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| ===February, 1950=== | ===February, 1950=== |
| * 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 "execution" for Kryptonian criminals, replacing the previous method of putting criminals in suspended animation and sending them in a capsule into orbit. Thanks to his latest contribution, Jor-El is elected as a member of Krypton's ruling Science Council. (Kryptonian date: 3 Ullhah, 9999) | * On Krypton, Jor-El discovers the Phantom Zone and proposes it successfully as a method of "execution" for Kryptonian criminals, replacing the previous method of putting criminals in suspended animation and sending them in a capsule into orbit. Thanks to his latest contribution, Jor-El is elected as a member of Krypton's ruling Science Council. (Kryptonian date: 3 Ullhah, 9999) |
| | * 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's dearest wish is to be a mother, brings the two clay statues to life. After the goddesses leave, Mars the god of war appears and takes away one of Hippolyta's infant daughters despite her pleas to stop. Later, the gods and goddesses Aphrodite, Athena, Hercules, and Mercury arrive to bestow the remaining child with beauty, wisdom, strength, and swiftness, naming her Diana after the goddess of the moon and mistress of the hunt. Princess Diana is raised on Paradise Island to enjoy the heritage of the Amazons. Meanwhile, Mars calls Hippolyta's dark-skinned daughter Nubia and raises her as his own daughter on an island off the coast of Africa named the Floating Island, called Slaughter Island by the Amazons, and also known as Mars Isle or Marzal. //Note: Despite hints that Diana may be hundreds if not thousands of years old, there is more evidence that indicates she is still a young woman when she becomes Wonder Woman and goes to live in Man's World. There are hints that Aphrodite and Athena are motivated to create Wonder Woman after seeing how powerful the god of war has become after two World Wars; Wonder Woman is their effort to provide a counterbalance to warlike mankind.// ["The Golden Age Secret Origin of Wonder Woman," Wonder Woman #159 (January, 1966); "The Secret Origin of Wonder Woman," DC Special Series #19 (Fall, 1979); "The Second Life of the Original Wonder Woman," Wonder Woman #204 (January-February, 1973); "War of the Wonder Women," Wonder Woman #206 (June-July, 1973)] |
| ===June, 1950=== | ===June, 1950=== |
| * King Faraday has his first case. [Danger Trail #1] | * King Faraday has his first case. [Danger Trail #1] |
| ====1951==== | ====1951==== |
| ===Unspecified month in 1951=== | ===Unspecified month in 1951=== |
| * Doctor Mist is called upon to deal with an increasingly powerful Gareth Gallowglass, who is now 15 years old and has used his telekinetic abilities to keep everyone else off Grim Island for the past three years. Discovering the truth, Doctor Occult visits Grim Island and meets Doctor Occult of Earth-2, Captain Marvel of Earth-S, Margo the Magician of Earth-X, and Yarko the Great of Earth-4. Together, the mystical heroes of five Earths confront Gareth to stop his island from being a menace to each of their worlds as a gateway to Hell. After a short battle commences, a time-traveling Abby Cable of Earth-1 from 1987 convinces Gareth to allow the other mystics to help him ward off the forces of Hell by founding a new school of magic called the Grimoire Academy to defend five Earths from a demonic invasion. Doctor Mist becomes one of the school's founding fathers. Grim Island is renamed Grimoire Island. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-1/secretorigins-e1-booksofmagic-tp1951/|Secret Origins: The Books of Magic: Times Past, 1951: Founding Fathers]]"] | * Doctor Mist is called upon to deal with an increasingly powerful Gareth Gallowglass, who is now 15 years old and has used his telekinetic abilities to keep everyone else off Grim Island for the past three years. Discovering the truth, Doctor Occult visits Grim Island and meets Doctor Occult of Earth-2, Captain Marvel of Earth-S, Margo the Magician of Earth-X, and Yarko the Great of Earth-4. Together, the mystical heroes of five Earths confront Gareth to stop his island from being a menace to each of their worlds as a gateway to Hell. After a short battle commences, a time-traveling Abby Cable of Earth-1 from 1987 convinces Gareth to allow the other mystics to help him ward off the forces of Hell by founding a new school of magic called the Grimoire Academy to defend five Earths from a demonic invasion. Doctor Mist becomes one of the school's founding fathers. Grim Island is renamed Grimoire Island. ["[[https://5earths.com/earth-1/secretorigins-e1-booksofmagic-tp1951/|Secret Origins: The Books of Magic: Times Past, 1951: Founding Fathers]]"] |
