Just For Fun / Grand Unified Timeline - Early 80's

Grand Unified Timeline events from 1980 C.E. to 1984 C.E.

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1970s - 1980s

• The newly-regenerated Third Doctor is exiled to 20th century Earth as punishment by the Time Lords indefinitely.^moreIt doesn't take. He becomes scientific advisor to UNIT and takes on (and later parts ways with) Jo Grant, Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan on his travels into the TARDIS. The Third Doctor regenerates in this era too.^note As mentioned on the previous page, there is much contradictory information within the show regarding precisely when this era takes place, with various sources either placing it at time of airing (1970-1976), or 20 Minutes into the Future (approximately 1975-1983). As the evidence can be interpreted either way, it is discussed on both pages. (Doctor Who)
• Over this period the entity known as Jones develops a close personal relationship with James Eglamore. (Gunnerkrigg Court)

1980

• January 1: Trevor McPhee is returned to Earth after being abducted by the aliens for the third time. As before, ten years have passed and he has not aged a day. He attempts to bond with his 19-year-old son Mark. His ex-wife Theresa's second husband Ray Carter succeeds in recording his disappearance on Super 8 when he is abducted by the aliens for the fourth time. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• January 22: Tim Barnes is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• February 12-14: A lunatic dressed as a miner kills people to prevent a small town's Valentine dance. (My Bloody Valentine)
• February 14: Owen Harper is born. (Torchwood)
• February 16: The serial killer Jerome Horowitz murders his first victim, Cindy Vetterman, as she did not come to his 21st birthday party the day before. In two alternate timelines, he is prevented from doing so. He is killed by Dr. Theresa Givens in the first timeline and by FBI Agent Jamie Pratt in the second timeline. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• February 22: The Miracle on Ice, in which the US men's national hockey team came from behind to stuns the heavily favored Soviet national team 4–3 in the medal round of the 1980 Winter Olympics. (Real Life; the 1981 made-for-TV movie Miracle on Ice; the 2004 film Miracle; and the 2015 ESPN 30 for 30 documentary Of Miracles and Men, which unlike the previous two works tells the story from the Soviet side)
• February 24: Two days after the Miracle on Ice, Team USA scores another come-from-behind win, this time 4–2 over Finland, to win the gold medal. (Real Life, Miracle on Ice, Miracle)
• February 26: Sheldon and Missy Cooper are born to Mary and George Cooper. Mary gives birth at a Walmart in Galveston, Texas. (The Big Bang Theory)
• Spring:
  • A group of teenagers connected to a child's death six years before are killed during prom. (Prom Night (1980))
  • Ray Finkle graduates from Stetson University as an honors student, after a prestigious college football career making two NCAA Division 1 records: one for most points in a season, and one for distance. (Ace Ventura)
• March 1: Ron Weasley is born to Molly and Arthur Weasley. (Harry Potter)
• March 11: Birth of Sean Matsuda in Brazil. He would practice basketball and martial arts as a teenager, emulating Ken Masters in style. (Street Fighter III)
• March 16/May 28: Birth of Nanase Mizukami, younger sister of Kairi and Holuto, in Japan. She would be trained in the traditional fighting style of her family. (Street Fighter EX^{justification}Based on online sources. She could be younger.)
• March 25: The Wilmarth Foundation nukes Cthylla, offspring of Cthulhu.^moreCthylla survives, but a psychic assault from R'lyeh is sent in retaliation, destroying Miskatonic University. (The Transition of Titus Crow)
• April 15: Samantha "Sam" Jones is born. (Eighth Doctor Adventures)
• April 21: A mysterious fog brings terror to Antonio Bay. (The Fog (1980))
• May 11: Henry Hill's last day as a "Wiseguy". (Goodfellas)
• May 18:
  • Ian Curtis of Joy Division dies. (Real Life, 24-Hour Party People, Control)
  • Mount St. Helens erupts (Real Life) because of 76-2 (SCP Foundation)
  • Around this time, Professor Marcus Irving drops out of contact with his sisters. (Back to the Future)
• May: Fifty years after he was struck by lightning and killed while playing golf, Peterson is revived by a team of surgeons. He is given the designation Single-O. (Just Imagine)
• June 7: Steve Jablonski is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• June 10:
  • Vuc Andric is born. (Chuck)
  • Gordon Penwick is born. (Detroit: Become Human)
• June 13: A group of teenaged camp counsellors are brutally murdered during the renovation of summer camp Camp Crystal Lake. This is revealed to be the work of Pamela Voorhees, a former counsellor at the camp whose son Jason drowned there 22 years earlier. Pamela is killed by a surviving victim, who claims Jason is still alive and lurking somewhere nearby. The camp is nicknamed Camp Blood by the nearby town. (Friday the 13th (1980))
• June 16: A St. Bernard named Cujo catches rabies. He starts attacking people the following month. (Cujo)
• June 20: Sam Beckett leaps into Katie McBain, a teenage girl who has just been raped, in Mill Valley, California. He is there to ensure that Katie's rapist Kevin Wentworth, the son of a prominent local family, is brought to justice. (Quantum Leap)
• June 28: A small-town school organizes a graduation dance for the first time since 1945, awakening a killer's wrath. (The Prowler)
• Between April and June: Birth of Yang Dong to Ye Wenjie and Yang Weining (deceased). Ye and her daughter go to live with the Qi family for six months. (The Three-Body Problem)
• July 31: Harry Potter is born to James and Lily Evans Potter. (Harry Potter)
• August 13: Two months after the original deaths at Camp Crystal Lake, survivor Alice Hardy is murdered in her home by an unnamed assailant. (Friday the 13th Part 2)
• August 17: In Australia, Azaria Chamberlain, a baby girl, is eaten by a dingo. The story becomes well-known, even joked about by the media. (Real Life)
• August 19: The spaceship transporting NASA astronauts Colonel Alan Virdon and Major Peter J. Burke encounters a time warp while approaching Alpha Centauri. The ship travels forward to 3085, where they discover that Earth is ruled by intelligent apes. (Planet of the Apes)
• September 28: Demona retrieves the Praying Gargoyle from Notre Dame Cathedral, and slays the current Hunter, Charles Canmore, in the process. Canmore is survived by his three children Jason, Robyn, and Jon. (Gargoyles)
• September: LN-18 and J-21 are married. (Just Imagine)
• Before October: The Battlestar Galactica and its fleet arrive at Earth, only to discover Earth is not advanced enough to defend against the Cylons. (Galactica 1980)
• October 5: Ted Striker test-pilots the lunar shuttle XR-2300, but he can't handle it. (Airplane II: The Sequel)
• October 8: Edwin Garrett disappears. (The 4400)
• October 15: After showing him several inactive versions of the implants that the aliens place in the frontal lobes of their test subjects, Dr. Chet Wakeman tells Eric Crawford that they have finally found an active one after cutting open the heads of six people. He demonstrates the harmful effects of the implant on a soldier in an isolation room. The soldier is driven insane within seconds and kills himself by banging his head repeatedly on the glass. (Taken)
• October 16: Tara Maclay is born. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• October 17: Jane Nance disappears. (The 4400)
• October 19:
  • Jacob Clarke returns to his childhood home of Lubbock, Texas to visit his mother Sally, who is dying of cancer, and introduce her to his wife Carol and eight-year-old daughter Lisa. This is the first time that Jacob has seen Sally since his elder half-siblings Tom and Becky faked his death on January 4, 1959 and brought him to the Greenspan School in Missoula, Montana. Tom tells Jacob that he has come to the conclusion that his father John was a soldier who was injected with psychotropic drugs and Jacob developed abilities as a result. Jacob is less than convinced. To ease Sally's suffering as she dies, Jacob creates an image of John from her memories. Tom is finally convinced that John was an alien, noting that it is ironic that the country's leading debunker has a half-alien half-brother. (Taken)
  • Using a FBI aging program, Dr. Chet Wakeman creates an image of Jesse Keys' probable current appearance and distributes it to the UFO project's field agents around the country. (Taken)
• October 20: Birth of Lilith Aensland. She was created from energy drawn from the succubus Morrigan Aensland and is more-or-less a clone of her. She would gain her own succubus body and powers, becoming Morrigan's "little sister". (Darkstalkers^{justification}Date given. She is otherwise estimated to be close in age to Baby Bonnie Hood. )
• October 21: The paramedic Jesse Keys receives a report of a car accident involving college students in Morgan's Junction, Missouri. While there, he sees an image of the carny that frightened him as a child and is abducted by the aliens for the first time in more than a decade. He is returned to the same spot approximately three hours later. Both his wife Amelia and nine-year-old son Charlie are concerned about him as he appears to be scared of something. That night, he notices the imprint of an alien hand on his stomach. He returns to Morgan's Junction and finds a glowing green circle in the wheatfield of the local farmer Luke Reynolds. (Taken)
• October 29:
  • Eric Crawford tells his wife Julie and ten-year-old daughter Mary that they are moving to Maine. He does not tell them that it is because the numerous tourists camping out in the desert near Groom Lake make it almost impossible for the UFO project to do its work. (Taken)
  • While he is at home alone, Jesse Keys sees bright lights coming through the window and believes that he is about to be abducted. He goes outside and starts shouting, telling the aliens to leave his family alone. In the confusion, he pushes someone to the ground. It turns out that the lights were from his wife Amelia's car and the person that he pushed was Charlie. The entire family is shaken by the incident. After ten years of marriage, Jesse finally confesses to Amelia that he has been abducted by aliens multiple times and his apparent tumor is an implant that they placed in his head. Amelia believes that it is all in his mind, a symptom of post-traumatic stress due to his service in the Vietnam War, and convinces him to see a doctor for Charlie's sake. (Taken)
• October 30:
  • Tom Clarke appears on television to refute his previous claims that stories of alien abductions and flying saucers were nothing more than a conspiracy. When the interviewer asks him why he has gone from a debunker to a believer, he says that he has personal information but does not elaborate. His half-brother Jacob is concerned that Tom will reveal his alien heritage to the world while Eric Crawford is curious as to what changed his mind on the issue. (Taken)
  • In the Rivers Clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota, the neurosurgeon Dr. Franklin Traub tells Jesse Keys and his wife Amelia that the implant is in fact a metallic deposit caused by exposure to unusual chemicals and that it can be dispersed using ultrasound therapy. Jesse is not convinced but he nevertheless agrees to the therapy as he does not want to run the risk of hurting Charlie. He warns Amelia that the UFO project may be looking for him, not realizing that Dr. Traub is one of their field agents. Based on the age progression sketch that he previously received, Traub tells Dr. Chet Wakeman that he has found Jesse Keys. (Taken)
• Before October 31: In the absence of her parents Harold and Jean, Lindsay Weir hosts a keg party. (Freaks and Geeks)
• October 31:
  • Two Cylon agents attempt to transmit Earth's location to their fleet but they are stopped by Troy and Dillon. (Galactica 1980)
  • Charlie Keys dresses as Darth Vader for Hallowe'en. He gets into a fight with a boy named Alan Holmes after he calls his father Jesse nuts but it is broken up by his mother Amelia and an apparent passerby, who turns out to be an agent of the UFO project. (Taken)
  • Sam Weir has a miserable Hallowe'en, which culminates in him being (accidentally) egged by his elder sister Lindsay. (Freaks and Geeks)
• October: Zombie outbreak in Maricela, put down by Brazilian army. Army also apparently kills surviving natives in the area. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• November 1: Dr. Chet Wakeman goes to the Rivers Clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota to see Jesse Keys, who has been heavily sedated by Dr. Franklin Traub, for himself. (Taken)
