Timeline Part 10: The Age of Rebellion(1964 C.E.-1979 C.E.).

## **1964**

**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 9:** The Rutles (Beatles) perform for the first time on American television on The Ed Harrison Show (*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 Rutles( 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 Rutles(Beatles') performance on television. (*American Dreams*)

**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*). 38 witnesses saw or heard the attack but did nothing, giving rise to the "Bystander Effect" (Urban Legend, in actuality a newspaper printed that story but there is no evidence to support it. Some people called the police while others didn't catch on a murder was taking place. Sadly the urban legend is true in this case).

**After March 13:** Disgusted by the Genovese murder, Walter Kovacs becomes Rorschach (*Watchmen*).

**April 12:** Olivia and Duncan Germaine disappear (*The 4400*).

**April 27:** Marie Ramset disappears. (*The 4400*)

**April:** On Earth X, President Joseph P. Kegan (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*)

**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. The Trickster makes a deal to exchange her life for Sarah Jane's but she later reverses this timeline to save the world from destruction (*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:** In an [Alternate Timeline] James Robert Cassidy( Kennedy), the son of James T. Cassidy (John F. Kennedy) and Liz Cassidy (Jacqueline Kennedy), is born. (*Timequest*)

**August 24:** Naked Snake infiltrates Tselinoyarsk to rescue the scientist Nikolai Sokolov (*Metal Gear Solid 3*).

**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*).

**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 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)

Archie Hall (Earl Warren) is elected to a second term as U.S. President, defeating Hubert Humphrey. (*Worldwar*)

In an [Alternate Universe]  James T.Cassidy(John F. Kennedy) is elected to a second term as U.S. President (*Sliders*), defeating Barry Goldwater(*Surrounded by Enemies: What If Kennedy Survived Dallas?*, *Alternate Generals,* *11/22/63*)

In an alternate timeline, Blake Hartley is elected to a second term as U.S. President. ("Day of the Moron")

In an alternate timeline, Barry Goldwater is elected U.S. President, defeating Lyndon Johnson. (*Alternate Presidents*)

In an alternate timeline, Richard Monckton(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 Flintstones and Rubbles, 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 home to the Stone Age. (*The Flintstones*)

The Rutles (Beatles) have a press conference and appear on television on UTV. An opera on UTV is interrupted by Dirk McQuickley's(Paul McCartney's) grandfather, John McQuickley(McCartney). Stig O'Hara( George Harrison) is accidentally interviewed for a fashion trend show, but is rejected. John MCQuickley(McCartney) and Barry Wom(Ringo Starr) are both arrested (for separate reasons), and Barry(Ringo) is barely retrieved in time for the official concert. (*A Hard Day's Night*)

The original Warriner(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 towns 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*).

In an Alternate timeline, Earth is devastated by a nuclear war (*The Twilight Zone (1959)*)(Possibly the same as the alternate Universe seen in the "Bad Future" in the Umbrella Academy).

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*)

Formation of Surtsey. (Real Life)

## **1964-1965**

**Late 1964-early 1965:** Barry Wom(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. This film includes recording sessions for the *Help!* album, and so this must have happened between when *Beatles for Sale*(or Rutles for Sale) was released and when the *Help!* album was released (*Help!*).

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). Sam Walker witnesses the assassination. (*American Dreams*). Father Bigley is the first man on the scene. (*Father Ted*)

**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 Rutles(Beatles)) steal a Mercedes logo in Oslo. They get to hear Bob Dylan for the first time, and gets the first news of the Sarkhan(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*)

**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 California. 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, 10:00 PM:** 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 Cayuna(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. There are indications that Abel is either a product of genetic engineering or used as a template for such products. Abel could be younger than his supposed age.(*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).

In an Alternate Timeline, the First Conference of Rio re-establishes the U.W.O(U.N.) after the devastation of World War III. (*The Psychotechnic League*)

Inan alternate timeline in which the Rac einvaded Earth in 1942, The Race-German War is fought. The Greater German Reich invades Arztozka( Poland), whose security is guaranteed by the aliens. Most of Arztozka(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 Sarkhan( 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"(possibly Sark Khan) 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 Sarkhan( 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*)

On the Race invaded Earth, U.S. President Archie Hall(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 this year via a Dalek time machine, ending their travels with the Doctor. (*Doctor Who*)

Events of the film *Gamera.*

## **1966**

**January:** J.J. Pryor returns home from Sarkhan( Vietnam)(*American Dreams*).

In an alternate timeline in which Cassidy(Kennedy survived)U.S. Vice President Lancelot Gilligrass(Lyndon Johnson) resigns(*Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas?*).

