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[[folder:Early 1970s]]
* A Veil cryo-ship crash lands on Earth. The Alliance of Shades seals it away in a vault. (''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'')
* Jason "Jay" Derris and Robert "Silent Bob" Blutarsky are born and meet in front of Quick Stop as infants. (''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'')
* 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 [[labelnote:into]] paranormal phenomena[[/labelnote]] (''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'')
* Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice dies from shock and old age after his final revenge against Dick Tracy fails. (''ComicStrip/DickTracy'')
* Henry Starling meets U.S. President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon in the Oval Office. (''Series/StarTrekVoyager'')
* By this time, over 75% of the world's population are under the age of 21. (''Literature/LogansRun'')
* Nazi Germany and Japan defeat the United States and Canada in the [[WorldWarIII 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'')
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[[folder:Unclear date most likely in the 1970s]]
* Jones begins working for The Court and escorts a young James Eglamore there. (''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'')
* 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 Creator/StephenKing)[[labelnote:timing]]Richard Nixon is the President and the Vietnam War is still being fought[[/labelnote]]
* October 31: Harry Dresden is born [[labelnote: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 WordOfGod says he was in his mid-twenties then. [[/labelnote]] (''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'')
* 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. [[labelnote: 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.[[/labelnote]](''Series/DoctorWho'')
** 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)[[/note]](''Series/DoctorWho'')
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[[folder: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. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* January 20: Madeleine Wallace receives news that her cheating husband had died in a car crash in South America. (''Film/{{Amelie}}'')
* January: [[spoiler:A young River Song regenerates in New York.]] (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* February 15: J.R. Ewing and Sue Ellen Shepard are married for the first time. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* February 28: Jeremy Berg disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* 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 UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'')
* March 17: Jonathan murders his wife Pamela. (''Series/NightGallery'')
* 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 Film/{{Secretariat}}. (RealLife)
* April 3: Sarah Bohm is born. (''Series/Touch2012'')
* April 4: Colonel Owen Crawford, his son Eric and Lt. Colonel Marty Erickson investigate a [[CropCircles 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 [[AlienInvasion invasion]]. He stakes his career on it and asks U.S. President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon to personally inspect the site. Nixon instead sends Toby Woodruff of the Department of Defense and Ted Olsen of the UsefulNotes/{{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. (''Series/{{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. (''Series/{{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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
** 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. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* April 8:
** In the original timeline, Tom Beckett is killed in Vietnam. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
** After Sam Beckett changes history, journalist Maggie Dawson is killed in Vietnam. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* April 11: [[TheVietnamVet 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. (''Series/{{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 [[GovernmentConspiracy 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 [[RoswellThatEndsWell 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 [[MindRape 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. (''Series/{{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. (RealLife, ''Film/Apollo13'')
** This is due to Lunarians not wanting Earthlings to land on the Moon. (''Franchise/TouhouProject'')
** Colonel Owen Crawford believes that the explosion of the oxygen tank is a sign of UsefulNotes/{{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 [[AlienInvasion invasion]] if he were still in charge of the UFO project. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
** The explosion is caused by a baseball belonging to WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost hitting a button marked "DANGER." (''WesternAnimation/TheSpooktacularNewAdventuresOfCasper'')
* 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. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
** Jesse Keys attempts to sell his father Russell's UsefulNotes/WorldWarII 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. (''Series/{{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. (''Series/{{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. (''Series/{{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. (''Series/{{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 [[MindRape 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. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* April 27: Mary Crawford is born. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* April: Death of recently activated Slayer Beryl [=McKenzie=]. A new Slayer is activated in northern Poland. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* 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. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* May 10: Jean [=DeLynn=] Baker is born. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* May 27: Jesse Keys proposes to Amelia Henderson, who says yes. (''Series/{{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 [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell crashsite]]. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
** Sheriff Kerby destroys the burial chamber in Hyder, Alaska with dynamite. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* May: Birth of Cameron Mitchell. The fact that this occurs nine months after SG-1's time-travel incursion is a [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial total coincidence]]. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* 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 [[RoswellThatEndsWell crash of the alien ship in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947]]. (''Series/{{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. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* June 16: Brian Piccolo, a running back with the Chicago Bears before being diagnosed with cancer, dies of his disease. (RealLife and ''Film/BriansSong'')
* June 25: Peter Conway is born. (''Series/MoonbaseThree'')
* July 4: Saturday in the park - people dancing, people laughing, a man selling ice cream singing Italian songs. ("[[Music/{{Chicago}} Saturday in the Park]]")
* July 6: Paul Newbold is born. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* August 20: Dorothy "Ace" [=McShane=] is born. (''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'')
* 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. (''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'')
* October 3: Jeffrey Jones is born. (''Series/{{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. (''Literature/GraveyardShift'')
* October: Private investigator Carl Faubert arrives at Atamipek Lake to investigate a vandalism case. (''VideoGame/{{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? (''Series/{{The Odd Couple| 1970}}'')
* 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. (RealLife and ''Film/WeAreMarshall'')
* November 20: Charlotte "Charlie" Wade is born. (''Series/{{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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* December: Current Slayer dies in the Polish riots. Nikki Wood becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* Delta Green is disbanded again. (Franchise/CthulhuMythos, ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'')
* Skull Man/Tatsuo Kagura starts a series of mass murders and catastrophes all over Japan. The SociopathicHero is on a path of vengeance. (''Manga/SkullMan'')
* 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. (''Literature/StarTrekTheEugenicsWars'')
* Birth of Derek Maza/Talon to Peter and Diane Maza. (''WesternAnimation/{{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. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Jotaro Kujo is born to Sadao Kujo and his English-American wife, Holly. Noriaki Kakyoin is born in the same year. (''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'')
* A recently widowed mother, Shirley Partridge, and her five children form a pop group. (''Series/ThePartridgeFamily'')
* Las Vegas reporter Carl Kolchak investigates the "Night Stalker" case. (''Series/KolchakTheNightStalker'')
* Births of Caitlin Bree, Alyssa Jones, Cohee Lundin, Julie Marie Dwyer, Holden [=McNeil=], and Banky Edwards. (''Film/{{Clerks}}'', ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'', and ''Film/ChasingAmy'')
* Matthew Ross is born. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* Susan Bruckner is born. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Priscilla Silbart and Bill Walters die. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Michael Williams is born. (''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'')
* Valentine Summerfield is born. (''Literature/BerniceSummerfield'')
* Ruskin loses his sight. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* Rhonda Wellman is born. (''Series/WeirdScience'')
* Mitch Taylor is born. (''Film/RealGenius'')
* Birth of Hitomi Kawai. (''VisualNovel/FamicomDetectiveClub: The Girl Who Stands Behind'')
* Birth of Yoko to Akie Kojima and her unnamed husband. (''VisualNovel/FamicomDetectiveClub: The Girl Who Stands Behind'')
* Joel Prihoda is named "Man of the Year" at Shermer High School. (''Film/TheBreakfastClub'')
* Charlie Winston, son of Alex and Sam Winston, brother of Suzie Winston, nephew of Chris Wells, and grandson of Ruth Cassandra Winston, is born. (''VideoGame/NotForBroadcast'')
* Elan School is founded. (RealLife, ''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'')
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[[folder: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. (''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'')
** Private eye John Shaft is hired to rescue a harlem mobster's daughter from TheMafia. (''Film/{{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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* February: Genjiro Kaneda opens a pub, which is actually a front for illegal moneylending. (''Visualnovel/{{Famicom Detective Club}}: The Girl Who Stands Behind'')
* March 2: Ada Burn Quigley dies. (''Series/NightGallery'')
* March 22: Will Byers is born. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* 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. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* 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. (''Series/KamenRiderKabuto'')
** Stephen "Mitch" Mitchell [[DramaticSpaceDrifting almost drifts off into space]] but he is rescued by Jet Morgan and Lemmy Barnet. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* June 21: Birth of Johnny, known as Johnny Truant, to Donnie and Pelafina Heather Lievre _____________. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* June 23: Cathy Briscoe is born. (''Series/LawAndOrder'')
* 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. (''Literature/PerryRhodan'')
* July 2: Benny Faulkner is born. (''Radio/DimensionX'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap2022'')
* August: Yuri and Masha Peltrovich are married. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* September: Liam and Debra Moone are married. (''Series/MooneBoy'')
* 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. (RealLife and ''Film/WeAreMarshall''; 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. (RealLife and ''Film/WeAreMarshall''; 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. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
** 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. (''ComicBook/ThePunisherBorn'')
* Between August and October: Ye Wenjie performs an unauthorised experiment, using the Sun as am amplifier for an interstellar radio broadcast. (''Literature/{{The Three Body Problem}}'')
* November 5: Sara James disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* November 9: Genjiro Kaneda orders Toshio Tazaki to pay his debt in full by the next day. (''Visualnovel/{{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. (''Visualnovel/{{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. (''Visualnovel/{{Famicom Detective Club}}: The Girl Who Stands Behind'')
* November 24:
** Cooper [=DeMeers=] disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
** 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. (''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'')
* November: Teruhiko Uchida, lead suspect in the murder of Genjiro Kaneda, commits suicide. His son, Tatsuya, moves to a different school [[labelnote:more]]and begins going by his mother's maiden name, Hibino[[/labelnote]]
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Alexander Ashford uses his DNA and that of his ancestor, Veronica, to create two children, Alexia and Alfred. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'')
* Comicbook/DoctorStrange, Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk, Namor the ComicBook/SubMariner and the ComicBook/SilverSurfer first join forces as ComicBook/TheDefenders. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Comicbook/TheAvengers become involved in an [[ComicBook/TheKreeSkrullWar interstellar war between the Kree and Skrulls]]. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Godzilla battles Hedorah. (''Film/GodzillaVsHedorah'')
* Harry Callahan confronts serial killer Scorpio. (''Film/DirtyHarry'')
* 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. (''Series/KamenRider'')
* 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. (''Film/OOODenOAllRidersLetsGoKamenRiders'')
* 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. (''Series/{{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. (''Series/MarriedWithChildren'')
* Estimated birth of Yancy Fry Jr. to Yancy Fry and Mrs. Gleisner-Fry. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'')
* Atomic Robo and Creator/CarlSagan go to Peru to do battle with a [[EldritchAbomination squamous monster]] Robo is getting tired of. (''ComicBook/AtomicRobo 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. (''VideoGame/{{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. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* A driver and a mechanic in a 1955 Chevy are challenged to a race across America by a man in a GTO. (''Film/TwoLaneBlacktop'')
* Ernst Stavro Blofeld attempts to hold the world hostage with his [[KillSat orbital laser]]. (''Film/DiamondsAreForever'')
* David Mann is tailgated by a homicidal trucker. (''Film/{{Duel}}'')
* Dracula returns from death when Cliffton Graves removes a stake from his heart. (''Comicbook/TheTombOfDracula'' #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. (''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'')
* *Creeper, the first self-replicating AI spawned by *Mother, appears on ARPANET. (''Visualnovel/{{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. (''Website/SCPFoundation'')
* Abby Fairgate and Jeff Cunningham are married. (''Series/KnotsLanding'')
* Chett Donnelly is born. (''Series/WeirdScience'')
* Charles Russell is born. (''Second Chance'')
* Charlie Keys is born. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* Joshua Leonard is born. (''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'')
* Lynn Tanner is born. (''Series/{{ALF}}'')
* Jeff [=McDowell=] flees to Canada after being drafted to fight in the Vietnam War. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* [AlternateUniverse] Jeff [=McDowell=] fights in the Vietnam War and eventually [[AnArmAndALeg loses both of his legs]] when he steps on a landmine. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* Keith Barnes is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* [AlternateUniverse] former U.S. President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is elected Secretary-General of the UsefulNotes/LeagueOfNations. (''[[Literature/RandomQuest Quest for Love]]'')
* The B2 robot Battling Maxo defeats Dimsy the Rock in a boxing match. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair and Dustin Henderson are born. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* The Warrens rescue a family from a Satanic witch's ghost. (''Film/TheConjuring'')
* Zaddik is born on a planet in the Pegasus galaxy. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
* 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. (''Literature/AxiomsEnd'')
* Birth of Taro Ninten and Ayumi Tachibana. (''Visualnovel/{{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 [[labelnote:more]]Taro Ninten, the protagonist of the games[[/labelnote]] to Sayako Yamamori. (''Visualnovel/{{Famicom Detective Club}}: The Missing Heir'')
* ''Itchy and Scratchy meet Westernanimation/{{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. (''Westernanimation/{{The Simpsons}}'')
* A student named John is named "Man of the Year" at Shermer High School. (''Film/TheBreakfastClub'')
* 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. (''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter, [[AllThereInTheManual 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. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
* Birth of Jordan to Hank and Carol Brown. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* The Los Angeles Police Department starts Operation Truant to curb burglaries being committed by truant grade schoolers. (''Series/Adam12'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder: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. (''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter, [[AllThereInTheManual Settings Archive Vol 3 -Starlet-]]'' art book)
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1972]]
* January 9: Tyler Downing disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* 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. (''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'')
* 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. (''Series/{{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. [[labelnote:Justification]] Happens when recruiters are scouting for scholarship candidates. When the brothers are reunited in 1983, Stanley states it has been over 10 years.[[/labelnote]] (''Westernanimation/{{Gravity Falls}}'')
** The SCP Foundation sets up containment procedures for SCP-3000. (''Website/SCPFoundation'')
* May 15:
** Arthur Bremer attempts to assassinate U.S. presidential candidate George Wallace, paralyzing him from the waist down. (RealLife)
** [AlternateTimeline] Arthur Bremer assassinates U.S. President George Wallace. Vice President Curtis [=LeMay=] assumes the presidency. (''Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree'')
* 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''. (''Film/SomewhereInTime'')
* June 1: Birth of James Halliday in Middletown, Ohio. (''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'')
* June 2: Leonard Snart is born. (''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'')
* June 15:
** The ''Discovery'' fleet sets off from Mars on its 355-million-mile return journey to Earth. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
** 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 [[RunawayBride leave Sam at the altar]] in 1984. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* 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. (RealLife)
** The break-in is inadvertently revealed by Betsy and Arlene, two teenage girls living in the building who are out past their curfew, (''Film/{{Dick}}'') and by Forrest Gump, who calls a report of lights in the offices opposite his room disturbing him (''Film/ForrestGump'').
** Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln apprehend the burglars. (''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'')
** During the burglary, Donna Eleese is reunited with her father Colonel Wojohowitz at the hotel. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
** 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. (RealLife, ''Film/AllThePresidentsMen'')
* July 2: A Martian spaceship [[AliensInCardiff crash-lands in the Lake District]]. Three other spaceships land in remote areas of Australia, India and South America. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* July 4: Jason Crockett's birthday party is ruined when the swamp dwellers around his mansion start killing and driving away his guests. (''Film/{{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 [[AmazonBrigade Dolls]]. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'')
* August 15: Heather Donahue is born. (''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'')
* 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. (''VideoGame/{{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, RealLife). He takes a ferry to Nesodden, where he lives the rest of the autumn in seclusion, writing his memoirs (Literature/{{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. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* October: Brodie Bruce is born. (''Film/{{Mallrats}}'')
* November 3: Simone Marks is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* 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 [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Bigfoot]]. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* November 7:
** UsefulNotes/RichardNixon is re-elected U.S. President, defeating UsefulNotes/GeorgeMcGovern. (RealLife)
** The original Mighty Avengers are formed by James Lucas, the Bear, Blue Marvel, Comicbook/{{Blade}}, Kaluu, and Constance Molina. Lucas departs after their first mission. (Creator/{{Marvel Comics}})
** [AlternateUniverse] UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is elected to a fourth term as U.S. President. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
** [AlternateTimeline] UsefulNotes/HubertHumphrey defeats Curtis [=LeMay=] in the U.S. presidential election. (''Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree'')
** Jennifer Keaton is born. (''Series/FamilyTies'')
** UsefulNotes/GeorgeMcGovern defeats UsefulNotes/RichardNixon in the U.S. presidential election. (''Alternate Presidents'')
** U.S. President UsefulNotes/GeorgeMcGovern is re-elected. ("Hillary Orbits Venus")
** Mr. Millipede, Gwimbly's sidekick, is born. (''WesternAnimation/SmilingFriends'')
* 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. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* November 27: Estimated birth of Kelly Bundy to Al and Peggy Bundy. (''Series/MarriedWithChildren''[[note]]Justification: Her birthday is given within the series. The year can be estimated because of mentions of Kelly being 18 in 1990.[[/note]])
* 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. (''Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes'')
* December 23: A massive earthquake hits in Managua, Nicaragua, leaving future drug lord Jose Menendez and his two children, Raul and Josefina, homeless (''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'')
* Billy Coen is born. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'')
* ComicBook/LukeCage gains superpowers, becomes a hero for hire. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Johnny Blaze becomes the original Comicbook/GhostRider. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Godzilla battles Gigan. (''Film/GodzillaVsGigan'')
* A SerialKiller 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. (''Film/{{Frenzy|1972}}'')
* Twins Solid Snake and Liquid Snake born. (''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series)
* Supposed Allied puppet Premier Romanov leads the USSR and the World Socialist Alliance in an invasion of America, beginning World War III. (''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'')
* 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. (''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2: Yuri's Revenge'')
* The Alliance of Shades' MIB work is disbanded, their duties moved to guarding an interdimensional vault. (Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse [animated serials], ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'')
* 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. (''Series/TheATeam'')
* The Los Angeles Underground is founded. (''Series/TheATeam'')
* A day later, the A-Team vanishes into the Los Angeles Underground. (''Series/TheATeam'')
* A day later, the Los Angeles Underground is disbanded. (''Series/TheATeam'')
* Nikki Wood falls pregnant by her boyfriend, Li. Li dies soon after, and Nikki's pregnancy remains a secret between her and her Watcher. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* Maggie Evans, under the name Victoria Winters, begins working for the Collins family. Barnabas Collins is dug up around this time. (''Film/DarkShadows'')
* Follower of Count Dracula brings him to the seventies. (''Film/DraculaAD1972'')
* The Ice Cream Bunny gives a hand to crash landed Santa Claus. (''Film/SantaAndTheIceCreamBunny'')
* Births of Heather Jones, Rene Mosier, T.S. Quint, Brandi Svenning, and Gwen Turner. (''Film/{{Clerks}}'', ''Film/{{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. (''Anime/MazingerZ'')
* A party at Marlin Academy gets out of control, resulting in the ampitheatre being bulldozed. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* Birth of Ogden Morrow. (''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'')
* 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. (''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'')
* *Reaper, a self-propagating AI with a built-in suicide switch, is deployed to delete *Creeper by *Mother and her human companion, Ray Tomlinson. (''Visualnovel/{{Digital A Love Story}}'', date taken from {{Real Life}})
* Mary O'Connell disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* Thomas Westphall dies. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Lisa Clarke is born. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* Luther Hawkins carves his initials into the St. Eligius third floor nurses' station while waiting for his mother. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Janet, who later becomes the superhero Captain Liberty, is born. (''Series/TheTick2001'')
* Danny Hayes is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* Ye Wenjie marries Yang Weining. (''Literature/{{The Three Body Problem}}'')
* Ray Kinsella is briefly brought back in time from 1989 to this year, where he meets an elderly Doc Graham. (''Film/FieldOfDreams'')
* 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. (''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder: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. (''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter, [[AllThereInTheManual 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. (''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter, [[AllThereInTheManual Settings Archive Vol 3 -Starlet-]]'' art book)
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1973]]
* January 5: Gary Navarro disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* March 15: Biff Tannen kills George [=McFly=]. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'')
** 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.[[/note]] (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'')
* April 19: Werner Loecher disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* April: Carl Burton is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* April 29-May 1: A police inspector uncovers a pagan cult on a Scottish island while investigating a missing child. (''Film/TheWickerMan1973'')
* May 1: A girl who will one day become the mother of Lilo and Nani Pelekai wins a May Day hula competition. (''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch2StitchHasAGlitch'')
* May 5: Secretariat wins the Kentucky Derby, setting a new race record in the process. (RealLife and ''Film/{{Secretariat}}'')
* May 19: Secretariat wins the Preakness Stakes, [[HistoryRepeats setting a new race record in the process]]. (RealLife and ''Film/{{Secretariat}}'')
* May: Kim Karlsen finishes his novel (''Literature/{{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. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* 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. (RealLife and ''Film/{{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 [[AmazonBrigade Dolls]]. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'')
* July 20: Joe Washington is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* August 18: The deranged Sawyer family in Texas slaughters and makes meat out of a group of travelling teens. Only one teen survives. (''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974'')
* 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. (''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'')
* August: Joey Jeremiah is born. (''Series/DegrassiHigh'')
* Mid-1973: Births of Dante Hicks and Randal Graves. (''Film/{{Clerks}}'')
* September 11: UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet leads a military coup in Chile. (RealLife) During this coup, a German woman's fiance is kidnapped, and she has to infiltrate a cult to rescue him. (''Film/TheColony2016'')
* September 21: Douglas "Doogie" Howser is born. (''Series/DoogieHowserMD'')
* September 23: The first ships of the Martian invasion fleet land in Asia. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* October 5: Andi Simmons is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* 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 [[TheGreys 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. (''Series/TheXFiles'')
* 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". (''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'')
* November 27: Samantha Mulder disappears; her brother Fox eventually becomes convinced she was [[AlienAbduction abducted by aliens]]. (''Series/TheXFiles'')
* Chris Redfield born. (''Franchise/ResidentEvil'')
* 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. (''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'')
* Apes Cornelius and Zira arrive from the far future.[[note]]They are eventually killed, but not before Zira gives birth to their son, Caesar.[[/note]] (''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes'')
* After a test flight accident, Steve Austin is rebuilt as a cyborg and becomes an operative for the OSI. (''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'')
* The [[Comicbook/NormanOsborn Green Goblin]] causes the [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied death of Gwen Stacy]], leading to a battle with ComicBook/SpiderMan that ends in the Goblin's death. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Godzilla battles Megalon and Gigan with the help of shapeshifting robot Jet Jaguar. (''Film/GodzillaVsMegalon'')
* The Ladies' Department moves to the same floor as the men's department at Grace Brothers. (''Series/AreYouBeingServed'')
* Benjamin Linus joins the DHARMA Initiative on the Island. (''Series/{{Lost}}'')
* Fathers Lankester Merrin and Damien Karras die under mysterious circumstances, allegedly while conducting an exorcism at the [=MacNeil=] residence in Georgetown. (''Film/TheExorcist'')
* According to George Foreman, Muhammed Ali faces an 80ft-tall mechanical Joe Frazier in a boxing match. The entire Earth is destroyed. (''WesternAnimation/{{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. (''Series/KamenRiderV3'')
* Birth of the immortal Enrique Grimaldi in Callao, Peru. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* Estimated birth of Sally/Sari in India. She would become the wife of Dhalsim. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha''[[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.[[/note]])
* 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. (''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'')
* Nikki Wood completes her Cruciamentum despite being pregnant. She gives birth to her son, Robin, later that year. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* 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. (''VideoGame/{{killer7}}'')
* Film/JamesBond destroys a drug trafficking business in the island of San Monique. (''Film/LiveAndLetDie'')
* Gil Hicks (Dante Hicks's cousin) is born. (''Film/{{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. (''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'')
* 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. (''BlackLight'')
* 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. (''Visualnovel/{{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. (''Literature/NightShift'': "Gray Matter")
* Ito T. Fujitsu is born. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'')
* Tommy Westphall is born. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Quinn Mallory and Wade Welles are born. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
* [AlternateUniverse] Logan Mallory (later St. Clair) is born. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
* [AlternateUniverse] Liz Welles [[DeathByChildbirth dies in childbirth]] with her second daughter Wade, who also dies. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
* Daniel Basch is killed in a plane crash. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* The cemetery asteroid Happy Glades is established. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* The Postman is born. (''Film/ThePostman'')
* 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 [[SoleSurvivor 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. (''Film/ItTheTerrorFromBeyondSpace'')
* Anji Kapoor is born in Yorkshire. (''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'')
* 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. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Jasper Adeola is born. (''Series/Class2016'')
* Elizabeth Sherman's pyrokinetic powers manifest for the first time, leveling a city block and killing her family in the process. (''ComicBook/{{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 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsat_program 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." (''Film/KongSkullIsland'')
* Terrence Mann gives his last interview before becoming a recluse. He talks about seeing the Dodgers play at Ebbets Field. (''Film/FieldOfDreams'')
* British spy Jim Prideaux is sent to Czechoslovakia [[labelnote:note]]Budapest in the film version[[/labelnote]] to meet a general with the name of a [[TheMole mole]] in UK intelligence. The meeting is a trap orchestrated by a Russian spymaster, and Prideaux is shot. (''Literature/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy'')
* Birth of Jonathan to Hank and Carol Brown. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]
[[folder: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. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'')
* 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. (RealLife, ''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'')
* January 22: Estimated birth of Budrick Franklin "Bud" Bundy to Al and Peggy Bundy. (''Series/MarriedWithChildren''[[note]]Justification: His birthday is given within the series. The year can be estimated because of mentions of Bud being 18 in 1992.[[/note]])
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* February 14: Five people gather in a bar, rambling away on their lives in TheSixties, and how they grope for meaning in TheSeventies (''Theatre/KennedysChildren'')
* February 15: Jimmy Olsen is born. (''Series/LoisAndClark'')
* February 24: Douglas Robert [=McNair=] is born. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* March 2:
** Heather Tobey disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
** Caitlin Ryan is born. (''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* April 19: Betty Wilson seals a baloney sandwich in Foreverware. It is perfectly preserved until Marshall Teller accidentally breaks the seal in 1991. (''Series/EerieIndiana'')
* April 26: Larry Howard disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* May 26: Jenna Rink is born. (''Film/ThirteenGoingOnThirty'')
* June:
** Ray and Annie Kinsella get married. (''Film/FieldOfDreams'')
** Amélie Poulain is born. (''Film/{{Amelie}}'')
* August 2: Disguised as his malfunctioning B2 robot Battling Maxo, promoter Steel Kelly fights a B7 robot in a boxing match in Maynard, Kansas. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* August 3: Mamoru Chiba born (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* August 9: UsefulNotes/RichardNixon resigns as President of the United States, becoming the first person to do so. (RealLife) 'Deep Throat' gives him a parting message he'd rather not have. (''Film/{{Dick}}'')
** Vice President UsefulNotes/GeraldFord takes office. (RealLife)
** Vice President UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr takes office. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'')
** Talk show host David Frost decides to interview Nixon. (''Film/FrostNixon'')
* 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. (''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''[[labelnote:Justification]]Just before Brad and Janet find the castle, they are seen listening to a tape of Nixon's resignation speech.[[/labelnote]])
* August 14: New York Mets win a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. (RealLife) Philip J. Fry is born at the same time. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'')
* Summer: Kim Karlsen arrives in Oslo after having been absent a year. He courts Vivi, another UptownGirl, and writes a cycle of poems in tandem with his friend Sebastian. (First sequel to ''Literature/{{Beatles}}'')
* September 12: Jefferson Pierce is born. (''Series/BlackLightning2018'')
* 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, ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha''[[note]]Justification: The upperclassman to Sakura's freshman. Year of birth has been alternatively estimated to 1973.[[/note]])
* September 20: Richie Ryan is born. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'')
* September: Christine "Spike" Nelson is born. (''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* October 30: UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli knocks out George Foreman, previously unbeaten as a professional, in the 8th round of their fight in Kinshasa to regain the undisputed heavyweight title. (RealLife and ''Film/WhenWeWereKings'')
* November 13: Ronald Defeo, Jr. murders his entire family. (RealLife and ''Literature/TheAmityvilleHorror'')
* Fall: John Kinsella dies. (''Film/FieldOfDreams'')
* December 24: Billy and Ricky Chapman watch their parents get murdered by a man dressed as Santa Claus. (''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNight'')
* December: Mentally sick man harasses a sorority. (''Film/BlackChristmas1974'')
* Jill Valentine and Ada Wong born. (''Franchise/ResidentEvil'')
* King Seesar is awakened in order to aid Godzilla against Mechagodzilla. (''Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzilla'')
* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} makes his debut, and first battles the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]]. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* ComicBook/ThePunisher begins his war on crime. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* 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.[[/note]] (''Series/{{Lost}}'')
* Helen Beta Narbon born. (''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'')
* Pacifist architect in New York becomes a vigilante. (''Film/DeathWish'')
* 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 (''Series/KamenRiderV3'', ''Manga/KamenRiderSpirits'')
* 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. (''Series/KamenRiderX'')
* 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. (''Series/KamenRiderAmazon'')
* Birth of the immortal Andrew Donnelly in Aberdeen, Scotland. (''Series/{{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. (''ComicBook/AtomicRobo 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. (''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'')
* Ezekiel Rage is recruited by the US government. (''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'' comic)
* Film/JamesBond duels with Francisco Scaramanga. (''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'')
* Tom Newcliffe invites a bunch of people into his manor, believing that one of them is a werewolf. (''Film/TheBeastMustDie'')
* 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. (''Anime/GreatMazinger'')
* 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. (''Manga/GetterRobo'')
* 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.[[/note]] (''Comicbook/TheBoys'')
* 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. (''Film/TheBigLebowski'')
* Homer Simpson and Marge Bouvier meet for the first time while in detention at Springfield High School. (''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "The Way We Was")
* The Redjac entity murders five women in Kiev. (''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'')
* John Beckett dies. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* [AlternateUniverse] a major recession in the United States results in paper money being abandoned. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
* Sammy Andrews is born. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* 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. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* A group of children accidentally bully a fellow child into falling out a window to her death. (''Film/PromNight1980'')
* Rhoda Morgenstern moves back to New York after ten years in Minneapolis. (''Series/{{Rhoda}}'')
* Liam [=McShane=] is born. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* 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. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* Former SS-Obersturmführer Karl Rademacher, under the alias of Robert Greene, closes his dry cleaning business in Philadelphia and retires. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* Elizabeth Sherman joins the BPRD. (''ComicBook/{{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. [[labelnote:*]]Based on the assumption that Jane is no older than ten in the first season.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* 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. (''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'')
* 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. (''Literature/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy'')
* 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. (''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990''[[labelnote: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.[[/labelnote]])
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1975]]
* January 12:
** The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Minnesota Vikings 16-6 in Super Bowl IX. (RealLife)
** 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. (''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'')
* January 13: Birth of Ruth Lesse. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
* January 16: Marsha Anderia disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* January: Adrian Veidt publicly reveals that he is Ozymandias. (''ComicBook/BeforeWatchmen'')
* February 9: Samuel "Screech" Powers is born. (''Series/SavedByTheBell'')
* March 3: Kage, an immortal, massacres 23 civilians in Cambodia. James Horton, his Watcher, witnesses the event. It was one of his earliest assignments. (''Series/{{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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* March 24: Jorge Molina disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* Summer:
** HighSchoolSweethearts 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. (''[[Music/BillyJoel Scenes from an Italian Restaurant]]'')
** Harvey Pekar has a relationship with a flaky woman named Carla. (''ComicBook/AmericanSplendor'')
* June 3: Russel Hobbs is born in [[BigApplesauce Brooklyn, New York]]. (Music/{{Gorillaz}})
* July 4: A huge great white shark eats people near Amity island. (''Film/{{Jaws}}'')
* July 17: Isabelle Baunsair disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* August 12: James Winfrey disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* August 20: Atomic Robo joins the "unmanned" Viking Mission to Mars as a top-secret troubleshooter. Due to a prank by Creator/StephenHawking, he spends the next 335 days en route without any entertainment. ("ComicBook/AtomicRobo of Mars")
* August 22: Marcus Wright is born. (''Film/TerminatorSalvation'')
* September 13: Tasajigwa Bajan disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* 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. (''Film/{{Network}}'')
* September 30: Members of a Creator/JamesDean fan club reunite on the 20th anniversary of his death. (''Film/ComeBackToTheFiveAndDimeJimmyDeanJimmyDean'')
* October 21: The Boston Red Sox defeat the Cincinnati Reds in the sixth game of the World Series. (RealLife) Mark, Ellen and Stephen Craig are in attendance. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* October 29: Sestuna Meioh born (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* November 10: The American freighter SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' sinks in Lake Superior during a severe storm. None of the crew of 29 survive. (''[[Music/GordonLightfoot The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald]]'' and RealLife)
* December 24:
** A woman murders her husband and imprisons her deformed son in the attic to keep him from talking. (''Film/BlackChristmas2006'')
** In the original timeline, Real estate mogul Michael Blake files for bankruptcy. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* A ninja in a secret Californian Ninja Academy makes a grab for power, is banished. (''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'')
* David Xanatos receives a 10th-century coin worth $20,000, which forms the start of his fortune. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Charles Xavier forms an all-new, all-different team of ComicBook/XMen to rescue the originals. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Identical twins Johan and Anna Liebert are born as part of a eugenics experiment in Czechoslovakia. (''Manga/{{Monster}}'')
* After a parachuting accident, Jaime Sommers is rebuilt as a cyborg and becomes an operative for the OSI.[[labelnote:More]]She dies when her body initially rejects the bionics, but is revived later in the year after an experimental cryonics procedure saves her life.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'', ''Series/TheBionicWoman'')
* Fallout from biological warfare between China and the Soviet Union kills billions, and turns most of the survivors into [[OurVampiresAreDifferent light-sensitive psychopaths]]. (''Film/TheOmegaMan'')
* Godzilla battles Mechagodzilla a second time. (''Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla'')
* Nicholas Angel is born. (''Film/HotFuzz'')
* Peter Jacob delivers his artifact to Edward Roivas. (''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'')
* The town of 'Salem's Lot, Maine, is infested with vampires. (''Literature/SalemsLot'')
* After the relatively quick reestablishment of things after WorldWarIII, 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. (''Film/{{Clerks}}'')
* Randal Graves is afraid to sit on the toilet after seeing ''Film/{{Jaws}}''. (''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'')
* Woman accidentally brings a Zuni fetish doll to life and must fight for her life (''Film/TrilogyOfTerror'')
* 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. (''Series/KamenRiderStronger'')
* 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. (''Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger'') 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[[/note]] (''Film/KamenRiderXSuperSentaiSuperHeroTaisen'')
* Birth of Beth Maza to Peter and Diane Maza. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Birth of Maggie Reed. (''WesternAnimation/{{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 [[HeelFaceTurn re-examine his morals]]. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'')
* Zombie outbreak in Al-Marq, put down by Israeli Special Forces. Tensions mount between Egypt and Israel. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')
* Curtis Blackburn kills Dan Smith on a basketball court. Dan is revived by Garcian Smith. (''VideoGame/{{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. (''Manga/GetterRobo G'')
* The Vegan Empire attacks Earth. Exiled prince Duke Fleed makes his presence known once more to protect his adopted home (''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'')
* Secret research installation constructed by [[AncientConspiracy The Archaic]] at the old North-Western mine in Greenland. Search for anomalous artifacts commences. (''VideoGame/{{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 WorldWarIII. After being given a narcotic injection, he becomes "lost in a great darkness" and [[PeggySue 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. ("Literature/TimeAndTimeAgain")
* Wesley Hauser disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* Fernando Partridge is born. (''Series/ImAlanPartridge'')
* Dr. Donald Westphall becomes the Director of Medicine at St. Eligius. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* 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. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Dr. Mark Craig performs St. Eligius' first heart bypass operation on Patrick O'Casey. He survives the operation but dies six months later. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Jason Lochner is born. (''Series/KnotsLanding'')
* Jacqueline and Robert Wade are married. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Wallington's Feed & Grain goes out of business. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* Luther Hawkins' father is shot and killed by the police during the Boston busing riots. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Syndi Teller is born. (''Series/EerieIndiana'')
* Jack Driscoll dies. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* Jonah Summerfield I is killed in an industrial accident. (''Franchise/BerniceSummerfield'')
* 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. (''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'')
* There is a major strike of rolling roads workers in the United States. (''Radio/DimensionX'')
* Ted Baxter and Georgette Franklin are married. (''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'')
* Jack Arnold dies. (''Series/TheWonderYears'')
* Harry Warden dies. (''Film/MyBloodyValentine'')
* 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. (''Literature/{{The Three Body Problem}}'')
* Sherry Nugil begins her search for Lazlo Hollyfeld. She won't find him for another ten years. (''Film/RealGenius'')
* Stephanie Pierre, having been the victim of racist bullying, gives up her real life to join Frida's Friends Club. (''Literature/{{Unimaa}}'')
* The Great Fire occurs; much literature is burned by order of the American government, including the works of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, Creator/LFrankBaum, Creator/HPLovecraft, Creator/AmbroseBierce, Creator/LewisCarroll, and Creator/TheBrothersGrimm. (''Literature/TheMartianChronicles'')
* Birth of Justin to Hank and Carol Brown. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]
[[folder: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. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterII''[[labelnote:justification]]The ''Street Fighter'' animated film has her as barely an adult when meeting Ken.[[/labelnote]] )
* 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 [[AmazonBrigade Dolls]]. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'')
* Estimated birth of Candy, the main love interest of Rufus. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV''[[labelnote:justification]]Latest possible time for the birth of the biker chick.[[/labelnote]])
* Estimated birth of Doctrine Dark/Holger in Germany. He would grow up to become a soldier and later an AxCrazy killer. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[note]]Justification: Guile is supposed to be his trainer and presumably mentor. Holger was a combat veteran by his first appearance in 1996. [[/note]])
* Estimated birth of Skullomania/Saburo Nishikoyama in Japan. He would grow up to become a {{salaryman}} and later a [[SuperHero vigilante crime-fighter]]. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[note]]Justification: He is more or less inspired by the Manga/SkullMan (1970) and the original ''Series/KamenRider'' (1971-1973). [[/note]])
* Estimated birth of Sharon in Europe. She would grow up to become a nun and an espionage agent. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[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. [[/note]])
* Estimated birth of Shadowgeist in an unspecified {{dystopia}}. He would grow up to become a vengeance seeker. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[note]]Justification:He is closer to Skull Man than Skullomania. [[/note]])
* Estimated birth of Vulcano Rosso (Red Vulcano) in Italy. He would grow up to become a seeker of vengeance. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[note]]Justification: Supposed to be a former espionage agent. [[/note]])
* Estimated birth of Ace. He would grow up to become the top espionage agent of his country. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[note]]Justification: Might be older than he seems. [[/note]])
* 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. (''Literature/PerryRhodan'')
* [AlternateUniverse] Denise is killed in a motorcycle accident while her boyfriend Jeff [=McDowell=] is fighting in the Vietnam War. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* Charlie Townshend recruits three female police officers, all dissatisfied with being stuck in mundane PD jobs, to work for his private investigating firm. (''Series/CharliesAngels''[[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.[[/note]])
* 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 MyGodWhatHaveIDone 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.[[/note]] (''Series/TheXFiles'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder: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. (''Literature/TheAmityvilleHorror'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder: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. (''Film/{{Rocky}}'', ''Film/RockyII'')
* January 12: John Dixon is born. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* April 26: Larry Hound disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* 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. (''Series/That70sShow'')
** [AlternateUniverse] 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. (''Series/That70sShow'')
* May 24: Danny Pennington is born. (''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'')
* May 28: The last day of school for a group of high schoolers in Austin, Texas. (''Film/DazedAndConfused'')
* 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. (''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'')
* June 3: In the original timeline, bankrupt real estate mogul Michael Blake commits suicide by jumping off his skyscraper Blake Plaza. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* June 4: The Music/SexPistols play a show at the Manchester Free Trade Hall to under 50 people. The small audience includes future members of Music/JoyDivision, Music/NewOrder, Music/{{The Fall|Band}}, Music/TheSmiths, Music/{{Buzzcocks}}, Music/{{Magazine}}, and Simply Red. (RealLife, ''Film/TwentyFourHourPartyPeople'', ''Film/{{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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* June: Ray Finkle graduates from Collier High. (''Film/AceVentura'')
* August 6: The spaceship transporting astronauts Bill Allen, Jeff Hudson and Judy Franklin encounters a time vortex. It travels forward to the year 3979. (''WesternAnimation/ReturnToThePlanetOfTheApes'')
* August:
** Jill Shelby is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
** Music/BlueOysterCult records "Don't Fear the Reaper" at Sunshine Studios. Bruce Dickinson (yes, ''the'' Bruce Dickinson) demands more cowbell. (''Series/SaturdayNightLive'')
* 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. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* October 28: The fifteen-year-old Theresa Givens is kidnapped and raped. The experience scars her for life. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* November 2:
** UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter defeats UsefulNotes/GeraldFord in the U.S. presidential election. (RealLife)
** UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan defeats UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter in the U.S. presidential election. (''Literature/{{Replay}}'')
** George Wallace is elected President of the United States. (''Film/{{Tunnelvision}}'')
** [AlternateUniverse] UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is elected to a fifth term as U.S. President. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
** UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan defeats Jerry Brown in the U.S. presidential election. (''Surrounded by Enemies: What If Kennedy Survived Dallas?'')
** [AlternateTimeline] UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan defeats Hubert Humphrey in the U.S. presidential election. (''Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree'')
** UsefulNotes/RichardNixon is elected to a third term as U.S. President. (''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'')
** U.S. President UsefulNotes/GeraldFord is elected to a full term in his own right, defeating UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter. (''Alternate Presidents'')
** John Glenn is elected U.S. President. ("Hillary Orbits Venus")
* December: Jerry Stone is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* Manfred von Karma makes his courtroom debut as a prosecutor. (''Phoenix Wright: VisualNovel/AceAttorney'')
* Brian Braddock becomes ComicBook/CaptainBritain. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Blanche Tyler, a PhonyPsychic, is hired to locate the heir to a considerable fortune. She is unwittingly searching for Arthur Adamson, a master criminal, to her peril. (''Film/FamilyPlot'').
* In Spain, a man named Miguel kills a woman during a masquerade party and is locked up in an asylum. (''Film/BloodyMoon'')
* Precinct 13 in Los Angeles becomes under siege by a merciless criminal gang known as Street Thunder. (''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976'')
* Strange substance on an island near the British Columbia grows various creatures into unusual sizes. (''Film/TheFoodOfTheGods'')
* Birth of the immortal Derek Worth in Seacouver, Washington. (''Series/{{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." (''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'')
* Kindergartners Holden [=McNeil=] and Banky Edwards meet and start their twenty-year friendship. (''Film/ChasingAmy'')
* A group of creatures known as "The Muppets" star in a variety show which is seen around the world via syndication. (''Series/TheMuppetShow'' and RealLife)
* Tenchi Masaki is born. (''Anime/TenchiMuyo'')
* 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. (''Anime/GreatMazinger'', ''Manga/GetterRobo G'', ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'')
* 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. (''Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn'').
* Agent 47 drowns another clone in the asylum out of revenge. [[spoiler:This is actually a fake memory, implanted into 47's mind by Ort-Meyer to cover for Subject 6's disappearance.]] (''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'')
* William Benteen is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* [AlternateUniverse] 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. (''Series/LoisAndClark'')
* The alien bodies found at the [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell crashsite]] are moved from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Research Center in Ohio to Groom Lake, Nevada. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* Brian Globe is born. (''Series/AmazingStories'')
* Douglas Stansfield becomes an astronaut. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* 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. (''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'')
* Lilly Watters is born. (''Series/JoanOfArcadia'')
* 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. (''Webcomic/PennyArcade: Paint the Line'')
* Eight-year-old Marty [=McFly=] accidentally sets fire to the living room rug. (''Film/BackToTheFuture1'')
* Hisako Hayama begins teaching at Ushimitsu High School. (''Visualnovel/{{Famicom Detective Club}}: The Girl Who Stands Behind'')
* Birth of Arnie Niekamp in Ohio. (''Podcast/{{Hello from the Magic Tavern}}'' and presumably {{Real Life}})
* Birth of Penny Worthington [[labelnote:in]] an alternate [[/labelnote]] London. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
* Birth of Jason Chesterfield in London [[labelnote: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.[[/labelnote]]. Mrs. Chesterfield dies soon after. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
* Linda Mitchell's friend, David Powers, is killed [[labelnote:by]] Dargon Chesterfield, who blames it on[[/labelnote]] Martians. A berserk and enraged [[labelnote: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, [[/labelnote]] kills every Martian on Earth. Consequently, Linda is dismissed from B4 for mental instability. Martians launch a counterattack, which will reach Earth in 2004. [[labelnote:Justification]]The Head Alien states [[http://www.itswalky.com/comic/let-me-elaborate/ that it happened 25 years before 2001]], and [[http://www.itswalky.com/comic/twenty-seven-years-ago/ Penny states]] it happened 27 years before 2003. [[/labelnote]] (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1976-1977]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin Begin]], [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan]], UsefulNotes/{{Palestine}}, Terror on the airline ("[[Music/BillyJoel 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[[/note]])
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1977]]
* February 22: Brooke Mathison is born. (''Series/DesignatedSurvivor'')
* February 26: Tharg travels to Earth from Betelgeuse and begins efforts to increase Earth's dangerously low levels of Thrill power (''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'')
* February 27: Music/{{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. (RealLife, ''Film/ABBATheMovie'')
* March 15: Birth of Sakura Kasugano in Japan. She would grow up into a [[HardWorkHardlyWorks martial arts prodigy]] with the ability to learn advanced moves in minimum time. She entered the fighting circuit while still in high school. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'')
* April 24: Dimitri Popov disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* April 28: Frank Moore is born. (''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'')
* May 10: Jet Morgan, Lemmy Barnet, Doc Matthews and Stephen "Mitch" Mitchell enter the [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation pods]] of the ''Ares''. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* May 30: Matthew Lombard disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* June 10: John and Maureen Robinson is born. (''Series/LostInSpace'')
* June 22: Professor Shigemura Tetsuhiro is born. (''Literature/SwordArtOnline'')
* July 1: Birth of Marina Lemartin in Montecour, France. She would become a significant love interest to Richie Ryan. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* July 7:
** The Levellers rename themselves as the "Front Line." (''ComicBook/NoHero'')
** Jeanne [=McCabe=] disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* July 13-14: The power goes out in the vast majority of New York City. (RealLife) This was a practical joke by an alien known as the Great Attractor. (''Franchise/MenInBlack'')
* August 2: Mike Cahill is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* August 3: Congress passes the Keene Act, which outlaws costumed vigilantes (except those working for the government). (''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'')
* August: Albert Wesker and William Birkin hired by Umbrella Corporation. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap2022'')
* October 30: A group of college students researching American legends are tormented by an insane family. (''Film/HouseOf1000Corpses'')
* December 14: Alec Lehane is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'')
* Leon Kennedy is born. (''Franchise/ResidentEvil'')
* Banky Edwards gets into an argument with a nun over the Holy Trinity, ending with her calling him a "fucking cunt-rag". (''Film/ChasingAmy'')
* Jefferson Pierce becomes Black Lightning. (Creator/DCComics)
* Dr. Richard Harpo Thorndyke is assigned as the new administrator of The Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous. (''Film/HighAnxiety'')
* 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.[[/note]] (''Series/{{Lost}}'')
* Shawn Spencer born. (''Series/{{Psych}}'')
* Robert Neville struggles to survive as the last human in Los Angeles. (''Film/TheOmegaMan'')
* The Carter family are attacked by a clan of deformed cannibals the Nevada desert. (''[[Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977 The Hills Have Eyes]]'')
* David Banner becomes the Incredible Hulk after a disastrous experiment in accessing the latent power of human strength. (''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977'' [TV series])
* Third grader Randal Graves gets an F on a paper on the film ''Film/HerbieGoesToMonteCarlo'', where he claims Herbie represented a love for hating Jews. (''[[Film/{{Clerks}} Clerks Holiday Special]]'')
* Aliens visit Devils Tower in Wyoming. (''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'')
* 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. (''Franchise/TheDarkTower'')
* Dave Davenport born. (''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'')
* Spike kills the vampire slayer Nikki Wood in a New York City subway car. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* 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. (''Film/{{Suspiria|1977}}'')
* Birth of the immortal Michelle Webster in Seacouver, Washington. She was the youngest known immortal in the 1990s. (''Series/{{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 (''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'')
* The Warner siblings, temporarily released from their tower for fumigation, compete in (and win) a New York disco dancing contest. (''WesternAnimation/{{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. (''Series/JAKQDengekitai'')
* Film/JamesBond teams up with Soviet agent Triple X to investigate a theft of nuclear missile submarines. (''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'')
* Fisherman catches a female orca which dies and miscarriages on his boat. Its mate swears revenge. (''Film/OrcaTheKillerWhale'')
* 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. (''WesternAnimation/CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels'')
* 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. (''Literature/TheShining'')
* Jack and Nina Morrison are married. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Former U.S. President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy dies. (''Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas?'')