• November 3: Eric Crawford travels to Dallas, Texas to talk to Becky Clarke in the hope of finding out why her elder brother Tom has become a believer in aliens after spending years debunking stories about them. He tells her everything that has happened since the Roswell crash, admitting that he can't think of any other way to find the answers that he seeks. That night, Eric and Becky take his private plane to Groom Lake, Nevada and he shows her the alien bodies found in Roswell in 1947. There is a strong mutual attraction between them and they begin an affair. (Taken)
• November 4:
  • Ronald Reagan defeats Jimmy Carter in the U.S. presidential election. (Real Life)
  • [Alternate Universe] John F. Kennedy is elected to a sixth term as U.S. President. (Sliders)
  • The New Populist Party candidate Captain America is elected President of the United States, defeating Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. (What If?)
  • [Alternate Universe] Howard Stern defeats Jimmy Carter in the U.S. presidential election. (Sliders)
  • [Alternate Universe] Gary Hart is elected U.S. President. (The Dark Tower)
  • [Alternate Universe] Ernest Hollings is elected U.S. President. (The Dark Tower)
  • Richard Nixon is elected to a fourth term as U.S. President. (Watchmen)
  • Eunice Danforth makes a deal with Ed Meese to fix the election by using the Brainalyzer to pump MacGyver's brain into Ronald Reagan's body, thereby quadrupling his I.Q. (Eerie, Indiana)
  • U.S. President John Glenn is re-elected. ("Hillary Orbits Venus")
• November 7: After they have sex in a motel in Dallas, Eric Crawford asks Becky Clarke to leave her husband Ronnie and move to Maine with him. He says that he plans to tell his wife Julie about them. After Eric drives away, Becky is approached by her brother Tom. He accuses her of being a selfish little girl who is willing to walk on their mother Sally's grave to get away from Ronnie. When he asks her if she has told Eric that their younger half-brother Jacob is still alive, Becky admits that she hasn't. Tom sees this as evidence that she does not trust Eric any more than he does. (Taken)
• November 8:
  • Jesse Keys realizes that "Dr. Patterson" is an agent of the UFO project as he is aware that the little men that he sees are grey without being told. He renders the agent unconscious and escapes. The aliens create an image of Jesse in order to lure Charlie to Morgan's Junction, Missouri so that they can abduct him. Although the real Jesse arrives and tries his best to protect his son, they are nevertheless both abducted. This is the first time that Charlie is abducted and the last time that Jesse is. When they are returned to Earth, Jesse is suffering brain damage from the implant. After he is brought to hospital, the implant falls out of his nose. He warns his wife Amelia that the project will be looking for Charlie from now on. Amelia and Charlie manage to escape the agents who arrive at the hospital and go into hiding but Jesse remains behind. He soon enters a catatonic state. (Taken)
  • Becky Clarke considers leaving her husband Ronnie for Eric Crawford but she can't go through with it as she realizes that she doesn't really trust him and that she doesn't want to leave her children Kim and Andy. Eric is heartbroken as his relationship with Becky represented his last, best chance to become a better man. (Taken)
  • That night, a group of UFO enthusiasts led by Becky and her brother Tom block State Highway 93 in the Mojave Desert so that they can inspect the trucks transporting materiel from Groom Lake. They correctly believe that the trucks contain the bodies from the Roswell crashsite. Although Eric Crawford does not allow them to inspect the trucks, they see the crashed ship being transported by three helicopters across the desert. To Eric's irritation, Tom says, "Still don't know how to fly it, do you?" Another, much larger and fully operational alien ship then appears overhead. The crashed ship is reactivated and enters the mothership. The aliens also retrieve the bodies but leave the artifact found at the crashsite behind. (Taken)
• November 15: Having lost all of the proof of the existence of the aliens and the threat that they pose to Earth, the UFO project is shut down by the Senate Appropriations Committee after 33 years in operation. (Taken)
• December 6: Birth of Ibuki to a village of ninjas in Japan. She would be raised as a ninja. (Street Fighter III^{justification}As originally depicted, Ibuki is a senior at high school and approaching graduation. Her personal aspirations include entry into a university.)
• December 8:
  • John Lennon is shot dead by Mark David Chapman outside the Dakota Building in New York City. (Real Life)
  • The assassination is influenced by Huitzilin, a supernatural Aztec entity, for its own purposes. (The Left-Handed Hummingbird)
  • Upon hearing the news, a young Rick Castle doesn't leave his room for a week. (Castle)
  • Kim Karlsen's friends, Gunnar, Sebastian, and Ola, all react by going to the same fountain in Oslo, but at different times. Seb takes up studying and becomes a teacher, Ola takes up hair dressing, and Gunnar also takes up studying, becoming an archaeologist. Kim lives in seclusion, but writes post cards to his friends. (Second sequel to Beatles)
• December 14: Birth of Faith Lehane in Boston. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• December 31: Bunch of med-students are killed in a New Year's Eve masquerade party on a train. Perpetrator turns out to be disgruntled former student who was victim of a nasty prank short time ago. (Terror Train)
• December: Some surviving zombies from Maricela cause a subsequent outbreak in Juruti. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• {Sept|Nov|Dec}ember 4: Birth of Dina to Ryou and Haruka Sarazu. (Walkyverse
• Late 1980: Ye Wenjie and Yang Dong return to live at Red Coast Base. (The Three-Body Problem)
• Rebecca Chambers born. (Resident Evil)
• Alyssa Jones breaks her hymen^note by falling off a fence post at age ten. (Chasing Amy)
• Jennifer Walters becomes She-Hulk. (Marvel Comics)
• Randal Graves pisses all over the bathroom floor at school. (Clerks: The Animated Series)
• The Blues Brothers try to save their orphanage. (The Blues Brothers)
• Private investigator Thomas Magnum begins operating out of author Robin Masters's estate. (Magnum, P.I.)
• Sue Sylvester is born. (Glee)
• Nicholas Angel's Uncle Derek, a sergeant from the Met, gives him a pedal police car. Nicholas spends several weeks riding around in it and stopping the other kids for things like littering, and although he loses many friends, he comes to realize that he wants to become a policeman—officer. ^note Nicholas later discovers that Uncle Derek was selling drugs on the side, and that the pedal police car was likely bought using that money. He left the car to rust but never lost his interest in the law. (Hot Fuzz)
• End of the Long War between China and Islam. (The Years of Rice and Salt)
• Britain is swept by a wave of mysterious defenestrations, followed by sightings of an awkwardly-flying superhero. Stonehenge is spotted at a suspiciously Italian coastal cliff. (The Pumaman)
• Serial Killer with Mommy Issues scalps women in New York. (Maniac! (1980))
• Horrifying truth about Motel Hello's delicious smoked meat is uncovered. (Motel Hell)
• Would-be astronaut Kazuya Oki is turned into a cyborg (codename Super-1) by the International Space Development Program. However, before he can head into space, the launch base is attacked by the villainous Dogma Empire, and Oki trains in the martial arts before fighting Dogma as a Kamen Rider. (Kamen Rider Super-1)
• Cristoph Kuyler assassinates a bank president in Paris. While trying to escape, he runs into Duncan MacLeod. Duncan thought himself retired from the Game and did not carry a sword at the time. He has to evade both Kuyler and a number of approaching police officers. Duncan manages to board a Bateau Mouche, impressing Tessa Noël in the process. Duncan and Tessa would go on to form a romantic relationship that would last for the rest of her life. (Highlander: The Series)
• [Alternate Timeline] Earth is a lifeless, windswept rock wiped clean of all life following the return of Sutekh in 1911 and his corresponding rampage. The Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith briefly visit here to see the consequences of not intervening to prevent Sutekh from returning. Sarah Jane claims to have come from 1980^note As discussed previously on this page and the previous one, the show is notoriously inconsistent regarding whether this period takes roughly at time of broadcast (mid-1970s) or 20 Minutes into the Future, but the information is provided here for sake of reference. (Doctor Who)
• Richard Collier becomes infatuated with Elise McKenna, eight years after her death. He travels back in time to June 27, 1912 to meet her in person. (Somewhere in Time)
• Having spent the last nine years failing to convince anyone of the existence of aliens, Nicholas Ballard has a mental breakdown and checks himself into a mental institution in Oregon. (Stargate SG-1)
• A car crash leaves Mamoru Chiba both with amnesia and orphaned. (Sailor Moon)
• Kate Beckett is born ^TimingShe's thirty-one in "Rise", set in 2011. (Castle)
• Birth of Katherine Brewster. (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)
• Kevin Smith takes on the Mafia in Miami, and has to kill the man he loves. (killer7)
• Kiyone Masaki dies in her sleep. Tennyo leaves the household due to her resemblance to Kiyone. Noboyuki and Katsuhito are given instructions to use a script she wrote should Tenchi ever ask why she died. (Tenchi Muyo!)
• Billy Butcher is suspended from school for talking back to and cursing at a teacher. (The Boys)
• The Ramones help a fan and her schoolmates fight a rock 'n' roll hating principal. (Rock 'n' Roll High School)
• Henry Hassel returns home to discover his wife in the arms of another man. Furious, he builds a time machine so that he can kill her grandfather in the past. (The Men Who Murdered Mohammed)
• Life expectancy has increased substantially. (Alfred Hitchcock Presents)
• New York is a Mega City with multi-lane elevated roadways, suspension bridges hung between towering megastructures, and personal aircraft buzzing from building to building. Transoceanic airliners are dirigibles. People have numbers instead of names and babies are readily procurable from vending machines. There is a manned mission to Mars. (Just Imagine)
• Lisa Clarke begins having dreams about Charlie Keys. (Taken)
• Lex Luthor is born. (Smallville)
• Samuel Bernard is born. (Supergirl (2015))
• Aaron Rivera (later Shore) is born in Texas. (Designated Survivor)
• A group of Thai Catholic school students investigate a decades-old suicide, awakening a Vengeful Ghost in the process. (303 Fear/Faith/Revenge)
• Dustin Henderson and his family move to Hawkins, Indiana. He soon befriends Mike Wheeler, Will Byers and Lucas Sinclair. (Stranger Things)
• Dominick Hide, a time traveler from 2130, is assigned to observe the transport systems of London in 1980. He decides to break the rules and land his flying saucer in order to search for his great-great-grandfather, also named Dominick Hide, as the records indicate that he was living in London at this time. In the midst of his search, Dominick meets a young clothes shop owner named Jane Winters and they soon begin a relationship in spite of the fact that he has a wife named Ava in 2130. They have sex and Jane becomes pregnant as a result. The child Dominick, Jr. is Dominick's great-grandfather, meaning that he is his own great-great-grandfather whom he had been looking for when he met Jane. (The Flipside of Dominick Hide)
• Holly Wheeler is born. (Stranger Things)
• Aries, Neleus and Pelius are born on M7G-677 in the Pegasus galaxy. (Stargate Atlantis)
• Kevin Drayton meets his future wife Carol in a night school class. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Harvey Goodman is born. (Star Cops)
• Meredith Quill dates a strange but charming man who reveals to her that he came from outer space (he is in fact a manifestation of Ego the Living Planet). They would eventually go on to have a child together. (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2)
• Salvador Marti begins working for the time ministry as a field agent. That same day he meets the woman who would later become his wife. (The Ministry of Time)
• Amandine Poulain is killed when a suicidal Canadian tourist jumps from the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris and lands on her. (Amélie)
• Chinese master spy Wo Fat is arrested by Steve McGarrett. (Hawaii Five-O)
• Edith Bunker dies. (Archie Bunker's Place)
• Tony Montana leaves Cuba and arrives in Miami during the Mariel boatlift. (Scarface (1983))
• Birth of Howard Lesse and Jennifer Billingsworth, and Robin DeSanto ^{Justification} States in this strip that she is seven years away from eligibility for vice president of the United States. Confirmed in this one to be 31 as of 2011. . (Walkyverse

