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January 1, 2008Anastasius Nordenholz, Buenos Aires. In 1934, publish Anastasius Nordenholz is born in Buenos Aires. In 1934, he will publish a book entitled "Scientologie - Wissenschaft von der Beschaffenheit und Tauglichkeit des Wissens" ("Scientology Science of the Constitution and Usefulness of Knowledge"), thus predating L. Ron Hubbard's use of the word by several years.
January 1, 2008Henry August Wilson, L. Ron Hubbard's father, Fayette, Iowa. His, birth; Mr., Mrs. James Hubbard, Harry Ross Hubbard. L. Ron Hub Henry August Wilson, L. Ron Hubbard's father, is born at Fayette, Iowa. His mother dies at birth; Mr. and Mrs. James Hubbard adopt him and rename him Harry Ross Hubbard. L. Ron Hubbard made grandiose claims about his lineage, but in fact his father was an orphan.
September 6, 1927L. Ron Hubbard, Helena High School, grandparents L. Ron Hubbard enrolls as a junior in Helena High School while living with his maternal grandparents.
December 18, 1928L. Ron Hubbard, Guam, two-month, China L. Ron Hubbard and his mother arrive back in Guam after a two-month trip to China.
February 2, 1935Portage, Wisc The lie detector was first used in court in Portage, Wisc.
January 15, 1936Catharine May Hubbard, born Catharine May Hubbard is born.
February 6, 1939Mike Farrell, actor Mike Farrell, actor, "M*A*S*H" was born:
September 1, 1939Britain, Germany. Hubbard, Secretary, War, services, US, neutrality. Hubbard, Manhattan Britain declares war on Germany. Hubbard writes to the Secretary of War offering his services, nothing is done though as the US declares neutrality. Hubbard virtually abandons his family for a small apartment in Manhattan.
December 12, 1939L. Ron Hubbard, NY Explorers Club Using credentials that nobody could have possibly checked out, L. Ron Hubbard is approved for membership in the prestigious NY Explorers Club. He now begins to call himself "Captain Hubbard."
February 8, 1940Ted Koppel, born Ted Koppel is born.
February 19, 1940L. Ron Hubbard, Explorers Club L. Ron Hubbard becomes a member of the Explorers Club.
August 30, 1940L. Ron Hubbard, Ketchican, Alaska L. Ron Hubbard arrives in Ketchican, Alaska on a "radio-experimental expedition." While in Alaska, he obtains a loan from the local bank which is never repaid.
December 14, 1941One, Japanese, Pearl Harbor, Hubbard, District Intelligence Office, Twelfth Naval District, San Francisco. (He, December 7, Japa One week after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hubbard is sent to the District Intelligence Office of the Twelfth Naval District in San Francisco. (He claimed later that on December 7 he had been landed on Japanese-occupied Java from the USS Edsall, which had been sunk with all hands shortly thereafter; in fact it was not sunk until March 1, 1942 and Java did not surrender to the Japanese until February 1942).
February 14, 1942L. Ron Hubbard's Navy, American Naval Attache L.D. Casey: L. Ron Hubbard's Navy service is evaluated by American Naval Attache L.D. Casey: "In that he pretended competence without authority, and tried to carry out assignments for which he was not qualified, he has been the source of many problems. ... This officer does not fulfill the qualifications needed for independent assignment. He is loquacious and tries to impart impressions of his own importance. Besides that he appears to believe that he possesses extraordinary capability in most areas. These characteristics are a symptom of the need for close supervision under peacetime circumstances."
February 17, 1942Naval, L. Ron Hubbard, US. US Naval Attach Naval officer L. Ron Hubbard is sent back to the US. The US Naval Attach
May 1, 1942L. Ron Hubbard, US Navy service, Office, Cable Censor L. Ron Hubbard, as part of his US Navy service, begins working in the Office of Cable Censor.
May 18, 1943L. Ron Hubbard, command, Oregon. 3, injured L. Ron Hubbard, during his first and only command, fires on a magnetic deposit off the coast of Oregon. 3 crewmen are injured.
June 8, 1943command, data, Hubbard's, attacked. Hubbard The navy command, after reviewing all data, discounts all possibility that there was a enemy sub in the area at the time Hubbard's ship attacked. The brass consider it a distinct possibility that Hubbard attacked a "Known magnetic deposit."
June 28, 1943L. Ron Hubbard, USS PC-815, Coronados Islands, Mexico, later L. Ron Hubbard, in command of the USS PC-815, orders his crew to conduct gunnery exercises on the Coronados Islands in Mexico. He will be found to have disobeyed orders and will be relieved of his command less than three weeks later.
July 7, 1943L. Ron Hubbard, PC815 L. Ron Hubbard's command of PC815 and career as ship's commanding officer ends officially.
November 25, 1943L. Ron Hubbard, USS Algol L. Ron Hubbard is posted to the USS Algol.
December 2, 1944Jack Williamson, Sergeant, US Army, war, (including Hubbard), wives Jack Williamson, a Sergeant in the US Army and a member of a group of science fiction writers who meet to discuss the war, holds a dinner for his fellow writers (including Hubbard) and their wives. "Hubbard was just back from the Aleutians then," said Williamson, "hinting of desperate action aboard a Navy destroyer, adventures he couldn't say much about because of military security ... I recall his eyes, the wary, light-blue eyes that I somehow associate with the gunmen of the old West, watching me sharply as he talked as if to see how much I believed. Not much."
September 5, 1945L. Ron Hubbard, US Naval Hospital, Oakland, CA., ulcer. His, arthritis, headaches L. Ron Hubbard is admitted to the US Naval Hospital at Oakland, CA. to be treated for a duodenal ulcer. His other complaints included arthritis, hemorrhoids and headaches.
December 5, 1945L. Ron Hubbard, Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, USNR officer, Officer Separation Center, San Francisco. His, day, conducted. (He, deta L. Ron Hubbard is discharged from the Oak Knoll Naval Hospital and ordered to report to his last station as a USNR officer, the Officer Separation Center in San Francisco. His post there lasts only one day, during which the formalities of separation are conducted. (He was then detached, albeit still on active duty, from which he was released on February 16, 1946.) During his time in the army, he never saw battle or smelled gunpowder fired in anger. The four medals he received (he would later claim over twenty medals) were the ones commonly given to those who served in the areas that he was in. He was not wounded and never was singled out for bravery or heroism despite claims to the contrary. All of his time in the navy is accounted for, he was not employed as a secret agent and he did not go behind enemy lines for any purpose at any time.
December 6, 1945One, US Naval Reserve, Hubbard, benefits, problems, not, significantly, combat-related injury: malaria, knee, conjunctivitis, ul One day after being mustered out of the US Naval Reserve, Hubbard submits a claim for a pension and disability benefits. He lists a long catalog of problems, though not, significantly, anything that could be described as a combat-related injury: malaria, a sprained knee, conjunctivitis, an ulcer, and arthritis. Strangely, his recurrent malaria had never previously been documented by Navy doctors.
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