| * Matthew Cable is born. | * Matthew Cable is born. |
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| ===February, 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. |
| ===March, 1951=== | |
| * 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's dearest wish is to be a mother, brings the two clay statues to life. After the goddesses leave, Mars the god of war appears and takes away one of Hippolyta's infant daughters despite her pleas to stop. Later, the gods and goddesses Aphrodite, Athena, Hercules, and Mercury arrive to bestow the remaining child with beauty, wisdom, strength, and swiftness, naming her Diana after the goddess of the moon and mistress of the hunt. Princess Diana is raised on Paradise Island to enjoy the heritage of the Amazons. Meanwhile, Mars calls Hippolyta's dark-skinned daughter Nubia and raises her as his own daughter on Slaughter Island, also known as Mars Isle, or Marzal, off the coast of Africa. //Note: Despite hints that Diana may be hundreds if not thousands of years old, there is more evidence that indicates she is still a young woman when she becomes Wonder Woman and goes to live in Man's World.// ["The Golden Age Secret Origin of Wonder Woman," Wonder Woman #159 (January, 1966); "The Secret Origin of Wonder Woman," DC Special Series #19 (Fall, 1979); "The Second Life of the Original Wonder Woman," Wonder Woman #204 (January-February, 1973); "War of the Wonder Women," Wonder Woman #206 (June-July, 1973)] | |
| ===May, 1951=== | ===May, 1951=== |
| * Adam Blake, now 20 years old and in his senior year at university in Midwest City, displays telekinetic abilities to move objects with his mind. Seeking help to know more about himself, he approaches Prof. Emery Zackro, a physicist who surmises that Adam is a mutant born 100,000 years ahead of his time. Following Zackro's advice, Adam Blake invents the costumed identity of Captain Comet so that evil men will not seek to exploit his powers as Adam. Meanwhile, a mysterious gigantic spinning top appears in the U.S. Southwest, but it proves impervious to harm, even after an atomic bomb is dropped on it. Six more tops appear around the world, all sucking up the atmosphere. Captain Comet discovers that the tops are controlled from space. He invents and constructs a spaceship of his own design called the Cometeer (which uses a faster-than-light spectrum drive) and heads to the dark side of the Moon, where he discovers a giant alien ship and learns that the Astur race seeks to take Earth's air in order to make the planet habitable for their population, which has been traveling in suspended animation for 1000 years. Captain Comet discovers that all but one of the Astur race has died. After that last survivor commits suicide, the ship moves away from Earth, and the tops cease to be functional. //Note: A Superbaby story in New Adventures of Superboy #24 indicates that Captain Comet preceded Superboy's career by a few years, which means that Captain Comet is officially Earth-1's first super-hero. Shortly after this story, Adam Blake graduates from university and gains a job as a library information clerk at Midwest City Library.// ["The Origin of Captain Comet," Strange Adventures #9 (June, 1951); "The Air Bandits from Space," Strange Adventures #10 (July, 1951).] | * Adam Blake, now 20 years old and in his senior year at university in Midwest City, displays telekinetic abilities to move objects with his mind. Seeking help to know more about himself, he approaches Prof. Emery Zackro, a physicist who surmises that Adam is a mutant born 100,000 years ahead of his time. Following Zackro's advice, Adam Blake invents the costumed identity of Captain Comet so that evil men will not seek to exploit his powers as Adam. Meanwhile, a mysterious gigantic spinning top appears in the U.S. Southwest, but it proves impervious to harm, even after an atomic bomb is dropped on it. Six more tops appear around the world, all sucking up the atmosphere. Captain Comet discovers that the tops are controlled from space. He invents and constructs a spaceship of his own design called the Cometeer (which uses a faster-than-light spectrum drive) and heads to the dark side of the Moon, where he discovers a giant alien ship and learns that the Astur race seeks to take Earth's air in order to make the planet habitable for their population, which has been traveling in suspended animation for 1000 years. Captain Comet discovers that all but one of the Astur race has died. After that last survivor commits suicide, the ship moves away from Earth, and the tops cease to be functional. //Note: A Superbaby story in New Adventures of Superboy #24 indicates that Captain Comet preceded Superboy's career by a few years, which means that Captain Comet is officially Earth-1's first super-hero. Shortly after this story, Adam Blake graduates from university and gains a job as a library information clerk at Midwest City Library.// ["The Origin of Captain Comet," Strange Adventures #9 (June, 1951); "The Air Bandits from Space," Strange Adventures #10 (July, 1951).] |