1981

• January 1: Adrian Mole starts writing his diary. (The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾)
• January 6: Birth of Hotaru Tomoe to Socuihi and Keiko Tomoe. She would awaken as Sailor Saturn twelve years later. (Sailor Moon)
• January 19: Buffy Anne Summers is born to Joyce and Hank Summers in Los Angeles. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• January 20:
  • Ronald Reagan is inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States. (Real Life)
  • After being inaugurated as the 40th U.S. President, Captain America reveals his civilian identity of Steve Rogers to the world. Immediately afterwards, he is the subject of an assassination attempt. Over the objections of the Secret Service, President America captures the would-be assassin himself. (What If?)
• January: Brad Taylor is born. (Home Improvement)
• February 28: While playing baseball with his wife Carol and eight-year-old daughter Lisa in Los Altos, California, Jacob Clarke collapses. His body is beginning to fail due to his half-alien status. Jacob gives Lisa the star shaped pendant that belonged to his mother Sally and tells her that he loves her every day and twice on Sundays. (Taken)
• February: Sheena is born. (Play for Tomorrow)
• Spring: Laura Ramstead dies of exhaustion during a high school track race. (Graduation Day)
• March 1: In Bakersfield, California, the nine-year-old Charlie Keys is abducted by the aliens while his mother Amelia is buying a pizza. When he is returned several minutes later, Amelia finds that he has three circular impressions behind his left ear. (Taken)
• March 2: The Howard Stern Show premieres on DC 101 in Washington, D.C.. (Real Life) and (Private Parts).
• March 8: John Shaffner is born. (The 4400)
• March 17: Jacob Clarke dies. (Taken)
• March 30:
  • John Hinckley Jr. attempts to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Washington. (Real Life)
  • A Soviet time traveller named Yuri prevents the assassination of Ronald Reagan; unfortunately for him, this causes the dissolution of the USSR and the erasure of his time travel agency from history. He decides to change careers and work for the Time Repair Agency, fixing paradoxes. (Chrononauts)
• April 7: Cassandra Schofield is born. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• April 12: The Columbia is launched into orbit, inaugurating the Space Shuttle program. (Real Life) The ten-year-old Cameron Mitchell and his father Frank watch the launch on television in the Veterans' Hospital. (Stargate SG-1)
• April 28: Kevin Arthur disappears. (The 4400)
• May 4: Victor Rutledge dies. (The 4400)
• May 5: Paige Pratt dies. (Cold Case)
• Summer: A fencing-masked killer avenges a high school track star's death from overexertion. (Graduation Day)
• June 7: Jack and Johanna Kimball are murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• June 16: Amy Barrett is born. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• June: Peter Tracey receives a suspended sentence for breaking and entering. (K-9 and Company)
• July 27:
  • Alexia Ashford appointed senior researcher at Umbrella Rockfort Facility, aged 10. (Resident Evil – Code: Veronica)
  • Ken Barlow and Deirdre Langton are married for the first time. (Coronation Street)
• July 29: Prince Charles marries Lady Diana Spencer. (Real Life, The Crown)
  • On the day of their wedding, Lady Diana tries (unsuccessfully) to call off the wedding, then tries to convince Charles to run away with her to California so they can wear old Levi's and eat cold weinies in a Winnebago. (Bloom County)
  • Ben Song leaps into a Los Angeles bounty hunter named Eva Sandoval, on the day of Charles and Diana's wedding. This is his first leap into a woman. He's there to help capture a bail skip named Tammy Jean Jessup, and to get Eva together with her partner and boyfriend Jake. (Quantum Leap (2022))
• July: Death of Donnie Truant. (House of Leaves)
• August 18: Christopher Ewing is born. (Dallas)
• September 9/December 12: Birth of twin brothers Yun and Yang in Hong Kong. Orphaned at an early age, the two would be raised by a grandfather who trains them in kung fu. (Street Fighter III)
• September 16: Tom and Katy Pottage celebrate their birthday. Katy isn't happy because her doll is missing, however the local postman retrieves it and brings it to the party. (Postman Pat)
• September 17: Ami Kwean disappears. (The 4400)
• September 18:
  • Birth of Elena in Kenya. She would be raised as a fighting princess, her favourite fighting style being capoeira. (Street Fighter III^{justification}Said to be 17 years old in 1998. )
  • Charles Irving "Chuck" Bartowski is born. (Chuck)
• September 19: Toshiko Sato is born. (Torchwood)
• September 30: Sam Beckett leaps into Linda Bruckner, a single mother with three children, in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is there to prevent Linda's son Kevin from disappearing. As Linda's daughter Teresa is only five years old, she can see not only Al but Sam as he is really is. Al tells her that they are angels. (Quantum Leap)
• October 28: SCP Foundation apprehends a many-voiced predator specimen. (SCP Foundation)
• October 31: James and Lily Potter are killed by the evil wizard Voldemort. ^moreThe one-year-old Harry is also attacked, with an instant-death spell for which there is no counter, but survives through his mother's love protecting him and causes Voldemort to be defeated. Harry, now called "The Boy Who Lived", is placed into hiding with his only remaining blood relatives, a Muggle family. (Harry Potter)
• December: Sarah Jane Smith meets K-9. The two of them prevent Brendan Richards from being sacrificed by the Cult of Hecate in Moreton Harwood. (K-9 and Company)
• SHADO repels an alien invasion. (UFO (1970))
• First zombie created by the T-virus. This version of the virus has a 90% infection rate; research begins to generate a variant with 100% infection. (Resident Evil)
• The X-Men and the Kitty Pryde of a Sentinel-dominated future prevent her timeline from occurring. (Marvel Comics)
• The Fourth Doctor saves the universe from total collapse (and the Master), and regenerates. (Doctor Who)
• Ralph Hinkley is given a super-suit by an alien and becomes a superhero. (The Greatest American Hero)
• American David Kessler becomes a werewolf, terrorizes London. (An American Werewolf in London)
• A horribly burned man, simply known as "Cropsy", is released from the hospital and starts a killing spree. (The Burning)
• Four teens attend a carnival in Florida and are stuck in a darkride with a deformed killer. (The Funhouse)
• A bunch of teens are harassed by murderous rednecks in Oregon. (Just Before Dawn)
• James Horton is assigned as the Watcher of the Kurgan. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• Diligent Aperture Science engineers complete the Heimlich Counter-Maneuver and Take-A-Wish Foundation initiatives. The company announces products related to the research in a lavish, televised ceremony. These products immediately become wildly unpopular. After a very public string of choking and despondent sick child disasters, senior company officials are summoned before a Senate investigative committee. During these proceedings, an engineer mentions that some progress has been made on "Tier 3", the "man-sized ad hoc quantum tunnel through physical space with possible applications as a shower curtain". The committee is quickly and permanently recessed, and Aperture is granted an open-ended contract to continue research on the "Portal" and "Heimlich Counter-Maneuver" projects in secret. (Portal)
• It's discovered that a Ghost Town in Texas has a ghost killer in it. (Scream)
• Bethany discovers she's pregnant and wants to abort the child. Brett Waits threatens to leave her if she does so, and so she has the abortion performed by a medical student and claims it was a miscarriage. Brett stays with her and consoles her during her recovery. He also drops out of school due to his fear of blood and gets a job selling shoes in Monticello. (Dogma: A Screenplay)
• Birth of Buffy Summers in Los Angeles. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• A fallen building from the flying city of Columbia is discovered in the Alps. (BioShock Infinite)
• Billy Butcher joins the Royal Marines. (The Boys)
• Six nuclear reactors in North America and Europe are taken over by terrorists on orders from nuclear physicist Dr. Murik for ransom. (Licence Renewed)
• Birth of Tru Davies. (Tru Calling)
• Futuro, a supervillain, travels back in time from this year to the Stone Age to commit a crime spree in Bedrock. Returning his native time, Futuro's finally stopped by a time-travelling Captain Caveman, Wilma Flintstone, and Betty Rubble. (The Flintstone Comedy Show; year taken from its original airdate)
• A dimensional rift called "The Tear" opens over Earth, causing "The Changing", a series of disasters that turns the world into "an untamed planet of ruined cities, mutated creatures, man-eating plants and powerful magic." (Wasteland 2010)
• Detective Ray Holt single-handedly apprehends "The Disco Strangler", a notorious serial killer terrorising New York City. The case becomes legendary among the NYPD. (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)^{Justification}The events are shown in flashback during the pilot episode, and dialogue places it during 1981. Later dialogue suggests that the case has since become famous, at least among police officers.
• First virus that infects floppy disks. (Digital: A Love Story and Real Life)
• Sid Fairgate dies. (Knots Landing)
• Simon Locke is killed in a motorcycle accident. He had been going much too fast because he needed to clear his head as he was afraid of success and his relationship with Andrea Fields becoming serious. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Bryce Larkin is born in Connecticut. (Chuck)
• The Nexus crosses through the Milky Way Galaxy. (Star Trek: Generations)
• Dominick Hide Jr. is born in Portobello Road, London. (The Flipside of Dominick Hide)
• Debbie Cunningham is born. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Kevin and Carol Drayton are married. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• The New Zealander aviatrix Louisa Iredale Wentworth disappears while trying to recreate a famous flight. She is survived by her son Tama. On the same day, Jo Tiegan is born in Australia. In 1995, this causes the Old Man to speculate that Jo may be a reincarnation of Louisa or possibly a blood relative because they were the only ones who could see through the mirror that allowed people to travel between 1919 and 1995. (Mirror, Mirror (1995))
• Arthur Fleck kills three Wayne Enterprises businessmen in the subway of Gotham and then Talk Show host Murray Franklin on his live TV show. Mayoral candidate Thomas Wayne condemns the acts and riots break out in the city. (Joker (2019))
• Matthew Shawcross begins his Christian televangelist empire. ("The Moral Virologist")
• Lily Descoine commits suicide. (Remington Steele)
• Brady Sullivan is born in Boston. (Unimaa)
• In a case of mistaken identity, Fedelia "Fiddler" Jimmerson is arrested for kidnapping. (Quantum Leap)
• Birth of Mary Bradford. (Walkyverse)

