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Part 48 1981
January 3rd
Four Americans are assassinated at the Sheraton Hotel in San Salvador by members of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front who believed they were working for the CIA.
January 5th
For the first time since Iraq had invaded its territory in September 1980, Iran launches a counterattack, concentrating its armies at Sosangerd.
January 6th
At the semi-secret United States Space Force Command base of Area 51, the Independence-class spaceship, USS Independence blast off into space. Despite having no crew onboard as the United States Space Force Command feels it is too dangerous the successful launch of the USS Independence is a major step for the United States to go where so far only the Netherlands has gone before.
January 7th
An United States operational and planning assistance team arrives in El Salvador to provide assistance in protecting the city from guerrillas.
A Boeing 747 of United China Airways lands at New York-Anderson Field International Airport (OTL John F. Kennedy International Airport) in New York City, marking the first flight from the United Republic of China to the United States since the foundation of the country in 1948.
January 8th
Carrying a Dutch trade mission belonging to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the KNRS Den Helder begins her eight day journey to Ferenginar where it will begin trade talks with the Ferengi Trade Mission whose role is to promote and facilitate trade between the Ferengi Alliance and other races.
January 10th
The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) launches its first major offensive in El Salvador, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments.
January 11th
Space shuttle Columbia launches on its second mission and first United States Space Force Command assigned mission when it takes off from Cape Canaveral Space Center carrying a crew of two and four passengers who when docked with the USS Independence will form her first crew.
January 13th
Space shuttle Columbia rendezvous and docks with the USS Independence where she transfers the four crew members who are going to man the ship during her test flight.
January 14th
The USS Independence, still docked with the space shuttle Columbia, powers up her systems for the first time.
January 15th
Columbia disconnects from the USS Independence whose four man crew begin her six month long mission in space (1).
January 16th
The KNRS Den Helder arrives in the Ferengi system after traveling eight days to get there. After having paid a parking fey (one hundred slips of gold-pressed latinum), the ship is allowed to orbit Ferenginar and the Netherlands trade delegation to beam down so they can begin their round of talks with a representatives of the Ferengi Trade Mission.
January 17th
After 6 days in space, the Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California, ending its second operational mission and sixth time in space.
January 19th
In New Guinea, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. Thirty-five people are killed and about 100 missing in the Jayawijaya Mountains.
The USS Independence leaves Earth orbit and begins her first powered flight in space when she begins her two day trip towards the backside of the moon.
January 21st
The USS Independence arrives at the backside of the moon where she is to continue testing of all her systems while also conducting surveillance of certain areas of the moon.
January 22nd
All six-members of the arrested terrorist group belonging to the "Democratic Revolutionary Movement for the Liberation of Arabistan” plead guilty to planning to conduct terrorist activities inside the United Kingdom and are given cell time ranging from 20 to 40 years.
January 23rd
In the United Republic of China controlled part of the divided province of Sichuan, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. One hundred fifty people killed and 300 are injured.
January 24th
Francois Mitterrand is nominated by France's Socialist Party as its candidate for President in the 1981 elections.
The six day trade mission by the Dutch to the Ferengi Alliance ends with two agreements made which are: the establishment of a permanent Netherlands trade mission on Ferenginar and a permanent Ferengi trade mission on Proxima Centauri b and an agreement to corporate in exploring and surveying the Ferengi system.
January 25th
The KNRS Den Helder departs the Ferengi system after having completed her six day trade mission and begins the eight day journey home towards the Alpha Centauri system.
January 26th
A special China-Nanking court gives the death sentences against all eight high ranking government officials who were charged with crimes against the state.
January 27th
580 people drown when the Dutch East Indies passenger ferry KM Tampomas II sinks in the Java Sea during a storm. Of 1,180 onboard, 600 are rescued by the Royal Netherlands Navy and the Dutch East Indies Gouvernement Marine (Government Navy) (2).
January 29th
Space shuttle Columbia is returned to Cape Canaveral Space Center from California atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft where it will be prepared for its seventh time into space.
January 31st
The first parade to honor veterans of the China War is organized by the veterans with the support of the US government, seven years after the beginning of the ceasefire in 1974 (3).
February 2nd
The KNRS Den Helder arrives back at the Netherlands-Alpha Centauri system after spending almost twenty-five days traveling, spending and returning from a trade mission to the Ferengi Alliance.
February 5th
A military jury in the United States convicts two army soldiers of collaborating with the enemy while they were held as prisoner of war in China-Nanking. Both are dishonorably discharged from the United States Army.
February 10th
The tenth I-301-class submarine, I-310 is commission into the Japanese Imperial Navy.
February 14th
Australia establishes an embassy in Dili, Republic of East Timor as the first foreign country to do so.
February 19th
The United States State Department calls El Salvador a "textbook case" of a Communist plot.
February 22nd
The Chairman of the Romulan Tal Shiar meets with the Praetor of the Romulan Star Empire Nerom who orders him to find the location of the homeworld of the unknown force that defeated their 27 Bird-of-Preys during the Coridan Incident.
