Just For Fun / Grand Unified Timeline - The 70's

Grand Unified Timeline events from 1970 C.E. to 1979 C.E.

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Early 1970s

• A Veil cryo-ship crash lands on Earth. The Alliance of Shades seals it away in a vault. (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
• Jason "Jay" Derris and Robert "Silent Bob" Blutarsky are born and meet in front of Quick Stop as infants. (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back)
• After being kicked out of his home, Stanley Pines tries to make money as a treasure hunter and later as a travelling salesman, and also spends some time in a Columbian cartel. Stanford attends Backupsmore University and, by working hard, earns a PhD three years early and is awarded a large grant for his own research ^into paranormal phenomena (Gravity Falls)
• Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice dies from shock and old age after his final revenge against Dick Tracy fails. (Dick Tracy)
• Henry Starling meets U.S. President Richard Nixon in the Oval Office. (Star Trek: Voyager)
• By this time, over 75% of the world's population are under the age of 21. (Logan's Run)
• Nazi Germany and Japan defeat the United States and Canada in the Third World War. Nuclear weapons are extensively used with Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia being completely destroyed. Before its defeat, however, the US inflicts significant damage on Germany. After the war, millions of Jewish-Americans and African-Americans are murdered in concentration camps, reducing the United States population by one third from its pre-war levels. In the 2010s, the US still has to pay war reparations to Germany on an annual basis. (In the Presence of Mine Enemies)

Unclear date most likely in the 1970s

• Jones begins working for The Court and escorts a young James Eglamore there. (Gunnerkrigg Court)
• January-February 197X: Disgraced surgeon Richard Pine is stranded on a small island in the Pacific after being caught in a shipwreck while smuggling heroin into the United States. He is forced to take drastic measures in order to survive. ("Survivor Type" by Stephen King)^timingRichard Nixon is the President and the Vietnam War is still being fought
• October 31: Harry Dresden is born ^timing It's unclear as to the exact date, but it seems that the first book took place around the turn of the millennium, and Word of God says he was in his mid-twenties then. (The Dresden Files)
• The Third Doctor is exiled to Earth and becomes unpaid scientific advisor to U.N.I.T. for a five year period from 1970-1974 or from 1976-1980 or possibly from 1979-1983 or maybe even for any other five year period concurrent with these. ^timing"Mardwyn Undead" (1983) has the Brig retiring in 1976, and the Doctor meeting him in the present day; "Pyramids of Mars" (1975) has Sarah-Jane, who joined at the tail end of the UNIT era, say she's from 1980; "Web of Fear" (1968) is set "over forty years" after 1935, with UNIT's first appearance in "The Invasion" (1968) four years after that. And those are just the clearest dates.(Doctor Who)
  • Although his exile is officially rescinded during this period, the Third Doctor chooses to remain based on Earth for the duration of his life. Upon regenerating, the Fourth Doctor decides to cut official ties with UNIT and resume his wandering, though will occasionally return to assist them at various points which may fall between 1974-1980 ^note specifically in "Robot" (1974-1975), "Terror of the Zygons" (1975), "The Android Invasion" (1975) and "The Seeds of Doom" (1976)(Doctor Who)

1970

• January 1: Trevor McPhee is returned to Earth after being abducted by the aliens for the second time. As before, ten years have passed and he has not aged a day. He discovers not only that his wife Theresa has divorced him and gotten remarried to Ray Carter but that he has a son named Mark who was conceived during his last return on January 1, 1960. That night, Trevor is then abducted for the third time. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• January 20: Madeleine Wallace receives news that her cheating husband had died in a car crash in South America. (Amélie)
• January: A young River Song regenerates in New York. (Doctor Who)
• February 15: J.R. Ewing and Sue Ellen Shepard are married for the first time. (Dallas)
• February 28: Jeremy Berg disappears. (The 4400)
• February: The time traveler Jeffrey Jones lands a hijacked Boeing 747 with the assistance of an air traffic controller. He manages to save everyone onboard, including future U.S. President Jimmy Carter. (Voyagers!)
• March 17: Jonathan murders his wife Pamela. (Night Gallery)
• March 30: Shortly after midnight at the Meadow Stud in Caroline County, Virginia, the broodmare Somethingroyal gives birth to a colt fathered by legendary sire Bold Ruler. The colt was eventually named Secretariat. (Real Life)
• April 3: Sarah Bohm is born. (Touch (2012))
• April 4: Colonel Owen Crawford, his son Eric and Lt. Colonel Marty Erickson investigate a crop circle in a cornfield in eastern Indiana as the colonel believes that it may be one of a series of landing strips that the aliens placed around the world in preparation for their invasion. He stakes his career on it and asks U.S. President Richard Nixon to personally inspect the site. Nixon instead sends Toby Woodruff of the Department of Defense and Ted Olsen of the NSA. While observing the crop circle in a helicopter, Crawford and the others see another in the vicinity. It is in the shape of a peace symbol and has the word "Howdy" written beside it. As a result, Crawford's career is ruined. He later learns that it was a prank orchestrated by the leading debunker Tom Clarke in revenge for Crawford breaking his mother Sally's heart and kidnapping his younger half-brother Jacob in 1959. (Taken)
• April 6: The archaeologist Dr. Powell and his students Sarah, Buzz and Daryl find a mummy wrapped in a shroud in a burial chamber while searching for Tsimshian artifacts in Hyder, Alaska. The chamber is covered with strange writing that they are unable to identify. (Taken)
• April 7:
  • Sam Beckett leaps into Herbert "Magic" Williams, a member of his elder brother Tom's platoon in Vietnam. According to Ziggy, Sam's mission is to ensure that three American POWs are rescued but Sam intends to use the opportunity to save Tom's life. (Quantum Leap)
  • Colonel Owen Crawford is relieved of his position as the head of the UFO project after 23 years. His long-time subordinate Lt. Colonel Marty Erickson succeeds him. (Taken)
• April 8:
  • In the original timeline, Tom Beckett is killed in Vietnam. (Quantum Leap)
  • After Sam Beckett changes history, journalist Maggie Dawson is killed in Vietnam. (Quantum Leap)
• April 11: Vietnam veteran Jesse Keys arrives in Chicago, which is close to his home town of Bement, Illinois. He and his dealer Willie, a former member of his unit, shoot themselves up with heroin. When Willie asks him what's the weirdest thing that he has ever seen, Jesse says that he has been taken aboard a flying saucer multiple times and once saw his father Russell, who had recently died, on one of them. Grateful that Jesse saved his life twice in Vietnam, Willie cuts off his supply in the hope that he will go straight. (Taken)
• April 12: Sam Crawford, a journalism student at UC Berkeley, returns home to Las Vegas as he heard that his father Colonel Owen Crawford lost his job. He almost immediately gets into an argument with both his father and his elder brother Eric about the UFO project. Sam believes that it is a nothing more than a conspiracy designed to distract people from the real issues such as the Vietnam War and the secret testing of chemical weapons on innocent civilians. That night, Sam sees an article about the discovery of the mummy in Hyder, Alaska. He realizes that the writing on the burial chamber walls matches that on the artifact found at the Roswell crashsite which his mother Anne briefly showed him on October 28, 1962. After revealing that the alien threat is very real, Owen tells Sam that Jacob Clarke showed him all of his memories and all of his fears and even how he would die in 1959. Eric, who has always been jealous of Sam because he is their father's favorite, eavesdrops on their conversation. (Taken)
• April 13:
  • The oxygen tank on board Apollo 13 explodes, threatening the lives of the crew, and forcing the crew to return to Earth. (Real Life, Apollo 13)
  • This is due to Lunarians not wanting Earthlings to land on the Moon. (Touhou Project)
  • Colonel Owen Crawford believes that the explosion of the oxygen tank is a sign of NASA's growing incompetence rather than one of alien interference. However, he admits to his son Eric that he would have used it as evidence of an impending invasion if he were still in charge of the UFO project. (Taken)
  • The explosion is caused by a baseball belonging to Casper the Friendly Ghost hitting a button marked "DANGER." (The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper)
• April 16:
  • Sam Crawford travels to Hyder, Alaska to investigate the strange writing found in the burial chamber. Almost as soon as he arrives, he learns from the archaeologist Dr. Powell that the mummy is no more than six years old and that it was wrapped in bedsheets. (Taken)
  • Jesse Keys attempts to sell his father Russell's World War II medals to his dealer Willie in order to get more heroin. When Willie is disgusted by his actions, Jesse realizes that he has hit rock bottom. (Taken)
• April 17:
  • Sheriff Kerby orders Dr. Powell and his students Sarah, Buzz and Daryl to leave Hyder, Alaska by sundown, which Sam Crawford finds suspicious considering that they discovered the body of an apparent murder victim. The group then discovers that the mummy has disappeared. Sam finds that whoever took it left behind the imprint of an inhuman hand. Daryl and a young girl named Wendy Rankin both get lost in the woods. (Taken)
  • Jesse Keys goes to the Veterans Memorial Hospital in Chicago but collapses before he can admit himself. Nurse Amelia Henderson comes to his aid. (Taken)
• April 18:
  • Jesse Keys and Amelia Henderson go for hot dogs in the park near the Veterans Memorial Hospital in Chicago. While there, Jesse has an hallucination involving the carny that he often sees when the aliens abduct him and attacks an innocent bystander. Later that day, Jesse refuses to accept the Bronze Star and Purple Heart that he earned in Vietnam. He confides in Amelia that what he did wasn't brave because he knew that nothing could hurt him, telling her that "they" saved him when his unit was attacked in a temple in the Quảng Ninh Province. However, he does not explain who "they" are. (Taken)
  • An elderly man named Leo tells Sam Crawford that his daughter Nadine was impregnated by an alien. She gave birth to twin boys named Larry and Lester, who were disfigured and possessed strange abilities. As a result, the townspeople feared them. Before he can explain any further, Sheriff Kerby arrives and takes Sam into the woods with the intention of killing him. However, Sam escapes and makes his way to the old cabin where Lester lives in seclusion. He learns that Lester has been taking care of the injured Wendy Rankin. A posse led by Wendy's mother Louise then arrives and begins to spread gasoline around the cabin in order to kill Lester. Sam convinces them to stop but his brother Eric shows up and announces his intention to bring Lester back to the UFO project for study. After one of the locals starts a fire, Sam rushes into the cabin to save Lester. However, he sees all of his memories and all of his fears when he looks into Lester's eyes. They are unable to escape and they both burn to death in the fire. (Taken)
• April 27: Mary Crawford is born. (Taken)
• April: Death of recently activated Slayer Beryl McKenzie. A new Slayer is activated in northern Poland. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• May 4: Eric Crawford brings his newborn baby Mary over to his father Owen's house in Las Vegas. However, he is annoyed that, even in these circumstances, Owen is still talking about Sam. Eric then tells his father that Sam is dead and that he died trying to bring him down. Owen is so shocked and distraught by the news that he suffers a stroke. As he dies, Eric taunts him by saying that he brought about his own death, claiming that he could have avoided it if he had simply been a little nicer to him. (Taken)
• May 10: Jean DeLynn Baker is born. (The 4400)
• May 27: Jesse Keys proposes to Amelia Henderson, who says yes. (Taken)
• May 28:
  • Eric and Julie Crawford move into his late father Owen's house in Las Vegas with their one-month-old baby Mary. After a locksmith opens his father's safe for him, Eric finds the artifact from the Roswell crashsite. (Taken)
  • Sheriff Kerby destroys the burial chamber in Hyder, Alaska with dynamite. (Taken)
• May: Birth of Cameron Mitchell. The fact that this occurs nine months after SG-1's time-travel incursion is a total coincidence. (Stargate SG-1)
• June 5: The 21-year-old Eric Crawford blackmails the US government into putting him in charge of the UFO project by threatening to go public with his late father Owen's extensive files on everything that has happened since the crash of the alien ship in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. (Taken)
• June 8: Lt. Colonel Marty Erickson is arrested as an accessory to the murders of Anne Crawford and Major Howard Bowen by Colonel Owen Crawford on October 28, 1962 as he obtained the car that Owen drove from the Groom Lake motorpool. Owen and Anne's son Eric, who told the police of Erickson's supposed involvement, succeeds him as the head of the UFO project. (Taken)
• June 16: Brian Piccolo, a running back with the Chicago Bears before being diagnosed with cancer, dies of his disease. (Real Life and Brian's Song)
• June 25: Peter Conway is born. (Moonbase 3)
• July 4: Saturday in the park - people dancing, people laughing, a man selling ice cream singing Italian songs. ("Saturday in the Park")
• July 6: Paul Newbold is born. (The 4400)
• August 20: Dorothy "Ace" McShane is born. (Doctor Who New Adventures)
• September: After breaking up with her boyfriend of two years Bill, Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis and is hired as the associate news producer at WJM-TV. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• October 3: Jeffrey Jones is born. (Voyagers!)
• October: A drifter named Hall is hired to help clean out an old textile mill in Maine, and discovers a sub-basement sealed off from the rest of the world that has evolved it's own ecosystem consisting of a variety of massive, savage rats. (Graveyard Shift)
• October: Private investigator Carl Faubert arrives at Atamipek Lake to investigate a vandalism case. (Kona)
• November 13: Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence. That request came from his wife. Deep down, he knew she was right, but he also knew that some day he would return to her. With nowhere else to go, he appeared at the home of his friend, Oscar Madison. Several years earlier, Madison's wife had thrown HIM out, requesting that HE never return. Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy? (The Odd Couple)
• November 14: Southern Airways Flight 932, a chartered flight carrying Marshall University's football team from a game at East Carolina University, crashes about a mile short of its planned landing at Tri-State Airport, near Marshall's home of Huntington, West Virginia, killing all on board. (Real Life and We Are Marshall)
• November 20: Charlotte "Charlie" Wade is born. (Dallas)
• November 22: Sam Beckett leaps into a 25-year-old Native American man named George Washakie in Nevada. He is there to bring George's terminally ill grandfather Joseph Washakie back to his people's ancestral lands so that he can die at home. (Quantum Leap)
• December: Current Slayer dies in the Polish riots. Nikki Wood becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Delta Green is disbanded again. (Cthulhu Mythos, Delta Green)
• Skull Man/Tatsuo Kagura starts a series of mass murders and catastrophes all over Japan. The Sociopathic Hero is on a path of vengeance. (Skull Man)
• Birth of Khan Noonien Singh, one of many genetically-engineered superhuman, as a result of the Chrysalis Project. Khan would grow up to become an absolute ruler. (Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars)
• Birth of Derek Maza/Talon to Peter and Diane Maza. (Gargoyles)
• Birth of Anthony "Tony" Dracon to one of the most prominent criminal families in New York City. He would grow up to become head of his own branch within a wider organized crime syndicate. (Gargoyles)
• Jotaro Kujo is born to Sadao Kujo and his English-American wife, Holly. Noriaki Kakyoin is born in the same year. (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• A recently widowed mother, Shirley Partridge, and her five children form a pop group. (The Partridge Family)
• Las Vegas reporter Carl Kolchak investigates the "Night Stalker" case. (Kolchak: The Night Stalker)
• Births of Caitlin Bree, Alyssa Jones, Cohee Lundin, Julie Marie Dwyer, Holden McNeil, and Banky Edwards. (Clerks, Mallrats, and Chasing Amy)
• Matthew Ross is born. (The 4400)
• Susan Bruckner is born. (Quantum Leap)
• Priscilla Silbart and Bill Walters die. (Quantum Leap)
• Michael Williams is born. (The Blair Witch Project)
• Valentine Summerfield is born. (Bernice Summerfield)
• Ruskin loses his sight. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Rhonda Wellman is born. (Weird Science)
• Mitch Taylor is born. (Real Genius)
• Birth of Hitomi Kawai. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• Birth of Yoko to Akie Kojima and her unnamed husband. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• Joel Prihoda is named "Man of the Year" at Shermer High School. (The Breakfast Club)
• Charlie Winston, son of Alex and Sam Winston, brother of Suzie Winston, nephew of Chris Wells, and grandson of Ruth Cassandra Winston, is born. (Not for Broadcast)
• Elan School is founded. (Real Life, Joe vs. Elan School)

