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 ====1917====
-  * Around this time the Titan named Thia, Goddess of the Sun, escapes from the pits of Tartarus after a 30,000 year imprisonment when she is somehow given power by the sun. Discovering that mankind now possesses weapons that can destroy a god, such as warplanes, she begins posing as a mortal woman and begins to cultivate a new kind of power. Having many lovers over the next 70 years, she gives birth to many children who grow up and gain positions of power all over the world, known collectively as the Children of the Sun. ["There Might Be Giants," The New Teen Titans v2 #8 (May, 1985)]
+  * Around this time the Titan named Thia, Goddess of the Sun, escapes from the pits of Tartarus after a 30,000 year imprisonment when she is somehow given power by the sun. Discovering that mankind now possesses great weapons that can destroy gods, she begins posing as a mortal woman and begins to cultivate a new kind of power for eventual world domination. Having several lovers over the next 70 years, she gives birth to many children all over the world who grow up to gain positions of power in politics and commerce, who are known collectively as the Children of the Sun. ["There Might Be Giants," The New Teen Titans v2 #8 (May, 1985)]
 ====1918====
   * April 21: Rittmeister Baron Manfred von Richthofen, known as the Red Baron, is killed by English air ace Capt. Roy Brown over Northern France. Days later, a British flier drops a note to the Germans explaining that Richthofen was killed and buried with full military honors. ["The Fall of the Red Knight," Star Spangled War Stories v2 #148 (December, 1969-January, 1970)]