prime minister of Great Britain.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;January 20th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated for a second term as president of the United States.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;January 26th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
KNRS Panter , is commissioned , becoming the second Wolf class scout 
vessel to enter in service whit the royal Netherlands space force.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;January 29th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The United Sates congress , passes the United Republic of China 
resolution , and whit it established a American commitment to protect 
the sovereignty of the United Republic of China , which is made clear by
 president Dwight D. Eisenhower radio address the same day , in which he
 promised to protect "territories under the jurisdiction of the United 
Republic of China against invasion and aggression by foreign country’s 
“.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;March 8th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Whit construction of the third Wolf class scout vessel at New 
Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard underway , the royal Netherlands 
space force begins construction of the fourth Wolf class scout vessel at
 New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;March 17th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Netherlands government lifts ban on Sunday driving.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;May 15th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
1st British Hydrogen bomb explosion happens at Malden Island , Pacific.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;May 23rd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The royal democratic party becomes for the sixth time, the largest party
 in the Netherlands house of representatives , and prime minister Willem
 Drees can begin his third term as prime minister of the Netherlands.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;June 10th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Fifth Type A class shuttle designated KNRS A5 begins its test flight out of Netherlands space centre Guyana.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;April 20th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
KNRS Panter begins its shakedown cruise.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;July 15th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A Fokker 27-100 belonging to KLM East Indies crashes near Java , Netherlands East Indies , killing 44 passengers and crew.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Augustus 15th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A imperial Japanese army air service G10N1 Fugaku heavy bomber , drops 
the first Japanese air dropped atomic bomb overt the Gobi desert , 
during the second atomic test conducted by the Japanese empire.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;September 14th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Royal Netherlands space force command orders yellow alert for all space 
ships and bases , and prepares itself for the arrival of a Vulcan survey
 ship called D'Vro (1) which according to historical files known to the 
royal Netherlands space force is du to enter earth's solar system in two
 days.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;September 15th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
KNRS Amsterdam , KNRS Panter and KNRS Wolf arrive at Pluto , where the 
are to intercept the Vulcan survey ship D'Vro which is already being 
picked up by KNRS Amsterdam long range sensors , and du to arrive the 
next day.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;September 16th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
First contact made whit Vulcan survey ship D'Vro , who immediately after
 arriving in earth solar systems is hailed by captain Jonan Andre , 
commander of KNRS Amsterdam.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;September 17th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Whit Vulcan survey ship D'Vro , still orbiting Pluto , the captain of 
the D'Vro has met captain Jonan Andre in person , who informs him , that
 the D'Vro will be escorted to Mars where the captain will meet whit 
rear admiral De Jong , commander of the royal Netherlands space force.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;September 18th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A day after the arrival of the Vulcan survey ship , at Mars , the 
captain of the D'Vro and his second in command T'Mir (2) have met whit 
rear admiral De Jong at Mars base Hellas , where the captain , who is in
 contact whit the Vulcan High Command , informs rear admiral De Jong 
that the Vulcan High Command , is sending another Vulcan survey ship 
whit a ambassador onboard , which will arrive in three weeks time.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;September 28th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Queen Juliana opens Velser Tunnels ,Netherlands.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;October 4th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Failed launch of Sputnik I (3) , du it being rammed by a special 
Netherlands build killer satellite , destroying it , before it is able 
to send its signal.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;October 27th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Whit Vulcan survey ship D'Vro entering its third week in orbit of Mars ,
 its four member crew have bin allowed to visiting Mars base Hellas , 
Mars base Utopia Planitia and KNRS Amsterdam , when news arrives that a 
second Vulcan survey ship is heading towards Mars.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;October 28th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Whit a another Vulcan survey ship which is identified as the D'Vahl , 
orbiting Mars , Vulcan ambassador Senek who was onboard the D'Vahl , 
meets whit prime minister Drees at Mars base Hellas, who explains to the
 ambassador , that no Vulcan ship is allowed to enter earth's solar 
system whit out permission of the royal Netherlands space force as prime
 minister Drees explains , that the policy of the Netherlands government
 is to prevent any alien race making contact whit earth as according to 
prime minister Drees , the don’t now what might happen if the Vulcan’s 
ore a other races makes first contact.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;November 3rd&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Soviet Union successfully launches Sputnik II (4) , and whit it , 
the first official earth orbiting artificial satellite achieves orbit.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;November 4th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
After six days of negations , diplomatic relation between Vulcan and the Netherlands are formed (5).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;November 6th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
At the residency of prime minister Drees in The Hague, Netherlands , 
members of the oversight commission and cabinet are discussing the 
diplomatic relation between Vulcan and the Netherlands that where 
establish the two days earlier , and come to the conclusion , that the 
Netherlands has to be careful to expand in outer space , as there are 
many other races out there who are not as friendly as the Vulcan’s , and
 so they come to a conclusion that a new planet has to be found which 
will replace Mars as the new base of operations for the royal 
Netherlands space force and use it to expand whit out being fearful of 
being discovered by other nations on earth and to build a credible space
 fleet to protect both its interests and to protect earth.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;November 7th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Vulcan survey ship D'Vro heads back to Vulcan , leaving the Vulcan 
survey ship D'Vah , the only Vulcan ship present in the earth solar 
system , as it is used as ambassador Senek personal transport.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;November 30th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Governor general of the Netherlands East Indies , Jan van Baal , 
survives a grenade attack at Cikini School in Batavia , thrown by a 
member of the communist party of Indonesia , six children are killed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;December 4th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Governor general of the Netherlands East Indies , Jan van Baal, bans the
 communist party of Indonesia after the attempted attack on his life and
 the deaths of six children 5 days earlier.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;December 6th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
1st United States attempt to launch a satellite fails , as the Vanguard rocket blows up.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;December 15th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Population of Netherlands nationals living in the Netherlands East Indies reaches 500,000.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(1) the visit of the Vulcan survey ship is recorded in the historical 
files known to the royal Netherlands space force , and therefore the are
 able to prepare themselves for the arrival , and establish first 
contact whit the Vulcan’s peacefully , as the know what kind of race 
there are going to deal whit.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(2) the D'Vro crew is unaware that the royal Netherlands space force 
already knows everything about the them du the historical files 
available to them.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(3) Sputnik I was destroyed by a Netherlands build killer satellite , as
 the royal Netherlands space force wants to delay and hamper the Soviet 
Union and United States space program as best they can whit out it being
 seen as a deliberate and whit out causing to much attention.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(4) Sputnik II is the back up unit of Sputnik I and was launched 
successfully by the Soviet Union , the royal Netherlands space force 
decided not to destroy it , for one , as it already managed to delay the
 launch of the first official 1st artificial Earth satellite by one 
month , and second , another failed launch would cause to much 
suspicion.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(5) during the negotiations the Vulcan’s agreed to the wishes of the 
Netherlands and not enter the earth's solar system whit out the 
permission of the Netherlands and to minimize and limit their presences 
as much as possible , in return the are allowed to visit earth under 
escort by the Netherlands.
  </description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2012/12/1957.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-1713874334831564751</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-11-25T20:40:07.216+01:00</atom:updated><title/><description>&lt;strong&gt;1956&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;January 26th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The 1956 winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;February 5th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The 1956 winter Olympic games (1) end , whit the Netherlands wining one silver and two bronze medals.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;February 25th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Soviet party leader Nikita Khrushchev denounces Josef Stalin at the 20th Soviet party conference.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;February 29th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
US President Dwight Eisenhower announces he will seek a second term.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;April 10th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
In the Netherlands , Philips begins broadcasting its first color TV programs.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;April 11th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
French government decides to send 250,000 reservists to Algeria.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;May 4th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Queen Juliana unveils the National Neutrality Monument in Amsterdam , Netherlands.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;May 8th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Representing the royal family , and only royal family member who is a 
member of the oversight commission , prince Bernhard , arrivals at New 
Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard orbiting Mars , to witness the 
commissioning of the first Wolf class scout vessel for the royal 
Netherlands space force , the 50 meter long scout vessel who will go by 
the name KNRS Wolf , and is the first of several of its class to enter 
service whit the royal Netherlands space force.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;May 9th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
KNRS Wolf is commissioned in the royal Netherlands space force , after 
leaving the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard , personal of the 
royal Netherlands space force move the second Wolf class scout vessel 
which is being build to the front of the space yard , so the can begin 
constructing on the third Wolf class scout vessel.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;May 16th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Egypt recognizes the United Republic of China.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;May 17th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Whit two Type A class shuttles in service and the third and fourth 
almost completed , the royal Netherlands space force begins scraping the
 three Type-7 shuttlepod s at Netherlands space centre Guyana (2).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;May 21st&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
United States explodes its first airborne hydrogen bomb over Johnston Atoll , 1400 km west of Hawaii.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;June 7th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
KNRS Wolf begins its shakedown cruise , as the ship's crew begin to familiarize themselves whit the operation of the craft.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;June 6th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Singapore becomes the Dominion of Singapore and whit it becomes 
virtually independent from Great Britain , but retains the British 
monarch as head of state, it is also represented locally by a 
governor-general appointed in consultation with the Dominion’s 
government , Great Britain however remains in charge of defense, 
constitutional amendments and foreign affairs for the time being.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;June 15th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Batavia University of Technology is founded in Batavia , Netherlands East Indies.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;June 19th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Second Van Speijk class frigate enters service whit the royal 
Netherlands navy , called HNLMS Jan van Brakel , it is slated to replace
 the to be decommissioned HNLMS Evertsen , second oldest of the 
Admiralen class destroyers.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;July 23rd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Flagship of the royal Netherlands space force KNRS Amsterdam and KNRS 
Wolf and KNRS ER-3 begin the first joint exercise in the history of the 
royal Netherlands space force near Jupiter.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;July 25th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
After two days , the space exercise ends , and many valuable lessons in 
operating multiple spaceships at once and under one command have bin 
gained.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;July 26th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Whit KNRS Wolf and KNRS ER-3 returning to Mars , KNRS Amsterdam remains 
in orbit of Jupiter , as it is going to deploy the Callisto 
communication and observation station , on Callisto , a moon of Jupiter.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;July 29th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
After three days , the crew of KNRS Amsterdam complete their mission of 
installing the Callisto communication and observation station , and whit
 the installment complete KNRS Amsterdam returns back to Mars.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Augustus 22nd&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
United States president Dwight Eisenhower and vice president Richard 
Nixon are re-nominated by republican convention in San Francisco, 
California.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Augustus 30th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Third Type A class shuttle designated KNRS A3 begins its test flight out
 of Netherlands space centre Guyana , these test flights are necessary 
before the KNRS A3 is handed over to the royal Netherlands space force ,
 which is planning to use KNRS A3 for flights from to Moon base Eisinga 
and New Amsterdam moon base and back.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;September 22nd&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Fokker aircraft corporation East Indies begins production of the D-24I 
tornado M.2 jet fighter , whit it focusing its production on producing 
the D-24I single-seat interceptor version ,as Fokker Netherlands will 
produce the D-24T operational trainer and the D-24R reconnaissance 
version for the royal Netherlands East Indies air force.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;October 16th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The Japanese empire explodes their first atomic bomb in the Gobi desert ,
 and becomes the fourth nation after the United States , Soviet Union 
and Great Britain to detonate their one atomic bomb , the test which was
 unexpected was observed by a orbiting Class-5 probe who immediately 
send the pictures and scans it has taken to the royal Netherlands 
military intelligence service headquarters in The Hauge, Netherlands.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;October 17th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A day after the Japanese first atomic test , the oversight commission , 
the shadow government in control of the kingdom and its colony’s meets 
in a villa somewhere in the Netherlands , there main topic is the 
Japanese empire atomic test , a test the did not expect to happen this 
soon , the all come to the conclusion that the royal Netherlands 
military intelligence service Japan section is to receive more funding 
and that surveillance of the Japanese empire by orbital probes is to 
increase as the oversight commission feels the greatest treat at this 
moment is the situation between the United Republic of China and the 
Japanese empire escalating it to a bigger war , a war the toughed the 
avoided on December 4th 1941.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;November 12th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Fourth Type A class shuttle designated KNRS A4 , enters service whit the
 royal Netherlands space force , KNRS A4 after doing its test flight 
will depart to Mars , where it will operate from Mars base Hellas.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;December 26th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
A United Republic of China air force F-86 Sabre intercepts 2 imperial 
Japanese army air service , Nakajima Ki-202 jet fighters above the 
United Republic of China controlled part of the province of Sichuan and 
shoots both down (3) in the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(1) in OTL Netherlands athletes won no medals during the 1956 winter 
Olympic games , but in this timeline it won three thanks to better 
funding by the ministry of health, welfare and sport , which was created
 in 1951.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(2) having served for more then 22 years , KNRS Paramaribo , KNRS 
Batavia and KNRS Willemstad where stored at Netherlands space centre 
Guyana in case the where needed , but whit the Type A class shuttle 
entering in service , the three Type-7 shuttlepods can be scraped and 
recycled , the two Maas-class runabout will remain in service onboard 
KNRS Amsterdam until replacements for them have entered in to service 
whit the royal Netherlands space force.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(3) the United Republic of China air force acquired from December 1954 
to June 1956 ,160 ex-USAF F-86 Sabres , the Nakajima Ki-202 et fighter 
in use whit the imperial Japanese army air services , is the successor 
to the Nakajima Ki-201 who in turn is a licenses version of the German 
Messerschmitt Me 262.
