< 39 Years Ago >
16-year-old Orm Marius's agents find the location of 25-year-old Atlanna. He sends his Shock Troops to kill her. She, 29-year-old Tom Curry & 2-year-old Arthur Curry are attacked. Atlanna attempts to protect her husband and son, but believes she failed. Tom believes that she died. Orm is informed that the mission was successful. 27-year-old Nuidis Vulko, learning of the attack, begins working to ingratiate himself with royal court, trying to protect the people of Atlantis from their ruler. Atlanna, believing her husband and son dead, flees into the ocean depths & finds her way into the Hidden Sea. She begins building a refuge for other lost souls.
Atros becomes an outspoken advocate for unification of sector 666. He takes the name Atrocitus.
Abin Sur marries Munni Jah.
25-year-old Garrett Sanford earns a masters in Oneirology, the study of dreams.
24-year-old Laurel Drake marries 28-year-old Larry Lance.
22-year-old Clifford Devoe earns his master degree in History.
10-year-old Lex Luthor's mother dies, her treatment too expensive for his father to afford.
8-year-old Ben Turner's father is killed in a gang shooting. He focuses his anger entirely on his martial arts studies, quickly becoming a prodigy
32-year-old Terry Rothstein meets Corrine Curtis.
31-year-old Ted Knight first confronts Richard Swift when he returns to Opal City.
25-year-old William Randolph Wintergreen becomes an operative with British Intelligence.
23-year-old Martha Clark's husband Daniel Fordman dies. In her grief, she leans on the friendship of Johnathan Kent.
21-year-old Dan Turpin returns to Metropolis when his term with the army concludes. Finding that Sergeant Rip Carter was killed in the line of duty, he enters the police academy and becomes a patrolman.
30-year-old Damien Darhk earns his second doctorate.
30-year-old Avery Sunderland earns his MBA, and takes on an executive position within Sunderland Munitions, beginning to expand them into volatile chemicals.
23-year-old Jacob Kane & Gabrielle Williams are both assigned to Fort Bragg. They are married later that year.
22-year-old Emmanuel Ibrahim reaches out to Anansi the Spider, asking to become his new avatar & vessel, so that he can find his sister. When they return her home, he elects to remain as Anansi's vessel so that he can help the countless other victims in the world.
Vykin the Brave, Serifan, Beautiful Dreamer & Mark Moonrider attend the Academy of Higher Consciousness on New Genesis, where they first meets Big Bear. Vykin & Mark become rivals.
22-year-old Leslie Thompkins graduates & begins med school.
21-year-old Dan Turpin returns to Metropolis when his term with the army concludes. Finding that Sergeant Rip Carter was killed in the line of duty, he enters the police academy and becomes a patrolman.
18-year-old Perry White starts working for the Daily Planet full-time.
18-year-old Wade Eiling attends West Point.
18-year-old Regina Kane goes to college.
17-year-old Susan Linden starts working as a model.
Guy Gardner is born.
Ray Palmer is born in Rhode Island.
Carol Ferris is born the daughter of Carl Ferris, the founder of Ferris Aircraft, a major American aeronautics company.
Rex Mason is born.
Adam Strange is born in Nevada.
Basil Karlo is born.
Kirk Langstrom is born.
Lester Buchinski is born in Star City.
Hank Henshaw is born.
Nathan Prince is born to an American practitioner of an ancient Aztec martial art.
Richard Rigel is born.
Stanley Kitch is born in Gotham, the son of an FBI agent.