1971

• January:
  • President Richard Nixon announces he is deploying Dr. Manhattan to help the US military effort in Vietnam. In early March, Manhattan joins the fight in Vietnam, and in June North Vietnam offers a complete surrender. (Watchmen)
  • Private eye John Shaft is hired to rescue a harlem mobster's daughter from The Mafia. (Shaft)
• February 2: Sam Beckett leaps into a parapyschologist named Dr. Timothy Mintz in California. He is there to prevent a young widow named Troian Claridge, who claims to be able to hear the voice of her late husband Julian, from drowning. (Quantum Leap)
• February: Genjiro Kaneda opens a pub, which is actually a front for illegal moneylending. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• March 2: Ada Burn Quigley dies. (Night Gallery)
• March 22: Will Byers is born. (Stranger Things)
• April 1: A fleet of fleet of nine ships, consisting of the flagship Discovery and eight freighters, bound for Mars is launched from the Moon. (Journey into Space)
• April 3:
  • An asteroid lands in Japan, bearing the alien race that calls itself the Natives. They begin working with humanity to develop the armored combat system later dubbed the Masked Rider System. (Kamen Rider Kabuto)
  • Stephen "Mitch" Mitchell almost drifts off into space but he is rescued by Jet Morgan and Lemmy Barnet. (Journey into Space)
• May 12: Sam Beckett leaps into a death row inmate named Jesus Ortega, who is about to be executed in the electric chair. in Tallahassee, Florida. He is there to ensure that Jesus' co-accused Raul Casta is exonerated. (Quantum Leap)
• June 21: Birth of Johnny, known as Johnny Truant, to Donnie and Pelafina Heather Lievre _____________. (House of Leaves)
• June 23: Cathy Briscoe is born. (Law & Order)
• June: Perry Rhodan lands on the moon in the STARDUST. They find a bunch of aliens which chrashed because the navigator was to lazy to divert the course. Their leaders come to Earth, because they need help to build a ship to complete their mission. To remain neutral in the cold war, the Third Power is made in the Godbi desert. They also get a 50m tender to help the defenses of this new base. Later that year an alien invasion happens, the 50m tender defeats the invasion with the help of Rhodan's ingenuity, and the allies finally stop trying to kill this new power all the time. (Perry Rhodan)
• July 2: Benny Faulkner is born. (Dimension X)
• August 5: Ben Song leaps into Lois Mitchell, a flight attendant on a transatlantic flight. He's there to make sure that the flight doesn't crash and kill everyone aboard. (Quantum Leap (2022))
• August: Yuri and Masha Peltrovich are married. (St. Elsewhere)
• September: Liam and Debra Moone are married. (Moone Boy)
• September 18: In Marshall University's first football game since the November 1970 plane crash that killed all 75 on board, including 37 players and most of the coaching staff, a makeshift Thundering Herd team loses 29–6 to Morehead State University. (Real Life and We Are Marshall; the film uses the historically accurate score)
• September 25: In Marshall's first home game since the crash, the Thundering Herd beat Xavier University (of Cincinnati) 15–13. (Real Life and We Are Marshall; the film also uses the historically accurate score)
• October:
  • The flagship Discovery and seven of the eight freighters that set off from the Moon arrive at Mars. Jet Morgan is believed to be the first person to set foot on the planet's surface but it is later learned that Martians have been abducting humans and bringing them to their planet since at least 1879. (Journey into Space)
  • The North Vietnamese Army overruns Firebase Valley Forge. The only survivor of either side is Captain Frank Castle, who seemingly massacred every remaining enemy soldier by himself, despite the impossibility of this task. (The Punisher: Born)
• Between August and October: Ye Wenjie performs an unauthorised experiment, using the Sun as am amplifier for an interstellar radio broadcast. (The Three-Body Problem)
• November 5: Sara James disappears. (The 4400)
• November 9: Genjiro Kaneda orders Toshio Tazaki to pay his debt in full by the next day. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• November 10: Genjiro Kaneda and Shinobu Asakawa are murdered; Asakawa's body is never found. Toshi Tazaki plasters a wall. The Girl Who Stands Behind is first seen by Hisako Hayama. Goro Kaneda inherits his father's fortune. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• November 11: Toshio Tazaki, under investigation for the murder of Genjiro Kaneda, tells Tadashi Urabe his story. Urabe corroborates Tazaki's alibi. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• November 24:
  • Cooper DeMeers disappears. (The 4400)
  • After losing a bet to Thor, Loki assumes the identity of Dan "D.B." Cooper, hijacks a plane, steals $200,000, parachutes out of the plane, and escapes back to Asgard through the Bifrost. (Loki)
• November: Teruhiko Uchida, lead suspect in the murder of Genjiro Kaneda, commits suicide. His son, Tatsuya, moves to a different school ^moreand begins going by his mother's maiden name, Hibino
• December 22: Sam Beckett leaps into Willie Walters, Jr., who is robbing the bank with his brothers Neil and John, in his home town of Elk Ridge, Indiana. He is there to prevent the Walters brothers from being killed as they try to escape from the bank. (Quantum Leap)
• Alexander Ashford uses his DNA and that of his ancestor, Veronica, to create two children, Alexia and Alfred. (Resident Evil – Code: Veronica)
• Doctor Strange, The Incredible Hulk, Namor the Sub-Mariner and the Silver Surfer first join forces as The Defenders. (Marvel Comics)
• The Avengers become involved in an interstellar war between the Kree and Skrulls. (Marvel Comics)
• Godzilla battles Hedorah. (Godzilla vs. Hedorah)
• Harry Callahan confronts serial killer Scorpio. (Dirty Harry)
• The international terrorist organization Shocker begins kidnapping people and turning them into half-animal cyborg super-soldiers. College student Takeshi Hongo (codenamed "Hopper") escapes before he can be brainwashed and begins fighting Shocker as the superhero Kamen Rider. Shocker turns freelance photographer Hayato Ichimonji into a second "Hopper" in order to fight Hongo, but he likewise rebels and becomes Kamen Rider 2. (Kamen Rider)
• Shocker discovers a lost Core Medal dropped by the time travelling Greeed Ankh and uses it to retake control of the Double Riders and take over the world. Kamen Rider OOO and the Kamen Rider Den-O team return to this time to set things right. (OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders)
• In Madrid, Otavio Consone kills Rafael for daring to be romantically involved with Anna Hidalgo, a dancer on whom he (Otavio) had his eye. He promises Anna that this is only the first stage of his revenge. (Highlander: The Series)
• Birth of Amy Brennan-Thomas to Laura Ayers-Brennan and her unnamed husband. Amy is actually the result of a brief affair between Laura and Joe Dawson, both Watchers. Amy would grow up to become a Watcher herself. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• Al Bundy and Peggy Wanker get married. (Married... with Children)
• Estimated birth of Yancy Fry Jr. to Yancy Fry and Mrs. Gleisner-Fry. (Futurama)
• Atomic Robo and Carl Sagan go to Peru to do battle with a squamous monster Robo is getting tired of. (Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time)
• Facing bankruptcy, Aperture Science offers the homeless sixty dollars to perform scientific experiments with Propulsion Gel and the Aperture Science Portable Quantum Tunneling Device, with a sixty dollar bonus if they agree to be taken apart and have "science stuff" implanted inside. (Portal 2)
• Nicholas Ballard discovers a mysterious crystal skull in Belize. It briefly transports him to another planet, a fact that he can never convince anyone of. (Stargate SG-1)
• A driver and a mechanic in a 1955 Chevy are challenged to a race across America by a man in a GTO. (Two-Lane Blacktop)
• Ernst Stavro Blofeld attempts to hold the world hostage with his orbital laser. (Diamonds Are Forever)
• David Mann is tailgated by a homicidal trucker. (Duel)
• Dracula returns from death when Cliffton Graves removes a stake from his heart. (The Tomb of Dracula #1)
• Countercultural activist Manny Rosenberg helps incite a riot. He goes on the lam and, as of 1996, is still being hunted by the FBI. (3rd Rock from the Sun)
• *Creeper, the first self-replicating AI spawned by *Mother, appears on ARPANET. (Digital: A Love Story, date taken from Real Life)
• The SCP Foundation discovers SCP-3000 in the Bay of Bengal shortly after the disappearance of two Bangladeshi fishing boats and their fifteen crew members, most likely eaten by SCP-3000. (SCP Foundation)
• Abby Fairgate and Jeff Cunningham are married. (Knots Landing)
• Chett Donnelly is born. (Weird Science)
• Charles Russell is born. (Second Chance)
• Charlie Keys is born. (Taken)
• Joshua Leonard is born. (The Blair Witch Project)
• Lynn Tanner is born. (ALF)
• Jeff McDowell flees to Canada after being drafted to fight in the Vietnam War. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• [Alternate Universe] Jeff McDowell fights in the Vietnam War and eventually loses both of his legs when he steps on a landmine. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Keith Barnes is born. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• [Alternate Universe] former U.S. President John F. Kennedy is elected Secretary-General of the League of Nations. (Quest for Love)
• The B2 robot Battling Maxo defeats Dimsy the Rock in a boxing match. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair and Dustin Henderson are born. (Stranger Things)
• The Warrens rescue a family from a Satanic witch's ghost. (The Conjuring)
• Zaddik is born on a planet in the Pegasus galaxy. (Stargate Atlantis)
• A group of alien beings are found in Guam. Apparently docile, they'd be taken in and studied by the US Government for the next 36 years. (Axiom's End)
• Birth of Taro Ninten and Ayumi Tachibana. (Famicom Detective Club)
• Takao Toyama is killed defending a victim from a mugger, and Yuri Ayashiro subsequently dies as a result of arson. Just before dying, she entrusts their baby ^moreTaro Ninten, the protagonist of the games to Sayako Yamamori. (Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir)
• Itchy and Scratchy meet Fritz the Cat is released in cinemas. Due to its frank depictions of drug use, sex, and violence, it is never given a home video release. (The Simpsons)
• A student named John is named "Man of the Year" at Shermer High School. (The Breakfast Club)
• American folklorist Thomas Hendricks receives fifty-three leather pieces from a man descended from a certain Aboriginal Australian tribe, which Hendricks notes have a similar shape and appearance to that of playing cards, and gives them the name "Aboriginal Cards" as a result. Initially believing these to be mere trinkets, Hendricks one day watches his son playing with these cards and organizing all but one of them into a map, which points to a location near Ayers Rock, Australia. Hendricks soon calls forth a research team to investigate. (Solatorobo: Red the Hunter, Settings Archive Vol 3 -Starlet- art book)
• Linda Mitchell follows Anthony McHenry home from school, encounters Aliens. Anthony and Linda found B4, the group that would later become SEMME. (Walkyverse
• Birth of Jordan to Hank and Carol Brown. (Walkyverse)
• The Los Angeles Police Department starts Operation Truant to curb burglaries being committed by truant grade schoolers. (Adam-12)

1971- 1972

• Six months after they began surveying the area two kilometers from Ayers Rock, Thomas Hendricks and his research team discover that something strange is buried several kilometers underneath. (Solatorobo: Red the Hunter, Settings Archive Vol 3 -Starlet- art book)