  </description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2012/11/1956-january-26th-1956-winter-olympic.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-6590174952788646900</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 21:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-11-24T22:37:33.393+01:00</atom:updated><title/><description>&lt;strong&gt;1955&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;January 14th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
HNLMS Sumatra , the last serving Java class cruiser is retired , here 
role is taken over by the state of the art helicopter cruiser of the 
Celebes class HNLMS Celebes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;January 22nd&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;January 28th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The United States congress authorizes president Dwight D. Eisenhower to increase military aid to the United Republic of China.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;February 10th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The United States Seventh fleet navy begins a large naval and air 
exercise of the coast of the Philippines , together whit the United 
States air force which is based out of the Philippines , Philippine air 
force and the Philippine navy , the exercise is closely monitored by 
Japanese imperial army air service observation planes and Kawanishi H10K
 long range flying boats belonging to the imperial Japanese navy air 
service and submarines and surfaces vessels belonging to the imperial 
Japanese navy based out of Formosa.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;February 12th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
US president Dwight Eisenhower sends more US advisors to the United 
Republic of China , bringing the total to 700 military advisors.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;March 5th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
HNLMS Van Speijk is launched , the first of the Van Speijk class 
frigates to be launched , and who is slatted to replace the 
decommissioned Admiralen class destroyer , HNLMS Van Ghent , HNLMS Van 
Speijk is the fifth vessel in the royal Netherlands navy named after Jan
 van Speyk.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;April 3rd&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Orbiting above the surface of Mars , KNRS ER-3 , test fires , the Mark-2
 spatial torpedo (1 ) against a target placed on the Amazonis Planitia 
test and weapons range .&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;April 5th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Winston Churchill resigns as the prime minister of the United Kingdom.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;April 6th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Anthony Eden becomes the new prime minister of the United Kingdom.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;April 11th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Japanese Kempeitai sabotage a Lockheed constellation aircraft , 
killing 16 but failing to assassinate the United Republic of China 
minister of foreign affairs , Zhou Enlai , who was not onboard.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;April 15th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
At the Netherlands space centre Guyana , the first Type A class shuttle 
(2) designated KNRS A1, is put in use whit the royal Netherlands space 
force.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;April 18th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Asian conference (3) begins in Bombay, India , it is also attended by 
Zhou Enlai , who thanks to a delay in his traveling was able to escape a
 assignation attempt by unknown forces.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;April 24th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Asian conference ends after six days of discussion.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;May 5th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Allied occupation of West Germany ends , and whit it the Federal 
Republic of Germany becomes an independent sovereign state with the 
ratification of Paris agreements in Bonn, Germany.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;May 9th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
West Germany joins NATO.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;May 14th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Warsaw pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;May 15th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Building of space travel center at Baikonur, Kazakhstan begins.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;May 18th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Queen Juliana opens E55 fair in Amsterdam, Netherlands.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;May 31st&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;June 6th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Second Type A class shuttle designated KNRS A2 , enters service whit the
 royal Netherlands space force , as production of the shuttle takes only
 a year , mostly du it not having warp drive , weapons ore shield , its 
is hope that the Type A class shuttle has fully replaced the older 
Type-7 shuttle pods and Type-15 shuttle pods , before 1956.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;July 14th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Anton Mussert , former leader of the Netherlands national socialist 
movement , dies at age 60 , after suffering a heart attack at his home 
in The Hague, Netherlands.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Augustus 30th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
First official act of Netherlands crown princess Beatrice, when she launches HNLMS Borneo , the second Celebes class cruiser.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;September 12th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
A royal Netherlands military intelligence service officer, briefs prime 
minister Drees , about the communist party of Indonesia , telling him 
that it has a membership of about 3,000 to 5,000 , spread across the 
Netherlands East Indies , who pose no treat to the security of the 
colony , thanks to the defection of Vladimir Petrov almost a year ago , 
the royal Netherlands military intelligence service was able to sweep 
the communist party of Indonesia and pick up those mentioned by Vladimir
 Petrov.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;October 2nd&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The first production model of the D-24I tornado M.2 jet fighter (4) 
begins serving whit the royal Netherlands air force 312th fighter 
squadron based at Volkel air base ,Netherlands , production of the D-24I
 tornado M.2 jet fighter at Fokker aircraft corporation East Indies is 
slated to begin early next year.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;October 28th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne is commissioned into the royal Australian navy , becoming Australia first air craft carrier.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;December 6th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Jiro Minami , the Japanese 8th governor-general of Korea from 1936 and 
1944 and a member of the privy council from 1944 to 1947 , dies at 
Tokyo.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;December 14th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Ireland is together whit Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, 
Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain 
admitted to the United Nations.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(1) the Mark-2 spatial torpedo is a improve version of the Mark-1 
spatial torpedo , and has a variable yield being able to destroy a small
 building , ore when set to its maximum yield , being able to put a 
one-kilometer crater into an asteroid.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(2) the Type A class shuttle is designed to relieve the pressure from 
the 20 year old Maas-class runabouts , who both are still in service 
whit the royal Netherlands Space force and to replace the Type-7 shuttle
 pods and Type-15 shuttle pods who are going to be dismantle as more 
Type A class shuttle enter service , the Type A class shuttle has six 
seats , manual helm control and no warp drive , as the are mostly 
designed for use in the solar system.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(3) the Asian-conference is held in Bombay, India and is attended by 
United Republic of China , Burma, Philippines, Thailand , Pakistan, 
Ceylon and concurrence mostly about the current situation between the 
Japanese empire and the United States and to show solidarity towards the
 United Republic of China.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(4) there are several version of the D-24 tornado M.2 jet fighter 
entering in service whit the royal Netherlands air force and the royal 
Netherlands East Indies air force , these are the D-24I single-seat 
Interceptor , D-24T operational Trainer and the D-24R Reconnaissance 
version.
  </description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2012/11/1955-january-14th-hnlms-sumatra-last.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-6690006334072406758</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 22:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-11-23T23:30:10.966+01:00</atom:updated><title/><description>&lt;strong&gt;1954&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;January 21st&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The first nuclear powered submarine , USS Nautilus , is launched in Groton, Connecticut (1).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;February 15th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Royal Netherlands navy destroyer of the Admiralen class , HNLMS Van 
Ghent is decommissioned , whit here role , to be taken over by one of 
the four to be completed Van Speijk class frigates.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;February 21st&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
US president Dwight Eisenhower authorizes , 100 million dollar , to be used for military aid to the United Republic of China.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;March 13th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A border clash erupts between the United Republic of China army , 
against the Japanese imperial army and the republic of China-Nanking 
army in the province of Sichuan which is a divided province.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;March 15th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
US explodes a 15 megaton hydrogen bomb at Johnston Atoll , a royal 
Netherlands space force class-5 probe observes the blast , before 
sending the data to the royal Netherlands space force command , located 
at Netherlands space centre Guyana.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;March 23rd&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
After ten days of fighting , the United Republic of China army and 
Japanese imperial army cease their attacks against each other in the 
province of Sichuan , the ten day border clash has seen the most heavy 
fighting between the United Republic of China and the Japanese empire 
sins the creation of the United Republic of China in 1949.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;April 1st&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
In the Netherlands , the motorway, Amsterdam-Maastricht opens.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;April 3rd&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Vladimir Petrov (2) defects from the Soviet Union and asks for political asylum in the Netherlands East Indies.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;April 14th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
A Soviet spy ring in the Netherlands East Indies is uncovered by the royal Netherlands military intelligence service.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;May 10th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The construction of Utopia Planitia space yard enters its six month , 
and thanks to the limiting miming done by KNRS ER-1 and KNRS ER-2 , who 
using their tractor to tow small asteroids to Mars , where the are 
processed by special modified work bees , its construction is kept on 
schedule.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;May 24th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands announces that after 63 years on the
 throne , she will abdicated in favor of here daughter Juliana.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;June 16th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Netherlands shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;July 7th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
As DAF is still working on designing a new main battle tank for the 
royal Netherlands army and royal Netherlands East Indies army , its 
unveils the T-25 Tjiger II (3) , a upgraded T-20 Tjiger tank , as a 
temporarily solution.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;April 7th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" (4) speech during a news conference.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;April 16th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
US vice president Richard Nixon announces that the United States may be 
“putting more military advisors in the United Republic of China 
regardless of Soviet protest”, this after the heavy border fighting 
between the United Republic of China and the Japanese empire a moth ago 
and the domino theory speech made by president Dwight D. Eisenhower.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;May 20th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The national assembly of the United Republic of China , reelects Chiang 
Kai-shek as president , and Mao Zedong as prime minister of the United 
Republic of China.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;July 8th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Wile construction of the first Wolf class scout vessel is well underway 
at Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard , construction of the second Wolf 
class scout vessel at Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard begins , as the
 Wolf class scout vessel is only 50 meter long , more then two can be 
build at one time at Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard at one time.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;September 4th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The first Celebes class cruisers, HNLMS Celebes is commissioned at 
Wilton Fijenoord dockyard in Schiedam , HNLMS Celebes who is a 
helicopter cruiser carries 4 KH-2 Kolibrie II helicopters.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;September 6th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Thailand joins the San Francisco Security Treaty.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;September 8th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Juliana becomes queen of the Netherlands.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;September 26th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A typhoon hit’s the Japanese empire , 5 ferryboats sink killing about 1,600 people.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;October 23rd&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
West Germany joins NATO.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;November 3rd&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The first Godzilla movie premieres in the Japanese imperial capitol of Tokyo.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;November 12th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands visit together whit here husband prince
 Bernhard , the Netherlands East Indies for a one week tour of the 
Netherlands largest colony.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;November 22nd&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
After touring the Netherlands East Indies for a week , Queen Juliana and
 prince Bernhard depart , and fly onboard a Fokker F27M royal flight (5)
 turboprop , back home to the Netherlands.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;December 15th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands , 
receiving the same status as Netherlands Guyana and Netherlands East 
Indies.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(1) wile the USS Nautilus maybe the world first nuclear-powered 
submarine , its not to most modern , that title is reserved to the royal
 Netherlands Zwaardvis class submarines of which eight are in service 
named Zwaardvis , Tijgerhaai , Dolfijn, Zeehond , Potvis , Zeeleeuw 
,Tonijn , and Walrus who have replaced the older Dolfijn-class 
submarines and other submarines in service whit the Netherlands royal 
navy , and unlike the USS Nautilus uses diesel electric, batteries, and 
AIP , has six torpedo tubes for 18 torpedoes ore 30 mines , a test depth
 of some 400 meters and probably the most advance radar and sonar in 
operational use by any submarine in the world.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(2) Vladimir Petrov was a member of the Soviet Union's clandestine 
services who was sent to the Netherlands East Indies to recruit spies 
and to keep watch on Soviet citizens, making sure that none of the 
Soviets abroad defected , ironically he decided that life in the 
Netherlands would be better and after coming in contact whit a royal 
Netherlands military intelligence service officer defected in return for
 supplying information regarding a Soviet spy ring operating out of the 
Soviet consulate located in the Batavia , capitol of the Netherlands 
East Indies.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(3) the T-25 Tjiger II , wile resembling the Tjiger I , has significant 
differences , which are , mounting a bore evacuated 105 mm main gun, 
instead of the Tjiger I , 90 mm gun , four crew members instead of the 
Tjiger I , vive crew members , improve diesel engine , a better shaped 
turret , improvements to the armor protection and shock absorbers , a 
stabilization system for the main gun and a thermal imaging system.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(4) the domino theory speech , made by president Dwight D. Eisenhower , 
is about the United Republic of China , and if the country falls to the 
Japanese empire , then surrounding countries will follow in a domino 
effect.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(5) the Fokker F27M royal flight , is modified version of the Fokker F27
 Friendship turboprop aircraft which entered service whit the royal 
Netherlands air force in 1952 , and is in service whit the royal 
Netherlands air force , royal Netherlands East Indies air force and the 
royal Netherlands naval aviation service, some versions of the F27 are ,
 F27-300M Troopship a military transport version and the F27 Maritime 
Enforcer a armed maritime reconnaissance version , the Fokker F27 
Friendship is also in service whit KLM and its daughter company KLM East
 Indies.
  </description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2012/11/1953-january-6th-greater-east-asia.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-728546075941180412</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-07T12:42:37.706+01:00</atom:updated><title>1953</title><description>&lt;strong&gt;1953&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;January 6th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
A greater east Asia alliance conference is held in Phnom Penh , kingdom 
of Cambodia , and is attended by all greater east Asia alliance nations.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;January 9th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
A Japanese ferryboat sinks off Pusan , Japanese Korea , killing 249 
people onboard after the ferry suffers a mysterious explosion and sinks 
as a result , it is latter determined to be a attack by the Korean 
liberation army which is backed unofficially by the Soviet Union.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;January 14th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The CIA-sponsored Robertson panel meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon in and around the United States.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;January 19th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
After four consecutive days of formal meetings , the Robertson panel 
write their report in which it states that 90 percent of UFO sightings 
can be identified as meteorological, astronomical, or natural 
phenomena’s, wile the remaining 10 percent of UFO reports can in all 
likelihood, be similarly explained with detailed study (1).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;January 31st&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
More then 307 people are killed in the in the United Kingdom after a 
storm tide coming from the North Sea damages 1,600 km of coastline , in 
the Netherlands despite the preparations of the Netherlands government ,
 more then 185 people are killed when the North Sea storm tide crashes 
in to the Netherlands flood defense system (2).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;February 3rd&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Construction of the first of four to build Van Speijk class frigates (3)
 for the royal Netherlands navy at the Amsterdamsche Droogdok 
Maatschappij begins.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;February 12th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Limit mining at the asteroid belt begins as KNRS ER-1 and KNRS ER-2 
using their tractor beams begin towing small asteroids towards Mars 
where the are to be processed , KNRS ER-3 which is much larger then KNRS
 ER-1 and 2 is not assigned to the mining as it is going to install a 
small unmanned communication and observation station at Pluto.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;February 20th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Orbiting the planet Pluto , KNRS ER-3 , beams for the first time space 
force members warring EV suits to the surface of Pluto , where the are 
to prepare a site for the deployment of the Pluto communication and 
observation station.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;February 22nd&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
After two days of hard work the Pluto communication and observation 
station has bin fully assembled and is activated , also rock samples 
have bin gathered who are sent to Moon base Eisinga (4).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;March 5th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Josef Stalin, Soviet leader , dies at age 73.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;April 1st&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Jan van Baal becomes governor-general of the Netherlands East Indies.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;April 17th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
At New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard orbiting Mars , construction 
of the first Wolf class scout vessel (5) for the royal Netherlands space
 force begins , whit the first of its class to be completed before 1955.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;May 3rd&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The royal Netherlands air force orders whit Fokker , ten preproduction 
D-24 tornado M.1 jet fighters to be used for testing , this brings the 
total of Fokker D-24 tornado M.1 jet fighters to twelve , all service 
whit the 130th evaluation squadron based at Woensdrecht air base , home 
to the royal Netherlands air force testing &amp;amp; training center.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;May 20th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The royal democratic party , becomes the largest party in the 
Netherlands house of representatives for the fifth time , and whit it 
Willem Drees can begin his second term as prime minister of the 
Netherlands.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;June 7th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The office of the royal Netherlands navy special operations in Den 
Helder which is the cover for the headquarters of the royal Netherlands 
space force is closed and move to a new secured complex inside the 
Netherlands space centre Guyana near the town of Kajana.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;July 5th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The European Economic Community holds its first assembly in Strasbourg, France.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;July 27th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The CIA disbands the flying arrows , ore officially known as the 2nd 
American Volunteer Group , who where part of the United Republic of 
China air force , after two years of training and assisting the United 
Republic of China air force , during its two year time the flying arrows
 had several encounters whit the Imperial Japanese army air service and 
the smaller republic of China-Nanking air force (6) , which all ended 
whit out a shot being fired.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Augustus 8th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
New Soviet prime minister Georgi Malenkov announces that the Soviet Union has a hydrogen bomb.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Augustus 29th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Soviet Union explodes its first hydrogen bomb&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;September 5th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The United Nations rejects the Soviet Union's suggestion to accept the second East Turkestan republic as a member.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;October 15th&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
After serving for more then 28 years , the Java class cruiser HNLMS Java
 (7) , who is deployed whit the royal Netherlands navy east Indies 
squadron as a training cruiser is decommissioned , white here role being
 taken over by the cruiser HNLMS De Ruyter.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;November 20th&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Construction of Utopia Planitia space yard begins above Mars , this 300 
meter long space yard is the second largest object which the royal 
Netherlands space force has constructed sins its foundation in 1935 , 
the Utopia Planitia space yard is also the first to be build whit 
materials produced of world.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(1) the Robertson panel report has nothing in its about anything related
 to the Netherlands as it has found no evidences that the Netherlands is
 involved in the UFO sightings , as the Robertson panel report focused 
most on sightings in and near the United States and not world wide.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(2) the Van Speijk class frigates are meant to replace four Admiralen 
class destroyers , and are heavily based on the future Van Speijk class 
frigates who where in service whit the royal Netherlands navy in a other
 timeline..&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(3) the Netherlands flood defense system was build using the information
 from the future , and consist of series of dams, sluices, locks, dikes,
 and storm surge barriers built between 1940 and 1950.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(4) Moon base Eisinga is a main research centre for the royal 
