TIMEBASE 1949-99  

1949 The Western powers consolidate their sectors into the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany), a constitutional democracy. The Soviets establish the Communist-run German Democratic Republic in their eastern zone.

1949 The recently launched anti-Semitic campaign in the Soviet Union continues to arrest members of the Jewish Antifascist Committee (JAC). (Britannica)

1949 Former Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius dies an untimely death at the age of 49. His sudden death is said to have been caused by a heart attack, but rumors have persisted that it may not have been by natural causes. (see Liberia, International Bank of Washington)

1949 The Weizmann Institute of Science, incorporating the Sieff Institute, is founded at Rehovot, Israel. Chaim Weizmann is appointed director.

1949 April 18 The Republic of Ireland is formally proclaimed in Dublin.

1949 November 9 The East German Parliament in Berlin unanimously passes a law restoring full citizenship rights to ex-Nazis and army officers. From now on any Russian Zone Nazi - unless he has been convicted of war crimes - can vote, hold public office, and pursue almost any profession. East German Deputy Premier Walter Ulbricht explaining the civil rights law for Nazis and militarists, said that "anti-Fascist forces were sufficiently consolidated," and besides, "many have repented." (International Herald Tribune, Nov. 10, 1949, Nov. 10 1999.)

1949 November The widow of General Ludendorff, on trial at Nuremberg, explains why her husband broke with Hiter, stating, "...as early as the summer of 1929 James P. Warburg had undertaken an assignment from financial circles in America, which desired to exercise solitary influence on Germany in the unleashing of a national revolution. Warburg's task," she said, "was to find the suitable man in Germany, and he entered into contract with Adolph Hitler who subequently received sums of money amounting to 27 million dollars up to January 30, 1932, and still another seven million thereafter, enabling him to finance his movement." (Williams Intelligence Summary, Feb. 1950)

1951 January 1 Communist Chinese and North Korean forces break through UN lines at the 38th parallel dividing North and South Korea.

1951 March 29 Julius Rosenberg, his wife Ethel, and Morton Sobell are found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage against the United States. The Rosenbergs were later condemned to death and Sobell was sentenced to 30 years in prison. He was released in 1969.

1951 June 8 Otto Ohlendorf, former commander of Einsatzgruppe D, is hanged at Landsberg Prison after all appeals have been heard. (Secrets)

1951 July 23 General Henri Philippe Petain dies in a French prison.

1951 A peace treaty with Japan is signed by 50 nations, led by the United States but excluding the Soviet bloc. Japan is required to abandon claims to China and to renounce the use of force to settle international disputes. Reparations are not imposed and the treaty does not recognize Soviet occupation of the Kuril Islands or southern Sakhalin.

1952 A treaty between Japan and the Allies goes into effect and Japan regains full sovereignty.

1952 November 9 Chaim Weizmann, former head of the international Zionist movement and the first president of the newly formed state of Israel dies in Rehovot, Israel. (See Blutzeuge)

1953 April 25 Watson and Crick define the three-dimensional structure of DNA, the hereditary material first identified in 1944. Rapid, almost explosive, advances in the science of genetics begin. Soon, semi-synthetic hereditary material engineered for specific purposes can be introduced into plant and animal tissues, even into the germ line, where it is inherited by the next generation. (Science)

1953 June 19 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are exected.

1954 April 18 Gamal Abdel Nasser becomes prime minister of Egypt.

1954 April 22 Jorg Lanz von Liebenfels (Adolf Joseph Lanz) dies in Vienna. His request to be buried at Heilegenkreuz monastery is refused. Rumors soon circulate that his body was secretly disinterred and reburied at Heiligenkreuz. (Howe)

1955 An treaty between the former Allies and Austria treats Austria as a liberated nation and not a defeated one. Austria receives independence, and the four-power occupation is terminated.

1955 April 12 The Salk vaccine against polio is declared safe and effective.

1955 April 18 Albert Einstein, the German-born American theoretical physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect, dies at the age of 76. His specific and general theories of relativity revolutionized modern thought on the nature of space and time and formed a theoretical base for the exploitation of atomic energy.

1956 April 19 Prince Rainier of Monaco marries American screen actress Grace Kelly in Monte Carlo. Over 1,200 guests attend the televised Catholic wedding ceremony.

