Rise of Weirdness - Part 27

1 January 1975

Mars Station, in an areostationary orbit opens for business as a waypoint for people migrating to Mars.

January 2, 1975

Additional information is leaked in Paris about the SAFARI program...

February 6, 1975

Again, students demonstrate in Barcelona, supporting Catalan Independence...

March 1, 1975:

Quest from Babylon film starring Peter Ustinov and Mia Farrow is banned from theatres after riots erupt in major cities across America, investigations report evil mystical energies of a possible curse around the film....

March 24, 1975:

Indian Guru Maharishi Mahesh Yogi proclaims "The Dawn of A Golden Age of Enlightenment" in New Delhi, proclaiming the "spiritual superiority" of the Indian state against the Anglo-French Union and the United States,.....

April 13, 1975:

Lebanon collapses into civil war after fighting erupts between Christian and Syrian-backed Muslim militias in Beirut,...

April 24, 1975:

Soviet officials launch a brutal crackdown in Van, Armenia SSR, amist claims that the village was threatening to secede,...

May 9, 1975

A small group of Elves arrive on Callisto.

June 25, 1975:

Indian President Chandra Shekar declares a "State of Emergency" citing the ongoing violence , claiming "Transformed elements" are behind the violence,....

September 22, 1975:

U.S. President Walter Mondale is assassinated in Sacramento, California by cult followers of Charles Manson,...

November 10, 1975:

United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution #3379, condemning Zionism as racism, despite pressure from the Eugene McCarthy Administration in Washington D.C., sparking tensions between the Anglo-French Union and the United States,...

January 1, 1976:

A strange glowing meteor falls on the outskirts of Winchester.

January 2, 1976
Citing Indonesian provocations, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser declares the Top End of the Northern Territory to be an area 'Free of Transformed of Non-Indigenous-Origin'.

Scientists in the employ of the Department of Defence arrive to study the strange meteor in Winchester,.

January 3, 1976:

The local paper reports on the presence of the DoD scientists...

January 4, 1976:

The Army arrives and secures the area around the meteor. (Incompletely, as will be seen on Feb 1st.)

January 5, 1976:

The Army tells the local reporters that there is nothing to see.

January 6, 1976

Again, reporters attempt to gain access to the meteor..

January 20, 1976:

Darmour Massacre; 582 Christians in southern Lebanon are killed by ALO guerillas, fueling international condemnation,...

January 31, 1976:
Dragon Hatchings reported at Liaoning, China, coincidentally during the beginning of celebrations of the Chinese "Year of the Dragon", sparking international attention and concern,....

Darwin declared evacuated of Transformed.

February 1, 1976:

Marina Neverton, a 12 year old of Winchester, MA, approaches the meteor, which is still glowing, on a dare. She falls unconscious, and is taken to hospital. She remains in a coma as of midnight.

February 13, 1976:

Cuban President Luis Posada Carriles condemns the growing civil rights policies towards Transformed, citing them as a "national threat", in Havana,...

February 14, 1976
Massive Protests in Canberra at the anti-transformed policies in the Northern Territory. PM Fraser is accused of Anti-Indonesian paranoia.

Anti-Communist Tuan Phan Long, leads the Cochinchina call for secession, threatening the Socialist state of Vietnam, fueling calls for Chinese intervention,....

25 February 1976
The first incident of an entire village deciding to leave Earth occurs. With the various Elven Transformed coordinating the flight, the Australian village of Kootingal leaves Earth. They end up deciding not to land the village on any other world. They decide to orbit the Earth in a 14 day orbit.

March 1, 1976:

Jenna Langley, having spent most of the past month at her friend, Marina Neverton’s bedside, suddenly experiences precognitive visions of Marina defending the town (Winchester) against some threat...

April 17, 1976:

Concerned about Jenna’s visions, her parents decide to move away from Winchester.

April 24, 1976:

Belfast Uprising; British officials launch a brutal crackdown on Belfast during the Easter weekend amidst fears of Irish Catholics leading a secessionist move into space,...

May 5 1976

Apple Computers releases it's first Personal Spell Calculator.

May 11 1976

A small group of dwarves arrive on Enceladus.

May 18, 1976:

Having purchased a house in a Philadelphia suburb, the Langleys leave Winchester.

April 10, 1976:

Were-beings (a.k.a. "Furries") launch a convemtion in Minneapolis, Minnesota, demanding political protection,...

June 18, 1976:

The Winchester meteor splits in two...

July 19, 1976

The smaller of the two fragments of the Winchester Meteor disintegrates...

July 25, 1976:

U.S. Space Force (USSF) officials led by Richard C. Hoagland report the discovery of the "Face on Mars" on Cydonia, Mars, conclusively proving the existence of extraterrestrial life,...

August 1-5, 1976:

The First Neo-pagan Festival is held in Glenn Innes, New South Wales is launched, promoting the idea of Transformed and Neo-Pagan Exodus, angering social and political conservatives,....

September 4, 1976:

Guam is named the 52nd State of the Union after a national referendum, sparking national attention,...

October 5-10, 1976:

First Offworlder Summit led by Teneille Nolan establishing the Offworld Representation Organisation at Copernicus Crater,...

October 6, 1976:
Anti-Party Group led by Leonid Brezhnev, Nikolai Bulganin, Georgy Zhukov, and Dmitri Shepilov launch a failed coup attempt to control the government after Beria's death,...