Just For Fun / Grand Unified Timeline - The 60's

Grand Unified Timeline events from 1960 C.E. to 1969 C.E.

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1960

• January 1: Trevor McPhee is returned to Earth by the aliens who abducted him on December 31, 1949. He wakes up in a ditch with no knowledge that a decade has passed. Trevor receives a lift from a man named Ray Carter. His wife Theresa is shocked to see him as she believes that he abandoned her ten years earlier. He thinks that he may have amnesia and is examined by Dr. Golden to determine what's wrong with him. That night, Trevor and Theresa have sex and their son Mark is conceived as a result. The aliens then abduct Trevor for the second time. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• January 16: The jockey Michael Grady wins the American Handicap. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• January 19: America and Japan sign the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation. (killer7 and Real Life)
• January: Apollo Air flight DF-0301 crashes in the Atlantic Ocean. Its lone survivor, a man known only as "Jack", discovers a lighthouse with a bathysphere leading to Rapture, and battles his way through the war-torn city to confront Andrew Ryan, guided by the mysterious revolutionary Atlas. (BioShock)
• February 14:
  • George and Lillian Feeny are married. (Boy Meets World)
  • A cave-in buries several men in Hanniger Mine. Harry Warden is the Sole Survivor due to eating his deceased comrades. (My Bloody Valentine)
• February 23: Bobby Hanes and Daniel Malone travel to Flatbush, Brooklyn to watch Ebbets Field get torn down. (The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn)
• March 29: Birth of Harry Monmouth/ Dingo to single mother Mariah Monmouth. He would grow up to become a member of the Pack. (Gargoyles)
• March:
  • A strange power outage in the small suburb of Maple Street quickly escalates into violence and paranoia as neighbors turn on each other. Unbeknownst to the citizens, the outage is caused by alien invaders as a test for their invasion of Earth. (The Twilight Zone: The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street)
  • The US government announces the existence of Doctor Manhattan, the world's first genuine superhero. (Watchmen)
• April 4:
  • Sam Beckett leaps into Dennis Boardman, the chauffeur of Marilyn Monroe, in Hollywood. He is there to prevent her from dying of a barbiturate overdose so that she can make one last film, The Misfits. (Quantum Leap)
  • John Doggett is born. (The X-Files)
• April 25: Birth of Sodom in the United States. He would grow up to become a self-styled samurai and gang leader. (Final Fight, Street Fighter Alpha)
• April 27: Sam Beckett leaps into Tom McBride, a newlywed cop from New York, on the Honeymoon Express. He is there to prevent Tom and his wife Diane from being murdered by her ex-husband Roget. (Quantum Leap)
• Spring: Peggy Sue Bodell from 1985 wakes up as her younger self during her senior year of high school. She attempts to change her own past. (Peggy Sue Got Married)
• May 1: The U-2 spy plane, piloted by Gary Powers, is shot down over the Soviet Union. (Real Life) In 1995, the US Senator Oversight Committee wanted Sam Beckett to change history by preventing the plane from being shot down as proof that he could travel through time. (Quantum Leap)
• June: Don and Patricia Carter are married. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• July 1: Rick Eliot is born. (Knots Landing)
• Before July 13: Jack Hamilton challenges Robert Stoney to a televised debate on the topic of whether machines will ever be able to think. Stoney wins, but learns that Hamilton's wife is dying of cancer. He offers to cure her with Helen's futuristic technology, but Hamilton rebuffs him and tells him his wife would refuse, because they believe Stoney's inventions are satanic. Stoney tells Hamilton that he got his knowledge from time travelers, not demons, but Hamilton calls him a liar. That night, Helen returns to her own time, saying her work is done. ("Oracle")
• July 13: Jack Hamilton's wife Joyce dies. The night after her funeral, he is visited by a version of himself from an Alternate Universe, who tells him that Robert Stoney was right after all, and that he can see Joyce again if he lets himself merge with his alternate self. Hamilton refuses, because he thinks this is a demonic temptation. ("Oracle")^{Justification}C S Lewis's wife Joy died on this date.
• July 20: Lou Bookman dies. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• August 13: Brent Langham is born in Chicago. (Stargate SG-1)
• August: Jimmy Stockton is born. (Galactica 1980)
• September 11: Ellie Ravenwood (later Oswald) is born. (Doctor Who)
• September 22: Tegan Jovanka is born. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• September: Mark McPhee is born. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• October 6: [Alternate Timeline] Al Calavicci is executed in the gas chamber for the murder of Marci Riker. (Quantum Leap)
• October: Elizabeth Harvey dies. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• November 3: Birth of Edmond Honda in Japan. He would grow up to become a master sumo wrestler. (Street Fighter II)
• November 8:
  • John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in the U.S. presidential election. (Real Life, Mad Men)
  • A "good natured nonentity" is elected U.S. President. He proves to be an ineffectual President whose poor handling of international relations makes the outbreak of World War III in or before 1975 inevitable. ("Time and Time Again")
  • Blake Hartley is elected President of the United States. ("The Mercenaries", "Day of the Moron")
  • Richard Nixon is elected U.S. President. (Superman: Red Son, Alternate Presidents)
  • Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. is elected U.S. President. (Fatherland)
  • Earl Warren is elected U.S. President. (Worldwar)
  • John F. Kennedy is elected President of the Confederate States. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
  • U.S. President Ernest Hemingway is re-elected. ("Boozing in the Oval Room")
  • U.S. President Adlai Stevenson is re-elected. (Alternities)
• December 11: A postal worker named Richard Pavlick prepares to assassinate President-elect John F. Kennedy with a Buick packed with dynamite. However, Pavlick doesn't carry out the plan after seeing that Kennedy is with his children; the Secret Service arrests Pavlick four days later. (Real Life)
  • Pavlick's plan is carried out, and Kennedy is killed. Vice President-elect Lyndon B. Johnson will later become President in Kennedy's place. (What if...? Armageddon 1962)
• December 12: After stealing $40,000 from her boss and fleeing, secretary Marion Crane stops at Bates Motel, where she's stabbed to death by hotel owner Norman Bates. (Psycho)
• December 23: Birth of Guile in the United States. He would grow up to become an officer of the United States Air Force. (Street Fighter II)
• December 24: Alcoholic department store Santa Henry Corwin finds a magical sack that can magically produce real presents, and uses it to spread Christmas joy among the poor and downtrodden. In return for his selfless charity, Corwin's own wish comes true - he is chosen to be the new real Santa Claus. (The Twilight Zone: Night Of the Meek)
• Albert Wesker born. (Resident Evil)
• The Justice League of America forms. (DC Comics)
• Ralph Dibny becomes the Elongated Man. (DC Comics)
• Peter Maza, a Hopi, leaves Arizona to seek a better life in New York City. He would become a police officer. (Gargoyles)
• Birth of Preston Vogel. He would grow up to become the executive assistant of Halcyon Renard. Puck would also use him as a template for his persona of Owen Burnett. (Gargoyles)
• A Nigerian nursing student fails her exams, is rejected by her lover, and throws herself into the Thames to commit suicide. She becomes the new host for the spirit of Mother Thames and ruler of the Rivers Of London, quickly forgetting her old identity. (Rivers of London)
• Zombie outbreak at Byelgoransk prison/zombie research facility. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• Death of Mariko. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• U-2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy, Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
• John Steed and Dr. David Keel are assigned to NATO counterintelligence operations in Britain. (The Avengers (1960s))
• In Kansas, Hellboy investigates a house that gives gold in return for human sacrifices. (Hellboy: Sullivan's Reward)
• The year George McFly and Lorraine Baines planned to get married, at least as of 1958. (Back to the Future)
• B.J. Blazkowicz awakens from his vegetative state after 14 years. Over the next few weeks, he assists the remaining resistance members with systematically crippling Nazi operations across Europe, including the destruction of the London Monitor, culminating in a final confrontation with Deathshead. Deathshead is killed but Blazkowicz is left badly injured. (Wolfenstein: The New Order)
• B.J. Blazkowicz awakens after a 5-month coma and helps the Resistance overthrow the Nazi American occupiers and their collaborator allies, including his own abusive father Rip Blazkowicz. He also briefly meets an ailing, senile Adolf Hitler while undercover at a propaganda film shoot. Rallying the surviving American Resistance members, Blazkowicz executes his old enemy Frau Engel, the acting leader of the occupation, on live TV, and inspires a massive overnight uprising against the Nazis. (Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus)
• Diana Quinna is born. (Quantum Leap)
• Alberto Granado visits Cuba for the first time after being invited by his old friend Ernesto "Che" Guevara. (The Motorcycle Diaries and Real Life)
• Agatha Cook dies. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Professor Manion transports Joe Caswell, who was about to be hanged for murder on November 14, 1880, 80 years forward in time. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• The Woolsey International Pictures horror film The Eyes of Dr. Diablo is released. (Matinee)
• Peter Jay Novins' father dies. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Tommy Tomorrow becomes the first man on Mars. (DC Comics)
• Francine "Francie" Stevens is born. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• Klaus and Ben Hargreeves arrive in Dallas, Texas, after falling through a time portal from 2019. (The Umbrella Academy (2019))
• Hans Dieter-Mundt becomes Head of the Counter-Espionage section of the East German Abteilung. (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)
• Dylan Powell's reporting career in San Francisco begins. (Quantum Leap)

1961

• January 12: Birth of Mike in the United States. He would grow up to become a professional boxer. (Street Fighter)
• January 16: Sarah Lynch (later Pearson) is born. (Black Hole High)
• January 24: Sam Beckett leaps into Bobo, a chimpanzee who is about to be launched into space, in Cape Canaveral. He is there to prevent Bobo and another chimpanzee named Cory from dying due to unethical animal testing. (Quantum Leap)
• February 14: Harry Warden kills the negligent foremen who left him to die in a cave-in. (My Bloody Valentine)
• February 23: Mark Armstrong disappears. (The 4400)
• February: A Martian spaceship lands on Earth in a remote part of the United States. Its sole occupant is an advance scout who was spent to determine whether the area is suitable for colonization. However, he learns that the Venusians have not only already done so but have intercepted the Martian fleet. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• March 2: Aliens make first contact with MiB agents. (Men in Black)
• March 11: Kevin Burkhoff is born. (The 4400)
• March 12: Angela Rienti suffers a severe brain injury in a car accident and is brought to the emergency ward of East Side Hospital. Due to his heavy workload, Dr. Kurt J. Lewis fails to get to her in time to relieve pressure and she dies. This leads Oliver Crangle to consider him a murderer. He writes numerous letters to East Side Hospital calling for Dr. Lewis to be discharged. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• March 17: Nathan Bridger is born. (SeaQuest DSV)
• March: Karl Riemeck is shot while attempting to cross from East to West Berlin after his mistress compromises him. The mistress is also assassinated. Alec Leamas returns to London on the heels of this failure. (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)
• April 12: Carmen Sandiego time-travels to this date to stash the ACME Chronoskimmer aboard Yuri Gagarin's Vostok 1 rocket. Time-traveling ACME agents arrive afterwards to correct history, making sure Vostok 1 blasts off on schedule and recovering the stolen Chronoskimmer. (Carmen Sandiego's Great Chase Through Time)
• April 14: Peter Corrigan is sent back in time to April 14, 1865 and tries to prevent the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• April 17:
  • The Bay of Pigs invasion fails to overthrow Fidel Castro's Communist regime in Cuba. (Real Life)
  • CIA operative Alex Mason is captured while helping his comrades escape after a failed assassination mission. Castro hands him over to his new Soviet allies as a goodwill gesture. (Call of Duty: Black Ops)
  • A married pair of CIA operatives, Lech and Olga Oseransky, are captured in the aftermath of the invasion. The CIA fakes their deaths and their seven-year-old son Victor Ehrlich is told that they were killed in a car accident. He is raised by his aunt Charise. Lech and Olga are imprisoned on the Isle of Pines until the US government manages to negotiate their release in 1987. (St. Elsewhere)
• April:
  • Joshua Rush is born. (Knots Landing)
  • A cantankerous old bachelor named Ed Lindsay hates television so he brings his old radio up from the basement of the boarding house where he lives. He begins to hear radio broadcasts from radio's heyday of the 1930s and 1940s such as Tommy Dorsey singing "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You", the Major Bowes Amateur Hour and The Fred Allen Show. However, no one else can hear that his ex-fiancée Vinnie Brown and Professor Ackerman are concerned that he is suffering from delusions. Vinnie thinks that it is all a product of his imagination as they used to the listen to those programs together and he regrets not marrying her when he had the chance. Ed is eventually sent back in time to 1940. He intends to do things right the second time around and marry Vinnie. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• May 5: Capt. Carl Bell of the United States Space Agency becomes the first man in space, a claim disputed by China and the USSR. Bell orbits the Earth in twelve minutes, seven seconds, but dies when his capsule, Defiance 7, makes a crash landing. (Fallout)
• May 12: An automobile failure leaves Perry Como stranded temporarily in the town of Shamokin, Pennsylvania. While there (partially due to a deception by a band member), he watches the band Forever Plaid perform and gifts them a golden cardigan. (Forever Plaid)
• May: Ben Song leaps into Michael Allison, a CIA agent tasked with rescuing an informant on the East Germans. He runs into Hannah Carson for the third time. (Quantum Leap (2022))
• June 2: Colonel Archie Taylor bets Jamie Tennyson $500,000 that he can go one year without speaking. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• June 6: Sam Beckett leaps into Cameron "Cam" Wilson, a nerdy 17-year-old boy, in Los Angeles. He is there to prevent Cam's elder sister Cheryl from marrying Bob Thompson, who will become an abusive alcoholic. (Quantum Leap)
• June 15:
  • On a visit to Smallville, Kansas, the Kryptonian Jor-El falls in love with Louise McCallum, Lana Lang's great-aunt. (Smallville)
  • Aperture Science's Test Shaft 09 is condemned and sealed off. (Portal 2)
• June 17: Sheriff William Tate hires Lachlan Luthor to murder Jor-El (who is claiming to a drifter named Joe) and frame Dex McCallum for the crime so that he can have Dex's wife Louise to himself. However, Louise is killed in the crossfire and Jor-El escapes, returning to Krypton. (Smallville)
• June 19:
  • Birth of Charlie/Nash in the United States. He would grow up to become a special forces officer. (Street Fighter Alpha)
  • Claudio Borghi disappears. (The 4400)
• Early summer:
  • An angry crowd occupies a municipality council in Norway, and forces them to solve a problem with an out-dated bus and a kind and popular bus driver, to the benefit of everyone involved. (The Bus)
  • Scotty Smalls moves to LA and meets Benny Rodriguez and the rest of the Sandlot gang. (The Sandlot)
• July 4: The Sandlot gang plays a night game under the Independence Day fireworks. Benny is the only one who takes the baseball seriously; everyone else is too awed by the fireworks. (The Sandlot)
• After July 4: Scotty hits his stepfather's autographed Babe Ruth baseball into the Beast's yard. After several failed attempts to retrieve it, Benny pickles the Beast. (The Sandlot)
• August 4: Sam Beckett leaps into a brothel owner named Gilbert LaBonte in New Orleans. He is there to prevent Gina from being murdered by her abusive husband Jake Dorleac. (Quantum Leap)
• August 6: Sam Beckett leaps into Lester "Doc" Fuller, a minor league baseball player, in Galveston, Texas. He is there to prevent Doc from drinking himself to death and to ensure that another player named Chucky Myerwich reaches the Major Leagues and reunites with his estranged father Warren. (Quantum Leap)
• Summer: Mary Richards visits Amsterdam. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• Fall: A resident of Hawkins, Indiana commits suicide. This is the most recent suicide in the town by November 1983. (Stranger Things)
• September:
  • A false nuclear attack alarm leads to the complete disintegration of social bonds in a small suburb as blind fear brings every ugly thought and suppressed anger to the surface. (The Twilight Zone (1959): The Shelter'')
  • While searching for a source of food and water for his wagon train in 1847, Chris Horn is transported forward in time to New Mexico. While in the future, he learns that his eight-year-old son Christian, who is dying of pneumonia in his time, will grow up to become an expert in childhood diseases in California. Chris returns to 1847 with penicillin to cure Christian and the knowledge that the wagon train will reach its destination. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• October 13: Fox Mulder is born. (The X-Files)
• October 16: Sam Beckett leaps into a secretary named Samantha Stormer in Detroit. This is his first leap into a woman. He is there to prevent Samantha's best friend and roommate Gloria Collins from committing suicide when her lover Buddy Wright refuses to divorce his wealthy wife Gail. Sam also has to deal with Buddy's constant sexual harassment and Al's attraction to Samantha. (Quantum Leap)
• November 2: Ellen "Ellie" Pendleton is born. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• November 17: Superman rescues the crew of a space capsule that crash-landed in the sea on its return to Earth. (DC Comics)
• December 11: Mister Mxyzptlk alters reality to make everyone on Earth forget about Superman. The world is returned to normal when Superman tricks Mxyzptlk into saying his name backwards, sending him back to the fifth dimension. (DC Comics)
• Reed Richards, Susan and Johnny Storm, and Ben Grimm embark on an unauthorized test flight in an experimental rocket. The rockets radiation shields fail in orbit, mutating the crew and giving them amazing superpowers. After a brief confusion, they decide to form the Fantastic Four and combat fantastical and cosmic threats of all kinds. (Marvel Comics)
• Katar and Shayera Hol make their debut as Hawkman and Hawkwoman. (DC Comics)
• Ray Palmer becomes The Atom. (DC Comics)
• At St. Alexandra Island, Atomic Robo stops a rogue Soviet scientist from detonating a 200-megaton superbomb. (Atomic Robo)
• Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land, Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
• Somebody touches a button. Things happen. A scientist becomes a beast. (The Beast of Yucca Flats)
• Brett Waits and Bethany Sloane, a distant relative of Jesus Christ, are born. (Dogma: A Screenplay)
• Wife of Peter Bammes dies giving birth to Siamese twins, both of whom are named Pandora. (Black Light)
• In Alaska, Hellboy investigates a sudden surge of monsters in the area, coinciding with the death of circus strongman Hercules. (Hellboy: The Hydra and the Lion)
• In Ireland, Hellboy encounters a creature called the Iron Shoes. (Hellboy: The Iron Shoes)
• A nuclear World War III kills everyone in the northern hemisphere, with radiation making its way southward and steadily wiping out life as it advances (year approximate). (On the Beach)
• Estelle Muny dies. (Secret Army)
• Zora Lynn Zounek disappears. (The 4400)
• Lily Bonham dies. (The 4400)
• Gary Ewing and Valene Clements are married for the first time. (Dallas, Knots Landing)
• Lucy Ewing is born. (Dallas)
• Tom Hill is born. (Moonbase 3)
• Theresa Givens is born. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• Karen Basch is born. (Quantum Leap)
• Al and Beth Calavicci are married. (Quantum Leap)
• Professor Joseph Fitzgerald, a historian from 2172, is sent back in time to 1961 to study John F. Kennedy and his influence on American society. He becomes a history lecturer at Harvard. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Sandra Horn is born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Nancy Shaw Ewing dies. (Dallas)
• While en route to Idlewild Airport in New York, Global Airlines Flight 33 is sent million of years back in time to before the extinction of the dinosaurs. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• After stealing $1 million worth of gold bullion, Farwell, DeCruz, Brooks and Erbie enter suspended animation for 100 years so that they will be free to sell the gold without being pursued by the authorities. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• A nine-year-old girl is murdered by a killer in a yellow rain slicker, prompting the authorities to suspect her older sister. (Alice, Sweet Alice)
• Henrietta Walker dies. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• The jockey Michael Grady is suspended by the racing commission for riding infractions. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Peter Tracey is born. (K-9 and Company)
• [Alternate Timeline] Adolf Hitler dies. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• Janet Boyce is released from prison after serving a four year sentence for contempt of a congressional committee. (X Minus One)
• Springfield has its first fleet of school buses. (The Simpsons )
• Allison Hargreeves arrives in Dallas, Texas, after falling through a time portal. Meanwhile, Klaus has joined a group of hippies in Baja, Mexico. (The Umbrella Academy (2019))
• Hawaiian Missile Crisis begins between the United States and Japan. Ongoing. (The New Order Last Days Of Europe)
• Rymmington-Svist CEO Sophia Rymmington is born. (Not for Broadcast)