Netherlands space force , however more and more if its task are taken 
over by Mars base Hellas and Mars base Utopia Planitia , as the royal 
Netherlands space force is moving more of its of world base operations 
and functions to the two Mars bases , wile shirking Moon base Eisinga 
and New Amsterdam moon base.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(5) the Wolf Class scout vessel is 50 meter long , fly’s a maximum of 
warp six , is the first Netherlands build starships to have shields , 
has a crew of 14 of which only the captain and first officer have their 
own quarters , two phase banks and one torpedo bank carrying 24 Mark-1 
spatial torpedo’s , has transport and tractor beams all cramped in to a 
vessel which is designed to go very far, very fast and be able to defend
 it self.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(6) the republic of China-Nanking air force is the official air arm for 
the republic of China-Nanking which is the puppet country put in place 
by the Japanese empire in 1940.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(7) whit the decommission of HNLMS Java , only one Java class cruiser is
 in service whit the royal Netherlands navy and that is helicopter 
cruiser HNLMS Sumatra , who will be decommission as soon as the first of
 the two Celebes class cruisers is completed.</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2012/01/1953.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-4744961453449279306</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-26T12:00:58.913+01:00</atom:updated><title>1952</title><description>&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;1952&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;January 4th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Mars base Utopia Planitia is completed , the second Netherlands Mars 
which construction began in 1950 can house more then 200 royal 
Netherlands space force personal , and will act as the communications 
and support base for the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard and the 
yet to be build space station/yard.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;February 6th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Elizabeth II becomes queen upon the death of her father George VI. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;February 13th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Royal Netherlands space force flagship KNRS Amsterdam (1) , enters its 
18 year of service whit the royal Netherlands space force.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
February 18th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The republic of Turkey joins the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;February 26th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Prime minister Winston Churchill announces that the United Kingdom has 
its own atomic bomb , and that it will begin conducting test.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;March 8th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Koolhoven helikopter industrie , the Netherlands main helicopter builder
 and famous for building the KH-1 Kolibrie I and KH-2 Kolibrie II 
helicopters , is again denied permission by the Netherlands government 
to sell its helicopters to West Germany , France and Belgium , as the 
Netherlands government states that all Netherlands produced weapons , 
may only be used for the defense of the Netherlands and its colony’s 
(2). &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;March 22nd&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Wernher von Braun publishes a article entitled man will conquer space 
soon, which includes ideas for manned flights to Mars and the Moon.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;March 29th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
United States president Harry S. Truman announces that he will not seek reelection.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;April 15th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The United States air force flies the B-52 Stratofortress for the first time.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;April 30th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The republic of the Philippines joins the San Francisco Security Treaty.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
May 21st &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands opens the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;June 10th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Two CIA agents (3) are picked up by the royal Netherlands military 
intelligence service as the try to investigate gas-fuel power plant 
Dodewaard in the Netherlands , power plant Dodewaard which is the cover 
for one of the three fusion power plants in the Netherlands , has 
already got heavy security surrounding it , but as the two agents who 
are arrested are from a friendly country , its decided that the security
 must be increased to compensate for it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;July 21st&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A royal Netherlands space force class-5 probe suffers a malfunction and 
enters earth atmosphere , during its descent its spotted by several 
United states air force radars stations located on the East Coast  , in 
responds United States air force jets are scramble , but are unable to 
intercept the object , as the probe has already used its self-destruct ,
 in order to prevent it from falling in the wrong hands.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;October 1st&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The United Kingdom , conducts its first nuclear test , between the 
Montebello Islands, Western Australia , the blast is observed by one of 
the three remaining royal Netherlands space force class-5 probe orbiting
 earth.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;October 14th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Entering its first year in service whit the royal Netherlands space 
force , KNRS ER-3 , has conducted many test , including flying at warp 3
 and its maximum warp 4 , using it spatial torpedoes and its phasers 
against targets set up at the Amazonis Planitia test and weapons range 
and testing other systems its has onboard , whit these data the royal 
Netherlands space force has gathered , the can begin building upgraded 
versions of the KNRS ER-3 at New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
November 1st &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb at 
Johnston Atoll , 1400 km west of Hawaii , the hydrogen bomb exploding 
whit a yield of 10.4 megatons , is the largest explosion monitored by 
the a royal Netherlands space force class-5 probe to date by any of 
three nations who tested a atomic bomb.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;November 4th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Dwight Eisenhower is elected 34th US President.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;December 27th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Former general of the royal Netherlands army Henri G Winkelman (4) , dies at the age of 76.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(1)  the royal Netherlands space force has concluded that as long as 
there is no starship whit the capacity of KNRS Amsterdam , it despite it
 being 18 years old is to remain in service until more royal Netherlands
 space force starships of sufficient quality have entered in service 
whit the royal Netherlands space force.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(2) this none foreign weapons sale rule is also in force for the other major weapons manufactures like DAF and Fokker.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(3) the two CIA agents where interrogated by the royal Netherlands 
military intelligence service before the where escorted and sent on a 
plane back to the United States , it was found out true the 
interrogation that the CIA believes that the gas-fuel power plant 
Dodewaard is a cover for something but du the heavy security and the 
fact that nobody will speak about it who works there , the have bin 
unable to find out what is really going on at power plant Dodewaard.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(4) general Winkelman was the supreme commander of the royal Netherlands army from 1940 to 1945.</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2011/11/1952.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-4497006148500680407</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 19:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-04T20:58:50.822+01:00</atom:updated><title>Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline</title><description>&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;1951&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;January 9th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The new United Nations headquarters officially opens in New York City.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;January 27th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins by the United States.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;February 1st  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 500 (1) is passed in which is  written , that the political independence and territorial integrity of  the United Republic of China most be respected by the Japanese empire. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;March 20th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
After three years of assembling at New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space  yard , KNRS ER-3 (2) , the first warp 4 spaceship build by the  Netherlands , leaves the space yard on it on , beginning a long period  of testing its systems , many who have never bin put together in one  spaceship. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;April 7th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
United States performs a atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Atoll ,  1400 km west of Hawaii , the atmospheric nuclear test is observed by a  orbiting class-5 probe who send the pictures and date its has gathered  to the royal Netherlands space force headquarters in Den Helder as it is  programmed to do , this test is the fourth nuclear test a orbiting  class-5 probe has observed sins January of this year ,  and the first  atmospheric nuclear test conducted by the United States.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;April 18th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The Treaty of Paris is adopted, between France, West Germany, Italy ,  Belgium and Luxembourg , establishing the European Coal and Steel  Community.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;June 3rd &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Whit KNRS ER-3 , now in service whit the royal Netherlands space force ,  the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard , is towed by Maas-class  runabouts KNRS Maas and KNRS Moraine , using their tractor beams ,  to  its new orbit above Mars.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;June 5th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard after a two day slow journey ,  arrives at its new home , whit this the only large present of the royal  Netherlands space force near earth is at the Moon , whit moon base  Eisinga and moon base New Amsterdam , both who now house each more then  300 royal Netherlands space force personal.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;September 1st&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The United States, Canada ,Great Britain  , Australia and New Zealand  sign a mutual defense pact , called the San Francisco Security Treaty  (3)  , named after the city where it is signed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;September 20th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
NATO accepts Greece and Turkey as members.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;October 10th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
First flight of the Fokker D-24 tornado Jet fighter (4) happens from  RNLAF air force base Gilze-Rijen , the Fokker D-24 Jet fighter is the  second jet fighter build and designed by Fokker and is slated to replace  the meteoor jet fighter in service whit the royal Netherlands air force  and royal Netherlands East Indies air force.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;October 14th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
KNRS ER-3 orbiting above Mars begins test its torpedo bank , when it  fires a spatial torpedo (5) towards Amazonis Planitia , the official  test and weapons range of the royal Netherlands space force in the solar  system.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;October 26th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Winston Churchill is re-elected prime minister of the United Kingdom.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;December 17th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The Netherlands government announces that the all Netherlands communist  party members are forbidden to be civil servants , the Netherlands  government has however decided not to ban the Netherlands communist  party.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;December 20th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Wile in the state of Idaho,  United States , the world's first  experimental nuclear power plant opens , in the Netherlands , three  fusion power plants (6) , located in the towns of Dodewaard , Borssele  and Groningen already supply the Netherlands whit the majority of  electricity it needs.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(1) United Nations General Assembly Resolution 500 , is a clear signal  to the empire of Japan ,  that it has to respect the United Republic of  China independence and borders.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(2) KNRS ER-3 which construction and assembly began in November 1948 ,  is a warp 4 capable spaceship ,  equipped whit two phase banks and one  torpedo bank , as it is a classed by the royal Netherlands space force  as a Experimental spaceship , it will be mostly be used to test out the  many systems who in the future will be fitted to royal Netherlands space  force space ships.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(3) the San Francisco Security Treaty is a military alliance which binds  the United States, Canada , Great Britain  , Australia and New Zealand  in cooperating on defense matters in the Pacific Ocean area, wile also  stating that , the vive signatories recognize that a armed attack in the  Pacific area on any of them endangers the peace and safety of the  others.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(4) the Fokker D-24 tornado jet fighter is based heavily on the French Mirage III designs. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(5) the spatial torpedo of which KNRS ER-3 carries twelve , are smaller  then the photon torpedoes , KNRS Amsterdam uses , much lees powerful ,  but easer to build , and therefore KNRS ER-3 is equipped whit the  spatial torpedo instead of the photon torpedoes.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(6) the three fusion power plants are disguised as gas-fuel power plants  in order to prevent anybody to find out that the use nuclear fusion  instead.</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2011/11/kingdom-of-netherlands-alternate-star.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-1463293228136221745</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-20T23:03:08.104+02:00</atom:updated><title>Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline</title><description>&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;1950&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;January 6th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The United Kingdom recognizes the United Republic of China.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;January 31st &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
President Harry Truman orders the development of the hydrogen bomb, in  response to the detonation of the Soviet Union's first atomic bomb in  1949.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;January 20th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Netherlands Guyana and the Netherlands East Indies are granted more  autonomy in governing their self except in defense , foreign affairs and  citizenship which will remain the responsibility of the Netherlands.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;February 9th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Construction on Mars base Utopia Planitia by the royal Netherlands space force begins.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;February 11th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
2,000 Japanese and Vietnamese imperial army troops attack more then 150  Viet Minh soldiers lead by general Vo Nguyen Giap somewhere in the  empire of Vietnam,  the attack which last no longer then several hours  results in the death of all 150 Viet Minh soldiers , including general  Vo Nguyen Giap.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;February 21st&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Albert Einstein warns against proceeding to development the hydrogen  bomb and ask president Truman to halt the production of the atomic bomb ,  feeling that these weapons are to dangerous to be used.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;February 27th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
General Chiang Kai-shek is elected president of the United Republic of  China , whit Mao Zedong becoming prime minister of the United Republic  of China.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;March 2nd&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The city of Xining in the United Republic of China is officially made the capitol of the United Republic of China.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;March 8th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The Soviet Union announces that the have developed a atomic bomb , the most powerful city busting weapon ever develop.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;March 27th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The Netherlands recognizes the United Republic of China.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;April 8th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Rear admiral Doorman (1) retires as the head of the royal Netherlands  space force , his position is taken over by the newly promoted rear  admiral De Jong , former commander of KNRS Amsterdam.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;April 17th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A month before the second Soviet–Japanese neutrality pact is to end ,  the Soviet Union and the Japanese empire sign a new Soviet–Japanese  neutrality pact in Moscow (2).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;May 8th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The United Republic of China government asks the United States to train its army.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;May 11th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Rear admiral De Jong decides that the risk of discovery of New  Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard orbiting above the far side of the  Moon is becoming to great , and therefore has decided that when KNRS  ER-3 assembly is completed , the space yard will be towed to Mars as its  new location.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;June 27th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The United States sends 35 military advisers to the United Republic of  China in order to train the United Republic of China army.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;July 13th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The flagship of the royal Netherlands space force , KNRS Amsterdam under  the command of its new captain Jonan Andre (3) travels to the asteroid  belt for the second time where it will test and deploy several probes  ,  who are to study , observe and are going to mine the asteroid belt for  its resources.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;July 15th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
KNRS Amsterdam launches two class-5 probes who will continuo to observe  and study the asteroid belt , more then eight class-5 probes are now in  use either orbiting Earth , Mars ore now being used to study the  asteroid belt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;July 16th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A modified class-6 probe communication relay and radio beacon is  launched inside the asteroid belt by KNRS Amsterdam, the class-6 probe  who will send all the data that the probes have to gathered to Mars base  Hellas , will also acting as a communication relay for the probes  incase no spaceship is nearby to do that.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;July 18th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A Work Bee ( 4) launched from KNRS Amsterdam , using its dual remote  manipulator arms test if a Work Bee can be used to handle a M-type  asteroid which are rich in metal.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;July 20th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
After seven days spending in the asteroid belt , KNRS Amsterdam first  mission under captain Jonan Andre is over , returning back to Mars whit  enough data for the royal Netherlands space force to build a mining  station in the asteroid belt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;July 24th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;September 8th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A royal Netherlands Naval Aviation Service KH-2 Kolibrie II helicopter  operating out of naval air station Tandjong Priok on the island of Java ,  launches a Mark 8 torpedo for the first time against a dummy target  (5).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;September 26th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The United Republic of China is admitted to the United Nations.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;September 30th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
NSC-68 is enacted by president Truman , this report sets the stage for  United States foreign policy with the Soviet Union and preparations for a  possible war , in it, two suggestion for weakening the Soviet Union are  mention , which are strengthen its ties whit the Netherlands , and to  reestablish ties whit the empire of Japan. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;October 7th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A secret agreement is signed in the capitol of Tibet , Lhasa , between  the United Republic of China and Tibet , in which the United Republic of  China allows Tibet's de facto independence its has sins 1912 to  continuo , wile also guarantying that the United Republic of China would  assist Tibet if the empire of Japan would invade the nation.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;October 21st&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Construction of a helicopter cruiser begins at Wilton Fijenoord dockyard  in Schiedam , the cruiser which is to be the first of two Celebes class  cruisers to be build , is to replace helicopter cruiser HNLMS Java  which is now entering its 25th year in service whit the royal  Netherlands navy. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;November 4th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The United Nations ends the diplomatic isolation of Spain.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;November 8th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Two F-80 jet fighters belonging to the United States Air Force,  operating from Clark Air Base in the Philippines intercept a Imperial  Japanese Navy Air Service Nakajima G10N Fugaku bomber flying out of  Formosa , these intercepts which a are not unusual happen regular as  both the United States and the Japanese empire want to test each other.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;December 4th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Feeling that the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard , will not  stuffy for producing and assembling spaceships for the royal Netherlands  space force , the royal Netherlands space force plans to build a space  station which also can act as a space yard orbiting around Mars , the  space station which construction will begin when the New  Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard has arrived at Mars , is planned to  become the largest space born object build by the royal Netherlands  space force to date.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;December 29th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The CIA creates the flying arrows , consisting of former United States  Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps pilots and ground crew , who are to fly  as the 2nd  American Volunteer Group , part of the United Republic of  China air force.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(1) rear admiral Doorman had served as the head of the royal Netherlands space force sins 1935.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(2) the third Soviet–Japanese neutrality pact is different then the  previous two Soviet–Japanese neutrality pact as it includes all nations  in the Soviet and Japanese sphere of influence , the third treaty is  also new as it is to be renewed in ten years instead of vive years as  the pervious two where.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(3) captain Jonan Andre was together whit lieutenant commander A.B.  Ruben , to pilot KNRS ER-1 , the Netherlands first warp 1 spaceship ,  and because of this he was promoted to captain and given the command of  the KNRS Amsterdam.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(4) Work Bee are used by the royal Netherlands space force for work at  the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard , whit six build as to this  date , a work bee can be equipped with a variety of tools, including a  set of dual remote manipulator arms ore be used as tug for cargo modules  with the cargo-train attachment.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(5) the Mark 8 torpedo which is in service whit the royal Netherlands  navy is regarded as the most modern and deadliest torpedo in the world  and has replace the mark 7 torpedo pervious in service whit the royal  Netherlands navy.</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2011/10/kingdom-of-netherlands-alternate-star_20.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-7346435968703589482</guid><pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 11:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-10-09T13:12:03.233+02:00</atom:updated><title>Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline</title><description>&lt;b&gt;1949&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;January 1st &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