February 23rd
In Spain, 200 members of the Civil Guard with a few army allies, nvade parliament and take the legislators hostage. King Juan Carlos speaks to the nation on behalf of democracy and the coup ends.
February 24th
Buckingham Palace announces the engagement of Britain's Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer.
March 2nd
The Ford administration worries about the Soviet Union sending weapons to El Salvador through Cuba and Nicaragua and to prevent a Communist takeover in El Salvador from happening sends 40 military advisors and $50 million dollars in military aid to El Salvador.
French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing announce that he is going to run for re-election as President of France.
March 6th
Walter Cronkite, best known for his reports during the China War, signs off for the last time as principal anchorman of "The CBS Evening News."
March 14th
The S-1 Darkstar launch base near Clear Space Force Command station in Alaska is completed with the capacity of launching two S-1 Darkstar space planes at once if needed and having them land at the same place thanks to a three kilometer long landing strip (4).
Match 22nd
Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa becomes the first person from Mongolia to travel into outer space, launched on Soyuz 39 along with Vladimir Dzhanibekov.
March 25th
The United States Embassy in San Salvador is severely damaged when gunmen attacked, firing rocket propelled grenades and machine guns. This is most likely in the response of the United States sending military advisors to the assist the Salvadoran military government in fighting the El Salvador Revolutionary Forces.
March 27th
At Portsmouth Naval Base, the Centaur-class light fleet aircraft carrier HMS Bulwark is decommissioned with her role as light carrier being taken over by the first of four Invincible-class aircraft carriers, HMS Invincible.
April 1st
A group of Thai army colonels led by General Prem Tinsulanonda take over the capital of Bangkok and remove Prime Minister of Thailand and military dictator Field Marshall Thanom Kittikachorn from office.
April 2nd
Secretary of State Kissinger, during a phone conversation with Thai coup leader General Prem Tinsulanonda, is assured that the United States Forces Thailand who have been on high alert since April 1st have nothing to fear as General Prem Tinsulanonda and his fellow army officers have full control of the country and that the relations between the United States and the Kingdom of Thailand are still as strong as ever.
The Royal Netherlands Space Force completes their second Arnhem-class destroyer, KNRS Amersfoort at Number two Proxima Centauri b shipyard.
April 3rd
After taking control of the Thai capital of Bangkok General Prem Tinsulanonda announces on state television that with the full support of King Bhumibol Adulyadej he has removed Field Marshall Thanom Kittikachorn from office and that he will assume the role of prime minister until free elections can take place.
April 14th
The fifth Kortenaer-class frigate, Hr.Ms. Piet Hein is launched at de Schelde in Vlissingen.
May 2nd
The KNRS Amersfoort is moved from Number two Proxima Centauri b shipyard to Proxima Centauri b spacedock so that KNRD space yards operations can begin maintenance on Number two Proxima Centauri b shipyard.
May 6th
A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously select a design for the China Veterans Memorial from 1,421 entries.
May 10th
In the second round of the presidential elections in France, incumbent President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing beats socialist Francois Mitterrand.
May 13th
The second I-600-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, I-601 is commission into the Japanese Imperial Navy.
May 14th
Christiaan Huygens-class surveyor KNRS Metius begins her eight day long journey towards Ferenginar where she will take onboard a Ferengi delegation belonging to the Ferengi Mining Commission (the main authority that sells the rights for all mining operations in the Ferengi system) for a seven day surveillance and exploration mission of their home system.
May 22nd
The KNRS Metius arrives in orbit of Ferenginar and, after paying her parking fee, beams onboard the Ferengi Mining Commission delegation and begins her seven day surveillance and exploration mission of the Ferengi system.
May 26th
While preparing for deployment in the Mediterranean, one of the supercarrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt’s EA-6B Prowler aircraft crash-lands on the flight deck, killing 14 of the crew and injuring 45 others.
Prime Minister Willem Bakker leads the Royal Democratic Party to another government election and thus the Prime Minister can begin his third term in office knowing that the party which has dominated the Netherlands politics since 1936 remains the choice of the people.
May 29th
The KNRS Metius completes her seven day surveillance and exploration mission of the Ferengi system and returns the Ferengi Mining Commission delegation to Ferenginar, which has now plenty of information regarding new mining sites across the Ferengi system.
June 1st
The China Daily newspaper is launched as the United Republic of China’s first English-language newspaper.
June 2nd
The third Invincible-class aircraft carrier, HMS Implacable is launched at Swan Hunter at Wallsend.
June 5th
Using the United States Gemini-Agena missions as an example the Imperial space development agency of Japan launches a modified version of the Tsukuyomi 2 rocket (5) which will link with a manned Supēsu spacecraft so that they can develop and practice orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques as part of the Uchuukichi (space station) program authorized by Prime Minister Kadomatsu a year ago.
