1 January: Japanese Authorities have brought news towards the Middle Eastern and Russian Co-Prosperity Sphere members, Japan would be taking 100.000 refugees from their hands, and would be ordering the construction of 100.000 new housing modules in Crete, specifically meant for refugees
10 January: Ben Chifley and Peter Fraser, Presidents of both Australia and New Zealand respectively, has announced that their governments would also take in roughly 100.000 refugees for each of their countries, while reactions in New Zealand are mostly positive, with some questions about integration and assimilation, reactions from Australia is much more mixed, some of the more conservative Australians detesting the new arrivals, while others are lukewarm about the refugees
20 January: The new Kaga class carriers have fully replaced all previous generation of carriers, the Imperial Japanese Navy Design Bureau is already contemplating plans for a 'super carrier', a type of carrier that can carry an unprecedented amount of airplanes for various missions.
25 January: Batavian Commune author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of Journey Through the Night. It focuses on the impact of the second Weltkrieg for the Dutch population
6 February: Woodbridge Train Wreck, a Passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, American Union State. Killing 85 and Injuring 500
19 February: Jean Lee became the last Woman hanged in Australia, she was accused and convicted of the murder and torture of a 73 year old bookmaker
2 March: The First NBA All-Star Basketball game was played in Boston Garden
4 March: The First arrivals of European refugees towards Japan. Most of them chose to reside in the island of Taiwan, much to the confusion of Japanese Authorities
6 March: First arrivals of European Refugees into Australia and New Zealand, some 5000 refugees either arrived by plane or by boat.
20 March:
Nestor Makhno, Chairman of the Commune of France, has died due to Tuberculosis, an immediate election was held within the French commune.
3 April:
Daniel Guérin, a leading member of the Anarchistes faction within the CGT, was elected as the new Chairman of the French Commune. He promised extending social reforms while also 'strengthening the French military to fight the enemies of the revolution to the East.'
15 April: British Elections, factionalism within the TUC has lead to the eventual loss of the Maximist faction in the April Election. Oswald Mosley was replaced by Clement Attlee, a member of the Congregationist faction within the TUC. Mosley vowed to 'fight tooth and nail' against Attlee's proposed social and economic reforms.
27 April: Representatives from Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia arrived in the city of Addis Ababa, talks would begin to create a sort of 'Economic Community' for the Nile River region.
1 May: A small boat was found by the Japanese coast guard off of the coast of the Kuril Islands, and on it, they found two heavily starved men and 3 heavily starved women. They were immediately taken to a nearby hospital for intensive care.
10 May: The identities of the two men were then discovered to be both King George VIII and Mackenzie King, one was the former King of Britain and the other was the former Prime Minister of Canada. The other 3 women were random refugees who joined the group in sailing towards Japan. News of their identities rapidly spread around the country.
12 May: The Government has issued them a temporary 3 year visa for each people, while the Government debates on what to do with them in the meantime.
28 May: The Goon Show was first broadcasted in the UBC Home Service within the Union of Britain, it's first episode was titled 'Crazy People'
30 May: The Upgrade of the three Aki Class Dreadnoughts was finally completed, the three battleships are renamed 'Yamato', 'Musashi', and 'Aki' respectively. The Imperial Japanese Navy plans on using these ships for shore bombardment and the testing of new anti ship weapons.
1 June: The
UNIVAC 1 enters Japanese Government Service, it was built by NEC.
3 June: The Japanese Government formally creates the Ministry of Immigrant, Citizenship, and Refugee affairs. In order to better manage the influx of refugees to Japan. It would fold whatever separate agencies handling the social services for the European Refugees into a single Ministry.
10 June: The Sydney killings, an unknown assailant is murdering various refugees, but mostly Italian, German and Greek refugees in the city of Sydney, police were deployed to find out the culprit.
20 June: The Melbourne Affair. rumours about the new European refugees being 'Criminals and Rapists' began spreading within the city, and soon enough. The Entirety of Australia has heard of the news, investigations into the 'Sydney Killer' was significantly hampered by citizens willing to defend the culprit.
30 June: Ben Chifley, in an infamous address, tried to dispel rumours created by the Melbourne Affair, and much to his misfortune, the people are not having it. Cries of 'Australia for Australians' then became common, and the Labour government was backed into a corner.
2 July: The Canberra government announces a rollback in the refugee program, now, only 30.000 Refugees would be accepted into Australia for every year, with relatively high standards for integration.
3 July:
COSCO (China Ocean Shipping Group), a worldwide shipping service, was founded in Shanghai.
13 July: The
Great Flood of 1951 reached it's highest point in Kansas, resulting in the greatest flood damage in the Midwestern Union State.
25 July: The Constitutional Convention of 1951 was held by the Japanese National Diet. Intense Discussions concerning the Japanese Constitution would be held.