1962

• January 11: Meredith Roberts is born. (Torchwood)
• January: Start date for The New Order Last Days Of Europe.
• March: Hollis Mason announces his retirement as the Nite Owl. (Watchmen)
• April: An alien race called the Kanamites arrive on Earth and usher in an era of peace and prosperity by using their technology to end war, famine and disease. However, a scant few people manage to decode the Kanamites' documents, and realizes that the aliens intend to use humans as a food source, with their seeming benevolence is just to keep their "livestock" healthy and happy. The people who volunteered to visit the Kanamite homeworld are first on the menu. (The Twilight Zone: To Serve Man).
• April 11: Robert Foman disappears. (The 4400)
• April 13^note A Friday: The horribly unlucky Ataru Moroboshi is born on the day of a major earthquake, as well as butsumetsu. (Urusei Yatsura)
• April 15: Elizabeth Sherman is born. (Hellboy)
• May 1: Irene Henkel disappears. (The 4400)
• May 22: Birth of Birdie in England. He would grow up to become a barroom brawler, a professional wrestler and a criminal. (Street Fighter Alpha)
• May: Neil's Deals Limited is founded by Crazy Neil. (Not for Broadcast)
• June 3: After winning the bet to go one year without speaking, Jamie Tennyson demands $500,000 from Colonel Archie Taylor. Taylor admits that he lost his fortune ten years earlier and does not have the money. The devastated Tennyson reveals that he had the nerves to his vocal cords cut. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• June 25: Jason Bernaides prevents Janet Boyce, the woman who received a telepathic message from a flying saucer in 1957, from committing suicide. (X Minus One)
• August 1: The Brown Mansion burns down. (Back to the Future) The fire is caused by ^somethingDoc Brown's prototype temporal field capacitor overloading after it receives a letter from the future encased in a fireproof container. The fire allows Doc to both prevent a possible temporal arms race and use the resulting insurance money to finance his time travel research. (Back to the Future)
• August 2: Birth of Adon in Thailand. He would grow up to become a master of the Muay Thai fighting style. (Street Fighter Alpha)
• August 4: Ken Barlow and Valerie Tatlock are married. (Coronation Street)
• September 5: Raul Menendez is born in Managua, Nicaragua. (Call of Duty: Black Ops II)
• September 12: President John F. Kennedy delivers his "we choose to go to the moon" speech at Rice University. (Real Life)
  • On the day of Kennedy's speech, Ben Song gets stuck in a time loop while trying to prevent the explosion of an experimental new nuclear reactor, sequentially leaping into Colonel Jack Parker, Eugene Wagner, Mallory Yang, Dr. Edwin Woolsey, and Moe Murphy. (Quantum Leap (2022))
• October 8:
  • While playing baseball at the Greenspan School in Missoula, Montana, Jacob Clarke uses his Psychic Powers to guide the ball to him. The effort causes him to collapse. While he is in the hospital, an alien posing as a doctor appears to him and tells him that he must be careful using his powers as he will either burn them out or die if he uses them too much. (Taken)
  • Jesse Keys is abducted by the aliens while he is cycling through his home town of Bement, Illinois. They create an image of a carny that frightened him as a child. His attempts to escape the aliens on his bike are unsuccessful. (Taken)
• October 10: U.S. President John F. Kennedy visits the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Research Center in Ohio to see the alien bodies found in Pine Lodge, Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. He gives Colonel Owen Crawford one month to prove that the aliens are a clear and present danger to the United States or he will shut the UFO project down. (Taken)
• October 16: Jesse Keys visits his father Russell at Kennelworth Garage in Taylorville, Illinois and suggests that they take what they know about the aliens to the Air Force. (Taken)
• October 18: Russell and Jesse Keys go to the Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah to tell Lt. Wiley, whose late father flew with Russell during World War II, that they have been abducted by aliens multiple times. Later that day, Russell has a seizure at a diner. The doctors at the base's hospital determine that Russell has an inoperable tumor in his frontal lobe. At Jesse's request, they perform the same tests on him and discover that he has an identical tumor. Russell and Jesse realize that the aliens placed implants in their brains to keep track of them. (Taken)
• October 20: Colonel Owen Crawford, Major Howard Bowen and Major Marty Erickson interview Buddy and Susan Parker in Shasta, California about their abduction by the aliens. Crawford determines that the aliens will not be back for them and orders Bowen and Erickson to find someone whom the aliens have abducted numerous times. (Taken)
• October 21: Majors Howard Bowen and Marty Erickson track Jacob Clarke down to the Greenspan School in Missoula, Montana. Dr. Ellen Greenspan hides Jacob in her car but Bowen and Erickson follow her. In order to save her life, Jacob uses his Psychic Powers to freeze them for three days. This results in his abilities being burned out. (Taken)
• Before October 22: In Copenhagen, a high-ranking Soviet intelligence officer defects to the West with his wife and daughter. He informs the CIA that the Soviets are positioning missiles in Cuba. André Devereaux, a French agent, is assigned to further investigate the matter. His mission leads him first to New York City, then to Cuba. While events lead up to the Cuban Missile Crisis, Devereaux' personal life takes several turns for the worse. (Topaz)
• October: Cuban Missile Crisis:
  • October 22:
    • President John F. Kennedy addresses the nation and talks about the crisis. (Real Life)
    • That same evening, Calvin and Helen Webber lock themselves in a special fallout shelter after a freak plane accident convinces them that World War III has begun. Shortly thereafter, Helen gives birth to a son, Adam. (Blast from the Past)
    • During the broadcast of Kennedy's speech, Jesse Keys goes to the Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah and asks Lt. Wiley to put him in contact with the UFO project. Wiley gives him Colonel Owen Crawford's name and address in Las Vegas. (Taken)
  • October 23:
    • World War III destroys human civilization. (Chrononauts)
    • In Las Vegas, a drunken Anne Crawford stocks up on supplies because of the Crisis. She tells her sons Eric and Sam that their father Colonel Owen Crawford is in charge of the US government's UFO project, which he denies. Shortly afterwards, Jesse Keys confronts Crawford outside of his house and tells him that he and his father Russell have been abducted by aliens multiple times. (Taken)
  • October 24:
    • Doc Brown is visited by two Department of Defense agents who want him to build a time machine. After showing them his prototype temporal field capacitor, Brown has a nightmare about a temporal arms race between the USA and USSR. ^MoreDeciding that no government should possess time travel technology, Brown uses the device to send a letter to his younger self, which causes an electrical fire in the past. In the altered timeline, the agents want nothing to do with an alleged insurance thief. (Back to the Future)
    • Colonel Owen Crawford and Dr. Kreutz travel to the Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah to interview Russell and Jesse Keys about their contact with the aliens. Russell tells Crawford that they can have the implant in his frontal lobe on the condition that they leave Jesse alone. Although Crawford gives Russell his word, he has Jesse arrested as a spy, claiming that he received secret information from Lt. Wiley and planned to pass it on to the Soviet Union in the hope of turning the tide in the Crisis. Russell is brought to Bob's Used Cars to be operated on. After the implant is removed from his brain, it causes everyone there to go insane and kill each other. The implant is destroyed in the resulting fire. (Taken)
    • Majors Howard Bowen and Marty Erickson are found staring into space in their car on State Highway 12 in Granite, Montana by a state trooper. Bowen implies that they are on a secret mission to determine whether the Soviets are planning to invade the US through Montana. (Taken)
  • October 26: Sam Beckett leaps into Eddie Ellroy, a 19-year-old college student who sells fallout shelters with his elder brother Mac, in Florida in the midst of the Crisis. He is there to prevent Mac's neighbor Burt Rosencranz from being killed when he tries to enter the Ellroy family's shelter. (Quantum Leap)
  • October 27: Major Rudolf Anderson's U-2 plane is shot down over Cuba, further intensifying the Crisis. (Real Life) As a result of this incident, the suspected spy Jesse Keys is placed in the bomb shelter of the Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah. He hears two MPs discussing what happened at Bob's Used Cars on October 24 and fears that his father Russell may be dead. (Taken)
  • October 28: After hearing on the radio that the Crisis has been successfully resolved, Anne Crawford and Major Howard Bowen are murdered by her husband Colonel Owen Crawford: Anne because her drunken, erratic behavior is at risk of exposing the existence of the artifact found at the Roswell crashsite and Bowen because he tried to betray him by using Jacob Clarke against him. The next morning, Crawford tells his sons Eric and Sam that Anne was having an affair with Bowen and that Bowen killed her and then himself when she changed her mind about running away with him. (Taken)
  • A group of mutants recruited by the US government and lead by Erik Lehnsherr and Charles Xavier stop a plot by Sebastian Shaw and his evil Hellfire Club from starting a nuclear war and taking over the Earth. (X-Men: First Class)
  • Following the Crisis, Fidel Castro has a secret high-level meeting with President John F. Kennedy, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and former presidential candidate Richard Nixon. They are interrupted by a zombie attack on the Pentagon. (Call of Duty: Black Ops, Call of Duty: Zombies)
  • The seaQuest arrives in this era and accidentally makes the Cuban Missile Crisis degenerate into a nuclear war.^moreThey travel back a few days earlier to avert the disaster and fix history. (SeaQuest 2032)
  • Filmmaker Lawrence Woolsey uses the hype and fear surrounding the events in Cuba to promote a special showing of his latest horror movie Mant! in Key West, Florida. (Matinee)
  • [Alternate Universe] the United States backs down and the Soviet nuclear weapons remain in place on Cuba. This indicates to the Soviet Union and its allies that the US is less committed to stopping the spread of communism than they had previously thought. By the end of the 20th century, every country in the world has become a communist state. The United States is the last holdout. (Crosstime Traffic)
  • President Lyndon B. Johnson makes the decision to strike against the Soviet missiles. The Cuban Missile Crisis escalates the Cold War to full nuclear war. (What if...? Armageddon 1962)
• November 1: Jesse Keys discovers that his father Russell is dead after his effects are delivered to him in the bomb shelter of the Hill Air Force Base in Ogden, Utah. Later that night, he is abducted by the aliens and sees an image of his late father aboard their ship. (Taken)
• November 6: Sam Beckett leaps into Eddie Vega, a 16-year-old football player for El Camino High School, in Woodland Hills, California. He is there to prevent Eddie's best friend Chuey Martinez from throwing a game and ruining both of their chances at college scholarships. (Quantum Leap)
• November 19: World-ending nuclear war breaks out. ("Ur", in The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, by Stephen King)
• November 21: Paul and Janine Brown are married. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• November 23: Richard Girardi is born. (Joan of Arcadia)
• December 24: Sam Beckett leaps into Reginald Pearson, the valet of the millionaire industrialist Michael Blake, in New York. He is there to prevent Blake both from tearing down a Salvation Army mission and from committing suicide on June 3, 1976 after being declared bankrupt. (Quantum Leap)
• December 25:
  • Santa Claus XIX nearly starts World War III in the course of his deliveries. In the aftermath, his son and grandson order him not to fly any more and retire the sleigh in favour of the S-1. (Arthur Christmas)
  • The nine-year-old Sam Beckett receives a sled for Christmas from his parents John and Thelma. He spends the entire day playing in the snow with his elder brother Tom. (Quantum Leap)
• December: Having been forced to retire by the board of the Rock Spring School for Boys, Professor Ellis Fowler becomes convinced that he has accomplished nothing in his life and plans to shoot himself. However, the ghosts of seven of Fowler's former students, Artie Beechcroft, Bartlett, Dickie Weiss, Thompson, Rice, Hudson and Whiting, intervene. They tell him that his teachings inspired them as he taught them about patriotism, courage, loyalty, ethics and honesty. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Patrick Bateman is born. (American Psycho)
• King Kong battles against Godzilla. Kong is later seen swimming off back to his home island. Godzilla's fate is unknown. (King Kong vs. Godzilla)
• Niels Bohr attempts to build a phased polaron cannon; so far as most of the world knows, he dies before it's completed. In actuality he succeeds, and somehow the cannon ends up in the hands of O2STK. (The Middleman)
• William Birkin is born. (Resident Evil)
• George Trevor begins construction of the Spencer Mansion (Resident Evil)
• Bruce Banner becomes the Hulk. (Marvel Comics)
• Henry Pym becomes Ant-Man. (Marvel Comics)
• The Fantastic Four encounter Namor the Sub-Mariner; later, they battle Doctor Doom for the first time. (Marvel Comics)
• Peter Parker becomes the Amazing Spider-Man. (Marvel Comics)
• Donald Blake discovers he is really The Mighty Thor. (Marvel Comics)
• The second Flash, Barry Allen, discovers the existence of Earth-2 and teams up with his Golden Age counterpart. (DC Comics)
• Dan Dreiberg makes his debut as Nite Owl. (Watchmen)
• The Race's colonization fleet arrives over Earth and is immediately attacked with nuclear weapons by an unknown human nation. The survivors are horrified at the state of their new home, having expected a pacified medieval world instead of a planet in the grips of a Cold War. (Worldwar)
• Birth of Margot Yale and Brendan Quarters. Margot would grow up to become an Assistant District Attorney. (Gargoyles)
• Ian Bancroft is assigned as the Watcher of Darius. He would serve in this position until the 1990s. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• The Delta Tau Chi fraternity of Faber College is placed on "double secret probation" by Dean Vernon Wermer. (Animal House)
• SAS operative John Mason is imprisoned indefinitely. (The Rock)
• Zombie outbreak in Nevada. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania, Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
• Aliens land in the Midwestern United States. The US government dispatches a team from their anticommunist rapid response unit XCOM, led by Agent William Carter, to intervene. (The Bureau: XCOM Declassified)
• Tracy Turnblad helps to racially integrate The Corny Collins Show in Baltimore. (Hairspray and the [[Hairspray'' remake]])
• Syndrome unleashes a giant robot on Metroville^note intending to set himself up as a hero by "defeating" it. The robot rebels against, and defeats its master. Mr Incredible, his family, and Frozone come out of hiding to destroy the robot. (The Incredibles)
• The last weapon is fired in war on Earth, beginning an unprecedented period of peace. (Journey into Space)
• Ben Wainwright dies. (Doctor Who)
• Gary and Valene Ewing divorce for the first time. They eventually remarry in 1979 and again in 1991. (Dallas, Knots Landing)
• Jamie Spontini is born. (Quantum Leap)
• Louis Thorson becomes the first man to set foot on the surface of The Moon. (Dimension X)
• Alberto Granado founds the Faculty of Medicine at Cuba's University of Santiago. (The Motorcycle Diaries and Real Life)
• A janitor named Woodrow Mulligan from 1890 travels to this year using a time helmet invented by Professor Gilbert. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Alec Colson is born. (Stargate SG-1)
• The jockey Michael Grady is suspended for six months by the racing commission for failing to report the offer of a bribe. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Paul Gerard and Ruth Maginnes divorce. (Rhoda)
• Luther Hargreeves arrives in Dallas, Texas, after falling through a time portal. Meanwhile, Klaus has somehow made his way to Varnasi, India. He slowly works his way back San Francisco, and then eventually to Dallas. En route, he acquires a cult of personality around himself - he maintains his appearance of wisdom by quoting the lyrics of songs that haven't been written yet. (The Umbrella Academy (2019))
• A New York psychologist becomes fascinated by the Synanon cult in California, eventually moving into their facility so he can research it. While there, he meets a priest, and the two take what they learn and start their own version in New York, Daybreak Village. That same year, 16-year-old Jay Cirri gets sent to a juvenile corrections facility. (Joe vs. Elan School)
• Jun Tanaka, the victim of exclusion-based bullying, gives up her real life to join Frida's Friends Club. (Unimaa)
• The Imperial College of Engineering (ICE) is established in Delhi, India. (3 Idiots)
• Richard Vernon begins teaching. (The Breakfast Club)
• Xibalba and La Muerte’s eldest daughter Sartana of the Dead commits a horrible atrocity against one of her sisters out of heartbreak over her human lover Jorge Rivera leaving her at the altar, resulting in Sartana’s wings getting cut off and her banishment to the Land of the Living. She later bears Jorge’s son, El Machete. (El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera, The Book of Life)

