History JustForFun / GrandUnifiedTimelineThe60s

* September: Whateley Academy reopens as a school for super-powered teens. Among the first group of freshmen is Benny 'Mimeo' Roberts, who acts a the eyes and ears for The Syndicate on campus. (''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'')

[[folder:1960 C.E. to 1963 C.E.]]
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[[folder:1964]]
* January 4: Before the verdict in Lee Harvey Oswald's trial can be read, Oswald is gunned down on his way back to court by Jack Ruby. (''Film/TheTrialOfLeeHarveyOswald'')
* January 8: Ted Baxter tells the trapeze artist Holly Homburg that he will see her tomorrow. However, the carnival leaves town the next day and he never sees her again. This is his one regret in life. (''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'')
* January 22: Samantha Mulder is born in Chilmark, Massachusetts. (''Series/TheXFiles'')
* February 6: Sam Beckett leaps into a [[BlindMusician blind pianist]] named Andrew Ross in New York. He is there to prevent Andrew's girlfriend Michelle Stevens from being murdered by the Central Park Strangler. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* February 7: Music/TheBeatles land in New York City and are greeted by a crowd of 3000 people. (RealLife) The crowd includes a time traveling Doc Brown, who snaps a photograph. ([[Ride/BackToTheFutureTheRide "Doc on the March"]])
* February 9: Music/TheBeatles perform for the first time on American television on ''Series/TheEdSullivanShow''. (RealLife)
** WesternAnimation/BoskoTheTalkInkKid is also scheduled to perform on the same program, but gets booted from the broadcast before it starts, after Bosko tells Ed that Honey's unavailable. (''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'')
** The Hive plot to hijack the broadcast of the Beatles' performance so that they can release a signal that will cause millions of viewers to commit suicide. (''Series/DarkSkies'')
** William Craig, Jr. is in attendance. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
** The Pryor family, Roxanne Bojarski, Beth Mason and Luke Foley watch the Beatles' performance on television. (''Series/AmericanDreams'')
** A bus full of Catholic teens on their way to see the show live smashes into a Mercury convertible where harmony group Forever Plaid are driving to their first big gig. While all of the teens miraculously survive, the entire harmony group is killed instantly. (''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever_Plaid Forever Plaid]]'')
* February 11-12: The elderly Jason Foster takes revenge on his greedy and abusive family by forcing them to wear hideous Mardi Gras masks that represent their personality flaws in return for inheriting his fortune. At midnight, Foster dies, but when his relatives remove their masks, they discover that their faces have permanently warped into the monstrous appearance of the masks as punishment. (''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}: [[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E25TheMasks The Masks]]'')
* February 23: Dana Scully is born. (''Series/TheXFiles'')
* March 13: Kitty Genovese is murdered. (RealLife) The knife used is acquired by the Foundation. (''Website/SCPFoundation'')
* After March 13: Disgusted by the Genovese murder, Walter Kovacs becomes Rorschach. (''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'')
* April 12: Olivia and Duncan Germaine disappear. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* Between April 22 and October 18: WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones, traveling through time via a time machine at the Bedrock World's Fair, visit the New York World's Fair. After some [[FishOutOfTemporalWater culture shock]] and a run-in with a police officer, the families return to the Stone Age. (''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'')
* April 27: Marie Ramset disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* April: President Joseph P. Kennedy visits Berlin for the first-ever summit between the President of the United States and Führer of Nazi Germany. The summit is disrupted by shocking new evidence that the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe were not actually "[[ReleasedToElsewhere resettled East]]," but in fact may have suffered [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust a much more horrific fate.]] (''Literature/{{Fatherland}}'')
* May 11: Jane Potter dies in Stockbridge. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* May 13: Martha Longhurst dies. (''Series/CoronationStreet'')
* May 19:
** Birth of Hugo Andore in Germany. Hugo would grow up to become a gang member and a professional wrestler. (''VideoGame/FinalFight'', ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'')
** An obituary indicates the death of one Mr. F. X. Caldeira, the elusive translator of the works of V. M. Straka.[[labelnote:more]][[SamusIsAGirl She]] isn't really dead, but instead has gone into hiding.[[/labelnote]] (''Literature/SDorst'')
* May 25: On the day that a man named Jagger is going to be executed in a small town, the Sun does not rise. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* May 30: Hilary West is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* June 11: Sam Beckett leaps into Tommy York, a cadet at Prescott Naval Academy in Macomb County, Michigan. He is there to prevent Tommy's former roommate Phillip Ashcroft from being killed because he is gay. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* June 25: Sgt. William Connors, Corporal Richard Langsford and Private Michael [=McCluskey=] are transported back in time to the Battle of Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* July 4: Sam Beckett leaps into Butchie Rickett, a 13-year-old boy who is on vacation with his family in Carbon County, Wyoming. He is there to prevent Butchie's mother Emma from leaving her family. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* July 13: Andrea Yates dies, completely changing Sarah Jane Smith's outlook on life. [[labelnote:more]]The Trickster makes a deal to exchange her life for Sarah Jane's but she later reverses this timeline to save the world from destruction.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'')
* July 21: Birth of Ryu in Japan. He would grow up to become a martial artist. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'')
* July 22: Melanie "Mel" Bush is born. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* August 22: [AlternateTimeline] James Robert Kennedy, the son of UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy, is born. (''Film/{{Timequest}}'')
* August 24: Naked Snake infiltrates Tselinoyarsk to rescue the scientist Nikolai Sokolov. (''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'')
* August 28-30: A major race riot breaks out in Philadelphia over widespread allegations of police brutality against African-Americans. (RealLife) Meg Pryor and Sam Walker are caught up in the riot while Sam's cousin Nathan participates in it. (''Series/AmericanDreams'')
* August 30: Naked Snake infiltrates Tselinoyarsk again to destroy the Shagohad and retrieve the Philosopher's Legacy. (''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'')
* September 1: Quarlo Clobgrenny, a soldier fighting a war in a distant, post-apocalyptic future, is accidentally transported to a random city street in a small U.S town. He's "adopted" by the Kagan family, who helps him adjust to a normal life. However, an enemy soldier follows him through time, and the two enemies finally end up killing eachother. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'': Soldier)
* September 5: Agent 47, an enhanced human clone, is created by Dr. Ort-Meyer. (''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'')
* September 25:
** Lillian Banokat disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
** Daniel Holtz is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* October 14:
** Sam Beckett leaps into Jimmy [=LaMotta=], a man with Down Syndrome, in order to ensure Jimmy's future and that of his brother Frank's family. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
** Lori Pendleton is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* October 17: Trent, an amnesiac with an artificial hand missing three fingers, and with no memory beyond the past 10 days, is trapped inside a large office building with a woman named Consuelo Biros, pursued by mysterious and dangerous enemies known only as the Kyben. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'': "Demon With A Glass Hand")
* October 31: Sam Beckett leaps into a horror novelist named Joshua Rey in Coventry, Maine. Strange things begin to happen as soon as he arrives, including several mysterious deaths. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* November 3:
** U.S. President UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson is elected to a full term in his own right, defeating UsefulNotes/BarryGoldwater. (RealLife)
** Earl Warren is elected to a second term as U.S. President, defeating UsefulNotes/HubertHumphrey. (''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'')
** [AlternateUniverse] UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is elected to a second term as U.S. President. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
** UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is elected to a second term as U.S. President, defeating Barry Goldwater. (''Surrounded by Enemies: What If Kennedy Survived Dallas?'', ''Alternate Generals'')
** [AlternateTimeline] UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is elected to a second term as U.S. President. (''Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree'')
** Blake Hartley is elected to a second term as U.S. President. ("Day of the Moron")
** UsefulNotes/BarryGoldwater is elected U.S. President, defeating UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson. (''Alternate Presidents'')
** UsefulNotes/RichardNixon is elected U.S. President. (''Cuban Crisis: Second Holocaust'')
* The events of ''Marius'' occur. (''The Psychotechnic League'')
* The Comicbook/TeenTitans first form. (Creator/DCComics)
* Matt Murdock becomes ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, agents of UNCLE, battle the forces of THRUSH. (''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'')
* Marnie Edgar, a [[StickyFingers kleptomaniac]], is {{blackmail}}ed by her employer Sidney Strutt into marrying. He introduces her first to [[MaritalRapeLicense marital rape]], then to psychotherapy. (''Film/{{Marnie}}'')
* The Wilmarth Foundation begins its battle against the cthonians. (''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos The Burrowers Beneath]]'')
* Odetta Holmes/Detta Walker (later merged into Susannah Dean) taken from New York by Roland Deschain. (''Franchise/TheDarkTower'')
* Birth of Jason Canmore to Charles Canmore and an unnamed mother. He would grow up to become a Hunter. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Birth of Matt Bluestone. He would grow up to become first an UsefulNotes/{{FBI}} agent and then a NYPD officer. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Music/TheBeatles have a press conference and appear on television on UTV. An opera on UTV is interrupted by Music/PaulMcCartney's grandfather, John [=McCartney=]. Music/GeorgeHarrison is accidentally interviewed for a fashion trend show, but is rejected. John [=McCartney=] and Music/RingoStarr are both arrested (for separate reasons), and Ringo is barely retrieved in time for the official concert. (''Film/AHardDaysNight'')