June 6th
The Imperial space development agency of Japan launches their seventh manned spaceflight from Uchinoura space center when the Supēsu Kyuu (nine) spacecraft launched on top a Tsukuyomi 2 rocket reaches Earth orbit and manages to locate the modified Tsukuyomi 2 rocket. However attempts to try to connect with it fail and the control center decide to abandon the attempts and instead conduct rendezvous practicing that will involve moving away from the modified Tsukuyomi 2 rocket and practicing approaching from below the rocket.
June 7th
On the second day of the Supēsu Kyuu mission, the spacecraft again approached the modified Tsukuyomi 2 rocket and conducts an extra-vehicular activity.
June 8th
After spending two days in space, the Supēsu Kyuu capsule lands safely in the Sea of Japan, where the Imperial Japanese Navy recovers the capsule and the two Uchuunauts on board.
June 10th
Amsterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij begins construction on the second Rotterdam-class amphibious assault ship.
June 18th
Space shuttle Columbia begins its second operational mission, seventh time in space and third mission flying a United States Space Force Command assigned mission when it is launched from Cape Canaveral Space Center, carrying a crew of two and four passengers who will replace the first crew of the spaceship USS Independence which has spent almost five months conducting the ship’s shakedown cruise near and around Earth.
June 19th
The European Space Agency launches its third Ariane rocket carrying two satellites into orbit.
June 20th
Space shuttle Columbia rendezvous and docks with the USS Independence where it transfers the four replacement crew members who are going to continue the USS Independence’s shakedown cruise.
June 24th
The third Type C5 nuclear-powered attack submarine, I-79 is commission into the Japanese Imperial Navy.
June 29th
Noord Brabant-class destroyer, Hr.Ms. Noord Brabant is decommissioned after having served in the Royal Netherlands Navy for more than twenty-five years.
June 30th
Five years after his death in 1976 the Communist Party of United China, one of two parties in the United Republic of China, describes the late Mao Zedong (1949-1976) as having made contributions to China that will never be forgotten.
July 17th
The Columbia is returned to Cape Canaveral Space Center from California atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft where it will be prepared for it’s eight time into space.
July 29th
The marriage of the Prince of Wales and the Lady Diana Spencer takes place at St Paul's Cathedral.
August 19th
Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi sent two Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets to intercept two United States Navy F-14 Tomcat fighters that had taken off from aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt over the Gulf of Sidra. In the battle that followed the two US Navy F-14 Tomcats engage and destroy the two Su-22 fighter jets.
August 29th
Mexico and France recognize El Salvador's the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) opposition as a ''representative political force.''
September 1st
The leader of the FMLN, Guillermo Ungo, states that neither his guerrillas nor the United States-backed Salvadoran Army are capable of achieving a military victory in the near future.
September 7th
Canada becomes the fourth nation to sign the Space Research and Cooperation Treaty and with it becomes a member of the Amsterdam Space Cooperation Organization (ASCO) which allows all member nations to benefit from the Dutch space program, without the Netherlands having to hand over warp or advanced military technology to them.
September 13th
In El Salvador government forces capture a guerrilla base camp where about 400 rebels had been established.
September 18th
The French National Assembly votes to abolish the death penalty. This in effect outlaws execution by guillotine (6).
September 20th
The Empire of Japan launches three satellites into orbit on board one single rocket for the first time.
September 21st
Belize is given its independence from the United Kingdom and joins the UN under protests from Guatemala.
September 22st
El Salvador's President Duarte announces that his government has dismissed 600 National Guardsmen and imprisoned 64 others for crimes against Salvadoran civilians.
October 6th
Egyptian president Anwar Sadat is assassinated during a parade by army members who were part of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization. They opposed his negotiations with Israel.
October 8th
President Gerald Ford greets predecessors Richard Milhous Nixon and John F. Kennedy, before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral.
October 10th
At Number four Proxima Centauri b shipyard the fourth Experimentele Ruimteschip (Experimental spaceship) named KNRS ER-4 is completed. Equipped with the first working cloaking system the KNRS ER-4 will remain at Number four Proxima Centauri b shipyard for some time in order to test her operating and cloaking systems before she begins her shakedown cruise in the Alpha Centauri system.
October 14th
Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected president of Egypt.
October 23rd
The third Space Shuttle to be build and the second space capable shuttle named Challenger (OV-103) final assembly is completed.
October 27th
At Camp David, the official retreat of the President of the United States, the four Amsterdam Space Cooperation Organization (ASCO) head of states meet where Prime Minister Willem Bakker proposes the creation of a space version of NATO and removing some of its restrictions it has imposed under the Space Research and Cooperation Treaty. After the proposal was made a couple of hours of discussion and some compromising followed but in the end President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, President Gerald Ford and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau agreed to Prime Minister Willem Bakker proposal even if the Netherlands has made the rules which is for the three nations nothing compared to the advantages they hope to gain.
October 28th
The governor of Alpha Centauri informs the ambassador of the Confederacy of Vulcan, ambassador of the Andorian Empire and the ambassador of Tellarite in Nieuw Batavia that due to the Coridan Crisis and the fear of a Romulan attack on either Earth or Alpha Centauri they have decided to establish an international space force made up of the four ASCO members and that in the upcoming months a delegation of those nations will travel to Proxima Centauri b to visit the colony.