1981- 1982

• Winter: Cleveland experiences the worst winter storm it has ever statistically seen. Harvey Pekar and his girlfriend endure their vehicles being towed and breaking down in the miserable weather, leading to several arguments. (American Splendor)

Between 1977 and 1982

• Linda Mitchell marries Charles Walkerton. (Walkyverse

1982

• January 1: Laszlo Mahnovski is born. (Chuck)
• January 7: Laurel Bryce disappears. (The 4400)
• January 27: Sam Beckett leaps into a sensationalist talk show host named Roberto Gutierrez in Destiny, New Mexico. He is there to prevent Roberto's fellow reporter Jani Eisenberg from being killed. (Quantum Leap)
• February 8: Randy Taylor is born. (Home Improvement)
• March 22: Jenny Gump (née Curran) dies. (Forrest Gump)
• Early 1982: Sam Butcher suffers a stroke, losing the use of his arm. A few days later, he hits Carol so hard she loses an eye. Billy Butcher attempts to kill his father, is stopped by Lenny. Billy decides to join the Royal Marines. (The Boys)
• April 1: birth of Sal Walters and David and Steven Walkerton. ^moreSal and Beef are switched at birth The Walkerton twins inherit Martian DNA from their mother. ^{Justification}Willis states that they were born on April Fools' Day. Sal states she is underage in "College Ho! #9"; this takes place at Danny and Joe's college orientation, which would be in early September of 1997. The age of consent in Indiana is 16.. (Walkyverse)
• April 18: Iris Felice is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• May 10: John Constantine is born. (Constantine)
• May 14: In Woburn, Massachusetts, a number of citizens whose children had developed or died from leukemia filed a civil lawsuit against two corporations, W. R. Grace and Company and Beatrice Foods. Grace's subsidiary, Cryovac, and Beatrice were suspected of contaminating the groundwater by improperly disposing of trichloroethylene (TCE), perchloroethylene (perc) and other industrial solvents at their facilities in Woburn near water wells G and H. Jan Schlichtmann is the attorney chosen to represent them. The case would last to 1990. (A Civil Action and real life)
• May 21: Billy Butcher is assigned to the Royal Marines at San Carlos, and gains a commendation when he heroically shoots down an Argentinian plane. (The Boys)
• May:
  • Sarah Walker is born. (Chuck)
  • Lindsay Chase is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
  • The 22nd Century time traveler Pyrus Bonnington is assigned to observe street crime and violence in London in 1982. In the process of doing so, he witnesses a princess being kidnapped and lands his flying saucer to render assistance. However, he is soon distracted by the vibrancy of this era. After getting drunk in a local pub, Pyrus tries to assault a police officer and is arrested. After he fails to return to his native time of December 2132, his instructor Dominick Hide is sent after him. While there, Dominick makes use of the opportunity to see his former lover Jane Winters and their son Dominick, Jr., who is also his great-grandfather. (Another Flip for Dominick)
• Between March and May: Billy Butcher joins the Royal Marines. (The Boys)
• June 11/12: Battle of Mount Harriet. Billy Butcher's unit takes a fortified position from the Argentinians, but all except Butcher are killed in the effort. Butcher himself is seriously injured, and sits out the rest of the war in a hospital bed. (The Boys)
• June 18: The astronaut Jimmy Hapgood is sent on a mission to Saturn but he goes off course. (Lost in Space)
• June 28: Daffodil Baxter disappears. (The 4400)
• July 11:
  • Italy defeats West Germany 3-1 in the World Cup. (Real Life)
  • The Threllips attempt to invade Earth but they are defeated by the Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• July 12: [Alternate Universe] the entire population of Earth disappears. (Infinite Worlds)
• July 14: Ryan Freel disappears. (The 4400)
• July 28: By this time, Johnny Truant has moved in with his first foster family. (House of Leaves)
• July 30: Darren Piersahl is born. (The 4400)
• July: Stan Pines locks the electron carpet in a secret room in the Mystery Shack. (Gravity Falls)
• August 8: Jeffrey Fowler is born. (Detroit: Become Human)
• Early August: Johnny Truant totally flips out at his foster parents, necessitating a move to a new family. (House of Leaves)
• September 25: A replica of the Voyager 1 space probe appears in Medium Earth Orbit, having been sent by the Gliscians of Gliese 445-C from the year 42,412. The probe carries their version of the Voyager Golden Record, bearing an offering of peace for the humans who have yet to doom them to extinction again. (SCP Foundation, SCP-1342 - To the Makers of Music)
• September 27: The Gliscian space probe and its contents land undamaged in the Pacific Ocean, where they are recovered by the SCP Foundation and designated SCP-1342-1 and SCP-1342-2. (SCP Foundation, SCP-1342 - To the Makers of Music)
• October 2: Fourteen-year-old Marty McFly meets Dr. Emmett Brown while attempting to take an interocitor tube from Brown's lab. Brown hires Marty on as an assistant. (Back to the Future)
• October 26: A peaceful band of aliens visit California to collect plant samples, only to flee when authorities arrive. A single castaway is left behind, and is discovered by an Earth boy named Elliot. (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
• October 27: No one believes Elliot's claims of having seen a "goblin." That evening, Elliot lures the alien into his house. (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
• October 28: Elliot pretends to be sick so he can stay home with the alien he found. He introduces the alien to his brother and sister. (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
• October 29: The alien drinks beer, and a psychic bond causes Elliot to get drunk. Elliot ends up in the principal's office after freeing his science class's frogs. The alien learns how to talk; Elliot names the alien "ET." (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
• October 30: ET gathers parts for his communicator. Government agents begin monitoring Elliot's house. (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
• October 31:
  • A mask company enacts a plan to kill American children on Halloween. (Halloween III: Season of the Witch)
  • Using Halloween as a cover, ET and Elliot fly to a secluded area in the forest, set up ET's communicator, and attempt to "phone home." (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
• October: The headquarters of the government agency called "The Shop" are burned to the ground by pyrokinetic child Charlie McGee. (Firestarter)
• November 1: Elliot, getting sicker due to his psychic bond with ET, returns home after being out all night. Michael finds a dying ET and brings him home. The government quarantines their house. (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
• November 2: ET revives after "dying." Elliot, Michael, and their friends return ET to his spaceship. (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
• November 7: Johnny Truant is in his third foster family in as many months. His foster mother asks that his biological mother stop sending quite so many letters. (House of Leaves)
• November 18: Madman Marz hunts down people in North Sea Cottages, a camp for gifted children. (Madman)
• Fall: A high school football player named Rico is sidelined during a big game. His team loses, and he spends the rest of his life thinking that the team would have made it to — and won — the state championship if his coach had just let him play. (Napoleon Dynamite^{Justification}Rico's "time machine" in 2004 is already set to 1982 when Napoleon tries to use it, and it's implied that Rico had already tried to time travel earlier on.)
• December 3: J.R. and Sue Ellen Ewing are married for the second time. (Dallas)
• December 24: Dante Ferelli disappears. (The 4400)
• A group of three archaeologists arrive at the ruins of the parts of Animaria that didn't lift off into the sky. One is transformed into a leader-class Org and murders the other two, leaving their child to be raised by a local aboriginal tribe. The half-human org is sealed. (Power Rangers Wild Force)
• A Norwegian research team in Antarctica digs up an alien spacecraft, unleashing a creature capable of absorbing and mimicking other lifeforms. This creature later terrorizes an American Antartic research station. (The Thing (2011) prequel and The Thing (1982))
• The Fifth Doctor and his companions Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka rescue a supersonic jet sent back in time 140 million years. (Doctor Who)
• Earth's superheroes drafted into a contest between the Grandmaster and Death. (Marvel Comics)
• Captain Marvel contracts cancer from exposure to the toxic Compund 13. Despite attempts by multiple friends and past enemies, including the alien Skrull, Mar-Vell eventually dies from the disease (Marvel Comics)
• Michael Knight and KITT, a sentient car, fight crime. (Knight Rider)
• A suburban family in California deal with powerful supernatural forces in their home. (Poltergeist)
• Shellshocked Vietnam veteran is antagonized by a small town police force. (First Blood)
• Donald Salzer gets a promotion in the Watchers' hierarchy. He becomes the Head Historical Researcher for Western Europe. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• Birth of Kyle Travers in Metro City. He would grow up to become a professional street fighter, fighting in underground matches to make ends meet. (Final Fight: Streetwise)
• Mental Institute doctor is targeted for death by his patients who are convinced that he killed their previous doctor. (Alone in the Dark (1982))
• Feminist journalist Deborah Ballin is attacked in her home by woman-hating psychopath. (Visiting Hours)
• A Special Forces team containing Captain Jack O'Neill and Lt. Charles Kawalsky attempts to capture a Soviet spy named Boris in East Germany. It goes disastrously wrong, leading to the death of the team leader Colonel John Michaels. (Stargate SG-1)
• Robot Jones attends a human school (Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?)
• Mass murderer Russ Thorn escapes from mental institute, crashes a slumber party. (The Slumber Party Massacre)
• Mask de Smith kills a large number of prototype Heaven Smiles in Madison Square Garden. Kun Lan's shadow begins to creep over the Killer 7. (killer7)
• Birth of William Joseph Blazkowicz II, better known as Billy, to Arthur and Susan Blaze. (Wolfenstein 3-D, Commander Keen)
• Faulty computer program causes a passenger space shuttle to change its course into the sun. (Airplane II: The Sequel)
• Mrs. Brisby enlists the help of super-intelligent rats that escaped from the labs of NIMH partly thanks to her deceased husband to move her home so that Farmer Fitzgibbon's plow doesn't destroy it with her ill son Timmy inside. (The Secret of NIMH)
• Fix-it Felix Jr. is released to arcades (Wreck-It Ralph)
• Birth of Chad to Will Navidson and Karen Green. (House of Leaves)
• Greg Mallory shows Rick Burnham the Compound V which Jonah Vogelbaum made to his specifications. Burnham has a heart attack; Mallory is empowered to draw on a generous budget to carry out anti-superhuman operations. (The Boys)
• Sam Butcher has another stroke, leaving him barely able to move. (The Boys)
• Re-established SPECTRE attempts to take over North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) with mind-control inducing ice cream. (For Special Services)
• In Prague, Hellboy battles a vampire who, according to legend, can only die when defeated in a game of cards. (Hellboy: The Vampire of Prague)
• In Yorkshire, Hellboy attempts to destroy the vampire Ilona Kakosy. (Hellboy: The Vârcolac)
• Wilson Wyler Concannon's sole movie The Hills Run Red is released to a handful of movie theatres, but is quickly pulled for its disturbing violence. (The Hills Run Red)
• The Los Angeles Dodgers begin to experience a decline in playing quality. (The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn)
• Henry and Abigail Morgan celebrate their anniversary, despite the apparent difference in their physical ages. (Forever)
• A memory erasing device is invented ^by Fiddleford Hadron McGucket to erase memories of what The Author found. (Gravity Falls)
• Aperture Science founder and CEO Cave Johnson names his personal assistant Caroline as his successor, orders a copy of her intelligence to be stored in his computer, and dies of moon rock poisoning. (Portal 2)
• After Jeffrey Jones falls out of a window, Phineas Bogg jumps after him and saves his life by transporting them both through time using the Omni. (Voyagers!)
• Jock Ewing is killed in a helicopter crash in South America. (Dallas)
• [Alternate Universe] Rembrandt Brown is killed in the Detroit Uprising against Soviet rule in the former United States. (Sliders)
• Marilyn Cuberle is born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Doctors Victor Ehrlich, Wayne Fiscus, Philip Chandler, Jack Morrison, Peter White, Vijay Kochar, Jacqueline Wade, Cathy Martin and Steven Kiley begin their residencies at St. Eligius. (St. Elsewhere)
• Dr. Daniel Auschlander is diagnosed with liver cancer. (St. Elsewhere)
• A madman who dismembered his mother takes body parts from women to put them back together. (Pieces)
• Simon Holmes is born. (Eerie, Indiana)
• Lysandra Aristedes and Philip Withers are born. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• On Langara, there is a major conflict involving Kelowna, Tirania and the Andari Federation in which nothing is resolved. (Stargate SG-1)
• Kathy Morgan is born. (Spellbinder)
• Cult leader Nix the Puritan is killed and buried in the desert so he can't come back. (Lord of Illusions)
• Sherry Nugil begins "waiting" for Mitch Taylor. Apparently it doesn't cross her mind how creepy this is. (Real Genius)
• Susan Calvin is born. The same year, Lawrence Robertson incorporates US Robots and Mechanical Men, Inc. (I, Robot)
• Los Angeles TV news anchor Jamie Douglas is stalked by photographer Derek Sanford. (The Seduction)
• Shortpacked opens. (Walkyverse)