* Neil Walters is murdered in an alley in New Orleans. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Ward Cleaver dies. (''[[Series/LeaveItToBeaver Still the Beaver]]'')
* Werner Casey is [[AlienAbduction abducted]] by the Asgard Loki. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Jeffrey Jones visits Mount Vernon with his parents. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'')
* Kristin Westphalen is born. (''Series/SeaQuestDSV'')
* [AlternateUniverse] In the alternate timeline caused by Eric and Donna not kissing in 1976, Jake Forman is born to Kitty and Red. (''Series/That70sShow'')
* Last time Goro Kaneda sees his friend Mizuno. (''Visualnovel/{{Famicom Detective Club}}: The Girl Who Stands Behind'')
* Chico Rodriguez is killed in an automobile accident. (''Series/ChicoAndTheMan'')
* Birth of Jared to Hank and Carol Brown. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1978]]
* January 27: Birth of Haruka Tenoh. She would awaken as Sailor Uranus fourteen years later. (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* 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.[[/note]] (''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'')
* February 10: Benny Rosen is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* February 25: Saeed Taufeeq is born. (''Series/{{Torchwood}}'')
* February 26: Judy Robinson is born. (''Series/LostInSpace'')
* March 1: Birth of Ethan Siegal. [[labelnote:Justification]] States [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/the-first-movie here]] that he will turn 30 in 2008. In [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/cake this strip]], Mike is "accidentally" a day early for his birthday due to the leap year. [[/labelnote]] (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* March 6: Birth of Michiru Kaioh. She would awaken as Sailor Neptune fourteen years later. (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* 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. (''Film/TheWarriors'')
* April 17: Birth of Rei Hino. She would awaken as Sailor Mars fourteen years later. (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* May 15: Leta Aider dies. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* May 19: Laurence Northey disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* May 23: Stuart "2D" Pot is born in Crawley, West Sussex, in England. (''Music/{{Gorillaz}}'')
* May: The Starlord arrives on Earth ahead of the advancing [[TheEmpire 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. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'')
* 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. (''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}: ComicBook/GarfieldHis9Lives'')
* June 24: Eric Matthews is born. (''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'')
* 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. (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* 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.[[/note]] (''Film/FlightOfTheNavigator'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* July 29: Arklay Mountain Facility closed. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'')
* July 31: Albert Wesker and William Birkin transferred to the Spencer estate. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'')
* 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. (''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'')
* August 7: Lyman and his dog Odie move into Jon's house. (''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'')
* August 16: Gwen Cooper is born. (''Series/{{Torchwood}}'')
* August: Jeremiah Surd is officially declared dead, despite still being alive. [[labelnote:justification ]] Surd's death certificate is dated five months before his transfer to Belle Isle. [[/labelnote]] (''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'')
* September 10:
** Birth of Ami Mizuno. She would awaken her powers as Sailor Mercury fourteen years later. (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
** Aliens take over the town of Cliffport, Maine. (''Series/TheTimeTunnel'')
* September 15: Dr. Neil Perry takes the Mega Corporation's TimeMachine for a test drive. He arrives in Salem, Massachusetts on April 10, 1692 and becomes embroiled in the Salem witch trials. (''Film/TheTimeMachine1978'')
* September 19: James Marcus develops the T-virus by combining the Progenitor virus with leech DNA. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'')
* 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. (''[[Film/DawnOfTheDead1978 Dawn of the Dead]]'').
* October 22: Birth of Minako Aino. She would become Sailor Venus [[note]] Sailor V, at first [[/note]] for the first time thirteen years later. (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* October 29: Angus Bistrong is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* 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. (''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'')
* October 31: Michael Myers returns to menace Haddonfield, Illinois and embarks on a killing spree, murdering four people before being seriously injured. (''Film/{{Halloween|1978}}'')
** 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. (''[[Film/HalloweenII1981 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: ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' airs on Creator/{{CBS}}. (RealLife, ''Theatre/{{Special}}'') A growing number of protesters show up outside of CBS's offices in response. (''Podcast/RiffTrax'')
** 11:00 pm EST: Frizzies are fought. ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxyt03SnAkk WCBS news promo]])
* December 5: Birth of Makoto Kino. Fourteen years later, she would awaken her powers as Sailor Jupiter. (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* December 11: Matthew Adams is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* 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 ComicBook/{{Firestorm|DCComics}}. (Creator/DCComics)
* Killer tomatoes attack America. (''Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes'')
* Andy Travis is hired as programming director of Cincinnati radio station WKRP, whose format he immediately changes from "Beautiful Music" to Rock-and-Roll. (''Series/WKRPInCincinnati'')
* Amity island is terrorized by another killer shark. (''Film/{{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.[[/note]] (''Series/{{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. (''Film/TheFury'')
* Birth of India Cohen. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* Killer 7 kills Kess Bloodysunday in Spain. (''VideoGame/{{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. (''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'')
* Formation of Federation of [=InterState=] Truckers takes place. (''Film/{{FIST}}'')
* Experimental piranha are accidentally released from an abandoned facility. (''Film/{{Piranha}}'')
* Malbordus massacres the Wood Elf village of Caerno. (''[[Literature/FightingFantasy Temple of Terror]]'')
* Pelafina Truant attempts to strangle her son, Johnny. Her husband, Donnie, commits her to Whalestoe Mental Institution. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* The hard rock group KISS battle Abner Devereaux and his robots at the Magic Mountain amusement park. (''Film/KissMeetsThePhantomOfThePark'')
* The Second Conference at Basra is held. (''Literature/TheShapeOfThingsToCome'')
* Birth of Meredith Davies. (''Series/TruCalling''[[labelnote:Justification]]The credits in the pilot episode list her as being 15 in 1993[[/labelnote]])
* [=AIs=] first appear on BBS boards. (''Visualnovel/{{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. (''ComicStrip/DickTracy'')
* 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 TrappedInTVLand by Final Boss Veigar. (''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', 'Arcade Hecarim' skin.)
* The first manned mission to Mars is launched. (''Series/TheTimeTunnel'')
* The American space probe Grand Tour is launched. (''Series/MoonbaseThree'')
* Bobby Ewing and Pamela Barnes are married for the first time. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* Gary Walter Wallace and Wyatt Donnelly are born. (''Series/WeirdScience'')
* 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. (''Series/K9AndCompany'')
* Marshall Teller, Devon Wilde and Janet Donner are born. (''Series/EerieIndiana'')
* 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. (''Series/EerieIndiana'')
* Christophe Druand dies and is brought back as a zombie. (''Film/TheSerpentAndTheRainbow'')
* 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. (''Literature/TheStand'')
* After failing to return home to 2023, Ben Song leaps into a Sergeant Perez on a DecoyConvoy 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap2022'')
* Birth of Sarah Clinton. (Webcomic/{{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. (''Film/ThreeIdiots'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1979]]
* January 1: Birth of Naru Osaka (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* January 21: Dan Hodges is born. (''Series/{{Torchwood}}'')
* January 31: Pop singer and Starlight Foundation co-founder Jacqui Benton dies in a plane crash (''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'')
* January: Jeremiah Surd is transferred to Belle Isle Home for the Insane, having been officially declared dead. (''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'')
* February 1: Ayatollah's in Iran. ("[[Music/BillyJoel We Didn't Start the Fire]]")
* February 8: Birth of Yaten Kou (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* February 26: Libby Bradley is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* February 28: Sam Beckett leaps into Detective Jack Stone in Malibu. He is there to solve the murder of Janice [=DeCaro=]. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* March 22: Joyce Byers gives her son Will a box containing 120 crayons for his eighth birthday while his friends all get him ''Franchise/StarWars'' toys. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* April 3: Birth of David Willis. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}} and RealLife)
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap2022'')
* May 5: Birth of Joyce to Hank and Carol Brown in Forth Worth. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
* May 12: Edwin Castillo is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* May 21: Sam Beckett leaps into Ray Hutton, who is understudying an alcoholic actor named John O'Malley in an off-Broadway production of ''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha'' 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* 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. (''Literature/{{Carrie}}'')
* May 30: Birth of Taiki Kou (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* May: Brett Waits and Bethany Sloane graduate from high school and go to Carnegie Mellon University together in Pittsburgh. (''Film/{{Dogma}}[[AllThereInTheManual : A Screenplay]]'')
* June 11: Orson Bailey disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* 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.[[/note]] (''[[Film/FridayThe13th1980 Friday the 13th]]'')
* July: Nicholas Angel decides he wants to be [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit the Frog]] when he grows up. (''Film/HotFuzz'')
* July 30: Birth of Seiya Kou (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* 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[[/note]] (''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'')
* September 4: Henri-Laurent de Marigny reappears with no memory of the last ten years. (''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos The Transition of Titus Crow]]'')
* September 19: Birth of Hermione Granger (''Franchise/HarryPotter'')
* 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. (''Film/{{Dogma}}''[[AllThereInTheManual : A Screenplay]]'')
** The SilentMovie star Dorothea Page dies. (''Series/{{Columbo}}'')
* October 4: Shelby Whitling disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* 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. (''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'')
* 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. (''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'')
* 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. (''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'')
* October 12: Isabelle "Izzy" Sinclair is born. (''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'')
* 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. (''Literature/{{The Three Body Problem}}'')
* October 21: Ye Wenjie murders Lei Zhicheng; Yang Weining also dies in the process. (''Literature/{{The Three Body Problem}}'')
* October 31: L Lawliet is born. (''Manga/DeathNote'')
* November 5: A [[TimeTravel time-traveling]] Creator/HGWells arrives in San Francisco in pursuit of Dr. John Leslie Stevenson, aka UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. (''Film/TimeAfterTime'')
* November 23: Lindsey Hammond disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* December 21: Ronald Joseph "R.J." Collins is born. (''Series/SavedByTheBellTheNewClass'')
* December 23: Peter Petrelli is born. (''Series/{{Heroes}}'')
* December 24: [[UsefulNotes/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan Russians in Afghanistan]]. ("[[Music/BillyJoel We Didn't Start the Fire]]")
* December 25: James Halliday receives his first computer, an Platform/{{Atari 2600}}, as a Christmas present. His favourite game is ''Adventure'', and he is among the first to discover Warren Robbinett's EasterEgg. (''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'')
* December 31: Michael Kelso and Eric Forman return to Point Place, Wisconsin, to celebrate the end of the Seventies with their friends. (''Series/That70sShow'')
* Claire Redfield born. (''Franchise/ResidentEvil'')
* Tricia Jones is born. (''Film/{{Mallrats}}'')
* Phoenix becomes Dark Phoenix, sacrifices herself to save the universe. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* The Fourth Doctor and Romana prevent Scaroth from rescuing his past self and thus erasing the existence of life on Earth. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Two brothers and an ice cream vendor confront the Tall Man. (''Film/{{Phantasm}}'')
* Future executive of Complex Corp., Mr. Burton, marries. (''Film/{{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. (''Film/{{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. (''Series/KamenRiderSkyrider'')
* 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. (''Series/BattleFeverJ'')
* Joseph "Joe" Dawson is assigned as Duncan [=MacLeod=]'s newest Watcher. Duncan would not notice his presence until the 1990s. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'')
* Birth of Baby Bonnie Hood/Bulleta. She would grow up to have the instincts of a SerialKiller, and use them to start a profitable career as a [[BountyHunter hunter of monsters]]. (''VideoGame/{{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. [[/note]])
* 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. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[note]]Justification: Said to be 17 years old at her first appearance. Which took place in 1996. [[/note]])
* 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. (''Film/TheWarriors'')
* Zombie outbreak in Sperry, Alabama. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')
* Super squadron declare their retirement and Baron Ether announces his retirement after arrest in the senate building. (''Literature/SoonIWillBeInvincible'')
* Film/JamesBond investigates a theft of a space shuttle and ends up stopping a plan to exterminate the human population. (''Film/{{Moonraker}}'')
* Rufus Excalibur ffolkes enacts an anti-terrorist plan of his making on an oil platform. (''Film/NorthSeaHijack'')
* Will Navidson and Karen Green begin a relationship. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* In Portland, Oregon, Hellboy goes to meet with Mr. Tod, a spirit medium who is soon discovered to be possessed by an otherworldly creature. (''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'': Goodbye Mister Tod)
* After the outbreak of the Iranian Revolution, President UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan 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. (''Literature/{{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.[[/note]] (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'')
* Dylan Hunt is placed in suspended animation. (''Genesis II'')
* Buck Francisco is born. (''Series/AlienNation'')
* John Ross Ewing is born. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* Franklin Endicott commits suicide. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* 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. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'', ''Series/KnotsLanding'')
* Garrison Southworth dies. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* Richard and Becky Belding are married. (''Series/SavedByTheBellTheNewClass'')
* The paramedic Jesse Keys saves Mo Reynolds' life after a farm accident. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* Maria Lopez is born. (''Series/SavedByTheBellTheNewClass'')
* On its way to Earth, Kara Zor-El's pod becomes trapped in the Phantom Zone. It remains there for the next 24 years. (''Series/Supergirl2015'')
* [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kal-El]] is born on Krypton. (''Series/Supergirl2015'')
* A married couple move into a country house after the death of their son, only to find out that an EldritchAbomination living beneath it intends to consume them. (''Film/WeAreStillHere'')
* In Eerie, Indiana, the sixth 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'')
* Aiden Ford is born. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
* Dr. Nicholas Ballard suffers a severe mental breakdown and checks himself into a psychiatric institution in Oregon. He remains there until 2000. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* The wedding of Kara Kent and Bruce Wayne, Jr., who are secretly ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} and Franchise/{{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 Franchise/{{Superman}}. His mother [[ComicBook/LoisLane Lois]]' oncologist Dr. [[SignificantAnagram Holurt]] then reveals himself to be ComicBook/LexLuthor. 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. (''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'')
* Bruce Wayne travels to the Himalayas and manages to track down ComicBook/RasAlGhul'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. (''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'')
* Hunter Riley is born. (''Series/StargateUniverse'')
* Keras is born on [=M7G-677=] in the Pegasus galaxy. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
* Brian Tanner is born. (''Series/{{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. (''Webcomic/PennyArcade: Paint the Line'')
* Six women (and a TagalongKid) take down all of LA's drug operations. Michelle Wilson sings about shining your love. (''Film/AngelsRevenge'')
* Tim Taylor and Jill Patterson are married. (''Series/HomeImprovement'')
* Birth of Danny Wilcox, Joe Rosenthal, and Rachel Jackson. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
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[[folder: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. (''Film/TheVillage2004'')
* 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. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII''[[note]]Justification: Believed to be in his twenties in 1997/1998.[[/note]])
* 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. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII''[[note]]Justification: Believed to be in his twenties in 1997/1998.[[/note]])
* Estimated birth of Pullum Purna in Saudi Arabia. She would grow up to become a belly dancer, [[DanceBattler fighter]], and ruler of her own kingdom. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[note]]Justification: Said to be a debutante, thus at least 17 years old. [[/note]])
* Estimated birth of Blair Dame in Europe. She would grow up to become a fighter. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[note]]Justification: Said to be a debutante, thus at least 17 years old.[[/note]])
* Estimated birth of Hayate in Japan. His father is a legendary swordsman who managed to defeat Main/{{Orochi}}. Hayate would follow in his footsteps. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[note]]Justification: Seems to be another teenager. [[/note]])
* 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 ComicBook/TheJoker. Several superheroes experiment with this new method of fighting crime. ([[Advertising/HostessFruitPies 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. (''Series/BrooklynNineNine'')[[labelnote: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.[[/labelnote]]
* Stan Pines founds the Mystery Shack. (''Westernanimation/{{Gravity Falls}}'')
* Gwendolyn Ingolfsson is born in what was once Florence as one of the first ''Homo drakensis''. (''Literature/TheDraka'')