1972

• January 9: Tyler Downing disappears. (The 4400)
• January 14: Astronauts Colonel George Taylor, Lieutenant John Landon, Lieutenant Thomas, and Lieutenant Maryann Stewart are launched into the first interstellar exploration flight. They would remain in hibernation to the year 3955/3978. (Planet of the Apes (1968))
• April 12: Birth of Luisa Hidalgo to single mother Anna Hidalgo. She would grow up to become a dancer. Like her mother, Luisa would be pursued by Otavio Consone. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• April:
  • Stanford Pines invents a perpetual motion machine. Stanley accidentally damages it, ruining Stanford's opportunity to attend the West Coast Institute of Technology. As a result, Stanley is kicked out of his home. ^{Justification} Happens when recruiters are scouting for scholarship candidates. When the brothers are reunited in 1983, Stanley states it has been over 10 years. (Gravity Falls)
  • The SCP Foundation sets up containment procedures for SCP-3000. (SCP Foundation)
• May 15:
  • Arthur Bremer attempts to assassinate U.S. presidential candidate George Wallace, paralyzing him from the waist down. (Real Life)
  • [Alternate Timeline] Arthur Bremer assassinates U.S. President George Wallace. Vice President Curtis LeMay assumes the presidency. (11/22/63)
• May 19: Richard Collier, a college theater student, celebrates the debut of his first play on stage. A mysterious old woman approaches him and places a pocket watch in his hand. She is Elise McKenna, an aging actress. She dies that same night. Her death inspires an article in Theatre Monthly. (Somewhere in Time)
• June 1: Birth of James Halliday in Middletown, Ohio. (Ready Player One)
• June 2: Leonard Snart is born. (Legends of Tomorrow)
• June 15:
  • The Discovery fleet sets off from Mars on its 355-million-mile return journey to Earth. (Journey into Space)
  • Sam Beckett leaps into Gerald Bryant, an amorous English Literature professor, in Marion, Ohio. He is there to prevent a student named Jamie Lee from marrying Bryant and ruining her life. However, when he meets his future fiancée Donna Eleese, he tries to alter history to his advantage by helping Donna to resolve her differences with her father Colonel Wojohowitz, so Donna's future self won't leave Sam at the altar in 1984. (Quantum Leap)
• June 17: Five men are arrested for breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee, based in the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. (Real Life)
  • The break-in is inadvertently revealed by Betsy and Arlene, two teenage girls living in the building who are out past their curfew, (Dick) and by Forrest Gump, who calls a report of lights in the offices opposite his room disturbing him (Forrest Gump).
  • Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln apprehend the burglars. (Star Trek Novel 'Verse)
  • During the burglary, Donna Eleese is reunited with her father Colonel Wojohowitz at the hotel. (Quantum Leap)
  • It is later revealed that the five arrested men have connections to senior figures in the Nixon administration. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein are assigned by the Washington Post to cover the break-in, and consequently begin an investigation into corruption at the highest levels. (Real Life, All the President's Men)
• July 2: A Martian spaceship crash-lands in the Lake District. Three other spaceships land in remote areas of Australia, India and South America. (Journey into Space)
• July 4: Jason Crockett's birthday party is ruined when the swamp dwellers around his mansion start killing and driving away his guests. (Frogs)
• July 12: Birth of Juli (July, Julia), either in Germany or in Mexico. She supposedly had some connection to Thunder Hawk. She would grow up to become brainwashed by M. Bison and serve as a member of his Dolls. (Street Fighter Alpha)
• August 15: Heather Donahue is born. (The Blair Witch Project)
• August 21: Major industrial accident at the North-Western Mine in Greenland causes numerous deaths. Mining operations shut down. The mining site was already notorious for unusually high suicide rates, abnormal fauna and various inexplicable events. (Penumbra)
• August-September: Kim Karlsen has a breakdown and is interred at the asylum at Gaustad in Oslo. Here, he impregnates Nina, who visits him. He is also a witness to the EEC debates from the inside, and escapes the very night of the referendum (September 25, Real Life). He takes a ferry to Nesodden, where he lives the rest of the autumn in seclusion, writing his memoirs (Beatles).
• October 5: Birth of Lynn Horton in Geneva, Switzerland. Her parents are James Horton and his wife Emily Dawson. Joe Dawson is her maternal uncle. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• October: Brodie Bruce is born. (Mallrats)
• November 3: Simone Marks is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• November 6: Sam Beckett leaps into Henry Adams, a Vietnam veteran who lives in the woods of Washington. He is there to prevent Henry's fellow veteran Roy Brown from dying of an epileptic seizure. Sam is also mistaken for Bigfoot. (Quantum Leap)
• November 7:
  • Richard Nixon is re-elected U.S. President, defeating George McGovern. (Real Life)
  • The original Mighty Avengers are formed by James Lucas, the Bear, Blue Marvel, Blade, Kaluu, and Constance Molina. Lucas departs after their first mission. (Marvel Comics)
  • [Alternate Universe] John F. Kennedy is elected to a fourth term as U.S. President. (Sliders)
  • [Alternate Timeline] Hubert Humphrey defeats Curtis LeMay in the U.S. presidential election. (11/22/63)
  • Jennifer Keaton is born. (Family Ties)
  • George McGovern defeats Richard Nixon in the U.S. presidential election. (Alternate Presidents)
  • U.S. President George McGovern is re-elected. ("Hillary Orbits Venus")
  • Mr. Millipede, Gwimbly's sidekick, is born. (Smiling Friends)
• November 26: Birth of Jon Canmore/ "John Castaway" to Charles Canmore and an unnamed mother. He would grow up to become the founder of the Quarrymen. (Gargoyles)
• November 27: Estimated birth of Kelly Bundy to Al and Peggy Bundy. (Married... with Children^note Justification: Her birthday is given within the series. The year can be estimated because of mentions of Kelly being 18 in 1990.)
• November: A spaceship transporting astronauts John Christopher Brent and Donovan "Skipper" Maddox is launched. Their mission is to locate George Taylor and its crew. They would have to follow them to the 40th century. (Beneath the Planet of the Apes)
• December 23: A massive earthquake hits in Managua, Nicaragua, leaving future drug lord Jose Menendez and his two children, Raul and Josefina, homeless (Call of Duty: Black Ops II)
• Billy Coen is born. (Resident Evil 0)
• Luke Cage gains superpowers, becomes a hero for hire. (Marvel Comics)
• Johnny Blaze becomes the original Ghost Rider. (Marvel Comics)
• Godzilla battles Gigan. (Godzilla vs. Gigan)
• A Serial Killer rapes and strangles several women in London. Among the victims is Brenda Margaret Blaney, estranged wife of Richard Ian "Dick" Blaney. Dick comes under suspicion for her murder and, through a series of circumstantial evidence, becomes the main suspect. He is innocent but will have a hard time to convince anyone of that. (Frenzy)
• Twins Solid Snake and Liquid Snake born. (Metal Gear series)
• Supposed Allied puppet Premier Romanov leads the USSR and the World Socialist Alliance in an invasion of America, beginning World War III. (Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2)
• Following the defeat of the Soviets, the Russian psychic Yuri uses his Psychic Dominator to take over the world, prompting teams to travel back to the war's beginning to stop him. (Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge)
• The Alliance of Shades' MIB work is disbanded, their duties moved to guarding an interdimensional vault. (Doctor Who Expanded Universe [animated serials], The Sarah Jane Adventures)
• A US Army commando unit carries out a secret mission to rob the Bank of Hanoi, then is arrested when all records of their mission are destroyed. The unit members escape imprisonment. (The A-Team)
• The Los Angeles Underground is founded. (The A-Team)
• A day later, the A-Team vanishes into the Los Angeles Underground. (The A-Team)
• A day later, the Los Angeles Underground is disbanded. (The A-Team)
• Nikki Wood falls pregnant by her boyfriend, Li. Li dies soon after, and Nikki's pregnancy remains a secret between her and her Watcher. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Maggie Evans, under the name Victoria Winters, begins working for the Collins family. Barnabas Collins is dug up around this time. (Dark Shadows)
• Follower of Count Dracula brings him to the seventies. (Dracula A.D. 1972)
• The Ice Cream Bunny gives a hand to crash landed Santa Claus. (Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny)
• Births of Heather Jones, Rene Mosier, T.S. Quint, Brandi Svenning, and Gwen Turner. (Clerks, Mallrats)
• Doctor Hell starts his attack on Earth. His first strike leads to the death of scientist Juuzo Kabuto. His grandson, Kouji, takes up his greatest work, a powerful Super Robot, to battle Hell's forces. (Mazinger Z)
• A party at Marlin Academy gets out of control, resulting in the ampitheatre being bulldozed. (Malcolm in the Middle)
• Birth of Ogden Morrow. (Ready Player One)
• While delivering files in Vietnam, medical file clerk Pvt. Martin Johannsen stops to render aid to a wounded soldier named Miller, and does so by taping papers to Miller's wounded leg. Miller has to wait over twenty years before he can thank Johannsen for saving his life. (Hey Arnold!)
• *Reaper, a self-propagating AI with a built-in suicide switch, is deployed to delete *Creeper by *Mother and her human companion, Ray Tomlinson. (Digital: A Love Story, date taken from Real Life)
• Mary O'Connell disappears. (The 4400)
• Thomas Westphall dies. (St. Elsewhere)
• Lisa Clarke is born. (Taken)
• Luther Hawkins carves his initials into the St. Eligius third floor nurses' station while waiting for his mother. (St. Elsewhere)
• Janet, who later becomes the superhero Captain Liberty, is born. (The Tick (2001))
• Danny Hayes is born. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Ye Wenjie marries Yang Weining. (The Three-Body Problem)
• Ray Kinsella is briefly brought back in time from 1989 to this year, where he meets an elderly Doc Graham. (Field of Dreams)
• A 27-year-old Detroit hoodlum named Ron attends the abusive Elan School, and meets its founder Jay Cirri. Cirri would eventually groom Ron into becoming one of Elan School's overseers. (Joe vs. Elan School)

1972- 1973

• After a year of digging in the area near Ayers Rock, Thomas Hendricks' survey team unearths a four-armed fiber-optic object, of which they give the name "Juno". This discovery of an OOPArt briefly attracts media attention around the world, but following some skepticism from the scientific community, it is eventually treated as a hoax. However, Hendricks and his team discover that the Juno contains advanced technical data, prompting the Australian government to confiscate it for their research. (Solatorobo: Red the Hunter, Settings Archive Vol 3 -Starlet- art book)
• Australian national research institutes determine through analysis that four other Juno exist around the world. This information is leaked by American and Russian intelligence agencies, prompting a worldwide scramble for these Juno. (Solatorobo: Red the Hunter, Settings Archive Vol 3 -Starlet- art book)