1983

• January 20: Pelafina Truant writes her first letter to Johnny in a couple of months. Between now and February 14th, he runs away twice. (House of Leaves)
• January: The author ^namedStanford Pines of three journals describing the paranormal phenomena of Gravity Falls disappears. ^moreStanford's brother, Stanley, assumes his identity and seeks out the journals to try and bring him back. ^{Justification}Stated to happen 30 years before the main series. The events take place in winter. (Gravity Falls)
• February 14: Johnny Truant is in with yet another foster family, the father of which is a former marine. (House of Leaves)
• February 17: Alfred and Alexia Ashford discover they were created by one of Alexander's experiments. (Resident Evil – Code: Veronica)
• March 3: Alexander Ashford is infected with T-Veronica virus. (Resident Evil – Code: Veronica)
• March 12: Buckwheat is assassinated by John David Stutts. (Saturday Night Live)
• March: Pelafina Truant tries to send some rather inappropriate letters to Johnny, is advised not to by the Director of Whalsetoe. (House of Leaves)
• April 17: Pelafina Truant sends Johnny a dictionary. (House of Leaves)
• April 24: After witnessing the aftermath of popping a giant bubble, Lyman mysteriously disappears. (Garfield)
• May 2: Johnny Truant sends his first letter to Pelafina^{Justification}A week prior to Pelafina's next letter.. (House of Leaves)
• May 9: Pelafina Truant thanks Johnny deeply for writing to her. (House of Leaves)
• May 18: Yin-Li Xu disappears. (The 4400)
• May 19: Dana Dreamer is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• May: Peter Morrison is born. (St. Elsewhere)
• June 2: Sam Beckett leaps into a hairdresser named Frank Bianca in Los Angeles. He is there to prevent Frank's girlfriend Laura and her nine-year-old son Kyle, who witnessed the murder of a man named Phil Hartman, from being killed. (Quantum Leap)
• June 12: The suborbital ship Spindrift is launched. (Land of the Giants)
• June: The Great Hinamizawa Gas Disaster occurs, which leads to the death of the 2000 residents of Hinamizawa ^Moreand unleashes an outbreak of Hinamizawa Syndrome-related murders and atrocities among former residents of the area. Just before the Gas Disaster occurred, the body of a visiting cameraman, Jirou Tomitake, is found dead of clawing out his own throat, a local nurse, Miyo Takano, is found dead after having been incinerated in an oil barrel in the middle of the woods (strangely, a day before someone last reported meeting her), and the daughter of the local priest (who died two years prior of illness), is found dead in front of her family's shrine after having been cut open and gutted. (Higurashi: When They Cry)
• July 1: Birth of Makoto in Tosa District, Kōchi Prefecture, Shikoku island, Japan. Makoto would inherit the family dojo in her early teens and strive to re-establish its reputation. (Street Fighter III^{justification}Said to be still 15-years-old in 1997/1998. Otherwise considered a bit younger than Ibuki and Elena.)
• August 18: Pelafina Truant has a dream about Johnny as she slips into insanity. (House of Leaves)
• August 19: Ianto Jones is born. (Torchwood)
• August 22: Oliver Knox disappears. (The 4400)
• September 19: Colonel Gennady Akrimov replaces Col. Stanislav Petrov as watch officer at the Serpukhov-15 bunker near Moscow, which monitors for a US missile attack on the Soviet Union. Colonel Petrov is re-assigned to a bunker near Odessa. (1983: Doomsday)
• September 26:
  • A missile warning system detects the apparent firing of four missiles by America at the USSR. After some consideration, the officer on duty, Colonel Stanislov Petrov, dismisses the alert as a technical error. (Real Life)
  • A missile warning system detects the apparent firing of four missiles by America at the USSR. After some consideration, the officer on duty, Colonel Gennady Akrimov, concludes the attack is real and alerts his superiors, who order a full strike on the United States. The resulting nuclear exchange causes over 1.5 billion immediate deaths, with billions more dying in the aftermath. (1983: Doomsday)
• September 26-28: Johnny Truant gets into a fight at school during this time. He is physically punished by his foster father. (House of Leaves)
• October 10:
  • Military barracks buildings in Beirut, Lebannon, are struck by suicide truck bombers; 241 American and 58 French service personnel are killed, 150 more are injured, some of whom later succomb to their wounds. Six civilians also perrish in the blasts. (Real Life)
  • Marine LT. Mac Taylor is severely injured in the ensuing battle, and a comrade of his, Col. Stan Whitney, dies in his arms. (CSI: NY)
• October 14: Pelafina Truant receives another letter from Johnny. This puts her into very good form. (House of Leaves)
• October 25-29: The United States invades and liberates Grenada. (Real Life) and (Heartbreak Ridge)
• November 2: Mary Winchester is killed in her home in Lawrence, Kansas, after catching Azazel giving her infant son Sam Winchester demon blood. The house burns down while her husband, John Winchester, her oldest son Dean Winchester, and Sam escape. John Winchester eventually becomes a hunter, and trains the Winchester boys in becoming Hunters too. (Supernatural)
• November 6: An extradimensional monster breaks into our dimension from Hawkins Lab, and a girl called "Eleven" escapes the lab in the chaos. Will Byers goes missing. (Stranger Things)
• November 7-12: Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair, and Dustin Henderson meet Eleven, and team up with her to investigate Will's disappearance. Nancy Wheeler and Jonathan Byers, while dealing with teenage drama in their personal lives, team up to investigate a monster causing disappearances (including Will's). Police Chief Jim Hopper and Joyce Byers team up to investigate Hawkins Lab and Will's place in an apparent government conspiracy. Eventually, the three groups come together.^note Will is recovered from the Upside-Down, the monster is disintegrated, and Eleven disappears. (Stranger Things)
• November: Nina Morrison dies. (St. Elsewhere)
• December 10: Shawn Farrell is born. (The 4400)
• December 17: Nearly ten years after Elan School's headquarters burns down, a mysterious fire destroys the Scarborough Downs clubhouse in Maine, the same night that the track's phone lines are down and its hydrants don't have water. Its owner, who also owns Elan School, would get an enormous insurance payout and would eventually be investigated for insurance fraud, although nothing is ultimately ever proven. (Real Life, Joe vs. Elan School)
• December 19-23: Johnny Truant gets into 15 fights in one week, and is transferred to a different school. (House of Leaves)
• December 24:
  • The boys play Dungeons & Dragons. Chief Hopper attends a Christmas party.^note Hopper leaves some Eggo waffles in a dead drop in the woods, and Will vomits up a slug and flashes back to the Upside-Down for a brief moment. (Stranger Things)
  • Jason Kane is born. (Bernice Summerfield)
• December 25: Randal Graves gets a Motley Crue jacket for Christmas and bets Dante Hicks that he will still be wearing it in 15 years, because "Crue will always rule". (Clerks Holiday Special)
• December 31:
  • Alexia Ashford infects herself with the T-Veronica virus and enters cryogenic suspension. (Resident Evil – Code: Veronica)
  • New York is besieged by Columbia. (BioShock Infinite)
• Estimated date of the Great War in the Magic World. (Negima! Magister Negi Magi)
• Charles Xavier forms the New Mutants. (Marvel Comics)
• Batman forms the original Outsiders. (DC Comics)
• The Visitors arrive and begin subtly taking over the Earth. A resistance forms to stop them. (V)
• Brodie Bruce teaches T.S. Quint how to handle comic books, but T.S. opts to join Little League instead. (Mallrats)
• The Griswold family takes a vacation to Walley World. (National Lampoon's Vacation)
• An evil leprechaun is sealed away with a Four-Leaf Clover. (Leprechaun)
• Heart of Mantorok recovered by Edwin Lindsey and delivered to Edward Roivas.(Eternal Darkness)
• Six-year-old Dave Davenport is mentally possessed by his own future self. (Narbonic)
• Giant shark attacks Sea World. (Jaws 3-D)
• Pilot Ryo Murasame is critically injured during an attack by the extraterrestrial Badan Empire, who captured him and turned him into a Combatroid called ZX ("Zecross"). Eventually he breaks free from his brainwashing and escapes. (Kamen Rider ZX, Kamen Rider Spirits)
• Duncan MacLeod explains to Tessa Noël the secrets of his Immortality. He conveniently leaves out any mention of the Game. (Highlander: The Series)
• Six youths cross an unexpected interdimensional portal on the Dungeons and Dragons rollercoaster. They manage to return to the amusement park twice — the first time very briefly. The second time, a phone booth and a hot dog stand are destroyed by the evil archmage Venger before it is decided that they'd better let him chase them back into that other dimension. (Dungeons & Dragons (1983))
• Emmett Benton begins thinking about using the idea of using holograms and CGI to create musical performances. (Jem)
• Clubber Lang pities the fool Rocky Balboa, and beats the Heavyweight Championship title out of him. (Rocky III)
• Group of armed men invade Tony Montana's mansion. (Scarface (1983))
• An unknown bounty hunter penetrates Firetop Mountain and kills Zagor. (The Warlock of Firetop Mountain)
• Rick Burnham returns to CIA duty. (The Boys)
• Billy Butcher is discharged from hospital, but anger issues result in him being discharged from the army and unemployed. (The Boys)
• While working at Macy's, Hal Nolastname gets his co-worker, Wendy, drunk and borrows $400 from her. Hal fakes his death to avoid paying her back. (Malcolm in the Middle)
• MI6, KGB, CIA and Mossad participate in a joint operation called Icebreaker to wipe out the Nazi terrorist organization NSAA. (Icebreaker)
• Birth of Harrison Davies. (Tru Calling^{Justification}States he was 10 when their mother died.)
• A spaceborne plague is brought to Earth by an astronaut. It eventually kills every dog and cat on the planet. (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)
• [Alternate Timeline] former U.S. President John F. Kennedy dies. (11/22/63)
• The bureaucratic dictatorship seizes power in the United Kingdom. (1990)
• Karen Fairgate and Marion "Mack" MacKenzie are married. (Knots Landing)
• Bobby and Pamela Ewing divorce for the first time. (Dallas)
• Gary and Valene Ewing divorce for the second time. They eventually remarry in 1991. (Knots Landing)
• Gary Ewing and Abby Cunningham are married. (Knots Landing)
• After signing a human rights petition, Masha Peltrovich is deported from the Soviet Union. She immigrates to the United States. (St. Elsewhere)
• Matthew Scott, Tamara Johansen and Vanessa James are born. (Stargate Universe)
• Kelly Olsen is born. (Supergirl (2015))
• In a possible future, Clark Kent and Lois Lane are married. (DC Comics)
• Judy Shepherd is born. (Jumanji)
• Billy Underwood is born. (The X-Files)
• Ye Wenjie is informed that she and her father have been politically rehabilitated. She returns to teach astrophysics and Tsinghua University, and make an abortive attempt to reconnect with her mother and stepfather, and confronts the surviving women who killed her father. (The Three-Body Problem)
• Ye Wenjie's second message reaches Alpha Centauri. The invasion fleet is given Earth's exact coordinates. Trisolarian government begins measures to retard Earth's scientific and technological advancement amid widespread opposition from their own people. (The Three-Body Problem)
• [Alternate Universe] In the alternate timeline caused by Eric and Donna not kissing in 1976, Donna and Hyde marry while expecting their first child. Eric breaks up with Big Rhonda, who has been cheating on him. Kelso cheats on his wife with Jackie. Fez has a Flock of Seagulls haircut. (That '70s Show)
• Fester Addams, during a period in attendance at the Zurich Institute for the Criminally Insane, meets a Hyde named Olga Malakova. She was a concert pianist interred for transforming and massacring a dozen audience members during a performance. Fester was there for doing the kind of things Fester Addams does. (Wednesday)
• Harold Hooper dies. (Sesame Street)
• Los Angeles Police Detective Leo Kessler pursues Serial Killer Warren Stacy. (10 to Midnight)
• Much of the United States is devastated by nuclear weapons during a war with the Soviet Union. (The Day After)