1956 Eduard Schulte marries a Jewess (Doris), who has been his mistress since before the war. His wife, Clara Ebert Schulte died the previous year. (Silence)

1957 March 26 The West German Constitutional Court upholds the continued validity of the Vatican Concordat for the German Federal Republic.

1958 October 9 Pope Pius XII dies at Castel Gandolfo.

1959 Franz von Papen is appointed Papal Privy Chamberlain.

1959 April 19 The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan leader fleeing a communist Chinese invasion of his country, finds sanctuary in India.

1960 April 19 South Korean President Syngman Rhee is toppled in anationwide pro-democracy student uprising that was protestingelection fraud.

1960 June 1 Paula Hitler, Adolf Hitler's only surviving full-sibling, dies. Since neither Adolf nor Paula had children, there are no known living descendants of Alois and Klara Hitler. (Payne)

1961 April 12 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to fly in space, orbiting the Earth once before making a successful landing.

1962 November 9 The Republic of China Army test-fires its homemade T-2 rocket.

1962 November 9 The United States completes an emergency airlift of arms and ammunition to India during India's border war with Communist China.

1965 January Churchill suffers a stroke which his physician, Lord Moran, tells the family will probably be fatal.

1965 January 24 Winston Churchill dies at age 90. After telling his son-in-law, Christopher Soames: "I am so bored with it," he never again made an intelligible remark to anyone.

Note: Churchill died at his home at 28 Hyde Park Gate in London shortly after 8:00 a.m. on the seventieth anniversary of the death of his father, Sir Randoph Churchill.

1965 January 30 Great Britain holds an elaborate State Funeral for Sir Winston Churchill.

1965 November 9 The "Great Northeast Power Outage" blacks-out New York City, several states in the northeast, and parts of Canada after a series of mysterious power failures that last up to 13 1/2 hours. The black-outs struck just before dusk. Losses are estimated at nearly $100 million U.S..

Note: Several Nazi groups in Germany later claimed responsibility and said that their disruption of electricity to New York had been a symbolic demonstration of their power. "We wanted to show the Jews of New York just how quickly we could put them back in the Dark Ages," one elderly Nazi joked in 1992. (See Blutzeuge, November 9th)

1966 April 19 Australian troops leave Sydney to join American forces in Vietnam.

1968 Soviet journalist Lev Bezymenski publishes "The Death of Adolf Hitler" which discloses previously unavailable information concerning the autopsies of what are said to be the bodies of Adolf Hitler and his entourage.

1968 April 17 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with South Korean President Park Chung Hee in Honolulu, pledging U.S. protection for noncommunist Asia.

1968 April 18 Army officers in western Africa's Sierra Leone take over the government, dissolve the Legislature, and suspend the constitution.

1969 Former German Chancellor Franz von Papen dies.

1969 Morton Sobell is released from prison after serving almost two-thirds of his 30-year sentence for conspiracy to commit espionage against the U.S. (see Julius and Ethel Rosenberg)

1969 July 20 The Apollo 11 spacecraft, launched by NASA from Cape Kennedy, Florida, lands a manned lunar module on the moon's surface.

1969 July 21 American astronaut Neil Armstrong climbs out of the lunar module and walks on the moon's surface, saying "one giant step for man; one giant leap for mankind." Apollo 11 returns with its crew to earth on July 24.

1969 De Gaulle resigns as President of France.

1970 U.S.S.R. and West Germany sign a friendship treaty in Moscow.

1970 April 4-5 Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev orders the bodies of Hitler and his entourage exhumed from their hiding place at Magdeburg, and incinerated.

1970 November 9 General Charles De Gaulle dies at age 79. Ge Gaulle for many years had been aware of ODESSA and Neo-Nazi activity within the CIA and had his agents keeping him informed. The coincidence of his death should not be overlooked. (See Blutzeuge)

1971 April 17 Egypt, Syria and Libya sign an agreement to form a confederation.

1971 April 17 East Pakistanis declare their homeland an independent nation which they rename Bangladesh. Sheik Mujibur Rahman serves as the nation's first prime minister.

1975 April 19 India's first satellite is launched by a Soviet rocket.

1976 July 13-14 Former SS Colonel Joachim Peiper is murdered at his home near Traves, France, and his house is burned down around him. One of his arms and a leg were missing and the body could only be identified by his watch and dental records. It was rumored that French patriots, communists or even a Jewish revenge squad were responsible. (Secrets)

1977 April 19 Chinese Education Minister Tsiang Yien-si resigns to take responsibility for an incident in which 32 college students and teachers were killed when their boat capsized near Suao Port in eastern Taiwan. Tsiang was succeeded by Li Yuan-zu.

