L. Ron Hubbard 1911 - L. Ron Hubbard was born in Tilden, Nebraska. 1913 - Hubbard encounters Blackfoot Indians at a tribal dance on the outskirts of town. 1917 - Hubbard, at age six, is honored with the status of blood brother of the Blackfeet in a ceremony that is still recalled by tribal leaders. 1922-23 - Hubbard joins the Boy Scouts of America. He meets Commander Joseph “Snake” Thompson, who studied with Sigmund Freud, and is taught about the human mind. 1924 - He becomes the nation’s youngest Eagle Scout. 1927 - He moves to Helena and joins the Montana National Guard’s 163rd Infantry. 1929 - He completes his high-school education in Washington, DC. 1934 - Hubbard uses his Remington manual typewriter and  produced 100,000 words of fiction a month. 1935 - Mr. Hubbard is elected president of the New York Chapter of the American Fiction Guild. He also penned articles for writer magazines. 1934-36 - He completed 138 novels, novelettes and short stories in six years. He wrote adventure, action, western, mystery and detective stories. This is an average of one published story every two weeks, three times the output of most other writers. 1937-40 - Hollywood seeks purchasing film rights to his novel, Murder at Pirate Castle. Columbia Pictures wants his work for the screen under the title Secret of Treasure Island. Arriving in Hollywood in May 1937, he begins scripting Secret of Treasure Island and commences work on three other big screen serials: The Mysterious Pilot, The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickock and The Spider Returns. He also starts on a news magazine Astonding Science Fiction. 1941 - He is commissioned as lieutenant of the United States Navy Reserve. With the outbreak of war in December, he is ordered to Australia where he coordinates intelligence activities. 1942 - Mr. Hubbard conducts a series of tests and experiments dealing with the endocrine system. He discovers that, contrary to long-standing beliefs, function monitors structure. With this revolutionary advance, he begins to apply his theories to the field of the mind. 1943 - He returns to writing and continues on his research. 1944 - He opens an office in Los Angeles, and tests the application of Dianetics among actors, directors, writers and others of the Hollywood community. These are the people who first receive the benefits of Mr. Hubbard’s revolutionary breakthroughs in the field of the mind. 1945 - He accepts an appointment as a Special Police Officer with the Los Angeles Police Department and uses the position to study society’s criminal elements. Moving on to Savannah, Georgia, he volunteers his time in hospitals and mental wards, saving lives with his counseling techniques. With test cases and research material in hand, he travels to Washington, DC and compiles into final manuscript form the result of his sixteen-year investigation to determine the dynamic principle of existence. (The result of this work is published today as the book The Dynamics of Life.) 1949 - His manuscript on Dianetics, which had been passed to a few friends for review, is copied and copied again until it circulates around the world. As a result of this enthusiastic response, he is urged by associates to write a popular book on the subject of Dianetics. Late in the year, his “Terra Incognita: The Mind,” the first published article on Dianetics, appears in the Winter/Spring issue of the Explorers Club Journal. 1950 - He is contracted by Hermitage House Publishing to write Dianetics. In the first week of March he completes Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health. He writes Dianetics: The Evolution of a Science for magazine publication to promote and accompany the release of Dianetics. On 9 May 1950, Dianetics is released and appears on the New York Times bestseller list on 18 June 1950. It remains on the bestseller list for 28 consecutive weeks and launches a national movement which will soon become the fastest growing movement in America. June, he delivers his first recorded lectures on Dianetics in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where the Hubbard Dianetics Research Foundation is formed. Through the remainder of the year, he continues to tour and speak in major cities, and by the end of December he has delivered over 100 lectures, including his address to more than 6,000 at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium. 1951 - He writes six books which outline his discoveries in the field of the human mind and give practical technology to better human existence: Science of Survival, The Dianetics Axioms, Advanced Procedure and Axioms, Self Analysis, Child Dianetics and Handbook for Preclears. In addition to the printed word, he delivers 135 lectures on the subject of Dianetics. After returning from Havana, Cuba, where he completes the book Science of Survival, he opens the first Hubbard College in Wichita, Kansas, delivering lectures and conducting courses. In the fall of 1951, having discovered that man is most fundamentally a spiritual being, he begins a new line of research to determine what can be done to help an individual regain natural abilities. The philosophy which he forms from these discoveries is Scientology. 1952 - He moves to Phoenix, Arizona and opens his office, establishing the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International. In addition to delivering 230 lectures on subjects such as emotional tones, communication and creativity, Mr. Hubbard writes of his further research on man’s spiritual potential in four new books. 1953 - After touring Europe he returns to Phoenix, where he releases new breakthroughs which enable the individual to explore his past and improve his reactions toward life. During this period, Mr. Hubbard also researches the basics of organization, developing principles that any group can use to survive and prosper. He delivers 274 lectures and writes two more books. 1954- In recognition of the spiritual nature of Mr. Hubbard’s philosophy, a number of Scientologists in Los Angeles, California form the first Church of Scientology in February. Meanwhile, Mr. Hubbard researches and develops the Scientology philosophy in Phoenix, continuing to lecture and write extensively. 1955 - In March, he moves from Phoenix to Washington, DC where the Founding Church of Scientology of Washington, DC is formed with Mr. Hubbard as Executive Director. He drafts organizational policies and intensifies his work in developing an administrative technology to allow Scientology organizations to run smoothly and expand. During October, he returns to England to deliver lectures in London, while further establishing the London organization. He delivers over 235 lectures in this year, on subjects from counseling techniques to education and alcoholism. 1957 - In February, he travels to Puerto Rico where he continues researching and writing. In April he flies to London to deliver a series of lectures on Scientology techniques and then travels to Washington. While still concentrating on further organizational and administrative developments and delivering over 135 public lectures, Mr. Hubbard also writes two books. While delivering more than 150 lectures, detailing solutions to such problems as environmental radiation and the failings of groups, he also runs both the Washington and London organizations during this year and finds the time to write two more books. 1958 - He delivers 122 lectures and six were filmed. 1959 - He conducts horticultural experiments in a greenhouse in Saint Hill which brought major increase in plant growth. He writes two books and gives 128 lectures. 1960 - He wrote Have You Lived Before This Life? 1962 - He films a movie entitled An Afternoon at Saint Hill. 1965 - The Classification and Gradation Chart is released. 1966 - He continues research in into the spiritual nature of man. He resigns from scientology organizations. 1967 - He arrives in Tangier, Morocco and establishes a base for advanced philosophy studies. 1975-79 - During this three year period he also shoots, directs and produces seven films which are used in training Scientology counselors. He also isolates and solves the problems of increasing literacy. 1981- Hubbard dies but before he does he writes The way to Happiness and produced a blockbuster Battlefield Earth: A saga of the year 3000.