1984

• February 1: Matt Sandstrom disappears. (The 4400)
• February 21: Laura Holt and Remington Steele face off against formerly incarcerated Major Descoine, who promises that they will be dead by noon that day. (Remington Steele)
• Early March: Johnny Truant has a violent fight with his foster father, resulting in hospitalisation. Pelafina's sanity suffers and she has to be physically restrained. (House of Leaves)
• March 15: Twin girls, who will go on to be known as Sarah Manning and Helena, born to a surrogate mother in Wales. Around this time, at least ten others, all genetically identical to Sarah and Helena, are born. (Orphan Black)
• March 16: Elise Appelbaum is born. (The 4400)
• March 17: Philadelphia police officer Mike Ehrmantraut accepts his first bribe. He will later come to regret the path his life takes as a result of this decision and wish that he could go back and prevent himself from doing so. (Better Call Saul)
• March 24: Five teenagers bond during a day of school detention in Shermer High School. (The Breakfast Club)
• March: Ye Wenjie meets Mike Evans while scouting the location for a new radio telescope. ^{Justification}Stated to be half a year after she returned to Tsinghua, which was presumably around September(The Three-Body Problem)
• Late March or early April: Johnny Truant writes to Pelafina to tell her he won't be getting a new foster family. (House of Leaves)
• April: Winston Smith begins to rebel against Big Brother. (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
• Spring: Wedding of Lois and Hal Nolastname is cut short when Lois goes into labour with Francis. (Malcolm in the Middle)
• Before May: An alternate Shredder attacks the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles using a combination of Utrom and Dimension X technology. The Turtles join forces with two groups of wannabes from alternate universes to stop him. (Turtles Forever)
• May 13:
  • A Terminator arrives from the future, looking to kill Sarah Connor and prevent the birth of John Connor, who will lead the human resistance to victory. Kyle Reese, also from the future, follows so that he can protect her. (The Terminator)
  • A Terminator arrives from the future, looking to kill Sarah Connor and prevent the birth of John Connor, who will lead the human resistance to victory. It is thwarted by a second Terminator sent further back in time to protect and raise her. Kyle Reese, also from the future, follows, and is rescued by Sarah from a T-1000. They defeat the evil robots and travel forward in time to 2017. (Terminator Genisys)
• May 14:
  • The Terminator attacks a police station, forcing Kyle and Sarah to flee.^moreDuring the night, Sarah sleeps with Kyle, and becomes pregnant. (The Terminator)
  • Gage Creed, a two-year-old child is killed when hit by a truck in Ludlow, Maine. (Pet Sematary)
  • Albert Tatlock dies. (Coronation Street)
• May 15: The Terminator finds Kyle and Sarah, chasing them to a factory.^morein the ensuing battle, Kyle is killed, and Sarah destroys the Terminator in a crusher. Cyberdyne later collects the remains of the Terminator. (The Terminator)
• May:
  • New York businessman Oroku Saki, secretly crime lord The Shredder, is murdered along with most of his personal ninja guard by four mutant ninjas, as revenge for the death of Hamato Yoshi 15 years earlier. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
  • Grant Bowen is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• June 3: Having not heard from Johnny for a few months, Pelafina Truant fears she has upset him. (House of Leaves)
• June 5: In the original timeline, Sam Beckett and Donna Eleese are due to be married but Donna leaves Sam at the altar. After Sam changes history in 1972, she doesn't, and they marry. (Quantum Leap)
• June 12: Harold and Alice Withers are married. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• June 26: Pelafina Truant thinks Johnny has sent her a working crystal ball. (House of Leaves)
• June 28: A team of Soviet scientists launch an attempt to penetrate into the Upside-Down. They are unsuccessful. (Stranger Things)
• June: Johnny Truant gets into further fights at school and has trouble with his foster father. (House of Leaves)
• July 3: The last zombie from an outbreak in the 1960s is released from its prison, immediately starting another attack of brain-eaters. (The Return of the Living Dead)
• July 13-18: Jason Voorhees, who survived his supposed drowning in 1957 and has been stalking the forests in the area ever since, commits three killing sprees within five days in the Crystal Lake area, murdering a total of 33 people ^note The rampage ends in Jason Voorhees' first death. (Friday the 13th Part 2, Part III and The Final Chapter)
• July 24: Brenda Lafferty and her 15-month-old daughter Erica are found dead in their American Fork, Utah home with their throats slashed. Brenda's brothers-in-law Dan and Ron Lafferty, who had been excommunicated from the LDS Church due to their belief in polygamy and had founded a splinter sect, would later be convicted of the murders. (Real Life and Under the Banner of Heaven [both the original book and the miniseries])
• August 9: Kyle Baldwin is born. (The 4400)
• August 12: Helen Cragen dies while watching the closing ceremony of the 1984 Summer Olympics. (St. Elsewhere)
• August 14: Evelyn Catman disappears. (The 4400)
• June, July, or August: Youth group leader Patrick Butcher is accidentally shot through the neck with an arrow on the grounds of Button House, dying shortly after. (Ghosts (UK))
• September:
  • The Soviet Union invades the United States. When the small town of Calumet, Colorado is occupied by Soviet forces, a group of high schoolers escape into the wilderness, forming a guerilla group known as the "Wolverines", named after their school mascot. (Red Dawn (1984))
  • Dante Hicks and Randal Graves start high school. A fellow student in their class named Lance Dowds is selected for the freshman hazing tradition, and he has a pickle inserted into his ass and is forced to walk ten feet with it in. Randal and the others henceforth dub him "Pickle Fucker." (Clerks II)
  • After helping Marty McFly with a science project, Doc Brown talks to a man on the telephone about purchasing the man's used DeLorean. (Back to the Future)
• September - early October: Johnny Truant begins applying to various boarding schools. (House of Leaves)
• October 8: Lex Luthor and Arianna Carlin are married. (Lois & Clark)
• Around October 31: Mike Wheeler and his friends Will Byers, Dustin Henderson and Lucas Sinclair dress as Ghostbusters for Halloween, and get caught up in another adventure. (Stranger Things)
• October:
  • Dr Baxter Stockman is arrested for robbery and extortion after using his Mouser robots to undermine the foundation of every major corporate building in New York,and then threatening to collapse them unless his demands are met. He is foiled by his former assistant April O'Neil. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
  • Maurice Hall is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• November 6:
  • Ronald Reagan is re-elected U.S. President, defeating Walter Mondale. (Real Life, The Goldbergs)
  • [Alternate Universe] John F. Kennedy is elected to a seventh term as U.S. President. (Sliders)
  • [Alternate Timeline] Walter Mondale defeats Ronald Reagan in the U.S. presidential election. (American Dad!)
  • Richard Nixon is elected to a fifth term as U.S. President. (Watchmen)
  • Roberta Lincoln votes for Walter Mondale. (Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars)
  • Karen Wheeler votes for Ronald Reagan, while Claudia Henderson votes for Walter Mondale. (Stranger Things)
  • Walter Mondale defeats Ronald Reagan in the U.S. presidential election. (Alternate Presidents)
  • Bob Dole is elected U.S. President. ("Hillary Orbits Venus")
• November 8: Advance start out as a newly elected political party, with Julia Salisbury and Peter Clement as leaders, promising freedom and equality for all. Also, it's Alex Winston's first night on the job as TV broadcaster. (Not for Broadcast — "Day 1: The Election")
• November 15: Jeremy Donaldson interviews Katie Brightman and Alan James (author of Alan James Is Right), both telling stories about Advance from different points of view. Also interviewed are some figures like Constable Bob Peele and "Tit-Wank" Tony Dawson, capped off with a group of University students performing their latest play, Hey! Friendship! on live TV. Plus, the Mr. Snugglehugs toys are growing popular these days. (Not for Broadcast — "Day 8: The Fallout")
• November 23: Dr. Peter White is shot in the groin by Nurse Shirley Daniels in the morgue of St. Eligius. He later dies. (St. Elsewhere)
• November 26-27: Marty McFly runs into Jennifer Parker for the first time since fourth grade, and is immediately smitten. He briefly considers borrowing a car he saw concealed in Doc Brown's lab^note The car is actually a covered up DeLorean time machine, still incomplete to impress Jennifer, and stops Needles from actually doing so. Jennifer still goes out with Marty when he asks. (Back to the Future)
