26,025 B.C.E: A rogue planet falls into a competing orbit with the planet Vulcan. The event drastically changes the Vulcan landscape as the worlds are close enough to share the orbit by revolving around each other. This event creates dramatically cold and warm seasons on both worlds. Translated as Delta Vega, the planet becomes the focal point for scientific research and inquiry. Lethal quantities of fluorine in the soil and atmosphere of the planet make colonization impossible. It does not prevent the Vulcans from attempting terra-forming efforts through the centuries, making the planet somewhat tolerable for limited habitation in modern times.
5025 B.C.E.: The ideology of Surak is rejected by a Vulcan faction. By this time interstellar travel is possible on Vulcan. Instead of imprisoning the violent faction, the matriarchal followers of Surak instead offer their older fleet of starships to the faction to establish their own colony. They are dedicated to finding a world similar to their own as the fleet sets out on a one way journey to their new home. Years later they find Tau Epsilon with twin worlds in a dual orbit. These worlds are given the phonetic equivalent names of Romulus and Remus.
October 4th, 1864: During the American Civil War, Colonel Thaddeus Riker commander of the 102nd Calvary dies on the Union battlefield.
October 10th, 1930: In a forgotten article on the second page of the Los Angeles Times, social worker Edith Keeler, known on her block as the "Slum Angel" is brutally murdered by a border residing in the 21st Street Mission. A single terrified witness refers to the alleged assailant only as "Red Jack." This case is unsolved, and with no immediate family related to Keeler, the files are lost.
April 4th, 1953: A four year old Pakistani prodigy named Noonian Soong at the University of Calcutta, India is killed in a freak auto accident.
October 10th, 1957: The Soviet Union announces the launch of the first artificial satellite.
December 11th, 1964: U.S. Air Force Fighter pilot Lieutenant John Christopher is shot down in North Vietnam territory, and is presumed missing in action.
July 16th, 1967: Henry Starling while hiking with friends in the High Sierra’s is awe inspired by the views but sees nothing remarkable or unusual. He joins then Peace Corps the following year, and disappears in the nation state of Rwanda without a trace.
July 1968: In an aggressive letter writing campaign, office secretary Roberta Lincoln persuades President Lyndon Johnson’s administration to draft a Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, in turn canceling the top secret launching of a nuclear weapons platform aboard the Apollo 8 moon rocket in August. The Apollo 8 launch is scrubbed, and bumped to December. The weapons platform is dismantled, and most all records of its existence are destroyed.
July 20th, 1969: Neil H. Armstrong becomes the first human to set foot on the Moon.
1976: Viking 1 and 2, unmanned probes, make the first successful soft landing on the planet Mars.
1977: Planetary probes Voyager 1 and 2 are launched from Earth to explore the outer planets of the Solar system. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory assesses that no additional Voyager probes are necessary.