October 29th
Launched from Cape Canaveral Space Center, space shuttle Columbia begins its third operational mission, eight time in space and third mission to the Skylab space station.
October 31st
The keel of the fourth Roosevelt-class aircraft carrier is laid down at Newport News shipyard in Virginia.
Space shuttle Columbia rendezvous with the Skylab space station and begins its six day mission to replace several system components (7).
November 4th
The Vietnamese Buddhist Sangha is created in Hanoi at the behest of Vietnam as the only legal religious organization in the nation and accountable to its government.
After six days in space, the space shuttle Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base, ending another successful mission.
November 11th
The USS Ohio is commissioned at Groton, Connecticut and is the largest submarine to enter service to this date. The USS Ohio is the first Ohio-class submarine, designed to carry 24 Trident II missiles, each missile in turn capable of carrying 17 nuclear warheads.
November 17th
In a meeting of the National Security Council at the White House, President Gerald Ford makes the decision to support the Contras, a 500 man force that will fight the leftist government of Nicaragua and protect the right-wing government of El Salvador against rebels.
November 26th
Callisto weapon base on Callisto, a moon of Jupiter, becomes operational. Armed with 150 Mark I photon torpedoes and 6x3 phaser banks this new KNRD weapon base together with its little brother the Phobos weapon platform orbiting Mars are Earth first and best line of defense in case of unwanted visitors.
November 27th
In the city of London all four ASCO member nations sign the Treaty of London which sees the creation of the International Space Treaty Organization (ISTO) which will be led by the Netherlands (8).
November 30th
In Geneva representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin negotiating intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe.
December 2nd
The sixth Kortenaer-class frigate, Hr.Ms. Philips van Almonde is launched at Wilton-Fijenoord, Netherlands.
December 4th
Arnhem-class destroyer KNRS Amersfoort completes her fitting-out at Proxima Centauri b spacedock and begins receiving her crew, who will start preparing the ship for her shakedown cruise in the Alpha Centauri system.
December 12th
TK-208, the first of the Soviet Union's Typhoon-class submarines and the largest submarine that has been built up to this point is commissioned. The previous largest submarine to be commissioned was the USS Ohio which was commissioned on November 11th 1981.
Queen Khamphoui of Laos and her sons Crown Prince Vong Savang and prince Sisavang visits the Empire of Japan.
December 17th
Negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union to reduce intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe end inconclusively.
December 20th
The European Space Agency launches its fourth Ariane rocket carrying a satellite into orbit.
December 25th
The Dutch government announces that the they will ease the decades-old ban on weapons exports to other countries which means that companies like DAF, Fokker, Koolhoven Helikopter Industries, Signaal-Defensie Industries and others will be allowed to sell some of their hardware to other countries as long as it approved by the government first.
December 27th
East Timor's president formally opens a consulate in Netherlands Timor in an effort to strengthen relations between the Netherlands and the Republic of East Timor.
December 31st
Netherlands unemployment stands at a record 175,000.
(1) The Independence-class spaceships are designed with two escape capsules for emergency but otherwise have to rely on the Space Shuttles to resupply and crew them.
(2) The Gouvernement Marine (Government Navy or GM) operates in a civil-administrative role alongside the Royal Netherlands Navy and is used mostly for transporting small amounts of cargo and personnel over short distances across the Dutch East Indies and undertaking actions against smugglers, slavery and piracy while also conducting search and rescue operations alongside the Royal Netherlands Navy if needed.
(3) Despite the ceasefire still in place since 1974 no attempt have been made by the United States, United Republic of China, China-Nanking or Japanese to create a permanent peace deal.
(4) While Clear Space Force Command station is now the new launch site for the S-1 Darkstar space plane, Midway Naval Test Range will remain the main testing site for the S-1 Darkstar space plane and a second launch site in case of emergencies.
(5) The modified version of the Tsukuyomi 2 rocket carries a docking adapter so that it can link with the Supēsu spacecraft.
(6) French President Valéry Giscard has a deep aversion against capital punishment in his 1981 campaign proclaimed that he would abolish the death penalty if re elected.
(7) The third mission to the Skylab space station is the last of the reactivation missions to Skylab before in 1982 a space shuttle mission will deliver a solar-powered Power Expansion Package, refurbished scientific equipment and deliver a crew which will begin a 90-day mission onboard the space station, the first of many to followed since Skylab was abandoned in 1974.
(8) The International Space Treaty Organization (ISTO) can be compared to NATO but will be focused on defending Earth and the Sol system from alien threats. Currently the two major members are the Netherlands (Royal Netherlands Space Force) and the United States of America (United States Space Force Command) and it will be the military version of the Amsterdam Space Cooperation Organization which will under the new agreement see the expanding of collaborating in research, scientific and technological programs (this sharing doesn’t including the Netherlands to have to share or transfer warp or advanced military technology to them but the Netherlands will allow member nations to have a presence onboard their spaceships and to visit Alpha Centauri).
