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WATCHMEN: A Chronology
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1938 - 1985
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by Alan Moore and Ray Winninger
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1905 - The Hooded Justice born (7/11)
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1906 - Hollis Mason (Nite Owl) born (1/30)
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1910 - Byron Lewis (Mothman) burn (3/22)
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1912 - Nelson Gardner (Captain Metropolis) born (8/11)
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1917 - Ursula Zant (The Silhouette) born (9/4)
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Bill Brady (Dollar Bill) born (11/6)
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1920 - E.W. Jacobi (Moloch) born (6/6)
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Sally Jupiter (Silk Spectre) born (8/3)
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1924 - Edward Blake (Comedian) born (5/13)
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1929 - Jon Osterman (Dr. Manhattan) born (3/30)
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1933 - Adrian Veidt (Osymandias) born (10/7)
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1938 - Action Comics #1 featuring Superman hits the newstands. Comic
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heroes inspire many of the later real-life costumed crimefighters.
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- Ursala Zandt leaves Austria for the U.S. (May)
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- The Hooded Justice, the first of the superheroes, makes his
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first appearance (10/14)
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1939 - Nite Owl I becomes active (3/11). In the next few months he
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will be followed by Mothman, Captain Metropolis, Silk Spectre,
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Dollar Bill, Silhouette, and The Comedian.
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- Germany attacks Poland beginning World War II (9/1)
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- Cpt. Metropolis and Silk Spectre found the Minutemen, an early
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hero group joined by all the active heroes to date (12/16)
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1940 - Joseph Walter Kovacs (Rorschach) born (3/21)
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- The Hooded Justice prevents The Comedian from sexually assaulting
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Silk Spectre after a meeting of the Minutemen (6/25)
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1941 - Japanese Empire bombs the American navel base at Pearl Harbor
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(12/7). The United States declares war on the Axis powers and
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enteres World War II on the very next day.
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1942 - Nelson Gardner reactivated by USMC, Bill Brady drafted, and Byron
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Lewis sent to Europe as a medical aid. Comedian becomes a
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government operative (Feb)
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1945 - World War II ends (Aug)
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1946 - Silhouette revealed to be a lesbian and expelled from the Minutemen
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(5/13). Two weeks later she and her lover are killed by the
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Liquidator, an old enemy.
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- Dollar Bill shot and killed attempting to foil a bank robbery (7/23)
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1947 - Silk Spectre (Sally Jupiter) retires from crime fighting and
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marries her agent Laurence Schexnayder.
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- Moloch becomes a major figure in the underworld.
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1948 - Jon Osterman arrives at Princeton.
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1949 - The Minutemen disband.
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1950 - Sally Jupiter has a brief affair with Edward Blake (Mar)
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- Laurie Jupiter (Juspeczky) born (12/2)
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1951 - Joseph Kovacs seriously injures two assailants and is
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committed to an institution (9/13)
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1954 - Members of the Minutemen are called before Senator Joseph
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McCarthy's UnAmerican Activities Committee. Mothman is determined
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to be a communist sympathizer.
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1955 - The Hooded Justice is murdered by The Comedian (4/16)
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1956 - Sally Jupiter divorces Laurence Schexnayder (5/11)
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1958 - Ozymandias becomes active (3/17)
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1959 - John Osterman recieves his PhD in atomic physics (3/14), and
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arrives at the Gila Flats Weapon Testing center (5/12). On
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September 11, he is accidentally subjected to a powerful
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atomic bombardment. He reappears as Doctor Manhattan on Nov 22.
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1960 - The existence of Dr. Manhattan is revealed to the world (3/2)
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- Nite Owl I meets Ozymandias and Dr. Manhattan at the Red Cross
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benefit for Indian famine relief (6/17)
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1962 - Hollis Mason (Nite Owl) retires (5/16) and publishes his
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autobiography _Under The Hood_.
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- Byron Lewis (Mothman) admitted to the Holland Valley Alcohol
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Rehabilitation Center (8/28)
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1963 - President John F. Kennedy is assassinated (11/22)
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1964 - Rorschach becomes active (3/20)
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1966 - Captain Metropolis tries in vain to form another hero group,
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The Crimebusters (4/14)
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1968 - New York City is blacked out during an attempt on the Vice
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President's life, part of an elaborate scheme concocted by
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Moloch (6/16)
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- Adrian Veidt buys an island off the Mosquito Coast and sets up
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the cover firm Pyramid Deliveries (Oct)
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1971 - Dr. Manhattan intervenes in the Viet Nam conflict (1/4)
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1973 - Woodward and Bernstein assassinated after uncovering evidence
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of the Watergate break-in (Jan)
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1974 - Captain Metropolis dies in an auto accident (10/3)
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1975 - The Nixon administration passes a constitutional amendment
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allowing him to seek re-election (3/7)
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1977 - The Police Riots cause the passage of the Keen act banning
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superhero activity (8/3)
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1978 - The Comedian quickly frees the American hostages in Iran (Dec)
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1980 - Sally Jupiter enters a retirement home (6/20)
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1981 - Dr. Manhattan moves to the Rockefeller Military Research Center
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(5/31)
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- Adrain Veidt offers many of Dr. Manhattan's former friends and
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associates high paying jobs, and exposes them to microwave
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radiation, giving them cancer (Jul)
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1982 - Veidt begins hiring artists, writers, and scientists
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to create a "creature."
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1985 - Whild on a mission for the government the Comedian stumbles onto
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Veidt's secret island and discovers his plans. One week later he
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visits Moloch in the middle of the night, drunk and weeping (7/16)
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- Edward Blake (Comedian) murdered by Ozymandias (10/12)
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- Dr. Manhattan cancer scandal begins (10/15)
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- The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan (10/16)
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- Night Owl II and Silk Spectre II become active once again (10/22)
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- Night Owl II and Silk Spectre II break Rorschach out of prison.
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Hollis Mason murdered by a street gang. Police discover Nite Owl's
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secret identity (10/31)
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- Veidt's hired artists and writers are killed along with everyone
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involved with Pyramid Deliveries or any phase of his plan.
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Dr. Manhattan returns to Earth (11/1)
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- Veidt's creature appears at the Institute of Extraspatial Studies.
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Approximately one third of New York's population is obliterated.
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Rorschach killed by Dr. Manhattan in the arctic (11/2).
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