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Timeline_of_Earth-1_19th_century_to_1940s [2019/08/14 07:04] – [1941] docquantum | Timeline_of_Earth-1_19th_century_to_1940s [2020/08/09 07:50] – [1949] docquantum | ||
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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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* 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. |