January 3rd
Four Americans are assassinated at the Sheraton Hotel in San Salvador by members of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front who believed they were working for the CIA.
January 5th
For the first time since Iraq had invaded its territory in September 1980, Iran launches a counterattack, concentrating its armies at Sosangerd.
January 6th
At the semi-secret United States Space Force Command base of Area 51, the Independence-class spaceship, USS Independence blast off into space. Despite having no crew onboard as the United States Space Force Command feels it is too dangerous the successful launch of the USS Independence is a major step for the United States to go where so far only the Netherlands has gone before.
January 7th
An United States operational and planning assistance team arrives in El Salvador to provide assistance in protecting the city from guerrillas.
A Boeing 747 of United China Airways lands at New York-Anderson Field International Airport (OTL John F. Kennedy International Airport) in New York City, marking the first flight from the United Republic of China to the United States since the foundation of the country in 1948.
January 8th
Carrying a Dutch trade mission belonging to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the KNRS Den Helder begins her eight day journey to Ferenginar where it will begin trade talks with the Ferengi Trade Mission whose role is to promote and facilitate trade between the Ferengi Alliance and other races.
January 10th
The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) launches its first major offensive in El Salvador, gaining control of most of Morazán and Chalatenango departments.
January 11th
Space shuttle Columbia launches on its second mission and first United States Space Force Command assigned mission when it takes off from Cape Canaveral Space Center carrying a crew of two and four passengers who when docked with the USS Independence will form her first crew.
January 13th
Space shuttle Columbia rendezvous and docks with the USS Independence where she transfers the four crew members who are going to man the ship during her test flight.
January 14th
The USS Independence, still docked with the space shuttle Columbia, powers up her systems for the first time.
January 15th
Columbia disconnects from the USS Independence whose four man crew begin her six month long mission in space (1).
January 16th
The KNRS Den Helder arrives in the Ferengi system after traveling eight days to get there. After having paid a parking fey (one hundred slips of gold-pressed latinum), the ship is allowed to orbit Ferenginar and the Netherlands trade delegation to beam down so they can begin their round of talks with a representatives of the Ferengi Trade Mission.
January 17th
After 6 days in space, the Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California, ending its second operational mission and sixth time in space.
January 19th
In New Guinea, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. Thirty-five people are killed and about 100 missing in the Jayawijaya Mountains.
The USS Independence leaves Earth orbit and begins her first powered flight in space when she begins her two day trip towards the backside of the moon.
January 21st
The USS Independence arrives at the backside of the moon where she is to continue testing of all her systems while also conducting surveillance of certain areas of the moon.
January 22nd
All six-members of the arrested terrorist group belonging to the "Democratic Revolutionary Movement for the Liberation of Arabistan” plead guilty to planning to conduct terrorist activities inside the United Kingdom and are given cell time ranging from 20 to 40 years.
January 23rd
In the United Republic of China controlled part of the divided province of Sichuan, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. One hundred fifty people killed and 300 are injured.
January 24th
Francois Mitterrand is nominated by France's Socialist Party as its candidate for President in the 1981 elections.
The six day trade mission by the Dutch to the Ferengi Alliance ends with two agreements made which are: the establishment of a permanent Netherlands trade mission on Ferenginar and a permanent Ferengi trade mission on Proxima Centauri b and an agreement to corporate in exploring and surveying the Ferengi system.
January 25th
The KNRS Den Helder departs the Ferengi system after having completed her six day trade mission and begins the eight day journey home towards the Alpha Centauri system.
January 26th
A special China-Nanking court gives the death sentences against all eight high ranking government officials who were charged with crimes against the state.
January 27th
580 people drown when the Dutch East Indies passenger ferry KM Tampomas II sinks in the Java Sea during a storm. Of 1,180 onboard, 600 are rescued by the Royal Netherlands Navy and the Dutch East Indies Gouvernement Marine (Government Navy) (2).
January 29th
Space shuttle Columbia is returned to Cape Canaveral Space Center from California atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft where it will be prepared for its seventh time into space.
January 31st
The first parade to honor veterans of the China War is organized by the veterans with the support of the US government, seven years after the beginning of the ceasefire in 1974 (3).
February 2nd
The KNRS Den Helder arrives back at the Netherlands-Alpha Centauri system after spending almost twenty-five days traveling, spending and returning from a trade mission to the Ferengi Alliance.
February 5th
A military jury in the United States convicts two army soldiers of collaborating with the enemy while they were held as prisoner of war in China-Nanking. Both are dishonorably discharged from the United States Army.
February 10th
The tenth I-301-class submarine, I-310 is commission into the Japanese Imperial Navy.
February 14th
Australia establishes an embassy in Dili, Republic of East Timor as the first foreign country to do so.
February 19th
The United States State Department calls El Salvador a "textbook case" of a Communist plot.
February 22nd
The Chairman of the Romulan Tal Shiar meets with the Praetor of the Romulan Star Empire Nerom who orders him to find the location of the homeworld of the unknown force that defeated their 27 Bird-of-Preys during the Coridan Incident.
