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Mutants implicated in the failure of missiles during Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. (Expand the gallery to fullscreen for the full experience.)
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Magneto implicated in the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy.
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In 1965, Charles Xavier opens a school for mutants—or, um, gifted students.
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In 1967, Bolivar Trask of Trask Industries develops artificial limbs.
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Trask meets with Nixon in secret in 1972.
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Nixon gives Trask a contract for the Sentinel Mark I.
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Xavier makes a plea in Washington, D.C. for mutant rights in 1975.
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Pietro Maximoff (aka Quicksilver) breaks scores of world records in 1977, making some question mutants' place in sports.
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Televangelist Bob Bell calls mutants "god's curse" in 1984.
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Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster in 1986 causes rise in mutant expression in infants.
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Germany erects a wall in Berlin to separate mutants and non-mutants. In an act of protest, mutants tear down a section in 1988.
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In the late 1980s Trask Industries begins building a Mutant Registry using DNA.
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In 1991, South Africa becomes a safe haven for mutants.
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Mutants ally themselves with the Zapatista movement in 1994.
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Trask Industries testing leads to a Mad Cow outbreak in 1996.
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In 2001, Trask Industries helps coordinate a mutant detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Warring mutant factions destroy the Golden Gate Bridge in 2006.
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The U.S. built a "Mutant Wall" to protect its border in 2008.
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After mutants escape from Gitmo, Trask Industries develops a collar to limit their powers in 2009.
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In 2010, Trask Industries acquires Professor X's school for the gifted and turns it into a research outpost.
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Mutants participate in 2011's Occupy Wall Street.
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Blink leads an escape from a Trask mutant prison camp in 2012.
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Trask unveils the next generation of Sentinels in 2013.
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Hank McCoy (aka Beast) is taken from his home and killed in 2015.
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Gitmo escapee Bishop forms a militant group of mutants in 2018.