* The original Warner Bros. animation studio, "Termite Terrace", is permanently shut down, with the entire staff and nearly all of the Looney Tunes stars laid off. The Warner siblings, temporarily released from their tower, are licensed out to other studios over the next several years, while Daffy and Speedy (and the Road Runner and Coyote) are kept on for a series of shorts produced by a new animation unit through the end of the decade. (''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', date taken from RealLife)
* A storm strands a ship, its skipper, its first mate and five passengers on an island following a tour of a marina. (''Series/GilligansIsland'')
* Josefina Menendez is born in Nicaragua. (''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'')
* In Russia, Hellboy pursues Baba Yaga in an attempt to put an end to child abductions in the area. In the ensuing struggle he shoots out her left eye, forcing her from the mortal world. (''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'': The Baba Yaga)
* The isolated town of Gatlin, Nebraska is affected by a blighted corn harvest. The children and teenagers of the town are overcome with a religious mania and form a cult worshiping an entity known as He Who Walks Behind The Rows. They massacre their parents and every other adult over the age of 20, but He Who Walks Behind The Rows is forced to personally dispatch the town's police chief and minister who escape the cultists. As punishment, the age limit is lowered from 20 to 19 and the cultists of that age are sacrificed. Gatlin is completely cut off from the rest of the world. (''Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn'')
* Earth is devastated by a nuclear war. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* Lorelle Palmer is born. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* Diana Fairgate is born. (''Series/KnotsLanding'')
* After her husband dies, Betty Wilson uses his invention Foreverware to keep herself and her twin sons Bert and Ernie young by [[HumanPopsicle sealing the three of them in oversized Foreverware containers every night]]. This continues until Marshall Teller helps the twins escape the living hell of spending almost 30 years in the seventh grade in 1991. (''Series/EerieIndiana'')
* Steven Keaton and Elyse Donnelly are married. (''Series/FamilyTies'')
* Donnie Gerard is born. (''Series/{{Rhoda}}'')
* An alcoholic actress, her assistant and their pilot are trapped on a deserted island with a MadScientist and flesh-eating microbes. (''Film/TheFleshEaters'')
* John Hathaway is born. (''Radio/DimensionX'')
* Margot Griffin is born. (''Phyllis'')
* After three civilians escape from the town, Victoria Byng shuts down all the Joy supply in Wellington Wells. Very few survive the ensuing riot, and the town is abandoned. (''VideoGame/WeHappyFew'')
* 18-year-old Jay Cirri is released from a juvenile corrections facility. He immediately drops out of high school. (''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'')
* [[Series/GomerPyleUSMC Gomer Pyle]] joins the [[SemperFI United States Marine Corps]]. (''Series/TheAndyGriffithShow'')
* The Joint Chiefs of Staff send COL Walter E. Kurtz to Vietnam to compile a report on the military's failing policies. The report is restricted to President UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson and the Joint Chiefs. {''Film/ApocalypseNow'')
[[/folder]]

[[folder:1964 - 1965]]
* Sheriff Kerby kills the [[HalfHumanHybrid half-alien]] Larry in Hyder, Alaska and buries him under a tree. Larry's twin brother Lester later exhumes him. He places the body in a Tsimshian burial chamber and covers the walls with alien writing in the hope that Larry will come back to life. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
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[[folder:1965]]
* January: Minna Gaspar dies. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* February 14: Birth of Ken Masters in the United States. He is born into a wealthy family but grows up to become a martial artist. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'')
* February 21:
** UsefulNotes/MalcolmX is assassinated in Manhattan. (RealLife)
** Father Bigley is the first man on the scene. (''Series/FatherTed'')
** Sam Walker witnesses the assassination. (''Series/AmericanDreams'')
* April 5: Peter and Susan Barlow are born. (''Series/CoronationStreet'')
* April 10: The United States tests an experimental cosmic ray bomb. (''Radio/DimensionX'')
* April 18: Birth of Cody Travers in the United States. He would grow up to become a martial artist, a vigilante hero and eventually a [[BloodKnight combat addict]]. (''VideoGame/FinalFight'', ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'')

** Kim Karlsen and his buddies Ola, Gunnar and Seb (nicknaming themselves after the members of Music/TheBeatles) steal a Mercedes logo in Oslo. They get to hear Music/BobDylan for the first time, and gets the first news of the Vietnam War. (''Literature/{{Beatles}}'')
** The ghosts of Confederate village Pleasant Valley torture and murder Yankees to avenge their massacre 100 years before. (''Film/TwoThousandManiacs'')
* May 11: Sam Beckett leaps into Clyde, a young newlywed who has just joined the UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan, in Alabama. He is there to prevent an African-American civil rights activist named Nathaniel Simpson from being lynched by the Klan. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* May: Kim Karlsen and friends find a drowned man outside the beach of Huk in Oslo. (''Literature/{{Beatles}}'')
* June 15: Sam Beckett leaps into a fashion photographer named Karl Granson in New York. He is there to prevent a young model, Edie Landsdale, from dying of a drug overdose. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* June: Gangster Mr. Bribery and his sister/accomplice Ugly Christine begin their activities. Bribery proves himself to be one of the most ghoulish criminals Dick Tracy has ever faced, with a predilection for branding his henchmen with the letter "B" and decapitating his victims to keep their shrunken heads as trophies. (''ComicStrip/DickTracy'')
* February-June 1965: Music/RingoStarr accepts a ring that, unknown to him, is required to be sacrificed by an Eastern cult. Attempts to retrieve the ring do not go smoothly. [[labelnote:timing]]This film includes recording sessions for the ''Help!'' album, and so this must have happened between February and June 1965, when the album was recorded.[[/labelnote]] (''Film/{{Help}}'')
* July 8: Daniel Jackson is born. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* August 11: Sam Beckett leaps into Ray Harper, an African-American medical student who is engaged to a white woman named Susan Brewster, in the middle of the Watts Riots in Los Angeles. He is there to keep Ray and Susan together and to ensure that Ray becomes a doctor. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* August 28: Vivian Mulvaney is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* August 31, 10pm: The legendary mahjong match between Shigeru Akagi and Iwao Washizu begins. (''Manga/{{Akagi}}'')
* October 19: The rocket ship ''Luna'' is launched from Australia. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* October 20: Jet Morgan becomes the first person in space. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* October 22: ''Luna'' lands on the Moon. Stephen "Mitch" Mitchell is the first person to walk on its surface. The first moonwalk is broadcast to Earth over the radio. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* October 30: Jet Morgan experiences a premonition of the launch of a ship bound for Venus. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* October 31: Birth of Dee Jay in Jamaica. He would grow up to become a kickboxer and professional musician, and eventually combined his interests into a [[DanceBattler dance-based fighting style]]. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'')
* November 8: Sam Beckett leaps into a Mafia hitman named Frankie [=LaPalma=] in New York. He is there to prevent Frankie from being killed for dating the godfather Don Geno Frascatti's mistress Teresa Pacci. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* November 9:
** The Northeast blackout causes major power outages in several U.S. states and Canada. (RealLife)
** The blackout is caused by a failed attempt by Project Quantum Leap to return Sam Beckett to his own time. He instead leaps into Don Geno Frascatti. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
** John "Trip" Pryor III is born in Philadelphia during the blackout. (''Series/AmericanDreams'')
* Before November 20: The crew of the rocket ship ''Luna'' make FirstContact with an alien race, known as the Time Travellers, on the Moon. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* November 20: The rocket ship ''Luna'' returns to Earth. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* Birth of Abel, presumably in France. He would grow up to become a fighter. [[labelnote:more]]There are indications that Abel is either a product of genetic engineering or used as a template for such products. Abel could be younger than his supposed age.[[/labelnote]](''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'')
* In Scotland, the Torchwood Institute makes contact with the 456, who trade a vaccine for a new strain of flu for one dozen prepubescent children. (''Series/TorchwoodChildrenOfEarth'')
* Reed Richards and Susan Storm of the ComicBook/FantasticFour marry. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* First Conference of Rio re-establishes the U.N. after the devastation of WorldWarIII. (''The Psychotechnic League'')
* The Race-German War is fought. The Greater German Reich invades Poland, whose security is guaranteed by the aliens. Most of Poland is destroyed by German nuclear missiles, and in retaliation Germany is turned into a radioactive wasteland. The Germans agree to a harsh peace, while the remaining human nations begin cooperating more closely to maintain the balance of power. (''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'')
* Connor [=MacLeod=] changes his legal identity to "Russell Nash". He would continue using that name until the 1980s. (''Film/{{Highlander}}'')
* An entire unit of American soldiers is slaughtered in Vietnam. Manny, one of the soldiers, revives as an Immortal. He would go on to become the youngest member in Jacob Kell's group. (''Film/HighlanderEndgame'', character profiles)
* Estimated birth of Captain Sawada in Japan. He would grow up to become a soldier of the Allied Nations (AN). (''Film/StreetFighter'')
* Jean-Pierre Polnareff is born. (''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'')
* Birth of Peri Bohr, a future Slayer in Keller, Nebraska. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* Birth of Sarah Connor. (''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'')
* Birth of Billy to Sam and Carol Butcher in London's East End. (''Comicbook/TheBoys'')
* The First Conference at Basra is held. (''Literature/TheShapeOfThingsToCome'')
* Summer: Kim Karlsen meets Henny, the fiancee of his uncle Hubert. He is a witness to the destruction of the Slettemark picture, named "Viet Nam" in Oslo in August. (''Literature/{{Beatles}}'').
