The Regathering and the Rail (1947 to 1993)

11 entries, in the order they happened: 11 where the historical record answers. The full timeline holds 37 entries for this era; some of them are only there.

Every entry in this era

1934 – 1936The munitions inquiryThe Senate committee on the munitions industry (the Nye Committee) reports that American arms makers won foreign business by methods amounting to…
November 1936The Social Security card legendThe Social Security number is created only to track earnings, and from 1946 the card says it is not for identification.
1947The Dead Sea Scrolls foundFrom 1947 the Dead Sea Scrolls come out of the caves at Qumran: the Great Isaiah Scroll first, and in later finds the older reading of Deuteronomy…
1947 (scroll copied c. 125 BC)The Isaiah scroll collatedSet beside the medieval Hebrew text, the Isaiah scroll is about 95 per cent identical word for word; the rest is spelling and slips of the pen.
8 July 1947The Roswell statement and its retractionThe Roswell airfield announces a flying disc, then retracts it within hours as a weather balloon; in 1994 the Air Force names a secret balloon…
July 1947The descent planted: a reading of the sky recordA reading, labelled speculation, planted and not paid: if the sons of God of Deuteronomy 32 and Psalm 82 act in the physical world, the sky record…
14 May 1948Israel declaredA Jewish state is declared, nineteen centuries after Rome burned the Temple; the Vatican withholds recognition until 1993.
2 November 1949 (concluded)Indonesia's independence debtBy the Hague (Round Table) Agreement, concluded on 2 November 1949 and ratified by both sides in December, the Netherlands transferred sovereignty…
February 1953The London Debt AgreementThe London Agreement on German External Debts, signed in February 1953, cut West Germany's pre-war and post-war external debts from 29.7 to 14.5…
7 June 1967The Old City takenIsraeli paratroopers take the Old City; since 1948 it had been under Jordan, and Jews had been barred from the Western Wall despite the armistice's…
24 December 1968Apollo 8 and the lunar communionApollo 8 rounds the Moon, photographs the Earth rising, and its crew reads Genesis 1:1–10 to the largest audience that had ever listened to anything.