1973

• January 5: Gary Navarro disappears. (The 4400)
• March 15: Biff Tannen kills George McFly. (Back to the Future Part II)
  • Sometime later in 1973: Biff gets married for the third time to Lorraine Baines-McFly.^note Both events are wiped from existence when Marty McFly destroys the Sports Almanac on November 12, 1955. (Back to the Future Part II)
• April 19: Werner Loecher disappears. (The 4400)
• April: Carl Burton is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• April 29-May 1: A police inspector uncovers a pagan cult on a Scottish island while investigating a missing child. (The Wicker Man (1973))
• May 1: A girl who will one day become the mother of Lilo and Nani Pelekai wins a May Day hula competition. (Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch)
• May 5: Secretariat wins the Kentucky Derby, setting a new race record in the process. (Real Life and Secretariat)
• May 19: Secretariat wins the Preakness Stakes, setting a new race record in the process. (Real Life and Secretariat)
• May: Kim Karlsen finishes his novel (Beatles), and is confronted by Nina in her late pregnancy. She gives birth to a girl, who is called Eleanor.
• June 8: The Ares is launched from Australia. (Journey into Space)
• June 9: In the Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the U.S. Triple Crown of Thoroughbred racing, Secretariat blows away the field, setting a still-standing world record time for the Belmont's distance of 1½ miles on dirt and an also still-standing record for biggest margin of victory in the Belmont (31 lengths, translating to a little more than 253 ft/77 m). He becomes the first U.S. Triple Crown winner in 25 years. (Real Life and Secretariat)
• June 10: Birth of Juni (June) in Germany. She would grow up to become brainwashed by M. Bison and serve as a member of his Dolls. (Street Fighter Alpha)
• July 20: Joe Washington is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• August 18: The deranged Sawyer family in Texas slaughters and makes meat out of a group of travelling teens. Only one teen survives. (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974))
• August 22: After his ban from racing and the death of his brother in Vietnam, Secretariat parks his car on the bridge outside Louisville and commits suicide. (Bojack Horseman)
• August: Joey Jeremiah is born. (Degrassi High)
• Mid-1973: Births of Dante Hicks and Randal Graves. (Clerks)
• September 11: Augusto Pinochet leads a military coup in Chile. (Real Life) During this coup, a German woman's fiance is kidnapped, and she has to infiltrate a cult to rescue him. (The Colony (2016))
• September 21: Douglas "Doogie" Howser is born. (Doogie Howser, M.D.)
• September 23: The first ships of the Martian invasion fleet land in Asia. (Journey into Space)
• September 26: Sam Beckett leaps into FBI Agent Peter Langly in Boston. He is there to prevent a witness named Dana Barrenger from being murdered by the Mafia don, Nick Kochifos, whom she is going to testify against. (Quantum Leap)
• October 5: Andi Simmons is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• October 13: In a secret ceremony at El Rico Air Force Base, a syndicate of US State Department officials sever ties with the US government and formally surrender Earth to a race of grey alien beings. Under the terms of the surrender, family members of the Syndicate are to be surrendered to the aliens for experimentation, but official colonisation will not begin for another fifty years. (The X-Files)
• November 6: Mafia associate Bill Fisk loses an election for New York City Council. After an abusive tirade against his family Fisk is killed by his son Wilson, who will grow up to become the crime boss known as "Kingpin". (Daredevil)
• November 27: Samantha Mulder disappears; her brother Fox eventually becomes convinced she was abducted by aliens. (The X-Files)
• Chris Redfield born. (Resident Evil)
• Hugh Darrow is born in Blackheat, South London. He proves to be a visionary entrepreneur whose innovations and groundbreaking ideas change not only the face of augmentation, but also the very fabric of society itself. (Deus Ex: Human Revolution)
• Apes Cornelius and Zira arrive from the far future.^note They are eventually killed, but not before Zira gives birth to their son, Caesar. (Escape from the Planet of the Apes)
• After a test flight accident, Steve Austin is rebuilt as a cyborg and becomes an operative for the OSI. (The Six Million Dollar Man)
• The Green Goblin causes the death of Gwen Stacy, leading to a battle with Spider-Man that ends in the Goblin's death. (Marvel Comics)
• Godzilla battles Megalon and Gigan with the help of shapeshifting robot Jet Jaguar. (Godzilla vs. Megalon)
• The Ladies' Department moves to the same floor as the men's department at Grace Brothers. (Are You Being Served?)
• Benjamin Linus joins the DHARMA Initiative on the Island. (Lost)
• Fathers Lankester Merrin and Damien Karras die under mysterious circumstances, allegedly while conducting an exorcism at the MacNeil residence in Georgetown. (The Exorcist)
• According to George Foreman, Muhammed Ali faces an 80ft-tall mechanical Joe Frazier in a boxing match. The entire Earth is destroyed. (Futurama)
• Biochemistry student Shiro Kazami loses his family after witnessing an attack by the terrorist group Destron. Mortally wounded, he asks the Kamen Riders to make him a cyborg so he can avenge his family's murder, and becomes Kamen Rider V3. (Kamen Rider V3)
• Birth of the immortal Enrique Grimaldi in Callao, Peru. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• Estimated birth of Sally/Sari in India. She would become the wife of Dhalsim. (Street Fighter Alpha^note Justification: Supposed to be 16/17-years-old in a game which seems to take place c. 1990. Already married and apparently pregnant in events of said game.)
• CIA agent Cobra Bubbles saves the world from an alien incident at Roswell by convincing the galaxy at large that mosquitos are an endangered species and the Earth is declared a protected sanctuary for them, as well as for the primary food source they subsist on, humans. (Lilo & Stitch)
• Nikki Wood completes her Cruciamentum despite being pregnant. She gives birth to her son, Robin, later that year. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Harman Smith loses a chess game to Kun Lan, giving Kun control of all cities on America's west coast. Harman sends Dan Smith to work with Curtis Blackburn and establish him as the pre-eminent crime boss in Seattle. Christopher Mills becomes Blackburn's informant. (killer7)
• James Bond destroys a drug trafficking business in the island of San Monique. (Live and Let Die)
• Gil Hicks (Dante Hicks's cousin) is born. (Mallrats)
• While Raul and Josefina Menendez are taking refuge in a warehouse, its American owner burns it down for the insurance money, resulting in Josefina suffering extensive burn wounds and disfigurement over her whole body and inspiring Raul to dedicate his life to protecting her. (Call of Duty: Black Ops II)
• Pandoras Bammes are separated. Peter Bammes blames the defect on radiation exposure he suffered in the 1957 nuclear test and successfully sues the British government. He goes on to become a prominent conservationist. (Black Light)
• Final *Creeper instance is deleted by *Reaper. *Mother splits herself into several different AIs and implements copy restrictions to avoid accidental DoS attackes in future; she also introduces the FTP protocol. (Digital: A Love Story)
• Richie Grenadine, an inhabitant of Bangor, Maine, consumes a tainted batch of beer and begins to slowly and horrifically mutate into a massive, blob-like monstrosity. (Night Shift: "Gray Matter")
• Ito T. Fujitsu is born. (Back to the Future Part II)
• Tommy Westphall is born. (St. Elsewhere)
• Quinn Mallory and Wade Welles are born. (Sliders)
• [Alternate Universe] Logan Mallory (later St. Clair) is born. (Sliders)
• [Alternate Universe] Liz Welles dies in childbirth with her second daughter Wade, who also dies. (Sliders)
• Daniel Basch is killed in a plane crash. (Quantum Leap)
• The cemetery asteroid Happy Glades is established. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• The Postman is born. (The Postman)
• The first manned mission to Mars, the United States Space Command Challenge 141, crashes on the planet's surface. A second expedition, Challenge 142, is sent to search for survivors, finding only one: Colonel Edward Carruthers, the leader of the expedition. He claims that the other nine crewmen were killed by a Martian but the rescue team do not believe him until they are themselves attacked. (It! The Terror from Beyond Space)
• Anji Kapoor is born in Yorkshire. (Eighth Doctor Adventures)
• The archaeologists Melburn and Claire Jackson are crushed by a falling coverstone while setting up an exhibit in the New York Museum of Art. Their eight-year-old son Daniel witnesses their deaths. (Stargate SG-1)
• Jasper Adeola is born. (Class (2016))
• Elizabeth Sherman's pyrokinetic powers manifest for the first time, leveling a city block and killing her family in the process. (Hellboy)
• An uncharted island in the South Pacific is discovered via satellite imagery. William Randa, an official of the secret scientific organization Monarch, convinces Senator Willis to allow Monarch to accompany Landsat on a mission to the island with military support before the Russians stumble onto their discovery and go there first. Despite heavy casualties, the expedition is a success with the discovery of several super-species including a giant ape-like species dubbed “Kong.“ (Kong: Skull Island)
• Terrence Mann gives his last interview before becoming a recluse. He talks about seeing the Dodgers play at Ebbets Field. (Field of Dreams)
• British spy Jim Prideaux is sent to Czechoslovakia ^noteBudapest in the film version to meet a general with the name of a mole in UK intelligence. The meeting is a trap orchestrated by a Russian spymaster, and Prideaux is shot. (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy)
• Birth of Jonathan to Hank and Carol Brown. (Walkyverse)

1974

• January 6: Birth of Cammy White/Killer Bee, probably in the United Kingdom. She is supposedly a genetically-engineered clone of M. Bison. She would grow up to become a member of the Delta Red, a British paramilitary government organization. (Street Fighter II, Street Fighter Alpha)
• January 8: Elan School's headquarters mysteriously burns down in the middle of the night. Its owner would later claim that the building had just been extensively remodeled, and he eventually gets a large insurance payout from the fire. (Real Life, Joe vs. Elan School)
• January 22: Estimated birth of Budrick Franklin "Bud" Bundy to Al and Peggy Bundy. (Married... with Children^note Justification: His birthday is given within the series. The year can be estimated because of mentions of Bud being 18 in 1992.)
• February 2: Sam Beckett leaps into Rabbi David Basch, whose brother Joe and sister-in-law Irene are struggling to come to terms with the death of their son Daniel, in Los Angeles. He is there to prevent Irene from having an affair with a sleazy author named Bert Glasserman and ruining her marriage. (Quantum Leap)
• February 14: Five people gather in a bar, rambling away on their lives in The '60s, and how they grope for meaning in The '70s (Kennedy's Children)
• February 15: Jimmy Olsen is born. (Lois & Clark)
• February 24: Douglas Robert McNair is born. (Stargate SG-1)
• March 2:
  • Heather Tobey disappears. (The 4400)
  • Caitlin Ryan is born. (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
• April 12: Sam Beckett leaps into Geoffrey "Tonic" Mole, the lead singer of the British glam rock band King Thunder, in Detroit. He is there to prevent Tonic from being killed after a concert. (Quantum Leap)
• April 19: Betty Wilson seals a baloney sandwich in Foreverware. It is perfectly preserved until Marshall Teller accidentally breaks the seal in 1991. (Eerie, Indiana)
• April 26: Larry Howard disappears. (The 4400)
• May 9: Sam Beckett leaps into a magician named Harry Spontini in Oakland. He is there to prevent Harry's ex-wife Maggie from gaining full custody of their 12-year-old daughter Jamie, which leads to Jamie running away and ending up on the street. (Quantum Leap)
• May 26: Jenna Rink is born. (13 Going on 30)
• June:
  • Ray and Annie Kinsella get married. (Field of Dreams)
  • Amélie Poulain is born. (Amélie)
• August 2: Disguised as his malfunctioning B2 robot Battling Maxo, promoter Steel Kelly fights a B7 robot in a boxing match in Maynard, Kansas. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• August 3: Mamoru Chiba born (Sailor Moon)
• August 9: Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States, becoming the first person to do so. (Real Life) 'Deep Throat' gives him a parting message he'd rather not have. (Dick)
  • Vice President Gerald Ford takes office. (Real Life)
  • Vice President Martin Luther King Jr. takes office. (Chrononauts)
  • Talk show host David Frost decides to interview Nixon. (Frost/Nixon)
• After August 9: The notorious but enigmatic "Denton Affair": an obscure country residence is found destroyed to its foundations, seemingly overnight. A pair of survivors report lurid incidents of murder, sexual assault, and ritual cannibalism. (The Rocky Horror Picture Show^{Justification}Just before Brad and Janet find the castle, they are seen listening to a tape of Nixon's resignation speech.)
• August 14: New York Mets win a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. (Real Life) Philip J. Fry is born at the same time. (Futurama)
• Summer: Kim Karlsen arrives in Oslo after having been absent a year. He courts Vivi, another Uptown Girl, and writes a cycle of poems in tandem with his friend Sebastian. (First sequel to Beatles)
• September 12: Jefferson Pierce is born. (Black Lightning (2018))
• September 15: Birth of Karin Kanzuki to Daikenjuro and Nadeshiko Kanzuki. She would grow up into a martial arts fighter, and develop a personal rivalry with Sakura Kasugano. (Sakura Ganbaru! manga, Street Fighter Alpha^note Justification: The upperclassman to Sakura's freshman. Year of birth has been alternatively estimated to 1973.)
• September 20: Richie Ryan is born. (Highlander)
• September: Christine "Spike" Nelson is born. (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
• October 24: Sam Beckett leaps into a boxer named Clarence "Kid" Cody in Sacramento, California. He is there to win a fight so that the convent of nuns who own his contract will have enough money to build a new church. (Quantum Leap)
• October 30: Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman, previously unbeaten as a professional, in the 8th round of their fight in Kinshasa to regain the undisputed heavyweight title. (Real Life and When We Were Kings)
• November 13: Ronald Defeo, Jr. murders his entire family. (Real Life and The Amityville Horror)
• Fall: John Kinsella dies. (Field of Dreams)
• December 24: Billy and Ricky Chapman watch their parents get murdered by a man dressed as Santa Claus. (Silent Night, Deadly Night)
• December: Mentally sick man harasses a sorority. (Black Christmas (1974))
• Jill Valentine and Ada Wong born. (Resident Evil)
• King Seesar is awakened in order to aid Godzilla against Mechagodzilla. (Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla)
• Wolverine makes his debut, and first battles the Hulk. (Marvel Comics)
• The Punisher begins his war on crime. (Marvel Comics)
• The time-skipping Islanders land here ^note after Locke turns the wheel at the Orchid and stops all the time-skips. Hurley, Sawyer, Juliet, Miles and Faraday join the DHARMA Initiative. (Lost)
• Helen Beta Narbon born. (Narbonic)
• Pacifist architect in New York becomes a vigilante. (Death Wish)
• Destron scientist Joji Yuki adopts the identity of Riderman in order to get revenge against Marshall Armor, who destroyed his right arm with acid. At first he opposes the Kamen Riders, but soon sees the error of his ways and joins their fight for justice. Yuki is apparently killed when he diffuses a Destron missile, but survives and washes ashore on a Tahitian island with amnesia (Kamen Rider V3, Kamen Rider Spirits)
• Scientist Kentaro Jin and his son Keisuke are mortally injured in an attack by the evil organization Government of Darkness (G.O.D.). A dying Kentaro transforms his son into a cyborg to save his life, and Keisuke dedicates himself to fighting G.O.D. as Kamen Rider X. (Kamen Rider X)
• The evil organization Geddon attacks a small Amazon Rainforest village in search of the Gigi Armlet, an O-part from the Incan civilization. Amazon (Daisuke Yamamoto), the only survivor of the village, takes the Armlet and battles Geddon as Kamen Rider Amazon. (Kamen Rider Amazon)
• Birth of the immortal Andrew Donnelly in Aberdeen, Scotland. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• Birth of the immortal Luke Sarsfield in Los Angeles, California. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• Birth of the immortal Richard "Richie" Ryan/ "Richard Redstone" in Seacouver, Washington. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• An elderly Otto Skorzeny meets Atomic Robo in Madrid and attempts to goad him into killing him. Robo declines and leaves Skorzeny to die of cancer one year later. (Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War)
• Aperture Science founder and CEO, Cave Johnson, is exposed to mercury while secretly developing a dangerous mercury-injected rubber sheeting from which he plans to manufacture seven deadly shower curtains to be given as gifts to each member of the House Naval Appropriations committee. (Portal)
• Ezekiel Rage is recruited by the US government. (Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures comic)
• James Bond duels with Francisco Scaramanga. (The Man with the Golden Gun)
• Tom Newcliffe invites a bunch of people into his manor, believing that one of them is a werewolf. (The Beast Must Die)
• Mazinger-Z is defeated by the recently revived Mycene Empire. Kouji's father, Kenzo Kabuto, replaces him with Tetsuya Tsurugi and a brand new Mazinger to battle them. (Great Mazinger)
• The Dinosaur Empire makes their presence known. Professor Saotome gathers three extraordinary pilots and uses a powerful machine meant for space exploration to defeat them. (Getter Robo)
• Greg Mallory tracks down Jonah Vogelbaum, but is unwilling to kill him. His death by suicide is faked. Vogelbaum is set to work designing Compund V for the CIA; Mallory, fearing an arms race, orders him to make it prohibitively expensive, time-consuming, and unusable for creating a useful super-soldier.^note Justification: Eight years before Burnham's first heart attack. (The Boys)
• The Rubik's Cube is invented by a Polish-American inventor named Lebowski, who leaves a hefty share of the proceeds to his ne'er-do-well son Jeffrey. Getting rich off of his inheritance, Jeffrey Lebowski vows never to work again. (The Big Lebowski)
• Homer Simpson and Marge Bouvier meet for the first time while in detention at Springfield High School. (The Simpsons: "The Way We Was")
• The Redjac entity murders five women in Kiev. (Star Trek: The Original Series)
• John Beckett dies. (Quantum Leap)
• [Alternate Universe] a major recession in the United States results in paper money being abandoned. (Sliders)
• Sammy Andrews is born. (St. Elsewhere)
• Ten years after a nuclear war devastated Earth, Mr. Goldsmith, the leader of an American village, receives advice from an old man in a cave who turns out to be a computer. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• A group of children accidentally bully a fellow child into falling out a window to her death. (Prom Night (1980))
• Rhoda Morgenstern moves back to New York after ten years in Minneapolis. (Rhoda)
• Liam McShane is born. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• After he botches a delivery for the drug lord Joseph Rubello, Jackie Thompson is beaten so severely by Rubello's thugs that he ends up in hospital. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Former SS-Obersturmführer Karl Rademacher, under the alias of Robert Greene, closes his dry cleaning business in Philadelphia and retires. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• Elizabeth Sherman joins the BPRD. (Hellboy)
• The US government devises an experimental regime to use psychoactive substances in an attempt to induce psionic abilities in volunteers. The ultimate aim is to create super soldiers to fight in the Cold War. One of the participants named Terry Ives was pregnant during her test regime and soon gives birth a daughter, Jane, who has strong telekinetic powers. The government silences Terry, abducts Jane and sends her to a laboratory in Hawkins, Indiana. ^*Based on the assumption that Jane is no older than ten in the first season. (Stranger Things)
• Thanks to the runaway success of Elan School due to the credentials of one of its co-founders giving it an air of legitimacy, Jay Cirri is a millionaire. (Joe vs. Elan School)
• Retired British intelligence agent George Smiley is called upon by government undersecretary Oliver Lacon, in order to track down a high-ranking mole in the British secret service. (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy)
• Hamato Yoshi is murdered by Oroko Saki. Yoshi's pet rat, Splinter, along with some abandoned baby turtles, are doused in ooze and begin to mutate. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)^{Justification}Splinter says that he and the turtles have been together for 15 years; Danny Pennington's arrest is shown to be taking place in September 1989.)