* Autumn: Kim Karlsen and his friends begin their higher education. Kim begins to date Nina, a girl from another class. The relationship lasts until Christmas, when she moves to Copenhagen. (''Literature/{{Beatles}}'')
* Abraham Morgan is drafted for the Vietnam War. He accepts over his adoptive father Henry's wishes, although Henry later relents. (''Series/{{Forever|2014}}'')
* Elizabeth "Lizzie" Westphall is born. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Dr. David Domedion retires as the Chief of Surgery at St. Eligius. He is succeeded by Dr. Mark Craig. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Shortly after her marriage to Edgar Eisenberg, Nurse Helen Eisenberg immigrates to the United States and begins working at St. Eligius. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* The St. Eligius emergency room is built. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Eric Fairgate is born. (''Series/KnotsLanding'')
* U.S. President Earl Warren commits suicide. Vice President Harold Stassen assumes the presidency. (''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'')
* Kevin Bruckner is born. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* The poetry collection ''Atlantis Rising'' by Brendan Connelly is published. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Kevin and Paulette Kiem are married. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Gabi Kane is born. (''Series/Batwoman2019'')
* Iris West is born. (''Series/TheFlash1990'')
* Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright arrive in London, 1965 via a Dalek time machine, ending their travels with the Doctor (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* A carhop has a love affair with a cheerleader who's into bebop. She sings, "Do wop diddy wop diddy wop doo." ("[[Music/PaulDavis '65 Love Affair]]")
* Suzie Winston, daughter of Alex and Sam Winston, sister of Charlie Winston, niece of Chris Wells, and granddaughter of Ruth Cassandra Winston, is born. (''VideoGame/NotForBroadcast'')
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[[folder:1966]]
* January:
** J.J. Pryor returns home from Vietnam. (''Series/AmericanDreams'')
** U.S. Vice President UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson resigns. (''Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas?'')
** Death of Frank Randall. (''Literature/{{Outlander}}'')
* February 6: Adrian Conrad is born. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* February 12: Birth of Blanka/Jimmy. He would grow up as a [[WildChild feral child]] in the jungles of Brazil. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'')
* February 24: After UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is impeached, tried, convicted and removed from office, the Speaker of the House of Representatives John William [=McCormack=] succeeds him as U.S. President. (''Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas?'')
* February 28: Byron Lillibridge disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* March 5: Donnie Truant gives Pelafina an antique locket as a gift. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* March 19:
** In the NCAA University Division basketball championship game,[[note]]The University Division is the predecessor to today's NCAA Division I. Note also that the NCAA didn't organize women's sports until the 1981–82 academic year.[[/note]] the Texas Western Miners,[[note]]the nickname is still Miners, but the school is now UTEP, or in full the University of Texas at El Paso)[[/note]] featuring an all-Black starting lineup, defeat the top-ranked and all-White Kentucky Wildcats 72–65. (RealLife and ''Film/GloryRoad'')
** Sam Beckett leaps back into Jimmy [=LaMotta=], and finds that the previously good future he'd ensured is being undone. He meets an evil leaper named Alia, who has leaped into Jimmy's sister-in-law Connie, and is intentionally ruining the [=LaMotta=] family's future.[[note]]Alia fails to kill Sam and is forcibly leapt out by [[AIIsACrapshoot Lothos]], which inadvertently knocks Sam back a few days and hits the ResetButton on all of Alia's damage.[[/note]] (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* March: Rosemarie Miletti, a young woman receiving singing lessons, is struggling with caring for her younger sister Mary who has leukemia. She is transported forward in time to March 22, 1986 and discovers that she will become a famous opera singer. Immediately after Rosemarie returns to her own time, Mary dies. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* April 17: Timothy Leary is arrested on drug charges. (''Will: G. Gordon Liddy'') and (RealLife)
* April 23: J.J. Pryor and Beth Mason are married. (''Series/AmericanDreams'')
* April: Don Geno Frascotti is murdered by the Carlucci crime family. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* May 17:
** In Smallville, Kansas, Jonathan and Martha Kent witness a spaceship crash in Shuster's Field and find a baby in the wreckage. (''Series/LoisAndClark'')
** Tempus, a criminal from the 22nd Century, forces Creator/HGWells to take him back in time so that he can kill Franchise/{{Superman}} as a baby using kryptonite. However, he is stopped by the adult Superman and ComicBook/LoisLane from 1995. (''Series/LoisAndClark'')
* May 21: Sam Beckett leaps into a 79-year-old man named Maxwell Stoddard who lives with his son John and his family in Charlemont, Massachusetts. He is there to prevent Maxwell from being committed due to his claims to have seen [=UFOs=] and Maxwell's grandson Tim from running away and dying of a drug overdose. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Spring:
** Kim Karlsen travels to Denmark for a football match, only to discover that his former girlfriend has begun dating someone else. Kim drinks himself out of his wits on the way home. (''Literature/{{Beatles}}'')
** Billy Chapman is born. (''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNight'')
* June 1: Jerrica Benton is born to Emmitt and Jacqui Benton. (''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'')
* June 6:
** The Levellers, a group of super-powered people, make their public debut. (''ComicBook/NoHero'')
** Murdoc Alphonce Niccals is born. (Music/{{Gorillaz}})
* June 14: Sam Beckett leaps into Will Kinman, the fiancé of Abagail Fuller, in Pottersville, Louisiana. He is there to prevent Abagail from being lynched by a mob led by Leta Aider because of the disappearance of a seven-year-old boy named Pervis Takins whom she was babysitting. During this leap, Sam and Abagail conceive a daughter, Sammie Jo Fuller. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* June 19: Birth of Robyn Canmore/ "Robyn Correy" to Charles Canmore and an unnamed mother. She would grow up to become a Hunter. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* June 21: Adell Alynn Addison is born. (''Series/AlienNation'')
* June 24: Fred Hansen, a working class boy attending Kim Karlsen's school, is deliberately drowned at a beach outside Oslo. Kim and his friends are on a camping trip at the same time. (''Literature/{{Beatles}}'')
* June: Meg Pryor and Roxanne Bojarski graduate from East Catholic High School. (''Series/AmericanDreams'')
* July 4: Mary Richard and Howard Arnell see each other for the last time until she invites him over to her apartment for drinks in October 1970. (''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'')
* July 20: The First Doctor and his companions Ben Jackson and Polly Wright prevent the supercomputer WOTAN from conquering the world. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* July:
** Ted Pryor dies. (''Series/AmericanDreams'')
** Meg Pryor runs away from home with her boyfriend Chris Pierce. (''Series/AmericanDreams'')
* August 12: Dr. Theresa Givens travels back in time and kills Robert Beck before he can murder eight women. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* August 18: George makes his third stop on his journey into the future, arriving amid the sound of air raid sirens. He meets James Filby, the son of his close friend David Filby. James recalls conversing with him on September 13, 1917 and is amazed that he has not aged a day in 49 years. Before George can explain, London is struck by an atomic bomb. He barely manages to escape in his time machine. This attack marks the beginning of WorldWarIII, which lasts for 326 years. (''Film/TheTimeMachine1960'')
* October 23: Will Truman is born. (''Series/WillAndGrace'')
* October 31:
** After a genetically engineered virus wipes out a quarter of humanity's population, the supernatural races, mostly untouched by the virus and now approximately equaling humanity in total population, reveal their existence. (''Literature/TheHollows'')
** A vampire huntress infiltrates an American air base's boarding school to root out a bloodsucker. (''Anime/BloodTheLastVampire'')
* November 10: Zachary Gidlund disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* November 17: Al Bundy scores four touchdowns in a single game. He was playing with Polk High Panthers against the team of Andrew Johnson High. This year, the Panthers and Bundy became their Most Valuable Player (MVP). He had scored the most touchdowns in one season for the team. He would earn himself a scholarship for college, but a broken leg would end his sports career prematurely. (''Series/MarriedWithChildren'')
** Four US soldiers kidnap, gang rape and murder a young Vietnamese woman. (RealLife) and (''Film/CasualtiesOfWar'')
* Autumn: Kim Karlsen is confirmed at the church of Frogner, Oslo. He and his friends attend the first anti-war rally. (''Literature/{{Beatles}}'')
* December 23: Ruchi Takahashi disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* Michael Armstrong, an esteemed American rocket scientist, defects to UsefulNotes/EastGermany. Sarah Sherman, his assistant and fiancée, reluctantly follows him. Armstrong is actually a [[FakeDefector double agent]] but the Stasi is determined to keep him within the East German borders. (''Film/TornCurtain'')
* Birth of Janine "Fox" Renard to Halcyon and Anastasia Renard. Since "Anastasia" was actually Titania, queen of [[TheFairFolk the fairies]], Janine is actually a halfling. She would grow up to become the leader of the Pack and wife of David Xanatos. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Five children are kidnapped from Earth, but rescued by the Flash race. (''Series/ChoushinseiFlashman'')
* Spencer Mansion completed (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'')
* First appearance of the ComicBook/BlackPanther. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* The ComicBook/FantasticFour first save Earth from Comicbook/{{Galactus}}. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Andy Dufresne mysteriously disappears from his cell at Shawshank Prison overnight, and inspection of the cell reveals a tunnel hidden behind a poster of Rita Hayworth, secretly carved over the course of 19 years. At the same time, a man using the name "Randall Stephens" empties the bank accounts containing Warden Samuel Nortons laundered money, and mails proof of the wardens' corruption to the press, along with evidence of brutality and murder happening at Shawshank. Captain Byron Hadley is arrested and Norton commits suicide. Andy Dufresne escapes to Mexico. (''Film/TheShawshankRedemption'')