United nations sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistan war.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;February 28th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Whit KNRS ER-2 now operational , KNRS ER-1 receives its first major  upgrade (1) , in order to allow it to be used for assisting in the  construction and assembly of ER-3 and future Netherlands spaceships at  New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;April 4th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The North Atlantic Treaty is signed in Washington, D.C., creating the NATO defense alliance (2).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;May 11th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Siam officially changes its name to Thailand. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;May 12th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Soviet land blockade of Berlin ends.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;May 13th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
First British produced jet bomber, Canberra, makes its first test flight. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;May 14th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
President Truman signs a bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;May 27th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The last T-20 Tjiger tank to be delivered to the KNIL 3rd  tank  battalion is handed over to General Spoor  , commander of the royal  Netherlands east Indies army (3).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;May 19th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
For the fourth time , the people of the Netherlands make the royal  democratic party ,  the largest party in the cabinet , as promised prime  minister Smit , having bin prime minister for twelve years steps down  and gives the party leadership and the prime minister office to Willem  Drees , a member of the royal democratic party sins 1940 and a member of  the oversight commission sins 1945. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;May 23rd &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Federal republic of West Germany proclaimed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;May 27th &lt;/b&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Netherlands ministry of foreign affairs announces that will return  the German legation, consulate and other German properties in The Hauge ,  which the seized in 1945 , and hand them over to the Federal republic  of  Germany. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;June 26th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Mars base Hellas (4) is completed , the Mars base which is build mostly  underground can house more then 120  royal Netherlands space force  personal.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;July 20th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Israel's nineteen months of fighting for independence ends.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;July 28th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The Soviet Union successfully detonates their first atom bomb (5) , the  explosion is observed by a class-5 probe  orbiting earth , their first  major observation sins the have begun replacing the four class-1 probes  who are being retired and dismantled for study at Netherlands space  centre Guyana.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;October 1st &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The United Republic of China (6) is officially proclaimed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;October 7th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The Democratic Republic of Germany is established officially.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;October 14th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The United States recognizes the United Republic of China as a independent nation , the first nation to do so.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;October 16th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Civil war ends in Greece with a communist surrender.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;October 20th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The Soviet Union recognizes the United Republic of China , in return the  United Republic of China renounces , their claims on the second East  Turkestan republic (7).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;November 6th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Whit Mars base Hellas now operational ,work on a simpler Mars base can  begin by the royal Netherlands engineering corps , the location chosen  for the second Mars base is Utopia Planitia.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;November 20th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The Jewish population in the state of Israel reaches 1,000,000 , of them more then 14,000 are Dutch Jews.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;November 27th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Burma recognizes the United Republic of China.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;December 30th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
India recognizes the United Republic of China.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;December 31st&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
More then eighteen country’s recognizes the United Republic of China (8).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(1) the upgrades KNRS ER-1 will receive are a transported and tractor  beam , so that it can tow materials beamed up by the Netherlands space  centre Guyana ore other facilities used by the royal Netherlands space  force and bring it to New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard ore Moon  base Eisinga ore New Amsterdam moon base , KNRS ER-2 is also schedule to  receive the same upgrade when its conformed that the upgrades ER-1  received work whit out any problems.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(2) the KNIL 3rd  tank battalion is one of the three tank battalion in  service whit the royal Netherlands east Indies army , each tank  battalion has three company’s consisting of twelve T-10 panther tanks  and one company of twelve T-20 Tjiger tanks.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(3) the kingdom of the Netherlands is not a member of the NATO , and has  chosen not to become a member , as it believes that its strong enough  to defend its interest and independence whiteout being a member of any  origination ore alliance.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(4) Mars base Hellas is equipped whit all the facility’s needed to  function and is to date the largest Netherlands build base on Mars ore  the moon.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(5) the Netherlands had hope that  Soviet Union would not be interested  in developing their one atomic bomb , but whit the information the  Soviet Union having received from their spy’s in the United States , the  came to the conclusion that the needed their on atomic bomb to defend  them self against the United States.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(6) the United Republic of China is a republic made op of the Chinese  nationalist and Chinese communist who whit only the Chinese provinces of  Qinghai , Gansu ,Yunnan and part of the province of Sichuan under their   control , have decided to create a united republic , in the hopes that  the can be recognize by the United nation and form a strong front  against the Japanese empire who controls most of China.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(7) the Chinese nationalist and Chinese communist claimed the second  East Turkestan republic as Chinese territory ,which is made op the now  former Chinese Xinjiang province.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(8) the Japanese empire and its led greater east Asia alliance do not  recognize the United Republic of China ,  but the Japanese empire is now  forced to halt any military offensive near the border of the United  Republic of China for the moment.</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2011/10/kingdom-of-netherlands-alternate-star.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-8962440743871481116</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 11:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-25T13:04:23.145+02:00</atom:updated><title>Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline</title><description>&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;1948&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;January 14th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
KNRS ER-2 (1) is launched from Netherlands space centre Guyana.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;January 4th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Great Britain grants independence to Burma , the republic of Burma(2) is also a member of the commonwealth of nations.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;March 18th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
France, Great Britain, Belgium and Luxembourg sign the treaty of Brussels.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
April 19th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Burma joins the United Nations , it is the second country on mainland  Southeast Asia to join the United Nations and the second to be offer a  membership in the greater east Asia alliance but like Siam , is joining  the United Nations instead.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;May 14th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The declaration of Independence of Israel is made.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The United States grants Israel de facto recognition.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;May 15th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The British mandate of Palestine is officially terminated ,the same day ,  expeditionary forces from Egypt, Transjordan, Syria and Iraq enter  Israel and clash with Israeli forces.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Netherlands governments announces that the recognize Israel.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;May 27th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
In less then eight minutes and flying at warp 2.5,  KNRS ER-2 , makes the longest warp flight from Mars to Neptune.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;June 8th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
KNRS Amsterdam visit the asteroid belt for a four day survey mission ,  the goal of the survey  is to find out of exploration of the asteroid  belt (3) is economic feasible and worth it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;June 12th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
After a four day survey , KNRS Amsterdam leaves whit valuable data on  the asteroids , now knowing what materials are out there , the royal  Netherlands spaces force now can begin thinking of creating mining  installations there to extract those materials.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;June 24th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The Soviet Union cuts off all land and sea routes to West Berlin, in an attempt to pressure the Allies to evacuate. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;June 26th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
US denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin , the same day the US and British  pilots begin delivering food and supplies by airplane to West Berlin.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;July 3rd &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Four KH-2 Kolibrie II painted blue , begin flying for the royal  Netherlands air force as VIP choppers , the are the first of a batch of  20 ordered by the royal Netherlands air force.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;July 15th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
US President Harry Truman nominated for another term.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;July 20th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
President Truman issues the second peacetime military draft in the  United States, amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;September 4th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands decides after long period of having  toughed about it , not to abdicate , so that princes Juliana can  continuo raising here four daughters whit out the burden of being head  of state.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;October 8th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The first DAF build moon rovers are driven on the moon by personal of  Moon base Eisinga and New Amsterdam moon base , who each received one  rover , the rover allows the personal to explore the Moon beyond the  moon base as before the where limited to a hundred meters beyond the  moon base ore where forced to use the transporter to get to a location.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;November 4th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Netherlands space centre Guyana personal begins working on building the  ER-3 , the first warp 4 capable spaceship which is equipped whit two  phase banks and one torpedo launcher bank , is also the  first ER (4)  spaceship which assembly will be done at New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche  space yard , as the ER-3 is to big to be launched from Netherlands space  centre Guyana.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;December 28th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
US announces a study to launch an Earth satellite. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;December 29th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
US state department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(1) KNRS ER-2 was the backup for ER-1 in case something happened during  the test flights , but whit ER-1 having completed successfully both the  first warp 1 and warp 2 flight whit a Netherlands build spaceship , ER-2  can assist in testing together whit ER-1 , wile performing also other  useful duty’s.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(2) Burma joined the commonwealth of nations as a counter to the Japanese led greater east Asia alliance.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(3) the royal Netherlands spaces force is still depending on resources  from the Netherlands , Netherlands Guyana and the Netherlands east  Indies , the cost for operating the royal Netherlands space force is  also very high and the hope is that the survey of the asteroid belt ,  the royal Netherlands spaces force can determined if it is worth to mine  the asteroids in the asteroid belt.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(4) the ER-3 spaceship is the prototype for a yet to be build class  which will function as a patrol ship for use in the sol system.</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2011/09/kingdom-of-netherlands-alternate-star_25.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-7111191990308391651</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-15T18:57:23.874+02:00</atom:updated><title>Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline</title><description>&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="highlight"&gt;1947&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;January 1st &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The United States and Great Britain join their German zones of administration.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;January 8th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A storage facility used by the Artillery Inrichtingen in the Netherlands  city of Delft explodes , large quantity of AG-37 assault rifles , MG-37  machine guns , RW-1 rocket-propelled grenade launchers and ammunition  are destroyed  , eight workers at the storage facility die in the  explosion.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;February 1st &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Fokker aircraft corporation east Indies begins the production of the  D-23 Fokker meteoor M.1 jet fighter for the royal Netherlands East  Indies air force.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;February 7th  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Arabs and Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;February 10th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Netherlands broadcasting foundation is founded (1).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;February 12th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
One of the royal Netherlands space force class-1 probe orbiting earth , observes a meteor impact in Sikhote-Alin , Soviet Union.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;March 12th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
President Truman introduces the Truman-doctrine to fight communism.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;March 18th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The Chinese city of Chengdu in the province of Sichuan (2) , is captured  by the Japanese imperial army , the city was a major stronghold for the  Chinese nationalist.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;April 8th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Moon base Eisinga telescopes observe the largest sunspot sins the moon base became operational. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;April 15th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
From Hilversum in the Netherlands , radio Netherlands world radio begins broadcasting.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;May 7th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
General MacArthur retires as field marshal of the Philippine army , after having served in this function for almost ten years.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;May 11th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The first D-23 Fokker meteoor M.2 jet fighter enters in to service whit  the royal Netherlands air force , production of the D-23 Fokker meteoor  M.1 jet fighter is stopped in favor of the new model.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;June 24th  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A flying saucer is sighted over Mount Rainier, Washington, by pilot Ken Arnold (3).&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Augustus 14th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
India and Pakistan gain independence from Great Britain. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Augustus 19th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard is completed , orbiting above  the far side of the moon , whit its completion the royal Netherlands  space force can begin assembling , maintaining and building Netherlands  spaceships whiteout needing to rely on the royal Netherlands space force  flagship KNRS Amsterdam anymore.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;September 18th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The United States army air force, along with some components of the  United States navy's air arm, becomes the United States air force. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;September 28th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Whit New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard now in use , the royal  Netherlands space force class launched its first warp capable vessel ,  named KNRS ER-1 (4) from a launch bay located at Netherlands space  centre Guyana , after reaching orbit KNRS ER-1 , escorted by type-7  Shuttle pod KNRS Paramaribo flew using its impulse drive to New  Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard where it would be deployed out of  during the test flights.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;September 30th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Pakistan joins the United Nations. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
October 1st &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Rear admiral Doorman arrived at New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard ,  where he inspected KNRS ER-1 , and spoke to commander Jonan Andre and  lieutenant commander A.B. Ruben who where going to fly KNRS ER-1 , on  its first warp flight.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;October 3rd &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Whit type- 7 Shuttle pod KNRS Batavia behind it aching as a chase vessel  , KNRS ER-1 left New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard and then moon  orbit before activating its warp drive , reaching a top speed of warp 1 ,  KNRS ER-1 return to sublight when it reached Mars orbit where it was  greeted by royal Netherlands space force flagship KNRS Amsterdam.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;October 14th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
American test pilot , captain Chuck Yeager flies Bell X-1 faster than  the speed of sound , not knowing that the  royal Netherlands space force  , eleven days before had its own build spaceship , flying at warp  speed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;November 10th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
After two years of building , New Amsterdam moon base is completed ,  more then sixty royal Netherlands space force personal can live at New  Amsterdam moon base(5). &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;November 25th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
New Zealand ratifies the statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;November 29th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The United Nations votes for the partition of Palestine and the creation of an independent Jewish state.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;December 18th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The first prototype of Fokker S-11 Instructor , which is the new  training aircraft for the royal Netherlands air force fly’s from  Schiphol.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;December 20th &lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
After four successful warp one flights , KNRS ER-1 from the moon orbit  flew it fasted and longest run reaching a top speed of warp 2.1 before  dropping to sublight near Jupiter , KNRS Amsterdam who had arrived  earlier was waiting for KNRS ER-1 to bring here onboard , and then to  bring here back to the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard where KNRS  ER-1 operates out of.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(1) the Netherlands broadcasting foundation ore in Netherlands ,  Nederlandse omroep stitching , is a  government own broadcaster who  using the knowledge ,  have created the NOS as it is called for short to  be the main Netherlands news suppliers which the can control and have  supervision over in order to prevent secrets who have to remain secret  from coming out in the open.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(2) the Chinese province of Qinghai , Gansu ,Yunnan and part of the  province of Sichuan are still under control of free Chinese forces as  there are called in the international media.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(3) the flying saucer the pilot saw was in fact Maas-class runabout KNRS  Maas , who pilot was in the impression that no aircraft was in the area  , the pilot after returning to the Netherlands space centre Guyana was  given a reprimand by his commanding officer and a 30 days grounding.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(4) ER-1 is short for Experimentele Ruimteschip in Netherlands meaning  Experimental spaceship , the ER-1 is based on the NX-Alpha test vehicle  Earth Starfleet in a different future and timeline used  , the prototype  has a capacity for two crewmembers and a estimated tops speed of warp  3.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(5) New Amsterdam moon base is equipped whit all the facility’s needed  to function including its one transporter room , holodeck for the  training and amusement , a launch bay for a maximum of two shuttles of  the type 7 and 15 and a small hydroponic garden.</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2011/09/kingdom-of-netherlands-alternate-star_15.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-8685687895740655460</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 12:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-09-05T07:15:49.864+02:00</atom:updated><title>Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline</title><description>&lt;b&gt;1946&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;January 5th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The US  resumes diplomatic relationships with Siam , this is de result of the  United States seeing the greater east Asia alliance as threat has  decided to resume its diplomatic relation whit Siam which shares borders  whit two greater east Asia alliance members.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;January 10th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The first meeting of the United Nations is held in London.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The  United States army establishes first radar contact with the moon , the  New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard is not detected as it is positing  above the far side of the moon.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;January 14th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The  Netherlands government announces that all Germans airman hold in the  interment camp in the province of Friesland will be handed over to Great  Britain , the Netherlands red cross as a neutral party will transport  them to Great Britain by ship.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;January 17th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The UN security council members (1) hold its first session.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;March 2nd&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The  royal Netherlands East Indies army together whit the royal Netherlands  East Indies air force and the royal Netherlands navy east Indies  squadron begin a large scale military excise on the island of Java , the  goal of the military excise is the improved the communications between  the three services and to test out new military tactics and weapon  systems.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;March 6th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The provisional government  of the French republic calls for sanctions at the United Nations to be  placed on the empire of Vietnam, kingdom of Laos and the kingdom of  Cambodia and that all member nations , do not recognize their  independence.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;March 15th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
British premier Clement Attlee agrees with India's right to independence.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;March 16th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
First prototype of the KH-2 Kolibrie II helicopter fly’s in the Netherlands.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;March 22nd&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
On the island of Java the military excise ends after twenty days.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;April 1st&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Singapore becomes a crown colony.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;April 16th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Observed  by a orbiting royal Netherlands space force class-1 probe (2), the  United States , test the first V-2 rocket at the White Sands missile  range.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;May 17th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A month after the first  Soviet–Japanese neutrality pact ended , the Soviet Union and the  Japanese empire renew the Soviet–Japanese neutrality pact in a signing  ceremony in Tokyo , the second Soviet–Japanese neutrality pact will now  end in 1950.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;June 4th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
