June, 2014 (1942 on Earth-2, 1880 on Earth-3, 1557 on Earth-4, and 516 CE/1269 AUC on Earth-5)
June 1: A Starfighter-upgraded
Douglas DC-10 owned by Inp-Irish 'charitable organizations,' as well as the Inp-American organization
Irish Northern Aid, files a flightplan for Stp-Ireland, but is stopped due to evidence that the Inp-New IRA are using it to smuggle weapons to Stp-Irish separatists. An inspection of the craft confirms this, finding significant numbers of AK-47s and ammunition thereof, semtex and detonators, and other tools of violence. In Stp-London, the
Baker Street Irregulars who sometimes help Sherlock Holmes have begun using odd, slightly magical improvised equipment by this time, similar to that represented in an illustrated
story paper called Agency: Children Next Door (based on a
cartoon from Earth-1) that has become popular with the youth of Stp-Britain and America. The series has received some criticism for depicting tomboys as important characters (who are not shown to be mislead), but
does reflect Earth-3's other cultural stereotype of women young and old: '
girls love mathematics and can make analytical engines do tricks that baffle their fathers.'
June 3: Several members of
Battle-Axis, a group of mostly mind-controlled or blackmailed heroes, attack Professor Carson's lab, to steal the prototype armour he is developing. The
Silver Scorpion gets into the armour and is able to help Patriot and Miss Patriot defeat them, but both Carson and the Scorpion's civilian employer, PI Dan Hurley, die. In orbit of Earth(1), X-57 (Grissom Mobile Space Force Base) and X-58 (White MSFB) are redesignated YSC-57 and YSC-58. Later MSFBs of the White design will be SC-58s, but no future vehicles of the Grissom design are planned, due to the no-longer-in-production parts used.
June 5: Second Lieutenant Marvel (called Mary Marvel in the comics) first appears in Dsp-Fawcett City, Wisconsin (the First Lieutenant Marvel, who is called Captain Marvel, Junior in the comics, lives in or near Dsp-New York City, New York). In Dsp-Metropolis, Ill., the Superman begins training girl reporter (and crimefighter, and former gymnast and stuntwoman) Lina Lewis in the Kryptonian martial art of klurkor, to supplement her skills in escrima and savate. In the skies over Dsp-France, the Dsp-British clone of the MiG-15, built under license as the Fairey Firejet, score their first air-to-air kills - Dsp-German jets are simply no match for them without overwhelming numerical advantage, and much of the budget that would have gone into improving them has been devoted to spacecraft.
June 7: In Dsp-Soviet Union, Stalin decrees that no new surface combatants are to be ordered for Soviet Navy, with the exception of aircraft carriers. Production of submarines, and research into new submarine designs, however, is to be dramatically increased; particular attention is paid to designs for submarine aircraft carriers. On Earth-4, the Battle of
Ragusa occurs between the 'Eastern Roman Empire' (primarily represented by the Military Hospitaller Order of St. John of Rhodes, though with several Venetian ships) and the Clp-Ottoman Empire. The Hospitallers succeed in taking the city, though they request reinforcements in order to hold it; this is the first use of radio in war on Earth-4.
June 9: An attempt to put on a production of
The King in Yellow at Inp-
Gordon College, in Essex County, Massachusetts (the school closest to the geographic coordinates of Miskatonic University in Arkham, Mass., on Earth-2), is interrupted by the police, due to the number of precognitives predicting horror and doom if it went on. All those who have read the full script become violent when told the play is cancelled. Suspiciously, no-one can determine
how the script found its way into the college's library.
June 11: News services in Stp-Britain predict a 'run' on army commissions, while they are still available for sale (see May 12, 2014). Others claim that if such activity happens, it will be
caused by the papers predicting it. On Earth-2, Captain America and Peggy Carter return to Britain in a stolen prototype bomber, along with a few former prisoners. In orbit of Luna(1), Britain's first SC-58, called 'RAF
Wellesley' after one of the RAF bomber pilots who died in the Battle of the Earth(2) Insertion (see Feb. 17, 2014), Squadron Leader Thomas James Wellesley, is completed.
June 13: Full Moon on Friday the 13th, on Earth-1. A group of Dresden Files necromancers perform the first of a sequence of rituals intended to eventually manifest the spirit of
Heinrich Kemmler in the body of their leader. This goes unnoticed due to other incidents on this date, including 342 reported attacks by various types of werecreature, 47 by people or spirits dressed as Jason Vorhees, and 19 reported incidents of
body-swapping, most of which are resolved without lasting harm.