January 8th
Thanks to the Netherlands having one of best passenger railway operating companies in the in the world , a train disaster , witch in a different time would happen in Harmelen , killing 93 , and which would be the worst Netherlands rail disaster , dos not happened.
January 12th
Royal Netherlands East Indies army and royal Netherlands East Indies air force begin a large scale exercise in Netherlands New Guinea.
January 18th
The two Maas-class runabout, KNRS Maas and KNRS Marowijne , who have served onboard KNRS Amsterdam for more than 28th years are decommissioned and are stored at Netherlands space centre Guyana ,now that the first Type B class shuttles are about to enter into service whit the royal Netherlands space force (1).
January 9th
Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade pact.
Albania accepts a Soviet Union offer of military and financial aid (2).
February 3th
The United States embargo against Cuba is announced.
February 5th
The first Type B class shuttle, KNRS B1, takes off in the middle of the night from Netherlands space centre Guyana, to begin its first test flights.
February 9th
The Batavia Stock Exchange opens.
February 10th
Captured American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers is exchanged for a captured Japanese spy in Geneva, Switzerland.
February 15th
The Netherlands government rejects the idea of becoming a member of the San Francisco Security Treaty, but approves the idea of becoming a permanent observer.
February 20th
Onboard Friendship 7, astronaut John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth, three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes.
March 9th
US advisors in the United Republic of China join the fight in the divided border of the province of Sichuan.
April 7th
Flagship of the royal Netherlands space force, KNRS Amsterdam, begins it new mission as a transport ship, ferrying material, supplies and people from the assembly points of Mars base Hellas and Mars base Utopia Planitia (3).
April 14th
A small demonstration for a independence Indonesia, free from the Netherlands is held by some 50 people in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
May 24th
Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth 3 times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
June 4th
While waiting to board SS Maasdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, a passenger, called Lee Harvey Oswald falls between the ship and the pier crushing him to death, mister Oswald who was heading to the US from the Soviet Union, was in the Netherlands for a stopover.
June 16th
2 US army officers are killed in a mortar attack in the divided border of the province of Sichuan , China.
July 5th
Algeria becomes independent from France.
July 11th
Soviet cosmonaut Micolaev sets record longest space flight, lasting four days.
September 1st
A referendum in the Dominion of Singapore, shows, that the majority of Singaporeans, do not support joining the Commonwealth of Malaya, and instead wish to remain an independent nation in the commonwealth of nations.
September 2nd
The Soviet Union agrees to send arms to Cuba.
September 12nd
President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the US will put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade.
September 29th
Launched from Vandenberg AFB, California, Canadian Alouette I, becomes the first satellite built outside the United States and the Soviet Union to reach orbit.
October 14th
A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.
October 15th
In a televised address, US, president John F. Kennedy announces to the nation the existence of Soviet missiles in Cuba.
October 23th
US navy ships begin a blockade of Cuba, to prevent Soviet ships from bringing in supplies to complete building missile bases.
October 24th
During the American blockade of Cuba, Soviet tanker Bucharest approaches the quarantine zone, US military forces go to DEFCON 2, preparing for full-scale war with the Soviet Union.
October 25th
Royal Netherlands space force command orders Wolf class scout vessel, KNRS Lynx , to move to a position in which it can intercept missile , in case of war between United States and the Soviet Union , despite knowing that the Cuba missile crisis will end whit a the removal of the missiles placed in Cuba.
October 28th
Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
November 1st
The Soviets begin dismantling their missiles in Cuba.
November 2nd
Wolf class scout vessel, KNRS Lynx , departs earth orbit , after being there for more than seven days , watching and being prepared to retaliate at the orders of the prime minister , if war between the United States and the Soviet Union ,was to brake out.
November 16th
The first flight of the Koolhoven helikopter industrie , new helicopter, called KH-3 Falcon (4) , happens at Deelen Air Base , home of the helicopter group of the royal Netherlands air force.
November 20th
In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, US president John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
November 28th
Former queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands dies at age 82, despite knowing that she would die at this age, she refused any medical help to prolong her life, and dies happy knowing that the Netherlands is still a strong nation.
December 2nd
After a trip to the United Republic of China, at the request of US president John F. Kennedy, US senate majority leader Mike Mansfield tells the US media traveling whit him , the fighting at the divided border of the province of Sichuan between the United Republic of China and Republic of China-Nanking , looks more like world war I , then world war II.
December 8th
Former Netherlands queen Wilhelmina is buried at the New Church in Delft.
December 17th
On Alpha Centauri III , the third colony is founded , and is named Port Wilhelmina , after the former queen Wilhelmina , who died nineteen days ago (5).
(1) the Type B class shuttles are a vastly improvement over the Type A class shuttles, who are now in service whit the royal Netherlands space force, and can reach a top speed of warp 2, have a seat capacity of eight people, and shield to defend itself as regular Type B class shuttle will not be armed, the Type B class shuttles is mostly to be used onboard the Holland class destroyer which is being built at L3 space yard.
(2) ,whit no People's Republic of China , to have relations whit , the People's Socialist Republic of Albania is forced to swallow its pride and to accept and to obey , many of the Soviet demands.
(3) Despite its new function as transport ship, KNRS Amsterdam is still the most powerful vessel in the royal Netherlands space force, and even whit it now reaching its 28 years of service whit the royal Netherlands space force.
(4) the KH-3 Falcon is based on the OTL polish build PZL W-3 Sokół medium-size, twin-engine, multipurpose helicopter several version are being planned ranging from military passenger version to medical evacuation version , to the first gun ship version armed whit twin cannons and four pylons for weapons.
(5) Port Wilhelmina is the third colony and the smallest and newest of the three, the largest is New Batavia whit a population of 5,000, Fort Doorman, whit a population of 2,000 and Port Wilhelmina who consist mostly out of personal belonging to the royal Netherlands engineering corps , then there is also new Veenhuizen penal settlement, which is not considered a colony but has a population of 100 prisoners and a 60 member staff.