At moon base Eisinga ,  the royal Netherlands space force personal station there observe a large  solar prominence extending over 300,000 miles.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;June 15th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The Netherlands government decides not to join the United Nations , but instead to become a non-member observer.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;July 4th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The  Philippines gain independence from United States , under a agreement  the newly created United States army in the Philippine will remain in  the country to defend the Philippine islands and to train the Philippine  army.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;July 17th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The last flight of the  Fokker D-21 mono-wing fighter whit the royal Netherlands air force  happens , the only fighter planes still in use whit the royal  Netherlands air force are the Fokker G-1 fighter-cruiser (3) , Fokker  D-22 fighter and the new Fokker D-23 meteoor jet fighter , the royal  Netherlands East Indies air force still uses the Fokker D-21 in a limit  capacity.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;July 25th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The first underwater test  of atomic bomb happens at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific ocean , one of  the ships sunk in the test is the first United States aircraft carrier  USS Langley.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;September 2nd&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Interim government of India takes charge.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;September 9th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
During  a routine survey mission over Mars the , type-15 shuttlepod KNRS  Adriaen Block encounters a malfunction and is forced to make a hard  landing on the surface , the two royal Netherlands space force personal  onboard manage to beamed onboard the orbiting KNRS Amsterdam.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;September 12th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
After  KNRS Adriaen Block has bin towed onboard KNRS Amsterdam using its  tractor beam , its is determined that the hard landing on the surface  cause major damage to the shuttlepod , and because of this its is  decided to send it to Netherlands space centre Guyana for reverse  engineering instead of repairing it.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;September 20th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
KNRS Adriaen Block arrives at the Netherlands space centre Guyana , after being towed by Maas-class runabout KNRS Maas.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;October 1st&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Heinrich Himmler is found guilty on al four charges at the Nuremberg trails and sentence to death by hanging.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;October 16th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Nazi  war criminals convicted in the Nuremberg trials are executed by hanging  in a gymnasium in the Nuremberg palace of Justice premises.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The United Nations first meeting in New York is held.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;October 29th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The Allied control council of Germany issues a directive , in which the border between the Soviet and Western zones are closed.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;November 5th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
John F Kennedy , a veteran of the war in Europe is elected to the US house of representatives.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;November 8th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
A riot in the Vietnamese city of Haiphong brakes out.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;November 10th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
In  the empire of Vietnam , martial law is declared allowing the Vietnamese  imperial army and Japanese imperial army to use any means to quell down  the riots in and around the city of Haiphong.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;November 12h&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The  Japanese imperial navy cruiser Nachi begins a naval bombardment on the  Vietnamese city of Haiphong , killing over 3,000 Vietnamese civilians in  the afternoon , this Japanese show of force ends the riots as quickly  and deadly as it began.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;November 13th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Construction  of the Netherlands first Mars base which is located at Hellas planitia ,  is progressing as planned , the name for the base which has bin  approved by rear admiral Doorman , is to be Mars base Hellas , named  after the location the base is being build at.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;December 8th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The  United Nations recommends that member countries do not establish  diplomatic relations whit the empire of Vietnam, kingdom of Laos and the  kingdom of Cambodia , this comes short on the demands by the  provisional government of the French republic , who wanted sanctions to  be placed on them , and that they are not being recognize as independent  nations.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;December 16th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Siam joins the United Nations , after declining membership in the Japanese dominated greater east Asia alliance.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;December 19th&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Three  royal Netherlands air force squadrons are now equipped whit the Fokker  D-23 meteoor M.1 jet fighter , and one squadron whit the training  version of the Fokker D-23 meteoor T.1 jet fighter.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;b&gt;December 31st&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
President Truman delivers proclamation 2714 , which officially ends hostilities in world war II.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(1) the United States , United Kingdom , Soviet Union and the French republic are the only UN security council members.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(2) there are two modified class-1 probes orbiting the earth.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(3)  the Fokker G-1 fighter-cruiser of which more then 40 are still in  service operated whit the 323rd and 324th fighter squadron of the royal  Netherlands air force.</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2011/09/kingdom-of-netherlands-alternate-star.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-7898921922303533694</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-08-02T19:20:28.124+02:00</atom:updated><title>Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline</title><description>&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1945&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;January 9th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Twelve royal Netherlands space force personal now live and work at moon  base Eisinga , expansion of the moon base is under way to facilitate  more space force personal , construction of a second moon base is also  underway. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;January 17th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Fokker research and development begins working on the D-23 Fokker  meteoor M.2 jet fighter , the M.2 is major improvement over the M.1 ,  having a longer fuselage, greater fuel capacity and a standard ejection  seat. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Soviet forces liberate Warsaw, Poland. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;January 20th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
German forces in Hungary surrender to the Soviet army. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;February 4th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Belgium is now cleared of all German forces. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;February 26th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
After many visit to the surface of Mars , the royal Netherlands space  force stellar cartography department onboard KNRS Amsterdam , using data  gather during those walks , finds the write place for building the  first Mars base. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 9th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Japanese imperial army deployed in Indochina attack French positions in Indochina. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 10th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Under pressure of the Japanese empire , the empire of Vietnam, kingdom  of Laos and the kingdom of Cambodia declare their independence from  French. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 12th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The provisional government of the French republic, issues a statement  that the do not recognize the independence of the empire of Vietnam,  kingdom of Laos and Cambodia , and that a as the where part of the  French republic , French Indochina is their to govern. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 15th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
German V-2 rockets continue to hit England and Belgium , seven V-2  rockets have crashed onto Netherlands territory killing thirteen people  and wounding several dozens sins the Germans started launching them from  Germany. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 19th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
311th fighter squadron of the royal Netherlands air force receives its  D-23 Fokker meteoor M.1 jet fighters , the squadron which is the only  royal Netherlands air force fighter squadron based in Netherlands Guyana  , main job is guarding the airspace of Netherlands space centre Guyana. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 27th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Western Allies slow their advance and allow the Soviet army to take Berlin. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 28th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Argentina declares war on Germany, the last Western hemisphere country to do so. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 29th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Soviet army enters Austria , the Allies take Frankfurt. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 30th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Work on the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard orbiting the moon is  progressing on schedule , two shuttles operating out of moon base  Eisinga are assigned to assist in the construction. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 7th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Japanese admiral Toyoda , commander-in-chief of the combined fleet  orders the battleship Yamato and four carriers to being operations along  the coast of the Chinese province of Guangxi in order to show that not  all glory belongs to the imperial Japanese army. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 12th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies suddenly , vice president Harry S. Truman becomes president of the United States. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 15th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Japanese battleship Yamato , aircraft carriers Taihō , Hiyō , Junyō  and light air craft carrier Shōhō , and their escort begin bombing  missions against Chinese forces in the Chinese province of Guangxi. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 21st&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Soviet forces launch assaults on the German forces in and around the city of Berlin. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Construction on the second moon base begins by the royal Netherlands  engineering corps , the base is to be named New Amsterdam moon base. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 25th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
First contact between Soviet and American troops at the river Elbe, near Torgau in Germany. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 27th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Soviet army’s complete the encirclement of German forces in Berlin. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Hitler commit suicide inside the Führerbunker. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 28th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Benito Mussolini is captured by Italian Partisans and killed. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 30th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
US Strategic air forces in Europe and the British air ministry declare an end to strategic bombing in Europe. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 2nd&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The battle of Berlin ends when German general Helmuth Weidling,  commander of the Berlin defense area, unconditionally surrenders the  city of Berlin to Soviet General Vasily Chuikov. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
British field marshal Montgomery tells German general of the army,  admiral Hans von Friedeburg and three others to surrender  unconditionally all German forces in Helgoland, Schleswig-Holstein,  Denmark, and all other islands. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 3rd&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Rocket scientist Wernher von Braun and 120 members of his team surrender to US forces. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 4th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Near Hamburg, the unconditional surrender of one million troops in  German land, sea, and air forces in Denmark, and northern Germany facing  the Canadian 1st army and British 2nd army is arranged. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 5th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Denmark is liberated by Allied troops. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The Netherlands government decide to close the interment camp on the  island of Texel , and the interment camp in the province of Utrecht  where British and American airman where held , the interment camp in the  province of Friesland where Germans airman are hold is to remain open  as the Germans for now have place to return to. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 7th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Netherlands government announces that 100,000 refuges living in  refuge camps in the Netherlands provinces of North Brabant , Zeeland and  Limburg can leave to their home country’s of Germany ore Belgium when  the situation is stabile enough. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 8th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Washington, D.C., US President Harry Truman officially announces the  unconditional surrender of Germany , and whit it the second world war  officially ends. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 9th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Dr. Anton Mussert leader of the banded Netherlands national socialist  movement holds a wake for Adolf Hitler , the wake which is held in a  café in The Hauge is attended by 30 people. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Moscow radio announces Josef Stalin's proclamation of the unconditional surrender of Germany. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 10th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Netherlands ministry of foreign affairs announces that the kingdom  of the Netherlands has broken off diplomatic relations with Germany, and  taken over the German legation, consulate and other German properties  in The Hauge.&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
May 19th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Heinrich Himmler enters disguised as a German refuge the Netherlands  border , however he is detected by one of the 1000 small sensor placed  along the Netherlands-German border , a royal Netherlands army patrol  driving a DAF M.38 armored car at the Dutch side of the border picks up  the signal and moves to the location , Heinrich Himmler seeing the  vehicle and knowing he is now in the Netherlands surrenders to the crew  inside believing he is safe. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 20th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Royal Netherlands military intelligence service bring Heinrich Himmler  to a house used by the military intelligence service somewhere in the  Netherlands , where he is identified and latter question by the royal  Netherlands military intelligence service. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 22nd&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Chairman of the oversight commission Janssen and prime minister Smit  decide to keep Heinrich Himmler until the beginning of the Nuremberg  trails the now are soon to begin ,and question him until handing him  over to the British. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 27th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Prime minister Smit announces that he will step down as prime minister  in 1949 , this after his political party , the royal democratic party  becomes for the third time the largest party in the cabinet. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;June 5th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The European advisory committee announces the unconditional political  capitulation of Germany , control of the country is divided into four  occupation zones, whit the United States, Great Britain, France and the  Soviet Union controlling each one zone. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;June 8th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
During a patrol along the coast of Netherlands Borneo , the royal  Netherlands submarine HNLMS O-19 , becomes stuck after hitting a  sandbank. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;June 13th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyer HNLMS Bloys van Treslong and  Admiralen class destroyer HMNLS Witte de With (1) using their guns and  several Mark 7 torpedoes , destroy HNLMS O-19 , after attempts to pull  here of the sandbank failed. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July 16th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
To late to be used in the war against Germany , the United States tests  the first atomic bomb, at the Alamo-gordo airbase in New Mexico , the  blast is monitored by a orbiting class-1 probe who transmit the data to  the royal Netherlands space force headquarters in Den Helder , before  ending up on the desk of prime minister Smit. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July 30th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
First Belgium refugees , some having stayed in a refugee camp in the  Netherlands sins the German invasion of Belgium in 1940 set foot in  their country for the first time in vive years. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augustus 12th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
In the dessert of New Mexico , the United States test their second  atomic bomb , again the blast is picked up by a royal Netherlands space  force class-1 probe and send to Den Helder , where the date is analyzed. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 18th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Typhoon Makurazaki kills 3,746 people in Japan , Japanese imperial navy  and imperial army are mobilized to aid the people effected. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 20th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru demand that all British troops depart India. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;October 20th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The United Nations is founded. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 4th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Work on the Netherlands first Mars base begins , unlike the two moon  base which are build above ground , the Mars base will be build for the  most part underground. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 16th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
88 German scientists arrive in the United States to help in the production of rocket technology. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 20th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Nuremberg trials begin , the Netherlands government decides to hand  Heinrich Himmler over to the Americans and British for prosecution. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 26th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Heinrich Himmler is transported to the German border , by two  Netherlands military intelligence service agents who after a quick  conversation hand a unwilling Himmler over to two British secret  intelligence service agents , who later bring him to a location in  Germany for interrogation. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 4th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The United Nations charter is ratified by the United States senate,  becoming the third nation to join the new international organization. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 15th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Heinrich Himmler is transported by the British to Nuremberg where he will face trail. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 17th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Japanese empire , state of Manchuria , empire of Vietnam, kingdom of  Laos , kingdom of Cambodia , Mengjiang united autonomous government (2)  and the republic of China-Nanking(3) sign the charter for the creation  of the greater east Asia alliance (4). &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 21st&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
General Patton dies from injuries sustained in a car accident on December 9th. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(1) all eight Admiralen class destroyers are still in service whit the  royal Netherlands navy , and have bin modernized whit new weapons ,  sonar and radar systems , which are also used by the six Gerard  Callenburgh-class destroyer in service whit the royal Netherlands navy. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(2) the Mengjiang united autonomous government is a autonomous area in Inner Mongolia, operating under Japanese control. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(3) the republic of China-Nankingis the official Japanese backed rival  for the rightful government of the republic of China led by  generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(4) the greater east Asia alliance is the successor to the Japanese  greater east Asia co-prosperity sphere , the greater east Asia alliance  is controlled and dominated by the Japanese empire.&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2011/08/kingdom-of-netherlands-alternate-star.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-6018975820244213622</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 23:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-02T01:52:58.153+02:00</atom:updated><title>Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline</title><description>&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1944&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;January 4th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The 1st Ukrainian front belonging to the Soviet Union enters Poland.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;January 20th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The German siege of Leningrad is lifted. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;January 22nd&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
US and &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5"&gt;British troops&lt;/span&gt; land a force of 50,000 men at Anzio, Italy, south of Rome. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;February 7th &lt;/span&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;
KNRS Amsterdam leaves earth orbit for the first time sins it arrived in  1936 , its destination is Mars where it will for now on remain in orbit  as the royal Netherlands space force headquarters in Den Helder (1) fear  that the risk that the flagship is spotted is increasing and that whit  moon base Eisinga and New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard being build  , KNRS Amsterdam can begin exploring other planets whit the orbit of  Mars as its &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6"&gt;new home&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;February 11th &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
Whit KNRS Amsterdam now orbiting Mars , plans for its exploration are  being made , as the royal Netherlands space force has only visit Mars  whit its shuttles , it has never sent a person to the surface , now whit  KNRS Amsterdam orbiting Mars , this is about to change , but first the  royal Netherlands space force has to put a man on the surface of the  planet. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;February 15th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
Captain De Jong authorizes the stellar cartography department onboard  KNRS Amsterdam to begin searching for a landing site for the first royal  Netherlands space force person to walk on the surface of Mars. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 4th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9"&gt;The United States&lt;/span&gt; air force makes its first attack on the German capitol of Berlin. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 20th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Four royal Netherlands space force personal are beamed down towards Mars  surface wearing EV suits (2) , during the hour the are on the surface  the plant the Netherlands flag , put a small remote weather station and  bring back samples of mars soil back to the orbiting KNRS Amsterdam for  studying. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 3rd&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
A reconnaissance plane belonging to the British fleet air arm fly’s over  Kaafjord, northern Norway, where the sunken German battleship KMS  Tirpitz is , the reconnaissance plane conforms that the Germans are not  making any attempts to raise here.   &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 17th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Japanese imperial army launches a massive operation in the Chinese  provinces of Henan, Hubei , Guangxi and Hunan , more then 600,000 men  are involved in the largest land operation ever conducted by the  Japanese imperial army in china , facing them are 345,000 men belonging  to the Chinese national revolutionary army. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 18th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