1963

• January 9: Jun Wong disappears. (The 4400)
• January: Neo-Nazi Peter Vollmer is given training by a mysterious benefactor revealed to be the spirit of Adolf Hitler, kept immortal by humanity's hate and ignorance. (The Twilight Zone: He's Alive)
• February 3: Captain Joseph Reardon is launched into space. (The Outer Limits (1963))
• March 11: Sam Beckett leaps into a Texas bouncer named Buster, who has kidnapped a baby named Christie Cole with his accomplice Thelma Lou Dickey. He is there to return the baby, who had been kidnapped by her father Reed, to her mother Margaret. (Quantum Leap)
• March 12:
  • Pierce Lawton is born in Short Hills, New Jersey. (Knots Landing)
  • Jordan Collier is born. (The 4400)
• March 21: Sam Beckett leaps into Lee Harvey Oswald as his wife Marina is taking the photograph of Oswald posing with his Carcano rifle. (Quantum Leap)
• April 7: Sam Beckett leaps into Cheree, a 15-year-old girl and a member of an R&B trio. He is there to prevent one of the other girls, Lynelle Walters, from running away from home and entering into a slave contract with her abusive manager Bobby Lee. (Quantum Leap)
• April 10: Sam Beckett leaps into Lee Harvey Oswald as he attempts to assassinate General Edwin Walker. (Quantum Leap)
• April: Approximately 100 miles off the coast of Guadalcanal, a US Navy destroyer picks up what appears to be the sound of something banging on metal. They discover the submarine 714, which was sunk by a Japanese ship during the First Battle of the Solomon Sea on August 7, 1942, on the ocean floor. The ship's chief boatswain's mate Bell, the only survivor of the sinking, believes that the ghosts of his former crewmates are beckoning for him to join them and jumps overboard. The rescue mission later discovers the periscope shears cut in half and swinging back and forth as well as a dead sailor with a hammer in his hand. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• June 13: The first manned rocket to The Moon is launched from Friedrichshafen, Germany. (Weltraumschiff 1 startet...)
• June:
  • Wally Cleaver graduates from high school. (Leave It to Beaver)
  • Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver graduates from Grant Avenue Grammar School. (Leave It to Beaver)
• July 8: Birth of Lionel to John and Ida Herkabe. (Malcolm in the Middle)
• July 13: Carl Manfred is born. (Detroit: Become Human)
• July 30: Birth of Rufus in the United States. He would grow up to become a fat fighter. (Street Fighter IV)
• July: Sue Ann Nivens begins presenting The Happy Homemaker on WJM-TV. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• August 9: Sam Beckett leaps into Lee Harvey Oswald as he is distributing Fair Play for Cuba leaflets in New Orleans. (Quantum Leap)
• August 12: Birth of Guy, a Japanese-American boy. He would grow up to become the 39th master of the Bushin style of Ninjutsu. (Final Fight, Street Fighter Alpha)
• Mid-August: Radiation advances to the south of Australia, killing everyone. There may still be survivors south of Melbourne, such as in Tierra del Fuego, South America, but they're not expected to last much longer either. (On the Beach)
• August 17: Sonny Dellisio is murdered by Tony Pronti. (Quantum Leap)
• August 19: Sam Beckett leaps into a priest named Father Francis "Frank" Pistano in Philadelphia. He is there to restore the faith of another priest, Father John McRoberts, and prevent him from killing Tony Pronti. (Quantum Leap)
• August 27: Zeke Williams is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• August 28: Martin Luther King Jr. gives his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. (Real Life) His follow-up speaker, Reverend Robert Jones, accidentally starts a riot. (Key & Peele)
• August: Holger and Fanny Nielsen are killed in a fire in their house outside German Corners, Pennsylvania. Their 12-year-old daughter Ilse, a powerful telepath who has never learned to speak, is taken in by Sheriff Harry Wheeler and his wife Cora. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Summer: Baby is put in a corner. (Dirty Dancing)
• September 1:
  • Joo Yon Pak disappears. (The 4400)
  • Diego Hargreeves arrives in Dallas, Texas, after falling through a time portal. He immediately sets to work trying to prevent the Kennedy assassination, and is sent to a mental institution. (The Umbrella Academy (2019))
• September 16: The Mercury astronaut Colonel Theodore Harris encounters aliens while aboard the Aspire 7. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• September 21: Carrie White is born. (Carrie)
• September 28: Birth of Vinnie Grigori in New York City. In his adult life, Vinnie would suffer various unnoticed misfortunes because of the gargoyles. (Gargoyles)
• October 6: Former Soviet captain Viktor Reznov leads an uprising at the Vorkuta gulag. American captive Alex Mason escapes. (Call of Duty: Black Ops)
• October 12: Vanya Hargreeves arrives in Dallas, Texas, after falling through a time portal. Heavily dazed, she is nearly run over by Sissy Cooper and suffers a Tap on the Head. (The Umbrella Academy (2019))
• October 31: Six-year-old Michael Myers murders his older sister Judith; he is committed to a sanitarium and remains in a catatonic state for the next 15 years. (Halloween)
• October:
  • Private Pip Phillips is badly injured in Vietnam but recovers and is sent back to the United States. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
  • Severely flight-phobic Robert Wilson is tormented by a monstrous creature clinging to the outside of an airliner. (The Twilight Zone: Nightmare At 20,000 Feet)
• November 7: Birth of Joe in the United States. He would grow to become a kickboxer. (Street Fighter)
• November 10: After passing a psych screening, Alex Mason returns to active CIA duty under the command of Special Agent Jason Hudson. He receives an executive order from President Kennedy to assassinate Soviet General Nikita Dragovich, the very same man who sent him to Vorkuta two years earlier. (Call of Duty: Black Ops)
• November 17: Alex Mason, alongside fellow Agents Frank Woods and Joseph Bowman, track Dragovich to the Baikonur Cosmodrome, where they sabotage the launch of the Soyuz II rocket and make an attempt on the Major General's life. They escape after rescuing their captured comrade Grigori Weaver, with Dragovich presumed dead in the explosion of his limousine. (Call of Duty: Black Ops)
• November 21:
  • Sam Beckett leaps into Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas as he making preparations to assassinate John F. Kennedy the next day. (Quantum Leap)
  • The time traveling historian Professor Joseph Fitzgerald is visited at Harvard by his colleague Dr. Kate Wang from 2172. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
  • Richard Nixon is in Dallas, Texas on business. (Real Life) While there, he meets with a shadowy cabal of oil industry executives and Cuban refugees who urge him to run for President. When he refuses, citing John F. Kennedy's popularity, they cryptically imply that Kennedy will not be running for President again. (Nixon)
• Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
• November 22:
  • JFK blown away, what else do I have to say? ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated. Government investigations identify Lee Harvey Oswald as the murderer, though some are skeptical. (Real Life)
  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, a member of the Templar Order, in order to retrieve the Piece of Eden in the president's possession. Secret Service agent, William Greer, the limo driver, is also a member of Templar Order and helps facilitate the assassin. (Assassin's Creed II)
  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated by the Comedian. (Watchmen)
  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated by someone other than the Comedian, who is shocked when he sees the news. (Before Watchmen: The Comedian)
  • John F. Kennedy is targeted by five separate assassins. One of them succeeds. (Illuminatus!)
  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated by the Cigarette Smoking Man. (The X-Files)
  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated by a mongoose. With a sniper rifle. (Robot Chicken)
  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated by James Stevens, the author of the Doctor Who Expanded Universe novel Who Killed Kennedy, in order to preserve the timeline following the Master's murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. (Doctor Who: Who Killed Kennedy)
  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated by two male model assassins. (Zoolander)
  • John F. Kennedy is shot by the CIA, Mafia, Castro, LBJ, Teamsters, Freemasons, and possibly aliens, among several other parties. All forty-three shooters are then gunned down by Jack Ruby. (The Onion)
  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated by himself. (Red Dwarf)
  • The Ninth Doctor is present at the Kennedy Assassination. (Doctor Who)
  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated by a Soviet-programmed Manchurian agent. Lee Harvey Oswald takes the fall. (Call of Duty: Black Ops)
  • John F. Kennedy shoots himself in the back of the head with a small revolver. (MAD Magazine)
  • John F. Kennedy is almost assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, but Oswald is stopped in the last moment by Jake Epping, a time traveler from 2011. (11/22/63)
  • John F. Kennedy is accidentally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, who was aiming for a sniper on the grassy knoll. (Family Guy)
  • [Alternate Universe] Lee Harvey Oswald assassinates Mayor McCheese. His remains are devoured by Jackie Kennedy. (Family Guy)
  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated. The mutant terrorist Magneto is convicted of the crime, and imprisoned in a concrete cell beneath the Pentagon. He protests that he is innocent, and that he was actually trying to save the president, but the fact that the bullet curved (something Magneto could easily cause with his magnetic powers) seems conclusive. (X-Men: Days of Future Past)
  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated by a right-wing cabal of war hawks and military industrialists. (Oliver Stone's JFK)
  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald. Al Calavicci observes this from the Imaging Chamber in 1999, but can't do anything to change it. Sam Beckett, who had leapt out of Oswald and into Secret Service agent Clint Hill moments before, saves Jackie Kennedy from Oswald. (Quantum Leap)
  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated by a conspiracy involving, among others, New Orleans mob boss Sal Marcano and U.S Senator Richard Blake. CIA operative John Donovan hears the news of the assassination while brutally interrogating a North VA soldier in Vietnam. (Mafia III)
  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Nelson Bennett, a Communist with links to the Soviet embassy in Mexico, after Jeff Winston wrote a threatening letter to JFK in Lee Harvey Oswald's name the week before the assassination. (Replay)
  • U.S. President Richard Nixon is assassinated in Dallas, Texas. (Superman: Red Son)
  • [Alternate Universe] John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. J. Edgar Hoover succeeds him as President. He establishes a dictatorship and rules the United States with an iron fist. (Sliders)
  • [Alternate Universe] John F. Kennedy is not assassinated as the attempt on his life was foreseen by the Prime Oracle. (Sliders)
  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated by a Marine named Robert Shafto. (The 4400)
  • John F. Kennedy's assassination is averted by Professor Joseph Fitzgerald, a time traveling historian from 2172 and one of Kennedy's descendants. This creates a timeline in which Soviet troops invade West Berlin, resulting in World War III. In order to restore the proper timeline, Fitzgerald takes Kennedy's place and allows himself to be killed. Kennedy is transported forward in time to 2172. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
  • John F. Kennedy survives an assassination attempt in Dallas, Texas but he is badly injured and his wife Jacqueline is killed. He resigns and is succeeded by Lyndon Johnson. (Voyage)
  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated by Jim Steele, a Majestic 12 agent who was infested by the Hive, after John Loengard tells him the truth about Roswell and the Hive. (Dark Skies)
  • John F. Kennedy's assassination is averted by a time traveler named Raymond Mead. (Timequest)
  • John F. Kennedy is saved from assassination by Secret Service agent Clint Hill, who is killed in the process. Governor of Texas John Connally is also killed. (Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas?)
  • The ten-year-old Sam Beckett's father John is teaching him to drive a tractor when they hear that John F. Kennedy has been assassinated. (Quantum Leap)
  • Having unraveled the conspiracy, and with strong public support, the American National Time Travel Administration prevents the assassination of John F. Kennedy. (Chrononauts)
  • John Fitzgerald Byers is born. His parents name him in honor of John F. Kennedy. They had originally intended to name him Bertram after his father. (The X-Files)
  • Confederate President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. His death ends all possibility of slaves being freed and women gaining the right to vote in the Confederacy. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
  • An Ullustran shapeshifter in John F. Kennedy's form is assassinated. The real Kennedy had been on Ullustro negotiating an end to the war between the Ullustrans and the Violators. As revealing the existence of aliens would cause mass panic, Kennedy decides to return to Ullustro and let everyone on Earth believe that he is dead. (DC Comics)
  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated by the Red Skull. (Ultimate Marvel)
  • John F. Kennedy is assassinated when Lee Harvey Oswald is visited by eight other men and women who tried to kill other presidents. (Assassins)
  • [Alternate Timeline] John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Austin. (Timeless)
  • John F. Kennedy would have been assassinated by an agent of The Commission, except the agent decided to abandon the mission instead. Kennedy is, however, still assassinated by an agent of the Majestic 12 to prevent him looking too closely into the Roswell landings. ^{Original spoiler-y timeline}The FBI interrogate Vanya Hargreeves under fears she is a Russian spy, causing her to have a Super Power Melt Down. The resulting explosion allows Kennedy to escape safely in the chaos, but is believed to be a deliberate Soviet attack. Escalation of tension leads to nuclear war within days. This timeline is prevented by Ben Hargreeves emotionally defusing Vanya. (The Umbrella Academy (2019))
  • Lucius Snow sees the news of Kennedy's assassination in a newspaper from one day in the future, but fails to save him. (Early Edition)
• November 23: Jorjie Turner, a teenager from 2050, is accidentally sent back in time to this date. (K9)
• November 24: Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered by Jack Ruby. (Real Life, JFK)
• November 25: Five Hargreeves arrives in an apocalyptic nuclear war in Dallas, Texas, after falling through a time portal. He is taken back in time ten days by Hazel to try and save the timeline. (The Umbrella Academy (2019))
• November 28: Vladimir Snell is born. (Chuck)
• November:
  • Erich Streator is stalked and eventually murdered by a haunted Talky Tina doll belonging to his stepdaughter Christie. (The Twilight Zone: Living Doll)
  • Meg Pryor and Roxanne Bojarski become regular dancers on American Bandstand. (American Dreams)
• Late December: A young man meets a woman and it’s Love at First Sight. Oh what a night! (Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons)
• Tony Stark becomes Iron Man. (Marvel Comics)
• First appearance of Doctor Strange. (Marvel Comics)
• The Avengers form. Not long afterwards, they retrieve Captain America, frozen in ice since World War II. (Marvel Comics)
• The original Doom Patrol forms. (DC Comics)
• Charles Xavier forms the original X-Men. (Marvel Comics)
• Schoolteachers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright disappear along with a mysterious Doctor after investigating their student Susan Foreman. (Doctor Who)
• The Seventh Doctor and Ace prevent time-traveling Daleks from exploiting the Hand of Omega. (Doctor Who)
• The Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond discover the Daleks have messed with the timeline using an unknown artifact of immense power ^morea natural phenomenon called "the Eye of Time", leaving the entire Earth in ruins. (Doctor Who: The Adventure Games)
• The birds of Bodega Bay are become increasingly aggressive and soon every human being around comes under attack. (The Birds)
• Immortal actor Wilson Geary kills fellow immortal actor Marco Becker. Amanda, who happens to be visiting, becomes good friends with Marco's mortal wife, Lucy. (Highlander: The Raven)
• Estimated birth of the immortal Stefan Collier. (Highlander: The Raven)
• Gerald Marchand, president of the Rogue Isles, is assassinated by an unknown assailant^note a villain working with the Menders of Ouroboros, time traveling from the early 21st century. Arachnos, led by Lord Recluse, begins its rule of the Isles. (City of Villains)
• John Mason escapes Alcatraz. (The Rock)
• Birth of Lois.^{Justification}Stated to be 38 years old in the 2001 episode "Lois' Birthday." (Malcolm in the Middle)
• In Ireland, Hellboy investigates several murders being propagated by trolls. He is assisted by a local witch. (Hellboy: The Troll Witch)
• Warden Samuel Norton begins exploiting the prison labor in Shawshank for profit, and tasks Andy Dufresne with laundering the money under the pseudonym Randall Stephens. (The Shawshank Redemption)
• William J. Feathersmith makes a pact with Satan and is transported back in time to his home town of Cliffordville, Indiana in 1910. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• International espionage agency U.N.C.L.E. is established ^note If taken under consideration that the movie is a Alternate Continuity from the series . (The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015))
• Stevie Arnold is born. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• Jonathan Dexter becomes a judge. (Phyllis)