1979 January 1 The United States and Communist China set up diplomatic ties, 30 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

1980 April 17 The International Monetary Fund (IMF) accepts mainland China as a member, and the Republic of China (ROC) is forced to pull out of the organization.

1980 April 18 The former Rhodesia becomes independent Zimbabwe under President Canaan Banana.

1983 The Catholic Church ends its policy of automatic excommunication of Freemasons. (Timetables)

1986 An accident at a Soviet nuclear power plant at Chernobyl releases large amounts of radiation into the atmosphere. Many Russians believe that the attempted coverup of Chernobyl was the beginning of the collapse of the Communist empire. (Yaroshinskaya, N.Y. Times)

1988 December Mikhail Gorbachev, in an address at the United Nations, states,"Further global progress is now possible only through a quest for universal consensus in the movement towards a new world order."

1989 April 12 Radical (leftist) activist Abbie Hoffman, 52, is found dead at his home in New Hope, Pa.

1989 April 18 Mainland China's Affairs Council under the Executive Yuan decides to permit Taiwan citizens to gather news and make films in mainland China.

1989 November 9 Without warning, East German border guards open the gates to West Berlin and the Berlin Wall suddenly comes down. The swiftness of its fall stuns the world and many find it suspicious that this remarkable event coincides with the date of Adolf Hitler's most "sacred" Nazi holiday: Gedenktag fuer die Gefallenen der Nazi Bewegung.

Note: November 9 was a date connected with the National Socialist movement from its very beginning and with Hitler as far back as World War I. (Blutzeuge)

1989 November 9 The fifth plenary meeting of the Chinese Communist Party's 13th Central Committee concludes. Deng Xiaoping resigns from the post of chairman of the party's Central Military Commission. Jiang Zemin succeeds Deng to take up the post.

1991 January The Soviet army attacks public buildings in Riga and Vilnius.

1991 June 12 Boris Yeltsin becomes first democratically elected Russian President.

1991 July 10 Yeltsin is inaugurated. Soon afterward the bodies of Czar Nicholas II and his family are exhumed.

1991 August 19 Yanayev, Pugo, Yazov and three others announce a Russian take-over.

1991 August 20 Yeltsin speaks to crowd from atop a tank and then barricades himself in the Parliament building.

1991 August 21 Latvia declares its independence and Gorbachev returns from house arrest in the Crimea.

1991 August 22 Pugo is said to have committed suicide.

1991 August 24 Gorbachev resigns as head of the Communist Party. Yeltsin closes Pravda and disbands the Communist Party.

1991 September 5 A Russian State Council is set up by Congress of People's Deputies to govern in emergency.

1991 September 7 The Baltic states are recognized by Russia.

1991 Autumn Leningrad is renamed "St. Petersburg."

1991 November 1 COMECON is dissolved.

1991 November 15 Freedom to import and export is established in Russia.

1991 December 1 Ukrainian referendum on independence passes by 90.3 percent.

1991 December 8 The presidents of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine sign a treaty to abolish the USSR and form the CIS.

1992 January 2 The Russian Prime Minister frees prices. The Ruble quickly plummets and prices sky-rocket.

1992 March 31 A Federation Treaty is signed by all autonomous republics except Chechnya and Tatarstan.

1992 May 6 Gorbachev makes a speech closing the Communist era at Westminster College.

1992 May 15 Russia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgystan sign a treaty on Collective Security.

1992 April 1 Western nations announce $24 billion aid package for Russia.

1992 April 6 Congress of People's Deputies begins its attack on the government.

1992 June 15 Yegor Gaidar is appointed acting prime minister by Yeltzin.

1992 October 1 Voucher privatization begins in Russia.

1992 December 14 Victor Chernomyrdin replaces Yegor Gaidar as prime minister of Russia.

1993 February 19 Russian officials show what they say are two pieces of Hitler's skull to the world press. Many historians remain skeptical of their authenticity.

1993 March 11 The Russian Congress of People's Deputies passes a resolution limiting the powers of government to implement reforms.