American battleship USS California joins USS Arkansas in Northern  Ireland waters , preparing for here new role as shore bombardment ship  at the upcoming invasion of Normandy (3). &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 8th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Koolhoven helikopter industrie shows some high &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2"&gt;ranking&lt;/span&gt;  officers belonging to the royal Netherlands air force , royal  Netherlands naval aviation service and the royal Netherlands East Indies  air force, their first prototype of the KH-2 Kolibrie II helicopter  (4).  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;June 6th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The allies begin their invasion of Normandy ,France. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;June 12th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Germany launches the first V-1 flying bombs against Britain from launch  sites in occupied Belgium , as several of the V-1 launch sides are close  to the Netherlands province of  Zeeland , the &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8"&gt;air defense&lt;/span&gt; command Zeeland and the royal Netherlands air force present in Zeeland are put on high alert. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July 4th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
First two royal Netherlands space force personal arrive at moon base  Eisinga , whit this the base receive its first permanent occupants , the  base when fully complete , will be able to house twelve space force  personal. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July 20th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
A failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler is made. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July 21st &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The British Firestorm jet fighter enters into service whit the British royal air force (5). &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augustus 15th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Allies launch a second invasion of France , between Cannes and Toulon. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augustus 22nd &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
British fleet air arm torpedo bombers with escorting fighters , attack  the German battleship KMS Gneisenau which is laying in a dock in Kiel ,  where she was undergoing a replacement of here turrets , the attack  results in fires breaking out , which set off an explosion that destroys  most of here bow. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augustus 23rd&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
Romania breaks with Germany , surrenders to the Soviet Union and joins the Allies. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augustus 25th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Finland requests an armistice with the Soviet Union. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The French city of Paris is &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10"&gt;liberated&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augustus 26th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Romania declares war on Germany. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augustus 31st &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
A Mars rock is given to queen Wilhelmina for a her &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7"&gt;birthday&lt;/span&gt; , the rock is presented by commander of the royal Netherlands space force rear admiral Doorman. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 2nd &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Allied troops enter Belgium.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 9th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Bulgaria signs an armistice with the Allies.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 11th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Du heavy allied bombing the German V-2 rocket launch sites in occupied  Belgium , they Germans moved them forty miles inside Germany , this  cause problems for the Netherlands as now V-2 rockets will fly over the  country towards targets in England and allied control Antwerp , the air defense command headquarters in Den Haag putts all eleven provinces air defense  commands , to high alert whit radar stations Den Helder and  Nieuw-Milligen who have bin upgraded heavily sins the first came online  will track and report any V-2 rocket flying over the Netherlands and  report any over &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1"&gt;flight&lt;/span&gt; to the provinces air defense commands. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 19th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
Finland and the Soviet Union sign an armistice, ending the conflict between their countries. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;October 7th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Royal Netherlands air force 306th fighter squadron (6) becomes the first  jet operated fighter squadron , whit more then fourteen  D-23 Fokker  meteoor M.1 jet fighter , the previous aircraft the 306th fighter  squadron flew was the Fokker D-22 fighter.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 2nd&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
Canadian troops take &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4"&gt;Zeebrugge&lt;/span&gt; in Belgium , Belgium is now entirely liberated.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 6th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
President Roosevelt wins a fourth term , queen Wilhelmina and prime  minister Smit send a telegram the same day congratulating him whit his  fourth term in office. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 15th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
A German V-2 rocket crashed outside the Netherlands city of Amersfoort ,  this is the first time the royal Netherlands air force and royal  Netherlands army are able to study a real wreckage of a V-2 rocket  instead of studying it on the holodeck at the office of the royal  Netherlands navy special operations.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 28th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The first Allied convoy enters the port of Antwerp since its liberation  in September , the allies who are allowed to use Netherlands waters may  do it as long as the are not escorted by warships who have to remain  outside Netherlands territorial waters , the royal Netherlands navy s  who has guarantee a free passage of sea mines is doubling its patrol in  order to prevent the Germans from laying mines ore hampering the allied  convoys. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 7th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
At the Belgium city of liege a conference is held by general Dwight  Eisenhower who announces the decision for the main land effort into  Germany to be led by British field marshal Bernard Montgomery. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 15th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The battle of the Bulge begins as German forces attempt a breakthrough in the Ardennes region. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 20th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Japanese imperial army operation against the Chinese national  revolutionary army ends whit more then 76,000 Chinese being killed,  wounded or captured  , wile the Japanese imperial army loses only 17,000  killed ore wounded. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 31st &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Hungary, now led by a Soviet controlled government, declares war on Germany.  &lt;br /&gt;
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(1) the royal Netherlands space force headquarters in Den Helder is  still using the cover of the office of the royal Netherlands navy  special operations.  &lt;br /&gt;
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(2) the environmental suit is only worn by royal Netherlands space force  personal who have passed the holodeck course onboard KNRS Amsterdam. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(3) USS California and USS Arkansas are together whit USS Nevada and USS  Texas the four US navy battleships to take part in the invasion of  Normandy. &lt;br /&gt;
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(4) the KH-2 Kolibrie II helicopter is a enlarge version of the KH-1  Kolibrie of which more then twenty are in service whit the royal  Netherlands air force and eight whit the royal Netherlands naval  aviation service. &lt;br /&gt;
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(5) the Firestorm jet fighter was to have been named Meteor ,but to  avoid confusion with the royal Netherlands air force D-23 Fokker meteoor  jet fighter the name was changed to Firestorm. &lt;br /&gt;
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(6) the 306th fighter squadron is one of  fourteen fighter squadron the  royal Netherlands air force has , the others are the 311th , 312th ,  313th   314th , 315th  , 316th  , 322nd  , 323rd  , 324th , 325th ,  326th , 327th  and 328th  squadron.&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2011/07/kingdom-of-netherlands-alternate-star.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-3556777584213422464</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-23T18:21:51.355+02:00</atom:updated><title>Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline</title><description>&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1943 &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;January 9th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Soviet forces surrounding Stalingrad ask for the surrender of the German 6th Army.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;January 14th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
British prime minister Winston Churchill and American president Franklin  Roosevelt meet at Casablanca, Morocco where the agree on the  unconditional surrender of Germany. &lt;br /&gt;
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First D-23 Fokker meteoor T.1 jet fighter &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8"&gt;trainer&lt;/span&gt; version rolls of the production line , more then twelve have bin ordered by the royal Netherlands &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4"&gt;air force&lt;/span&gt; , more then 100 D-23 Fokker meteoor M.1 jet fighter have bin ordered whit production of both versions to begin in early 1944. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;January 27th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The first American pilots who where forced to land in the Netherlands  arrive at the interment camp on the island of Texel , like whit the  British the Americans are hold for four weeks before being allowed to  escape the interment camp. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;February 1st &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
A British Stirling bomber carrying a advance British designed radar  crashes on Netherlands soil after its crew where forced to choice to  crash in German occupied Belgium ore neutral Netherlands , after the  crew who died on impact where headed over to the British embassy , a  team belonging to the royal Netherlands air force using advance explosives destroyed the remains of the bomber. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;February 2nd &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The remainder of the German 6th army surrenders at Stalingrad &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;February 15th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
After having successfully protested to the Netherlands government  regarding the Netherlands building ships for German civil use , the  British government makes a similar protests to the Swedish government  regarding Sweden building boats for the Germans. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;February 25th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
HNLMS Soerabaia , a training ship for the royal Netherlands navy east Indies &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10"&gt;squadron&lt;/span&gt; is decommissioned , here role is taken over by the cruiser HNLMS Java. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 7th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Bolivia declares war on Germany and Italy.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 20th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Former admiral Isoroku Yamamoto , now a private citizen visit the &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5"&gt;island of Hawaii&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 25th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
From a friendly Japanese citizen living near &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9"&gt;Pearl harbor&lt;/span&gt;  naval base , Isoroku Yamamoto using a binocular can observe both the  carriers USS Enterprise and USS Hornet laying in the harbor. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 27th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Isoroku Yamamoto boards a plane heading back to Japan after spending a  week in Hawaii , heaving learned much about the US navy he comments to  the friend back home , in on small way I am glad that whey have not  awaken a sleeping giant by attacking it , as I surly believe our nation  would pay the ultimate &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1"&gt;price in&lt;/span&gt; doing so. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 9th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Japanese imperial army begins a massive operation in the &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6"&gt;Chinese&lt;/span&gt; province of Hunan.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 13th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
German &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7"&gt;Afrika Korps&lt;/span&gt; and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 17th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
After eight days the Japanese imperial army ends its massive operation  in the province of Hunan , more then 30,000 civilians are killed , the  American papers who write about it called it the Hunan massacre , but as  the war in Europe is bigger news the articles written about the Hunan  massacre only appear in the back pages of most news papers. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;June 15th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
German general Heinz Guderian tells Adolf Hitler that the new panzer V ( Puma ) * is not yet ready for battle. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July 10th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Watched by a orbiting KNRS Amsterdam , the allies launch operation Husky , and begin the invasion of Sicily. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July 25th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Netherlands space centre Guyana near the town of Kajana is founded , the  space centre which falls under the direct command of the royal  Netherlands space force is to become the main launch facility for the  royal Netherlands space force , the entire space centre is a closely  guarded secret and is guarded by the Netherlands army 2nd special forces  regiment who have orders to keep it that way. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy has prime minister Mussolini arrested,  and appoints marshal Pietro Badoglio as new prime minister. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augustus 23rd&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
The battle of Kursk ends with a serious strategic defeat for the German forces.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 7th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
KNIL 1st tank battalion receives the its first T-10 ( panther) tank ,  the T-10 of which 12 are to be fielded by the 1st tank company of the  1st tank battalion will join the American made M2 light tanks in &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3"&gt;service&lt;/span&gt; whit the battalion which is based on the island of Java. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 8th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
General Dwight Eisenhower announces the surrender of Italy on radio , a  hour later, Italian prime minister marshal Badoglio also announces the  surrender of Italy to the allies. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 22nd &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Carriers USS Yorktown, USS Lexington and USS Essex from the safely of  the Norwegian sea , launch a air strike against Kaafjord, northern  Norway, where the German battleship KMS Tirpitz is laying , in the air  strike more then 1,000 of Tirpitz crew of 1,700 die and the battleship  sinks to the bottom of the fjord. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;October 13th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;October 17th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
A small segment of the New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard is  completed in a factory somewhere in the Netherlands and beamed to orbit  by KNRS Amsterdam before the Maas-class runabout KNRS Marowijne using  its tractor beam brings it to moon orbit where it joins several other  small segments already assembled. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 19th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
In order to continuo updating their knowledge about the strength of the  American pacific fleet in Hawaii , a imperial Japanese submarine  launches a floatplane to survey Pearl Harbor , after having done a quick survey of the naval base and remaining undetected , it returns safely to its mother submarine. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 22nd&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
In Cairo , American president Roosevelt and Chinese president Chiang  Kai-shek meet, in their discussion , president Chiang Kai-shek request  more aid by the Americans in order to battle the Japanese forces in  china , however president Roosevelt tells that the Chinese have to hold on until Germany is defeated before more aid can be send to the Chinese. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 28th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
British prime minister Winston Churchill, American president Franklin  Roosevelt and Soviet premier Josef Stalin meet at Teheran, Iran , where  the discuses future European strategy, United Nations, Turkey, Italy,  China , Russian frontiers, Poland, and Germany's eastern frontier.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 4th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Bolivia declares war on Germany and here remaining allies in Europe. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 17th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Work on moon base Eisinga is progressing on schedule , the royal  Netherlands engineering corps who is building it , estimates that the  first permanent occupants can begin working and living in the moon base  in lees then a year. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 26th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
United States navy and the British royal navy warships sink the German  Bismarck-class battleship KMS Bismarck and two of here escorting  destroyers in the battle of the North Cape.  &lt;br /&gt;
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* the Puma tank is the OTL panther tank which is already in use by the  royal Netherlands army and therefore the Germans where forced to choice a  other name for their tank.&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2011/06/kingdom-of-netherlands-alternate-star_23.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-3464333157546566642</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 05:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-08T07:17:20.340+02:00</atom:updated><title>Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline</title><description>&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1942 &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;January 7th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The RW-1 rocket-propelled grenade launcher based on the Soviet RPG-2  is  introduced to regular service whit the Netherlands East Indies army ,  royal Netherlands army and royal Netherlands marine corps. &lt;br /&gt;
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Soviet forces launch counteroffensives along the whole German/Russian front.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;January 13th &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
By order of Adolf Hitler , German submarines begin attacking coastal  shipping on the east coast of the United States in order to prevent &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3"&gt;US flag&lt;/span&gt;  ships from transporting goods to Great Britain despite the risk of  creating a situation in which the United States will declare war against  Germany. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;January 21st &lt;/span&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;
German forces under the command of Rommel in North Africa strike back at British forces. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;January 23rd &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
HNLMS Sumatra the world first helicopter cruiser leaves dry dock after  spending 7 months of being worked on , the cruiser which carriers three  KH-1 Kolibrie helicopters belonging to the GHC 1 (1)&amp;nbsp; is scheduled to head  to the Netherlands West Indies where she will be based out of the naval  base Pareira near &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9"&gt;Willemstad&lt;/span&gt; on Curaçao and begin training in using here helicopters wile also patrolling the Netherlands Caribbean holdings. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;February 7th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
The royal Netherlands military intelligence service inform prime  minister Smit that the can not guarantee that a  plan in which the  Germans ore the United States are to declare war whit each other  whiteout drawing the Japanese empire into it ore the Netherlands can be  plausible ,and that the advise is to wait as the believe Germany will do  something that will drive the United States to declare war on them. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;February 11th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The German battle cruisers KMS Scharnhorst , KMS Gneisenau and KMS Prinz  Eugen rush out of Brest through the English channel towards the German  port of Wilhelmshaven , using information provided by the royal  Netherlands military intelligence service more then 417 fighters and 276  bombers belonging to the RAF and six destroyer escorts and 32 motor  torpedo boats belonging to the royal navy are waiting for them , in the  attack the battle cruisers KMS Scharnhorst is sunk whit the lose of  1,768 men wile KMS Prinz Eugen sinks whit 1,000 of its men , KMS  Gneisenau is severely damaged and forced to return to Brest for repairs ,  the RAF and royal navy lose only 1 destroyer and 42 aircraft. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;February 13th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
German admiral Erich Raeder proposes to Adolf Hitler that Germany's  primary military tasks is to capture of Egypt and drive through to the  Middle East, and for the army in the Soviet Union to capture Murmansk  and seize &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5"&gt;oil wells&lt;/span&gt; in the  Caucasus , he also suggest that war production should shift to  submarines and planes in order to keep the pressure on Great Britain. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;February 19th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The royal Netherlands East Indies army &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8"&gt;air force&lt;/span&gt; becomes independent from the royal Netherlands East Indies army and is renamed the royal Netherlands East Indies air force. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 1st &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Cruiser USS Houston arrives in the Netherlands naval base Soerabaja for a port visit. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 4th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Royal Netherlands engineering corps begins work on a small moon base on the moon named moon base Eisinga &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;(2)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 6th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Adolf Hitler denies orders for battleship KMS Tirpitz to leave the  Norwegian fjord it is in in order for here to intercept a British convoy  heading to the Soviet Union as he fears that the Tirpitz will end op  the same fate as  KMS Scharnhorst and KMS Prinz Eugen who where sunk in  the battle of English channel. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 17th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The first test &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1"&gt;flight&lt;/span&gt; of the D-23 Fokker meteoor M.1 jet fighter from RNLAF air force base Gilze-Rijen happens in the presences of  Fokker research and development head Antony Fokker. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 21st &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
True various methods a picture &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6"&gt;lands&lt;/span&gt;  on the desk of Adolf Hitler , on the picture which is a little bit  fuzzy a flying aircraft is pictured which the Abwehr note attached to  the picture describes as a Netherlands jet fighter , after seeing this  Hitler demands that the German jet fighter program is given more  resources as he dos not want a small neighbor country to have a jet  fighter before Germany has one in service. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 16th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
A United States flag ship leaves a harbor on the east coast carrying several hundred female nurses and doctors who have &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2"&gt;volunteer&lt;/span&gt; for service in British hospitals. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 24th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
A German wolf pack attack the convoy in which the passenger ship  carrying the nurses and doctors are in , despite knowing that the ship  is part of the convoy a torpedo fired by one of the German submarines  part of the wolf pack hits the ship and more then 300 passengers are  killed ,the ships which is put ablaze by the hit sinks a half hour  latter but not before US destroyers mange to pick up passengers from the  ship. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 25th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
American president Roosevelt makes a speech in congress declaring that  Germany attacked a ship of mercy , and that as of April 25th the United  States is now in war whit the German third Reich. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 26th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Having not decided what to do about the United States declaration of war  , Adolf Hitler issues orders for the German kriegsmarine to attack  American ships anywhere whit out limitations. &lt;br /&gt;