1975

• January 12:
  • The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Minnesota Vikings 16-6 in Super Bowl IX. (Real Life)
  • The Pittsburgh Steelers lose Super Bowl IX by 16 points. Lou Grant loses the $2,000 that he and Ted Baxter made from gambling in the last two months by betting on the Steelers. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• January 13: Birth of Ruth Lesse. (Walkyverse
• January 16: Marsha Anderia disappears. (The 4400)
• January: Adrian Veidt publicly reveals that he is Ozymandias. (Before Watchmen)
• February 9: Samuel "Screech" Powers is born. (Saved by the Bell)
• March 3: Kage, an immortal, massacres 23 civilians in Cambodia. James Horton, his Watcher, witnesses the event. It was one of his earliest assignments. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• March 10: Sam Beckett leaps into a highly eccentric British nobleman named Lord Nigel Corrington who lives in a Gothic castle outside London and practices occult rituals. He is there to prevent Corrington's young wife Lady Alexandra Corrington from being sacrificed. Al Calavicci is convinced that Corrington is a vampire. (Quantum Leap)
• March 24: Jorge Molina disappears. (The 4400)
• Summer:
  • High-School Sweethearts Brenda and Eddie get married against the advice of everyone they know. They start to fight when the money gets tight. By summer's end they divorce (as a matter of course) and part the closest of friends. (Scenes from an Italian Restaurant)
  • Harvey Pekar has a relationship with a flaky woman named Carla. (American Splendor)
• June 3: Russel Hobbs is born in Brooklyn, New York. (Gorillaz)
• July 4: A huge great white shark eats people near Amity island. (Jaws)
• July 17: Isabelle Baunsair disappears. (The 4400)
• August 12: James Winfrey disappears. (The 4400)
• August 20: Atomic Robo joins the "unmanned" Viking Mission to Mars as a top-secret troubleshooter. Due to a prank by Stephen Hawking, he spends the next 335 days en route without any entertainment. ("Atomic Robo of Mars")
• August 22: Marcus Wright is born. (Terminator Salvation)
• September 13: Tasajigwa Bajan disappears. (The 4400)
• September 23: Howard Beale, evening news anchor at the network Union Broadcasting System, after being given two weeks notice that he is being laid off, announces in his broadcast he will kill himself on live TV. (Network)
• September 30: Members of a James Dean fan club reunite on the 20th anniversary of his death. (Come Back To The Five And Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean)
• October 21: The Boston Red Sox defeat the Cincinnati Reds in the sixth game of the World Series. (Real Life) Mark, Ellen and Stephen Craig are in attendance. (St. Elsewhere)
• October 29: Sestuna Meioh born (Sailor Moon)
• November 10: The American freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior during a severe storm. None of the crew of 29 survive. (The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Real Life)
• December 24:
  • A woman murders her husband and imprisons her deformed son in the attic to keep him from talking. (Black Christmas (2006))
  • In the original timeline, Real estate mogul Michael Blake files for bankruptcy. (Quantum Leap)
• A ninja in a secret Californian Ninja Academy makes a grab for power, is banished. (Power Rangers Ninja Storm)
• David Xanatos receives a 10th-century coin worth $20,000, which forms the start of his fortune. (Gargoyles)
• Charles Xavier forms an all-new, all-different team of X-Men to rescue the originals. (Marvel Comics)
• Identical twins Johan and Anna Liebert are born as part of a eugenics experiment in Czechoslovakia. (Monster)
• After a parachuting accident, Jaime Sommers is rebuilt as a cyborg and becomes an operative for the OSI.^MoreShe dies when her body initially rejects the bionics, but is revived later in the year after an experimental cryonics procedure saves her life. (The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman)
• Fallout from biological warfare between China and the Soviet Union kills billions, and turns most of the survivors into light-sensitive psychopaths. (The Ωmega Man)
• Godzilla battles Mechagodzilla a second time. (Terror of Mechagodzilla)
• Nicholas Angel is born. (Hot Fuzz)
• Peter Jacob delivers his artifact to Edward Roivas. (Eternal Darkness)
• The town of 'Salem's Lot, Maine, is infested with vampires. ('Salem's Lot)
• After the relatively quick reestablishment of things after World War III, the Psychotechnic Institute established. Expeditions to Mars and Venus, followed by colonization. (The Psychotechnic League)
• Dante Hicks soils his pants because the toilet seat is up and he refuses to put it down. (Clerks)
• Randal Graves is afraid to sit on the toilet after seeing Jaws. (Clerks: The Animated Series)
• Woman accidentally brings a Zuni fetish doll to life and must fight for her life (Trilogy of Terror)
• A young man named Shigeru Jou joins the terror group Black Satan, asking to be turned into a super-cyborg. However, Shigeru escapes before he can be brainwashed, having joined in order to gain the strength to avenge the murder of his mentor. He teams up with Yuriko Misaki, a young woman likewise modified by Black Satan, and they fight the organization as Kamen Rider Stronger and Electro-Wave Human Tackle. (Kamen Rider Stronger)
• The evil secret society Black Cross Army threatens the world, causing the United Nations to found the Earth Guard League (EAGLE). When the Black Cross Army attacks Japan's EAGLE divisions, five young survivors are given special battlesuits and designated the Secret Taskforce Goranger, Earth's best line of defense against Black Cross. (Himitsu Sentai Gorenger) During this time, Kamen Rider Diend, Gokai Blue and Gokai Green arrive at this time via Den-Liner to find and recruit Akaranger ^note Actually Captain Marvelous in disguise (Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen)
• Birth of Beth Maza to Peter and Diane Maza. (Gargoyles)
• Birth of Maggie Reed. (Gargoyles)
• In Cambodia, Duncan MacLeod tries to persuade Kage to take a nun and some schoolchildren to safety from the Khmer Rouge. Kage refuses, as this would mean leaving behind a haul of heroin. Kage would later be traumatised by this experience, and re-examine his morals. (Highlander: The Series)
• Zombie outbreak in Al-Marq, put down by Israeli Special Forces. Tensions mount between Egypt and Israel. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• Curtis Blackburn kills Dan Smith on a basketball court. Dan is revived by Garcian Smith. (killer7)
• Musashi Tomoe is killed destroying the rest of the Dinosaur Empire. The 100 Demon Army arrives in their place. Benkei Kuruma and a new Getter Robo is brought in. (Getter Robo G)
• The Vegan Empire attacks Earth. Exiled prince Duke Fleed makes his presence known once more to protect his adopted home (UFO Robo Grendizer)
• Secret research installation constructed by The Archaic at the old North-Western mine in Greenland. Search for anomalous artifacts commences. (Penumbra)
• Allan Hartley, a 43-year-old captain attached to the Scientific Warfare division of the General Staff, is critically injured as a result of an explosion in the Battle of Buffalo during World War III. After being given a narcotic injection, he becomes "lost in a great darkness" and suddenly finds himself in his 13-year-old body in Williamsport, Pennsylvania on August 5, 1945, the day before the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. ("Time and Time Again")
• Wesley Hauser disappears. (The 4400)
• Fernando Partridge is born. (I'm Alan Partridge)
• Dr. Donald Westphall becomes the Director of Medicine at St. Eligius. (St. Elsewhere)
• Maureen Westphall is severely injured in a car accident and is rendered brain dead. After struggling with the decision for some time, her husband Donald decides to take her off of life support. (St. Elsewhere)
• Dr. Mark Craig performs St. Eligius' first heart bypass operation on Patrick O'Casey. He survives the operation but dies six months later. (St. Elsewhere)
• Jason Lochner is born. (Knots Landing)
• Jacqueline and Robert Wade are married. (St. Elsewhere)
• After five years in a Viet Cong POW camp, Al Calavicci is repatriated to the United States. He discovers that his wife Beth has gotten remarried to Dirk Simon. (Quantum Leap)
• Wallington's Feed & Grain goes out of business. (Taken)
• Luther Hawkins' father is shot and killed by the police during the Boston busing riots. (St. Elsewhere)
• Syndi Teller is born. (Eerie, Indiana)
• Jack Driscoll dies. (Stranger Things)
• Jonah Summerfield I is killed in an industrial accident. (Bernice Summerfield)
• Dr. Lars Lindstrom dies. His widow Phyllis and daughter Bess move in with his mother Audrey and stepfather Jonathan Dexter in San Francisco. (Phyllis)
• Edie McKenzie and Howard Gordon are married. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• There is a major strike of rolling roads workers in the United States. (Dimension X)
• Ted Baxter and Georgette Franklin are married. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• Jack Arnold dies. (The Wonder Years)
• Harry Warden dies. (My Bloody Valentine)
• Ye Wenjie's message reaches Trisolaris and is picked up by Post 1379. Work begins on an invasion fleet, which is sent in the general direction of the signal, not knowing which star Earth orbits. The listener at Post 1379 sends a response, urging Earth not to attempt further contact lest they provide the invasion force with their exact position. (The Three-Body Problem)
• Sherry Nugil begins her search for Lazlo Hollyfeld. She won't find him for another ten years. (Real Genius)
• Stephanie Pierre, having been the victim of racist bullying, gives up her real life to join Frida's Friends Club. (Unimaa)
• The Great Fire occurs; much literature is burned by order of the American government, including the works of Edgar Allan Poe, L. Frank Baum, H. P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, Lewis Carroll, and The Brothers Grimm. (The Martian Chronicles)
• Birth of Justin to Hank and Carol Brown. (Walkyverse)

Early to mid 1970s

• Estimated birth of Eliza, younger sister of Julia. She would become the wife of Ken Masters and sister-in-law to Guile. (Street Fighter II^{justification}The Street Fighter animated film has her as barely an adult when meeting Ken. )
• Estimated births of the girls Enero of Spain (January), Février of France (February), März of Germany (March), Aprile of Italy (April), Satsuki of Japan (May), Santamu of Vietnam (August), Jianyu of China (September), Xianyu of China (October), Noembelu of Mexico (November, Little Eagle), and Decapre of Russia (December). They would all grow up to become brainwashed by M. Bison and serve as members of his Dolls. (Street Fighter Alpha)
• Estimated birth of Candy, the main love interest of Rufus. (Street Fighter IV^{justification}Latest possible time for the birth of the biker chick.)
• Estimated birth of Doctrine Dark/Holger in Germany. He would grow up to become a soldier and later an Ax-Crazy killer. (Street Fighter EX^note Justification: Guile is supposed to be his trainer and presumably mentor. Holger was a combat veteran by his first appearance in 1996. )
• Estimated birth of Skullomania/Saburo Nishikoyama in Japan. He would grow up to become a salaryman and later a vigilante crime-fighter. (Street Fighter EX^note Justification: He is more or less inspired by the Skull Man (1970) and the original Kamen Rider (1971-1973). )
• Estimated birth of Sharon in Europe. She would grow up to become a nun and an espionage agent. (Street Fighter EX^note Justification: Modern nuns are typically required to be full adults. Making them at least 18 years old. Taking full vows requires a test period of up to two years. )
• Estimated birth of Shadowgeist in an unspecified dystopia. He would grow up to become a vengeance seeker. (Street Fighter EX^note Justification:He is closer to Skull Man than Skullomania. )
• Estimated birth of Vulcano Rosso (Red Vulcano) in Italy. He would grow up to become a seeker of vengeance. (Street Fighter EX^note Justification: Supposed to be a former espionage agent. )
• Estimated birth of Ace. He would grow up to become the top espionage agent of his country. (Street Fighter EX^note Justification: Might be older than he seems. )
• When a fleet of ships is sighted at Vega by the Earthbased sensors, the 50m tender Good Hope goed to investigate. He rescues a race called the Ferroners, for a lizard alien invasion. Then a 880m battleship joins the fight, on the bad side. Rhodan manages to steal it. (Perry Rhodan)
• [Alternate Universe] Denise is killed in a motorcycle accident while her boyfriend Jeff McDowell is fighting in the Vietnam War. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Charlie Townshend recruits three female police officers, all dissatisfied with being stuck in mundane PD jobs, to work for his private investigating firm. (Charlie's Angels^note Justification: In the 1976 pilot, the Angels have clearly been working for Charlie for some time, but don't seem much older than they appear in the flashbacks seen in the opening credits.)
• A young Dana Scully and her brothers use their BB guns to shoot at a garter snake they find in the grass, despite having been told by their father not to shoot at living things. The snake is fatally injured, leading to Dana having a My God, What Have I Done? moment and, though she is "deathly afraid of snakes", she holds it as it dies. ^note This incident is shown via a flashback in an episode which establishes that Dana was born in 1964. Based on her approximate age in the flashback (about ten years old) this most likely happened in or around 1974. (The X-Files)