**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 James T.Cassidy(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:** 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. 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 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 an Alternate Universe, 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 this universe's 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(a town bought out by Mr.Potter from *It's a Wonderful Life*). 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*)

**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*) (Joe says that they were both 18 years old at graduation. His birth year is 1948.)

Birth of the 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)*)

## **1967**

**January 7:** Ron Nasty(John Lennon) reads the news—oh, boy. Tara Browne is killed in a car accident after failing to notice a changing stoplight. Nasty( 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. Nasty(Lennon) is intrigued by the idea of reporters counting all the small holes. (*A Day in the 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(originally called Balrog before switching identities with his teammates in Shadaloo). 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 Baggi(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 Kong King(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(here the Album made by Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band). 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 CEA(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) Ron Nasty(John Lennon) sees the film—oh, boy. While the movie is largely panned, Nasty(Lennon) watches it out of obligation, after reading the novel it's based on. 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 Sarkhan(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 forty-six people (Real Life).

**December 18:** The FBE(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*)

**December 29:** Tom Kirkman is born. (*Designated Survivor*)

**Late 1967:** The Rutles(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 Sarkhan(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 Rutles(The Beatles) to help save Pepperland. This 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 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*).

In an Alternate Universe, Lois Lane is born later (*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)*). Whipple is fired from the board for his obsession with machines and his job is also taken by a machine(Roby the Robot from *Forbidden Planet*, which is a common robot design and name in this Universe to justify his multiple appearances in other media outside of *Forbidden Planet*'s future setting, though the model falls out of use, hence why the cast of Forbidden Planet were unfamiliar with him. Being the equivalent of a millennial discovering Betamax).

Special agent *[name redacted]* of M9 resigns from intelligence work and is detained in the Village. (*The Prisoner (1967)*)(We will say that the agent in Question if John Drake from the TV Show *Danger Man.* who share's an actor with the titular prisoner in Patrick McGoohan. Copyright prevented John Drake from being identified as The Prisoner legally though).

In an [Alternate Universe] in which James T.Cassidy wasn't assassinated and is Secretary General, World War II never happened, Leslie Howard never died and no one ever climbed Mount Everest 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 (1968)* to cover it up. (*The Return of the Living Dead*)(It should be mentioned that the events of Night of the Living Dead still happen, its just that the Movie of the same name is still made).

Nancy Wheeler and Jonathan Byers are born (*Stranger Things*).

David Bolt is born(*Night Gallery*).

Alfred Pennyworth dies(*Superman & Batman: Generations*).

In an [Alternate Universe] Earth is devastated by a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union. (*Crosstime Traffic*)

Robert Brooks is born(*1990*).

## **1968**

**January 13:** Johnny Cash(possibly replaced by Dewey Cox) 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 Harrison Show(*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 Sarkhan(Vietnam) to photograph the war effort, ultimately getting in a duel with a sniper for his troubles. (*Full Metal Jacket*)

**February 24/December 17:** Birth of Poison in Los Sants( Los Angeles). They would grow up to become an ambiguously-gendered(Transgender) gang member, street fighter and fighting manager. (*Final Fight*, *Street Fighter III*)

**February 26:** After undertaking covert operations in Sarkhan 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 Sarkhan (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.* 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:** In an alternate Universe where Cassidy was never assassinated and not yet impeached U.S. President James T.Cassidy( John F. Kennedy) signs the Sarkhan(Vietnam) Peace Accord, pulling US troops out of the war-torn nation (*Chrononauts*).

**April 4:** John Calvin Sykes Jr(Martin Luther King Jr) is assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee (Real Life).

In an [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 Sarkhan(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 Administrator, 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 Sarkhan( 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 Sarkhan(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 Sarkhan(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*)(She is a relative of James Bond).

