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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===
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 ===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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   * 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===
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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 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.
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   * 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)]
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   * 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)]   * 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)]
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