| * James W. Gordon is promoted to lieutenant for his bravery as a policeman. | * James W. Gordon is promoted to lieutenant for his bravery as a policeman. |
| ===January, 1952=== | ===January, 1952=== |
| * The Grimoire Academy of Applied Learning on the multi-dimensional Grimoire Island opens its doors to students from Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth-S, Earth-X, and Earth-4. This school is built and founded by the 16-year-old prodigy Gareth Gallowglass (the island's caretaker), Doctor Mist, Doctor Occult of Earth-2, Shazam of Earth-S, Margo the Magician of Earth-X, and Yarko the Great of Earth-4, who each contribute their knowledge and experience to the curriculum. Most of the Earth-1 students are members of the magically inclined offshoot of the human race known as the Homo Magi. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-1/secretorigins-e1-booksofmagic-tp1951/|Secret Origins: The Books of Magic: Times Past, 1951: Founding Fathers]]"] | * The Grimoire Academy of Applied Learning on the multi-dimensional Grimoire Island opens its doors to students from Earth-1, Earth-2, Earth-S, Earth-X, and Earth-4. This school is built and founded by the 16-year-old prodigy Gareth Gallowglass (the island's caretaker), Doctor Mist, Doctor Occult of Earth-2, Shazam of Earth-S, Margo the Magician of Earth-X, and Yarko the Great of Earth-4, who each contribute their knowledge and experience to the curriculum. Most of the Earth-1 students are members of the magically inclined offshoot of the human race known as the Homo Magi. ["[[https://5earths.com/earth-1/secretorigins-e1-booksofmagic-tp1951/|Secret Origins: The Books of Magic: Times Past, 1951: Founding Fathers]]"] |
| * Captain Comet and Prof. Emery Zackro travel to the world of Thule in the asteroid belt to investigate a distress signal from Dr. Harkovy, a space pioneer who disappeared in 1937. There they discover that Harkovy's daughter Doriana survives, having been adopted by Thule's King Afthors, and they bring her back home to Earth. ["The World of Flying Men," Strange Adventures #18 (March, 1952).] | * Captain Comet and Prof. Emery Zackro travel to the world of Thule in the asteroid belt to investigate a distress signal from Dr. Harkovy, a space pioneer who disappeared in 1937. There they discover that Harkovy's daughter Doriana survives, having been adopted by Thule's King Afthors, and they bring her back home to Earth. ["The World of Flying Men," Strange Adventures #18 (March, 1952).] |
| ===February, 1952=== | ===February, 1952=== |
| * June 12: Superboy's first costumed foe is the Flame, a man carrying a flame-thrower and dressed in an asbestos suit. [World's Finest Comics #65] | * June 12: Superboy's first costumed foe is the Flame, a man carrying a flame-thrower and dressed in an asbestos suit. [World's Finest Comics #65] |
| * June 26 | * June 26 |
| * Thomas and Martha Wayne are murdered before eight-year-old Bruce Wayne's eyes. Bruce makes a vow to wage war upon all criminals from then on, beginning his training to develop the skills he will need to fight crime. Over the next 11 years, Bruce both trains himself and travels the world to seek out various teachers to master the skills he would need for his future war against criminals, a practice he even continues into his early days as the Batman. Superboy is away from Earth on a mission at this time. //Note: The date of June 26, 1958 comes from Batman Special #1, which places the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne 25 years before 1983.// ["The Player on the Other Side," Batman Special #1 (1984); "The Forging of Young Batman," Superboy #182 (February, 1972)] | * Thomas and Martha Wayne are murdered before eight-year-old Bruce Wayne's eyes. Bruce makes a vow to wage war upon all criminals from then on, beginning his training to develop the skills he will need to fight crime. Over the next 11 years, Bruce both trains himself and travels the world to seek out various teachers to master the skills he would need for his future war against criminals, a practice he even continues into his early days as the Batman. Superboy is away from Earth on a mission at this time. //Note: The date of June 26, 1958 comes from Batman Special #1, which places the murder of Thomas and Martha Wayne 25 years before 1983.// ["The Player on the Other Side," Batman Special #1 (1984); "The Forging of Young Batman," Superboy #182 (February, 1972)] |