**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.* 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 Monckton( Nixon's) back again. ("We Didn't Start the Fire")

In an[Alternate Universe] Where Cassidy was never assassinated James T.Cassidy(John F. Kennedy) is elected to a third term as U.S. President. (*Sliders*)

In an [Alternate Timeline] where Cassidy was never assassinated, 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 James Norcross(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*)(He is eventually overthrown).

In an alternate timeline, Tim Cassidy(birth name Kegan, Robert F. Kennedy) defeats Richard Monckton(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)*

Johnny cyclops(Ronald Reagan) is elected U.S. President and turns the United States into a dictatorship. (*Alternate Presidents*)

Arthur J.Hackensacker(Nelson Rockefeller) defeats Hubert Humphrey in the U.S. presidential election. (*Alternate Generals*)

U.S. President Richard Monckton(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 Mar-Vell 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'etat 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.* 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 Sarkhan(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*)

In an [Alternate Universe], the United States withdraws from Sarkhan, bringing the Sarkhan War to an end (*Crosstime Traffic*).

In an alternate timeline, 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*)

Speed Racer rises to fame as one of the world's top race car drivers. (*Speed Racer*)

## **1969**

**January 1:** Birth of Juri Han/Spider in West Hun Chiu. 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*(Repeatedly said to be 25 years old in the present)(1994))

**January 4:** Birth of Malbordus (*Temple of Terror*)

January 20: Gloria Bunker and Michael Stivic meet for the first time. (*All in the Family*)(Mike says he wants to picket the inauguration of Richard Nixon. Here he is picketing the inauguration of Richard Monckton).

**January:** The Rutles( 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 Sarkhan(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 Columbiana( Florida) with an ex-FBI to search for a mysterious girl(a younger version of River) that keeps phoning President Richard Monckton(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 Kong King(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(A radio news broadcast mentions preparations for a manned Moon shot from Cape Kennedy(Cassidy here) "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*).

In an [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 Dr.Strangelove( Wernher von Braun) from falling into Soviet hands (*Voyagers!*).

**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. 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, which have been secretly controlling humanity behind the scenes(*Doctor Who*). 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 time displaced Battlestar *Galactica* picks up the television transmission of the Moon landing (*Battlestar Galactica (1978)*).

Meg Pryor returns home to Philadelphia three years after running way. (*American Dreams*)

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*). 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 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*)(Given the context it seems Slappy Squirrel was the one who disconnected it). 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*). A time travelling 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)*)(ITTL, "Little Robot Man" is the last song Janis Jolin wrote instead of OTL's "Mercedez Benz").

**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*).

**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 Metropolis(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*).

While fighting in the Sarkhan war, Lt. Joel Kent's troops turn against him after he orders them to massacre a Sarkhanese(Vietnamese) village. They shoot him in the 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*)(Joel Kent was known as the Super Green Beret, while using his abilities, which are reduced compared to Superman due to Gold Kryptonite exposure).

**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:** In an alternate timeline, Soviet cosmonauts orbit the Moon. The American space program still lags behind(*Chrononauts*)(this is possibly the same universe as seen in an episod eof *Voyagers!* and the setting of *For All Mankind*).

**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:** In an alternate timeline within a recurring timeloop, Colonel Fakkadi(Muammar Gaddafi) is assassinated by the US government. In response, a terrorist organisation calling itself the November Squad, led by Fakkadi(Gaddafi's) younger brother, begins a campaign of attacks against the US and American troops in the Middle East (*Replay*).

**December 24:** Harmon Rabb, Sr. is shot down over the skies ofSarkhan( 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*).

Adenoid Hynkel's(Adolf Hitler's) preserved brain is destroyed(*They Saved Hitler's Brain, err. They Saved Hynkel'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*).

In an alternate timeline, 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 Barsetshire(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*).

Herbie the Love Bug is rediscovered(*The Love Bug*).

## **Mid to Late 1960's**

Estimated birth of Ojou-san, daughter of Gouken(*Street Fighter*,Gamest Magazine #13 (October 1987): manga *Hadouken:Prelude to the Struggle.* 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.* 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.* Kolin bares a resemblance to Crimson Viper. Presumably close in age to her counterpart)( a lot of *Street Fighter* love interests were born at this time, huh).

