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GURPS Troubleshooters takes place in an Alternate Earth setting (as if the actual presence of supernatural creatures wasn't a clue). Most of what we know of history remains true in 1951. Significant deviations from known history include:

* Tesla invents radio and launches global broadcasting about 20 years earlier than known history. Tesla does not die impoverished and forgotten in 1943 but instead leaves behind a vast fortune and significant scientific legacy. 
* Dirigible airships experience a resurgence after WWII and are commonly used for luxury overseas travel, sort of an airborne cruise liner. 

== 1894==
* Nikola Tesla secures the patent for the radio transmitter and receiver. 

== 1897 == 
* Westinghouse Company begins marketing "diathermic treatments" for a variety of medical conditions. 

== 1900 == 
* Count Von Zeppelin invents the dirigible airship.

== 1902 ==
* Wardenclyffe Tower is built on Long Island. The Morgan-Tesla Radio Company is formed, with Tesla as CEO and Anne Morgan leading the board of directors, and begins global radio broadcasts in March. 

== 1904 ==
* The New York Subway opens its first line, an electric train running from City Hall to 145th Street. 

== 1909 == 
* Tesla receives the Nobel Prize for the invention of radio. 

== 1914 ==
* The Great War begins in Europe.

== 1917 ==
* Thule Society founded in Munich, Germany.
* United States enters European war when Congress declares war on Germany in response to numerous submarine attacks. 
* Russian Revolution begins. 

== 1918 ==
* World War I ends with the signing of the Armistice with Germany. 

== 1920 ==
* Los Angeles Railway opens its first underground lines downtown. 

== 1921 ==
* Jacques d'Arsonvale is awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the use of Tesla's diathermic radiation to treat tumors. 

== 1922 ==
* ''Ulysses'', by James Joyce, is published in Paris by Sylvia Beach. 
* In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. 

== 1923 ==
* The Rosewood Massacre begins on January 1 and ends six days later when the town is burned to the ground. 
* In Lakehurst, New Jersey, the first American airship, the USS ''Shenandoah'', is launched. 

== 1924 ==
* Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin dies in Russia, leaving Joseph Stalin as acting premier.

== 1925 ==
* Adolf Hitler's manifesto ''Mein Kampf'' is published in Germany. 

== 1927 ==
* Trotsky is expelled from the Communist Party by Stalin and forced to flee the USSR.

== 1929 ==
* The Great Depression begins with the Wall Street crash on October 29.

== 1931 == 
* Japan invades Manchuria.

== 1932==
* The Soviet Famine begins and last for over a year, resulting in the deaths of millions. 
* The Kingdom of Iraq gains its independence from the British. 
* The Japanese Empire attacks Shanghai, China. 
* Paul von Hindenburg is re-elected president of Germany, defeating Hitler in a runoff election.

== 1933 ==
* Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated President of the Untied States.
* Unable to form a stable coalition government, von Hindenburg appoints Hitler Chancellor of Germany.
* The Reichstag Fire is set on February 27 in Berlin. The Nazi-led government responds with decrees that nullify the majority of german civil liberties and established the Gestapo, a secret state police force.
* Nazi Party becomes the official state party of Germany.
* Albert Einstein flees germany and settles in the United States.

== 1934 ==
* The SS becomes an independent organization, reporting directly to Hitler.
* Upon the death of von Hindenburg, Hitler becomes Head of State as well as Chancellor of Germany, and names himself Führer.

== 1935 ==
* The Nuremberg Laws are enacted in Germany.
* Italy invades Ethiopia.

== 1936 ==
* The Great Purge begins in Soviet Union as Stalin attempts to eliminate all opposition, real or imagined, within his government.
* Civil war begins in Spain.

== 1937 ==
* Japanese Army wins the Battle of Nanking and commences what will later become known as the Rape of Nanking. 

== 1938 ==
* Germany "incorporates" Austria.
* European nations agree to annexation of Czech Sudetenland in an attempt appease hitler.

== 1939 ==
* Physicists split a uranium atom at Columbia University. 
* Spanish Civil War ends with Nationalist victory. Spain becomes dictatorship led by Francisco Franco. 
* Germany invades Poland.

== 1940 ==
* Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico City. 

== 1941 ==
* US enters World War II in response to the bombing of Pearl Harbor Naval base in Hawaii.

== 1943 ==
* Nikola Tesla dies in New York. 

== 1945 ==
* President Roosevelt dies suddenly in April, and Harry Truman becomes President.
* Hitler commits suicide.
* The war comes to a complete end with the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.