* Joseph Dawson, a football hero, graduates high school. He loses contact with his girlfriend, Betsy "Bette" Fields, and goes off to fight in the Vietnam War. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series''[[labelnote:justification]]Joe says that they were both 18 years old at graduation. His birth year is 1948.[[/labelnote]])
* Birth of [[labelnote:more]]the immortal[[/labelnote]] Nick Wolfe. He would grow up to become a police detective, an employee of an international security consulting firm, and a lover of Amanda. (''Highlander: The Raven'')
* In western Texas, a vacationing family encounters a bizarre cult. (''Film/ManosTheHandsOfFate'')
* In southern California, three American musicians and a British singer form a pop music group and have various adventures. (''Series/TheMonkees'')
* Bethany Sloane lets her neighbor Bryan Johnson piss in her hair. (''Film/{{Dogma}}'')
* American soldiers in Vietnam are massacred due to shoddy arms and ammo supplied by Vought-American. Greg Mallory vows to bring down Vought-American; Robert Kennedy goes after them about the weapons. (''Comicbook/TheBoys'')
* Birth of Malcolm "Trilby" (actual surname disputed) somewhere in the U.K. (VideoGame/ChzoMythos)
* Adam Adamant is revived from hibernation after 64 years. (''Series/AdamAdamantLives'')
* Professor Brewer, who had been conditioned by the Martians, attempted to hypnotise millions of people in the Commonwealth of Nations over the television. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* Kevin O'Casey and Alex Andrews are born. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Theresa [=McPhee=] and Ray Carter are married. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* Janine Travis is born. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Kara Zor-El is born on Krypton. (''Series/Supergirl2015'')
* Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown is born. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* In Eerie, Indiana, the fifth Harvest King is [[HumanSacrifice 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. (''Series/EerieIndiana'')
* Steve Harrington is born. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* The 24-year-old Rhoda Morgenstern moves out of her parents Ida and Martin's apartment in the Bronx. In later years, her mother refers to it as the time that she ran away from home. (''Series/{{Rhoda}}'')
* On [[AlternateUniverse Earth-Eleven]], the United States launches the first manned mission to UsefulNotes/{{Mars}}. Shortly afterwards, the world is devastated by a [[WorldWarIII nuclear war]]. The resulting radiation causes widespread mutations in animals. (Creator/DCComics)
* Matt Winnaker is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* Jordan Cochran is born. (''Film/RealGenius'')
* Fourteen-year-old Ray Kinsella reads Terrence Mann's book ''The Boat Rocker'', and refuses to play catch with his father ever again. This ultimately destroys their relationship. (''Film/FieldOfDreams'')
* Toshi Tazaki begins working as a janitor at Ushimitsu High School. (''Visualnovel/{{Famicom Detective Club}}: The Girl Who Stands Behind'')
* [[Creator/DanaDelany Colleen [=McMurphy=]]] joins the US Army. {''Series/ChinaBeach'')
[[/folder]]

[[folder:1967]]
* January 7: John Lennon reads the news--oh, boy. Tara Browne is killed in a car accident after failing to notice a changing stoplight. Lennon finds the accompanying picture oddly amusing. In the same paper, a news brief appears in the ''Daily Mail'' about 4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire. Lennon is intrigued by the idea of reporters counting all the small holes. ("[[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand A Day in the Life]]")
* January 15: The first AFL–NFL World Championship Game--what would later become known as the UsefulNotes/SuperBowl--is played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The NFL champion Grean Bay Packers easily defeat the AFL champion Kansas City Chiefs 35–10. (RealLife)
* January: Kim Karlsen is assaulted by the Frogner Gang on his way home. They break his finger and beat him up pretty hard (''Literature/{{Beatles}}'')
* January 27/April 24/July 27: Birth of Vega in Spain. His family reportedly had noble blood. He would grow up to become a [[TheFightingNarcissist fighting narcissist]], a [[TorosYFlamenco bullfighter]], a SerialKiller, a {{ninja}}, and a [[PsychoForHire mercenary psycho]]. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'')
* February 1: Jackie Prentice (later Tyler) is born. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* February 7: Radek Zelenka is born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
* February 26: Derek Reston is born. (''Series/{{Arrow}}'')
* April:
** Sammie Jo Fuller is born. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
** Alex Haley travels to the Gambia in search of his ancestor Kunta Kinte, who was captured and enslaved 200 years earlier. In the village of Jufureh, the native ''griot'' relates the history of the Kinte clan, including Kunta who went out to get wood to make a drum and was never seen again. Alex is delighted as this is consistent with the [[OralTradition stories that have been passed down through his family for seven generations]]. (''[[Series/Roots1977 Roots: The Next Generations]]'')
* May 6: Birth of Dan Hibiki in Hong Kong to martial artist Go Hibiki. Dan would be inspired to become a martial artist himself and seek revenge after his father was killed by Sagat. Due to receiving only incomplete training, Dan would end up improvising in combat with erratic results. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'')
* May 19: Birth of the catwoman Felicia in Las Vegas, Nevada. (''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'')
* June 28: Stanley Parnell disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* June: Nina visits Kim, giving him a copy of the new Sgt. Pepper album. They get together again pretty quick. (''Literature/{{Beatles}}'')
* July 1: Cameron Frye is born. (''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'')
* July 3: Birth of Rose in Genoa, Italy. Her soul supposedly consists of the good side of M. Bison's soul, a side which he discarded. She would grow up to develop PsychicPowers, including clairvoyance. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'')
* July 11: Willie and Kate Tanner are married. (''Series/{{Alf}}'')
* July 18: Birth of Crimson Viper/Maya in the United States. She would grow up to become an espionage agent. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV'')
* July 22: Maurice Gulchard disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* August 28: Lindsey Hammond is born. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* September 13: Barbara Holland is born. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* Autumn: Karen Green's sister, Linda, claims that the two of them were sexually abused by their stepfather at this time. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* Autumn: Kim starts his college years. With Nina gone, he courts Cecilie, an UptownGirl from the western part of Oslo. (''Literature/{{Beatles}}'')
* October 9: UsefulNotes/CheGuevara is assassinated by the CIA. (''Film/TheMotorcycleDiaries'' and RealLife)
* October 18: ''Film/HowIWonTheWar'', a film about the British Army winning UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, is released. (RealLife) John Lennon sees the film--oh, boy. While the movie is largely panned, Lennon watches it out of obligation, after reading the novel it's based on.[[note]]And starring in it.[[/note]] (''[[Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand A Day in the Life]]'')
* October 19: Sam Beckett leaps into Knut "Wild Thing" Wileton, a frat boy who attends Meeks College in California. He is there to prevent a bomb from being planted in the science block as part of a protest against the Vietnam War and Knut from breaking his neck and becoming a quadriplegic. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Autumn: Kim Karlsen's father's bank is robbed by an unknown robber, and Arthur Karlsen falls to pieces afterwards. (''Literature/{{Beatles}}'')
* November 7: Raine Creevey is born. She is delivered by the Seventh Doctor. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* November: Progenitor virus administered to Lisa and Jessica Trevor. Jessica is immune, but Lisa succumbs and mutates. Jessica and George Trevor killed by Ozwell Spencer. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'')
* December 15: The Silver Bridge collapses in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, resulting in the deaths of 46 people. (RealLife)
* December 18: The FBI arrests a man suspected of responsibility for the Silver Bridge collapse, who claims that the mysterious "moth man" tried to warn everyone of the impending collapse; he is eventually cleared of all charges (''Series/LostTapes'': "Mothman")
* December 29: Tom Kirkman is born. (''Series/DesignatedSurvivor'')
* Late 1967: Music/TheBeatles drive randomly through the English countryside looking for adventure. (''Film/MagicalMysteryTour'' and RealLife)
* Doctor Evil escapes capture and enters cryogenic stasis; Austin Powers is frozen to await his return. (''Film/AustinPowers: International Man of Mystery'')
* Barbara Gordon becomes ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}. (Creator/DCComics)
* Various misfortunes occur to physics professor Larry Gopnik. (''Film/ASeriousMan'')
* Chris Taylor arrives to Vietnam after abandoning college for combat duty. ''(Film/{{Platoon}}'')
* The ''Aeon'', a Federation timeship from the 29th century, time travels to this era and crashlands in the High Sierras, California. The wreckage is discovered by camper Henry Starling, who reverse engineers the technology and makes a fortune. (''Series/StarTrekVoyager'')
* Joseph Dawson joins the [[SemperFi United States Marine Corps]]. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* Mark Meltzer begins investigating the disappearance of young girls from Atlantic beaches, along with sightings of lights in the water. Months later his daughter is kidnapped, and Meltzer becomes obsessed with tracking her down. (''VideoGame/{{BioShock|2}}: [[AlternateRealityGame There's Something in the Sea]]'')
* Scrooge [=McDuck=] dies at the age of 100, after a life of adventure. (''Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'')
* Probable year Admiral Fred asks Music/TheBeatles to help save Pepperland. [[labelnote:timing]]This happened sometime between 1967 and mid-1968; the character designs look like the Beatles in the Film/MagicalMysteryTour era.[[/labelnote]] (''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine'')
* Hiro Kasai hires Harman Smith to investigate voting irregularities in the Asian Security Treaty. In the end, the treaty is ratified, Japan is admitted as a member, and the chairman of the council commits suicide in front of Harman. (''VideoGame/{{killer7}}'')
* Barnabas Collins reunites with his American cousins in Collinsport, Maine, becoming a permanent [[labelnote:more]]aboveground[[/labelnote]] resident of the Collinwood mansion. (''Series/DarkShadows'')
* Rick Derris (possibly the brother of future porn actress Sylvan Derris), Roddy, Steve-Dave Pulasti, and Shannon Hamilton are born. (''Film/{{Clerks}}'', ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'', ''Film/ChasingAmy'')