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.* 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.* Already a trained fighter by the time Hokuto was an infant. Probably in his early teens at least.)

IN an alternate timeline, 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 Metropolis(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 Guersey( 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 Sarkhan(Vietnam) and placed in command of a unit. When his unit comes under attack from the Sark Cong(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 Sarkhan(Vietnam) veterans use the skills they learned in the war to battle the Knights of Nordica( 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 Sarkhan( Vietnam). He serves under Sgt. Seymour Skinner, actually an old friend of his, who mentors him and shows him that life is worth living. When Skinner is seemingly killed in action(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.* 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. Skiner and Tamzarian have an earlier friendship here to at least justify Tamzarian's choice to assume his identity)

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*)

## **1960's**

**October:** Jun Sekitani is expelled from Kamiyama High School as the unfortunate scapegoat for a student protest movement. (*Literature/Hyouka*)

## **Early 1970's**

A Veil cryo-ship crash lands on Earth. The Alliance of Shades seals it away in a vault. (*The Sarah Jane Adventures*)

Jason "Jay" Derris and Robert "Silent Bob" Blutarsky are born and meet in front of Quick Stop as infants (*Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back*).

After being kicked out of his home, Stanley Pines tries to make money as a treasure hunter and later as a travelling salesman, and also spends some time in a Columbian cartel. Stanford attends Backupsmore University and, by working hard, earns a PhD three years early and is awarded a large grant for his own research( paranormal phenomena, which is likely a completely valid field given the world he exists in) (*Gravity Falls*).

Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice dies from shock and old age after his final revenge against Dick Tracy fails (*Dick Tracy*).

Henry Starling meets U.S. President Richard Monckton(Nixon) in the Oval Office. (*Star Trek: Voyager*)

By this time, over 75% of the world's population are under the age of 21 (*Logan's Run*)(This statistic could apply to the main universe as well).

On Earth X, Nazi Germany and Japan defeat the United States and Canada in the Third World War. Nuclear weapons are extensively used with Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia being completely destroyed. Before its defeat, however, the US inflicts significant damage on Germany. After the war, millions of Jewish-Americans and African-Americans are murdered in concentration camps, reducing the United States population by one third from its pre-war levels. In the 2010s, the US still has to pay war reparations to Germany on an annual basis (*In the Presence of Mine Enemies*)

## **Unclear date most likely in the 1970's**

Jones begins working for The Court and escorts a young James Eglamore there (*Gunnerkrigg Court*).

**January-February 197X:** Disgraced surgeon Richard Pine is stranded on a small island in the Pacific after being caught in a shipwreck while smuggling heroin into the United States. He is forced to take drastic measures in order to survive ("Survivor Type" by Stephen King)(in the story, Richard Nixon is the President and the Vietnam War is still being fought).

**October 31:** Harry Dresden is born(It's unclear as to the exact date, but it seems that the first book took place around the turn of the millennium, and Word of God says he was in his mid-twenties then(*The Dresden Files*).

## **1970-1974**

The Third Doctor is exiled to Earth and becomes unpaid scientific advisor to U.N.I.T. for a five year period from 1970-1974 *or* from 1976-1980 *or possibly* from 1979-1983 *or maybe even* for any other five year period concurrent with these("Mardwyn Undead" (1983) has the Brig retiring in 1976, and the Doctor meeting him in the present day; "Pyramids of Mars" (1975) has Sarah-Jane, who joined at the tail end of the UNIT era, say she's from 1980; "Web of Fear" (1968) is set "over forty years" after 1935, with UNIT's first appearance in "The Invasion" (1968) four years after that. And those are just the clearest dates.(*Doctor Who*)).

Although his exile is officially rescinded during this period, the Third Doctor chooses to remain based on Earth for the duration of his life. Upon regenerating, the Fourth Doctor decides to cut official ties with UNIT and resume his wandering, though will occasionally return to assist them at various points which may fall between 1974-1980(specifically in "Robot" (1974-1975), "Terror of the Zygons" (1975), "The Android Invasion" (1975) and "The Seeds of Doom" (1976)(*Doctor Who*))

## **1970**

**January 1:** Trevor McPhee is returned to Earth after being abducted by the aliens for the second time. As before, ten years have passed and he has not aged a day. He discovers not only that his wife Theresa has divorced him and gotten remarried to Ray Carter but that he has a son named Mark who was conceived during his last return on January 1, 1960. That night, Trevor is then abducted for the third time (*The Outer Limits (1995)*).

