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===February, | ===February, | ||
* February 19: Bruce Wayne (Batman) born to Dr. Thomas and Martha Wayne. | * February 19: Bruce Wayne (Batman) born to Dr. Thomas and Martha Wayne. | ||
- | * February 20: Hal Jordan is born. | ||
* February 29: On Krypton, Kal-El is born to Jor-El and Lara. (Kryptonian date: 39 Eorx, 9998) | * February 29: On Krypton, Kal-El is born to Jor-El and Lara. (Kryptonian date: 39 Eorx, 9998) | ||
===March, 1950=== | ===March, 1950=== | ||
* On Krypton, Jor-El discovers the Phantom Zone and proposes it successfully as a method of " | * On Krypton, Jor-El discovers the Phantom Zone and proposes it successfully as a method of " | ||
+ | * March 22: Under the direction of the goddesses Athena and Aphrodite, Queen Hippolyta of the Amazons forms two figures of raw clay in the form of baby girls, one made from light clay, and one made from dark clay. Aphrodite, knowing Hippolyta' | ||
===June, 1950=== | ===June, 1950=== | ||
* King Faraday has his first case. [Danger Trail #1] | * King Faraday has his first case. [Danger Trail #1] | ||
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===January, 1951=== | ===January, 1951=== | ||
* January 3: On Krypton, a criminal named Rog-Ar hypnotizes a scientist named Quex-Ul into believing that he had committed Rog-Ar' | * January 3: On Krypton, a criminal named Rog-Ar hypnotizes a scientist named Quex-Ul into believing that he had committed Rog-Ar' | ||
- | ===March, 1951=== | + | ===February, 1951=== |
* February 19: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for passing secrets to the Soviet Union. | * February 19: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are sentenced to death for passing secrets to the Soviet Union. | ||
===May, 1951=== | ===May, 1951=== | ||
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* June 12: Superboy' | * June 12: Superboy' | ||
* June 26 | * June 26 | ||
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- | * The criminal parents of the future Wrath are killed by police officer James W. Gordon. The future Wrath vows to wage war upon all lawmen. ["The Player on the Other Side," Batman Special #1 (1984)] | + | * The criminal parents of the future Wrath are allegedly |
* June 27: The day after his parents' | * June 27: The day after his parents' | ||
* June 28: Philip Wayne is appointed Bruce Wayne' | * June 28: Philip Wayne is appointed Bruce Wayne' | ||
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* Air Wave battles Professor Gurn once more, who has donned a robotic suit to become Machine Man. [Detective Comics #65] | * Air Wave battles Professor Gurn once more, who has donned a robotic suit to become Machine Man. [Detective Comics #65] | ||
* May 1: U.S. pilot Gary Powers, flying a U-2 spy plane, is shot down over Russia. | * May 1: U.S. pilot Gary Powers, flying a U-2 spy plane, is shot down over Russia. | ||
- | * May 16: Khrushchev | + | * May 16: Khrushchev |
* May 20: Zatanna Zatara is born. | * May 20: Zatanna Zatara is born. | ||
* May 23: Israelis capture Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. Eichmann is later executed in Israel in 1962. | * May 23: Israelis capture Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. Eichmann is later executed in Israel in 1962. | ||
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* April 16: Superboy discovers Jor-El' | * April 16: Superboy discovers Jor-El' | ||
* April 20: Lar Gand of Daxam arrives on Earth as an amnesiac and is dubbed Mon-El, but after his memory returns he gets lead poisoning and must be put into the Phantom Zone for 1000 years. [Superboy #89] | * April 20: Lar Gand of Daxam arrives on Earth as an amnesiac and is dubbed Mon-El, but after his memory returns he gets lead poisoning and must be put into the Phantom Zone for 1000 years. [Superboy #89] | ||
- | * April 26: Donna Troy is born. | + | * April 26: Donna Hinckley (the future |
* April 29: Pete Ross learns Clark Kent is Superboy while on a camping trip. [Superboy #90] | * April 29: Pete Ross learns Clark Kent is Superboy while on a camping trip. [Superboy #90] | ||
===May, 1963=== | ===May, 1963=== | ||
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* Not long afterward, Lex Luthor spoils the Superboy Science Fair and is sent to prison for the first time. [Adventure Comics #292] | * Not long afterward, Lex Luthor spoils the Superboy Science Fair and is sent to prison for the first time. [Adventure Comics #292] | ||
===August, 1963=== | ===August, 1963=== | ||
+ | * Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Dorothy Hinckley places her four-month-old daughter Donna Hinckley in Willowbrook Orphanage in Newport News, Virginia, run by Elmira Cassiday. Carl and Fay Stacey adopt the girl as their own and raise her as Donna Stacey for the next two years. ["Who Is Donna Troy?" The New Teen Titans #38 (January, 1984)] | ||