| * 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 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)] |
| * June 27: The day after his parents' murder, Bruce Wayne returns to the scene of the crime and overhears reporter Otis Higbee of the //Gotham Gazette// speak of supposed evidence linking the Zodiac Killer to the murder. //Note: The deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne are placed on November 25 in this story, but this date is impossible, as the true date is specifically in the summer, and Batman Special #1 states that the true date is June 26. It is possible that November 25 refers to another important event in Bruce Wayne's life.// ["The Forging of Young Batman," Superboy #182 (February, 1972)] | * June 27: The day after his parents' murder, Bruce Wayne returns to the scene of the crime and overhears reporter Otis Higbee of the //Gotham Gazette// speak of supposed evidence linking the Zodiac Killer to the murder. //Note: The deaths of Thomas and Martha Wayne are placed on November 25 in this story, but this date is impossible, as the true date is specifically in the summer, and Batman Special #1 states that the true date is June 26. It is possible that November 25 refers to another important event in Bruce Wayne's life.// ["The Forging of Young Batman," Superboy #182 (February, 1972)] |
| * June 28: Philip Wayne is appointed Bruce Wayne's legal guardian. Since Philip travels quite a bit on business trips, Bruce is primarily raised by his uncle's housekeeper, Mrs. Chilton, who, unknown to him, is the mother of Joe Chill. ["The Women in Batman's Life," Batman #208 (January-February, 1969); "In the Beginning," The Untold Legend of the Batman #1 (July, 1980)] | * June 28: Philip Wayne is appointed Bruce Wayne's legal guardian. Since Philip travels quite a bit on business trips, Bruce is primarily raised by his uncle's housekeeper, Mrs. Chilton, who, unknown to him, is the mother of Joe Chill. ["The Women in Batman's Life," Batman #208 (January-February, 1969); "In the Beginning," The Untold Legend of the Batman #1 (July, 1980)] |
| * 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 kills the Paris summit conference because of the U-2 spy plane. | * May 16: Khrushchev ends the Paris summit conference because of the U-2 spy plane incident. |
| * 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. |
| * April 16: Superboy discovers Jor-El's Phantom Zone projector and is almost trapped there forever when he is tricked into using it by the Kryptonian criminals trapped there with him. [Adventure Comics #283] | * April 16: Superboy discovers Jor-El's Phantom Zone projector and is almost trapped there forever when he is tricked into using it by the Kryptonian criminals trapped there with him. [Adventure Comics #283] |
| * 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 Hinckley (the future Donna Troy, alias Wonder Girl) is born to a 19-year-old single mother named Dorothy Hinckley in Newport News, Virginia; the identity of her father remains unknown. ["Who Is Donna Troy?" The New Teen Titans #38 (January, 1984)] | * April 26: Donna Hinckley (the future Donna Troy, alias Wonder Girl) is born to a 19-year-old single mother named Dorothy Hinckley in Newport News, Virginia. Although the identity of her father has never been confirmed, there are hints that Donna's father may somehow be Prince Theno, the long-lost love of Queen Hippolyta who was lost at sea many centuries ago. ["Who Is Donna Troy?" The New Teen Titans #38 (January, 1984); "Wonder Girl's Mysterious Father," Wonder Woman #152 (February, 1965)] |
| * 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=== |
| ===December, 1963=== | ===December, 1963=== |
| * 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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| ====1964==== | ====1964==== |
| ===Unspecified month in 1964=== | ===Unspecified month in 1964=== |
| * 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's eyes, which splits him into two identical copies of himself, one glowing red and the other blue. Discovering he has the ability to recall memories of his other self, Battles manages to survive various perils in both bodies until sundown, when they rejoin just in time to avoid certain death while still split in two, and exit the valley as one man. ["I Lived in Two Bodies," Strange Adventures #166 (July, 1964)] |
| * 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. |
| ===November, 1964=== | ===November, 1964=== |
| * 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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| ====1965==== | ====1965==== |