* After a performance in Las Vegas, Music/ElvisPresley invites a fan named Sandra up to his dressing room. He tells her that he is merely pretending to be the King but [[CassandraTruth 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 [[DeadPersonImpersonation assumed Elvis' identity]] after accidentally killing him on July 4, 1954. Sandra will become his manager by 1986. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder:[=197X=]/1970s]]
* December 31: The second leg of Creator/WillSmith'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 ''Series/SoulTrain''. ("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. (''Music/TheProtomen'')
* Birth of Jack Archer, a future professor of ecology.[[labelnote:Justification]]Stated to have been a teenager in the 1990s.[[/labelnote]] (''Westernanimation/Phantom2040')
* 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. (''Film/RealGenius'')
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[[folder:Early 1970s]]
* A Veil cryo-ship crash lands on Earth. The Alliance of Shades seals it away in a vault. (''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'')
* Jason "Jay" Derris and Robert "Silent Bob" Blutarsky are born and meet in front of Quick Stop as infants. (''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'')
* 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 [[labelnote:into]] paranormal phenomena[[/labelnote]] (''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'')
* Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice dies from shock and old age after his final revenge against Dick Tracy fails. (''ComicStrip/DickTracy'')
* Henry Starling meets U.S. President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon in the Oval Office. (''Series/StarTrekVoyager'')
* By this time, over 75% of the world's population are under the age of 21. (''Literature/LogansRun'')
* Nazi Germany and Japan defeat the United States and Canada in the [[WorldWarIII 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'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Unclear date most likely in the 1970s]]
* Jones begins working for The Court and escorts a young James Eglamore there. (''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'')
* 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 Creator/StephenKing)[[labelnote:timing]]Richard Nixon is the President and the Vietnam War is still being fought[[/labelnote]]
* October 31: Harry Dresden is born [[labelnote: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 WordOfGod says he was in his mid-twenties then. [[/labelnote]] (''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'')
* 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. [[labelnote: 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.[[/labelnote]](''Series/DoctorWho'')
** 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)[[/note]](''Series/DoctorWho'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder: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. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* January 20: Madeleine Wallace receives news that her cheating husband had died in a car crash in South America. (''Film/{{Amelie}}'')
* January: [[spoiler:A young River Song regenerates in New York.]] (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* February 15: J.R. Ewing and Sue Ellen Shepard are married for the first time. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* February 28: Jeremy Berg disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* 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 UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'')
* March 17: Jonathan murders his wife Pamela. (''Series/NightGallery'')
* 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 Film/{{Secretariat}}. (RealLife)
* April 3: Sarah Bohm is born. (''Series/Touch2012'')
* April 4: Colonel Owen Crawford, his son Eric and Lt. Colonel Marty Erickson investigate a [[CropCircles 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 [[AlienInvasion invasion]]. He stakes his career on it and asks U.S. President UsefulNotes/RichardNixon to personally inspect the site. Nixon instead sends Toby Woodruff of the Department of Defense and Ted Olsen of the UsefulNotes/{{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. (''Series/{{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. (''Series/{{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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
** 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. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* April 8:
** In the original timeline, Tom Beckett is killed in Vietnam. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
** After Sam Beckett changes history, journalist Maggie Dawson is killed in Vietnam. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* April 11: [[TheVietnamVet 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. (''Series/{{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 [[GovernmentConspiracy 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 [[RoswellThatEndsWell 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 [[MindRape 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. (''Series/{{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. (RealLife, ''Film/Apollo13'')
** This is due to Lunarians not wanting Earthlings to land on the Moon. (''Franchise/TouhouProject'')
** Colonel Owen Crawford believes that the explosion of the oxygen tank is a sign of UsefulNotes/{{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 [[AlienInvasion invasion]] if he were still in charge of the UFO project. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
** The explosion is caused by a baseball belonging to WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost hitting a button marked "DANGER." (''WesternAnimation/TheSpooktacularNewAdventuresOfCasper'')
* 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. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
** Jesse Keys attempts to sell his father Russell's UsefulNotes/WorldWarII 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. (''Series/{{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. (''Series/{{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. (''Series/{{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. (''Series/{{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 [[MindRape 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. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* April 27: Mary Crawford is born. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* April: Death of recently activated Slayer Beryl [=McKenzie=]. A new Slayer is activated in northern Poland. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* 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. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* May 10: Jean [=DeLynn=] Baker is born. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* May 27: Jesse Keys proposes to Amelia Henderson, who says yes. (''Series/{{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 [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell crashsite]]. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
** Sheriff Kerby destroys the burial chamber in Hyder, Alaska with dynamite. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* May: Birth of Cameron Mitchell. The fact that this occurs nine months after SG-1's time-travel incursion is a [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial total coincidence]]. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* 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 [[RoswellThatEndsWell crash of the alien ship in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947]]. (''Series/{{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. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* June 16: Brian Piccolo, a running back with the Chicago Bears before being diagnosed with cancer, dies of his disease. (RealLife and ''Film/BriansSong'')
* June 25: Peter Conway is born. (''Series/MoonbaseThree'')
* July 4: Saturday in the park - people dancing, people laughing, a man selling ice cream singing Italian songs. ("[[Music/{{Chicago}} Saturday in the Park]]")
* July 6: Paul Newbold is born. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* August 20: Dorothy "Ace" [=McShane=] is born. (''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'')
* 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. (''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'')
* October 3: Jeffrey Jones is born. (''Series/{{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. (''Literature/GraveyardShift'')
* October: Private investigator Carl Faubert arrives at Atamipek Lake to investigate a vandalism case. (''VideoGame/{{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? (''Series/{{The Odd Couple| 1970}}'')
* 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. (RealLife and ''Film/WeAreMarshall'')
* November 20: Charlotte "Charlie" Wade is born. (''Series/{{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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* December: Current Slayer dies in the Polish riots. Nikki Wood becomes the Slayer. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* Delta Green is disbanded again. (Franchise/CthulhuMythos, ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'')
* Skull Man/Tatsuo Kagura starts a series of mass murders and catastrophes all over Japan. The SociopathicHero is on a path of vengeance. (''Manga/SkullMan'')
* 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. (''Literature/StarTrekTheEugenicsWars'')
* Birth of Derek Maza/Talon to Peter and Diane Maza. (''WesternAnimation/{{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. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Jotaro Kujo is born to Sadao Kujo and his English-American wife, Holly. Noriaki Kakyoin is born in the same year. (''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'')
* A recently widowed mother, Shirley Partridge, and her five children form a pop group. (''Series/ThePartridgeFamily'')
* Las Vegas reporter Carl Kolchak investigates the "Night Stalker" case. (''Series/KolchakTheNightStalker'')
* Births of Caitlin Bree, Alyssa Jones, Cohee Lundin, Julie Marie Dwyer, Holden [=McNeil=], and Banky Edwards. (''Film/{{Clerks}}'', ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'', and ''Film/ChasingAmy'')
* Matthew Ross is born. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* Susan Bruckner is born. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Priscilla Silbart and Bill Walters die. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Michael Williams is born. (''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'')
* Valentine Summerfield is born. (''Literature/BerniceSummerfield'')
* Ruskin loses his sight. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* Rhonda Wellman is born. (''Series/WeirdScience'')
* Mitch Taylor is born. (''Film/RealGenius'')
* Birth of Hitomi Kawai. (''VisualNovel/FamicomDetectiveClub: The Girl Who Stands Behind'')
* Birth of Yoko to Akie Kojima and her unnamed husband. (''VisualNovel/FamicomDetectiveClub: The Girl Who Stands Behind'')
* Joel Prihoda is named "Man of the Year" at Shermer High School. (''Film/TheBreakfastClub'')
* Charlie Winston, son of Alex and Sam Winston, brother of Suzie Winston, nephew of Chris Wells, and grandson of Ruth Cassandra Winston, is born. (''VideoGame/NotForBroadcast'')
* Elan School is founded. (RealLife, ''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder: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. (''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'')
** Private eye John Shaft is hired to rescue a harlem mobster's daughter from TheMafia. (''Film/{{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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* February: Genjiro Kaneda opens a pub, which is actually a front for illegal moneylending. (''Visualnovel/{{Famicom Detective Club}}: The Girl Who Stands Behind'')
* March 2: Ada Burn Quigley dies. (''Series/NightGallery'')
* March 22: Will Byers is born. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* 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. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* 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. (''Series/KamenRiderKabuto'')
** Stephen "Mitch" Mitchell [[DramaticSpaceDrifting almost drifts off into space]] but he is rescued by Jet Morgan and Lemmy Barnet. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* June 21: Birth of Johnny, known as Johnny Truant, to Donnie and Pelafina Heather Lievre _____________. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* June 23: Cathy Briscoe is born. (''Series/LawAndOrder'')
* 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. (''Literature/PerryRhodan'')
* July 2: Benny Faulkner is born. (''Radio/DimensionX'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap2022'')
* August: Yuri and Masha Peltrovich are married. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* September: Liam and Debra Moone are married. (''Series/MooneBoy'')
* 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. (RealLife and ''Film/WeAreMarshall''; 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. (RealLife and ''Film/WeAreMarshall''; 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. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
** 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. (''ComicBook/ThePunisherBorn'')
* Between August and October: Ye Wenjie performs an unauthorised experiment, using the Sun as am amplifier for an interstellar radio broadcast. (''Literature/{{The Three Body Problem}}'')
* November 5: Sara James disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* November 9: Genjiro Kaneda orders Toshio Tazaki to pay his debt in full by the next day. (''Visualnovel/{{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. (''Visualnovel/{{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. (''Visualnovel/{{Famicom Detective Club}}: The Girl Who Stands Behind'')
* November 24:
** Cooper [=DeMeers=] disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
** 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. (''Series/{{Loki|2021}}'')
* November: Teruhiko Uchida, lead suspect in the murder of Genjiro Kaneda, commits suicide. His son, Tatsuya, moves to a different school [[labelnote:more]]and begins going by his mother's maiden name, Hibino[[/labelnote]]
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Alexander Ashford uses his DNA and that of his ancestor, Veronica, to create two children, Alexia and Alfred. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'')
* Comicbook/DoctorStrange, Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk, Namor the ComicBook/SubMariner and the ComicBook/SilverSurfer first join forces as ComicBook/TheDefenders. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Comicbook/TheAvengers become involved in an [[ComicBook/TheKreeSkrullWar interstellar war between the Kree and Skrulls]]. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Godzilla battles Hedorah. (''Film/GodzillaVsHedorah'')
* Harry Callahan confronts serial killer Scorpio. (''Film/DirtyHarry'')
* 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. (''Series/KamenRider'')
* 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. (''Film/OOODenOAllRidersLetsGoKamenRiders'')
* 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. (''Series/{{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. (''Series/MarriedWithChildren'')
* Estimated birth of Yancy Fry Jr. to Yancy Fry and Mrs. Gleisner-Fry. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'')
* Atomic Robo and Creator/CarlSagan go to Peru to do battle with a [[EldritchAbomination squamous monster]] Robo is getting tired of. (''ComicBook/AtomicRobo 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. (''VideoGame/{{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. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* A driver and a mechanic in a 1955 Chevy are challenged to a race across America by a man in a GTO. (''Film/TwoLaneBlacktop'')
* Ernst Stavro Blofeld attempts to hold the world hostage with his [[KillSat orbital laser]]. (''Film/DiamondsAreForever'')
* David Mann is tailgated by a homicidal trucker. (''Film/{{Duel}}'')
* Dracula returns from death when Cliffton Graves removes a stake from his heart. (''Comicbook/TheTombOfDracula'' #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. (''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'')
* *Creeper, the first self-replicating AI spawned by *Mother, appears on ARPANET. (''Visualnovel/{{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. (''Website/SCPFoundation'')
* Abby Fairgate and Jeff Cunningham are married. (''Series/KnotsLanding'')
* Chett Donnelly is born. (''Series/WeirdScience'')
* Charles Russell is born. (''Second Chance'')
* Charlie Keys is born. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* Joshua Leonard is born. (''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'')
* Lynn Tanner is born. (''Series/{{ALF}}'')
* Jeff [=McDowell=] flees to Canada after being drafted to fight in the Vietnam War. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* [AlternateUniverse] Jeff [=McDowell=] fights in the Vietnam War and eventually [[AnArmAndALeg loses both of his legs]] when he steps on a landmine. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* Keith Barnes is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* [AlternateUniverse] former U.S. President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is elected Secretary-General of the UsefulNotes/LeagueOfNations. (''[[Literature/RandomQuest Quest for Love]]'')
* The B2 robot Battling Maxo defeats Dimsy the Rock in a boxing match. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair and Dustin Henderson are born. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* The Warrens rescue a family from a Satanic witch's ghost. (''Film/TheConjuring'')
* Zaddik is born on a planet in the Pegasus galaxy. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
* 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. (''Literature/AxiomsEnd'')
* Birth of Taro Ninten and Ayumi Tachibana. (''Visualnovel/{{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 [[labelnote:more]]Taro Ninten, the protagonist of the games[[/labelnote]] to Sayako Yamamori. (''Visualnovel/{{Famicom Detective Club}}: The Missing Heir'')
* ''Itchy and Scratchy meet Westernanimation/{{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. (''Westernanimation/{{The Simpsons}}'')
* A student named John is named "Man of the Year" at Shermer High School. (''Film/TheBreakfastClub'')
* 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. (''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter, [[AllThereInTheManual 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. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
* Birth of Jordan to Hank and Carol Brown. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* The Los Angeles Police Department starts Operation Truant to curb burglaries being committed by truant grade schoolers. (''Series/Adam12'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder: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. (''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter, [[AllThereInTheManual Settings Archive Vol 3 -Starlet-]]'' art book)
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1972]]
* January 9: Tyler Downing disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* 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. (''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'')
* 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. (''Series/{{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. [[labelnote:Justification]] Happens when recruiters are scouting for scholarship candidates. When the brothers are reunited in 1983, Stanley states it has been over 10 years.[[/labelnote]] (''Westernanimation/{{Gravity Falls}}'')
** The SCP Foundation sets up containment procedures for SCP-3000. (''Website/SCPFoundation'')
* May 15:
** Arthur Bremer attempts to assassinate U.S. presidential candidate George Wallace, paralyzing him from the waist down. (RealLife)
** [AlternateTimeline] Arthur Bremer assassinates U.S. President George Wallace. Vice President Curtis [=LeMay=] assumes the presidency. (''Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree'')
* 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''. (''Film/SomewhereInTime'')
* June 1: Birth of James Halliday in Middletown, Ohio. (''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'')
* June 2: Leonard Snart is born. (''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'')
* June 15:
** The ''Discovery'' fleet sets off from Mars on its 355-million-mile return journey to Earth. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
** 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 [[RunawayBride leave Sam at the altar]] in 1984. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* 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. (RealLife)
** The break-in is inadvertently revealed by Betsy and Arlene, two teenage girls living in the building who are out past their curfew, (''Film/{{Dick}}'') and by Forrest Gump, who calls a report of lights in the offices opposite his room disturbing him (''Film/ForrestGump'').
** Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln apprehend the burglars. (''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'')
** During the burglary, Donna Eleese is reunited with her father Colonel Wojohowitz at the hotel. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
** 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. (RealLife, ''Film/AllThePresidentsMen'')
* July 2: A Martian spaceship [[AliensInCardiff crash-lands in the Lake District]]. Three other spaceships land in remote areas of Australia, India and South America. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* July 4: Jason Crockett's birthday party is ruined when the swamp dwellers around his mansion start killing and driving away his guests. (''Film/{{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 [[AmazonBrigade Dolls]]. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'')
* August 15: Heather Donahue is born. (''Film/TheBlairWitchProject'')
* 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. (''VideoGame/{{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, RealLife). He takes a ferry to Nesodden, where he lives the rest of the autumn in seclusion, writing his memoirs (Literature/{{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. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* October: Brodie Bruce is born. (''Film/{{Mallrats}}'')
* November 3: Simone Marks is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* 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 [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Bigfoot]]. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* November 7:
** UsefulNotes/RichardNixon is re-elected U.S. President, defeating UsefulNotes/GeorgeMcGovern. (RealLife)
** The original Mighty Avengers are formed by James Lucas, the Bear, Blue Marvel, Comicbook/{{Blade}}, Kaluu, and Constance Molina. Lucas departs after their first mission. (Creator/{{Marvel Comics}})
** [AlternateUniverse] UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is elected to a fourth term as U.S. President. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
** [AlternateTimeline] UsefulNotes/HubertHumphrey defeats Curtis [=LeMay=] in the U.S. presidential election. (''Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree'')
** Jennifer Keaton is born. (''Series/FamilyTies'')
** UsefulNotes/GeorgeMcGovern defeats UsefulNotes/RichardNixon in the U.S. presidential election. (''Alternate Presidents'')
** U.S. President UsefulNotes/GeorgeMcGovern is re-elected. ("Hillary Orbits Venus")
** Mr. Millipede, Gwimbly's sidekick, is born. (''WesternAnimation/SmilingFriends'')
* 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. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* November 27: Estimated birth of Kelly Bundy to Al and Peggy Bundy. (''Series/MarriedWithChildren''[[note]]Justification: Her birthday is given within the series. The year can be estimated because of mentions of Kelly being 18 in 1990.[[/note]])
* 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. (''Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes'')
* December 23: A massive earthquake hits in Managua, Nicaragua, leaving future drug lord Jose Menendez and his two children, Raul and Josefina, homeless (''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'')
* Billy Coen is born. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'')
* ComicBook/LukeCage gains superpowers, becomes a hero for hire. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Johnny Blaze becomes the original Comicbook/GhostRider. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Godzilla battles Gigan. (''Film/GodzillaVsGigan'')
* A SerialKiller 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. (''Film/{{Frenzy|1972}}'')
* Twins Solid Snake and Liquid Snake born. (''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series)
* Supposed Allied puppet Premier Romanov leads the USSR and the World Socialist Alliance in an invasion of America, beginning World War III. (''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'')
* 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. (''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2: Yuri's Revenge'')
* The Alliance of Shades' MIB work is disbanded, their duties moved to guarding an interdimensional vault. (Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse [animated serials], ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'')
* 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. (''Series/TheATeam'')
* The Los Angeles Underground is founded. (''Series/TheATeam'')
* A day later, the A-Team vanishes into the Los Angeles Underground. (''Series/TheATeam'')
* A day later, the Los Angeles Underground is disbanded. (''Series/TheATeam'')
* Nikki Wood falls pregnant by her boyfriend, Li. Li dies soon after, and Nikki's pregnancy remains a secret between her and her Watcher. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* Maggie Evans, under the name Victoria Winters, begins working for the Collins family. Barnabas Collins is dug up around this time. (''Film/DarkShadows'')
* Follower of Count Dracula brings him to the seventies. (''Film/DraculaAD1972'')
* The Ice Cream Bunny gives a hand to crash landed Santa Claus. (''Film/SantaAndTheIceCreamBunny'')
* Births of Heather Jones, Rene Mosier, T.S. Quint, Brandi Svenning, and Gwen Turner. (''Film/{{Clerks}}'', ''Film/{{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. (''Anime/MazingerZ'')
* A party at Marlin Academy gets out of control, resulting in the ampitheatre being bulldozed. (''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'')
* Birth of Ogden Morrow. (''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'')
* 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. (''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'')
* *Reaper, a self-propagating AI with a built-in suicide switch, is deployed to delete *Creeper by *Mother and her human companion, Ray Tomlinson. (''Visualnovel/{{Digital A Love Story}}'', date taken from {{Real Life}})
* Mary O'Connell disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* Thomas Westphall dies. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Lisa Clarke is born. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* Luther Hawkins carves his initials into the St. Eligius third floor nurses' station while waiting for his mother. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Janet, who later becomes the superhero Captain Liberty, is born. (''Series/TheTick2001'')
* Danny Hayes is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* Ye Wenjie marries Yang Weining. (''Literature/{{The Three Body Problem}}'')
* Ray Kinsella is briefly brought back in time from 1989 to this year, where he meets an elderly Doc Graham. (''Film/FieldOfDreams'')
* 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. (''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder: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. (''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter, [[AllThereInTheManual 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. (''VideoGame/SolatoroboRedTheHunter, [[AllThereInTheManual Settings Archive Vol 3 -Starlet-]]'' art book)
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1973]]
* January 5: Gary Navarro disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* March 15: Biff Tannen kills George [=McFly=]. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'')
** 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.[[/note]] (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'')
* April 19: Werner Loecher disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* April: Carl Burton is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* April 29-May 1: A police inspector uncovers a pagan cult on a Scottish island while investigating a missing child. (''Film/TheWickerMan1973'')
* May 1: A girl who will one day become the mother of Lilo and Nani Pelekai wins a May Day hula competition. (''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch2StitchHasAGlitch'')
* May 5: Secretariat wins the Kentucky Derby, setting a new race record in the process. (RealLife and ''Film/{{Secretariat}}'')
* May 19: Secretariat wins the Preakness Stakes, [[HistoryRepeats setting a new race record in the process]]. (RealLife and ''Film/{{Secretariat}}'')
* May: Kim Karlsen finishes his novel (''Literature/{{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. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* 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. (RealLife and ''Film/{{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 [[AmazonBrigade Dolls]]. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'')
* July 20: Joe Washington is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* August 18: The deranged Sawyer family in Texas slaughters and makes meat out of a group of travelling teens. Only one teen survives. (''Film/TheTexasChainSawMassacre1974'')
* 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. (''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'')
* August: Joey Jeremiah is born. (''Series/DegrassiHigh'')
* Mid-1973: Births of Dante Hicks and Randal Graves. (''Film/{{Clerks}}'')
* September 11: UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet leads a military coup in Chile. (RealLife) During this coup, a German woman's fiance is kidnapped, and she has to infiltrate a cult to rescue him. (''Film/TheColony2016'')
* September 21: Douglas "Doogie" Howser is born. (''Series/DoogieHowserMD'')
* September 23: The first ships of the Martian invasion fleet land in Asia. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* October 5: Andi Simmons is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* 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 [[TheGreys 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. (''Series/TheXFiles'')
* 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". (''Series/{{Daredevil|2015}}'')
* November 27: Samantha Mulder disappears; her brother Fox eventually becomes convinced she was [[AlienAbduction abducted by aliens]]. (''Series/TheXFiles'')
* Chris Redfield born. (''Franchise/ResidentEvil'')
* 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. (''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'')
* Apes Cornelius and Zira arrive from the far future.[[note]]They are eventually killed, but not before Zira gives birth to their son, Caesar.[[/note]] (''Film/EscapeFromThePlanetOfTheApes'')
* After a test flight accident, Steve Austin is rebuilt as a cyborg and becomes an operative for the OSI. (''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'')
* The [[Comicbook/NormanOsborn Green Goblin]] causes the [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied death of Gwen Stacy]], leading to a battle with ComicBook/SpiderMan that ends in the Goblin's death. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Godzilla battles Megalon and Gigan with the help of shapeshifting robot Jet Jaguar. (''Film/GodzillaVsMegalon'')
* The Ladies' Department moves to the same floor as the men's department at Grace Brothers. (''Series/AreYouBeingServed'')
* Benjamin Linus joins the DHARMA Initiative on the Island. (''Series/{{Lost}}'')
* Fathers Lankester Merrin and Damien Karras die under mysterious circumstances, allegedly while conducting an exorcism at the [=MacNeil=] residence in Georgetown. (''Film/TheExorcist'')
* According to George Foreman, Muhammed Ali faces an 80ft-tall mechanical Joe Frazier in a boxing match. The entire Earth is destroyed. (''WesternAnimation/{{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. (''Series/KamenRiderV3'')
* Birth of the immortal Enrique Grimaldi in Callao, Peru. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* Estimated birth of Sally/Sari in India. She would become the wife of Dhalsim. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha''[[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.[[/note]])
* 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. (''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'')
* Nikki Wood completes her Cruciamentum despite being pregnant. She gives birth to her son, Robin, later that year. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* 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. (''VideoGame/{{killer7}}'')
* Film/JamesBond destroys a drug trafficking business in the island of San Monique. (''Film/LiveAndLetDie'')
* Gil Hicks (Dante Hicks's cousin) is born. (''Film/{{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. (''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII'')
* 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. (''BlackLight'')
* 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. (''Visualnovel/{{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. (''Literature/NightShift'': "Gray Matter")
* Ito T. Fujitsu is born. (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'')
* Tommy Westphall is born. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Quinn Mallory and Wade Welles are born. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
* [AlternateUniverse] Logan Mallory (later St. Clair) is born. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
* [AlternateUniverse] Liz Welles [[DeathByChildbirth dies in childbirth]] with her second daughter Wade, who also dies. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
* Daniel Basch is killed in a plane crash. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* The cemetery asteroid Happy Glades is established. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* The Postman is born. (''Film/ThePostman'')
* 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 [[SoleSurvivor 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. (''Film/ItTheTerrorFromBeyondSpace'')
* Anji Kapoor is born in Yorkshire. (''Literature/EighthDoctorAdventures'')
* 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. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Jasper Adeola is born. (''Series/Class2016'')
* Elizabeth Sherman's pyrokinetic powers manifest for the first time, leveling a city block and killing her family in the process. (''ComicBook/{{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 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsat_program 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." (''Film/KongSkullIsland'')
* Terrence Mann gives his last interview before becoming a recluse. He talks about seeing the Dodgers play at Ebbets Field. (''Film/FieldOfDreams'')
* British spy Jim Prideaux is sent to Czechoslovakia [[labelnote:note]]Budapest in the film version[[/labelnote]] to meet a general with the name of a [[TheMole mole]] in UK intelligence. The meeting is a trap orchestrated by a Russian spymaster, and Prideaux is shot. (''Literature/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy'')
* Birth of Jonathan to Hank and Carol Brown. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]
[[folder: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. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'', ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'')
* 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. (RealLife, ''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'')
* January 22: Estimated birth of Budrick Franklin "Bud" Bundy to Al and Peggy Bundy. (''Series/MarriedWithChildren''[[note]]Justification: His birthday is given within the series. The year can be estimated because of mentions of Bud being 18 in 1992.[[/note]])
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* February 14: Five people gather in a bar, rambling away on their lives in TheSixties, and how they grope for meaning in TheSeventies (''Theatre/KennedysChildren'')
* February 15: Jimmy Olsen is born. (''Series/LoisAndClark'')
* February 24: Douglas Robert [=McNair=] is born. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* March 2:
** Heather Tobey disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
** Caitlin Ryan is born. (''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* April 19: Betty Wilson seals a baloney sandwich in Foreverware. It is perfectly preserved until Marshall Teller accidentally breaks the seal in 1991. (''Series/EerieIndiana'')
* April 26: Larry Howard disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* May 26: Jenna Rink is born. (''Film/ThirteenGoingOnThirty'')
* June:
** Ray and Annie Kinsella get married. (''Film/FieldOfDreams'')
** Amélie Poulain is born. (''Film/{{Amelie}}'')
* August 2: Disguised as his malfunctioning B2 robot Battling Maxo, promoter Steel Kelly fights a B7 robot in a boxing match in Maynard, Kansas. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* August 3: Mamoru Chiba born (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* August 9: UsefulNotes/RichardNixon resigns as President of the United States, becoming the first person to do so. (RealLife) 'Deep Throat' gives him a parting message he'd rather not have. (''Film/{{Dick}}'')
** Vice President UsefulNotes/GeraldFord takes office. (RealLife)
** Vice President UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr takes office. (''TabletopGame/{{Chrononauts}}'')
** Talk show host David Frost decides to interview Nixon. (''Film/FrostNixon'')
* 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. (''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow''[[labelnote:Justification]]Just before Brad and Janet find the castle, they are seen listening to a tape of Nixon's resignation speech.[[/labelnote]])
* August 14: New York Mets win a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. (RealLife) Philip J. Fry is born at the same time. (''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'')
* Summer: Kim Karlsen arrives in Oslo after having been absent a year. He courts Vivi, another UptownGirl, and writes a cycle of poems in tandem with his friend Sebastian. (First sequel to ''Literature/{{Beatles}}'')
* September 12: Jefferson Pierce is born. (''Series/BlackLightning2018'')
* 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, ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha''[[note]]Justification: The upperclassman to Sakura's freshman. Year of birth has been alternatively estimated to 1973.[[/note]])
* September 20: Richie Ryan is born. (''Series/{{Highlander}}'')
* September: Christine "Spike" Nelson is born. (''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* October 30: UsefulNotes/MuhammadAli knocks out George Foreman, previously unbeaten as a professional, in the 8th round of their fight in Kinshasa to regain the undisputed heavyweight title. (RealLife and ''Film/WhenWeWereKings'')
* November 13: Ronald Defeo, Jr. murders his entire family. (RealLife and ''Literature/TheAmityvilleHorror'')
* Fall: John Kinsella dies. (''Film/FieldOfDreams'')
* December 24: Billy and Ricky Chapman watch their parents get murdered by a man dressed as Santa Claus. (''Film/SilentNightDeadlyNight'')
* December: Mentally sick man harasses a sorority. (''Film/BlackChristmas1974'')
* Jill Valentine and Ada Wong born. (''Franchise/ResidentEvil'')
* King Seesar is awakened in order to aid Godzilla against Mechagodzilla. (''Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzilla'')
* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} makes his debut, and first battles the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]]. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* ComicBook/ThePunisher begins his war on crime. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* 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.[[/note]] (''Series/{{Lost}}'')
* Helen Beta Narbon born. (''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'')
* Pacifist architect in New York becomes a vigilante. (''Film/DeathWish'')
* 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 (''Series/KamenRiderV3'', ''Manga/KamenRiderSpirits'')
* 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. (''Series/KamenRiderX'')
* 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. (''Series/KamenRiderAmazon'')
* Birth of the immortal Andrew Donnelly in Aberdeen, Scotland. (''Series/{{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. (''ComicBook/AtomicRobo 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. (''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'')
* Ezekiel Rage is recruited by the US government. (''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'' comic)
* Film/JamesBond duels with Francisco Scaramanga. (''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'')
* Tom Newcliffe invites a bunch of people into his manor, believing that one of them is a werewolf. (''Film/TheBeastMustDie'')
* 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. (''Anime/GreatMazinger'')
* 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. (''Manga/GetterRobo'')
* 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.[[/note]] (''Comicbook/TheBoys'')
* 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. (''Film/TheBigLebowski'')
* Homer Simpson and Marge Bouvier meet for the first time while in detention at Springfield High School. (''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': "The Way We Was")
* The Redjac entity murders five women in Kiev. (''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'')
* John Beckett dies. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* [AlternateUniverse] a major recession in the United States results in paper money being abandoned. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
* Sammy Andrews is born. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* 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. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* A group of children accidentally bully a fellow child into falling out a window to her death. (''Film/PromNight1980'')
* Rhoda Morgenstern moves back to New York after ten years in Minneapolis. (''Series/{{Rhoda}}'')
* Liam [=McShane=] is born. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* 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. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* Former SS-Obersturmführer Karl Rademacher, under the alias of Robert Greene, closes his dry cleaning business in Philadelphia and retires. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* Elizabeth Sherman joins the BPRD. (''ComicBook/{{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. [[labelnote:*]]Based on the assumption that Jane is no older than ten in the first season.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* 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. (''Webcomic/JoeVsElanSchool'')
* 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. (''Literature/TinkerTailorSoldierSpy'')
* 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. (''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990''[[labelnote: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.[[/labelnote]])
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1975]]
* January 12:
** The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Minnesota Vikings 16-6 in Super Bowl IX. (RealLife)
** 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. (''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'')
* January 13: Birth of Ruth Lesse. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
* January 16: Marsha Anderia disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* January: Adrian Veidt publicly reveals that he is Ozymandias. (''ComicBook/BeforeWatchmen'')
* February 9: Samuel "Screech" Powers is born. (''Series/SavedByTheBell'')
* March 3: Kage, an immortal, massacres 23 civilians in Cambodia. James Horton, his Watcher, witnesses the event. It was one of his earliest assignments. (''Series/{{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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* March 24: Jorge Molina disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* Summer:
** HighSchoolSweethearts 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. (''[[Music/BillyJoel Scenes from an Italian Restaurant]]'')
** Harvey Pekar has a relationship with a flaky woman named Carla. (''ComicBook/AmericanSplendor'')
* June 3: Russel Hobbs is born in [[BigApplesauce Brooklyn, New York]]. (Music/{{Gorillaz}})
* July 4: A huge great white shark eats people near Amity island. (''Film/{{Jaws}}'')
* July 17: Isabelle Baunsair disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* August 12: James Winfrey disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* August 20: Atomic Robo joins the "unmanned" Viking Mission to Mars as a top-secret troubleshooter. Due to a prank by Creator/StephenHawking, he spends the next 335 days en route without any entertainment. ("ComicBook/AtomicRobo of Mars")
* August 22: Marcus Wright is born. (''Film/TerminatorSalvation'')
* September 13: Tasajigwa Bajan disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* 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. (''Film/{{Network}}'')
* September 30: Members of a Creator/JamesDean fan club reunite on the 20th anniversary of his death. (''Film/ComeBackToTheFiveAndDimeJimmyDeanJimmyDean'')
* October 21: The Boston Red Sox defeat the Cincinnati Reds in the sixth game of the World Series. (RealLife) Mark, Ellen and Stephen Craig are in attendance. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* October 29: Sestuna Meioh born (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* November 10: The American freighter SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' sinks in Lake Superior during a severe storm. None of the crew of 29 survive. (''[[Music/GordonLightfoot The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald]]'' and RealLife)
* December 24:
** A woman murders her husband and imprisons her deformed son in the attic to keep him from talking. (''Film/BlackChristmas2006'')
** In the original timeline, Real estate mogul Michael Blake files for bankruptcy. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* A ninja in a secret Californian Ninja Academy makes a grab for power, is banished. (''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'')
* David Xanatos receives a 10th-century coin worth $20,000, which forms the start of his fortune. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Charles Xavier forms an all-new, all-different team of ComicBook/XMen to rescue the originals. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Identical twins Johan and Anna Liebert are born as part of a eugenics experiment in Czechoslovakia. (''Manga/{{Monster}}'')
* After a parachuting accident, Jaime Sommers is rebuilt as a cyborg and becomes an operative for the OSI.[[labelnote:More]]She dies when her body initially rejects the bionics, but is revived later in the year after an experimental cryonics procedure saves her life.[[/labelnote]] (''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'', ''Series/TheBionicWoman'')
* Fallout from biological warfare between China and the Soviet Union kills billions, and turns most of the survivors into [[OurVampiresAreDifferent light-sensitive psychopaths]]. (''Film/TheOmegaMan'')
* Godzilla battles Mechagodzilla a second time. (''Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla'')
* Nicholas Angel is born. (''Film/HotFuzz'')
* Peter Jacob delivers his artifact to Edward Roivas. (''VideoGame/EternalDarkness'')
* The town of 'Salem's Lot, Maine, is infested with vampires. (''Literature/SalemsLot'')
* After the relatively quick reestablishment of things after WorldWarIII, 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. (''Film/{{Clerks}}'')
* Randal Graves is afraid to sit on the toilet after seeing ''Film/{{Jaws}}''. (''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'')
* Woman accidentally brings a Zuni fetish doll to life and must fight for her life (''Film/TrilogyOfTerror'')
* 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. (''Series/KamenRiderStronger'')
* 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. (''Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger'') 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[[/note]] (''Film/KamenRiderXSuperSentaiSuperHeroTaisen'')
* Birth of Beth Maza to Peter and Diane Maza. (''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'')
* Birth of Maggie Reed. (''WesternAnimation/{{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 [[HeelFaceTurn re-examine his morals]]. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'')
* Zombie outbreak in Al-Marq, put down by Israeli Special Forces. Tensions mount between Egypt and Israel. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')
* Curtis Blackburn kills Dan Smith on a basketball court. Dan is revived by Garcian Smith. (''VideoGame/{{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. (''Manga/GetterRobo G'')
* The Vegan Empire attacks Earth. Exiled prince Duke Fleed makes his presence known once more to protect his adopted home (''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'')
* Secret research installation constructed by [[AncientConspiracy The Archaic]] at the old North-Western mine in Greenland. Search for anomalous artifacts commences. (''VideoGame/{{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 WorldWarIII. After being given a narcotic injection, he becomes "lost in a great darkness" and [[PeggySue 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. ("Literature/TimeAndTimeAgain")
* Wesley Hauser disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* Fernando Partridge is born. (''Series/ImAlanPartridge'')
* Dr. Donald Westphall becomes the Director of Medicine at St. Eligius. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* 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. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Dr. Mark Craig performs St. Eligius' first heart bypass operation on Patrick O'Casey. He survives the operation but dies six months later. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Jason Lochner is born. (''Series/KnotsLanding'')
* Jacqueline and Robert Wade are married. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Wallington's Feed & Grain goes out of business. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* Luther Hawkins' father is shot and killed by the police during the Boston busing riots. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Syndi Teller is born. (''Series/EerieIndiana'')
* Jack Driscoll dies. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* Jonah Summerfield I is killed in an industrial accident. (''Franchise/BerniceSummerfield'')
* 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. (''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'')
* There is a major strike of rolling roads workers in the United States. (''Radio/DimensionX'')
* Ted Baxter and Georgette Franklin are married. (''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'')
* Jack Arnold dies. (''Series/TheWonderYears'')
* Harry Warden dies. (''Film/MyBloodyValentine'')
* 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. (''Literature/{{The Three Body Problem}}'')
* Sherry Nugil begins her search for Lazlo Hollyfeld. She won't find him for another ten years. (''Film/RealGenius'')
* Stephanie Pierre, having been the victim of racist bullying, gives up her real life to join Frida's Friends Club. (''Literature/{{Unimaa}}'')
* The Great Fire occurs; much literature is burned by order of the American government, including the works of Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, Creator/LFrankBaum, Creator/HPLovecraft, Creator/AmbroseBierce, Creator/LewisCarroll, and Creator/TheBrothersGrimm. (''Literature/TheMartianChronicles'')
* Birth of Justin to Hank and Carol Brown. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]
[[folder: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. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterII''[[labelnote:justification]]The ''Street Fighter'' animated film has her as barely an adult when meeting Ken.[[/labelnote]] )
* 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 [[AmazonBrigade Dolls]]. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'')
* Estimated birth of Candy, the main love interest of Rufus. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIV''[[labelnote:justification]]Latest possible time for the birth of the biker chick.[[/labelnote]])
* Estimated birth of Doctrine Dark/Holger in Germany. He would grow up to become a soldier and later an AxCrazy killer. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[note]]Justification: Guile is supposed to be his trainer and presumably mentor. Holger was a combat veteran by his first appearance in 1996. [[/note]])
* Estimated birth of Skullomania/Saburo Nishikoyama in Japan. He would grow up to become a {{salaryman}} and later a [[SuperHero vigilante crime-fighter]]. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[note]]Justification: He is more or less inspired by the Manga/SkullMan (1970) and the original ''Series/KamenRider'' (1971-1973). [[/note]])
* Estimated birth of Sharon in Europe. She would grow up to become a nun and an espionage agent. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[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. [[/note]])
* Estimated birth of Shadowgeist in an unspecified {{dystopia}}. He would grow up to become a vengeance seeker. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[note]]Justification:He is closer to Skull Man than Skullomania. [[/note]])
* Estimated birth of Vulcano Rosso (Red Vulcano) in Italy. He would grow up to become a seeker of vengeance. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[note]]Justification: Supposed to be a former espionage agent. [[/note]])
* Estimated birth of Ace. He would grow up to become the top espionage agent of his country. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[note]]Justification: Might be older than he seems. [[/note]])
* 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. (''Literature/PerryRhodan'')
* [AlternateUniverse] Denise is killed in a motorcycle accident while her boyfriend Jeff [=McDowell=] is fighting in the Vietnam War. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
* Charlie Townshend recruits three female police officers, all dissatisfied with being stuck in mundane PD jobs, to work for his private investigating firm. (''Series/CharliesAngels''[[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.[[/note]])
* 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 MyGodWhatHaveIDone 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.[[/note]] (''Series/TheXFiles'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder: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. (''Literature/TheAmityvilleHorror'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder: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. (''Film/{{Rocky}}'', ''Film/RockyII'')
* January 12: John Dixon is born. (''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* April 26: Larry Hound disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* 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. (''Series/That70sShow'')
** [AlternateUniverse] 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. (''Series/That70sShow'')
* May 24: Danny Pennington is born. (''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'')
* May 28: The last day of school for a group of high schoolers in Austin, Texas. (''Film/DazedAndConfused'')
* 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. (''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'')
* June 3: In the original timeline, bankrupt real estate mogul Michael Blake commits suicide by jumping off his skyscraper Blake Plaza. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* June 4: The Music/SexPistols play a show at the Manchester Free Trade Hall to under 50 people. The small audience includes future members of Music/JoyDivision, Music/NewOrder, Music/{{The Fall|Band}}, Music/TheSmiths, Music/{{Buzzcocks}}, Music/{{Magazine}}, and Simply Red. (RealLife, ''Film/TwentyFourHourPartyPeople'', ''Film/{{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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* June: Ray Finkle graduates from Collier High. (''Film/AceVentura'')
* August 6: The spaceship transporting astronauts Bill Allen, Jeff Hudson and Judy Franklin encounters a time vortex. It travels forward to the year 3979. (''WesternAnimation/ReturnToThePlanetOfTheApes'')
* August:
** Jill Shelby is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
** Music/BlueOysterCult records "Don't Fear the Reaper" at Sunshine Studios. Bruce Dickinson (yes, ''the'' Bruce Dickinson) demands more cowbell. (''Series/SaturdayNightLive'')
* 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. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* October 28: The fifteen-year-old Theresa Givens is kidnapped and raped. The experience scars her for life. (''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'')
* November 2:
** UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter defeats UsefulNotes/GeraldFord in the U.S. presidential election. (RealLife)
** UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan defeats UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter in the U.S. presidential election. (''Literature/{{Replay}}'')
** George Wallace is elected President of the United States. (''Film/{{Tunnelvision}}'')
** [AlternateUniverse] UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy is elected to a fifth term as U.S. President. (''Series/{{Sliders}}'')
** UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan defeats Jerry Brown in the U.S. presidential election. (''Surrounded by Enemies: What If Kennedy Survived Dallas?'')
** [AlternateTimeline] UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan defeats Hubert Humphrey in the U.S. presidential election. (''Literature/ElevenTwentyTwoSixtyThree'')
** UsefulNotes/RichardNixon is elected to a third term as U.S. President. (''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'')
** U.S. President UsefulNotes/GeraldFord is elected to a full term in his own right, defeating UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter. (''Alternate Presidents'')
** John Glenn is elected U.S. President. ("Hillary Orbits Venus")
* December: Jerry Stone is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* Manfred von Karma makes his courtroom debut as a prosecutor. (''Phoenix Wright: VisualNovel/AceAttorney'')
* Brian Braddock becomes ComicBook/CaptainBritain. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* Blanche Tyler, a PhonyPsychic, is hired to locate the heir to a considerable fortune. She is unwittingly searching for Arthur Adamson, a master criminal, to her peril. (''Film/FamilyPlot'').
* In Spain, a man named Miguel kills a woman during a masquerade party and is locked up in an asylum. (''Film/BloodyMoon'')
* Precinct 13 in Los Angeles becomes under siege by a merciless criminal gang known as Street Thunder. (''Film/AssaultOnPrecinct131976'')
* Strange substance on an island near the British Columbia grows various creatures into unusual sizes. (''Film/TheFoodOfTheGods'')
* Birth of the immortal Derek Worth in Seacouver, Washington. (''Series/{{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." (''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'')
* Kindergartners Holden [=McNeil=] and Banky Edwards meet and start their twenty-year friendship. (''Film/ChasingAmy'')
* A group of creatures known as "The Muppets" star in a variety show which is seen around the world via syndication. (''Series/TheMuppetShow'' and RealLife)
* Tenchi Masaki is born. (''Anime/TenchiMuyo'')
* 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. (''Anime/GreatMazinger'', ''Manga/GetterRobo G'', ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'')
* 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. (''Film/ChildrenOfTheCorn'').
* Agent 47 drowns another clone in the asylum out of revenge. [[spoiler:This is actually a fake memory, implanted into 47's mind by Ort-Meyer to cover for Subject 6's disappearance.]] (''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}'')
* William Benteen is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* [AlternateUniverse] 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. (''Series/LoisAndClark'')
* The alien bodies found at the [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell crashsite]] are moved from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Research Center in Ohio to Groom Lake, Nevada. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* Brian Globe is born. (''Series/AmazingStories'')
* Douglas Stansfield becomes an astronaut. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'')
* 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. (''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'')
* Lilly Watters is born. (''Series/JoanOfArcadia'')
* 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. (''Webcomic/PennyArcade: Paint the Line'')
* Eight-year-old Marty [=McFly=] accidentally sets fire to the living room rug. (''Film/BackToTheFuture1'')
* Hisako Hayama begins teaching at Ushimitsu High School. (''Visualnovel/{{Famicom Detective Club}}: The Girl Who Stands Behind'')
* Birth of Arnie Niekamp in Ohio. (''Podcast/{{Hello from the Magic Tavern}}'' and presumably {{Real Life}})
* Birth of Penny Worthington [[labelnote:in]] an alternate [[/labelnote]] London. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
* Birth of Jason Chesterfield in London [[labelnote: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.[[/labelnote]]. Mrs. Chesterfield dies soon after. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
* Linda Mitchell's friend, David Powers, is killed [[labelnote:by]] Dargon Chesterfield, who blames it on[[/labelnote]] Martians. A berserk and enraged [[labelnote: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, [[/labelnote]] kills every Martian on Earth. Consequently, Linda is dismissed from B4 for mental instability. Martians launch a counterattack, which will reach Earth in 2004. [[labelnote:Justification]]The Head Alien states [[http://www.itswalky.com/comic/let-me-elaborate/ that it happened 25 years before 2001]], and [[http://www.itswalky.com/comic/twenty-seven-years-ago/ Penny states]] it happened 27 years before 2003. [[/labelnote]] (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1976-1977]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Begin Begin]], [[UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Reagan]], UsefulNotes/{{Palestine}}, Terror on the airline ("[[Music/BillyJoel 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[[/note]])
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1977]]
* February 22: Brooke Mathison is born. (''Series/DesignatedSurvivor'')
* February 26: Tharg travels to Earth from Betelgeuse and begins efforts to increase Earth's dangerously low levels of Thrill power (''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'')
* February 27: Music/{{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. (RealLife, ''Film/ABBATheMovie'')
* March 15: Birth of Sakura Kasugano in Japan. She would grow up into a [[HardWorkHardlyWorks martial arts prodigy]] with the ability to learn advanced moves in minimum time. She entered the fighting circuit while still in high school. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'')
* April 24: Dimitri Popov disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* April 28: Frank Moore is born. (''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'')
* May 10: Jet Morgan, Lemmy Barnet, Doc Matthews and Stephen "Mitch" Mitchell enter the [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation pods]] of the ''Ares''. (''Radio/JourneyIntoSpace'')
* May 30: Matthew Lombard disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* June 10: John and Maureen Robinson is born. (''Series/LostInSpace'')
* June 22: Professor Shigemura Tetsuhiro is born. (''Literature/SwordArtOnline'')
* July 1: Birth of Marina Lemartin in Montecour, France. She would become a significant love interest to Richie Ryan. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'', ''Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM'')
* July 7:
** The Levellers rename themselves as the "Front Line." (''ComicBook/NoHero'')
** Jeanne [=McCabe=] disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* July 13-14: The power goes out in the vast majority of New York City. (RealLife) This was a practical joke by an alien known as the Great Attractor. (''Franchise/MenInBlack'')
* August 2: Mike Cahill is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* August 3: Congress passes the Keene Act, which outlaws costumed vigilantes (except those working for the government). (''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'')
* August: Albert Wesker and William Birkin hired by Umbrella Corporation. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap2022'')
* October 30: A group of college students researching American legends are tormented by an insane family. (''Film/HouseOf1000Corpses'')
* December 14: Alec Lehane is born. (''Series/TheTwilightZone2002'')
* Leon Kennedy is born. (''Franchise/ResidentEvil'')
* Banky Edwards gets into an argument with a nun over the Holy Trinity, ending with her calling him a "fucking cunt-rag". (''Film/ChasingAmy'')
* Jefferson Pierce becomes Black Lightning. (Creator/DCComics)
* Dr. Richard Harpo Thorndyke is assigned as the new administrator of The Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous. (''Film/HighAnxiety'')
* 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.[[/note]] (''Series/{{Lost}}'')
* Shawn Spencer born. (''Series/{{Psych}}'')
* Robert Neville struggles to survive as the last human in Los Angeles. (''Film/TheOmegaMan'')
* The Carter family are attacked by a clan of deformed cannibals the Nevada desert. (''[[Film/TheHillsHaveEyes1977 The Hills Have Eyes]]'')
* David Banner becomes the Incredible Hulk after a disastrous experiment in accessing the latent power of human strength. (''Series/TheIncredibleHulk1977'' [TV series])
* Third grader Randal Graves gets an F on a paper on the film ''Film/HerbieGoesToMonteCarlo'', where he claims Herbie represented a love for hating Jews. (''[[Film/{{Clerks}} Clerks Holiday Special]]'')
* Aliens visit Devils Tower in Wyoming. (''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'')
* 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. (''Franchise/TheDarkTower'')
* Dave Davenport born. (''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'')
* Spike kills the vampire slayer Nikki Wood in a New York City subway car. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* 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. (''Film/{{Suspiria|1977}}'')
* Birth of the immortal Michelle Webster in Seacouver, Washington. She was the youngest known immortal in the 1990s. (''Series/{{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 (''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'')
* The Warner siblings, temporarily released from their tower for fumigation, compete in (and win) a New York disco dancing contest. (''WesternAnimation/{{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. (''Series/JAKQDengekitai'')
* Film/JamesBond teams up with Soviet agent Triple X to investigate a theft of nuclear missile submarines. (''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'')
* Fisherman catches a female orca which dies and miscarriages on his boat. Its mate swears revenge. (''Film/OrcaTheKillerWhale'')
* 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. (''WesternAnimation/CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels'')
* 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. (''Literature/TheShining'')
* Jack and Nina Morrison are married. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* Former U.S. President UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy dies. (''Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas?'')