* August 28: Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his "I have a dream" speech in Washington, D.C., during a civil rights rally attended by a crowd of 200,000. | * August 28: Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his "I have a dream" speech in Washington, D.C., during a civil rights rally attended by a crowd of 200,000. | ||
* August 30: A hot line between Washington and Moscow is set up, designed to reduce the risk of accidental war. | * August 30: A hot line between Washington and Moscow is set up, designed to reduce the risk of accidental war. | ||
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===December, | ===December, | ||
* Lilith is born, adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Will Clay of Kentucky. | * Lilith is born, adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Will Clay of Kentucky. | ||
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===Unspecified month in 1964=== | ===Unspecified month in 1964=== | ||
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* The Blackhawks take on new, red-and-green uniforms as well as a new affiliation with a secret government agency. [Blackhawk #197] | * The Blackhawks take on new, red-and-green uniforms as well as a new affiliation with a secret government agency. [Blackhawk #197] | ||
===May, 1964=== | ===May, 1964=== | ||
+ | * Landing in a strange valley when his plane explodes, archeologist and explorer **[[Cliff Battles]]** saves the life of an Indian elder named Zantec, only to be exiled because his plane crashed and destroyed a sacred place. Battles is sent to choose between two dangerous paths out of the valley, and Zantec gives him a golden belt with a jaguar emblem that will give him the ability to take both paths at once as long as he uses it before sundown. Reaching the fork between two trails, Battles uses the belt by facing west and covering the jaguar' | ||
* Superboy meets Kid Psycho from the 30th century. [Superboy #125] | * Superboy meets Kid Psycho from the 30th century. [Superboy #125] | ||
* May 1: Don Hall is born. | * May 1: Don Hall is born. | ||
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===November, | ===November, | ||
* The Guardian retires as he and the Newsboy Legion have their last case. //Note: Sometime after this story, the members of the Newsboy Legion go to college and have families of their own, and the Guardian is killed.// [Star Spangled Comics #64] | * The Guardian retires as he and the Newsboy Legion have their last case. //Note: Sometime after this story, the members of the Newsboy Legion go to college and have families of their own, and the Guardian is killed.// [Star Spangled Comics #64] | ||
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===Unspecified month in 1965=== | ===Unspecified month in 1965=== | ||
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* Victor Stone is born to Silan and Elinore Stone. | * Victor Stone is born to Silan and Elinore Stone. | ||
* John Gnarrk' | * John Gnarrk' | ||
+ | * Dorothy Hinckley, mother of Donna Troy, dies of cancer at age 21. ["Who Is Donna Troy?" The New Teen Titans #38 (January, 1984)] | ||
===February, | ===February, | ||
* February 1: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and more than 2,600 blacks are arrested in Selma, Alabama, during three-day demonstrations against voter-registration rules that unfairly exclude blacks from voting. | * February 1: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and more than 2,600 blacks are arrested in Selma, Alabama, during three-day demonstrations against voter-registration rules that unfairly exclude blacks from voting. | ||
* February 21: Black-nationalist leader Malcolm X is shot to death at a rally in Harlem, New York City. | * February 21: Black-nationalist leader Malcolm X is shot to death at a rally in Harlem, New York City. | ||
+ | ===March, 1965=== | ||
+ | * March 22-23: After spending an all-night vigil at Aphrodite' | ||
===April, 1965=== | ===April, 1965=== | ||
* April 17: The largest anti-war demonstration in the U.S. to date, the March Against the Vietnam War, is held in Washington, D.C., with 15,000 to 20,000 people attending. | * April 17: The largest anti-war demonstration in the U.S. to date, the March Against the Vietnam War, is held in Washington, D.C., with 15,000 to 20,000 people attending. | ||
+ | * After Carl Stacey' | ||
+ | * April 26: While watching scenes of Man's World on the Magic Sphere, 15-year-old Princess Diana sees that a two-year-old girl is about to be killed in a tenement fire in New York City, so she uses the Time and Space Transformer to briefly switch places in time with her future grown-up self from 1972. As Wonder Woman, she travels to the building in New York with her invisible robot plane and saves little Donna (Donna Hinckley Stacey) from the fire, although she's too late to save the lives of the man and woman with her, which she wrongly assumes to have been her parents. Discovering that the child' | ||