1975– 1976

• December 1975–January 1976: The Lutz family move into 112 Ocean Avenue and are terrorized by supernatural events until driven away only 28 days later. (The Amityville Horror)

1976

• January 1: "The Italian Stallion" Rocky Balboa faces off against Apollo Creed for the World Boxing Heavyweight Championship, barely losing on points but lasting all 15 rounds. Humiliated, Creed demands a rematch afterwards, which Rocky wins by K.O. (Rocky, Rocky II)
• January 12: John Dixon is born. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• April 1: Sam Beckett leaps into a stuntman named Chad Stone on the set of a film entitled Disco Inferno in Burbank, California. He is there to prevent Chad's younger brother Chris from dying in a freak on set accident and to ensure that he pursues a music career. (Quantum Leap)
• April 26: Larry Hound disappears. (The 4400)
• May 17: Wisconsin teenager Eric Forman gets his first car, an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser. Donna Pinciotti kisses him for the first time after a Todd Rundgren concert. (That '70s Show)
  • [Alternate Universe] Donna doesn't kiss Eric. She walks home to find Steven Hyde waiting for her. Donna and Hyde begin a wild romance that lasts at least to 1988. (That '70s Show)
• May 24: Danny Pennington is born. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990))
• May 28: The last day of school for a group of high schoolers in Austin, Texas. (Dazed and Confused)
• Summer: Randal Graves opens a lemonade stand and causes a diabetic customer to collapse and drop an X-rated magazine, introducing Randal to pornography. Minutes later, Dante Hicks is introduced to Randal by one of his cousins. (Clerks: The Animated Series)
• June 3: In the original timeline, bankrupt real estate mogul Michael Blake commits suicide by jumping off his skyscraper Blake Plaza. (Quantum Leap)
• June 4: The Sex Pistols play a show at the Manchester Free Trade Hall to under 50 people. The small audience includes future members of Joy Division, New Order, The Fall, The Smiths, Buzzcocks, Magazine, and Simply Red. (Real Life, 24-Hour Party People, Control)
• June 28: Sam Beckett leaps into a bounty hunter named Gordon O'Reilly in Arkansas. He is there to prevent Gordon and his prisoner Diane Frost from being killed. (Quantum Leap)
• June: Ray Finkle graduates from Collier High. (Ace Ventura)
• August 6: The spaceship transporting astronauts Bill Allen, Jeff Hudson and Judy Franklin encounters a time vortex. It travels forward to the year 3979. (Return to the Planet of the Apes)
• August:
  • Jill Shelby is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
  • Blue Öyster Cult records "Don't Fear the Reaper" at Sunshine Studios. Bruce Dickinson (yes, the Bruce Dickinson) demands more cowbell. (Saturday Night Live)
• September-October: Ubel Griswold begins a killing spree in Pine Deep, murdereing five people in September and eleven more in October. He is ultimately killed by the Bone Man, who is then lynched and blamed for Griswold's crimes. (Pine Deep)
• October 17: T.J. Kim is born. (The 4400)
• October 28: The fifteen-year-old Theresa Givens is kidnapped and raped. The experience scars her for life. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• November 2:
  • Jimmy Carter defeats Gerald Ford in the U.S. presidential election. (Real Life)
  • Ronald Reagan defeats Jimmy Carter in the U.S. presidential election. (Replay)
  • George Wallace is elected President of the United States. (TunnelVision)
  • [Alternate Universe] John F. Kennedy is elected to a fifth term as U.S. President. (Sliders)
  • Ronald Reagan defeats Jerry Brown in the U.S. presidential election. (Surrounded by Enemies: What If Kennedy Survived Dallas?)
  • [Alternate Timeline] Ronald Reagan defeats Hubert Humphrey in the U.S. presidential election. (11/22/63)
  • Richard Nixon is elected to a third term as U.S. President. (Watchmen)
  • U.S. President Gerald Ford is elected to a full term in his own right, defeating Jimmy Carter. (Alternate Presidents)
  • John Glenn is elected U.S. President. ("Hillary Orbits Venus")
• December: Jerry Stone is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• Manfred von Karma makes his courtroom debut as a prosecutor. (Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney)
• Brian Braddock becomes Captain Britain. (Marvel Comics)
• Blanche Tyler, a Phony Psychic, is hired to locate the heir to a considerable fortune. She is unwittingly searching for Arthur Adamson, a master criminal, to her peril. (Family Plot).
• In Spain, a man named Miguel kills a woman during a masquerade party and is locked up in an asylum. (Bloody Moon)
• Precinct 13 in Los Angeles becomes under siege by a merciless criminal gang known as Street Thunder. (Assault on Precinct 13 (1976))
• Strange substance on an island near the British Columbia grows various creatures into unusual sizes. (The Food of the Gods)
• Birth of the immortal Derek Worth in Seacouver, Washington. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• Both of Cave Johnson’s kidneys fail. Brain damaged, dying, and incapable of being convinced that time is not now flowing backwards, Johnson lays out a three-tier R&D program. The three projects include the Heimlich Counter-Maneuver, the Take-A-Wish Foundation, and "some kind of rip in the fabric of space." (Portal)
• Kindergartners Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards meet and start their twenty-year friendship. (Chasing Amy)
• A group of creatures known as "The Muppets" star in a variety show which is seen around the world via syndication. (The Muppet Show and Real Life)
• Tenchi Masaki is born. (Tenchi Muyo!)
• Dragosaurus appears and heads for Tokyo, hungering for oil. The Super Robot Army, comprised of Great Mazinger, Getter Robo G, Grendizer, Double Spazer, Diana A and Venus A, is formed to combat the beast. (Great Mazinger, Getter Robo G, UFO Robo Grendizer)
• A bickering married couple named Burt and Vicky stumble across the seemingly abandoned town of Gatlin, Nebraska, discovering too late that the town is the home of a vicious corn-worshiping child cult. Vicky is killed, but Burt escapes into the corn, only to be devoured by He Who Walks Behind the Rows, the cult's God. As punishment for failure, the age limit for the cult members is lowered from 19 to 18 and the 19-year old members offer themselves up as sacrifices. (Children of the Corn).
• Agent 47 drowns another clone in the asylum out of revenge. This is actually a fake memory, implanted into 47's mind by Ort-Meyer to cover for Subject 6's disappearance. (Hitman)
• William Benteen is born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• [Alternate Universe] Jonathan and Martha Kent are killed in a car accident. Their ten-year-old son Clark witnesses the collision but isn't fast enough to save them. (Lois & Clark)
• The alien bodies found at the Roswell crashsite are moved from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Research Center in Ohio to Groom Lake, Nevada. (Taken)
• Brian Globe is born. (Amazing Stories)
• Douglas Stansfield becomes an astronaut. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Retired U.S Marine Frank Castle is the only survivor of a mob assassination gone wrong in Central Park, which results in the death of his wife and two children. After recovering in the hospital, Castle disappears, only to resurface shortly after as street vigilante The Punisher, and begins waging a brutal war against organized crime which would last for decades. (The Punisher MAX)
• Lilly Watters is born. (Joan of Arcadia)
• With the threat of nuclear war worse than ever, the United Nations Security Council ratifies Resolution 501, better known as the Table-Tennis Accords, stating that all member states shall settle their disputes through table tennis matches rather than direct warfare. Dangerous and exotic new strategies and technologies begin development around the world by nations hoping to give their players an edge. (Penny Arcade: Paint the Line)
• Eight-year-old Marty McFly accidentally sets fire to the living room rug. (Back to the Future)
• Hisako Hayama begins teaching at Ushimitsu High School. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• Birth of Arnie Niekamp in Ohio. (Hello, from the Magic Tavern and presumably Real Life)
• Birth of Penny Worthington ⁱⁿ an alternate London. (Walkyverse
• Birth of Jason Chesterfield in London ^more after his parents flee from another universe. Mass equivalent to that of the escapees is shunted into a tree branch, becoming the Power Booster Rod. In a fit of spite, Dargon Chesterfield refuses to place the Power Booster Rod in his home universe before the portal closes, condemning that universe to a slow energy death.. Mrs. Chesterfield dies soon after. (Walkyverse
• Linda Mitchell's friend, David Powers, is killed ^by Dargon Chesterfield, who blames it on Martians. A berserk and enraged ^Linda attempts to resurrect him with Martian technology. She fails, and David's soul is sucked back in time to a machine in a distant galaxy, becoming The Cheese. Dargon kills Linda and successfully resurrects her, infusing her with Martian DNA. Linda, knowing only that the Martians killed David, kills every Martian on Earth. Consequently, Linda is dismissed from B4 for mental instability. Martians launch a counterattack, which will reach Earth in 2004. ^{Justification}The Head Alien states that it happened 25 years before 2001, and Penny states it happened 27 years before 2003. (Walkyverse)

1976- 1977

• Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline ("We Didn't Start the Fire"^note Reagan starting his presidential campaign in 1976 was added between these 1977 events to make the song scan better)

1977

• February 22: Brooke Mathison is born. (Designated Survivor)
• February 26: Tharg travels to Earth from Betelgeuse and begins efforts to increase Earth's dangerously low levels of Thrill power (2000 AD)
• February 27: ABBA arrive in Sydney to begin the Australian leg of their first major international tour. Ashley Wallis, a local DJ, is assigned to interview them as part of a radio special to be broadcast on the day they leave Australia. (Real Life, ABBA: The Movie)
• March 15: Birth of Sakura Kasugano in Japan. She would grow up into a martial arts prodigy with the ability to learn advanced moves in minimum time. She entered the fighting circuit while still in high school. (Street Fighter Alpha)
• April 24: Dimitri Popov disappears. (The 4400)
• April 28: Frank Moore is born. (Are You Afraid of the Dark?)
• May 10: Jet Morgan, Lemmy Barnet, Doc Matthews and Stephen "Mitch" Mitchell enter the suspended animation pods of the Ares. (Journey into Space)
• May 30: Matthew Lombard disappears. (The 4400)
• June 10: John and Maureen Robinson is born. (Lost in Space)
• June 22: Professor Shigemura Tetsuhiro is born. (Sword Art Online)
• July 1: Birth of Marina Lemartin in Montecour, France. She would become a significant love interest to Richie Ryan. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• July 7:
  • The Levellers rename themselves as the "Front Line." (No Hero)
  • Jeanne McCabe disappears. (The 4400)
• July 13-14: The power goes out in the vast majority of New York City. (Real Life) This was a practical joke by an alien known as the Great Attractor. (Men in Black)
• August 2: Mike Cahill is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• August 3: Congress passes the Keene Act, which outlaws costumed vigilantes (except those working for the government). (Watchmen)
• August: Albert Wesker and William Birkin hired by Umbrella Corporation. (Resident Evil 0)
• October 2: Ben Song leaps into Danny "Youngblood" Hill, a middleweight boxer in Las Vegas. He's there to win a prize fight the following evening, and to prevent the suicide of Danny's older brother, Darryl, a Vietnam veteran suffering from PTSD. (Quantum Leap (2022))
• October 30: A group of college students researching American legends are tormented by an insane family. (House of 1000 Corpses)
• December 14: Alec Lehane is born. (The Twilight Zone (2002))
• Leon Kennedy is born. (Resident Evil)
• Banky Edwards gets into an argument with a nun over the Holy Trinity, ending with her calling him a "fucking cunt-rag". (Chasing Amy)
• Jefferson Pierce becomes Black Lightning. (DC Comics)
• Dr. Richard Harpo Thorndyke is assigned as the new administrator of The Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous. (High Anxiety)
• The Incident ^note a hydrogen bomb is set off thanks to the surviving Oceanic 815 passengers. A flash-sideways world, where the Losties can reunite once they pass away, is created, and the Losties land in 2007. (Lost)
• Shawn Spencer born. (Psych)
• Robert Neville struggles to survive as the last human in Los Angeles. (The Ωmega Man)
• The Carter family are attacked by a clan of deformed cannibals the Nevada desert. (The Hills Have Eyes)
• David Banner becomes the Incredible Hulk after a disastrous experiment in accessing the latent power of human strength. (The Incredible Hulk (1977) [TV series])
• Third grader Randal Graves gets an F on a paper on the film Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo, where he claims Herbie represented a love for hating Jews. (Clerks Holiday Special)
• Aliens visit Devils Tower in Wyoming. (Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
• Jake Chambers dies on Earth and wakes up in Mid-World. He dies again in Mid-World, but is subsequently saved by a temporal paradox. (The Dark Tower)
• Dave Davenport born. (Narbonic)
• Spike kills the vampire slayer Nikki Wood in a New York City subway car. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Ballet student Suzy Bannon begins her studies at the prestigious Tanz Dance Academy in Germany. However, the school is actually the cover for a witches coven, led by the monstrous Helena Markos, The Mother of Sighs. (Suspiria)
• Birth of the immortal Michelle Webster in Seacouver, Washington. She was the youngest known immortal in the 1990s. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• Emmett and Jacqui Benton form Starlight Records and the Starlight Foundation, Aja Leigh and Shana Elmsford become the first two "Starlight Girls" and move in with the Bentons and their two daughters, Jerrica and Kimber (Jem)
• The Warner siblings, temporarily released from their tower for fumigation, compete in (and win) a New York disco dancing contest. (Animaniacs)
• In an effort to take down the international criminal empire known simply as "Crime", Interpol founds the International Science Special Investigation Squad (ISSIS), turning four special individuals into cyborg warriors named for playing card suits; they are later joined by a fifth member, Big One. (J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai)
• James Bond teams up with Soviet agent Triple X to investigate a theft of nuclear missile submarines. (The Spy Who Loved Me)
• Fisherman catches a female orca which dies and miscarriages on his boat. Its mate swears revenge. (Orca: The Killer Whale)
• Three teenage girls thaw a prehistoric caveman frozen in a block of ice. The caveman, nicknamed "Cavey," settles into the 20th century, where he uses his superpowers to help the teens solve mysteries. (Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels)
• Jack Torrance takes a job as the winter caretaker for the Overlook Hotel, and brings his wife Wendy and son Danny with him. Unbeknownst to them, the hotel is infested with the hostile ghosts of its previous owners and occupants, controlled by a malicious supernatural presence. (The Shining)
• Jack and Nina Morrison are married. (St. Elsewhere)
• Former U.S. President John F. Kennedy dies. (Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas?)
• Neil Walters is murdered in an alley in New Orleans. (Quantum Leap)
• Ward Cleaver dies. (Still the Beaver)
• Werner Casey is abducted by the Asgard Loki. (Stargate SG-1)
• Jeffrey Jones visits Mount Vernon with his parents. (Voyagers!)
• Kristin Westphalen is born. (SeaQuest DSV)
• [Alternate Universe] In the alternate timeline caused by Eric and Donna not kissing in 1976, Jake Forman is born to Kitty and Red. (That '70s Show)
• Last time Goro Kaneda sees his friend Mizuno. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• Chico Rodriguez is killed in an automobile accident. (Chico and the Man)
• Birth of Jared to Hank and Carol Brown. (Walkyverse)

