3 January: Italian Broadcaster
RAI opens it's transmissions. It became the premier radio station for all of Italy and one of the few Syndicalist radio stations that transmit abroad.
10 January:
Union Airways Flight 571, a UA De Havilland Comet disintegrated in midair due to metal fatigue. All 35 people are killed.
12 January: Avalanches in Austria kills more than 200
14 January: Marilyn Monroe marries Joe Dimaggio at the San Francisco City Hall
20 January: The
National Negro Network, a radio based service exclusive for African Americans, was established. It has 46 Radio Member stations.
25 January: The first ever nuclear submarine, the Revolution, was launched on Brest, it was inaugurated by Daniel Guérin himself.
10 February: The second ever nuclear submarine, the Republic, was launched in Liverpool, and it's launching ceremony was broadcasted widely across the TV stations across Britain.
20 February: The first mass vaccination of children against Polio happened in Honolulu, Hawaii.
1 March: Japanese officials announced that the country has developed a Hydrogen bomb.
2 March: The Puerto Rico incident, Puerto Rican nationalists infiltrated and shot several congressmen during a session in the Union State Congress. Injuring 5, they killed themselves before the police could apprehend them.
9 March: American journalists produces a 30 minute see it now documentary, it was titled A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy
13 March: Vietnamese forces conducted an exercise of logistics near the city of Dien Bien Phu, it was an exercise to test just how difficult it would be to move military logistics in tropical rainforests and hills.
27 March: Japan releases footage of the Hydrogen Bomb explosion, this time, the bomb was detonated underground within Siberia.
30 March: The first ever operational subway line in Canada was opened in Toronto.
1 April: Congress authorizes President Huey Long to construct a Union State Airforce Academy in Colorado
4 April: Legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini experiences a memory lapse mid concert, he announces his retirement after the concert's end, never to play symphony ever again.
8 April: A Canadian military plane and a Canadian Passenger plane collided near Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
11 April: This day was denoted as the most boring day in the 20th century, as nothing significant is known to have happened on this day.
14 April: A Syndicalist spy ring in Australia is unraveled.
16 April: President Huey Long announces a willingness to 'triple our military expenditure' as a result of both the Syndicalist, and Japanese presence within the Caribbean.
20 April: Skyengine Laboratories, a company founded by a former aircraft engineer in Nakajima, was founded, it focuses on building Plane Engines for any customers interested.
Shin Meiwa Industries becomes the company's first customer and major investor.
26 April: Akira Kurosawa's
Seven Samurai is released in Japan.
22 April: Senator Joseph Mccarthy begins hearings, investigating whether or not the Union State Military is being 'soft' on Syndicalism.
28 April: France and Britain officially adopt the FN FAL as their main service rifle.
1 May: The Kyushu J7W3, the last iteration of the jet fighter, was formally adopted into the Imperial Japanese Airforce, it features 4 inlets where 4 250 lb bombs or 4 early air to air missiles could be placed.
5 May: The Nile Water and Trade Economic Community was born, taking inspiration from it's East Asian counterpart, representatives from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia and Egypt agreed to form a common standard for tariffs for all the ports within their countries, and also agreed to not build any dams that would massively impact the flow of the river nile. Proposals for the Aswan dam are deemed not severely impactful to the flow of the river.
8 May: The
Asian Football Confederation is formed in Manilla, Philippines.
14 May: After years of development, Mitsubishi unveils the Mitsubishi
Skyjet 100. The first major widebody airliner made in Japan. Both Japan Airlines and Nippon Helicopter and Aeroplane expressed interest, with Qantas and Philippine Air Lines signing contracts for the aircraft as well.
15 May: The Latin Union is created in the conference of Madrid. It's initial member countries include France, Iberia, Italy, and Romania.
17 May: Brown v Board of Education. The US Supreme Court rules that segregated schools are constitutional, despite promises from Huey Long that the government would ensure that 'separated but equal would be true to its spirit and letter.' Riots within African American neighborhoods ensued.
22 May: The
Common Nordic Labour Market act is signed. With a notable exception being Finland.
3 June: The Philippines and Siam formally joins ASEAN.
9 June: Mccarthyism, General J. Lawton Collins, during a congressional hearing. Lashes out against Senator Mccarthy, saying 'Have you, at long last, no decency?'
15 June: The Union of European Football Associations, or
UEFA, was formed in Basel, Switzerland.
22 June:
Sarah Mae Flemming was expelled from a bus in North Carolina, for sitting in a whites only section.
27 June: The world's first nuclear power station opens up near Tokyo, Japan.
1 July: The Common Nordic Market Act came into effect.
4 July: Food rationing in the Union of Britain ends. Meats in Britain can now be purchased as much as desired.
15 July: The
Skyjet 100 prototype takes its first maiden flight.
29 July: The
Seven Swords, the first of three volumes in
Saneatsu Mushanokoji's epic,
Tales from a lost time, is published. It features an unusual cast of a Female Main Character, A parallel to a Samurai Warrior, an archer from the mountains, a brute from the Far North, and a charismatic trader from the southern islands. It becomes an instant hit.
31 July: Japanese expedition to K2. Japanese mountaineers and former soldiers managed to climb the summit of the second highest mountain in the world.
6 August: The first issue of
Sports Illustrated is published in the United States.
23 August: The
Lockheed C-130 Hercules makes its maiden flight in Burbank, California.
3 September: The last episode of the
Lone Ranger radio program was broadcasted, after 2,596 episodes over a period of 21 years.
10 September: A dead body was found in an unusual place, at an unusual time within the new apartment buildings of Tokyo, Metropolitan Police couldn't make heads or tails concerning the death of the person. Corresponding evidence includes a burnt pile of what looked to be official paperwork of the Yasuda Zaibatsu and a carving on his body which spells 'Truth always comes out.'
15 September:
Black Wednesday, severe delays in flights, due to bad weather, occur along the East Coast of America.
17 September: William Golding's
Lord of the Flies was published in London.
26 September: Japanese Ferry
Toya Maru sank in the Tsugaru Strait. More than 1,100 people are killed, 7 other ships are wrecked, and at least 9 people are seriously injured.
30 September: The Revolution and the Republic officially enters service in both the French and British navies respectively.
11 October:
Hurricane Hazel hits Haiti, killing 1,000
18 October: Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (later name Sony) announces the development of the first commercial transistor radio. The
TR-54. It went on sale next month.
26 October: A Syndicalist spy attempts to assassinate Egyptian General Gamal Abdel Nasser, the attempt ended in failure.
3 November: The first ever film of
Godzilla appears in Tokyo.
12 November: Vietnam and Laos joins ASEAN.
13 November: Britain defeats France in the first ever Rugby World Cup. In a stadium with around 30,000 spectators.
23 November: The Nikkei Stock Average has, for the first time, peaked once more, surpassing it's previous peak of 350.65 points. The first time the stock index has surpassed it's level after Black Monday.
30 November: In Sylacauga, Alabama. a fragment of a
meteorite hits the roof of a house and injures a sleeping woman. It is the first documented case of an object from outer space hitting a person.
1 December: Investigation on the mysterious person's death in Tokyo continues, With Metropolitan Police authorities raiding Yasuda Zaibatsu offices for evidence, despite stronger than expected resistance from the Zaibatsu's clerks.
2 December: The US Senate votes 67-22 to condemn Joseph Mccarthy for 'Conduct that brings the Senate into Dishonour and Disrepute.'
23 December: The first ever successful Kidney Transplant was performed in Paris, France.
31 December: The UDT/SEAL, a special operations branch of the Navy, was officially formed and integrated into Japan's special forces command.