20th Century

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 * HistoryText            = The 20th Century includes all events that took place from January 1st of year 1901 to December 31st of 2000.


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1902

 * Date Unknown: Stefan Wasserman is born. At 13, he will lie about his age to enlist in the military and serve in World War I.

1904

 * Date Unknown: The events of "The Last Bounty Hunter" occur. Of note, Jonah Hex is shot and killed by George Barrow.

1908

 * Date Unknown: Possible birth-year of Ivan Illich Gort. Ivan is one day destined to become the Russian super-agent Stalnoivolk.
 * Date Unknown: Ellie Marston is born in Toronto, Canada. ,
 * January 17th Earth-Two: Sven and Celestine Nelson give birth to their son, Kent. Kent Nelson is destined to one day become the sorceror Doctor Fate.

1914

 * Date Unknown: The last known passenger pigeon goes extinct in the town of Hatton Corners.
 * July 28th: Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia after it failed to meet the conditions of an ultimatum following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serbian assassin. This event leads to the outbreak of war. Known as the first Great War, the conflict continues until 1918.
 * August: The Prohaska family moves from Krakow to the slums of Lviv. Janos Prohaska is two-years old at this time.

1916

 * May 30: Edmund Hathaway is killed when his destroyer is sank off of Jutland. His father receives a telegram alerting him to his son's death a week later.
 * June 6: Doctor John Hathaway of the Royal Museum in Scotland steals the Magdalene Grimoire. He brings it to occultist Roderick Burgess in Wych Cross and begs him to use his skill to resurrect his dead son.
 * June 10: Roderick Burgess and the Order of Ancient Mysteries conducts a ceremony aimed at capturing Death of the Endless. Instead, they manage to capture Death's sibling Dream which causes "sleeping sickness" to numerous people including:
 * Ellie Marston becomes a victim of the "sleeping sickness" and is later diagnosed with Enchephalitis Lethargica.
 * In Kingston, Jamaica, Daniel Bustamonte is terrified to sleep and stays up until dawn.
 * In Verdun, France, 13-year-old soldier Stefan Wasserman is in a state of shell shock and refuses to go to sleep.
 * Unity Kincaid suffers from the sleeping sickness and lapses into a near coma-like state.

1917

 * Date Unknown: Baron Winters flees Russia during the Russian Revolution.
 * Date Unknown: Shell shocked Stefan Wasserman is discharged from the military. He is fifteen-years-old.
 * July 7, 7:00 a.m.: Johnny Thunder is born "in the seventh circle of the moon Lahseen." According to Bahdnisian prophecy, such a male child, on his seventh birthday, would have the power to rule the world and the Bahdnisians wanted to rule the child.

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