| ===Unspecified month in 1965=== | ===Unspecified month in 1965=== |
| * 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's altar on Paradise Island, 15-year-old Princess Diana is given her bracelets of submission to Aphrodite by her mother Queen Hippolyta that signal she is a full Amazon. ["The Golden Age Secret Origin of Wonder Woman," Wonder Woman #159 (January, 1966); "The Secret Origin of Wonder Woman," DC Special Series #19 (Fall, 1979)] |
| ===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's accidental death at his workplace, Fay Stacey is left destitute after the funeral and forced to raise her two-year-old adopted daughter Donna Stacey (formerly Donna Hickley) alone. She is soon visited by William Harrison, the corrupt attorney for Willowbrook Orphanage, who convinces her that she must return Donna to county care, or she will be taken away from her if she's bankrupt. Fay reluctantly agrees after being promised that Donna will go to a good home with loving parents. Instead, Harrison sells Donna to a child trafficking ring he's been working with for years. Donna Stacey is placed with an abusive couple posing as her adoptive parents, using a supposedly empty and non-rented room in a tenement building in New York City to sell children to ensure it cannot be traced to their names; the room is provided to them for cash under the table by Sam Channing, who keeps it a secret from his wife, the building's landlady. Meanwhile, Fay Stacey returns to school and later marries a man named Hank Evans, with whom she starts a new family, but is too embarrassed to tell him how she was tricked into giving up her adoptive daughter. ["Who Is Donna Troy?" The New Teen Titans #38 (January, 1984)] | * After Carl Stacey's accidental death at his workplace, Fay Stacey is left destitute after the funeral and forced to raise her two-year-old adopted daughter Donna Stacey (formerly Donna Hickley) alone. She is soon visited by William Harrison, the corrupt attorney for Willowbrook Orphanage, who convinces her that she must return Donna to county care, or she will be taken away from her if she's bankrupt. Fay reluctantly agrees after being promised that Donna will go to a good home with loving parents. Instead, Harrison sells Donna to a child trafficking ring he's been working with for years. Donna Stacey is placed with an abusive couple posing as her adoptive parents, using a supposedly empty and non-rented room in a tenement building in New York City to sell children to ensure it cannot be traced to their names; the room is provided to them for cash under the table by Sam Channing, who keeps it a secret from his wife, the building's landlady. Meanwhile, Fay Stacey returns to school and later marries a man named Hank Evans, with whom she starts a new family, but is too embarrassed to tell him how she was tricked into giving up her adoptive daughter. ["Who Is Donna Troy?" The New Teen Titans #38 (January, 1984)] |
| * April 26: While watching scenes of Man's World on the Magic Sphere, the teenage 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's identity is untraceable, since the landlady Mrs. Channing says the room Donna was found in wasn't rented, Wonder Woman brings her back to Paradise Island before transforming back into a teenager. Since her past and true family are also clouded from being traced via the Magic Sphere, Donna is adopted as Queen Hippolyta's daughter and Princess Diana's sister and is raised as an Amazon, though she lacks their powers for most of her childhood. Some years later, Wonder Woman becomes Donna's legal guardian. //Note: The Time and Space Transformer is used in a similar way in "Wonder Tot and the Flying Saucer," Wonder Woman #132 (August, 1962) and was originally invented when Princess Diana was a teenager, as seen in "Wonder Girl Meets Wonder Woman," Wonder Woman #117 (October, 1960). Donna cannot have been saved from a fire as a toddler during Wonder Woman's actual career, since Diana didn't become Wonder Woman until 1972, by which time Donna was already nine years old and living on Paradise Island; thus, the only way Wonder Woman could have rescued a two-year-old Donna is through some kind of time travel. The Magic Sphere should have theoretically traced Donna's earlier life, but since it apparently never did so, we speculate that it was somehow clouded from view, possibly by the gods who knew Donna would one day become Wonder Girl. Wonder Woman probably didn't apply to be Donna's legal guardian until sometime after her debut in 1972.