February 23rd
In Spain, 200 members of the Civil Guard with a few army allies, nvade parliament and take the legislators hostage. King Juan Carlos speaks to the nation on behalf of democracy and the coup ends.
February 24th
Buckingham Palace announces the engagement of Britain's Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer.
March 2nd
The Ford administration worries about the Soviet Union sending weapons to El Salvador through Cuba and Nicaragua and to prevent a Communist takeover in El Salvador from happening sends 40 military advisors and $50 million dollars in military aid to El Salvador.
French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing announce that he is going to run for re-election as President of France.
March 6th
Walter Cronkite, best known for his reports during the China War, signs off for the last time as principal anchorman of "The CBS Evening News."
March 14th
The S-1 Darkstar launch base near Clear Space Force Command station in Alaska is completed with the capacity of launching two S-1 Darkstar space planes at once if needed and having them land at the same place thanks to a three kilometer long landing strip (4).
Match 22nd
Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa becomes the first person from Mongolia to travel into outer space, launched on Soyuz 39 along with Vladimir Dzhanibekov.
March 25th
The United States Embassy in San Salvador is severely damaged when gunmen attacked, firing rocket propelled grenades and machine guns. This is most likely in the response of the United States sending military advisors to the assist the Salvadoran military government in fighting the El Salvador Revolutionary Forces.
March 27th
At Portsmouth Naval Base, the Centaur-class light fleet aircraft carrier HMS Bulwark is decommissioned with her role as light carrier being taken over by the first of four Invincible-class aircraft carriers, HMS Invincible.
April 1st
A group of Thai army colonels led by General Prem Tinsulanonda take over the capital of Bangkok and remove Prime Minister of Thailand and military dictator Field Marshall Thanom Kittikachorn from office.
April 2nd
Secretary of State Kissinger, during a phone conversation with Thai coup leader General Prem Tinsulanonda, is assured that the United States Forces Thailand who have been on high alert since April 1st have nothing to fear as General Prem Tinsulanonda and his fellow army officers have full control of the country and that the relations between the United States and the Kingdom of Thailand are still as strong as ever.
The Royal Netherlands Space Force completes their second Arnhem-class destroyer, KNRS Amersfoort at Number two Proxima Centauri b shipyard.
April 3rd
After taking control of the Thai capital of Bangkok General Prem Tinsulanonda announces on state television that with the full support of King Bhumibol Adulyadej he has removed Field Marshall Thanom Kittikachorn from office and that he will assume the role of prime minister until free elections can take place.
April 14th
The fifth Kortenaer-class frigate, Hr.Ms. Piet Hein is launched at de Schelde in Vlissingen.
May 2nd
The KNRS Amersfoort is moved from Number two Proxima Centauri b shipyard to Proxima Centauri b spacedock so that KNRD space yards operations can begin maintenance on Number two Proxima Centauri b shipyard.
May 6th
A jury of architects and sculptors unanimously select a design for the China Veterans Memorial from 1,421 entries.
May 10th
In the second round of the presidential elections in France, incumbent President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing beats socialist Francois Mitterrand.
May 13th
The second I-600-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine, I-601 is commission into the Japanese Imperial Navy.
May 14th
Christiaan Huygens-class surveyor KNRS Metius begins her eight day long journey towards Ferenginar where she will take onboard a Ferengi delegation belonging to the Ferengi Mining Commission (the main authority that sells the rights for all mining operations in the Ferengi system) for a seven day surveillance and exploration mission of their home system.
May 22nd
The KNRS Metius arrives in orbit of Ferenginar and, after paying her parking fee, beams onboard the Ferengi Mining Commission delegation and begins her seven day surveillance and exploration mission of the Ferengi system.
May 26th
While preparing for deployment in the Mediterranean, one of the supercarrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt’s EA-6B Prowler aircraft crash-lands on the flight deck, killing 14 of the crew and injuring 45 others.
Prime Minister Willem Bakker leads the Royal Democratic Party to another government election and thus the Prime Minister can begin his third term in office knowing that the party which has dominated the Netherlands politics since 1936 remains the choice of the people.
May 29th
The KNRS Metius completes her seven day surveillance and exploration mission of the Ferengi system and returns the Ferengi Mining Commission delegation to Ferenginar, which has now plenty of information regarding new mining sites across the Ferengi system.
June 1st
The China Daily newspaper is launched as the United Republic of China’s first English-language newspaper.
June 2nd
The third Invincible-class aircraft carrier, HMS Implacable is launched at Swan Hunter at Wallsend.
June 5th
Using the United States Gemini-Agena missions as an example the Imperial space development agency of Japan launches a modified version of the Tsukuyomi 2 rocket (5) which will link with a manned Supēsu spacecraft so that they can develop and practice orbital space rendezvous and docking techniques as part of the Uchuukichi (space station) program authorized by Prime Minister Kadomatsu a year ago.