**January:** A young River Song regenerates in Metropolis(New York)(*Doctor Who*).

**February 15:** J.R. Ewing and Sue Ellen Shepard are married for the first time (*Dallas*).

**February 28:** Jeremy Berg disappears (*The 4400*).

**February:** The time traveler Jeffrey Jones lands a hijacked Boeing 747 with the assistance of an air traffic controller. He manages to save everyone onboard, including future U.S. President Douglass Dilman(Jimmy Carter)(*Voyagers!*).

**March 17:** Jonathan murders his wife Pamela (*Night Gallery*).

**April 3:** Sarah Bohm is born (*Touch*).

**April 4:** Colonel Owen Crawford, his son Eric and Lt. Colonel Marty Erickson investigate a crop circle in a cornfield in eastern Indiana as the colonel believes that it may be one of a series of landing strips that the aliens placed around the world in preparation for their invasion. He stakes his career on it and asks U.S. President Richard Monckton( Nixon) to personally inspect the site. Nixon instead sends Toby Woodruff of the Department of Defense and Ted Olsen of the NSA. While observing the crop circle in a helicopter, Crawford and the others see another in the vicinity. It is in the shape of a peace symbol and has the word "Howdy" written beside it. As a result, Crawford's career is ruined. He later learns that it was a prank orchestrated by the leading debunker Tom Clarke in revenge for Crawford breaking his mother Sally's heart and kidnapping his younger half-brother Jacob in 1959 (*Taken*).

**April 6:** The archaeologist Dr. Powell and his students Sarah, Buzz and Daryl find a mummy wrapped in a shroud in a burial chamber while searching for Tsimshian artifacts in Hyder, Alaska. The chamber is covered with strange writing that they are unable to identify (*Taken*).

**April 7:** Sam Beckett leaps into Herbert "Magic" Williams, a member of his elder brother Tom's platoon in Sarkhan(Vietnam). According to Ziggy, Sam's mission is to ensure that three American POWs are rescued but Sam intends to use the opportunity to save Tom's life. (*Quantum Leap*)

Colonel Owen Crawford is relieved of his position as the head of the UFO project after 23 years. His long-time subordinate Lt. Colonel Marty Erickson succeeds him. (*Taken*)

**April 8:** In the original timeline, Tom Beckett is killed in Sarkhan(Vietnam)(*Quantum Leap*). After Sam Beckett changes history, journalist Maggie Dawson is killed in Sarkhan(Vietnam)(*Quantum Leap*).

**April 11:** Sarkhan(Vietnam) veteran Jesse Keys arrives in Chicago, which is close to his home town of Bement, Illinois. He and his dealer Willie, a former member of his unit, shoot themselves up with heroin. When Willie asks him what's the weirdest thing that he has ever seen, Jesse says that he has been taken aboard a flying saucer multiple times and once saw his father Russell, who had recently died, on one of them. Grateful that Jesse saved his life twice in Vietnam, Willie cuts off his supply in the hope that he will go straight (*Taken*).

**April 12**: Sam Crawford, a journalism student at UC Berkeley, returns home to Las Vegas as he heard that his father Colonel Owen Crawford lost his job. He almost immediately gets into an argument with both his father and his elder brother Eric about the UFO project. Sam believes that it is a nothing more than a conspiracy designed to distract people from the real issues such as the Sarkhan(Vietnam) War and the secret testing of chemical weapons on innocent civilians. That night, Sam sees an article about the discovery of the mummy in Hyder, Alaska. He realizes that the writing on the burial chamber walls matches that on the artifact found at the Roswell crashsite which his mother Anne briefly showed him on October 28, 1962. After revealing that the alien threat is very real, Owen tells Sam that Jacob Clarke showed him all of his memories and all of his fears and even how he would die in 1959. Eric, who has always been jealous of Sam because he is their father's favorite, eavesdrops on their conversation (*Taken*).