// ["The Origin of Wonder Girl," Teen Titans #22 (July-August, 1969); "School of the Amazoids," Adventure Comics #461 (January-February, 1979); "Who Is Donna Troy?" The New Teen Titans #38 (January, 1984)] | * 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's identity is untraceable, since the landlady Mrs. Channing says the room Donna was found in wasn't rented, Wonder Woman brings her back to Paradise Island before transforming back into a teenager. Since her past and true family are also clouded from being traced via the Magic Sphere, Donna is adopted as Queen Hippolyta's daughter and Princess Diana's sister and is raised as an Amazon, though she lacks their powers for most of her childhood. Some years later, Wonder Woman becomes Donna's legal guardian. //Note: The Time and Space Transformer is used in a similar way in "Wonder Tot and the Flying Saucer," Wonder Woman #132 (August, 1962) and was originally invented when Princess Diana was a teenager, as seen in "Wonder Girl Meets Wonder Woman," Wonder Woman #117 (October, 1960). Donna cannot have been saved from a fire as a toddler during Wonder Woman's actual career, since Diana didn't become Wonder Woman until 1972, by which time Donna was already nine years old and living on Paradise Island; thus, the only way Wonder Woman could have rescued a two-year-old Donna is through some kind of time travel. The Magic Sphere should have theoretically traced Donna's earlier life, but since it apparently never did so, we speculate that it was somehow clouded from view, possibly by the gods who knew Donna would one day become Wonder Girl. Wonder Woman probably didn't apply to be Donna's legal guardian until sometime after her debut in 1972.// ["The Origin of Wonder Girl," Teen Titans #22 (July-August, 1969); "School of the Amazoids," Adventure Comics #461 (January-February, 1979); "Who Is Donna Troy?" The New Teen Titans #38 (January, 1984)] |
| ===June, 1965=== | ===June, 1965=== |
| * Oliver Queen graduates from high school. [Detective Comics #546] | * Oliver Queen graduates from high school. [Detective Comics #546] |
| * August 11-17: A six-day race riot in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles occurs, resulting in 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage. | * August 11-17: A six-day race riot in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles occurs, resulting in 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $40 million in property damage. |
| ===October, 1965=== | ===October, 1965=== |
| * Rip Hunter and his crew (Jeff Smith, Bonnie Baxter, and Corky Baxter) make a short time travel trip to the year 1974, where they are stranded and ultimately learn that they never returned to their own year of 1965. ["[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-2/dc-e2-spacetimegambit-tp1943-02-2/|DC Universe: 1943: The Space-Time Gambit, Book 2, Chapter 2: To Save the Past]]"] | * Rip Hunter and his crew (Jeff Smith, Bonnie Baxter, and Corky Baxter) make a short time travel trip to the year 1974, where they are stranded and ultimately learn that they never returned to their own year of 1965. ["[[https://5earths.info/earth-2/dc-e2-spacetimegambit-tp1943-02-2/|DC Universe: 1943: The Space-Time Gambit, Book 2, Chapter 2: To Save the Past]]"] |
| ===November, 1965=== | ===November, 1965=== |
| * November 17: Mark and Sarah Olsen, Jimmy Olsen's parents, apparently die in a train bridge wreck that nearly-11-year-old Jimmy survives. However, unbeknownst to Jimmy, Mark Olsen survived but was swept downstream in the river and at first thought Jimmy had been killed, then was captured by the natives of the lost valley of Kukulcan in the Yucatan and held captive for years. //Note: The date of November 17 comes from Jimmy Olsen #84 as an unexplained important date in Jimmy's life.// ["The Mystery of Convict 313," Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #75 (March, 1964); "No Father for Jimmy," Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #128 (April, 1970)] | * November 17: Mark and Sarah Olsen, Jimmy Olsen's parents, apparently die in a train bridge wreck that nearly-11-year-old Jimmy survives. However, unbeknownst to Jimmy, Mark Olsen survived but was swept downstream in the river and at first thought Jimmy had been killed, then was captured by the natives of the lost valley of Kukulcan in the Yucatan and held captive for years. //Note: The date of November 17 comes from Jimmy Olsen #84 as an unexplained important date in Jimmy's life.// ["The Mystery of Convict 313," Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #75 (March, 1964); "No Father for Jimmy," Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #128 (April, 1970)] |
| * February 3: The Soviets make the first unmanned landing on the Moon with the //Luna 9//. | * February 3: The Soviets make the first unmanned landing on the Moon with the //Luna 9//. |
| ===March, 1966=== | ===March, 1966=== |