1978

• January 27: Birth of Haruka Tenoh. She would awaken as Sailor Uranus fourteen years later. (Sailor Moon)
• February 6: During reentry after testing an experimental fuel for NASA and the OSI, Steve Austin's space capsule is propelled forward in time to August 1984.^note Or so it seems. In reality, it's part of an elaborate plan by profiteers to steal the fuel formula. (The Six Million Dollar Man)
• February 10: Benny Rosen is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• February 25: Saeed Taufeeq is born. (Torchwood)
• February 26: Judy Robinson is born. (Lost in Space)
• March 1: Birth of Ethan Siegal. ^{Justification} States here that he will turn 30 in 2008. In this strip, Mike is "accidentally" a day early for his birthday due to the leap year. (Walkyverse)
• March 6: Birth of Michiru Kaioh. She would awaken as Sailor Neptune fourteen years later. (Sailor Moon)
• April 16: On Coney Island in New York City, the Warriors gang is created when street criminals Cleon and Vermin leave The Coney Island Destroyers. (The Warriors)
• April 17: Birth of Rei Hino. She would awaken as Sailor Mars fourteen years later. (Sailor Moon)
• May 15: Leta Aider dies. (Quantum Leap)
• May 19: Laurence Northey disappears. (The 4400)
• May 23: Stuart "2D" Pot is born in Crawley, West Sussex, in England. (Gorillaz)
• May: The Starlord arrives on Earth ahead of the advancing Galactic Federation and begins secretly delivering a crash course in survival and combat skills to Earth's children (Starlord)
• June 6: Birth of Effie. She would become Necro's rescuer and eventually his lover. (Street Fighter III)
• June 19: Garfield the Cat born in the kitchen of Mamma Leoni's Italian restaurant. He was subsequently donated to a pet shop and bought by Jon Arbuckle. (Garfield: Garfield: His 9 Lives)
• June 24: Eric Matthews is born. (Boy Meets World)
• June 30: Usagi Tsukino born to Kenji and Ikuko Tsukino. She is the reincarnated Princess Serenity and would awaken as Sailor Moon for the first time fourteen years later. (Sailor Moon)
• July 4: A boy named David Freeman falls into a ravine and is knocked unconscious; he's abducted by an alien spaceship. He won't be seen again until 1986.^note That is, until the spaceship brings David back from 1986 and undoes the timeline left by his absence. (Flight of the Navigator)
• July 28: Sam Beckett leaps into an attorney named Lawrence Stanton III in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He is there to prevent Abagail Fuller from being convicted of the murder of Leta Aider and sentenced to death. Sam meets his and Abagail's daughter Sammie Jo Fuller, who was conceived during his last leap to 1966. (Quantum Leap)
• July 29: Arklay Mountain Facility closed. (Resident Evil 0)
• July 31: Albert Wesker and William Birkin transferred to the Spencer estate. (Resident Evil)
• Before August: Jeremiah Surd demands $250 million, or he will release nerve gas all over Chicago. He is captured and his plan averted in an FBI raid led by Roger "Race" Bannon. During the attack, Surd is hit by a stray bullet and paralysed. (Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures)
• August 7: Lyman and his dog Odie move into Jon's house. (Garfield)
• August 16: Gwen Cooper is born. (Torchwood)
• August: Jeremiah Surd is officially declared dead, despite still being alive. ^{justification} Surd's death certificate is dated five months before his transfer to Belle Isle. (Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures)
• September 10:
  • Birth of Ami Mizuno. She would awaken her powers as Sailor Mercury fourteen years later. (Sailor Moon)
  • Aliens take over the town of Cliffport, Maine. (The Time Tunnel)
• September 15: Dr. Neil Perry takes the Mega Corporation's Time Machine for a test drive. He arrives in Salem, Massachusetts on April 10, 1692 and becomes embroiled in the Salem witch trials. (The Time Machine (1978))
• September 19: James Marcus develops the T-virus by combining the Progenitor virus with leech DNA. (Resident Evil 0)
• September: An unknown phenomenon, theorized to be cosmic in origin, causes the dead to rise and feast on the living. A few survivors hole up in a shopping mall. (Dawn of the Dead).
• October 22: Birth of Minako Aino. She would become Sailor Venus ^note  Sailor V, at first for the first time thirteen years later. (Sailor Moon)
• October 29: Angus Bistrong is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• October 30: CIA Special Activities Division and MI6 embark on Operation Charybdis; Ryan Jackson leads a team consisting of himself, a young SAS operative named Jonathan *****, and several others to hunt down rogue agents Alex Mason, Jason Hudson, and Grigori Weaver in South Africa, where they were believed to be searching for an unknown lead at Mason's behest. (Call of Duty: Black Ops)
• October 31: Michael Myers returns to menace Haddonfield, Illinois and embarks on a killing spree, murdering four people before being seriously injured. (Halloween)
  • Michael pursues Laurie Strode to Haddonfield's hospital and kills an additional nine people. He and Dr. Loomis are presumed dead after an explosive fire at the Haddonfield hospital. (Halloween II)
• October: Thanks to Starlord's efforts, the Galactic Federation decides not to invade Earth. Starlord departs to continue his mission elsewhere, leaving his human cadets in the hands of Tharg. (Starlord)
• November 17: The Star Wars Holiday Special airs on CBS. (Real Life, Special) A growing number of protesters show up outside of CBS's offices in response. (RiffTrax)
  • 11:00 pm EST: Frizzies are fought. (WCBS news promo)
• December 5: Birth of Makoto Kino. Fourteen years later, she would awaken her powers as Sailor Jupiter. (Sailor Moon)
• December 11: Matthew Adams is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• December 25: Richard McFarland commits a mass shooting at the Cedar Bluffs Baptist Church, killing twelve people and injuring seven. The incident is called the Christmas Day Massacre. (Twelve Gauge)
• Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein become Firestorm. (DC Comics)
• Killer tomatoes attack America. (Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!)
• Andy Travis is hired as programming director of Cincinnati radio station WKRP, whose format he immediately changes from "Beautiful Music" to Rock-and-Roll. (WKRP in Cincinnati)
• Amity island is terrorized by another killer shark. (Jaws 2)
• Duncan MacLeod and his lover, Desiree, win big at Casino Montecour in France, but get robbed. Desiree leaves Duncan after he fails to defend her. ^note It would take him twenty years to figure that the assailant was Carlo Capodimonte, the casino manager. Once he figured it out, it was payback time. (Highlander: The Series)
• Emily Ryan dies of a cerebral haemorrhage. Her son, Richie, is sent to an orphanage for a year, and spends the rest of his childhood in a series of foster homes. (Highlander: The Series)
• An attempt by a secret US government intelligence to harness the powers of a psychic goes awry. (The Fury)
• Birth of India Cohen. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Killer 7 kills Kess Bloodysunday in Spain. (killer7)
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is reformed by Billy Shears (The original Sergeant's grandson) and rescues their hometown of Heartland from the clutches of Mr. Mustard and FVB. (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
• Formation of Federation of InterState Truckers takes place. (F.I.S.T.)
• Experimental piranha are accidentally released from an abandoned facility. (Piranha)
• Malbordus massacres the Wood Elf village of Caerno. (Temple of Terror)
• Pelafina Truant attempts to strangle her son, Johnny. Her husband, Donnie, commits her to Whalestoe Mental Institution. (House of Leaves)
• The hard rock group KISS battle Abner Devereaux and his robots at the Magic Mountain amusement park. (KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park)
• The Second Conference at Basra is held. (The Shape of Things to Come)
• Birth of Meredith Davies. (Tru Calling^{Justification}The credits in the pilot episode list her as being 15 in 1993)
• AIs first appear on BBS boards. (Digital: A Love Story)
• Angelica Jones, the daughter of infamous hitman "Flattop" Jones and sister of teen criminal Flattop Jr, releases the book Sins of the Father: My Life as Flattop's Daughter, which claims that her father and brother were innocent victims of corrupt police officers and framed for their crimes. However, the book is just part of a plan to get revenge on Dick Tracy, with assistance from her accomplice and fiancee, the son of Alfred Brau AKA The Brow. Angelica, now calling herself "Angeltop", comes close to succeeding but she's trapped in the burning wreckage of the same Santa Maria replica where her father had drowned years previously, and is presumed dead though her body is not recovered. The Brow's son is taken into custody. (Dick Tracy)
• A classic arcade game is released, whose name has not survived posterity. It nonetheless remains extremely popular, especially for its ridiculously-cool cyborg centaur character Hecarim. This would be useful some years later when Hecarim is a useful ally to several gamers Trapped in TV Land by Final Boss Veigar. (League of Legends, 'Arcade Hecarim' skin.)
• The first manned mission to Mars is launched. (The Time Tunnel)
• The American space probe Grand Tour is launched. (Moonbase 3)
• Bobby Ewing and Pamela Barnes are married for the first time. (Dallas)
• Gary Walter Wallace and Wyatt Donnelly are born. (Weird Science)
• The Fourth Doctor leaves K-9 Mark III for Sarah Jane Smith in her apartment in Croydon. However, she does not receive his gift until December 1981. (K-9 and Company)
• Marshall Teller, Devon Wilde and Janet Donner are born. (Eerie, Indiana)
• Charles Furnell, the smartest man in the world, invents the Brainalyzer so that the knowledge and intelligence of brilliant people can be preserved for future generations. However, his wife Eunice Danforth later uses it for nefarious purposes such as fixing the 1980 U.S. presidential election. (Eerie, Indiana)
• Christophe Druand dies and is brought back as a zombie. (The Serpent and the Rainbow)
• A weaponized strain of influenza, known as Project Blue, The Superflu or "Captain Trips", is accidentally released when containment fails at a U.S Army facility in Northern California, and quickly spreads across the United States, and then the world, leading to 99.4% of humanity dying. A mysterious, inhuman drifter known as Randall Flagg, AKA The Walkin' Dude, takes advantage of the apocalypse. (The Stand)
• After failing to return home to 2023, Ben Song leaps into a Sergeant Perez on a Decoy Convoy flight over the USSR that is fated to be shot down. Ben is there to make sure the other Air Force personnel survive the mission. His leap is hindered by a complete lack of holographic contact from Project Quantum Leap. (Quantum Leap (2022))
• Birth of Sarah Clinton. (Walkyverse)
• Farhan Qureshi is born at 5:15 p.m. to Nuzzhat Qureshi, and at 5:16 p.m. his father Salim Qureshi declares Farhan will grow up to be an engineer. (3 Idiots)