Early to mid 1960s

• Estimated birth of Rena Genryusai, eldest daughter of a practitioner of the Bushin style of Ninjutsu, in Japan. She would grow up to become the fiancée and presumably the wife of Guy. (Final Fight 2)
• Estimated birth of Carlos Miyamoto in South America. He would grow up to become a skilled swordsman. (Final Fight 2)
• Estimated birth of Dean. He would grow up to become a street fighter, seemingly retiring by the late 1980s. (Final Fight 3)
• Estimated birth of El Fuerte in Mexico. He would grow up to become a luchador and a mighty chef. (Street Fighter IV^{justification}Supposed childhood friend of Thunder Hawk, though acting younger.)
• Estimated birth of Hakan in Turkey. He would grow up to become the owner of the world's leading edible oil manufacturer. He would also become a towering figure in yagli gures tournaments (oil wrestling, grease wrestling) (Street Fighter IV^{justification}Said to be an old friend of Edmund Honda. Presumably close in age to him.)
• Estimated birth of Allen Snider in the United States. He would grow up to become the greatest living martial artist in the United States until defeated by Ken Masters. The loss would inspire him to travel the world and gain more experience. (Street Fighter EX^{justification}Already a famous fighter by the time Ken Masters debuted, but not an Old Master type.)
• Alec Leamas defects to East Germany and provides information to the Abteilung ^note He does this on the orders of British Intelligence in order to reinforce the cover of Hans-Dieter Mundt and discredit his detractors. Elizabeth Gold also travels to East Berlin as part of a Communist Party exchange ^note Unbeknownst to her, she is actually brought there to inform on Leamas and discredit his information. The two eventually meet again ^note and die while attempting to exfiltrate across the Berlin Wall. (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)
• F. X. Caldeira leaves Lençóis to move northeast. (S.)

1964

• January 4: Before the verdict in Lee Harvey Oswald's trial can be read, Oswald is gunned down on his way back to court by Jack Ruby. (The Trial Of Lee Harvey Oswald)
• January 8: Ted Baxter tells the trapeze artist Holly Homburg that he will see her tomorrow. However, the carnival leaves town the next day and he never sees her again. This is his one regret in life. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• January 22: Samantha Mulder is born in Chilmark, Massachusetts. (The X-Files)
• February 6: Sam Beckett leaps into a blind pianist named Andrew Ross in New York. He is there to prevent Andrew's girlfriend Michelle Stevens from being murdered by the Central Park Strangler. (Quantum Leap)
• February 7: The Beatles land in New York City and are greeted by a crowd of 3000 people. (Real Life) The crowd includes a time traveling Doc Brown, who snaps a photograph. ("Doc on the March")
• February 9: The Beatles perform for the first time on American television on The Ed Sullivan Show. (Real Life)
  • Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid is also scheduled to perform on the same program, but gets booted from the broadcast before it starts, after Bosko tells Ed that Honey's unavailable. (Tiny Toon Adventures)
  • The Hive plot to hijack the broadcast of the Beatles' performance so that they can release a signal that will cause millions of viewers to commit suicide. (Dark Skies)
  • William Craig, Jr. is in attendance. (St. Elsewhere)
  • The Pryor family, Roxanne Bojarski, Beth Mason and Luke Foley watch the Beatles' performance on television. (American Dreams)
  • A bus full of Catholic teens on their way to see the show live smashes into a Mercury convertible where harmony group Forever Plaid are driving to their first big gig. While all of the teens miraculously survive, the entire harmony group is killed instantly. (Forever Plaid)
• February 11-12: The elderly Jason Foster takes revenge on his greedy and abusive family by forcing them to wear hideous Mardi Gras masks that represent their personality flaws in return for inheriting his fortune. At midnight, Foster dies, but when his relatives remove their masks, they discover that their faces have permanently warped into the monstrous appearance of the masks as punishment. (The Twilight Zone: The Masks)
• February 23: Dana Scully is born. (The X-Files)
• March 13: Kitty Genovese is murdered. (Real Life) The knife used is acquired by the Foundation. (SCP Foundation)
• After March 13: Disgusted by the Genovese murder, Walter Kovacs becomes Rorschach. (Watchmen)
• April 12: Olivia and Duncan Germaine disappear. (The 4400)
• Between April 22 and October 18: The Flintstones, traveling through time via a time machine at the Bedrock World's Fair, visit the New York World's Fair. After some culture shock and a run-in with a police officer, the families return to the Stone Age. (The Flintstones)
• April 27: Marie Ramset disappears. (The 4400)
• April: President Joseph P. Kennedy visits Berlin for the first-ever summit between the President of the United States and Führer of Nazi Germany. The summit is disrupted by shocking new evidence that the Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe were not actually "resettled East," but in fact may have suffered a much more horrific fate. (Fatherland)
• May 11: Jane Potter dies in Stockbridge. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• May 13: Martha Longhurst dies. (Coronation Street)
• May 19:
  • Birth of Hugo Andore in Germany. Hugo would grow up to become a gang member and a professional wrestler. (Final Fight, Street Fighter III)
  • An obituary indicates the death of one Mr. F. X. Caldeira, the elusive translator of the works of V. M. Straka.^moreShe isn't really dead, but instead has gone into hiding. (S.)
• May 25: On the day that a man named Jagger is going to be executed in a small town, the Sun does not rise. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• May 30: Hilary West is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• June 11: Sam Beckett leaps into Tommy York, a cadet at Prescott Naval Academy in Macomb County, Michigan. He is there to prevent Tommy's former roommate Phillip Ashcroft from being killed because he is gay. (Quantum Leap)
• June 25: Sgt. William Connors, Corporal Richard Langsford and Private Michael McCluskey are transported back in time to the Battle of Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• July 4: Sam Beckett leaps into Butchie Rickett, a 13-year-old boy who is on vacation with his family in Carbon County, Wyoming. He is there to prevent Butchie's mother Emma from leaving her family. (Quantum Leap)
• July 13: Andrea Yates dies, completely changing Sarah Jane Smith's outlook on life. ^moreThe Trickster makes a deal to exchange her life for Sarah Jane's but she later reverses this timeline to save the world from destruction. (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
• July 21: Birth of Ryu in Japan. He would grow up to become a martial artist. (Street Fighter II)
• July 22: Melanie "Mel" Bush is born. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• August 22: [Alternate Timeline] James Robert Kennedy, the son of John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy, is born. (Timequest)
• August 24: Naked Snake infiltrates Tselinoyarsk to rescue the scientist Nikolai Sokolov. (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater)
• August 28-30: A major race riot breaks out in Philadelphia over widespread allegations of police brutality against African-Americans. (Real Life) Meg Pryor and Sam Walker are caught up in the riot while Sam's cousin Nathan participates in it. (American Dreams)
• August 30: Naked Snake infiltrates Tselinoyarsk again to destroy the Shagohad and retrieve the Philosopher's Legacy. (Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater)
• September 1: Quarlo Clobgrenny, a soldier fighting a war in a distant, post-apocalyptic future, is accidentally transported to a random city street in a small U.S town. He's "adopted" by the Kagan family, who helps him adjust to a normal life. However, an enemy soldier follows him through time, and the two enemies finally end up killing eachother. (The Outer Limits (1963): Soldier)
• September 5: Agent 47, an enhanced human clone, is created by Dr. Ort-Meyer. (Hitman)
• September 25:
  • Lillian Banokat disappears. (The 4400)
  • Daniel Holtz is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• October 14:
  • Sam Beckett leaps into Jimmy LaMotta, a man with Down Syndrome, in order to ensure Jimmy's future and that of his brother Frank's family. (Quantum Leap)
  • Lori Pendleton is born. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• October 17: Trent, an amnesiac with an artificial hand missing three fingers, and with no memory beyond the past 10 days, is trapped inside a large office building with a woman named Consuelo Biros, pursued by mysterious and dangerous enemies known only as the Kyben. (The Outer Limits (1963): "Demon With A Glass Hand")
• October 31: Sam Beckett leaps into a horror novelist named Joshua Rey in Coventry, Maine. Strange things begin to happen as soon as he arrives, including several mysterious deaths. (Quantum Leap)
• November 3:
  • U.S. President Lyndon Johnson is elected to a full term in his own right, defeating Barry Goldwater. (Real Life)
  • Earl Warren is elected to a second term as U.S. President, defeating Hubert Humphrey. (Worldwar)
  • [Alternate Universe] John F. Kennedy is elected to a second term as U.S. President. (Sliders)
  • John F. Kennedy is elected to a second term as U.S. President, defeating Barry Goldwater. (Surrounded by Enemies: What If Kennedy Survived Dallas?, Alternate Generals)
  • [Alternate Timeline] John F. Kennedy is elected to a second term as U.S. President. (11/22/63)
  • Blake Hartley is elected to a second term as U.S. President. ("Day of the Moron")
  • Barry Goldwater is elected U.S. President, defeating Lyndon Johnson. (Alternate Presidents)
  • Richard Nixon is elected U.S. President. (Cuban Crisis: Second Holocaust)
• The events of Marius occur. (The Psychotechnic League)
• The Teen Titans first form. (DC Comics)
• Matt Murdock becomes Daredevil. (Marvel Comics)
• Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, agents of UNCLE, battle the forces of THRUSH. (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
• Marnie Edgar, a kleptomaniac, is blackmailed by her employer Sidney Strutt into marrying. He introduces her first to marital rape, then to psychotherapy. (Marnie)
• The Wilmarth Foundation begins its battle against the cthonians. (The Burrowers Beneath)
• Odetta Holmes/Detta Walker (later merged into Susannah Dean) taken from New York by Roland Deschain. (The Dark Tower)
• Birth of Jason Canmore to Charles Canmore and an unnamed mother. He would grow up to become a Hunter. (Gargoyles)
• Birth of Matt Bluestone. He would grow up to become first an FBI agent and then a NYPD officer. (Gargoyles)
• The Beatles have a press conference and appear on television on UTV. An opera on UTV is interrupted by Paul McCartney's grandfather, John McCartney. George Harrison is accidentally interviewed for a fashion trend show, but is rejected. John McCartney and Ringo Starr are both arrested (for separate reasons), and Ringo is barely retrieved in time for the official concert. (A Hard Day's Night)
• The original Warner Bros. animation studio, "Termite Terrace", is permanently shut down, with the entire staff and nearly all of the Looney Tunes stars laid off. The Warner siblings, temporarily released from their tower, are licensed out to other studios over the next several years, while Daffy and Speedy (and the Road Runner and Coyote) are kept on for a series of shorts produced by a new animation unit through the end of the decade. (Looney Tunes, Animaniacs, date taken from Real Life)
• A storm strands a ship, its skipper, its first mate and five passengers on an island following a tour of a marina. (Gilligan's Island)
• Josefina Menendez is born in Nicaragua. (Call of Duty: Black Ops II)
• In Russia, Hellboy pursues Baba Yaga in an attempt to put an end to child abductions in the area. In the ensuing struggle he shoots out her left eye, forcing her from the mortal world. (Hellboy: The Baba Yaga)
• The isolated town of Gatlin, Nebraska is affected by a blighted corn harvest. The children and teenagers of the town are overcome with a religious mania and form a cult worshiping an entity known as He Who Walks Behind The Rows. They massacre their parents and every other adult over the age of 20, but He Who Walks Behind The Rows is forced to personally dispatch the town's police chief and minister who escape the cultists. As punishment, the age limit is lowered from 20 to 19 and the cultists of that age are sacrificed. Gatlin is completely cut off from the rest of the world. (Children of the Corn)
• Earth is devastated by a nuclear war. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Lorelle Palmer is born. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• Diana Fairgate is born. (Knots Landing)
• After her husband dies, Betty Wilson uses his invention Foreverware to keep herself and her twin sons Bert and Ernie young by sealing the three of them in oversized Foreverware containers every night. This continues until Marshall Teller helps the twins escape the living hell of spending almost 30 years in the seventh grade in 1991. (Eerie, Indiana)
• Steven Keaton and Elyse Donnelly are married. (Family Ties)
• Donnie Gerard is born. (Rhoda)
• An alcoholic actress, her assistant and their pilot are trapped on a deserted island with a Mad Scientist and flesh-eating microbes. (The Flesh Eaters)
• John Hathaway is born. (Dimension X)
• Margot Griffin is born. (Phyllis)
• After three civilians escape from the town, Victoria Byng shuts down all the Joy supply in Wellington Wells. Very few survive the ensuing riot, and the town is abandoned. (We Happy Few)
• 18-year-old Jay Cirri is released from a juvenile corrections facility. He immediately drops out of high school. (Joe vs. Elan School)
• Gomer Pyle joins the United States Marine Corps. (The Andy Griffith Show)
• The Joint Chiefs of Staff send COL Walter E. Kurtz to Vietnam to compile a report on the military's failing policies. The report is restricted to President Lyndon Johnson and the Joint Chiefs. {Apocalypse Now)