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Netherlands prime minister Smit receives word from the royal Netherlands  military intelligence service  , that the Netherlands where not behind  that sinking of the American passenger ship , nor had any knowledge that  this might happen. &lt;br /&gt;
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Japanese ambassador to Germany Oshima informs minister of foreign affair  Joachim von Ribbentrop that the empire of Japan will remain neutral in  the German conflict whit the United States and will not declare war  against the them. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 27th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Adolf Hitler decides to declare war on the United States of America. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 28th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
In the Reichstag in Germany, Adolf Hitler announces his declaration of war on the United States of America. &lt;br /&gt;
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Italy declares war on the United States of America , the same day the US Congress also declares war on Italy. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 30th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
Bulgaria and Hungary declare war on the United States of America. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 10th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
British prime minister Winston Churchill meets with American Chiefs of  Staff in Washington to discuses the strategy against Germany and the  possibility that the empire of Japan will side whit Germany.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;June 27th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Jungle operations &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4"&gt;training center&lt;/span&gt;  in Netherlands Suriname begins first training course for soldiers  belonging to the Netherlands East Indies army and royal Netherlands  marine corps. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;June 13th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
German submarines begin an assault on coastal shipping on the east coast of the United States. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July 5th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania. &lt;br /&gt;
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After some &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10"&gt;persuasion&lt;/span&gt; Adolf  Hitler allows German battleship KMS Tirpitz and accompanying ships to  attack a British convoy heading towards the Soviet port of Murmansk ,  only after some time it is learned that the convoy's escort ships left,  so KMS Tirpitz heads back , leaving the convoy's destruction for the  submarines and the Luftwaffe , this shows Hitler again that the future  in naval warfare lies not whit the surface ships but whit the submarine. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July 18th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using jet engines for the first time. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July 19th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
President Roosevelt signs executive order 9066 allowing the secretary of  war to exclude any persons from areas to provide security against  sabotage and espionage , these zones affect the Germans and Italians  living on the east coast and on the west coast. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July 22nd&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Mexico declares war on against Germany and Italy. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July 26th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Dutch bishops issue a public protest of mass deportation of Jews in Belgium and Germany. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augustus 4th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Second D-23 Fokker meteoor M.1 jet fighter rolls of the production line. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augustus 5th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Yamato &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7"&gt;class&lt;/span&gt; battleship Musashi is commissioned at Nagasaki , she and here sister-ship Yamato are the last of their class  to be commission as the Japanese imperial navy after the mysterious  destruction of their Pearl harbor attack fleet is focusing their  attention on rebuilding their carrier fleet and having lost prestige to  the Japanese imperial army are not receiving the funds to build new  battleships ore cruisers. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augustus 18th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
General Montgomery takes command of the British 8th army in Egypt.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augustus 22nd &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy , partly in response to  numerous riots by a populace angry at the sinking of Brazilian ships.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 6th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
In the Caribbean sea, north-west of Netherlands Antilles a German  submarine torpedoes and sinks a Canadian merchant ship , the survivors  are found using one of the KH-1 Kolibrie helicopters and are pick up by  helicopter cruiser HNLMS Sumatra. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;October 3rd &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
First successful launch of A4-rocket at Peenemünde, Germany , the rocket  flies 147 kilometers wide and reaches a height of 84.5 kilometers , the  entire fight of the A4-rocket is monitored by KNRS Amsterdam.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;October 5th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
257 British bombers attack Aachen in Germany but due to bad weather,  many bombs are dropped on nearby Lutterade in the Netherlands province  of Limburg killing 83 people , this is the largest bombing by mistake  either by the British ore Germans over neutral Netherlands sins the  start of the war in 1939.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;October 20th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Vice-admiral Janssen retires as chief of naval staff and minister of  navy , his position is taken over by admiral J.Th. Furstner  who will  become the new head of the royal Netherlands navy wile vice-admiral  Janssen  who is now a civilian will remain the chairman of the oversight  commission . &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 4th&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;
Whit work begun on a small moon base , two large shipbuilding company’s  receive permission from both the  oversight commission and the royal  Netherlands space force to construct a small space yard which will be  called New Fijenoord-Rotterdamsche space yard &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;(3)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt; , and will be build  around the orbit of the moon , the space yard  construction is slated to  begin in 1943. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 8th &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
Operation Torch begins as American and British forces land in Northern Africa. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 7th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Port visit of Tromp class cruisers HNLMS Jacob van Heemskerck and HNLMS De Ruyter to Pearl Harbor happens. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 30th  &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Royal Netherlands military intelligence service decided not to inform  their British counterpart of a incoming attack against a British convoy  by  German cruiser KMS Admiral Hipper and six destroyers in order to  prevent the British from asking to many questions in how the Netherlands  is able to get this information. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;(1)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;GHC is short for Groep helicopters which is equivalent to a squadron ,  GHC 1 is based out of naval air base De Kooy south of the city of Den  Helder. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;(2) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;The moon base is named after Netherlands astronomer Eise Jeltes Eisinga. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;(2) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;The two large shipbuilding company’s are Wilton-Fijenoord and the Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij.&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2011/06/kingdom-of-netherlands-alternate-star_08.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-9041418943302158403</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-06-02T16:17:58.098+02:00</atom:updated><title>Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline</title><description>&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1941 &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;January 19th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Koolhoven helikopter industrie and the royal Netherlands air force  finalize a agreement in which the royal Netherlands air force will buy  36 KH-1 Kolibrie helicopters who can be used for search and rescue ,  reconnaissance , transport and communications missions. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;January 24th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The royal Netherlands naval aviation service becomes the second operator  of the KH-1 Kolibrie helicopter , as it orders 20 of them , with most  of them to be deployed out of the nester lands east Indies , whit the  large orders Koolhoven helikopter industrie is already working on the  KH-2 Kolibrie II who is a enlarge version of the KH-1 Kolibrie. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;February 2nd &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Commanding officer of naval base Soerabaja captain Pieter Koenraad is  promoted to rear admiral and placed in in charge of the royal  Netherlands navy east Indies squadron whit his superior being vice  admiral Helfrich. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;February 7th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Third interment camp on the Netherlands island of Texel begins receiving  British air crews forced to land their bombers ore fighters in the  Netherlands , under a secret agreement between the Netherlands and &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5"&gt;Great Britain&lt;/span&gt;  the air crews are to be hold for four weeks before being allowed to  escape the interment camp , the other interment camp in the province of  Utrecht is to become a transition camp to the Texel interment camp , the  Germans who are being held in a interment camp in the province of  Friesland don’t have the luxury of escaping as the are closely guarded  by the royal Netherlands army despite numerous protest from Germany for  their release. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;February 15th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Germans begins &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3"&gt;planning&lt;/span&gt; a take-over of Switzerland, Sweden and the Netherlands when the war against the soviet Union is over. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 4th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Radar station Tjilatjap comes online and whit it is the second radar station in the Netherlands East Indies. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 18th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
In Berlin a meeting between Adolf Hitler and the Japanese ambassador  baron Hiroshi Ōshima is held in which Adolf Hitler warns the Japanese  ambassador that the empire of Japan is not to attack the Netherlands  east Indies as the Germans have intelligences that the Netherlands are  stronger than the appear and is one of the reasons why Germany did not  invade the kingdom , he also warns that Germany will not declare war  against the Netherlands if Japan attacks the Netherlands east Indies. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 6th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
German forces invade Greece. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 13th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
Japan and the Soviet Union sign a five-year non-aggression pact. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 15th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The third Dolfijn-class submarine HNMS Tijgerhaai is commissioned and  will join here two sister submarines in the Netherlands east Indies  where the are part of the elite 1st submarine division.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 17th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Yugoslavia surrenders. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 24th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Adolf Hitler meets whit Japanese foreign minister Yosuke Matsuoka where  he tells that Germany will fight whit the empire against the United  States if a conflict between Japan and United States will happen but not  against the Netherlands , to prove that the Netherlands are stronger  ten the appears he shows the Japanese foreign minister several &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9"&gt;pictures&lt;/span&gt; taken by German agents operating in the Netherlands , the pictures show a strange aircraft floating a couple of meters above ground whit the name KNRS Huygens. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 27th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Greece surrenders. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 10th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
During a &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1"&gt;patrol&lt;/span&gt; by the royal  Netherlands marechaussee a large group of Germans are detected by one of  a 1000 small sensor placed along the Netherlands-German border , these  Germans are refugees who are sent across the border by the SS in order  get ride of them wile not having go the trouble of killing them , after  the royal Netherlands marechaussee patrol has conformed that these  Germans are seeking refuge and are not Germans spies the are escorted to  refuge camps located in the Friesland and Groningen provinces. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 12th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
HNLMS Sumatra arrives in Den Helder for a major refit into becoming the  fist helicopter cruiser in the world , the refit includes modernizing  her engines , removing her after turrets , increasing her AA and  modernizing her sensor , the refit when complete will allow here to  deploy three KH-1 Kolibrie helicopters. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 17th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Fourth Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyer HNLMS Philips van Almonde is  commissioned , whit this only two more Gerard Callenburgh-class  destroyer are to be finished. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 19th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
A member belonging to the oversight commission gives the British naval  attaché in Netherlands a warning that the Germans are going to launch a  invasion of Create in the next 24 hours. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 20th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
German paratroopers land on Crete , but despite the warning given by the  Netherlands the Germans still manage to surprise the British ,  Commonwealth and Greek forces on the island. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 24th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
After four days of battling the battle for Grete despite the warning of  the oversight commission to the British is turning to become another  victory for the Germans. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;June 4th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Former Kaiser Wilhelm dies in his &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2"&gt;home in&lt;/span&gt;  Apeldoorn at age 82 , he will be buried in a small ceremony which will  also be attend by the German ambassador to the Netherlands. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;June 22nd &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Germany launches operation Barbarossa invading the Soviet Union along an 1100-mile front, with three million soldiers. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July 2nd &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
An Imperial conference is held in Japan where its leaders decide to try  to settle the conflict in China, advance into southern regions, and  prepare for war with the Netherlands , United kingdom and the United  States if diplomacy fails. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July 29th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Great Britain, the United States, and the Netherlands freeze all  Japanese assets and halt most trade , the Netherlands who knows what  will happen agreed to the freeze in support of the United States and Great Britain. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augustus 1st&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
A day after the United States began its oil embargo of Japan , the Netherlands government orders &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10"&gt;all trade&lt;/span&gt; to stop whit Japan. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augustus 19th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Escorted by the destroyer HNLMS Philips van Almonde a transport ship carrying 25 DAF M.38 armored utility &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8"&gt;car&lt;/span&gt; leaves the port of Rotterdam for the Netherlands east Indies , all of the 25 DAF M.38 armored utility &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7"&gt;cars&lt;/span&gt;  are to be divided between the 1st and 2nd cavalry regiments of the  royal Netherlands East Indies army , the KNIL also has the 1st armored car battalion and is creating the 1st light armored regiment which will use modified American M2 light tanks. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 14th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The royal Netherlands army receives it first tank as the 1st regiment  Huzaren begins operating the T-10 panther , the tank which is produced  by DAF is based on the US designed Sherman tank , whit this the royal  Netherlands army who sins 1936 has relied on wheedled vehicles now has  for the first time a tank in its inventory. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;October 12th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
HNLMS Bloys van Treslong , the fifth Gerard Callenburgh-class destroyer is commissioned. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;October 15th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Fokker aircraft corporation east Indies halts the production of Fokker  D-21 in favor of the more modern D-22 fighter , more then 96 Fokker D-21  have bin build by Fokker aircraft corporation east Indies ore delivered  by Fokker Netherlands sins 1938 , of the D-22 fighter more then 17 have  bin produced sins 1940 by Fokker aircraft corporation east Indies and  more then 33 who have bin delivered by Fokker Netherlands sins 1939. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 3rd&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Admiral Yamamoto’s plan to attack &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4"&gt;Pearl&lt;/span&gt; Harbor is approved. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 7th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Paramaribo radar station comes online in the Netherlands Suriname, the  Paramaribo transport station is almost ready to become operational and  whit it the Netherlands have transport stations at all three major  location the posses. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 26th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
A fleet of 6 aircraft carriers and 33 warships and auxiliary commanded by Japanese vice admiral Nagumo leaves Hitokapu Bay for Pearl Harbor under strict radio silence , however the are not aware that KNRS Amsterdam is following it. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 28th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Dutch government begins taking &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6"&gt;masseurs&lt;/span&gt; after the where informed that the Japanese attack fleet had left port and where heading towards Pearl Harbor. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 29th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Netherlands declare a state of siege to be in effect for all eleven  provinces of the Netherlands , the Netherlands East Indies also declare a  state of siege true out the colony. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 30th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
All leave for the soldiers and officers belonging to the Netherlands  marine special operations battalion , royal army 2nd special forces  regiment , royal Netherlands East Indies army and all royal Netherlands  marines battalions present in the Netherlands East Indies is canceled ,  the royal Netherlands armed forces also begins cancelling all leave for  its soldiers and officers belonging to the royal Netherlands army , navy  and air force present in the Netherlands. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 1st &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
A colonel belonging to the royal Netherlands military intelligence  service informs prime minister Smit (1) that the Japanese Pearl harbor  attack fleet is still heading towards its target, whit this in mind  prime minister Smit and vice admiral Janssen decide that the Netherlands  most destroy the Japanese Pearl harbor attack fleet before the have the  change to attack Pearl Harbor in the hopes that the empire if Japan  will not go to war whit the United States and drag the Netherlands into a  war which could result in Germany declaring war against them and invade  the Netherlands mainland. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 2nd &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The first shipment of 50 M2 light tanks arrive in the port of Soerabaja ,  all of them are to be upgraded by the Bandoeng arsenal before the are  to be handed over to the KNIL 1st light armored regiment. &lt;br /&gt;
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The last radar station in the Netherlands East Indies comes online , the  radar station which is based in Batavia is like the other two in used  build on the island of Java but whit the technology used and the support  of a orbiting KNRS Amsterdam allows it to monitor the entire  Netherlands East Indies &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 3rd&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
KNRS Amsterdam begins targeting the Japanese Pearl harbor attack fleet  whit its targeting sensor , meanwhile on the forward torpedo bay located  on deck 25 crews begin modifying a photon torpedo to be fired for the  first time in the history of the royal Netherlands space force. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 4th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
As ordered by the prime minister the KNRS Amsterdam fires its special  modified photon torpedo in the middle of the Japanese Pearl harbor  attack fleet sinking the Japanese carriers Akagi , Kaga , Sōryū , Hiryū ,  Shōkaku and Zuikaku , the battleships  Hiei and Kirishima and the  cruisers Tone and Chikuma thereby destroying a large part of Japanese  Pearl harbor attack fleet. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 5th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The sixth Gerard Callenburgh-destroyer HNLMS Steven van der Hagen is commissioned in the royal Netherlands navy. &lt;br /&gt;
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The Japanese imperial navy is informed true radio from the light cruiser  Abukuma who was part of the Pearl harbor attack fleet that the six  carriers and many other warships have bin sunk by a unknown event. &lt;br /&gt;
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Admiral Yamamoto after he is informed oft the news concerning the  destruction of the Pearl harbor attack fleet meets whit prime minister  Tōjō who tells him that all actions against the United States ,  Netherlands and great Britain are to going to be canalled. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 6th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
Ordered by prime minister Tōjō the Japanese imperial general  headquarters cancels al planned operations against the United States ,  Great Britain and the Netherlands which where to begin on December 7th. &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Prime minister Smit congratulates captain De Jong commander of KNRS  Amsterdam for the destruction of the Japanese Pearl harbor attack fleet  and whit it preventing the Netherlands from being dragged into a war. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 9th&lt;/span&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;
Royal Netherlands military intelligence service monitors that all across  the Pacific various Imperial warships and transport are heading to the  nearest Japanese Imperial naval bases wile also monitoring that the  Japanese imperial navy base at Truk Lagoon has issued a massive  communication black for the entire lagoon as surviving ships belonging  to the Pearl harbor attack fleet and survivors the picked up are enter  the naval base. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 10th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Soviet Union launches a large scale offensive along the eastern front against Germany.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 13th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Whit the T-10 panther tank roiling out of DAF factory near the city of  Eindhoven , work on a new tank called the T-20 Tjiger (3) is almost  completed , it is hoped that the T-20 Tjiger tank will become the newest  tank in the royal Netherlands army and if all goes as planed will enter  in service whit the royal Netherlands army in late 1942 , the T-10  panther tank is slatted to remain in production both for the royal  Netherlands army and the royal Netherlands East Indies army. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 14th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Japanese ambassador to Germany Oshima tells Adolf Hitler about the  destruction of the Pearl harbor attack fleet and the decision of the  Japanese government in not declaring war against the United States ,  Great Britain and the Netherlands after the decisions to called all  operations against them. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 15th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The state of siege is lifted in eight of the eleven provinces of the  Netherlands , also the  yellow alert onboard KNRS Amsterdam and the land  bases belonging to the royal Netherlands space force are lifted. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 17th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