| * March 22-23: After spending an all-night vigil at Aphrodite's altar on Paradise Island, 15-year-old Princess Diana is given her bracelets of submission to Aphrodite by her mother Queen Hippolyta that signal she is a full Amazon. ["The Golden Age Secret Origin of Wonder Woman," Wonder Woman #159 (January, 1966); "The Secret Origin of Wonder Woman," DC Special Series #19 (Fall, 1979)] | |
| * March 25-26: A large, international anti-Vietnam war protest is held, with 20,000 to 25,000 protestors in New York City, along with others in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Oklahoma City, Ottawa, London, Oslo, Stockholm, Lyon, and Tokyo. | * March 25-26: A large, international anti-Vietnam war protest is held, with 20,000 to 25,000 protestors in New York City, along with others in Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Oklahoma City, Ottawa, London, Oslo, Stockholm, Lyon, and Tokyo. |
| ===April, 1966=== | ===April, 1966=== |
| * 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. |
| * Superboy meets a very young Dick Grayson and Wally West [DCCP: Times of the Titans book 1] | * Superboy meets a very young Dick Grayson and Wally West [DCCP: Times of the Titans book 1] |
| ===June, 1967=== | ===June, 1967=== |
| * 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's destruction. Unfortunately, Superboy also learns that they cannot be revived without killing them, as they have severe anti-kryptonite poisoning, so he places them back into space once more. Later, Jonathan Kent uses Superboy's memory helmet to erase his memories of these events, and Superboy/Superman forgets for the next 21 years. //Note: This story is set specifically 15 years after Krypton's destruction, placing it out of sequence with other stories in this series.// ["Superboy's Darkest Secret," Superboy #158 (July, 1969); "[[http://www.5earths.info/earth-1/superman-e1-1988-03-01/|Superman: The Unkindest Cut]]"] | * 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's destruction. Unfortunately, Superboy also learns that they cannot be revived without killing them, as they have severe anti-kryptonite poisoning, so he places them back into space once more. Later, Jonathan Kent uses Superboy's memory helmet to erase his memories of these events, and Superboy/Superman forgets for the next 21 years. //Note: This story is set specifically 15 years after Krypton's destruction, placing it out of sequence with other stories in this series.// ["Superboy's Darkest Secret," Superboy #158 (July, 1969); "[[https://5earths.com/earth-1/superman-e1-1988-03-01/|Superman: The Unkindest Cut]]"] |
| * 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's golden belt to split himself into two. One of his bodies acts as a decoy to draw the bandits away while the other takes the tablet to the museum. Unfortunately, the decoy is captured by the bandit leader El Grando, and the one with the tablet is ambushed outside the museum by bandits who steal the tablet. El Grando has the tablet translated and leaves to dig up the relics, while one Battles saves his other body. Reaching the dig site in a helicopter, the two Battles spot El Grando wearing the legendary head-band, which gives him the ability to emit blasts from his eyes. Battles' two bodies team up to defeat El Grando and destroy the head-band, rejoining just in time before sundown. //Note: Despite the title of this story, Cliff Battles is never actually referred to as Split Man. // ["The Split Man," Strange Adventures #203 (August, 1967)] |
| * June 5: The Six-Day War with Israeli forces against Arab forces, ends with Israel's occupation of the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip, and the east bank of the Suez Canal. | * June 5: The Six-Day War with Israeli forces against Arab forces, ends with Israel's occupation of the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip, and the east bank of the Suez Canal. |
| * June 17: The People's Republic of China announces the explosion of its first hydrogen bomb. | * June 17: The People's Republic of China announces the explosion of its first hydrogen bomb. |
| ====1968==== | ====1968==== |
| ===Unspecified month in 1968=== | ===Unspecified month in 1968=== |
| * Garfield Logan is born to explorers Mark and Marie Logan. | * Garfield Logan is born to biologists Mark and Marie Logan. |
| ===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. |
| ===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," Wonder Woman #159 (January, 1966); "The Secret Origin of Wonder Woman," DC Special Series #19 (Fall, 1979)] |
| ===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," Action Comics #393] | * 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," Action Comics #393] |