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| distant past - 20th century - 21st century |
Events
- February
- 11 February: Starfleet officers Daniel Radke, Anne Lansing, Antonio Fernandes and an away team from the stranded-in-the-past Dark Starship beam down to Earth near Dresden, Germany to investigate a compatible power source. Once there, they discover the early stages of an alien invasion taking place. (Star Trek: The Cantabrian Expeditions: "Hemorrhage")
- 13 to 15 February: The Allies firebomb Dresden, killing tens of thousands of people. Unbeknownst to many, Starfleet officers Daniel Radke, Anne Lansing and Antonio Fernandes successfully stop an alien invasion by luring the aliens into Dresden during the bombing, incinerating all the aliens and restoring the timeline. (Star Trek: The Cantabrian Expeditions: "Hemorrhage")
- April
- 29 April: The Dachau concentration camp is liberated by, among others, Sergeant Randall McCoy, Herbie Shapiro, Brendan O'Shaughnessy, Antonio Martinelli, Stanislaus Kuzawa and Charles Tucker III, who has been sent to Upper Bavaria, Germany, by the Traveler, in order to prevent his becoming desensitized to violence and horror (In Between Days: Day of the Dead).
- May
- 8 May: Germany surrenders, ending the European part of World War II.
- June
- From the aftermath of World War II, the United Nations, the second intergovernmental agency on Earth, is established.
- Until the U.N.'s headquarters on the east side of Manhattan, a borough of New York City, is completed in October, 1952, delegates meet in London, Paris, the site of the 1939 World's Fair in the New York City borough of Queens, and Lake Success, New York, on Long Island.
- August
- 6 and 9 August: The United States of America drops nuclear weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, killing 150,000 to 240,000 people. It is the first time a nuclear weapon is used on Earth as a weapon of mass destruction.
- 15 August: Japan surrenders, ending World War II.