* Birth of Lenny to Sam and Carol Butcher. (''Comicbook/TheBoys'')
* In Kyoto, Hellboy encounters Japanese spirits called nuke-kubi. (''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'': Heads)
* Mr. Bribery fakes his death and goes into hiding for several years. (''ComicStrip/DickTracy'')
* Michael Fairgate, Paige Matheson and Mary Frances Sumner are born. (''Series/KnotsLanding'')
* James Beaumont is born. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* ComicBook/LoisLane is born. (''Series/LoisAndClark'')
* Diana Quinna's parents are killed in a car accident. Diana loses her hearing as a result of a serious head injury. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Chip Ferguson's plane is shot down over Haiphong, Vietnam. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* A two-person time machine explodes over this year. The consciousnesses of the passengers, Gina Denn and John Cooper, merges into "Ginohn" in the body of a man named Leroy. They say he had a stroke. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'')
* Wallace V. Whipple replaces the workers at his factory with an automatic assembly machine called the [=X109B14=]. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* Special agent ''[=[name redacted]=]'' of M9 resigns from intelligence work and is detained in the Village. (''Series/ThePrisoner1967'')
* [AlternateUniverse] Colin Trafford and Ottilie Harsham are married. (''[[Literature/RandomQuest Quest for Love]]'')
* A toxic waste leak leads to a zombie attack. The government kills all but one of the rotters and makes ''Film/{{Night of the Living Dead|1968}}'' to cover it up. (''Film/TheReturnOfTheLivingDead'')
* Nancy Wheeler and Jonathan Byers are born. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* David Bolt is born. (''Series/NightGallery'')
* Alfred Pennyworth dies. (''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'')
* [AlternateUniverse] Earth is devastated by a [[WorldWarIII nuclear war]] between the United States and the Soviet Union. (''Crosstime Traffic'')
* Robert Brooks is born. (''1990'')
* Ye Zhetai is beaten to death by communist fanatics at Tsinghua University. His daughter, Wenjie, flees to Inner Mongolia. (''Literature/{{The Three Body Problem}}'')
* Way back when, some guy is a dandy Gamma Chi, apparently surrounded by "sweet things from Boston." He'll later brag about this in 1980 when trying to creepily score with a 19-year-old at a roller rink. ("[[Music/SteelyDan Hey Nineteen]]")
* 21-year-old Jay Cirri is caught robbing a mail truck. Thanks to a well-connected uncle, Cirri is able to talk the judge into sending him to a drug rehab facility instead of federal prison. Cirri is sent to Daybreak Village, where he spends the next two years gaining a reputation as a charismatic leader, and learning about attack therapy. (''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'')
* Crowley plans a heist to steal holy water from a church, and one of his enlistees is a young Witchfinder Corporal Shadwell. Aziraphale hears about Crowley's plans and reluctantly gives him a Thermos of holy water instead. (''Series/GoodOmens2019'')
[[/folder]]

[[folder:1968]]
* January 13:
** Music/JohnnyCash performs a concert at Folsom Prison in California. (RealLife)
** Johnny Harkin is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* January 21: The Warner siblings, temporarily released from their tower for fumigation, appear on ''Series/TheEdSullivanShow''. (''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'')
* January 30: SCP-093 found on the shore of the Red Sea. (Website/SCPFoundation)
* January: A US Marine Press Corps member is sent into Vietnam to photograph the war effort, ultimately getting in a duel with a sniper for his troubles. (''Film/FullMetalJacket'')
* January 31 - March 2: American and South Vietnamese forces capture the city of Hue, South Vietnam. (RealLife) and (''Film/FullMetalJacket'')
* February 24/December 17: Birth of Poison in Los Angeles. They would grow up to become an ambiguously-gendered gang member, street fighter and fighting manager. (''VideoGame/FinalFight'', ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'')
* February 26: After undertaking covert operations in Vietnam and Russia, agent Alex Mason helps thwart a Soviet chemical attack on the United States. (''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'')
* February:
** Lincoln Clay returns home from Vietnam and reunites with his stepfather Sammy Robinson, leader of the New Bordeaux Black Mob, as well as his friends Giorgi and Sal Marcano, the local Italian mob. Together, they plan and pull off a robbery of the U.S Federal Reserve, but the Marcanos betray the Black Mob, massacring everyone present and burns down the bar. Clay barely survives, but is left in a coma for 5 months under the care of longtime friend Father James. (''VideoGame/MafiaIII'')
** *Mother, the first artificial intelligence, emerges spontaneously on the UCLA computer network. (''Visualnovel/{{Digital A Love Story}}''[[labelnote:Justification]]Based on Bob Taylor's network proposal being approved by Charles M Herzfeld in {{real life}}. There had been previous proposals, but since Taylor's proposal went on to become ARPANET, it was presumably assembled soon after the appearance of *Mother[[/labelnote]])
* March 1: Birth of Chun-Li in the People's Republic of China. She would grow up to become an InterpolSpecialAgent. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'')
* March 22: U.S. President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy signs the Vietnam Peace Accord, pulling US troops out of the war-torn nation. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'')
* April 4:
** UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr is assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee. (RealLife)
** "Early morning, April 4, shot rings out in the Memphis sky..." ("[[Music/TheUnforgettableFire Pride (In the Name of Love)]]")[[note]]The timing in the song was inaccurate, as the shooting took place shortly after 6 pm. Music/{{U2}} lead singer Bono has acknowledged this, and now sings "early evening" in live performances.[[/note]]
** [AlternateUniverse] UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr is not assassinated as the attempt on his life is foreseen by the Prime Oracle. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
** Having been sent back in time from 2003, Ray Ellison [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong attempts to prevent the assassination]] of UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr but he is unsuccessful. (''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'')
* May 29:
** Howard Arnell invents reversible socks. (''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'')
** Dennis Tanner and Jenny Sutton are married. (''Series/CoronationStreet'')
* June 21: In Vietnam, immortal Andrew "Andy" Cord and mortal Joe "Boyscout" Dawson are thrown into a river by a landmine. Cord revives and saves Dawson's life. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'')
* June 25: Joe Dawson wakes up within a field hospital without his legs. He is recruited as a Watcher by Ian Bancroft. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* June:
** Literature/TitusCrow and Henri-Laurent de Marigny join the Wilmarth Foundation. (''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos The Burrowers Beneath]]'')
** Rival businessmen and brothers Blutarch and Redmond Mann's seventy-eight year long land-grab resumes in earnest. Each of the men have used a life-extender machine built for them by Radigan Conagher, (and commissioned by an unknown relative of Helen The Administrator) and employed a second-generation crack team of assassins in order to gain sole ownership over the contested territory. Helen the Administrator officiates the conflict, driving wedges between the teams when necessary; (as in the notable conflict between Reliable Excavation and Demolition's Tavish [=DeGroot=] and Builder's League United's Jane Doe) while weapons dealer Saxton Hale (of the infamous "Poopy Joe" senate hearings) provides each side with the latest artillery. One of these assassins, Dell Conagher, discovers his grandfather's maps to Australium caches among blue-prints for a life-extender machine, and uses the former for bioaugmentation. Later, some members of the [=RED=] team discover that The Adminstrator, and her personal assistant, Miss Pauling, have been gathering intel on them for blackmailing purposes. (''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'')
** Richard Belding graduates from Bayside High School. (''Series/SavedByTheBell'')
* August 6:
** Douglas J. Needles is born. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'')
** John Burke is killed in the Vietnam War. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* August 7: Michael Seer is born. (''Literature/TheCityOfNever'')
* August 10: Sam Beckett leaps into Captain Ronald Miller, a soldier who [[AnArmAndALeg lost his legs]] in the Vietnam War, in a veterans' hospital in San Diego. He is there to prevent another Vietnam veteran, Sgt. Billy Johnson, from committing suicide. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* August 20: In Prague, Amanda plans a robbery and meets Charlie Johnson, an American spy investigating Soviet reactions to Prague Spring. Charlie discovers Amanda is immortal, and keeps her secret to the grave. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Raven'')
* August 28: Birth of Maki Genryusai in Japan. She would grow up to become the leader of a biker gang and a ninja. She would later strive to become the 40th master of the Bushin style. (''VideoGame/FinalFight 2'', ''[[VideoGame/SNKVsCapcom Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark Of The Millennium]]'', ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'')
* August: Lincoln Clay awakens from his coma, and vows revenge against the Marcano mob. To this end, he recruits Haitian mobster Cassandra, Irish mobster Burke, and former Empire Bay mobster Vito Scaletta. They systematically dismantle all of Marcanos criminal operations and allies, culminating in Clay killing both Giorgi and Sal in the half-finished Paradiso casino. (''VideoGame/MafiaIII'')
* September 4: Birth of Balrog in the United States. He would grow up to become a professional boxer and a mercenary. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'')
* September 7: The public library of Charlemont, Massachusetts burns down. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* September 12: Wayne Fiscus begins high school. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* September 17: Ben Miller begins college. (''My Life and Times'')