1979

• January 1: Birth of Naru Osaka (Sailor Moon)
• January 21: Dan Hodges is born. (Torchwood)
• January 31: Pop singer and Starlight Foundation co-founder Jacqui Benton dies in a plane crash (Jem)
• January: Jeremiah Surd is transferred to Belle Isle Home for the Insane, having been officially declared dead. (Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures)
• February 1: Ayatollah's in Iran. ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
• February 8: Birth of Yaten Kou (Sailor Moon)
• February 26: Libby Bradley is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• February 28: Sam Beckett leaps into Detective Jack Stone in Malibu. He is there to solve the murder of Janice DeCaro. (Quantum Leap)
• March 22: Joyce Byers gives her son Will a box containing 120 crayons for his eighth birthday while his friends all get him Star Wars toys. (Stranger Things)
• April 3: Birth of David Willis. (Walkyverse and Real Life)
• April 24: Ben Song leaps into Jack Armstrong, a bodyguard for singer Carly Farmer in Chicago. He's there to make sure that Carly isn't murdered. (Quantum Leap (2022))
• May 5: Birth of Joyce to Hank and Carol Brown in Forth Worth. (Walkyverse
• May 12: Edwin Castillo is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• May 21: Sam Beckett leaps into Ray Hutton, who is understudying an alcoholic actor named John O'Malley in an off-Broadway production of Man of La Mancha in Syracuse, New York. He is there to prevent O'Malley from falling off the stage while drunk. One of the other actors in the play is Nicole, Sam's piano teacher when he was fifteen on whom he had a major crush. (Quantum Leap)
• May 28-29: The town of Chamberlain, Maine, is destroyed by psychotic psychic Carrie White, resulting in the deaths of between 440 and 458 people. (Carrie)
• May 30: Birth of Taiki Kou (Sailor Moon)
• May: Brett Waits and Bethany Sloane graduate from high school and go to Carnegie Mellon University together in Pittsburgh. (Dogma: A Screenplay)
• June 11: Orson Bailey disappears. (The 4400)
• June 13: A killing spree occurs at Camp Crystal Lake, leaving only one survivor.^note The killer is Pamela Voorhees, seeking revenge for the drowning of her son 22 years earlier. (Friday the 13th)
• July: Nicholas Angel decides he wants to be Kermit the Frog when he grows up. (Hot Fuzz)
• July 30: Birth of Seiya Kou (Sailor Moon)
• August: The lone survivor of the Camp Crystal Lake massacre disappears. ^note She was killed by Jason Voorhees, and her corpse removed from the crime scene (Friday the 13th Part 2)
• September 4: Henri-Laurent de Marigny reappears with no memory of the last ten years. (The Transition of Titus Crow)
• September 19: Birth of Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
• September:
  • Bethany Sloane and Brett Waits start college at Carnegie Mellon University and take the opportunity of being away from their parents to have lots and lots of sex. (Dogma: A Screenplay'')
  • The Silent Movie star Dorothea Page dies. (Columbo)
• October 4: Shelby Whitling disappears. (The 4400)
• October 6: Sam Beckett leaps into a Chippendales dancer named Rod "Rod the Bod" McCarty in New York. He is there to ensure a deaf girl, Diana Quinna, becomes a dancer so she won't turn to prostitution and die of AIDS in 1986. (Quantum Leap)
• October 8: Douglas Needles begins attending class in Hill Valley after moving down from Bakersville. Marty McFly is tasked with showing him around. Marty finds "Dougie" and his boorish behavior off-putting. (Back to the Future)
• October 9: Dougie buys a guitar that he knows Marty has been saving up for, then attempts to take over Marty's band, the Pinheads. Dougie later gets caught by the Hill Valley police while egging Doc Brown's house, while Marty and the rest of his bandmates get away. (Back to the Future)
• October 10: The next day at school, Marty defends Dougie's behavior as that of a kid without caring parents. Despite this, Dougie is bitter about Marty running away, and reveals that he's henceforth going by his last name only. A lifelong rivalry between Marty and Needles begins. (Back to the Future)
• October 12: Isabelle "Izzy" Sinclair is born. (Doctor Who Magazine)
• Early October: Red Coast Base received a response from a Trisolarian pacifist, urging humans not to attempt further contact lest they face invasion. Ye Wenjie, disillusioned with humanity, conceals the message and responds, asking the Trisolarians to invade. Unbeknownst to her, Lei Zhicheng makes an automatic backup off alll data, and orders her to let him take the credit. On the same day, Ye finds out she is pregnant. (The Three-Body Problem)
• October 21: Ye Wenjie murders Lei Zhicheng; Yang Weining also dies in the process. (The Three-Body Problem)
• October 31: L Lawliet is born. (Death Note)
• November 5: A time-traveling H. G. Wells arrives in San Francisco in pursuit of Dr. John Leslie Stevenson, aka Jack the Ripper. (Time After Time)
• November 23: Lindsey Hammond disappears. (The 4400)
• December 21: Ronald Joseph "R.J." Collins is born. (Saved by the Bell: The New Class)
• December 23: Peter Petrelli is born. (Heroes)
• December 24: Russians in Afghanistan. ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
• December 25: James Halliday receives his first computer, an Atari 2600, as a Christmas present. His favourite game is Adventure, and he is among the first to discover Warren Robbinett's Easter Egg. (Ready Player One)
• December 31: Michael Kelso and Eric Forman return to Point Place, Wisconsin, to celebrate the end of the Seventies with their friends. (That '70s Show)
• Claire Redfield born. (Resident Evil)
• Tricia Jones is born. (Mallrats)
• Phoenix becomes Dark Phoenix, sacrifices herself to save the universe. (Marvel Comics)
• The Fourth Doctor and Romana prevent Scaroth from rescuing his past self and thus erasing the existence of life on Earth. (Doctor Who)
• Two brothers and an ice cream vendor confront the Tall Man. (Phantasm)
• Future executive of Complex Corp., Mr. Burton, marries. (Dogma)
• A medical doctor is sent to investigate a dispute between Native Americans and a papermill in Maine. His for come to halt when he and his associates are chased by a giant, mutated and very pissed off bear. (Prophecy)
• Hang-glider Hiroshi Tsukaba is mortally wounded saving a group of scientists from Neo-Shocker. In order to save his life, he is turned into a cyborg, and battles Neo-Shocker as the new Kamen Rider, later gaining the sobriquet "Skyrider" when he meets with his predecessors. (Kamen Rider: Skyrider)
• Five agents sent around the world for special training are assembled in Japan and given battlesuits to become Battle Fever J, a combat team formed to oppose the secret society Egos. (Battle Fever J)
• Joseph "Joe" Dawson is assigned as Duncan MacLeod's newest Watcher. Duncan would not notice his presence until the 1990s. (Highlander: The Series)
• Birth of Baby Bonnie Hood/Bulleta. She would grow up to have the instincts of a Serial Killer, and use them to start a profitable career as a hunter of monsters. (Darkstalkers^note Justification: Year of birth given. She is otherwise estimated to be about 10 to 14 years old as depicted. Which would place the "present" of the games in the early 1990s. )
• Birth of Hokuto Mizukami in Japan. She is a younger sister to Kairi and an older sister to Nanase. She would be trained in the martial arts tradition of her family. (Street Fighter EX^note Justification: Said to be 17 years old at her first appearance. Which took place in 1996. )
• In New York City, Cyrus, leader of the Gramercy Riffs gang, holds a midnight rally in the Bronx's Van Cortlandt Park intended to unite all the gangs in the city. During the rally, Cyrus is murdered by Luther, leader of a gang called The Rouges. Another gang from Coney Island called The Warriors are framed for the crime. (The Warriors)
• Zombie outbreak in Sperry, Alabama. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• Super squadron declare their retirement and Baron Ether announces his retirement after arrest in the senate building. (Soon I Will Be Invincible)
• James Bond investigates a theft of a space shuttle and ends up stopping a plan to exterminate the human population. (Moonraker)
• Rufus Excalibur ffolkes enacts an anti-terrorist plan of his making on an oil platform. (North Sea Hijack)
• Will Navidson and Karen Green begin a relationship. (House of Leaves)
• In Portland, Oregon, Hellboy goes to meet with Mr. Tod, a spirit medium who is soon discovered to be possessed by an otherworldly creature. (Hellboy: Goodbye Mister Tod)
• After the outbreak of the Iranian Revolution, President Ronald Reagan sends troops to Iran in an attempt to keep the Shah in power, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides. Shortly afterwards, a terrorist group called the November Squad bombs Madison Square Garden. The death toll is estimated at 682. (Replay)
• Biff Tannen successfully lobbies Hill Valley city council to legalize gambling.^note This event is wiped from existence when Marty McFly destroys the Sports Almanac on November 12, 1955. (Back to the Future Part II)
• Dylan Hunt is placed in suspended animation. (Genesis II)
• Buck Francisco is born. (Alien Nation)
• John Ross Ewing is born. (Dallas)
• Franklin Endicott commits suicide. (St. Elsewhere)
• Gary and Valene Ewing are married for the second time, 17 years after their first divorce, and begin new lives in Seaview Circle in Knots Landing, a suburb of Los Angeles. (Dallas, Knots Landing)
• Garrison Southworth dies. (Dallas)
• Richard and Becky Belding are married. (Saved by the Bell: The New Class)
• The paramedic Jesse Keys saves Mo Reynolds' life after a farm accident. (Taken)
• Maria Lopez is born. (Saved by the Bell: The New Class)
• On its way to Earth, Kara Zor-El's pod becomes trapped in the Phantom Zone. It remains there for the next 24 years. (Supergirl (2015))
• Kal-El is born on Krypton. (Supergirl (2015))
• A married couple move into a country house after the death of their son, only to find out that an Eldritch Abomination living beneath it intends to consume them. (We Are Still Here)
• In Eerie, Indiana, the sixth Harvest King is chosen to be sacrificed to the werewolf Mr. Chaney in order to ensure 13 years of good luck and low taxes. The town authorities claim that he moved to Spain. (Eerie, Indiana)
• Aiden Ford is born. (Stargate Atlantis)
• Dr. Nicholas Ballard suffers a severe mental breakdown and checks himself into a psychiatric institution in Oregon. He remains there until 2000. (Stargate SG-1)
• The wedding of Kara Kent and Bruce Wayne, Jr., who are secretly Supergirl and Batman, is interrupted when the bride's older brother Joel Kent attacks the assembled guests. He fires intense kryptonite radiation at his father Clark, severely weakening him and revealing to everyone present that he is Superman. His mother Lois' oncologist Dr. Holurt then reveals himself to be Lex Luthor. He murders Lois as her husband Clark, who is unable to help due to his weakened state, looks on. Joel then kills his sister Supergirl by ripping out her heart. Her body is discovered by Bruce, Jr. Shortly afterwards, Joel dies in agony, a side effect of the formula that Luthor used to give him superpowers. (Superman & Batman: Generations)
• Bruce Wayne travels to the Himalayas and manages to track down Ra's al Ghul's lair. When he is captured by Ra's guards, Ra's challenges Bruce to enter the Lazarus Pit with him to determine which of them will die and which will become immortal. Bruce eventually prevails and his youth is restored. Over the next 20 years, he covertly transforms Ra's' criminal empire into a humanitarian enterprise. (Superman & Batman: Generations)
• Hunter Riley is born. (Stargate Universe)
• Keras is born on M7G-677 in the Pegasus galaxy. (Stargate Atlantis)
• Brian Tanner is born. (ALF)
• Chinese terrorists wipe out the U.S Table Tennis team just before their scheduled match against China, forcing a rag-tag group of students, led by ping-pong rivals Jonathan Gabriel and Tycho Brahe, to play in their stead. They're victorious, but not unharmed. (Penny Arcade: Paint the Line)
• Six women (and a Tagalong Kid) take down all of LA's drug operations. Michelle Wilson sings about shining your love. (Angels Revenge)
• Tim Taylor and Jill Patterson are married. (Home Improvement)
• Birth of Danny Wilcox, Joe Rosenthal, and Rachel Jackson. (Walkyverse

Mid to late 1970s

• Members of a New York City support group for the bereaved purchase a plot of land in rural Pennsylvania and establish a 19th century village therein. (The Village (2004))
• Estimated birth of Alex in New York City. He would mostly be raised by his mentor and surrogate father Tom. Tom, being a military instructor and martial artist, would train Alex to be a fighter. (Street Fighter III^note Justification: Believed to be in his twenties in 1997/1998.)
• Estimated birth of Remy in France. He would learn Savate and later go on a campaign against all fighters, uncertain if this isn't his own take on the path of the warrior. (Street Fighter III^note Justification: Believed to be in his twenties in 1997/1998.)
• Estimated birth of Pullum Purna in Saudi Arabia. She would grow up to become a belly dancer, fighter, and ruler of her own kingdom. (Street Fighter EX^note Justification: Said to be a debutante, thus at least 17 years old. )
• Estimated birth of Blair Dame in Europe. She would grow up to become a fighter. (Street Fighter EX^note Justification: Said to be a debutante, thus at least 17 years old.)
• Estimated birth of Hayate in Japan. His father is a legendary swordsman who managed to defeat Orochi. Hayate would follow in his footsteps. (Street Fighter EX^note Justification: Seems to be another teenager. )
• The Hostess™ snack company begins production of treats so delectable than nobody can resist their delicious taste, supervillains least of all, with the notable exception of The Joker. Several superheroes experiment with this new method of fighting crime. (Hostess ads)
• Ray Holt becomes a detective with the New York Police Department. He excels at his job, but due to institutionalised racism and homophobia struggles to gain respect. (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)^{Justification}His first day on the job is shown in flashback during "Old School"; the exact date is not given, but the fashion and context places it in the late 1970s.
• Stan Pines founds the Mystery Shack. (Gravity Falls)
• Gwendolyn Ingolfsson is born in what was once Florence as one of the first Homo drakensis. (The Draka)
• After a performance in Las Vegas, Elvis Presley invites a fan named Sandra up to his dressing room. He tells her that he is merely pretending to be the King but she does not believe him. She later comes to think that it was merely another example of Elvis' often strange and eccentric behavior towards the end of his life. In reality, the King of rock n' roll is Gary Pitkin, an Elvis impersonator from 1986 who was assumed Elvis' identity after accidentally killing him on July 4, 1954. Sandra will become his manager by 1986. (The Twilight Zone (1985))

197X/1970s

• December 31: The second leg of Will Smith's time travel escapades brings his party to New Years Eve in an undetermined year in the 1970s, where everyone dresses like they're on Soul Train. ("Will 2K" music video)
• Drs. Thomas Light and Albert Wily create artificial intelligence. Wily frames Light for the murder of his girlfriend Emily Stanton, forcing him into hiding, whereafter Wily uses said robots to take control of the world. (The Protomen)
• Birth of Jack Archer, a future professor of ecology.^{Justification}Stated to have been a teenager in the 1990s. (''Phantom 2040')
• Pacific Tech student Lazlo Hollyfeld works on a project that he later learns is being used to hurt people. Horrified, he retreats to the steam tunnels under the university, where he lives until 1985. (Real Genius)

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