• November: Bobby and Betsy Gibson Ewing are born. Dr. Mitch Ackerman kidnaps them immediately after their birth. He tells their mother Valene Ewing that they were stillborn. (Knots Landing)
• Fall: Midway through the 1984 NFL season, Ray Finkle joins the Miami Dolphins. (Ace Ventura)
• December 15: Mike Wheeler and his best friends Will Byers, Dustin Henderson and Lucas Sinclair attend the Hawkins Middle School Snow Ball dance. Mike and Eleven kiss for the second time and begin their relationship, as do Lucas and Max Mayfield. (Stranger Things)
• December 24: Billy Chapman suffers a psychotic flashback. Christmas is ruined. (Silent Night, Deadly Night)
• December 31: The fourth leg of Will Smith's time travel escapades, this time going to a breakdancing club where DJ Jazzy Jeff is performing. The time machine malfunctions and slows everything down, then sends Will and company forward to 2222. ("Will 2K" music video)
• December:
  • Pelafina Truant suffers from winter cold. (House of Leaves)
  • A Serial Killer murders people dressed in Santa Claus costumes. (Don't Open Till Christmas)
• Godzilla appears once again to rampage across Tokyo. He is eventually subdued and trapped in a volcano. (The Return of Godzilla)
• Mt. St. Hilary erupts, jolting the dormant Transformers back to life. Their war re-erupts on Earth. (Transformers: Generation 1)
• Ashley Graham and Ramon Salazar born. (Resident Evil 4)
• Superheroes and supervillains of Earth pitted against one another by the Beyonder. During the conflict, Spider-Man acquires a new costume that turns out to be an alien symbiote. (Marvel Comics)
• The Pride is formed when the Gibborim recruit six young couples to help them destroy the world in exchange for a fifty-fifty shot at immortality. (Marvel Comics)
• The Fifth Doctor and his companions Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough prevent the rise of the Malus. (Doctor Who)
• "Locksmith company" H.C. Clements is founded by Mr. Clements as a front for Torchwood One's research. (Doctor Who)
• Mystery writer Jessica Fletcher begins solving real crimes. (Murder, She Wrote)
• The Ghostbusters open for business in New York City. (Ghostbusters)
• Gremlins terrorize the small town of Kingston Falls. (Gremlins)
• Daniel learns karate from Mr. Miyagi to defend against the Cobra Kai. (The Karate Kid)
• Alex Rogan is recruited as a Starfighter through an arcade game. (The Last Starfighter)
• Buckaroo Banzai and his Hong Kong Cavaliers defeat the Red Lectroids. (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)
• Cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers terrorize New York City. (C.H.U.D.)
• Freddy Krueger returns from the dead to murder the teens of Elm Street in their dreams. (A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984))
• Jay and Silent Bob see Purple Rain and decide to model their lives on Morris Day and the Time. (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back)
• Detroit cop Axel Foley fights crime in Beverly Hills. (Beverly Hills Cop)
• A dishonorably discharged U.S. soldier equips himself with an arsenal and, with (very) limited assistance from his brother, establishes a vast network of illegal businesses in a thriving Florida city. Continuous failure to stop him through arrests and lethal force set an example for other would-be one-man armies to follow. (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories)
• In East Germany, Stasi agent Gerd Wiesler is assigned to spy on playwright Georg Dreyman. (The Lives of Others)
• Australian outback is terrorized by a gigantic boar. (Razorback)
• ZX (Ryo Murasame) battles the Badan Empire, joining with the Kamen Riders and eventually being dubbed the 10th Rider. (Kamen Rider ZX, Kamen Rider Spirits)
• Methos uses the identity of "Adam Pierson" to study ancient languages at Oxford University. He attracts the attention of Donald Salzer, who recruits him for the Watchers. "Pierson" is employed as a historian by the organization. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• Birth of Patricia, daughter of Tom and surrogate sister to Alex. (Street Fighter III^{justification} Stated to be 14 years old in 1998.)
• Paul McCartney has a really bad dream while stuck in traffic. (Give My Regards to Broad Street)
• Emmett Benton hires Eric Raymond to help him run his music label, continues to secretly work on a computer program he calls "Synergy" in spite of his failing health. (Jem)
• Birth of Jonny to Benton and Rachel Quest. (Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures)
• Birth of Jessie to Race and Estella Bannon. (Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures)
• Birth of Hadji Singh. (Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures)
• New Jersey wimp and bully victim Melvin Junko falls into a toxic waste barrel and becomes a brave and powerful (albeit horribly mutated) superhero. (The Toxic Avenger)
• First known case of zombification due to transfusion of contaminated blood. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• Doctor Impossible creates the Termination Machine, his first Doomsday device, The Champions form. (Soon I Will Be Invincible)
• Alex Gardner stops a conspiracy which aimed to assassinate the President of the United States in the dreamworld. (Dreamscape)
• Billy Butcher meets Becky Saunders, a social worker who helps him overcome his problems with alcohol and anger. (The Boys)
• Birth of Piama Tananahaakna in Alaska. (Malcolm in the Middle)
• Young Adam Wayne leads a patriotic revolution to gain his London neighbourhood's independence. (The Napoleon of Notting Hill)
• Due to a shortage of police officers, the new Mayor of New York City orders a lowering of recruitment standards for the police academy despite the protests of Chief of Police Henry Hurst and Lieutenant Thaddeus Harris. The new lax standards attracts a motley crew of outcasts including paramilitary gun enthusiast Tackleberry, human sound effect machine and martial artist Larvell Jones and local troublemaker Carey Mahoney who joins the academy as an alternative to prison. (Police Academy)
• The monstrous entity known only as "Pennywise The Dancing Clown" or "IT" resurfaces in Derry, Maine and resumes its reign of terror from 27 years earlier. William Denbrough, Benjamin Hanscom, Beverly Marsh, Richard Tozier, Edward Kazprack, Stanley Uris and Michael Hanlon, the self-proclaimed "Losers Club", return to Derry for a final showndown with IT, but Uris, still heavily traumatized by his childhood encounter with IT, commits suicide rather than return. (IT)
• Miss Ellie Ewing and Clayton Farlow are married. (Dallas)
• Michael Mallory is killed in a car accident. (Sliders)
• Laura Sinclair is abducted by aliens. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• Although she killed him in self-defense, Liz Tate is nevertheless convicted of the murder of her abusive husband. (Quantum Leap)
• Jason Ewing dies. (Dallas)
• Eli Wallace is born. (Stargate Universe)
• Lithuanian submarine commander Marko Ramius pretends to defect from the USSR to the USA on board of the Typhoon-class submarine Red October. It's up to C.I.A. analyst Jack Ryan to prove whether this is true or not. (The Hunt for Red October)
• The Asgard High Council discovers that Loki has been performing unsanctioned experiments on humans. He is banished as punishment. (Stargate SG-1)
• In a possible future, Laura Kent is born to Clark Kent and Lois Lane-Kent. (DC Comics)
• Kevin Girardi is born. (Joan of Arcadia)
• Dr. Cornelius Hathaway performs an operation to remove a cerebral tumor on live television. It is watched by John Parsons. (Dimension X)
• Kate Corrigan joins the BPRD. (Hellboy)
• Ping-Pong veterans Tycho Brahe and Jonathan Gabriel are brought out of retirement by the U.S government to oppose the machinations of the Soviet Union. Several dangerous, high-stakes ping-pong matches against the Soviet players ensue, culminating in a Mutual Kill between Brahe and Oksana Svedlobigoba, forcing Gabriel to play the final match by himself against a team of Soviet twins. Thanks to Brahe's last words, he succeeds, giving America the victory. (Penny Arcade - Paint The Line II)
• A musician named Corey Howard, and a goth punk named June Tuesday, have some Belligerent Sexual Tension while working at a Permanent Record store in San Diego. (That '80s Show)
• Eric Husch is born. (S.)
• Dr. Patricia Cromwell leaves her husband Michael and settles in the village of Lipo Lipo in the Venezuelan jungle. A few months later she gives birth to a son. (Jungle 2 Jungle)
• Stuart Johnson's uncle dies from AIDS. (Quantum Leap (2022))
• After several months of communicating by letters and telephone, Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner meet and get married. (American Splendor, Real Life)
• War is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength. We are at war with Eastasia. We have always been at war with Eastasia. We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia. Big Brother Is Watching. (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
• Birth of Leslie Bean. ^{Justification} Says she is 27 towards the end of 2011. (Walkyverse)