June 6th
The Imperial space development agency of Japan launches their seventh manned spaceflight from Uchinoura space center when the Supēsu Kyuu (nine) spacecraft launched on top a Tsukuyomi 2 rocket reaches Earth orbit and manages to locate the modified Tsukuyomi 2 rocket. However attempts to try to connect with it fail and the control center decide to abandon the attempts and instead conduct rendezvous practicing that will involve moving away from the modified Tsukuyomi 2 rocket and practicing approaching from below the rocket.
June 7th
On the second day of the Supēsu Kyuu mission, the spacecraft again approached the modified Tsukuyomi 2 rocket and conducts an extra-vehicular activity.
June 8th
After spending two days in space, the Supēsu Kyuu capsule lands safely in the Sea of Japan, where the Imperial Japanese Navy recovers the capsule and the two Uchuunauts on board.
June 10th
Amsterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij begins construction on the second Rotterdam-class amphibious assault ship.
June 18th
Space shuttle Columbia begins its second operational mission, seventh time in space and third mission flying a United States Space Force Command assigned mission when it is launched from Cape Canaveral Space Center, carrying a crew of two and four passengers who will replace the first crew of the spaceship USS Independence which has spent almost five months conducting the ship’s shakedown cruise near and around Earth.
June 19th
The European Space Agency launches its third Ariane rocket carrying two satellites into orbit.
June 20th
Space shuttle Columbia rendezvous and docks with the USS Independence where it transfers the four replacement crew members who are going to continue the USS Independence’s shakedown cruise.
June 24th
The third Type C5 nuclear-powered attack submarine, I-79 is commission into the Japanese Imperial Navy.
June 29th
Noord Brabant-class destroyer, Hr.Ms. Noord Brabant is decommissioned after having served in the Royal Netherlands Navy for more than twenty-five years.
June 30th
Five years after his death in 1976 the Communist Party of United China, one of two parties in the United Republic of China, describes the late Mao Zedong (1949-1976) as having made contributions to China that will never be forgotten.
July 17th
The Columbia is returned to Cape Canaveral Space Center from California atop the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft where it will be prepared for it’s eight time into space.
July 29th
The marriage of the Prince of Wales and the Lady Diana Spencer takes place at St Paul's Cathedral.
August 19th
Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi sent two Sukhoi Su-22 fighter jets to intercept two United States Navy F-14 Tomcat fighters that had taken off from aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt over the Gulf of Sidra. In the battle that followed the two US Navy F-14 Tomcats engage and destroy the two Su-22 fighter jets.
August 29th
Mexico and France recognize El Salvador's the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) opposition as a ''representative political force.''
September 1st
The leader of the FMLN, Guillermo Ungo, states that neither his guerrillas nor the United States-backed Salvadoran Army are capable of achieving a military victory in the near future.
September 7th
Canada becomes the fourth nation to sign the Space Research and Cooperation Treaty and with it becomes a member of the Amsterdam Space Cooperation Organization (ASCO) which allows all member nations to benefit from the Dutch space program, without the Netherlands having to hand over warp or advanced military technology to them.
September 13th
In El Salvador government forces capture a guerrilla base camp where about 400 rebels had been established.
September 18th
The French National Assembly votes to abolish the death penalty. This in effect outlaws execution by guillotine (6).
September 20th
The Empire of Japan launches three satellites into orbit on board one single rocket for the first time.
September 21st
Belize is given its independence from the United Kingdom and joins the UN under protests from Guatemala.
September 22st
El Salvador's President Duarte announces that his government has dismissed 600 National Guardsmen and imprisoned 64 others for crimes against Salvadoran civilians.
October 6th
Egyptian president Anwar Sadat is assassinated during a parade by army members who were part of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization. They opposed his negotiations with Israel.
October 8th
President Gerald Ford greets predecessors Richard Milhous Nixon and John F. Kennedy, before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral.
October 10th
At Number four Proxima Centauri b shipyard the fourth Experimentele Ruimteschip (Experimental spaceship) named KNRS ER-4 is completed. Equipped with the first working cloaking system the KNRS ER-4 will remain at Number four Proxima Centauri b shipyard for some time in order to test her operating and cloaking systems before she begins her shakedown cruise in the Alpha Centauri system.
October 14th
Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected president of Egypt.
October 23rd
The third Space Shuttle to be build and the second space capable shuttle named Challenger (OV-103) final assembly is completed.
October 27th
At Camp David, the official retreat of the President of the United States, the four Amsterdam Space Cooperation Organization (ASCO) head of states meet where Prime Minister Willem Bakker proposes the creation of a space version of NATO and removing some of its restrictions it has imposed under the Space Research and Cooperation Treaty. After the proposal was made a couple of hours of discussion and some compromising followed but in the end President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, President Gerald Ford and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau agreed to Prime Minister Willem Bakker proposal even if the Netherlands has made the rules which is for the three nations nothing compared to the advantages they hope to gain.
October 28th
The governor of Alpha Centauri informs the ambassador of the Confederacy of Vulcan, ambassador of the Andorian Empire and the ambassador of Tellarite in Nieuw Batavia that due to the Coridan Crisis and the fear of a Romulan attack on either Earth or Alpha Centauri they have decided to establish an international space force made up of the four ASCO members and that in the upcoming months a delegation of those nations will travel to Proxima Centauri b to visit the colony.