* Neil Walters is murdered in an alley in New Orleans. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* Ward Cleaver dies. (''[[Series/LeaveItToBeaver Still the Beaver]]'')
* Werner Casey is [[AlienAbduction abducted]] by the Asgard Loki. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* Jeffrey Jones visits Mount Vernon with his parents. (''Series/{{Voyagers}}'')
* Kristin Westphalen is born. (''Series/SeaQuestDSV'')
* [AlternateUniverse] In the alternate timeline caused by Eric and Donna not kissing in 1976, Jake Forman is born to Kitty and Red. (''Series/That70sShow'')
* Last time Goro Kaneda sees his friend Mizuno. (''Visualnovel/{{Famicom Detective Club}}: The Girl Who Stands Behind'')
* Chico Rodriguez is killed in an automobile accident. (''Series/ChicoAndTheMan'')
* Birth of Jared to Hank and Carol Brown. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1978]]
* January 27: Birth of Haruka Tenoh. She would awaken as Sailor Uranus fourteen years later. (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* 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.[[/note]] (''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'')
* February 10: Benny Rosen is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* February 25: Saeed Taufeeq is born. (''Series/{{Torchwood}}'')
* February 26: Judy Robinson is born. (''Series/LostInSpace'')
* March 1: Birth of Ethan Siegal. [[labelnote:Justification]] States [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/the-first-movie here]] that he will turn 30 in 2008. In [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/cake this strip]], Mike is "accidentally" a day early for his birthday due to the leap year. [[/labelnote]] (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}})
* March 6: Birth of Michiru Kaioh. She would awaken as Sailor Neptune fourteen years later. (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* 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. (''Film/TheWarriors'')
* April 17: Birth of Rei Hino. She would awaken as Sailor Mars fourteen years later. (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* May 15: Leta Aider dies. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* May 19: Laurence Northey disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* May 23: Stuart "2D" Pot is born in Crawley, West Sussex, in England. (''Music/{{Gorillaz}}'')
* May: The Starlord arrives on Earth ahead of the advancing [[TheEmpire 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. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'')
* 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. (''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}: ComicBook/GarfieldHis9Lives'')
* June 24: Eric Matthews is born. (''Series/BoyMeetsWorld'')
* 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. (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* 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.[[/note]] (''Film/FlightOfTheNavigator'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* July 29: Arklay Mountain Facility closed. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'')
* July 31: Albert Wesker and William Birkin transferred to the Spencer estate. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'')
* 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. (''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'')
* August 7: Lyman and his dog Odie move into Jon's house. (''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'')
* August 16: Gwen Cooper is born. (''Series/{{Torchwood}}'')
* August: Jeremiah Surd is officially declared dead, despite still being alive. [[labelnote:justification ]] Surd's death certificate is dated five months before his transfer to Belle Isle. [[/labelnote]] (''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'')
* September 10:
** Birth of Ami Mizuno. She would awaken her powers as Sailor Mercury fourteen years later. (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
** Aliens take over the town of Cliffport, Maine. (''Series/TheTimeTunnel'')
* September 15: Dr. Neil Perry takes the Mega Corporation's TimeMachine for a test drive. He arrives in Salem, Massachusetts on April 10, 1692 and becomes embroiled in the Salem witch trials. (''Film/TheTimeMachine1978'')
* September 19: James Marcus develops the T-virus by combining the Progenitor virus with leech DNA. (''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0'')
* 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. (''[[Film/DawnOfTheDead1978 Dawn of the Dead]]'').
* October 22: Birth of Minako Aino. She would become Sailor Venus [[note]] Sailor V, at first [[/note]] for the first time thirteen years later. (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* October 29: Angus Bistrong is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* 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. (''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'')
* October 31: Michael Myers returns to menace Haddonfield, Illinois and embarks on a killing spree, murdering four people before being seriously injured. (''Film/{{Halloween|1978}}'')
** 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. (''[[Film/HalloweenII1981 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: ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial'' airs on Creator/{{CBS}}. (RealLife, ''Theatre/{{Special}}'') A growing number of protesters show up outside of CBS's offices in response. (''Podcast/RiffTrax'')
** 11:00 pm EST: Frizzies are fought. ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxyt03SnAkk WCBS news promo]])
* December 5: Birth of Makoto Kino. Fourteen years later, she would awaken her powers as Sailor Jupiter. (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* December 11: Matthew Adams is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* 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 ComicBook/{{Firestorm|DCComics}}. (Creator/DCComics)
* Killer tomatoes attack America. (''Film/AttackOfTheKillerTomatoes'')
* Andy Travis is hired as programming director of Cincinnati radio station WKRP, whose format he immediately changes from "Beautiful Music" to Rock-and-Roll. (''Series/WKRPInCincinnati'')
* Amity island is terrorized by another killer shark. (''Film/{{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.[[/note]] (''Series/{{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. (''Film/TheFury'')
* Birth of India Cohen. (''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'')
* Killer 7 kills Kess Bloodysunday in Spain. (''VideoGame/{{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. (''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'')
* Formation of Federation of [=InterState=] Truckers takes place. (''Film/{{FIST}}'')
* Experimental piranha are accidentally released from an abandoned facility. (''Film/{{Piranha}}'')
* Malbordus massacres the Wood Elf village of Caerno. (''[[Literature/FightingFantasy Temple of Terror]]'')
* Pelafina Truant attempts to strangle her son, Johnny. Her husband, Donnie, commits her to Whalestoe Mental Institution. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* The hard rock group KISS battle Abner Devereaux and his robots at the Magic Mountain amusement park. (''Film/KissMeetsThePhantomOfThePark'')
* The Second Conference at Basra is held. (''Literature/TheShapeOfThingsToCome'')
* Birth of Meredith Davies. (''Series/TruCalling''[[labelnote:Justification]]The credits in the pilot episode list her as being 15 in 1993[[/labelnote]])
* [=AIs=] first appear on BBS boards. (''Visualnovel/{{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. (''ComicStrip/DickTracy'')
* 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 TrappedInTVLand by Final Boss Veigar. (''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', 'Arcade Hecarim' skin.)
* The first manned mission to Mars is launched. (''Series/TheTimeTunnel'')
* The American space probe Grand Tour is launched. (''Series/MoonbaseThree'')
* Bobby Ewing and Pamela Barnes are married for the first time. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* Gary Walter Wallace and Wyatt Donnelly are born. (''Series/WeirdScience'')
* 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. (''Series/K9AndCompany'')
* Marshall Teller, Devon Wilde and Janet Donner are born. (''Series/EerieIndiana'')
* 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. (''Series/EerieIndiana'')
* Christophe Druand dies and is brought back as a zombie. (''Film/TheSerpentAndTheRainbow'')
* 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. (''Literature/TheStand'')
* After failing to return home to 2023, Ben Song leaps into a Sergeant Perez on a DecoyConvoy 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap2022'')
* Birth of Sarah Clinton. (Webcomic/{{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. (''Film/ThreeIdiots'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder:1979]]
* January 1: Birth of Naru Osaka (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* January 21: Dan Hodges is born. (''Series/{{Torchwood}}'')
* January 31: Pop singer and Starlight Foundation co-founder Jacqui Benton dies in a plane crash (''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'')
* January: Jeremiah Surd is transferred to Belle Isle Home for the Insane, having been officially declared dead. (''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'')
* February 1: Ayatollah's in Iran. ("[[Music/BillyJoel We Didn't Start the Fire]]")
* February 8: Birth of Yaten Kou (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* February 26: Libby Bradley is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* February 28: Sam Beckett leaps into Detective Jack Stone in Malibu. He is there to solve the murder of Janice [=DeCaro=]. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* March 22: Joyce Byers gives her son Will a box containing 120 crayons for his eighth birthday while his friends all get him ''Franchise/StarWars'' toys. (''Series/StrangerThings'')
* April 3: Birth of David Willis. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}} and RealLife)
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap2022'')
* May 5: Birth of Joyce to Hank and Carol Brown in Forth Worth. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
* May 12: Edwin Castillo is murdered in Philadelphia. (''Series/ColdCase'')
* May 21: Sam Beckett leaps into Ray Hutton, who is understudying an alcoholic actor named John O'Malley in an off-Broadway production of ''Theatre/ManOfLaMancha'' 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* 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. (''Literature/{{Carrie}}'')
* May 30: Birth of Taiki Kou (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* May: Brett Waits and Bethany Sloane graduate from high school and go to Carnegie Mellon University together in Pittsburgh. (''Film/{{Dogma}}[[AllThereInTheManual : A Screenplay]]'')
* June 11: Orson Bailey disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* 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.[[/note]] (''[[Film/FridayThe13th1980 Friday the 13th]]'')
* July: Nicholas Angel decides he wants to be [[Franchise/TheMuppets Kermit the Frog]] when he grows up. (''Film/HotFuzz'')
* July 30: Birth of Seiya Kou (''Manga/SailorMoon'')
* 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[[/note]] (''Film/FridayThe13thPart2'')
* September 4: Henri-Laurent de Marigny reappears with no memory of the last ten years. (''[[Franchise/CthulhuMythos The Transition of Titus Crow]]'')
* September 19: Birth of Hermione Granger (''Franchise/HarryPotter'')
* 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. (''Film/{{Dogma}}''[[AllThereInTheManual : A Screenplay]]'')
** The SilentMovie star Dorothea Page dies. (''Series/{{Columbo}}'')
* October 4: Shelby Whitling disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* 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. (''Series/QuantumLeap'')
* 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. (''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'')
* 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. (''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'')
* 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. (''ComicBook/BackToTheFuture'')
* October 12: Isabelle "Izzy" Sinclair is born. (''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'')
* 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. (''Literature/{{The Three Body Problem}}'')
* October 21: Ye Wenjie murders Lei Zhicheng; Yang Weining also dies in the process. (''Literature/{{The Three Body Problem}}'')
* October 31: L Lawliet is born. (''Manga/DeathNote'')
* November 5: A [[TimeTravel time-traveling]] Creator/HGWells arrives in San Francisco in pursuit of Dr. John Leslie Stevenson, aka UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. (''Film/TimeAfterTime'')
* November 23: Lindsey Hammond disappears. (''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'')
* December 21: Ronald Joseph "R.J." Collins is born. (''Series/SavedByTheBellTheNewClass'')
* December 23: Peter Petrelli is born. (''Series/{{Heroes}}'')
* December 24: [[UsefulNotes/SovietInvasionOfAfghanistan Russians in Afghanistan]]. ("[[Music/BillyJoel We Didn't Start the Fire]]")
* December 25: James Halliday receives his first computer, an Platform/{{Atari 2600}}, as a Christmas present. His favourite game is ''Adventure'', and he is among the first to discover Warren Robbinett's EasterEgg. (''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'')
* December 31: Michael Kelso and Eric Forman return to Point Place, Wisconsin, to celebrate the end of the Seventies with their friends. (''Series/That70sShow'')
* Claire Redfield born. (''Franchise/ResidentEvil'')
* Tricia Jones is born. (''Film/{{Mallrats}}'')
* Phoenix becomes Dark Phoenix, sacrifices herself to save the universe. (Creator/MarvelComics)
* The Fourth Doctor and Romana prevent Scaroth from rescuing his past self and thus erasing the existence of life on Earth. (''Series/DoctorWho'')
* Two brothers and an ice cream vendor confront the Tall Man. (''Film/{{Phantasm}}'')
* Future executive of Complex Corp., Mr. Burton, marries. (''Film/{{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. (''Film/{{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. (''Series/KamenRiderSkyrider'')
* 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. (''Series/BattleFeverJ'')
* Joseph "Joe" Dawson is assigned as Duncan [=MacLeod=]'s newest Watcher. Duncan would not notice his presence until the 1990s. (''Series/{{Highlander}}: The Series'')
* Birth of Baby Bonnie Hood/Bulleta. She would grow up to have the instincts of a SerialKiller, and use them to start a profitable career as a [[BountyHunter hunter of monsters]]. (''VideoGame/{{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. [[/note]])
* 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. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[note]]Justification: Said to be 17 years old at her first appearance. Which took place in 1996. [[/note]])
* 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. (''Film/TheWarriors'')
* Zombie outbreak in Sperry, Alabama. (''Literature/TheZombieSurvivalGuide'')
* Super squadron declare their retirement and Baron Ether announces his retirement after arrest in the senate building. (''Literature/SoonIWillBeInvincible'')
* Film/JamesBond investigates a theft of a space shuttle and ends up stopping a plan to exterminate the human population. (''Film/{{Moonraker}}'')
* Rufus Excalibur ffolkes enacts an anti-terrorist plan of his making on an oil platform. (''Film/NorthSeaHijack'')
* Will Navidson and Karen Green begin a relationship. (''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'')
* In Portland, Oregon, Hellboy goes to meet with Mr. Tod, a spirit medium who is soon discovered to be possessed by an otherworldly creature. (''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'': Goodbye Mister Tod)
* After the outbreak of the Iranian Revolution, President UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan 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. (''Literature/{{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.[[/note]] (''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'')
* Dylan Hunt is placed in suspended animation. (''Genesis II'')
* Buck Francisco is born. (''Series/AlienNation'')
* John Ross Ewing is born. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* Franklin Endicott commits suicide. (''Series/StElsewhere'')
* 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. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'', ''Series/KnotsLanding'')
* Garrison Southworth dies. (''Series/{{Dallas}}'')
* Richard and Becky Belding are married. (''Series/SavedByTheBellTheNewClass'')
* The paramedic Jesse Keys saves Mo Reynolds' life after a farm accident. (''Series/{{Taken}}'')
* Maria Lopez is born. (''Series/SavedByTheBellTheNewClass'')
* On its way to Earth, Kara Zor-El's pod becomes trapped in the Phantom Zone. It remains there for the next 24 years. (''Series/Supergirl2015'')
* [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Kal-El]] is born on Krypton. (''Series/Supergirl2015'')
* A married couple move into a country house after the death of their son, only to find out that an EldritchAbomination living beneath it intends to consume them. (''Film/WeAreStillHere'')
* In Eerie, Indiana, the sixth 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'')
* Aiden Ford is born. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
* Dr. Nicholas Ballard suffers a severe mental breakdown and checks himself into a psychiatric institution in Oregon. He remains there until 2000. (''Series/StargateSG1'')
* The wedding of Kara Kent and Bruce Wayne, Jr., who are secretly ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} and Franchise/{{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 Franchise/{{Superman}}. His mother [[ComicBook/LoisLane Lois]]' oncologist Dr. [[SignificantAnagram Holurt]] then reveals himself to be ComicBook/LexLuthor. 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. (''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'')
* Bruce Wayne travels to the Himalayas and manages to track down ComicBook/RasAlGhul'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. (''ComicBook/SupermanAndBatmanGenerations'')
* Hunter Riley is born. (''Series/StargateUniverse'')
* Keras is born on [=M7G-677=] in the Pegasus galaxy. (''Series/StargateAtlantis'')
* Brian Tanner is born. (''Series/{{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. (''Webcomic/PennyArcade: Paint the Line'')
* Six women (and a TagalongKid) take down all of LA's drug operations. Michelle Wilson sings about shining your love. (''Film/AngelsRevenge'')
* Tim Taylor and Jill Patterson are married. (''Series/HomeImprovement'')
* Birth of Danny Wilcox, Joe Rosenthal, and Rachel Jackson. (Webcomic/{{Walkyverse}}
[[/folder]]
[[folder: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. (''Film/TheVillage2004'')
* 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. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII''[[note]]Justification: Believed to be in his twenties in 1997/1998.[[/note]])
* 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. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII''[[note]]Justification: Believed to be in his twenties in 1997/1998.[[/note]])
* Estimated birth of Pullum Purna in Saudi Arabia. She would grow up to become a belly dancer, [[DanceBattler fighter]], and ruler of her own kingdom. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[note]]Justification: Said to be a debutante, thus at least 17 years old. [[/note]])
* Estimated birth of Blair Dame in Europe. She would grow up to become a fighter. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[note]]Justification: Said to be a debutante, thus at least 17 years old.[[/note]])
* Estimated birth of Hayate in Japan. His father is a legendary swordsman who managed to defeat Main/{{Orochi}}. Hayate would follow in his footsteps. (''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX''[[note]]Justification: Seems to be another teenager. [[/note]])
* 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 ComicBook/TheJoker. Several superheroes experiment with this new method of fighting crime. ([[Advertising/HostessFruitPies 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. (''Series/BrooklynNineNine'')[[labelnote: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.[[/labelnote]]
* Stan Pines founds the Mystery Shack. (''Westernanimation/{{Gravity Falls}}'')
* Gwendolyn Ingolfsson is born in what was once Florence as one of the first ''Homo drakensis''. (''Literature/TheDraka'')
* After a performance in Las Vegas, Music/ElvisPresley invites a fan named Sandra up to his dressing room. He tells her that he is merely pretending to be the King but [[CassandraTruth 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 [[DeadPersonImpersonation assumed Elvis' identity]] after accidentally killing him on July 4, 1954. Sandra will become his manager by 1986. (''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'')
[[/folder]]
[[folder:[=197X=]/1970s]]
* December 31: The second leg of Creator/WillSmith'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 ''Series/SoulTrain''. ("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. (''Music/TheProtomen'')
* Birth of Jack Archer, a future professor of ecology.[[labelnote:Justification]]Stated to have been a teenager in the 1990s.[[/labelnote]] (''Westernanimation/Phantom2040')
* 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. (''Film/RealGenius'')
[[/folder]]
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