Rise of Weirdness - Part 21

January 1, 1959

Laura Neverton is seen in Coumbus, Ohio...

January 2, 1959

In Winchester, it is announced that a new school would be built by the next year.

January 3, 1959

Neverton enters one of the Libaries of Magic in Columbus, and leaves with a book which had mysteriously appeared there after the Incident.

January 24, 1959
Several Cargo tankers disappear from the Pacific as they approach Panama...

February 15, 1959

In Winchester, it is observed that the strangeness around the former site of the High School includes non-euclidian geometeries.

9^th March 1959

It is determined that Hitler is not in Venezuela...

March 10, 1959:

President Chiang Kai-shék, defies American and European political pressure, stating that Tibet is a part of China, deploying troops to the region,...

March 31, 1959
An expedition in the Australian outback discover a kaiju that they suspect may have inspired the indiginous Rainbow Serpent legends.

1 April, 1959
The expedition barely escapes when the kaiju (discovered the day before) awakes...

April 15, 1959:

Daniel Woolaston of the Chicago Cubs becomes the first known Transformed to play major league baseball professionally,...

April 28, 1959:

Independent Tibetan government is established in Lhasa, amidst pressure from the U.S. government, fueling tensions between the United States and the Kuomintang government,....

May 4, 1959
A Soviet expedition discovers a hibernating kaiju somewhere on the Kamchatka peninsula.

June 5, 1959
Another kajiu is discovered by Soviet explorers in northern Siberia.

June 15, 1959:

Anglo-French Union forces are deployed into Palestine to defend the Gaza Strip, the first military action by the fledgling superpower,...

July 22, 1959:

Tales from Portland film directed by Ed Wood Jr., is banned from theatres after riots erupt in major cities across America including Chicago, Minneapolis, Boise and Portland, investigations report evil mystical energies of a possible curse around the film....

July 29, 1959:

Plantard Letters; Anglo-French Union leaders after fascist leader Pierre Plantard reveals his ties with Charles de Gaulle, threatening the union,..

August 15, 1959

Laura Neverton is seen in San Francisco.

October 15, 1959:

With the abrupt resignation of J. Edgar Hoover as Director of the FBI, Eliot Ness, former mayor of Cleveland, Ohio is named FBI Director, with Walter Winchell serving as Press Secretary/ Public Information Officer for the agency in Washington D.C.,....

October 23, 1959:

Anglo-French Union troops enter into Thailand citing the threat of "Communist infiltration",...

November 21, 1959
A kaiju is discovered on a island near Tahiti by a French expedition.

November 24, 1959:
Soviet military and scientific officials report a massive "Orichalum meteorite in Yardymly, Azerbaijan SSR, with many reporting auroras as far as Central and South Asia, fueling military operations in the region,....

1960s

NASA experiments show that the effects of the Hellstorms don't extend into orbit, but that the magic derived from the Sumerian tablets does.

January 5, 1960:

Francesc Sabate Llopart (a.k.a. "El Quico") emerges as the "voice of reform" after calling for Transformed havens in Madrid,...

January 25, 1960
American forces go on high alert, as reports of mobilization of Soviet forces come in.

March 14, 1960:

Indian Prime Minister Jawarhalal Nehru declares martial law in New Delhi, citing Communist cells in Kerala and West Bengal,...

March 29, 1960:

Anglo-French Union singer Jacqueline Boyer makes her hit debut with the single "Tom Pillibi", sparking international attention,....

May 17, 1960
The Kamchatka kaiju briefly awakes...

September 18, 1960

A Transformed vigilante group calling themselves the 'MinuteElves', defend Lahaina, Hawaii from an immature kaiju.

October 21, 1960
The MinuteElves capture a mad scientist in his Caribbean hidehout.

November 8, 1960:

Lyndon Baines Johnson is elected President of the United States, with Vice-President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, with the issue of Transformed rights becoming a major issue go the election, sparking international attention,....

November 13, 1960:

U.S. troops are deployed into Guatemala in one of the last executive orders of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, sparking international attention and concern,....

November 30, 1960:

Failed assassination attempt against Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru in New Delhi, fueling tensions in the region,...