1964 - 1965

• Sheriff Kerby kills the half-alien Larry in Hyder, Alaska and buries him under a tree. Larry's twin brother Lester later exhumes him. He places the body in a Tsimshian burial chamber and covers the walls with alien writing in the hope that Larry will come back to life. (Taken)

1965

• January: Minna Gaspar dies. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• February 14: Birth of Ken Masters in the United States. He is born into a wealthy family but grows up to become a martial artist. (Street Fighter II)
• February 21:
  • Malcolm X is assassinated in Manhattan. (Real Life)
  • Father Bigley is the first man on the scene. (Father Ted)
  • Sam Walker witnesses the assassination. (American Dreams)
• April 5: Peter and Susan Barlow are born. (Coronation Street)
• April 10: The United States tests an experimental cosmic ray bomb. (Dimension X)
• April 18: Birth of Cody Travers in the United States. He would grow up to become a martial artist, a vigilante hero and eventually a combat addict. (Final Fight, Street Fighter Alpha)
• April:
  • Kim Karlsen and his buddies Ola, Gunnar and Seb (nicknaming themselves after the members of The Beatles) steal a Mercedes logo in Oslo. They get to hear Bob Dylan for the first time, and gets the first news of the Vietnam War. (Beatles)
  • The ghosts of Confederate village Pleasant Valley torture and murder Yankees to avenge their massacre 100 years before. (Two Thousand Maniacs!)
• May 11: Sam Beckett leaps into Clyde, a young newlywed who has just joined the Ku Klux Klan, in Alabama. He is there to prevent an African-American civil rights activist named Nathaniel Simpson from being lynched by the Klan. (Quantum Leap)
• May: Kim Karlsen and friends find a drowned man outside the beach of Huk in Oslo. (Beatles)
• June 15: Sam Beckett leaps into a fashion photographer named Karl Granson in New York. He is there to prevent a young model, Edie Landsdale, from dying of a drug overdose. (Quantum Leap)
• June: Gangster Mr. Bribery and his sister/accomplice Ugly Christine begin their activities. Bribery proves himself to be one of the most ghoulish criminals Dick Tracy has ever faced, with a predilection for branding his henchmen with the letter "B" and decapitating his victims to keep their shrunken heads as trophies. (Dick Tracy)
• February-June 1965: Ringo Starr accepts a ring that, unknown to him, is required to be sacrificed by an Eastern cult. Attempts to retrieve the ring do not go smoothly. ^timingThis film includes recording sessions for the Help! album, and so this must have happened between February and June 1965, when the album was recorded. (Help!)
• July 8: Daniel Jackson is born. (Stargate SG-1)
• August 11: Sam Beckett leaps into Ray Harper, an African-American medical student who is engaged to a white woman named Susan Brewster, in the middle of the Watts Riots in Los Angeles. He is there to keep Ray and Susan together and to ensure that Ray becomes a doctor. (Quantum Leap)
• August 28: Vivian Mulvaney is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• August 31, 10pm: The legendary mahjong match between Shigeru Akagi and Iwao Washizu begins. (Akagi)
• October 19: The rocket ship Luna is launched from Australia. (Journey into Space)
• October 20: Jet Morgan becomes the first person in space. (Journey into Space)
• October 22: Luna lands on the Moon. Stephen "Mitch" Mitchell is the first person to walk on its surface. The first moonwalk is broadcast to Earth over the radio. (Journey into Space)
• October 30: Jet Morgan experiences a premonition of the launch of a ship bound for Venus. (Journey into Space)
• October 31: Birth of Dee Jay in Jamaica. He would grow up to become a kickboxer and professional musician, and eventually combined his interests into a dance-based fighting style. (Street Fighter II)
• November 8: Sam Beckett leaps into a Mafia hitman named Frankie LaPalma in New York. He is there to prevent Frankie from being killed for dating the godfather Don Geno Frascatti's mistress Teresa Pacci. (Quantum Leap)
• November 9:
  • The Northeast blackout causes major power outages in several U.S. states and Canada. (Real Life)
  • The blackout is caused by a failed attempt by Project Quantum Leap to return Sam Beckett to his own time. He instead leaps into Don Geno Frascatti. (Quantum Leap)
  • John "Trip" Pryor III is born in Philadelphia during the blackout. (American Dreams)
• Before November 20: The crew of the rocket ship Luna make First Contact with an alien race, known as the Time Travellers, on the Moon. (Journey into Space)
• November 20: The rocket ship Luna returns to Earth. (Journey into Space)
• Birth of Abel, presumably in France. He would grow up to become a fighter. ^moreThere are indications that Abel is either a product of genetic engineering or used as a template for such products. Abel could be younger than his supposed age.(Street Fighter IV)
• In Scotland, the Torchwood Institute makes contact with the 456, who trade a vaccine for a new strain of flu for one dozen prepubescent children. (Torchwood: Children of Earth)
• Reed Richards and Susan Storm of the Fantastic Four marry. (Marvel Comics)
• First Conference of Rio re-establishes the U.N. after the devastation of World War III. (The Psychotechnic League)
• The Race-German War is fought. The Greater German Reich invades Poland, whose security is guaranteed by the aliens. Most of Poland is destroyed by German nuclear missiles, and in retaliation Germany is turned into a radioactive wasteland. The Germans agree to a harsh peace, while the remaining human nations begin cooperating more closely to maintain the balance of power. (Worldwar)
• Connor MacLeod changes his legal identity to "Russell Nash". He would continue using that name until the 1980s. (Highlander)
• An entire unit of American soldiers is slaughtered in Vietnam. Manny, one of the soldiers, revives as an Immortal. He would go on to become the youngest member in Jacob Kell's group. (Highlander: Endgame, character profiles)
• Estimated birth of Captain Sawada in Japan. He would grow up to become a soldier of the Allied Nations (AN). (Street Fighter)
• Jean-Pierre Polnareff is born. (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• Birth of Peri Bohr, a future Slayer in Keller, Nebraska. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Birth of Sarah Connor. (Terminator)
• Birth of Billy to Sam and Carol Butcher in London's East End. (The Boys)
• The First Conference at Basra is held. (The Shape of Things to Come)
• Summer: Kim Karlsen meets Henny, the fiancee of his uncle Hubert. He is a witness to the destruction of the Slettemark picture, named "Viet Nam" in Oslo in August. (Beatles).
• Autumn: Kim Karlsen and his friends begin their higher education. Kim begins to date Nina, a girl from another class. The relationship lasts until Christmas, when she moves to Copenhagen. (Beatles)
• Abraham Morgan is drafted for the Vietnam War. He accepts over his adoptive father Henry's wishes, although Henry later relents. (Forever)
• Elizabeth "Lizzie" Westphall is born. (St. Elsewhere)
• Dr. David Domedion retires as the Chief of Surgery at St. Eligius. He is succeeded by Dr. Mark Craig. (St. Elsewhere)
• Shortly after her marriage to Edgar Eisenberg, Nurse Helen Eisenberg immigrates to the United States and begins working at St. Eligius. (St. Elsewhere)
• The St. Eligius emergency room is built. (St. Elsewhere)
• Eric Fairgate is born. (Knots Landing)
• U.S. President Earl Warren commits suicide. Vice President Harold Stassen assumes the presidency. (Worldwar)
• Kevin Bruckner is born. (Quantum Leap)
• The poetry collection Atlantis Rising by Brendan Connelly is published. (St. Elsewhere)
• Kevin and Paulette Kiem are married. (St. Elsewhere)
• Gabi Kane is born. (Batwoman (2019))
• Iris West is born. (The Flash (1990))
• Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright arrive in London, 1965 via a Dalek time machine, ending their travels with the Doctor (Doctor Who)
• A carhop has a love affair with a cheerleader who's into bebop. She sings, "Do wop diddy wop diddy wop doo." ("'65 Love Affair")
• Suzie Winston, daughter of Alex and Sam Winston, sister of Charlie Winston, niece of Chris Wells, and granddaughter of Ruth Cassandra Winston, is born. (Not for Broadcast)