**April 13:** The oxygen tank on board Apollo 13 explodes, threatening the lives of the crew, and forcing the crew to return to Earth (Real Life, *Apollo 13*). This is due to Lunarians not wanting Earthlings to land on the Moon anymore(*Touhou*). Colonel Owen Crawford believes that the explosion of the oxygen tank is a sign of NASA's growing incompetence rather than one of alien interference. However, he admits to his son Eric that he would have used it as evidence of an impending invasion if he were still in charge of the UFO project (*Taken*). The warning was inadvertently set off by a baseball belonging to Casper the Friendly Ghost hitting a button marked "DANGER." (*The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper*).

**April 16:** Sam Crawford travels to Hyder, Alaska to investigate the strange writing found in the burial chamber. Almost as soon as he arrives, he learns from the archaeologist Dr. Powell that the mummy is no more than six years old and that it was wrapped in bedsheets (*Taken*).

Jesse Keys attempts to sell his father Russell's World War II medals to his dealer Willie in order to get more heroin. When Willie is disgusted by his actions, Jesse realizes that he has hit rock bottom. (*Taken*)

**April 17:** Sheriff Kerby orders Dr. Powell and his students Sarah, Buzz and Daryl to leave Hyder, Alaska by sundown, which Sam Crawford finds suspicious considering that they discovered the body of an apparent murder victim. The group then discovers that the mummy has disappeared. Sam finds that whoever took it left behind the imprint of an inhuman hand. Daryl and a young girl named Wendy Rankin both get lost in the woods (*Taken*).

Jesse Keys goes to the Veterans Memorial Hospital in Chicago but collapses before he can admit himself. Nurse Amelia Henderson comes to his aid (*Taken*).

**April 18:** Jesse Keys and Amelia Henderson go for hot dogs in the park near the Veterans Memorial Hospital in Chicago. While there, Jesse has an hallucination involving the carny that he often sees when the aliens abduct him and attacks an innocent bystander. Later that day, Jesse refuses to accept the Bronze Star and Purple Heart that he earned in Sarkhan( Vietnam). He confides in Amelia that what he did wasn't brave because he knew that nothing could hurt him, telling her that "they" saved him when his unit was attacked in a temple in the Quảng Ninh Province. However, he does not explain who "they" are (*Taken*).

An elderly man named Leo tells Sam Crawford that his daughter Nadine was impregnated by an alien. She gave birth to twin boys named Larry and Lester, who were disfigured and possessed strange abilities. As a result, the townspeople feared them. Before he can explain any further, Sheriff Kerby arrives and takes Sam into the woods with the intention of killing him. However, Sam escapes and makes his way to the old cabin where Lester lives in seclusion. He learns that Lester has been taking care of the injured Wendy Rankin. A posse led by Wendy's mother Louise then arrives and begins to spread gasoline around the cabin in order to kill Lester. Sam convinces them to stop but his brother Eric shows up and announces his intention to bring Lester back to the UFO project for study. After one of the locals starts a fire, Sam rushes into the cabin to save Lester. However, he sees all of his memories and all of his fears when he looks into Lester's eyes. They are unable to escape and they both burn to death in the fire (*Taken*).

**April 27:** Mary Crawford is born. (*Taken*)

**April:** Death of recently activated Slayer Beryl McKenzie. A new Slayer is activated in northern Arztozka(Poland)(*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*).

**May 4:** Eric Crawford brings his newborn baby Mary over to his father Owen's house in Las Vegas. However, he is annoyed that, even in these circumstances, Owen is still talking about Sam. Eric then tells his father that Sam is dead and that he died trying to bring him down. Owen is so shocked and distraught by the news that he suffers a stroke. As he dies, Eric taunts him by saying that he brought about his own death, claiming that he could have avoided it if he had simply been a little nicer to him (*Taken*).

**May 10:** Jean DeLynn Baker is born. (*The 4400*)

**May 27:** Jesse Keys proposes to Amelia Henderson, who says yes. (*Taken*)

**May 28:** Eric and Julie Crawford move into his late father Owen's house in Las Vegas with their one-month-old baby Mary. After a locksmith opens his father's safe for him, Eric finds the artifact from the Roswell crashsite (*Taken*).

Sheriff Kerby destroys the burial chamber in Hyder, Alaska with dynamite. (*Taken*)

**May:** Birth of Cameron Mitchell. The fact that this occurs nine months after SG-1's time-travel incursion is a total coincidence (*Stargate SG-1*).

