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- | * Lt. Jonah Hex surrenders to Union officials at Fort Charlotte. Hex is later balmed | + | * Lt. Jonah Hex surrenders to Union officials at Fort Charlotte. Hex is later blamed |
* January 1: President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation. | * January 1: President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation. | ||
* May 2-10: " | * May 2-10: " | ||
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- | * The JLA meet heroes of the wild west due to actions of the Lord Of Time.[JLA #198 -199] | + | * The JLA meet heroes of the wild west due to the actions of the Lord of Time.[JLA #198-199] |
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- | * After tracking down and killing half the Barrow Gang for the reward, 66-year-old Jonah Hex meets Michael Wheeler, history professor at Princeton University, who interviews Hex over the next few months in order to write his biography. George Barrow, seeking revenge, kidnaps Hex's wife Tall Bird in order to draw him out. Assisted by Wheeler, Hex kills the rest of the gang except for Barrow himself, who escapes. Delivering the dead gunmen to the police in Cheyenne, Wyoming, Hex is ambushed while cleaning his glasses during a card game, then shot by George Barrow, who is in turn killed by Police Chief Crawford. After Wheeler delivers Hex's body to his wife, they are both murdered by Lew Farnham, owner of L.B. Farnham' | + | * After tracking down and killing half the Barrow Gang for the reward, 66-year-old Jonah Hex meets Michael Wheeler, history professor at Princeton University, who interviews Hex over the next few months in order to write his biography. George Barrow, seeking revenge |
* July, 1904: Alex and Linda Olsen are married. [" | * July, 1904: Alex and Linda Olsen are married. [" | ||
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===December, | ===December, | ||
* December 7: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, resulting in the United States entering World War II. | * December 7: The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, resulting in the United States entering World War II. | ||
- | * With the U.S. officially in the war, Richard " | + | |
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* Sgt. Rock and Easy Company start combat in World War II beginning in North Africa, followed by Italy (1943), France and Belgium (1944), and Germany (1945). | * Sgt. Rock and Easy Company start combat in World War II beginning in North Africa, followed by Italy (1943), France and Belgium (1944), and Germany (1945). | ||
* Jeb Stuart commands the Haunted Tank. | * Jeb Stuart commands the Haunted Tank. | ||
+ | ===February, | ||
+ | * Reporter Wayne Clifford begins dating a young woman named Joy Winters, who wants to be an army nurse. [" | ||
+ | ===March, 1942=== | ||
+ | * Wayne Clifford takes a new assignment as a combat reporter at Bataan in the Philippines, | ||
===April, 1942=== | ===April, 1942=== | ||
+ | * April 1: Commander Steel (Hank Heywood) crosses over from Earth-2 and establishes a new life for himself on Earth-1. | ||
* The Boy Commandos have first public case. //Note: This is the Earth-1 version of the Earth-2 team.// [Detective Comics #64] | * The Boy Commandos have first public case. //Note: This is the Earth-1 version of the Earth-2 team.// [Detective Comics #64] | ||
* Albert Hollerer of Germany becomes a wood elemental called the Heap. [Swamp Thing v2 #47] | * Albert Hollerer of Germany becomes a wood elemental called the Heap. [Swamp Thing v2 #47] | ||
* Microwave Man goes into retirement for 40 years. [Action Comics #487] | * Microwave Man goes into retirement for 40 years. [Action Comics #487] | ||
- | * April 1: Commander Steel (Hank Heywood) crosses over from Earth-2 | + | * Combat reporter Wayne Clifford is captured as a prisoner of war by the Japanese along with U.S. troops in Bataan, |
===November, | ===November, | ||
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===June, 1944=== | ===June, 1944=== | ||
* June 6: | * June 6: | ||
- | * The Blackhawks' | + | * On the eve of D-Day, the Blackhawks |
- | * Sgt. Rock and Easy Co. are amongst | + | * Sgt. Rock and Easy Co. are among the Allied soldiers invading Normandy on D-Day. |
* Jimmy Olsen time-travels from the year 1977 to Europe after D-Day and masquerades as Private Von Olsen. He subsequently is promoted first to Captain and then to Adolf Hitler' | * Jimmy Olsen time-travels from the year 1977 to Europe after D-Day and masquerades as Private Von Olsen. He subsequently is promoted first to Captain and then to Adolf Hitler' | ||
* James W. Gordon graduates from law school and decides to become a policeman, entering police academy during the next intake. | * James W. Gordon graduates from law school and decides to become a policeman, entering police academy during the next intake. | ||
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===February, | ===February, | ||
* February 5: Perry White is hired as a full-time reporter at the Daily Planet. //Note: Previously, Perry was a cub reporter at the Chicago Journal in the mid-1930s, then a cub reporter at the Daily Planet as a cub reporter from 1937 to about 1938 or so, then as a full reporter at the Gotham Gazette until 1949, probably acting as a war correspondent from 1942-1945 for that paper.// ["The Most Amazing Camera in the World," | * February 5: Perry White is hired as a full-time reporter at the Daily Planet. //Note: Previously, Perry was a cub reporter at the Chicago Journal in the mid-1930s, then a cub reporter at the Daily Planet as a cub reporter from 1937 to about 1938 or so, then as a full reporter at the Gotham Gazette until 1949, probably acting as a war correspondent from 1942-1945 for that paper.// ["The Most Amazing Camera in the World," | ||
+ | * February 20: Hal Jordan is born. //Note: Hal Jordan appears to be about a year older than Clark Kent, according to The New Adventures of Superboy #13, which portrays Hal applying to Metropolis University during a time when Clark was only 16 years old.// | ||
===March, 1949=== | ===March, 1949=== | ||
* March 19: Barry Allen is born to Dr. Henry and Nora Allen in Fallville, Iowa. | * March 19: Barry Allen is born to Dr. Henry and Nora Allen in Fallville, Iowa. |