October 29th
Launched from Cape Canaveral Space Center, space shuttle Columbia begins its third operational mission, eight time in space and third mission to the Skylab space station.
October 31st
The keel of the fourth Roosevelt-class aircraft carrier is laid down at Newport News shipyard in Virginia.
Space shuttle Columbia rendezvous with the Skylab space station and begins its six day mission to replace several system components (7).
November 4th
The Vietnamese Buddhist Sangha is created in Hanoi at the behest of Vietnam as the only legal religious organization in the nation and accountable to its government.
After six days in space, the space shuttle Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base, ending another successful mission.
November 11th
The USS Ohio is commissioned at Groton, Connecticut and is the largest submarine to enter service to this date. The USS Ohio is the first Ohio-class submarine, designed to carry 24 Trident II missiles, each missile in turn capable of carrying 17 nuclear warheads.
November 17th
In a meeting of the National Security Council at the White House, President Gerald Ford makes the decision to support the Contras, a 500 man force that will fight the leftist government of Nicaragua and protect the right-wing government of El Salvador against rebels.
November 26th
Callisto weapon base on Callisto, a moon of Jupiter, becomes operational. Armed with 150 Mark I photon torpedoes and 6x3 phaser banks this new KNRD weapon base together with its little brother the Phobos weapon platform orbiting Mars are Earth first and best line of defense in case of unwanted visitors.
November 27th
In the city of London all four ASCO member nations sign the Treaty of London which sees the creation of the International Space Treaty Organization (ISTO) which will be led by the Netherlands (8).
November 30th
In Geneva representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin negotiating intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe.
December 2nd
The sixth Kortenaer-class frigate, Hr.Ms. Philips van Almonde is launched at Wilton-Fijenoord, Netherlands.
December 4th
Arnhem-class destroyer KNRS Amersfoort completes her fitting-out at Proxima Centauri b spacedock and begins receiving her crew, who will start preparing the ship for her shakedown cruise in the Alpha Centauri system.
December 12th
TK-208, the first of the Soviet Union's Typhoon-class submarines and the largest submarine that has been built up to this point is commissioned. The previous largest submarine to be commissioned was the USS Ohio which was commissioned on November 11th 1981.
Queen Khamphoui of Laos and her sons Crown Prince Vong Savang and prince Sisavang visits the Empire of Japan.
December 17th
Negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union to reduce intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe end inconclusively.
December 20th
The European Space Agency launches its fourth Ariane rocket carrying a satellite into orbit.
December 25th
The Dutch government announces that the they will ease the decades-old ban on weapons exports to other countries which means that companies like DAF, Fokker, Koolhoven Helikopter Industries, Signaal-Defensie Industries and others will be allowed to sell some of their hardware to other countries as long as it approved by the government first.
December 27th
East Timor's president formally opens a consulate in Netherlands Timor in an effort to strengthen relations between the Netherlands and the Republic of East Timor.
December 31st
Netherlands unemployment stands at a record 175,000.
(1) The Independence-class spaceships are designed with two escape capsules for emergency but otherwise have to rely on the Space Shuttles to resupply and crew them.
(2) The Gouvernement Marine (Government Navy or GM) operates in a civil-administrative role alongside the Royal Netherlands Navy and is used mostly for transporting small amounts of cargo and personnel over short distances across the Dutch East Indies and undertaking actions against smugglers, slavery and piracy while also conducting search and rescue operations alongside the Royal Netherlands Navy if needed.
(3) Despite the ceasefire still in place since 1974 no attempt have been made by the United States, United Republic of China, China-Nanking or Japanese to create a permanent peace deal.
(4) While Clear Space Force Command station is now the new launch site for the S-1 Darkstar space plane, Midway Naval Test Range will remain the main testing site for the S-1 Darkstar space plane and a second launch site in case of emergencies.
(5) The modified version of the Tsukuyomi 2 rocket carries a docking adapter so that it can link with the Supēsu spacecraft.
(6) French President Valéry Giscard has a deep aversion against capital punishment in his 1981 campaign proclaimed that he would abolish the death penalty if re elected.
(7) The third mission to the Skylab space station is the last of the reactivation missions to Skylab before in 1982 a space shuttle mission will deliver a solar-powered Power Expansion Package, refurbished scientific equipment and deliver a crew which will begin a 90-day mission onboard the space station, the first of many to followed since Skylab was abandoned in 1974.
(8) The International Space Treaty Organization (ISTO) can be compared to NATO but will be focused on defending Earth and the Sol system from alien threats. Currently the two major members are the Netherlands (Royal Netherlands Space Force) and the United States of America (United States Space Force Command) and it will be the military version of the Amsterdam Space Cooperation Organization which will under the new agreement see the expanding of collaborating in research, scientific and technological programs (this sharing doesn’t including the Netherlands to have to share or transfer warp or advanced military technology to them but the Netherlands will allow member nations to have a presence onboard their spaceships and to visit Alpha Centauri).