10 August: The Constitutional Convention was over, after weeks of intense discussion and debate, the Japanese Government formally adopts amendments concerning integration, women's rights, organisation of both chambers of the Diet, and the Judiciary. News about the amendments spread like wildfire all across Japan.
20 August: The long awaited 'India Referendum' was held in Hyderabad, after almost 6 months of campaigning to and fro, the people of Hyderabad would go to the polls to decide whether to rename the State of Hyderabad into the Kingdom of India. It resulted in 65.5% in Favour and 34.5% opposed.
25 August: The Imperial Japanese Air Force began voicing requests for further modification of the J7W2 Shinden Jet Fighter, it would have improved Avionics, Electronics, and for the first time, payloads for anti-air missiles. There are also plans to create a truly long range, jet powered Strategic Bomber, although details are relatively sparse for the time being.
3 September: The Japanese Soap Opera '
Search for Tomorrow' airs on NHK. It was the first ever NHK original drama series, and formally became the first ever daytime drama to air on Television, set in a small Japanese town on an unspecified date. It focuses on the lives, trials, and tribulations of the people living there.
9 September: The Treaty of Lhasa, representatives from China, India, and Tibet met within the city of Lhasa to discuss water rights, within the agreement, Tibet agreed not to build dams of any kind, while China and India would pay annual fees to the Tibetan government for such a right. Any water sold from India and China towards Tibet would also be sold at a Premium, while both China and India would agree to build dams that would not 'unnecessarily impede' the natural course of the river.
10 September: The Union of Britain and Commune of France announces a boycott of the entirety of the Co-Prosperity sphere, the rest of the Third Internationale quickly followed, this cooled relationships between CPS and Third Internationale Countries significantly, with CPS member states in particular decrying such acts of 'Economic Sabotage' for their economic development.
30 September: Charlotte Whitton became the first female Mayor of Ottawa.
3 October:
The Shot Heard 'Round the World, New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hits a game-winning home run in the bottom of the 9th Inning off of Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca. Winning a National League pennant after being down 14 games.
6 October: Both UMNO and BSRM began heating up their campaign for the upcoming Malayan General Elections, with UMNO favouring a platform of racial supremacy of the Malay Race while the BSRM, led by Yusof Bin Ishak, favouring a platform of racial equality and further social programs.
14 October: The Organisation of Central and Southern Syndicalist States was founded, The OCSSS was formed to better coordinate economic cooperation between the various Syndicalist States in Latin America, with Argentina being a leading member.
15 October:
I Love Lucy began airing on CBS.
16 October:
East China University was founded in Shanghai. It had it's origins in St John's College, founded in 1879 in the same city.
29 October: The town of Carnation, AUS, renamed itself back to Carnation. After being named Tolt since 1928.
31 October: The film
Scrooge, starring Alastair Sim, began airing in theatres all across the Union of Britain.
1 November: First Military Exercises for Nuclear war, along with Infantry, was held by Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Russian Armies in the Taigas of Russia. It included a simulated nuclear explosion, the first widespread use of contemporary NBC coverings for infantry, and first utilisation of Korean as the language of coordination between the various armies.
11 November: Juan Péron was elected as President of the Argentinian Free Territory.
20 November: The Po River floods in Northern Italy
28 November: The British film Scrooge begins airing all across the Internationale.
30 November: Construction of the National Assembly Building and an Estate for the Prime Minister of Korea has begun.
1 December: The
Institute for War and Peace Studies is established by Prime Minister Tetsu Katayama at Kyushu University, Fukuoka Prefecture. It's first director would be the first person to coin the term 'Superpower.'
3 December: The
University of Lebanon was established, part of Naziq Al Abid's plan to educate her nation, the University was built with 80% of it's funds originating from Japanese grants and loans.
5 December: Elections in Afghanistan. The ruling Social Democratic party was defeated by a combination of two factors, one, was the rise of the Social Conservative Party, and another one, was the rise of the Socially Liberal, Feminist Political Party, led by the former Queen of Afghanistan,
Soraya Tarzi. The end result was roughly a 1/3rd majority for each party. With Soraya Tarzi being the clear winner of the Presidential election, much to the surprise of everyone. Coalition talks for the government would rapidly follow.
14 December: The Coalition for Progress was announced. A coalition government between the Social Liberals and Social Democrats of Afghanistan, with Soraya Tarzi as the President, was formally agreed upon.
17 December:
We Charge Genocide. A series of essays accusing the American Union State Government for the Genocide of African Americans, during the Second American Civil War and during Peacetime, began being widely distributed all across predominantly African American Neighborhoods in America.
23 December:
The African Queen, a drama starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, began airing all across the American Union State.
27 December: Syndicat Fabrique Nationale, an arms company in the Wallonian Commune, began constructing a new type of Service Rifle for the Batavian and Wallonian Armies, little do these governments know of just how popular the rifle would be worldwide.