1966

• January:
  • J.J. Pryor returns home from Vietnam. (American Dreams)
  • U.S. Vice President Lyndon Johnson resigns. (Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas?)
  • Death of Frank Randall. (Outlander)
• February 6: Adrian Conrad is born. (Stargate SG-1)
• February 12: Birth of Blanka/Jimmy. He would grow up as a feral child in the jungles of Brazil. (Street Fighter II)
• February 24: After John F. Kennedy is impeached, tried, convicted and removed from office, the Speaker of the House of Representatives John William McCormack succeeds him as U.S. President. (Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas?)
• February 28: Byron Lillibridge disappears. (The 4400)
• March 5: Donnie Truant gives Pelafina an antique locket as a gift. (House of Leaves)
• March 19:
  • In the NCAA University Division basketball championship game,^note The University Division is the predecessor to today's NCAA Division I. Note also that the NCAA didn't organize women's sports until the 1981–82 academic year. the Texas Western Miners,^note the nickname is still Miners, but the school is now UTEP, or in full the University of Texas at El Paso) featuring an all-Black starting lineup, defeat the top-ranked and all-White Kentucky Wildcats 72–65. (Real Life and Glory Road)
  • Sam Beckett leaps back into Jimmy LaMotta, and finds that the previously good future he'd ensured is being undone. He meets an evil leaper named Alia, who has leaped into Jimmy's sister-in-law Connie, and is intentionally ruining the LaMotta family's future.^note Alia fails to kill Sam and is forcibly leapt out by Lothos, which inadvertently knocks Sam back a few days and hits the Reset Button on all of Alia's damage. (Quantum Leap)
• March: Rosemarie Miletti, a young woman receiving singing lessons, is struggling with caring for her younger sister Mary who has leukemia. She is transported forward in time to March 22, 1986 and discovers that she will become a famous opera singer. Immediately after Rosemarie returns to her own time, Mary dies. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• April 17: Timothy Leary is arrested on drug charges. (Will: G. Gordon Liddy) and (Real Life)
• April 23: J.J. Pryor and Beth Mason are married. (American Dreams)
• April: Don Geno Frascotti is murdered by the Carlucci crime family. (Quantum Leap)
• May 17:
  • In Smallville, Kansas, Jonathan and Martha Kent witness a spaceship crash in Shuster's Field and find a baby in the wreckage. (Lois & Clark)
  • Tempus, a criminal from the 22nd Century, forces H. G. Wells to take him back in time so that he can kill Superman as a baby using kryptonite. However, he is stopped by the adult Superman and Lois Lane from 1995. (Lois & Clark)
• May 21: Sam Beckett leaps into a 79-year-old man named Maxwell Stoddard who lives with his son John and his family in Charlemont, Massachusetts. He is there to prevent Maxwell from being committed due to his claims to have seen UFOs and Maxwell's grandson Tim from running away and dying of a drug overdose. (Quantum Leap)
• Spring:
  • Kim Karlsen travels to Denmark for a football match, only to discover that his former girlfriend has begun dating someone else. Kim drinks himself out of his wits on the way home. (Beatles)
  • Billy Chapman is born. (Silent Night, Deadly Night)
• June 1: Jerrica Benton is born to Emmitt and Jacqui Benton. (Jem)
• June 6:
  • The Levellers, a group of super-powered people, make their public debut. (No Hero)
  • Murdoc Alphonce Niccals is born. (Gorillaz)
• June 14: Sam Beckett leaps into Will Kinman, the fiancé of Abagail Fuller, in Pottersville, Louisiana. He is there to prevent Abagail from being lynched by a mob led by Leta Aider because of the disappearance of a seven-year-old boy named Pervis Takins whom she was babysitting. During this leap, Sam and Abagail conceive a daughter, Sammie Jo Fuller. (Quantum Leap)
• June 19: Birth of Robyn Canmore/ "Robyn Correy" to Charles Canmore and an unnamed mother. She would grow up to become a Hunter. (Gargoyles)
• June 21: Adell Alynn Addison is born. (Alien Nation)
• June 24: Fred Hansen, a working class boy attending Kim Karlsen's school, is deliberately drowned at a beach outside Oslo. Kim and his friends are on a camping trip at the same time. (Beatles)
• June: Meg Pryor and Roxanne Bojarski graduate from East Catholic High School. (American Dreams)
• July 4: Mary Richard and Howard Arnell see each other for the last time until she invites him over to her apartment for drinks in October 1970. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• July 20: The First Doctor and his companions Ben Jackson and Polly Wright prevent the supercomputer WOTAN from conquering the world. (Doctor Who)
• July:
  • Ted Pryor dies. (American Dreams)
  • Meg Pryor runs away from home with her boyfriend Chris Pierce. (American Dreams)
• August 12: Dr. Theresa Givens travels back in time and kills Robert Beck before he can murder eight women. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• August 18: George makes his third stop on his journey into the future, arriving amid the sound of air raid sirens. He meets James Filby, the son of his close friend David Filby. James recalls conversing with him on September 13, 1917 and is amazed that he has not aged a day in 49 years. Before George can explain, London is struck by an atomic bomb. He barely manages to escape in his time machine. This attack marks the beginning of World War III, which lasts for 326 years. (The Time Machine (1960))
• October 23: Will Truman is born. (Will & Grace)
• October 31:
  • After a genetically engineered virus wipes out a quarter of humanity's population, the supernatural races, mostly untouched by the virus and now approximately equaling humanity in total population, reveal their existence. (The Hollows)
  • A vampire huntress infiltrates an American air base's boarding school to root out a bloodsucker. (Blood: The Last Vampire)
• November 10: Zachary Gidlund disappears. (The 4400)
• November 17: Al Bundy scores four touchdowns in a single game. He was playing with Polk High Panthers against the team of Andrew Johnson High. This year, the Panthers and Bundy became their Most Valuable Player (MVP). He had scored the most touchdowns in one season for the team. He would earn himself a scholarship for college, but a broken leg would end his sports career prematurely. (Married... with Children)
  • Four US soldiers kidnap, gang rape and murder a young Vietnamese woman. (Real Life) and (Casualties of War)
• Autumn: Kim Karlsen is confirmed at the church of Frogner, Oslo. He and his friends attend the first anti-war rally. (Beatles)
• December 23: Ruchi Takahashi disappears. (The 4400)
• Michael Armstrong, an esteemed American rocket scientist, defects to East Germany. Sarah Sherman, his assistant and fiancée, reluctantly follows him. Armstrong is actually a double agent but the Stasi is determined to keep him within the East German borders. (Torn Curtain)
• Birth of Janine "Fox" Renard to Halcyon and Anastasia Renard. Since "Anastasia" was actually Titania, queen of the fairies, Janine is actually a halfling. She would grow up to become the leader of the Pack and wife of David Xanatos. (Gargoyles)
• Five children are kidnapped from Earth, but rescued by the Flash race. (Choushinsei Flashman)
• Spencer Mansion completed (Resident Evil)
• First appearance of the Black Panther. (Marvel Comics)
• The Fantastic Four first save Earth from Galactus. (Marvel Comics)
• Andy Dufresne mysteriously disappears from his cell at Shawshank Prison overnight, and inspection of the cell reveals a tunnel hidden behind a poster of Rita Hayworth, secretly carved over the course of 19 years. At the same time, a man using the name "Randall Stephens" empties the bank accounts containing Warden Samuel Nortons laundered money, and mails proof of the wardens' corruption to the press, along with evidence of brutality and murder happening at Shawshank. Captain Byron Hadley is arrested and Norton commits suicide. Andy Dufresne escapes to Mexico. (The Shawshank Redemption)
• Joseph Dawson, a football hero, graduates high school. He loses contact with his girlfriend, Betsy "Bette" Fields, and goes off to fight in the Vietnam War. (Highlander: The Series^{justification}Joe says that they were both 18 years old at graduation. His birth year is 1948.)
• Birth of ^morethe immortal Nick Wolfe. He would grow up to become a police detective, an employee of an international security consulting firm, and a lover of Amanda. (Highlander: The Raven)
• In western Texas, a vacationing family encounters a bizarre cult. (Manos: The Hands of Fate)
• In southern California, three American musicians and a British singer form a pop music group and have various adventures. (The Monkees)
• Bethany Sloane lets her neighbor Bryan Johnson piss in her hair. (Dogma)
• American soldiers in Vietnam are massacred due to shoddy arms and ammo supplied by Vought-American. Greg Mallory vows to bring down Vought-American; Robert Kennedy goes after them about the weapons. (The Boys)
• Birth of Malcolm "Trilby" (actual surname disputed) somewhere in the U.K. (Chzo Mythos)
• Adam Adamant is revived from hibernation after 64 years. (Adam Adamant Lives!)
• Professor Brewer, who had been conditioned by the Martians, attempted to hypnotise millions of people in the Commonwealth of Nations over the television. (Journey into Space)
• Kevin O'Casey and Alex Andrews are born. (St. Elsewhere)
• Theresa McPhee and Ray Carter are married. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• Janine Travis is born. (Quantum Leap)
• Kara Zor-El is born on Krypton. (Supergirl (2015))
• Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown is born. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• In Eerie, Indiana, the fifth Harvest King is chosen to be sacrificed to the werewolf Mr. Chaney in order to ensure 13 years of good luck and low taxes. The town authorities claim that he moved to Spain. (Eerie, Indiana)
• Steve Harrington is born. (Stranger Things)
• The 24-year-old Rhoda Morgenstern moves out of her parents Ida and Martin's apartment in the Bronx. In later years, her mother refers to it as the time that she ran away from home. (Rhoda)
• On Earth-Eleven, the United States launches the first manned mission to Mars. Shortly afterwards, the world is devastated by a nuclear war. The resulting radiation causes widespread mutations in animals. (DC Comics)
• Matt Winnaker is born. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Jordan Cochran is born. (Real Genius)
• Fourteen-year-old Ray Kinsella reads Terrence Mann's book The Boat Rocker, and refuses to play catch with his father ever again. This ultimately destroys their relationship. (Field of Dreams)
• Toshi Tazaki begins working as a janitor at Ushimitsu High School. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• Colleen McMurphy joins the US Army. {China Beach)

1967

• January 7: John Lennon reads the news—oh, boy. Tara Browne is killed in a car accident after failing to notice a changing stoplight. Lennon finds the accompanying picture oddly amusing. In the same paper, a news brief appears in the Daily Mail about 4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire. Lennon is intrigued by the idea of reporters counting all the small holes. ("A Day in the Life")
• January 15: The first AFL–NFL World Championship Game—what would later become known as the Super Bowl—is played at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The NFL champion Grean Bay Packers easily defeat the AFL champion Kansas City Chiefs 35–10. (Real Life)
• January: Kim Karlsen is assaulted by the Frogner Gang on his way home. They break his finger and beat him up pretty hard (Beatles)
• January 27/April 24/July 27: Birth of Vega in Spain. His family reportedly had noble blood. He would grow up to become a fighting narcissist, a bullfighter, a Serial Killer, a Ninja, and a mercenary psycho. (Street Fighter II)
• February 1: Jackie Prentice (later Tyler) is born. (Doctor Who)
• February 7: Radek Zelenka is born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. (Stargate Atlantis)
• February 26: Derek Reston is born. (Arrow)
• April:
  • Sammie Jo Fuller is born. (Quantum Leap)
  • Alex Haley travels to the Gambia in search of his ancestor Kunta Kinte, who was captured and enslaved 200 years earlier. In the village of Jufureh, the native griot relates the history of the Kinte clan, including Kunta who went out to get wood to make a drum and was never seen again. Alex is delighted as this is consistent with the stories that have been passed down through his family for seven generations. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• May 6: Birth of Dan Hibiki in Hong Kong to martial artist Go Hibiki. Dan would be inspired to become a martial artist himself and seek revenge after his father was killed by Sagat. Due to receiving only incomplete training, Dan would end up improvising in combat with erratic results. (Street Fighter Alpha)
• May 19: Birth of the catwoman Felicia in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Darkstalkers)
• June 28: Stanley Parnell disappears. (The 4400)
• June: Nina visits Kim, giving him a copy of the new Sgt. Pepper album. They get together again pretty quick. (Beatles)
• July 1: Cameron Frye is born. (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
• July 3: Birth of Rose in Genoa, Italy. Her soul supposedly consists of the good side of M. Bison's soul, a side which he discarded. She would grow up to develop Psychic Powers, including clairvoyance. (Street Fighter Alpha)
• July 11: Willie and Kate Tanner are married. (ALF)
• July 18: Birth of Crimson Viper/Maya in the United States. She would grow up to become an espionage agent. (Street Fighter IV)
• July 22: Maurice Gulchard disappears. (The 4400)
• August 28: Lindsey Hammond is born. (The 4400)
• September 13: Barbara Holland is born. (Stranger Things)
• Autumn: Karen Green's sister, Linda, claims that the two of them were sexually abused by their stepfather at this time. (House of Leaves)
• Autumn: Kim starts his college years. With Nina gone, he courts Cecilie, an Uptown Girl from the western part of Oslo. (Beatles)
• October 9: Che Guevara is assassinated by the CIA. (The Motorcycle Diaries and Real Life)
• October 18: How I Won The War, a film about the British Army winning World War II, is released. (Real Life) John Lennon sees the film—oh, boy. While the movie is largely panned, Lennon watches it out of obligation, after reading the novel it's based on.^note And starring in it. (A Day in the Life)
• October 19: Sam Beckett leaps into Knut "Wild Thing" Wileton, a frat boy who attends Meeks College in California. He is there to prevent a bomb from being planted in the science block as part of a protest against the Vietnam War and Knut from breaking his neck and becoming a quadriplegic. (Quantum Leap)
• Autumn: Kim Karlsen's father's bank is robbed by an unknown robber, and Arthur Karlsen falls to pieces afterwards. (Beatles)
• November 7: Raine Creevey is born. She is delivered by the Seventh Doctor. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• November: Progenitor virus administered to Lisa and Jessica Trevor. Jessica is immune, but Lisa succumbs and mutates. Jessica and George Trevor killed by Ozwell Spencer. (Resident Evil)
• December 15: The Silver Bridge collapses in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, resulting in the deaths of 46 people. (Real Life)
• December 18: The FBI arrests a man suspected of responsibility for the Silver Bridge collapse, who claims that the mysterious "moth man" tried to warn everyone of the impending collapse; he is eventually cleared of all charges (Lost Tapes: "Mothman")
• December 29: Tom Kirkman is born. (Designated Survivor)
• Late 1967: The Beatles drive randomly through the English countryside looking for adventure. (Magical Mystery Tour and Real Life)
• Doctor Evil escapes capture and enters cryogenic stasis; Austin Powers is frozen to await his return. (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery)
• Barbara Gordon becomes Batgirl. (DC Comics)
• Various misfortunes occur to physics professor Larry Gopnik. (A Serious Man)
• Chris Taylor arrives to Vietnam after abandoning college for combat duty. (Platoon)
• The Aeon, a Federation timeship from the 29th century, time travels to this era and crashlands in the High Sierras, California. The wreckage is discovered by camper Henry Starling, who reverse engineers the technology and makes a fortune. (Star Trek: Voyager)
• Joseph Dawson joins the United States Marine Corps. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• Mark Meltzer begins investigating the disappearance of young girls from Atlantic beaches, along with sightings of lights in the water. Months later his daughter is kidnapped, and Meltzer becomes obsessed with tracking her down. (BioShock: There's Something in the Sea)
• Scrooge McDuck dies at the age of 100, after a life of adventure. (The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck)
• Probable year Admiral Fred asks The Beatles to help save Pepperland. ^timingThis happened sometime between 1967 and mid-1968; the character designs look like the Beatles in the Magical Mystery Tour era. (Yellow Submarine)
• Hiro Kasai hires Harman Smith to investigate voting irregularities in the Asian Security Treaty. In the end, the treaty is ratified, Japan is admitted as a member, and the chairman of the council commits suicide in front of Harman. (killer7)
• Barnabas Collins reunites with his American cousins in Collinsport, Maine, becoming a permanent ^moreaboveground resident of the Collinwood mansion. (Dark Shadows)
• Rick Derris (possibly the brother of future porn actress Sylvan Derris), Roddy, Steve-Dave Pulasti, and Shannon Hamilton are born. (Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy)
• Birth of Lenny to Sam and Carol Butcher. (The Boys)
• In Kyoto, Hellboy encounters Japanese spirits called nuke-kubi. (Hellboy: Heads)
• Mr. Bribery fakes his death and goes into hiding for several years. (Dick Tracy)
• Michael Fairgate, Paige Matheson and Mary Frances Sumner are born. (Knots Landing)
• James Beaumont is born. (Dallas)
• Lois Lane is born. (Lois & Clark)
• Diana Quinna's parents are killed in a car accident. Diana loses her hearing as a result of a serious head injury. (Quantum Leap)
• Chip Ferguson's plane is shot down over Haiphong, Vietnam. (Quantum Leap)
• A two-person time machine explodes over this year. The consciousnesses of the passengers, Gina Denn and John Cooper, merges into "Ginohn" in the body of a man named Leroy. They say he had a stroke. (Chrononauts)
• Wallace V. Whipple replaces the workers at his factory with an automatic assembly machine called the X109B14. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Special agent [name redacted] of M9 resigns from intelligence work and is detained in the Village. (The Prisoner (1967))
• [Alternate Universe] Colin Trafford and Ottilie Harsham are married. (Quest for Love)
• A toxic waste leak leads to a zombie attack. The government kills all but one of the rotters and makes Night of the Living Dead to cover it up. (The Return of the Living Dead)
• Nancy Wheeler and Jonathan Byers are born. (Stranger Things)
• David Bolt is born. (Night Gallery)
• Alfred Pennyworth dies. (Superman & Batman: Generations)
• [Alternate Universe] Earth is devastated by a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. (Crosstime Traffic)
• Robert Brooks is born. (1990)
• Ye Zhetai is beaten to death by communist fanatics at Tsinghua University. His daughter, Wenjie, flees to Inner Mongolia. (The Three-Body Problem)
• Way back when, some guy is a dandy Gamma Chi, apparently surrounded by "sweet things from Boston." He'll later brag about this in 1980 when trying to creepily score with a 19-year-old at a roller rink. ("Hey Nineteen")
• 21-year-old Jay Cirri is caught robbing a mail truck. Thanks to a well-connected uncle, Cirri is able to talk the judge into sending him to a drug rehab facility instead of federal prison. Cirri is sent to Daybreak Village, where he spends the next two years gaining a reputation as a charismatic leader, and learning about attack therapy. (Joe vs. Elan School)
• Crowley plans a heist to steal holy water from a church, and one of his enlistees is a young Witchfinder Corporal Shadwell. Aziraphale hears about Crowley's plans and reluctantly gives him a Thermos of holy water instead. (Good Omens (2019))