1993 March 20 Yeltsin introduces "special presidential rule."

1993 March 23 Speaker of Congress Khasbulatov calls for impeachment of Yeltsin.

1993 April 3-4 US-Russian summit in Vancouver.

1993 April 19 A total of 87 Branch Davidian cult members, including their leader David Koresh, are killed when U.S. federal agents storm the Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, after a 51-day standoff. Nine members are taken alive.

1993 April 25 A Russian referendum supports the president and the reforms.

1993 August 31 Soviet troops withdrawn from Lithuania, but not Latvia or Estonia.

1993 Sept 18 Gaidar rejoins government as first deputy prime minister.

1993 September 21 the President dissolves Congress of People's Deputies and Supreme Soviet of RF and calls for an election of a Federal Assembly.

1993 September 22 Parliament appoints Vice President Rutskoi president.

1993 October 2-4 Storming of the House of the Soviets in Moscow.

1993 October 3 Parliamentary forces attack Ostankino TV and mayor's office.

1993 October 4 Government forces storm the Parliament building.

1993 December 12 Elections are held for the first Federal Assembly of Russia and a referendum to ratify the Russian Constitution.

1994 Otto Remer flees to Spain to escape a 22-month jail sentence in Germany for "inciting hate, violence and racism" by publicly denying that Nazi gas chambers ever existed or that the holocaust occurred.

1994 Janusry 11 The Russian Federal Assembly begins its work.

1994 February 23 State Duma passes amnesty for political and economic crimes.

1994 April 12 Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell declines to be nominated to the Supreme Court.

1994 April 17 Mainland China's public security unit announces it has solved a criminal case in which 24 Taiwan tourists were killed at Qiandao Lake on March 31, 1994.

1994 June 16 Yegor Gaidar resigns as first deputy prime minister.

1994 July Yeltsin meets with G-7 leaders in Naples.

1994 October 11 The Russian Ruble crashes.

1994 October 28 Solzhenitsyn addresses the State Duma.

1994 November 28 Russian Security Council votes to send troops to Chechnya.

1994 December 12 Russian troops invade Chechnya.

1995 January 27 The Russian Federal Assembly bans loans from the Central Bank to the government without its approval.

1995 April 19 A huge truck bomb destroys the Alfred P. Murrah government building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring more than 400 others. The convicted saboteur, Timothy McVeigh, later claimed it was in retaliation for the government attack on the Branch Davidian compound in Texas exactly two year earlier.

1995 Spring Russian troops massacre villagers in Samashky.

1995 June 14 Chechens take hostages at Budennovsk.

1995 July Yeltsin suffers his first reported heart attack.

1995 October 26 Yeltsin suffers second heart attack.

1995 December 17 CPRF under Gennady Zyuganov dominates the Duma elections.

1996 January 5 Kozyrev resigns as Russian foreign minister and is replaced by former KGB Chief Primakov.

1996 March 29 Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan sign integration accords in Moscow.

1996 April 2 Russia and Belarus sign "Agreement on the Formation of a Community."

1996 April 17 U.S. President Bill Clinton signs a joint declaration on security cooperation with Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto pledging to maintain American military levels in Japan and elsewhere in Asia.

1996 June 16 In the Russian presidential primaries, Yeltsin and Zyuganov (Communist Party) win.

1996 June 26 The Ukrainian Parliament adopts the constitution.

1996 July 3 Yeltsin defeats Zyuganov in a run-off election.

1996 July 12 The new Ukrainian constitution is signed by President Kuchma.

1996 August 5 Chechen rebels re-take Grozny.

1996 August 23 Full-scale combat operations end in Chechnya.

1996 August 31 Lebed and Aslan Maskhadov sign peace a accord in Chechnya.

1996 November 5 Yeltsin undergoes quintuple by-pass surgery.

1996 November 28 Belorussian President Lukashenko signs a new constitution extending his powers and replacing the parliament.

1996 December 1 Russian troops begin withdrawal from Chechnya.

1997 January 1 A new Russian Criminal Code replaces the 1960 Soviet code.

1997 January 27 Chechen elections are held. Aslan Maskhadov wins with 65 percent.

1997 March 21 Yeltsin and Clinton meet in Helsinki to discuss expansion of NATO.

1997 April Union Treaty is signed.

1997 April 19 The SS Sheng Da, a mainland China container freighter, steams into Kaohsiung Port on its maiden voyage, becoming the firstship to sail directly to Taiwan from the mainland in 48 years, andcompleting an historic crossing of one of the world's great political divides.