** Brian Cooper is killed in the Vietnam War. (''Series/TheWonderYears'')
** Sean Cooper is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* October 5: Birth of Alexa Bond. She would grow up to become a lover of Methos (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* October 16: Sam Beckett leaps into Margaret Sanders, a middle-aged housewife involved in the women's lib movement, in Connecticut. He is there to teach Margaret's daughter Suzanne that change is best achieved through non-violent means and ensure that Margaret's husband George promotes a woman named Evy Brownfield to a senior position in his firm. Sam must also deal with George's condescending attitudes. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* October 22: Birth of Necro/Ilia in the Soviet Union. He would eventually become a human test subject for Gill's organization, resulting in his physical mutation. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII''[[note]]A contradictory background makes him 18 years old at the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991). This would place his birth in 1973.[[/note]])
* October 31: The ghost of Sarah Bellows is awakened by a curious group of children who find her storybook. She then unleashes a legion of nightmarish monsters upon the town of Bell Valley.(''Film/ScaryStoriesToTellInTheDark'')
* November 5:
** UsefulNotes/RichardNixon's back again. ("[[Music/BillyJoel We Didn't Start the Fire]]")
** [AlternateUniverse] UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is elected to a third term as U.S. President. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
** [AlternateTimeline] George Wallace is elected President of the United States. (''Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree'')
** Rock musician and youth icon Max Frost is elected U.S. President, defeating UsefulNotes/LyndonJohnson, in the wake of a massive uprising among teenagers and young adults against the establishment. Frost proceeds to make 30 the mandatory retirement age and puts everyone over 35 in re-education camps. (''Film/WildInTheStreets'')
** UsefulNotes/RobertFKennedy defeats UsefulNotes/RichardNixon in the U.S. presidential election. (''If Israel Lost the War'', ''A Disturbance of Fate'')
** U.S. President UsefulNotes/BarryGoldwater is elected to a second term. (''Alternate Presidents'')
** UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan is elected U.S. President and turns the United States into a dictatorship. (''Alternate Presidents'')
** UsefulNotes/NelsonRockefeller defeats UsefulNotes/HubertHumphrey in the U.S. presidential election. (''Alternate Generals'')
** U.S. President Richard Nixon is defeated in his bid for re-election by Eugene [=McCarthy=]. (''Cuban Crisis: Second Holocaust'')
** UsefulNotes/GeorgeMcGovern is elected U.S. President. ("Hillary Orbits Venus")
* December 14: Emma Vine is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* December 29: Samantha Carter is born. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* December: Susie Slaughter is born. (''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'')
* Subject Delta, a prototype Big Daddy, awakens and rampages through the decaying ruins of Rapture, now ruled by Sofia Lamb's collectivist "Family," in search of his bonded Little Sister, Eleanor. (''VideoGame/BioShock2'')
* Umbrella Corporation founded by Ozwell Spencer, James Marcus, and Edward Ashford. Ashford infected with Progenitor virus and dies; his son, Alexander, becomes head of the Ashford family. Marcus is appointed director of Umbrella Corporation Management Training Facility. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'')
* [[ComicBook/CaptainAtom Captain Nathaniel Adam]] is apparently disintegrated in an experiment involving an alien metal and a nuclear explosion. (Creator/DCComics)
* Mariah Monmouth is murdered by John "Falstaff" Oldcastle. He covers up the murder and tells her son, Harry, that Mariah run out on them. Oldcastle would raise Harry as a surrogate son. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Birth of Elisa Maza in New York City to Peter and Diane Maza. She would grow up to become a police detective. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Birth of Fred Sykes/Fang. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Birth of twins Hyena and Jackal. They would grow up to become members of the Pack, and also operate together as a [[BrotherSisterTeam team]]. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Kree ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}} becomes a superhero on Earth. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* ''The Truman Show'' first goes on the air. (''Film/TheTrumanShow'')
* On the same day, three major events take place: a major assassination, an Asian coup d'état and the launch of an orbital nuclear weapons platform. Meanwhile, an alien faction wants to prevent the self-destruction of humanity by use of nuclear weapons. They send in Gary Seven, a human agent raised in space; Isis, a shape-shifting cat; and Roberta Lincoln, his assistant. The trio would continue working together until 1996. (''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'', ''Literature/StarTrekTheEugenicsWars'')
* Birth of the immortal Daniele "Danny" Cimoli in London, England. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* Estimated birth of Gunloc/Lucky Colt in Miami Florida. He would grow up to become a professional wrestler, with the reputation of being a loose cannon. He would reportedly go on to become the cyborg Blade and be revealed as the brother of Guile. (''SlamMasters'', ''VideoGame/StreetFighterTheMovie''[[labelnote:justification]]Gunloc is stated to be 25 years old during the first ''Slam Masters'' game, released in 1993. The other details are given in the ''Street Fighter'' game.[[/labelnote]])
* Aperture Science is a vital participant in Senate hearings on missing US astronauts. (''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'')
* A US Special Forces team in eastern Laos discovers locals battling zombies, kills all involved with an air strike. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')
* Mentic constructed and escapes into the sewer system. (''Literature/SoonIWillBeInvincible'')
* Bryan Johnson dies of leukemia. (''Film/{{Dogma}}'')
* China plots to create an all-out war between Soviet Union and western countries by trying cause an international incident, and framing the British for the deed. (''Literature/ColonelSun'')
* Crimelord Mr. Intro and his men are vaporized using an orbital weapon obtained from the Moon People by Dick Tracy. This incident was widely criticized and remains a sore subject. (''ComicStrip/DickTracy'')
* Boxing matches between human fighters are banned. The sport comes to be dominated by robots. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* Nathan Chandler is killed in Vietnam when he steps on a mine. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Julia Manning-Jeremiah is born. (''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'')
* Julian Claridge drowns. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Angela "Angel" Jensen is born. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Larry Morton is killed in a plane crash. ("Literature/TimeAndTimeAgain")
* Edgar and Helen Eisenberg divorce. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Marty [=McFly=] is born. (''Film/BackToTheFuture1'')
* Mary Richards and Bill begin dating. (''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'')
* Meredith Rodney [=McKay=] is born in Canada. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
* Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren acquire the possessed Annabelle doll from a group of nursing students. (''Film/TheConjuring'')
* Michael Masterson is born. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* Robin Buckley is born. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* [AlternateUniverse] the United States withdraws from Vietnam, bringing the Vietnam War to an end. (''Crosstime Traffic'')
* On the same day that his wife Martha learns that she is pregnant, the Metropolis University astrophysicist Dr. Jonathan Kent discovers that an asteroid is heading to Earth and will destroy all life on the planet within less than a year. Dr. Kent attempts to warn people of the coming disaster but [[IgnoredExpert he is not taken seriously]]. Shortly before the asteroid hits Earth, the Kents send their newborn son [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark]] into space in a rocket. It eventually reaches Krypton, where Clark is found by Jor-El and given the name Kal-El. (''Superman: Last Son of Earth'')
* Ted Baxter becomes the anchorman of the Six O'Clock News on WJM-TV in Minneapolis. (''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'')
* Monica Reyes is born. (''Series/TheXFiles'')
* Red Coast Base is founded. (''Literature/{{The Three Body Problem}}'')
* Yuri Ayashiro elopes with Takao Toyama, cutting ties with her family (''Visualnovel/{{Famicom Detective Club}}: The Missing Heir'')
* Ken Turek is named "Man of the Year" at Shermer High School. (''Film/TheBreakfastClub'')
* Jim Reed joins the Los Angeles Police Department. (''Series/Adam12'')
* Flower (Susan Montero) and her cult rob a bank. However they disagree on what to do with the stolen money. (''Series/GhostsUS'')

[[folder:1969]]
* January 1: Birth of Juri Han/Spider in South Korea. She would become a skilled Taekwondo practitioner by her 15th year. At that point, Juri was abducted by the Shadaloo/Shadowlaw organization. She would be recruited into their ranks, emerging as a [[DarkActionGirl deadly]] [[BloodKnight combatant]]. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV''[[labelnote:justification]]Repeatedly said to be 25 years old in the present (1994)[[/labelnote]])
* January 4: Birth of Malbordus (''[[Literature/FightingFantasy Temple of Terror]]'')
* January 12: In UsefulNotes/SuperBowl III, the first edition to ''officially'' bear the "Super Bowl" name, the New York Jets stun the heavily favored Baltimore Colts 16–7. The result effectively validates the merger between the AFL and NFL that had been agreed to in 1966 and would be finalized after the 1969 season. (RealLife)
* January 20: Gloria Bunker and Michael Stivic meet for the first time. (''Series/AllInTheFamily'')[[labelnote:justification]]Mike says he wants to picket the inauguration of UsefulNotes/RichardNixon[[/labelnote]]
* January: Music/TheBeatles do recordings and rehearsals for an intended concert, album, and tour. [[FinaglesLaw Disaster]] ensues. (''Film/LetItBe'', RealLife)
* February 15: Birth of Lucia Morgan. She would grow up to become Head of the Metro City Special Crimes Unit (S.C.U.). (''VideoGame/FinalFight 3'')
* February: Umbrella Corporation's Antarctic Research Facility constructed. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'')
* March 17: Thelma Green is born. (''Series/TheTick2001'')
* April 1: Sam Beckett leaps into an undercover narcotics detective named Jake Rawlings in San Diego. Al Calavicci tells him that he is there to prevent a Navy nurse named Beth whose husband is missing in action in Vietnam from marrying another man, Dirk Simon. However, Sam discovers that Beth's missing husband is none other than Al himself. His true mission to prevent Jake's partner Sgt. Ronny Skaggs from being murdered. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* April 3: Sam Beckett leaps as himself to San Diego. He tells Beth Calavicci that her husband Al is coming home. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* April 7: ARPANET is established to incubate *Mother. (''Visualnovel/{{Digital A Love Story}}'')
* April 8: The Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond, Rory Williams and River Song travel to Florida with an ex-FBI to search for a mysterious girl [[labelnote:more]]a younger version of River[[/labelnote]] that keeps phoning President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* April 14:
** The Wilmarth Foundation launches an attack on Shudde-M'ell; it goes badly. (''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos The Burrowers Beneath]]'')
** Tom Palmer dies. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* April 23: Birth of Fei Long in Hong Kong. He would grow up to become a master of Hitenryu Kung Fu and a movie star. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'')
* May: Jarred Svenning graduates college. (''Film/{{Mallrats}}'')
* May 13: Jack Carter is born. (''Series/{{Eureka}}'')
* May 17: Birth of "Raibow" Mika Nanakawa in Japan. She would grow up to become a professional wrestler. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'')
* June 3: Julia Hoffman and Gerard Gary are murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* June 8: Josie Oche disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* Between July 9 and July 16: The U.S.S. ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701) from the 23rd century accidentally time travels to this period. The ship is identified as a UFO and pursued by the United States Air Force. The crew has a close encounter with Captain John Christopher, pilot of an F-104 Starfighter. [[note]]Justification: A radio news broadcast mentions preparations for a manned Moon shot from Cape Kennedy "next Wednesday", transporting three astronauts to Luna.[[/note]] (''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'', ''Star Trek Chronology'')
* July 16:
** Launch of Apollo 11. (RealLife)
** The Virgo II lunar lander ''Valiant 11'' reaches the moon, and American astronauts Richard Wade, Mark Garris, and Michael Hagen become the first men to walk on an extraterrestrial surface. (''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'')
** [AlternateTimeline] the time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones arrive in Cape Canaveral and visit a museum dedicated to the lacklustre American space program and its more successful Soviet counterpart. Bogg and Jeffrey travel to Austria on May 1, 1945 to prevent Wernher von Braun from falling into Soviet hands. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'')
** CIA Agent Felicity Shagwell and a time traveling Austin Powers from thirty years in the future hitch a ride on the Apollo 11 shuttle to reach Dr. Evil's "Death Star" on the moon. (''Film/AustinPowers: The Spy Who Shagged Me'')
* Before July 20: The Tenth Doctor and Martha (and later on, a police detective who knows Sally Sparrow named Billy Shipton) land here thanks to the Weeping Angels. [[labelnote:more]]The Doctor records his message to Sally in 2007, [[StableTimeLoop given to him by Sally a year later]], which eventually appears in her DVD collection, thanks to the efforts of Shipton.[[/labelnote]] The Doctor explains to Shipton, as well as the elderly Katherine Wainwright (née Kathy Nightingale) about how to contact Sally Sparrow. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* July 20:
** Apollo 11 lands in Mare Tranquilitatis. (RealLife)
** The Eleventh Doctor, Amy, Rory, River Song and Canton Delaware declare a revolution on the Silence. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
** Meg Pryor returns home to Philadelphia three years after running way. (''Series/AmericanDreams'')
** Lt. George Hammond watches the Moon landing from his father's hospital room. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
** The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones watch the Moon landing on television after setting history back on its proper course. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'')
** The eleven-year-old Shannon O'Donnel watches the Moon landing on television. The experience inspires her to pursue a career in UsefulNotes/{{NASA}}. (''Series/StarTrekVoyager'')
** The Battlestar ''Galactica'' picks up the television transmission of the Moon landing. (''Series/BattlestarGalactica1978'')
** Danny Finch is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* July 21, 02:56 GMT: Neil Armstrong sets foot on the lunar surface. He and Buzz Aldrin later plant an American flag on the moon. (RealLife).
** The Lunarians are not amused, and the Lunar War begins. (''Franchise/TouhouProject'')
** Armstrong and Aldrin use their time on the moon to investigate a crashed Cybertronian ship. (''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon'')
* August 3/4 through August 11: SG-1 arrives from the future, takes a bus trip across country, and figures out how to activate the Stargate to get back to their own time. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* August 13: A ticker tape parade is held in New York City to honor the Apollo 11 astronauts. (RealLife)
** On the day of the parade, an elderly Indiana Jones gets caught up in another adventure after losing half of the Antikythera Dial to his goddaughter, and being framed for murder by rogue CIA agents led by Jürgen Voller. (''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'')
* August 15-18: The [[UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}} Woodstock Festival]] takes place. (RealLife)
** Spike attends the Festival, where he bites some poor flowerchild and spends the next six hours staring at his own hand. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
** Slappy Squirrel tries to put an end to the festival during Music/TheWho's set. (''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'')
** After receiving a lift from a member of the Q Continuum later known as Quinn, the tower three spotlight operator Maury Ginsburg notices that an extension cord has been disconnected and reconnects it. Had he not noticed it, the festival would not have been able to go ahead as the entire sound system had failed. (''Series/StarTrekVoyager'')
** Roberta Lincoln shares a joint with Music/JimiHendrix at the festival. Spock later sees this memory when he mind melds with her in 2269. (''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'')
** Suffering from amnesia and under the impression that she is a hippie, Lisa attends the festival. Gary Wallace, Wyatt Donnelly and his brother Chett see her on television and manage to restore her memory when they get to Woodstock. Lisa then returns the four of them to 1996. (''Series/WeirdScience'')
** Michael and Jenny attend the festival. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
** Ray Palmer shrinks himself and steals a strand of Music/JanisJoplin's hair. However, he does not go unnoticed. Believing that she was hallucinating, she writes a song called "Little Robot Man", thereby altering history. (''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', ''Series/Supergirl2015'')
** Hubcap Jones, future lead singer of Love Fist, is in attendance. (''Roleplay/NoPixel'')
** A trio of San Francisco stoners and their cat searching for the "ultimate high", obtain weed from a guru that puts them to sleep for 51 years. ("WesternAnimation/TheFreakBrothers")
* August 17: Sam Beckett leaps into Deputy Archie Necaise in Jackson Point, Mississippi in the middle of Hurricane Camille. He is there to prevent Archie's girlfriend Cissy Davis from being killed. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Summer: Music/BryanAdams got his first real six string -- bought it at the Five and Dime -- and played it until his fingers bled. ("Summer of '69")
* September 9:
** Father Vincent Torrelli is murdered by Jesus Ortega. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
** Sam Beckett leaps into a 25-year-old actor named Joe Thurlow, [[MayDecemberRomance who is dating]] the 50-year-old Jane Lindhurst, in New York. He is there to prevent Jane's son Neil and daughter-in-law Liz from taking her home to Cleveland, where she lives out the rest of her days alone and miserable. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* September:
** Fred Jones, Velma Dinkley, Daphne Blake, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers solve their first recorded case as teens (though they had [[RetCon solved various cases]] as [[WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo pre-teens]]), facing the mysterious Black Knight. ("What a Night for a Knight," ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou''; date from its TV debut)
** [[ComicBook/LoisLane Lois Lane Kent]] is diagnosed with cancer. (''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'')
** [[ComicBook/NightWing Dick Grayson]], who took over as Franchise/{{Batman}} from Bruce Wayne several years earlier, is killed by ComicBook/TheJoker. In order to maintain the illusion that there has only ever been Batman, his ComicBook/{{Robin}} Bruce Wayne, Jr. assumes the Dark Knight's identity and claims that it was Robin that the Joker killed. (''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'')
** Lt. Joel Kent's troops turn against him after he orders them to massacre a Vietnamese village. They shoot him in back, take his dogtags and leave him for dead. His family believe that he has been killed in action. However, he is found by a young woman named Mei-Lai who nurses him back to health. (''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'')
* September 20: The ghost of deep-sea diver Captain Cutler plagues a stretch of coastline and is believed to be responsible for several lost ships. In reality, Cutler had faked his death, and had been using the story of his own ghost to steal valuable yachts from a local marina. His scheme is exposed by Mystery Inc. (''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'')
* October 4:
** Literature/TitusCrow and Henri-Laurent de Marigny disappear. (''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos The Burrowers Beneath, The Transition of Titus Crow]]'')
** Oil is discovered in an abandoned western ghost town Gold City after its local ghost, the Miner 49er, is revealed to be a hoax. (''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'')
* October 9: Frank Desiderio disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* October 17: Alana Mareva is born. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* November 1: The Funland amusement park is briefly closed when one of its attractions, Charlie The Robot, seemingly goes haywire and begins attacking visitors. (''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'')
* November 5: Soviet cosmonauts orbit the Moon. The American space program still lags behind. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'')
* November 15: The Blackstone circus is terrorized by a ghost clown with hypnotic abilities, who uses his powers to control his victims into performing dangerous stunts. (''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'')
* November 25: Sam Beckett leaps into himself as a 16-year-old boy in his home town of Elk Ridge, Indiana. According to Ziggy, his mission is to help his high school basketball team, the Elk Ridge Cougars, beat the Bentleyville Tigers, allowing the team to win the state championship. However, Sam believes that he is there to save the lives of his father John and elder brother Tom and prevent his younger sister Katie from marrying an [[DomesticAbuse abusive alcoholic]] named Chuck. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* November: Colonel UsefulNotes/MuammarGaddafi is assassinated by the US government. In response, a terrorist organisation calling itself the November Squad, led by Gaddafi's younger brother, begins a campaign of attacks against the US and American troops in the Middle East. (''Literature/{{Replay}}'')