1968

• January 13:
  • Johnny Cash performs a concert at Folsom Prison in California. (Real Life)
  • Johnny Harkin is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• January 21: The Warner siblings, temporarily released from their tower for fumigation, appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. (Animaniacs)
• January 30: SCP-093 found on the shore of the Red Sea. (SCP Foundation)
• January: A US Marine Press Corps member is sent into Vietnam to photograph the war effort, ultimately getting in a duel with a sniper for his troubles. (Full Metal Jacket)
• January 31 - March 2: American and South Vietnamese forces capture the city of Hue, South Vietnam. (Real Life) and (Full Metal Jacket)
• February 24/December 17: Birth of Poison in Los Angeles. They would grow up to become an ambiguously-gendered gang member, street fighter and fighting manager. (Final Fight, Street Fighter III)
• February 26: After undertaking covert operations in Vietnam and Russia, agent Alex Mason helps thwart a Soviet chemical attack on the United States. (Call of Duty: Black Ops)
• February:
  • Lincoln Clay returns home from Vietnam and reunites with his stepfather Sammy Robinson, leader of the New Bordeaux Black Mob, as well as his friends Giorgi and Sal Marcano, the local Italian mob. Together, they plan and pull off a robbery of the U.S Federal Reserve, but the Marcanos betray the Black Mob, massacring everyone present and burns down the bar. Clay barely survives, but is left in a coma for 5 months under the care of longtime friend Father James. (Mafia III)
  • *Mother, the first artificial intelligence, emerges spontaneously on the UCLA computer network. (Digital: A Love Story^{Justification}Based on Bob Taylor's network proposal being approved by Charles M Herzfeld in real life. There had been previous proposals, but since Taylor's proposal went on to become ARPANET, it was presumably assembled soon after the appearance of *Mother)
• March 1: Birth of Chun-Li in the People's Republic of China. She would grow up to become an Interpol Special Agent. (Street Fighter II)
• March 22: U.S. President John F. Kennedy signs the Vietnam Peace Accord, pulling US troops out of the war-torn nation. (Chrononauts)
• April 4:
  • Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee. (Real Life)
  • "Early morning, April 4, shot rings out in the Memphis sky..." ("Pride (In the Name of Love)")^note The timing in the song was inaccurate, as the shooting took place shortly after 6 pm. U2 lead singer Bono has acknowledged this, and now sings "early evening" in live performances.
  • [Alternate Universe] Martin Luther King Jr. is not assassinated as the attempt on his life is foreseen by the Prime Oracle. (Sliders)
  • Having been sent back in time from 2003, Ray Ellison attempts to prevent the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. but he is unsuccessful. (The Twilight Zone (2002))
• May 29:
  • Howard Arnell invents reversible socks. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
  • Dennis Tanner and Jenny Sutton are married. (Coronation Street)
• June 21: In Vietnam, immortal Andrew "Andy" Cord and mortal Joe "Boyscout" Dawson are thrown into a river by a landmine. Cord revives and saves Dawson's life. (Highlander: The Series)
• June 25: Joe Dawson wakes up within a field hospital without his legs. He is recruited as a Watcher by Ian Bancroft. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• June:
  • Titus Crow and Henri-Laurent de Marigny join the Wilmarth Foundation. (The Burrowers Beneath)
  • Rival businessmen and brothers Blutarch and Redmond Mann's seventy-eight year long land-grab resumes in earnest. Each of the men have used a life-extender machine built for them by Radigan Conagher, (and commissioned by an unknown relative of Helen The Administrator) and employed a second-generation crack team of assassins in order to gain sole ownership over the contested territory. Helen the Administrator officiates the conflict, driving wedges between the teams when necessary; (as in the notable conflict between Reliable Excavation and Demolition's Tavish DeGroot and Builder's League United's Jane Doe) while weapons dealer Saxton Hale (of the infamous "Poopy Joe" senate hearings) provides each side with the latest artillery. One of these assassins, Dell Conagher, discovers his grandfather's maps to Australium caches among blue-prints for a life-extender machine, and uses the former for bioaugmentation. Later, some members of the RED team discover that The Adminstrator, and her personal assistant, Miss Pauling, have been gathering intel on them for blackmailing purposes. (Team Fortress 2)
  • Richard Belding graduates from Bayside High School. (Saved by the Bell)
• August 6:
  • Douglas J. Needles is born. (Back to the Future Part II)
  • John Burke is killed in the Vietnam War. (Quantum Leap)
• August 7: Michael Seer is born. (The City of Never)
• August 10: Sam Beckett leaps into Captain Ronald Miller, a soldier who lost his legs in the Vietnam War, in a veterans' hospital in San Diego. He is there to prevent another Vietnam veteran, Sgt. Billy Johnson, from committing suicide. (Quantum Leap)
• August 20: In Prague, Amanda plans a robbery and meets Charlie Johnson, an American spy investigating Soviet reactions to Prague Spring. Charlie discovers Amanda is immortal, and keeps her secret to the grave. (Highlander: The Raven)
• August 28: Birth of Maki Genryusai in Japan. She would grow up to become the leader of a biker gang and a ninja. She would later strive to become the 40th master of the Bushin style. (Final Fight 2, Capcom vs. SNK 2: Mark Of The Millennium, Street Fighter Alpha)
• August: Lincoln Clay awakens from his coma, and vows revenge against the Marcano mob. To this end, he recruits Haitian mobster Cassandra, Irish mobster Burke, and former Empire Bay mobster Vito Scaletta. They systematically dismantle all of Marcanos criminal operations and allies, culminating in Clay killing both Giorgi and Sal in the half-finished Paradiso casino. (Mafia III)
• September 4: Birth of Balrog in the United States. He would grow up to become a professional boxer and a mercenary. (Street Fighter II)
• September 7: The public library of Charlemont, Massachusetts burns down. (Quantum Leap)
• September 12: Wayne Fiscus begins high school. (St. Elsewhere)
• September 17: Ben Miller begins college. (My Life and Times)
• September:
  • Brian Cooper is killed in the Vietnam War. (The Wonder Years)
  • Sean Cooper is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• October 5: Birth of Alexa Bond. She would grow up to become a lover of Methos (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• October 16: Sam Beckett leaps into Margaret Sanders, a middle-aged housewife involved in the women's lib movement, in Connecticut. He is there to teach Margaret's daughter Suzanne that change is best achieved through non-violent means and ensure that Margaret's husband George promotes a woman named Evy Brownfield to a senior position in his firm. Sam must also deal with George's condescending attitudes. (Quantum Leap)
• October 22: Birth of Necro/Ilia in the Soviet Union. He would eventually become a human test subject for Gill's organization, resulting in his physical mutation. (Street Fighter III^note A contradictory background makes him 18 years old at the collapse of the Soviet Union (1991). This would place his birth in 1973.)
• October 31: The ghost of Sarah Bellows is awakened by a curious group of children who find her storybook. She then unleashes a legion of nightmarish monsters upon the town of Bell Valley.(Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark)
• November 5:
  • Richard Nixon's back again. ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
  • [Alternate Universe] John F. Kennedy is elected to a third term as U.S. President. (Sliders)
  • [Alternate Timeline] George Wallace is elected President of the United States. (11/22/63)
  • Rock musician and youth icon Max Frost is elected U.S. President, defeating Lyndon Johnson, in the wake of a massive uprising among teenagers and young adults against the establishment. Frost proceeds to make 30 the mandatory retirement age and puts everyone over 35 in re-education camps. (Wild in the Streets)
  • Robert F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in the U.S. presidential election. (If Israel Lost the War, A Disturbance of Fate)
  • U.S. President Barry Goldwater is elected to a second term. (Alternate Presidents)
  • Ronald Reagan is elected U.S. President and turns the United States into a dictatorship. (Alternate Presidents)
  • Nelson Rockefeller defeats Hubert Humphrey in the U.S. presidential election. (Alternate Generals)
  • U.S. President Richard Nixon is defeated in his bid for re-election by Eugene McCarthy. (Cuban Crisis: Second Holocaust)
  • George McGovern is elected U.S. President. ("Hillary Orbits Venus")
• December 14: Emma Vine is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• December 29: Samantha Carter is born. (Stargate SG-1)
• December: Susie Slaughter is born. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• Subject Delta, a prototype Big Daddy, awakens and rampages through the decaying ruins of Rapture, now ruled by Sofia Lamb's collectivist "Family," in search of his bonded Little Sister, Eleanor. (BioShock 2)
• Umbrella Corporation founded by Ozwell Spencer, James Marcus, and Edward Ashford. Ashford infected with Progenitor virus and dies; his son, Alexander, becomes head of the Ashford family. Marcus is appointed director of Umbrella Corporation Management Training Facility. (Resident Evil 0)
• Captain Nathaniel Adam is apparently disintegrated in an experiment involving an alien metal and a nuclear explosion. (DC Comics)
• Mariah Monmouth is murdered by John "Falstaff" Oldcastle. He covers up the murder and tells her son, Harry, that Mariah run out on them. Oldcastle would raise Harry as a surrogate son. (Gargoyles)
• Birth of Elisa Maza in New York City to Peter and Diane Maza. She would grow up to become a police detective. (Gargoyles)
• Birth of Fred Sykes/Fang. (Gargoyles)
• Birth of twins Hyena and Jackal. They would grow up to become members of the Pack, and also operate together as a team. (Gargoyles)
• Kree Captain Marvel becomes a superhero on Earth. (Marvel Comics)
• The Truman Show first goes on the air. (The Truman Show)
• On the same day, three major events take place: a major assassination, an Asian coup d'état and the launch of an orbital nuclear weapons platform. Meanwhile, an alien faction wants to prevent the self-destruction of humanity by use of nuclear weapons. They send in Gary Seven, a human agent raised in space; Isis, a shape-shifting cat; and Roberta Lincoln, his assistant. The trio would continue working together until 1996. (Star Trek Novel 'Verse, Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars)
• Birth of the immortal Daniele "Danny" Cimoli in London, England. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• Estimated birth of Gunloc/Lucky Colt in Miami Florida. He would grow up to become a professional wrestler, with the reputation of being a loose cannon. He would reportedly go on to become the cyborg Blade and be revealed as the brother of Guile. (Slam Masters, Street Fighter: The Movie^{justification}Gunloc is stated to be 25 years old during the first Slam Masters game, released in 1993. The other details are given in the Street Fighter game.)
• Aperture Science is a vital participant in Senate hearings on missing US astronauts. (Portal 2)
• A US Special Forces team in eastern Laos discovers locals battling zombies, kills all involved with an air strike. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• Mentic constructed and escapes into the sewer system. (Soon I Will Be Invincible)
• Bryan Johnson dies of leukemia. (Dogma)
• China plots to create an all-out war between Soviet Union and western countries by trying cause an international incident, and framing the British for the deed. (Colonel Sun)
• Crimelord Mr. Intro and his men are vaporized using an orbital weapon obtained from the Moon People by Dick Tracy. This incident was widely criticized and remains a sore subject. (Dick Tracy)
• Boxing matches between human fighters are banned. The sport comes to be dominated by robots. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Nathan Chandler is killed in Vietnam when he steps on a mine. (St. Elsewhere)
• Julia Manning-Jeremiah is born. (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
• Julian Claridge drowns. (Quantum Leap)
• Angela "Angel" Jensen is born. (Quantum Leap)
• Larry Morton is killed in a plane crash. ("Time and Time Again")
• Edgar and Helen Eisenberg divorce. (St. Elsewhere)
• Marty McFly is born. (Back to the Future)
• Mary Richards and Bill begin dating. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• Meredith Rodney McKay is born in Canada. (Stargate Atlantis)
• Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren acquire the possessed Annabelle doll from a group of nursing students. (The Conjuring)
• Michael Masterson is born. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• Robin Buckley is born. (Stranger Things)
• [Alternate Universe] the United States withdraws from Vietnam, bringing the Vietnam War to an end. (Crosstime Traffic)
• On the same day that his wife Martha learns that she is pregnant, the Metropolis University astrophysicist Dr. Jonathan Kent discovers that an asteroid is heading to Earth and will destroy all life on the planet within less than a year. Dr. Kent attempts to warn people of the coming disaster but he is not taken seriously. Shortly before the asteroid hits Earth, the Kents send their newborn son Clark into space in a rocket. It eventually reaches Krypton, where Clark is found by Jor-El and given the name Kal-El. (Superman: Last Son of Earth)
• Ted Baxter becomes the anchorman of the Six O'Clock News on WJM-TV in Minneapolis. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• Monica Reyes is born. (The X-Files)
• Red Coast Base is founded. (The Three-Body Problem)
• Yuri Ayashiro elopes with Takao Toyama, cutting ties with her family (Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir)
• Ken Turek is named "Man of the Year" at Shermer High School. (The Breakfast Club)
• Jim Reed joins the Los Angeles Police Department. (Adam-12)
• Flower (Susan Montero) and her cult rob a bank. However they disagree on what to do with the stolen money. (Ghosts (US))