HNLMS Eendracht is commissioned as the last of the Tromp class cruiser  which is to enter service whit the royal Netherlands navy , whit this a  total of four state of the art Tromp class cruiser are in service whit  the royal Netherlands navy. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 18th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The royal Netherlands space force conducts a second moon walk which last  a entire day on this day ,  plans to build a small moon base already in  the last stages and which if all goes as planed will begin work on by  the royal Netherlands engineering corps (4) in early 1942. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 19th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Second shipment of 50 M2 light tanks arrive in the port of Soerabaja ,  like the first 50 M2 light tanks who are now divided between the 1st and  2nd  light armored battalions of the KNIL 1st light armored regiment  all of them are to be upgraded by the Bandoeng arsenal before the are  handing over. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 20th  &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The fourth Dolfijn-class submarine HNMS Zwaardvis is commission into the  royal Netherlands navy and will join its sister ships in patrolling the  waters near the Netherlands East Indies.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 24th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Prime minister Smit orders the royal Netherlands military intelligence  service to create and execute a plan in which the Germans ore the United  States are to declare war whit each other whiteout drawing the Japanese  empire into it ore the Netherlands. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 27th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Admiral Yamamoto commander of the Japanese imperial navy resigns his  function under pressure of the imperial government who blame him for the  lose of the Pearl harbor attack fleet even if the know that he was the  one to blame for the lose but du him being the master mind of the attack  is being made the person to take the fall for it. &lt;br /&gt;
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(1) prime minister Smit is a member of the royal democratic party ore in  Dutch koninklijke democratische partij ( KDP ) which is the largest  party sins 1936 and is unofficially supported and backed by the powerful  oversight commission. &lt;br /&gt;
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(2)  the Mark 7 torpedo is based on the yet to be design German acoustic  torpedo and entered in service whit the Netherlands submarine force in  1939 after years of testing. &lt;br /&gt;
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(3)  the T-20 Tjiger is based on the American M47 Patton tank. &lt;br /&gt;
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(4) the royal Netherlands engineering corps is made op of the 1st , 2nd ,  3rd and 4th engineer regiments of the royal Netherlands army , the  special forces engineer company belonging to the two royal army special  forces regiments and the 1st and 2nd engineer battalions belonging to  the royal Netherlands East Indies army.&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2011/06/kingdom-of-netherlands-alternate-star.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-836595734765936566</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 19:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-25T21:25:04.419+02:00</atom:updated><title>Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline</title><description>&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1940&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;January 9th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The third battalion belonging to the 2nd special forces regiment became  the first special forces battalion to begin its jungle training in the  jungle operations &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD7"&gt;training center&lt;/span&gt;  in Netherlands Suriname , while many soldiers of the two army special  forces regiments and marines special operations battalion have already  expired training onboard RNSS Amsterdam holodecks the have not had the  change to have a real jungle training. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;January 10th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
Antony Fokker became the head of Fokker research and development located  near Schiphol airport near Amsterdam where he was to supervise several  projects that Fokker R&amp;amp;D where working on like the D-23 ore also  known as the Fokker meteoor a jet fighter based on a British design and  the Fokker F27 transport plane based on it modern version. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;February 12th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The first royal Netherlands East Indies army &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD10"&gt;armored car&lt;/span&gt; battalion received its last M.35 armored car , the armored car battalion consist of four armored car platoons consisting of thirteen M.35 each , the KNIL also has begun receiving the DAF M.38 armored car of which 24 have already bin delivered. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 6th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Hitler approved &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3"&gt;the new plan&lt;/span&gt; for  the invasion of west Europe during a military conference in Berlin , the  plan put forward by Gerd von Rundstedt called for a invasion of Belgium  , Luxemburg and France whit the decisive thrust to be mounted through  the Ardennes , Adolf Hitler also agreed to Gerd von Rundstedt plan that  invading the Netherlands is considered unwise as numerous SD and Gestapo  reports indicate that the kingdom of the Netherlands has a larger and  better trained armed forces then toughed and that the rumors of strange  and mysteries weapons being in the possessions of the Netherlands have  convince Hitler that the Netherlands is not to be invaded for the time  being. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 19th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
The Netherlands declare a state of siege to extend true out the Netherlands. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 9th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
Germany invaded Denmark and Norway.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 5th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The royal Netherlands armed forces cancelled all leave for soldiers and  officers belonging to the royal Netherlands army , navy and &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD5"&gt;air force&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 6th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The royal Netherlands air force commissioned 24 D-21 fighters offered by the royal Netherlands East Indies army air force , the D-21 who where ready to be sent to the Netherlands East Indies for use by the royal Netherlands East Indies army air force are now for the period leased by the royal Netherlands air force , the royal Netherlands air force  also accepted the pilots needed to fly them , the KNIL-ML pilots where  after being told about the Royal Dutch East Indies army Bandung  transport station and the signing of a agreement that none would tell  anything about what the saw ore heard where beamed to Den Helder and  became for the time being part of the royal Netherlands air force.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 9th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
Rear admiral Doorman commander of the royal Netherlands space force ordered yellow &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD8"&gt;alert&lt;/span&gt; to be in effect for RNSS Amsterdam for the first time sins the creation of the royal Netherlands space force. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 10th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
The Germans began their invasion of the Belgium and Luxemburg. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 11th&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg surrendered. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 12th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
German panzer columns pushed out from the Ardennes , heavy uses of German paratroopers reported across Belgium. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 13th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The third Gerard Callenburgh destroyer HNLMS Isaac Sweers is commissioned. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 14th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The commander of the royal Netherlands air force reports to the  commander in chief of the royal Netherlands armed forces that the Fokker  D-21 , D-22 and Fokker G-1 fighters in the first days of the German  invasion have intercepted Luftwaffe fighters , bombers and transport  more then 100 times , the commander also reports that of all  interceptions the D-22 was the superior.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 15th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The yellow alert onboard RNSS Amsterdam is lifted by order of its  captain De Jong and his superior rear admiral Doorman as no German  invasion had happen and all indicates showed that the Germans where not  planning to invade the Netherlands.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 16th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Dutch government bans the national socialist movement who had hoped  that the Germans would invaded as the felt prosecuted for more then six  years , the party who sins 1934 had a membership of no more then 400 is  considered a outcast in Dutch politics. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 17th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The royal Netherlands army began allowing its divisions to give leave to  its soldiers in small numbers , its also announces that the state of  siege is lifted except the province of Limburg , Brabant and Zeeland  where large numbers of Belgium refuges have escaped to. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;May 28th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The kingdom of Belgium surrenders to the Germans.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;June 9th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën the third Tromp class cruisers is commissioned. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;June 10th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The kingdom of Italy declared war on France and the United Kingdom , also that day the kingdom of Norway surrendered to Germany. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;June 25th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The French republic surrendered to Germany. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;June 29th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
The Netherlands government announced that it would establish full  diplomatic relations with the Vichy government and free French. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July 2nd &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Netherlands now surrounded by Germany on two sides and to give the  4,000 personal of the royal Netherlands space force something to  celebrate its commander rear admiral Doorman announced that he would  give permission for a landing on the Moon and a visit to Mars to take  place before the end of 1940. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July 7th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The government of Germany asked the Netherlands , United States of  America and other neutrals to withdraw diplomatic missions from Belgium  and Luxembourg.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July 9th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Dutch government decided to aid the British in the battle of Britain  whit limit information from the Den Helder and Nieuw-Milligen radar  stations , its also decided that the Dutch government should give any  prosecuted person escaping Germany ore occupied country’s the Dutch  citizenship if the want it. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July 10th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Luftwaffe from airbases in occupied Belgium and France began raids on channel shipping. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;July 11th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The RAF conducted raids on enemy emplacements in Belgium and German  munitions factories , several British bombers are forced to land when  the stray in Netherlands airspace and their pilots are brought to a  interment camp in the province of Utrecht wile Luftwaffe pilots who  either are forced to land in the Netherlands ore are forced to land by  fighters of the royal Netherlands air force are brought to a interment camp in the province of Friesland. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augustus 4th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
More then 4,000 people , dozen members of the oversight &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD6"&gt;commission&lt;/span&gt; and Dutch government watched as the type-7 shuttlepod  &lt;br /&gt;
RNSS &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD4"&gt;Batavia&lt;/span&gt; landed on the Moon surface , whit one crewmember remaining onboard the other warring a extravehicular suit and holding a &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1"&gt;Dutch flag&lt;/span&gt; was beamed outside the shuttlepod ,after having planted the &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD9"&gt;flag&lt;/span&gt; the first Dutch person to walk on the moon gathered some moon rocks before being beamed back inside RNSS Batavia  , the event had lasted no longer then one hour but was considered a  great boost to all personal serving in the royal Netherlands space  force.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augustus 14th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Dutch east Indies government placed a order for 100 M2 light tanks  in the United States for the royal Netherlands East Indies army in order  to increase its armored force and to decrease its dependecy on the  Netherlands for its military hardware.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augustus 16th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The battle of Britain continues as the Luftwaffe is hampered by poor  aircraft range and extensive use of radar by the British , the royal  Netherlands air force using both Den Helder and Nieuw-Milligen radar  stations send daily message to their British counterparts true the  British embassy in Amsterdam. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augustus 24th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Luftwaffe mistakenly bomb Coventry , a day later &lt;span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2"&gt;prime minister&lt;/span&gt; Churchill ordered the bombing of Berlin in retaliation of the bombing of Coventry. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augustus 26th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The city of Berlin was bombed by the RAF , as has happen already a  couple of times those RAF bombers who where damaged are forced to land  in the Netherlands as the pilots flying them feel its is better to be in  the Netherlands then being prisoner in Germany. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 3rd &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The invasion of Britain is canceled by Hitler. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 9th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Maas-class runabout RNSS Marowijne becomes the first royal  Netherlands space force shuttle to orbit the planet Mars and is another  indication that the Netherlands is expanding its presences in space  after the first successful moon walk only a couple of weeks ago. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 17th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
The British intercepted decoded messages revealing that Hitler had  postponed his invasion of Great Britain until further notice , these  messages where also intercepted by the royal Netherlands military  intelligence service headquarters in The Hague and where reason for  relive in the Dutch government , that Hitler was also not in this time  able to invade Great Britain. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 21st &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Dutch aircraft company Koolhoven announces that from this day on it  would focus its production towards producing helicopters and would from  now on be known as Koolhoven helikopter industrie , the company which  has lost heavily sins 1935 and was on the verge of bankruptcy received  from a friendly member of the oversight commission several blue prints  for helicopters , the first helicopter named KH-1 Kolibrie which is  based on the French Alouette II design has already bin build and  negotiations whit the royal Netherlands air force are underway for a  number to be produced. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 27th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The tripartite pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Italy, and Japan. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;October 31st &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The fourth Gerard Callenburgh class destroyer HNLMS Philips van Almonde  was commissioned , whit this only four more destroyers of the Gerard  Callenburgh class destroyer where are to be completed. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 4th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
American president Roosevelt won a third term , a telegram from queen Wilhelmina was sent congratulating him the same day. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 15th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The British forces began to drive the Italians out of Egypt and began invading Libya. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 21st &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
In the Netherlands east Indies the first radar station outside the  Netherlands comes online when radar station Soerabaja during its first  days of operation managed to detect all aircraft the royal Netherlands  East Indies army air force on the island of java.&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2011/05/kingdom-of-netherlands-alternate-star_25.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929134327331099827.post-269578525514138288</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 20:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-05-18T22:21:27.474+02:00</atom:updated><title>Kingdom of the Netherlands : a alternate star trek timeline</title><description>&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1939&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;January 23rd &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Admiral Canaris of the German military intelligence service leaks  misinformation which stats that Germany plans to invade the Netherlands  in February with the aim of using Dutch air force bases to launch a  strategic bombing offensive against Great Britain, however its Dutch  counterpart the military intelligence service knowing that it is  misinformation are able to ignore it , the British however who don’t  know that it is German misinformation begin a major shift in their  policies towards Europe. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;march 2nd &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The destroyer HNLMS Gerard Callenburgh lead ship of the Gerard Callenburgh-class is commissioned. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 31st &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain gives a speech in the  House of Commons offering the British guarantee of the independence of  Poland.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;April 3rd &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Adolf Hitler orders the German military to start planning for Fall Weiss  which is the codename for the invasion of Poland, on the same day the  oversight commission who is torn in helping the British advert the war  and giving them all the information needed decided to advise the prime  minister that the Netherlands is to remain neutral if not attack first  and not to give any information to the British. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Augusts 27th &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
The first German turbojet powered aircraft flies for the first time ,  however unknown to the Germans , Fokker is already working on a  prototype of a yet to be build jet fighter more advance than the can  imagine. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 1st &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Germans begin their invasion of Poland. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 2nd &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
The kingdom of the Netherlands declares its neutrality and the chief of  staff of the royal Netherlands army navy and air force as planned orders  a mobilization of the border battalions and several other measurers to  be take place. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 3rd &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The United Kingdom and the French republic declare war on Germany.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 8th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Jan van Amstel class minesweeper HNLMS Willem van Ewijck which is  modified to detect sea mines using a imaging sonar survives the day  having found no sea mines , the crew will never know that in an  alternate timeline more than 30 of its crew where meant to die this day. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 9th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
A infantry company belonging to the Royal Netherlands marines special  operations battalion (1) is beamed from the transport station at the  Royal Dutch East Indies army headquarters in Bandung to the royal  Netherlands navy special operations office in Den Helder transport  station, the royal Netherlands armed forces are now able to beam forces  from any place on earth at a moment notice whit out having to rely on  RNSS Amsterdam twenty transporter rooms to much. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;September 17th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Soviet Union invades eastern Poland. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;October 8th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Germany annexes western Poland ending the polish campaign.  &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;October 10th &lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
The royal Netherlands army light division begins training whit the DAF  M.38 armored car based on the yet to be build American M8 light armored  car , several models are being built of this car including a command  vehicle and an armored utility car. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;October 26th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
A German Luftwaffe Dornier-17 reconnaissance plane is detected whit  engine troubles by the radar station Den Helder who orders two D-21  fighter of the royal Netherlands air force to intercept, both fighters  are not able to reach the Dornier-17 in time and it makes an emergency  landing in a field near the town of Usquert in the province of Groningen  , all three passengers are arrested by the royal Netherlands  marechaussee and are turned over to the military intelligence service  for questing. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;October 27th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
The second Gerard Callenburgh class destroyer HNLMS Tjerk Hiddes enters  service , she together whit here sister ship HNLMS Gerard Callenburgh  will remain in Netherlands to patrol the territorial waters of the  Netherlands as no destroyers are in Netherlands waters at this time. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 8th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
The Belgian government congratulates Adolf Hitler in escaping a failed  assassination attempt in the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich, the Netherlands  government under pressure from the oversight commission dos not. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;November 9th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Two British agents of the secret intelligence service where driving to a  cafe in the Netherlands-German border town of Venlo where the planned  to meet three German officers who unknown to them where had orders to  arrest them and take them to Germany , however unknown to both the  British and Germans the royal Netherlands military intelligence service (  NMID ) where aware of the plan and had taken steps to prevent the  British from being taken and to give the Germans a signal that the  Netherlands was not a battlefield for their war , when the three German  officers wanted to stop the car carrying the British agents the where  surrounded by NMID agents and where taken in before they could escape ,  both the British and Germans agents after being integrated by the NMID  where released the same day whit a warning that the Netherlands was not a  country to be played whit. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 4th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
Antony Fokker arrives in Amsterdam for treatment of meningitides after  being urged by the head of the Fokker Company to come back to the  Netherlands for treatment, using medical technology and the knowledge  available the royal Netherlands navy medical service (2) begins their  treatment of the founder of Fokker. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 13th &lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
The Dolfijn-class submarine HNMS Zeehond begins operating in the north  sea , she is the second of four modern Dolfijn-class submarine to be  completed and only one of her class operating in European waters as her  sister ship HNMS Dolfijn now operates out of the submarine base  Soerabaja in the Netherlands East Indies. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;December 26th&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;
Prince Bernhard and Vice-admiral Janssen visit Antony Fokker who is  resting in villa in Haarlem and is invite to join the oversight  commission as its newest member, after thinking about it Antony Fokker  accepts the offer to join the oversight commission as its newest member. &lt;br /&gt;
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(1) The Royal Netherlands marine’s special operations battalion is the  elite in the royal Netherlands Marine Corps and is one of the six marine  battalions in service whit the royal Netherlands Marine Corps. &lt;br /&gt;
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(2) The royal Netherlands navy medical service is responsible for the  healthcare of all four services of the royal Netherlands armed forces  and falls under the control of the royal Netherlands navy in order to  allow it to operate in the public eye but uses many resources belonging  to the royal Netherlands space force.&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://a-different-dutch-war.blogspot.com/2011/05/kingdom-of-netherlands-alternate-star_18.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (lordroel)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>