1984 - 1985

• The Soviet Union secretly builds an underground facility in Hawkins, Indiana, and sets a mall on top of it. (Stranger Things)

198X/1980s

• Summer: A group of sadists kidnap a woman and torture her to test the limits of human pain. (Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment)
• President Ronnie is kidnapped by ninjas. Blade and Striker prove to be bad enough dudes to rescue the president. (Bad Dudes)
• Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way visits a historically inaccurate version of this decade. (My Immortal)
• A young boy, as a prank gone horribly wrong, suffers a traumatic injury from a Fredbear animatronic. The child suffers nightmares following this incident and presumably dies sometime afterwards.^note This may or may not be the Bite of '87 — details and evidence both for and against it are murky. (Five Nights at Freddy's 4)
• Jack O'Neill suffers nine broken bones (including skull fractures) after his parachute malfunctions when making a clandestine drop over the Iran-Iraq border. (Stargate SG-1)
• By this time, 79.7% of the world's population are under the age of 21. (Logan's Run)
• On Thursday, May 26, following weeks of tension between East and West, the Russians launch a nuclear missile strike, which quickly escalates into all-out war, with more than 200 megatons hitting Britain. ^note May 26 fell on a Thursday twice during the 1980s, in 1983 and 1988. However, it's not clear if the film is set in an Alternate History or 20 Minutes into the Future. (Threads)
• The sonar operator of a Soviet submarine falls asleep and the sub crashes on the beach in Malibu Beach, California. ("Surfin' USSR")
• Aliens begin abducting children and implanting them with Martian DNA ^more in collaboration with Linda Walkerton. At some point, a young Robin DeSanto witnesses an abduction and hitches a ride; despite not having been selected, she receives Martian DNA at her own insistence so that she can run away, and as a result, she gains super speed. To root out abductees, B4 is reconstituted as SEMME by Anthony McHenry ^more who is unknowingly backed by Dargon Chesterfield. Most abductees would be recruited by SEMME. (Walkyverse)

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