1969

• January 1: Birth of Juri Han/Spider in South Korea. She would become a skilled Taekwondo practitioner by her 15th year. At that point, Juri was abducted by the Shadaloo/Shadowlaw organization. She would be recruited into their ranks, emerging as a deadly combatant. (Street Fighter IV^{justification}Repeatedly said to be 25 years old in the present (1994))
• January 4: Birth of Malbordus (Temple of Terror)
• January 12: In Super Bowl III, the first edition to officially bear the "Super Bowl" name, the New York Jets stun the heavily favored Baltimore Colts 16–7. The result effectively validates the merger between the AFL and NFL that had been agreed to in 1966 and would be finalized after the 1969 season. (Real Life)
• January 20: Gloria Bunker and Michael Stivic meet for the first time. (All in the Family)^{justification}Mike says he wants to picket the inauguration of Richard Nixon
• January: The Beatles do recordings and rehearsals for an intended concert, album, and tour. Disaster ensues. (Let It Be, Real Life)
• February 15: Birth of Lucia Morgan. She would grow up to become Head of the Metro City Special Crimes Unit (S.C.U.). (Final Fight 3)
• February: Umbrella Corporation's Antarctic Research Facility constructed. (Resident Evil – Code: Veronica)
• March 17: Thelma Green is born. (The Tick (2001))
• April 1: Sam Beckett leaps into an undercover narcotics detective named Jake Rawlings in San Diego. Al Calavicci tells him that he is there to prevent a Navy nurse named Beth whose husband is missing in action in Vietnam from marrying another man, Dirk Simon. However, Sam discovers that Beth's missing husband is none other than Al himself. His true mission to prevent Jake's partner Sgt. Ronny Skaggs from being murdered. (Quantum Leap)
• April 3: Sam Beckett leaps as himself to San Diego. He tells Beth Calavicci that her husband Al is coming home. (Quantum Leap)
• April 7: ARPANET is established to incubate *Mother. (Digital: A Love Story)
• April 8: The Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond, Rory Williams and River Song travel to Florida with an ex-FBI to search for a mysterious girl ^morea younger version of River that keeps phoning President Richard Nixon. (Doctor Who)
• April 14:
  • The Wilmarth Foundation launches an attack on Shudde-M'ell; it goes badly. (The Burrowers Beneath)
  • Tom Palmer dies. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• April 23: Birth of Fei Long in Hong Kong. He would grow up to become a master of Hitenryu Kung Fu and a movie star. (Street Fighter II)
• May: Jarred Svenning graduates college. (Mallrats)
• May 13: Jack Carter is born. (Eureka)
• May 17: Birth of "Raibow" Mika Nanakawa in Japan. She would grow up to become a professional wrestler. (Street Fighter Alpha)
• June 3: Julia Hoffman and Gerard Gary are murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• June 8: Josie Oche disappears. (The 4400)
• Between July 9 and July 16: The U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701) from the 23rd century accidentally time travels to this period. The ship is identified as a UFO and pursued by the United States Air Force. The crew has a close encounter with Captain John Christopher, pilot of an F-104 Starfighter. ^note Justification: A radio news broadcast mentions preparations for a manned Moon shot from Cape Kennedy "next Wednesday", transporting three astronauts to Luna. (Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek Chronology)
• July 16:
  • Launch of Apollo 11. (Real Life)
  • The Virgo II lunar lander Valiant 11 reaches the moon, and American astronauts Richard Wade, Mark Garris, and Michael Hagen become the first men to walk on an extraterrestrial surface. (Fallout)
  • [Alternate Timeline] the time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones arrive in Cape Canaveral and visit a museum dedicated to the lacklustre American space program and its more successful Soviet counterpart. Bogg and Jeffrey travel to Austria on May 1, 1945 to prevent Wernher von Braun from falling into Soviet hands. (Voyagers!)
  • CIA Agent Felicity Shagwell and a time traveling Austin Powers from thirty years in the future hitch a ride on the Apollo 11 shuttle to reach Dr. Evil's "Death Star" on the moon. (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me)
• Before July 20: The Tenth Doctor and Martha (and later on, a police detective who knows Sally Sparrow named Billy Shipton) land here thanks to the Weeping Angels. ^moreThe Doctor records his message to Sally in 2007, given to him by Sally a year later, which eventually appears in her DVD collection, thanks to the efforts of Shipton. The Doctor explains to Shipton, as well as the elderly Katherine Wainwright (née Kathy Nightingale) about how to contact Sally Sparrow. (Doctor Who)
• July 20:
  • Apollo 11 lands in Mare Tranquilitatis. (Real Life)
  • The Eleventh Doctor, Amy, Rory, River Song and Canton Delaware declare a revolution on the Silence. (Doctor Who)
  • Meg Pryor returns home to Philadelphia three years after running way. (American Dreams)
  • Lt. George Hammond watches the Moon landing from his father's hospital room. (Stargate SG-1)
  • The time travelers Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones watch the Moon landing on television after setting history back on its proper course. (Voyagers!)
  • The eleven-year-old Shannon O'Donnel watches the Moon landing on television. The experience inspires her to pursue a career in NASA. (Star Trek: Voyager)
  • The Battlestar Galactica picks up the television transmission of the Moon landing. (Battlestar Galactica (1978))
  • Danny Finch is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• July 21, 02:56 GMT: Neil Armstrong sets foot on the lunar surface. He and Buzz Aldrin later plant an American flag on the moon. (Real Life).
  • The Lunarians are not amused, and the Lunar War begins. (Touhou Project)
  • Armstrong and Aldrin use their time on the moon to investigate a crashed Cybertronian ship. (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)
• August 3/4 through August 11: SG-1 arrives from the future, takes a bus trip across country, and figures out how to activate the Stargate to get back to their own time. (Stargate SG-1)
• August 13: A ticker tape parade is held in New York City to honor the Apollo 11 astronauts. (Real Life)
  • On the day of the parade, an elderly Indiana Jones gets caught up in another adventure after losing half of the Antikythera Dial to his goddaughter, and being framed for murder by rogue CIA agents led by Jürgen Voller. (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny)
• August 15-18: The Woodstock Festival takes place. (Real Life)
  • Spike attends the Festival, where he bites some poor flowerchild and spends the next six hours staring at his own hand. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • Slappy Squirrel tries to put an end to the festival during The Who's set. (Animaniacs)
  • After receiving a lift from a member of the Q Continuum later known as Quinn, the tower three spotlight operator Maury Ginsburg notices that an extension cord has been disconnected and reconnects it. Had he not noticed it, the festival would not have been able to go ahead as the entire sound system had failed. (Star Trek: Voyager)
  • Roberta Lincoln shares a joint with Jimi Hendrix at the festival. Spock later sees this memory when he mind melds with her in 2269. (Star Trek Novel 'Verse)
  • Suffering from amnesia and under the impression that she is a hippie, Lisa attends the festival. Gary Wallace, Wyatt Donnelly and his brother Chett see her on television and manage to restore her memory when they get to Woodstock. Lisa then returns the four of them to 1996. (Weird Science)
  • Michael and Jenny attend the festival. (Stargate SG-1)
  • Ray Palmer shrinks himself and steals a strand of Janis Joplin's hair. However, he does not go unnoticed. Believing that she was hallucinating, she writes a song called "Little Robot Man", thereby altering history. (Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl (2015))
  • Hubcap Jones, future lead singer of Love Fist, is in attendance. (NoPixel)
  • A trio of San Francisco stoners and their cat searching for the "ultimate high", obtain weed from a guru that puts them to sleep for 51 years. ("The Freak Brothers")
• August 17: Sam Beckett leaps into Deputy Archie Necaise in Jackson Point, Mississippi in the middle of Hurricane Camille. He is there to prevent Archie's girlfriend Cissy Davis from being killed. (Quantum Leap)
• Summer: Bryan Adams got his first real six string — bought it at the Five and Dime — and played it until his fingers bled. ("Summer of '69")
• September 9:
  • Father Vincent Torrelli is murdered by Jesus Ortega. (Quantum Leap)
  • Sam Beckett leaps into a 25-year-old actor named Joe Thurlow, who is dating the 50-year-old Jane Lindhurst, in New York. He is there to prevent Jane's son Neil and daughter-in-law Liz from taking her home to Cleveland, where she lives out the rest of her days alone and miserable. (Quantum Leap)
• September:
  • Fred Jones, Velma Dinkley, Daphne Blake, and Norville "Shaggy" Rogers solve their first recorded case as teens (though they had solved various cases as pre-teens), facing the mysterious Black Knight. ("What a Night for a Knight," Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!; date from its TV debut)
  • Lois Lane Kent is diagnosed with cancer. (Superman & Batman: Generations)
  • Dick Grayson, who took over as Batman from Bruce Wayne several years earlier, is killed by The Joker. In order to maintain the illusion that there has only ever been Batman, his Robin Bruce Wayne, Jr. assumes the Dark Knight's identity and claims that it was Robin that the Joker killed. (Superman & Batman: Generations)
  • Lt. Joel Kent's troops turn against him after he orders them to massacre a Vietnamese village. They shoot him in back, take his dogtags and leave him for dead. His family believe that he has been killed in action. However, he is found by a young woman named Mei-Lai who nurses him back to health. (Superman & Batman: Generations)
• September 20: The ghost of deep-sea diver Captain Cutler plagues a stretch of coastline and is believed to be responsible for several lost ships. In reality, Cutler had faked his death, and had been using the story of his own ghost to steal valuable yachts from a local marina. His scheme is exposed by Mystery Inc. (Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!)
• October 4:
  • Titus Crow and Henri-Laurent de Marigny disappear. (The Burrowers Beneath, The Transition of Titus Crow)
  • Oil is discovered in an abandoned western ghost town Gold City after its local ghost, the Miner 49er, is revealed to be a hoax. (Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!)
• October 9: Frank Desiderio disappears. (The 4400)
• October 17: Alana Mareva is born. (The 4400)
• November 1: The Funland amusement park is briefly closed when one of its attractions, Charlie The Robot, seemingly goes haywire and begins attacking visitors. (Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!)
• November 5: Soviet cosmonauts orbit the Moon. The American space program still lags behind. (Chrononauts)
• November 15: The Blackstone circus is terrorized by a ghost clown with hypnotic abilities, who uses his powers to control his victims into performing dangerous stunts. (Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!)
• November 25: Sam Beckett leaps into himself as a 16-year-old boy in his home town of Elk Ridge, Indiana. According to Ziggy, his mission is to help his high school basketball team, the Elk Ridge Cougars, beat the Bentleyville Tigers, allowing the team to win the state championship. However, Sam believes that he is there to save the lives of his father John and elder brother Tom and prevent his younger sister Katie from marrying an abusive alcoholic named Chuck. (Quantum Leap)
• November: Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is assassinated by the US government. In response, a terrorist organisation calling itself the November Squad, led by Gaddafi's younger brother, begins a campaign of attacks against the US and American troops in the Middle East. (Replay)
• Before December 13: After being a passenger in a car accident with his fiancee Sherry behind the wheel, Jay Cirri sues her insurance provider, claiming that he was injured in the crash even though he wasn't. The parties settle, and Cirri uses the insurance fraud money to buy Sherry an engagement ring. (Joe vs. Elan School)
• December 13: Jay Cirri marries Sherry in Guilford, Connecticut. (Joe vs. Elan School)
• December 24: Harmon Rabb Sr. is shot down over the skies of Vietnam. (JAG)
• December: Ellie McCormick is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• Guy Goddard, the Middleman, puts himself in cryogenic suspension until his arch-enemy the Candle returns. (The Middleman)
• U.S. Army Captain Benjamin Willard is given the assignment to journey up Nung River into the remote Cambodian jungle to find Colonel Walter E. Kurtz, a member of the US Army Special Forces feared to have gone rogue. (Apocalypse Now)
• Birth of the immortal Keith Boyer in Sacramento, California. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• Birth of the immortal Claudia Jardine in Seacouver, Washington. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• Alan Parrish and Sarah Whittle play a game of Jumanji. (Jumanji)
• Teresa "Tracy" Bond is shot on the day of her and James Bond's wedding. (On Her Majesty's Secret Service; date given in For Your Eyes Only)
• Travis Bell becomes first victim of the Killer 7. (killer7)
• Adolf Hitler's preserved brain is destroyed. (They Saved Hitler's Brain)
• Terry Sanford is born. (Mallrats)
• The Homelander makes his debut. (The Boys)
• Basil, the leader of the popular Purple Orchestra is murdered by occultist as a human sacrifice for the body transfer of their leader, Oliver Haddo. Haddo attempts to take over the body of Turner, but the ritual is interrupted by Mina Murray. Haddo is forced to hastily posses the body of Tom Riddle, and departs for Kings Cross. (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
• Dracula is slain by an unnamed Scotsman seeking vengeance for his son's death, who also dies in the process. (The Tomb of Dracula #15)
• James Bond is tasked to help to stop the civil war in the African country of Zamzarin by assassinating the leader of its rebel army. (Solo)
• Russ Thorn commits a brutal mass murder of five people in Venice Beach, California. (The Slumber Party Massacre)
• Mary Albright, a young hippie, meets countercultural activist Manny Rosenberg at Berkeley. She initially admires him, but rejects him after he asks her to take part in a foursome. (3rd Rock from the Sun)
• The majority of humanity is wiped out by a superflu known as "A6" or "Captain Trips" that originated somewhere in southeast Asia. A group of former college students spend their last days at Anson Beach, New Hampshire, knowing it's just a matter of time before they catch the flu and die as well. (Night Shift: "Night Surf")
• John Walton Sr. dies. (The Waltons)
• The construction of a lunar colony begins. (Journey into Space)
• Peter Wood is born. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Henry Starling introduces the isograted circuit. (Star Trek: Voyager)
• Tim Moynihan, Donna Kiem and Sarah Andrews are born. (St. Elsewhere)
• Kevin Hartkins is born in Lubbock, Texas. (Stargate SG-1)
• John Brooks is born. (1990)
• Ye Wenjie meets Bai Gulin, who lends her a copy of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Ye helps Bai transcribe a letter on the environmental impact on the clearing of the forests around the Greater Khingan mountains, but this is intercepted. Bai is accused of attempting to undermine the Cultural Revolution, and to save his own skin, accuses Ye of having written the letter, claiming that he was only delivering it. Ye is imprisoned, but her skills later get her assigned to Red Coast Base. (The Three-Body Problem)
• Hotel California stops serving a certain kind of spirit. ("Hotel California")
• Birth of Akane Yamazaki. (Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir)
• Carl Reed is named "Man of the Year" at Shermer High School. By March 24, 1984 he'd be a janitor at the same school. (The Breakfast Club)
• Stephanie Pierre is born in the banlieues of Paris, the daughter of Haitian immigrants to France. (Unimaa)
• Flower dies when she tries to hug a bear. In the same year, Stephanie and Trevor are born. ^{Justification}Stephanie states she and Trevor were born the same year when she mentions she's technically 53. (Ghosts (US))
• Birth of Jocelyne (initially named Joshua) to Hank and Carol Brown. (Walkyverse)

Mid to late 1960s

• Estimated birth of Ojou-san, daughter of Gouken. (Street Fighter,Gamest Magazine #13 (October 1987): manga Hadouken:Prelude to the Struggle^{Justification} An apparently teenaged character. Probably conceived as a love interest to Ryu. Later forgotten about.)
• Estimated birth of Jessica Haggard to wrestler Mike Haggard and his unnamed wife. She would become the main love interest of Cody Travers. (Final Fight, Slam Masters ^{Justification} Jessica and Cody are supposed to be "childhood friends" and thus close in age. Jessica was supposedly still college-aged in the Final Fight sequels.)
• Estimated birth of Julia/Jane, older sister of Eliza. She would become the wife of Guile and sister-in-law to Ken Masters.(Street Fighter II)
• Estimated birth of Kolin (Colleen), the secretary and presumed love interest of Gill. (Street Fighter III^{Justification} Kolin bares a resemblance to Crimson Viper. Presumably close in age to her counterpart.)
• Estimated birth of Cracker Jack in the United States, presumably in Las Vegas. He would grow up to become a bouncer and a bodyguard. (Street Fighter EX^{Justification} He resembles Balrog in many ways. Presumed to be close in age to his counterpart.)
• Estimated birth of Kairi Mizukami in Japan. He would train in the traditional fighting style of his family, but would lose his memory in combat with his own father. (Street Fighter EX^{Justification} Already a trained fighter by the time Hokuto was an infant. Probably in his early teens at least.)
• By 1969, America has been reorganized into thirteen commonwealths. Democracy takes a backseat to anti-communist hysteria and the military-industrial complex. Technology favors room-sized, reel-to-reel supercomputers and atomic power over miniaturized electronics. (Fallout)
• Hamato Yoshi is murdered in New York by Oroko Saki, now known as The Shredder in revenge for the death of Oroko Nagi. His pet rat Splinter escapes into the sewers, and is exposed to a mysterious mutagen along with four baby turtles, which causes them to mutate into humanoids. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
• Stanford and Stanley Pines salvage an old boat and set out fixing it up so they can one day escape New Jersey to sail the world and have incredible adventures. (Gravity Falls)
• Jesse Keys joins the US Army under the pseudonym Frank Pierce, earning the rank of lieutenant. He is later shipped out to Vietnam and placed in command of a unit. When his unit comes under attack from the Viet Cong in a temple in the Quảng Ninh Province, the aliens abduct Jesse in order to protect him. In his absence, 27 of his men are killed. (Taken)
• A group of Marine cadets are trained by Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, whose abuse causes one of them to snap and commit a murder-suicide. (Full Metal Jacket)
• Three black Vietnam veterans use the skills they learned in the war to battle the Ku Klux Klan. (Brotherhood of Death)
• The B2 robot Battling Maxo begins his boxing career. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Perry White dies of cancer as a result of having smoked cigars for decades. (Superman & Batman: Generations)
• After one two many run-ins with the law, no-good street punk Armin Tamzarian is enlisted into the US Army and sent to fight in Vietnam. He serves under Sgt. Seymour Skinner, who mentors him and shows him that life is worth living. When Skinner is killed in action^more actually just taken prisoner, Tamzarian returns to America to deliver the news to his mother. However, Mrs. Skinner mistakes Tamzarian for her son; not wanting to emotionally devastate her, Tamzarian pretends to be Skinner, adopting his identity. (The Simpsons ^{Justification}It is established that Tamzarian was taken prisoner at the Battle of Khe Sanh, which happened in 1968; Tamzarian/Skinner must have been enlisted before then.)
• Bertram gets really into the Sixties, and no one ever sees him again. (The Sandlot)
• Ray Kinsella leaves to go to college at UC Berkeley. While there, he marches, smokes some grass, tries to like sitar music, and meets his future wife Annie. (Field of Dreams)
• LT Douglas Neidermeyer is accidently killed in Vietnam by his own troops when they mistake him for a Viet Cong guerilla. (Animal House) and (Twilight Zone: The Movie)
• Prior to the moon landing, Mutt Williams dies in Vietnam while serving in the United States Marine Corps. While grieving his death, Indiana Jones and Marion Ravenwood become estranged for a time. (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny)

196X/1960s

• September 3: A philandering conman dies. After his death, his son asks his mother about all the bad rumors he heard about his father, his mother simply replied, "Papa was a rolling stone. Wherever he laid his hat was his home. And when he died, all he left us was alone." (The Temptations)
• October: Jun Sekitani is expelled from Kamiyama High School as the unfortunate scapegoat for a student protest movement. (Hyouka)
• Flower’s first sweetheart Michael dies. She joins a polyamorous cult to make sure that her heart isn’t broken again. (Ghosts (US))

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