Friday, December 21, 2012

1957

1957

January 10th
Anthony Eden resigns and Harold Macmillan becomes prime minister of Great Britain.

January 20th
Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated for a second term as president of the United States.

January 26th
KNRS Panter , is commissioned , becoming the second Wolf class scout vessel to enter in service whit the royal Netherlands space force.

January 29th
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 “.

March 8th
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.

March 17th
Netherlands government lifts ban on Sunday driving.

May 15th
1st British Hydrogen bomb explosion happens at Malden Island , Pacific.

May 23rd
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.

June 10th
Fifth Type A class shuttle designated KNRS A5 begins its test flight out of Netherlands space centre Guyana.

April 20th
KNRS Panter begins its shakedown cruise.

July 15th
A Fokker 27-100 belonging to KLM East Indies crashes near Java , Netherlands East Indies , killing 44 passengers and crew.

Augustus 15th
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.

September 14th
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.

September 15th
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.

September 16th
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.

September 17th
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.

September 18th
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.

September 28th
Queen Juliana opens Velser Tunnels ,Netherlands.

October 4th
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.

October 27th
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.

October 28th
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.

November 3rd
The Soviet Union successfully launches Sputnik II (4) , and whit it , the first official earth orbiting artificial satellite achieves orbit.

November 4th
After six days of negations , diplomatic relation between Vulcan and the Netherlands are formed (5).

November 6th
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.

November 7th
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.

November 30th
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.

December 4th
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.

December 6th
1st United States attempt to launch a satellite fails , as the Vanguard rocket blows up.

December 15th
Population of Netherlands nationals living in the Netherlands East Indies reaches 500,000.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

Sunday, November 25, 2012

1956

January 26th
The 1956 winter Olympic games open in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.

February 5th
The 1956 winter Olympic games (1) end , whit the Netherlands wining one silver and two bronze medals.

February 25th
Soviet party leader Nikita Khrushchev denounces Josef Stalin at the 20th Soviet party conference.

February 29th
US President Dwight Eisenhower announces he will seek a second term.

April 10th
In the Netherlands , Philips begins broadcasting its first color TV programs.

April 11th
French government decides to send 250,000 reservists to Algeria.

May 4th
Queen Juliana unveils the National Neutrality Monument in Amsterdam , Netherlands.

May 8th
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.

May 9th
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.

May 16th
Egypt recognizes the United Republic of China.

May 17th
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).

May 21st
United States explodes its first airborne hydrogen bomb over Johnston Atoll , 1400 km west of Hawaii.

June 7th
KNRS Wolf begins its shakedown cruise , as the ship's crew begin to familiarize themselves whit the operation of the craft.

June 6th
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.

June 15th
Batavia University of Technology is founded in Batavia , Netherlands East Indies.

June 19th
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.

July 23rd
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.

July 25th
After two days , the space exercise ends , and many valuable lessons in operating multiple spaceships at once and under one command have bin gained.

July 26th
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.

July 29th
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.

Augustus 22nd
United States president Dwight Eisenhower and vice president Richard Nixon are re-nominated by republican convention in San Francisco, California.

Augustus 30th
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.

September 22nd
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.

October 16th
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.

October 17th
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.

November 12th
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.

December 26th
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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

Saturday, November 24, 2012

1955

January 14th
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.

January 22nd
The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons.

January 28th
The United States congress authorizes president Dwight D. Eisenhower to increase military aid to the United Republic of China.

February 10th
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.

February 12th
US president Dwight Eisenhower sends more US advisors to the United Republic of China , bringing the total to 700 military advisors.

March 5th
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.

April 3rd
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 .

April 5th
Winston Churchill resigns as the prime minister of the United Kingdom.

April 6th
Anthony Eden becomes the new prime minister of the United Kingdom.

April 11th
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.

April 15th
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.

April 18th
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.

April 24th
The Asian conference ends after six days of discussion.

May 5th
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.

May 9th
West Germany joins NATO.

May 14th
Warsaw pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.

May 15th
Building of space travel center at Baikonur, Kazakhstan begins.

May 18th
Queen Juliana opens E55 fair in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

May 31st
Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities.

June 6th
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.

July 14th
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.

Augustus 30th
First official act of Netherlands crown princess Beatrice, when she launches HNLMS Borneo , the second Celebes class cruiser.

September 12th
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.

October 2nd
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.

October 28th
The aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne is commissioned into the royal Australian navy , becoming Australia first air craft carrier.

December 6th
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.

December 14th
Ireland is together whit Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain admitted to the United Nations.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

Friday, November 23, 2012

1954

January 21st
The first nuclear powered submarine , USS Nautilus , is launched in Groton, Connecticut (1).

February 15th
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.

February 21st
US president Dwight Eisenhower authorizes , 100 million dollar , to be used for military aid to the United Republic of China.

March 13th
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.

March 15th
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.

March 23rd
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.

April 1st
In the Netherlands , the motorway, Amsterdam-Maastricht opens.

April 3rd
Vladimir Petrov (2) defects from the Soviet Union and asks for political asylum in the Netherlands East Indies.

April 14th
A Soviet spy ring in the Netherlands East Indies is uncovered by the royal Netherlands military intelligence service.

May 10th
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.

May 24th
Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands announces that after 63 years on the throne , she will abdicated in favor of here daughter Juliana.

June 16th
Netherlands shortens military conscription from 20 to 18 months.

July 7th
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.

April 7th
President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" (4) speech during a news conference.

April 16th
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.

May 20th
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.

July 8th
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.

September 4th
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.

September 6th
Thailand joins the San Francisco Security Treaty.

September 8th
Juliana becomes queen of the Netherlands.

September 26th
A typhoon hit’s the Japanese empire , 5 ferryboats sink killing about 1,600 people.

October 23rd
West Germany joins NATO.

November 3rd
The first Godzilla movie premieres in the Japanese imperial capitol of Tokyo.

November 12th
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.

November 22nd
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.

December 15th
Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands , receiving the same status as Netherlands Guyana and Netherlands East Indies.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

1953

1953

January 6th
A greater east Asia alliance conference is held in Phnom Penh , kingdom of Cambodia , and is attended by all greater east Asia alliance nations.

January 9th
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.

January 14th
The CIA-sponsored Robertson panel meets to discuss the UFO phenomenon in and around the United States.

January 19th
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).

January 31st
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).

February 3rd
Construction of the first of four to build Van Speijk class frigates (3) for the royal Netherlands navy at the Amsterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij begins.

February 12th
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.

February 20th
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.

February 22nd
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).

March 5th
Josef Stalin, Soviet leader , dies at age 73.

April 1st
Jan van Baal becomes governor-general of the Netherlands East Indies.

April 17th
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.

May 3rd
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 & training center.

May 20th
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.

June 7th
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.

July 5th
The European Economic Community holds its first assembly in Strasbourg, France.

July 27th
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.

Augustus 8th
New Soviet prime minister Georgi Malenkov announces that the Soviet Union has a hydrogen bomb.

Augustus 29th
The Soviet Union explodes its first hydrogen bomb

September 5th
The United Nations rejects the Soviet Union's suggestion to accept the second East Turkestan republic as a member.

October 15th
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.

November 20th
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.

(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.

(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..

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.