* Before December 13: After being a passenger in a car accident with his fiancee Sherry behind the wheel, Jay Cirri sues her insurance provider, claiming that he was injured in the crash even though he wasn't. The parties settle, and Cirri uses the insurance fraud money to buy Sherry an engagement ring. (''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'')
* December 13: Jay Cirri marries Sherry in Guilford, Connecticut. (''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'')
* December 24: Harmon Rabb Sr. is shot down over the skies of Vietnam. (''Series/{{JAG}}'')
* December: Ellie [=McCormick=] is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* Guy Goddard, the Middleman, puts himself in cryogenic suspension until his arch-enemy the Candle returns. (''Series/TheMiddleman'')
* U.S. Army Captain Benjamin Willard is given the assignment to journey up Nung River into the remote Cambodian jungle to find Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, a member of the US Army Special Forces feared to have gone rogue. (''Film/ApocalypseNow'')
* Birth of the immortal Keith Boyer in Sacramento, California. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* Birth of the immortal Claudia Jardine in Seacouver, Washington. (''Highlander: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* Alan Parrish and Sarah Whittle play a game of Jumanji. (''Franchise/{{Jumanji}}'')
* Teresa "Tracy" Bond is shot on the day of her and Film/JamesBond's wedding. (''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService''; date given in ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'')
* Travis Bell becomes first victim of the Killer 7. (''VideoGame/{{killer7}}'')
* UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler's preserved brain is destroyed. (''Film/TheySavedHitlersBrain'')
* Terry Sanford is born. (''Film/{{Mallrats}}'')
* The Homelander makes his debut. (''Comicbook/TheBoys'')
* Basil, the leader of the popular Purple Orchestra is murdered by occultist as a human sacrifice for the body transfer of their leader, Oliver Haddo. Haddo attempts to take over the body of [[Film/{{Performance}} Turner]], but the ritual is interrupted by Mina Murray. Haddo is forced to hastily posses the body of Tom Riddle, and departs for Kings Cross. (''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'')
* Dracula is slain by an unnamed Scotsman seeking vengeance for his son's death, who also dies in the process. (''Comicbook/TheTombOfDracula'' #15)
* Literature/JamesBond is tasked to help to stop the civil war in the African country of Zamzarin by assassinating the leader of its rebel army. (''Solo'')
* Russ Thorn commits a brutal mass murder of five people in Venice Beach, California. (''Film/TheSlumberPartyMassacre'')
* Mary Albright, a young hippie, meets countercultural activist Manny Rosenberg at Berkeley. She initially admires him, but rejects him after he asks her to take part in a foursome. (''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'')
* The majority of humanity is wiped out by a superflu known as "A6" or "Captain Trips" that originated somewhere in southeast Asia. A group of former college students spend their last days at Anson Beach, New Hampshire, knowing it's just a matter of time before they catch the flu and die as well. (''Literature/NightShift'': "Night Surf")
* John Walton Sr. dies. (''Series/TheWaltons'')
* The construction of a lunar colony begins. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* Peter Wood is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* Henry Starling introduces the isograted circuit. (''Series/StarTrekVoyager'')
* Tim Moynihan, Donna Kiem and Sarah Andrews are born. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Kevin Hartkins is born in Lubbock, Texas. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* John Brooks is born. (''1990'')
* Ye Wenjie meets Bai Gulin, who lends her a copy of Rachel Carson's ''Silent Spring''. Ye helps Bai transcribe a letter on the environmental impact on the clearing of the forests around the Greater Khingan mountains, but this is intercepted. Bai is accused of attempting to undermine the Cultural Revolution, and to save his own skin, accuses Ye of having written the letter, claiming that he was only delivering it. Ye is imprisoned, but her skills later get her assigned to Red Coast Base. (''Literature/{{The Three Body Problem}}'')
* Hotel California stops serving a certain kind of spirit. ("Music/HotelCalifornia")
* Birth of Akane Yamazaki. (''Visualnovel/{{Famicom Detective Club}}: The Missing Heir'')
* Carl Reed is named "Man of the Year" at Shermer High School. By March 24, 1984 he'd be a janitor at the same school. (''Film/TheBreakfastClub'')
* Stephanie Pierre is born in the banlieues of Paris, the daughter of Haitian immigrants to France. (''Literature/{{Unimaa}}'')
* Flower dies when she tries to hug a bear. In the same year, Stephanie and Trevor are born. [[labelnote:Justification]]Stephanie states she and Trevor were born the same year when she mentions she's technically 53.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/GhostsUS'')
* Birth of Jocelyne (initially named Joshua) to Hank and Carol Brown. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})

[[folder:Mid to late 1960s]]
* Estimated birth of {{Ojou}}-san, daughter of Gouken. (''Franchise/StreetFighter'',Gamest Magazine #13 (October 1987): manga ''Hadouken:Prelude to the Struggle''[[labelnote:Justification]] An apparently teenaged character. Probably conceived as a love interest to Ryu. Later forgotten about.[[/labelnote]])
* Estimated birth of Jessica Haggard to wrestler Mike Haggard and his unnamed wife. She would become the main love interest of Cody Travers. (''VideoGame/FinalFight'', ''SlamMasters'' [[labelnote:Justification]] Jessica and Cody are supposed to be "childhood friends" and thus close in age. Jessica was supposedly still college-aged in the Final Fight sequels.[[/labelnote]])
* Estimated birth of Julia/Jane, older sister of Eliza. She would become the wife of Guile and sister-in-law to Ken Masters.(''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'')
* Estimated birth of Kolin (Colleen), the secretary and presumed love interest of Gill. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII''[[labelnote:Justification]] [[http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8575162 Kolin bares a resemblance to Crimson Viper]]. Presumably close in age to her counterpart.[[/labelnote]])
* Estimated birth of Cracker Jack in the United States, presumably in Las Vegas. He would grow up to become a bouncer and a bodyguard. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[labelnote:Justification]] He resembles Balrog in many ways. Presumed to be close in age to his counterpart.[[/labelnote]])
* Estimated birth of Kairi Mizukami in Japan. He would train in the traditional fighting style of his family, but would lose his memory in combat with his own father. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[labelnote:Justification]] Already a trained fighter by the time Hokuto was an infant. Probably in his early teens at least.[[/labelnote]])
* By 1969, America has been reorganized into thirteen commonwealths. Democracy takes a backseat to anti-communist hysteria and the military-industrial complex. Technology favors room-sized, reel-to-reel supercomputers and atomic power over miniaturized electronics. (''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'')
* Hamato Yoshi is murdered in New York by Oroko Saki, now known as The Shredder in revenge for the death of Oroko Nagi. His pet rat Splinter escapes into the sewers, and is exposed to a mysterious mutagen along with four baby turtles, which causes them to mutate into humanoids. (''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'')
* Stanford and Stanley Pines salvage an old boat and set out fixing it up so they can one day escape New Jersey to sail the world and have incredible adventures. (''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'')
* Jesse Keys joins the US Army under the pseudonym Frank Pierce, earning the rank of lieutenant. He is later shipped out to Vietnam and placed in command of a unit. When his unit comes under attack from the Viet Cong in a temple in the Quảng Ninh Province, the aliens abduct Jesse in order to protect him. In his absence, 27 of his men are killed. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* A group of Marine cadets are trained by Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, whose abuse causes one of them to snap and commit a murder-suicide. (''Film/FullMetalJacket'')
* Three black [[TheVietnamVet Vietnam veterans]] use the skills they learned in the war to battle the UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan. (''Film/BrotherhoodOfDeath'')
* The B2 robot Battling Maxo begins his boxing career. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* Perry White dies of cancer as a result of having smoked cigars for decades. (''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'')
* After one two many run-ins with the law, no-good street punk Armin Tamzarian is enlisted into the US Army and sent to fight in Vietnam. He serves under Sgt. Seymour Skinner, who mentors him and shows him that life is worth living. When Skinner is killed in action[[labelnote:more]] actually just taken prisoner[[/labelnote]], Tamzarian returns to America to deliver the news to his mother. However, Mrs. Skinner mistakes Tamzarian for her son; not wanting to emotionally devastate her, Tamzarian pretends to be Skinner, adopting his identity. (''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' [[labelnote:Justification]]It is established that Tamzarian was taken prisoner at the Battle of Khe Sanh, which happened in 1968; Tamzarian/Skinner must have been enlisted before then.[[/labelnote]])
* Bertram gets ''really'' into the Sixties, and no one ever sees him again. (''Film/TheSandlot'')
* Ray Kinsella leaves to go to college at UC Berkeley. While there, he marches, smokes some grass, tries to like sitar music, and meets his future wife Annie. (''Film/FieldOfDreams'')
* LT Douglas Neidermeyer is accidently killed in [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]] by his own troops when they mistake him for a Viet Cong guerilla. (''Film/AnimalHouse'') and (''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'')
* Prior to the moon landing, Mutt Williams dies in Vietnam while serving in the United States Marine Corps. While grieving his death, Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood become estranged for a time. (''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheDialOfDestiny'')

[[folder:[=196X=]/1960s]]
* September 3: A philandering conman dies. After his death, his son asks his mother about all the bad rumors he heard about his father, his mother simply replied, "Papa was a rolling stone. Wherever he laid his hat was his home. And when he died, [[DisappearedDad all he left us was alone]]." (Music/TheTemptations)
* October: Jun Sekitani is expelled from Kamiyama High School as the unfortunate scapegoat for a student protest movement. (''Literature/{{Hyouka}}'')
* Flower's first sweetheart Michael dies. She joins a polyamorous cult to make sure that her heart isn't broken again. (''Series/GhostsUS'')