1997 May 26 Russian-Belarus Union Charter signed by Lukashenko and Yeltsin

1997 May 27 Yeltsin and Clinton sign "Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation" which creates a permanent joint council including Russia in NATO decision-making.

1997 June 11 The Russian-Belarus Union Charter goes into effect.

1997 June 28 Tajik Peace and National Reconciliation Accord signed in Moscow.

1997 October 4 Otto Remer dies at his home in Marabella, Spain. He is said to have become an icon to several thousand Spaniards who adhered to Neo-Nazis doctrine. (N.Y. Times)

1997 October 16 A Polish government panel finds no evidence that Communist authorities instigated the 1946 pogrom against Jews in Kielce (P), but acknowledged the Communists did not act quickly enough to control the violence. 42 Jews were killed during what is considered the last pogrom in Europe. A number of Polish army officers and security officers are known to have taken part in the attacks.

1998 March 23 Yeltsin fires Chernomyrdin and reorganizes his cabinet.

1998 April 18 Official talks between South and North Korea end with the two sides failing to resolve a dispute over aid to the starving North and the reunion of separated families.

1998 April 24 Sergei Kirienko is finally confirmed as Russian prime minister.

1998 May 27 A massive sell-off of Russian bonds, securities and rubles begins.

1998 July 17 The remains of Czar Nicholas II and family are interred in St. Petersburg.

1998 August Another Russian financial crisis begins.

1998 August 17 Kirienko announces ruble devaluation. The Russian economy is paralyzed by liquidity shortages. Share prices plunge and Russia soon defaults on its foreign loans.

1998 August 23 Yeltsin sacks entire government, appoints Chernomyrdin interim prime minister.

1998 September 10 Victor Chernomyrdin steps aside after the Duma twice rejects his nomination.

1998 September 11 Yuri Primakov is confirmed as Russian prime minister.

1999 January 1 Member nations of the European Union adopt the "euro" as their common currency.

1999 April 19 The Republic of China-Swaziland Conference on Economic and technological cooperation opens in Taipei.

1999 April 19 Jeffrey Koo, chairman of the Taipei-based Chinese National Association of Industry and Commerce, says that if Beijing bullies Taiwanese doing business in mainland China, it will hurt both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

1999 May 12 Yeltsin sacks cabinet, including Primakov.

1999 May 13 Impeachment hearings begin in the Duma.

1999 May 15 An impeachment vote against Yeltsin fails.

1999 May 19 The Duma approves Sergei Stepashin as Russia's new prime minister.

1999 August 9 Stepashin dismissed as prime minister.

1999 August 16 Vladimir Putin is confirmed as prime minister,

1999 September A Russian money-laundering scheme via the Bank of New York unravels in the world press.

1999 November 9 Tenth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In Berlin, more than 100,000 people celebrate at the Brandenburg gate. Neo-Nazis and violent nationalists avoid the celebration. No skinheads or violent reactionaries create any disruptions in Berlin, and the celebration is peaceful and well-organized. There are, however, several desecrations and Neo-Nazi incidents in a number of smaller cities. Many Neo-Nazis, both in Europe and America believe this date marks a day of very special importance (schicksalstag) to their movement. (See Blutzeuge, Munich Putsch, Kristallnacht)

1999 November 9 Reinhard meets briefly with Heinz C. Prechter at the Hotel Adlon in Berlin. Prechter, who introduces himself as Chairman of the Committee to Elect George W. Bush, Jr., is also Chairman and CEO of ASC INCORPORATED of Southgate, MI., as well as a number of other corporations both in Europe and America. Some describe Prechter as being a "major figure" in "German-American cooperation." Earlier in 1999, he was the 1999 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

1999 November 9 Four founders of the outlawed "China Democracy Party" are sentenced to five to 11 years in prison by the Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court on charges of "subverting state power."

1999 November 9 John (Jack) D. Le Vien, filmmaker and executive producer of the Academy Award (1963) winning documentary "BLACK FOX, the Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler," dies at a hospital in London, where he had lived for the past thirty years. He was 81. Much of his work evolved from his friendships with Churchill and the Duke of Windsor. He was born in New York in 1918 and during WWII was a high ranking press aide to General Eisenhower. Le Vien was chief press officer with the Allied Task Force invading Algeria, and in Tunisia, organized an official press camp. He did the same in Italy, France, and Germany. (New York Times, Nov. 22, 1999))

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