===June, 1965=== | ===June, 1965=== | ||
* Oliver Queen graduates from high school. [Detective Comics #546] | * Oliver Queen graduates from high school. [Detective Comics #546] | ||
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* After his last case as Air Wave, Larry Jordan semi-retires from crime fighting in order to concentrate on his career and personal life. //Note: Larry meets and marries his wife Helen sometime after this story, only occasionally resuming his crime fighting career as Air Wave from time to time until his death in 1970.// [Detective Comics #137] | * After his last case as Air Wave, Larry Jordan semi-retires from crime fighting in order to concentrate on his career and personal life. //Note: Larry meets and marries his wife Helen sometime after this story, only occasionally resuming his crime fighting career as Air Wave from time to time until his death in 1970.// [Detective Comics #137] | ||
* Rachel Green, daughter of Jason Woodrue (while he visits from his dimension) and human woman Ida Green, is born in England; she later becomes Mayflower of the Force of July. | * Rachel Green, daughter of Jason Woodrue (while he visits from his dimension) and human woman Ida Green, is born in England; she later becomes Mayflower of the Force of July. | ||
- | * May 25: Charley Parker is born. | + | * May 25: Charley Parker is born to unknown parents. At some point after his birth, he is taken to Midway City Orphanage, where he grows up. |
===June, 1966=== | ===June, 1966=== | ||
* June 2: The first U.S. spacecraft to land on another world, //Surveyor 1//, lands on the Moon. | * June 2: The first U.S. spacecraft to land on another world, //Surveyor 1//, lands on the Moon. | ||
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* Superboy discovers that his real parents, Jor-El and Lara, survived the destruction of Krypton through the help of a Kryptonian scientist called Dr. Krylo, who preserved them in suspended animation in a space capsule that has been in outer space since Krypton' | * Superboy discovers that his real parents, Jor-El and Lara, survived the destruction of Krypton through the help of a Kryptonian scientist called Dr. Krylo, who preserved them in suspended animation in a space capsule that has been in outer space since Krypton' | ||
* Bruce Wayne graduates from high school one year early. [Speculation based on the fact that Bruce graduates from university at age 20 in 1970.] | * Bruce Wayne graduates from high school one year early. [Speculation based on the fact that Bruce graduates from university at age 20 in 1970.] | ||
+ | * At an archeological dig in a remote area of Mexico, Cliff Battles discovers a stone Indian tablet that promises to reveal the location of ancient relics including a legendary head-band that supposedly gives its wearer fantastic powers. Before he can bring it to a museum to be translated, Battles is ambushed by bandits. Escaping from them, Battles uses Zantec' | ||
* June 5: The Six-Day War with Israeli forces against Arab forces, ends with Israel' | * June 5: The Six-Day War with Israeli forces against Arab forces, ends with Israel' | ||
* June 17: The People' | * June 17: The People' | ||
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===Unspecified month in 1968=== | ===Unspecified month in 1968=== | ||
- | * Garfield Logan is born to explorers | + | * Garfield Logan is born to biologists |
===January, 1968=== | ===January, 1968=== | ||
* The North Vietnamese launches the Tet Offensive, marking a turning point in the Vietnam War. | * The North Vietnamese launches the Tet Offensive, marking a turning point in the Vietnam War. | ||
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===March, 1969=== | ===March, 1969=== | ||
* Rock star Jim Rook is pulled into another dimension where he becomes the Nightmaster and stops the warlocks of Myrra. He returns to Earth with a mighty sword. [Showcase #82-84] | * Rock star Jim Rook is pulled into another dimension where he becomes the Nightmaster and stops the warlocks of Myrra. He returns to Earth with a mighty sword. [Showcase #82-84] | ||
+ | * March 22: Princess Diana, now 19 years old, is invited by her mother Queen Hippolyta to drink from the Fountain of Eternal Youth in a secret grove on Paradise Island, which grants her immortality as long as she remains on Paradise Island. ["The Golden Age Secret Origin of Wonder Woman," | ||
===May, 1969=== | ===May, 1969=== | ||
* May 14: Superboy is challenged to think like a Superman by Marla Harvey, a former Metropolis University student who dies while trying to build a school for underprivileged youths. ["The Day Superboy Became Superman," | * May 14: Superboy is challenged to think like a Superman by Marla Harvey, a former Metropolis University student who dies while trying to build a school for underprivileged youths. ["The Day Superboy Became Superman," |