**June 5:** The 21-year-old Eric Crawford blackmails the US government into putting him in charge of the UFO project by threatening to go public with his late father Owen's extensive files on everything that has happened since the crash of the alien ship in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 (*Taken*).

**June 8:** Lt. Colonel Marty Erickson is arrested as an accessory to the murders of Anne Crawford and Major Howard Bowen by Colonel Owen Crawford on October 28, 1962 as he obtained the car that Owen drove from the Groom Lake motorpool. Owen and Anne's son Eric, who told the police of Erickson's supposed involvement, succeeds him as the head of the UFO project. (*Taken*)

**June 25:** Peter Conway is born. (*Moonbase 3*)

**July 4:** Saturday in the park - people dancing, people laughing, a man selling ice cream singing Italian songs ("Saturday in the Park").

**July 6:** Paul Newbold is born (*The 4400*).

**August 20:** Dorothy "Ace" McShane is born (*Doctor Who New Adventures*).

**September:** After breaking up with her boyfriend of two years Bill, Mary Richards moves to Minneapolis and is hired as the associate news producer at WJM-TV. (*The Mary Tyler Moore Show*)

**October 3:** Jeffrey Jones is born. (*Voyagers!*)

**October:** A drifter named Hall is hired to help clean out an old textile mill in Maine, and discovers a sub-basement sealed off from the rest of the world that has evolved it's own ecosystem consisting of a variety of massive, savage rats (*Graveyard Shift*).

**November 13:** Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence. That request came from his wife. Deep down, he knew she was right, but he also knew that some day he would return to her. With nowhere else to go, he appeared at the home of his friend, Oscar Madison. Several years earlier, Madison's wife had thrown HIM out, requesting that HE never return. Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy? (*The Odd Couple*).

**November 20:** Charlotte "Charlie" Wade is born (*Dallas*).

**November 22:** Sam Beckett leaps into a 25-year-old Native American man named George Washakie in Nevada. He is there to bring George's terminally ill grandfather Joseph Washakie back to his people's ancestral lands so that he can die at home (*Quantum Leap*).

**December:** Current Slayer dies in the Polish riots. Nikki Wood becomes the Slayer (*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*).

Delta Green is disbanded again (Cthulhu Mythos, *Delta Green*).

Skull Man/Tatsuo Kagura starts a series of mass murders and catastrophes all over Japan. The Sociopathic Hero is on a path of vengeance (*Skull Man*).

Birth of Khan Noonien Singh, one of many genetically-engineered superhuman, as a result of the Chrysalis Project. Khan would grow up to become an absolute ruler (*Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars*).

Birth of Derek Maza/Talon to Peter and Diane Maza (*Gargoyles*).

Birth of Anthony "Tony" Dracon to one of the most prominent criminal families in Metropolis( New York City). He would grow up to become head of his own branch within a wider organized crime syndicate (*Gargoyles*).

Jotaro Kujo is born to Sadao Kujo and his English-American wife, Holly. Noriaki Kakyoin is born in the same year (*JoJo's Bizarre Adventure*).

A recently widowed mother, Shirley Partridge, and her five children form a pop group (*The Partridge Family*).

Las Vegas reporter Carl Kolchak investigates the "Night Stalker" case (*Kolchak: The Night Stalker*).

Births of Caitlin Bree, Alyssa Jones, Cohee Lundin, Julie Marie Dwyer, Holden McNeil, and Banky Edwards (*Clerks*, *Mallrats*, and *Chasing Amy*).

Matthew Ross is born (*The 4400*).

Susan Bruckner is born (*Quantum Leap*).

Priscilla Silbart and Bill Walters die (*Quantum Leap*).

Michael Williams is born (*The Blair Witch Project*).

Valentine Summerfield is born (*Bernice Summerfield*).

Ruskin loses his sight (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

Rhonda Wellman is born (*Weird Science*).

Mitch Taylor is born (*Real Genius*).

Birth of Hitomi Kawai(*Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind*).

Birth of Yoko to Akie Kojima and her unnamed husband. (*Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind*)

## **1971**

**January:** President Richard Monckton(Nixon) announces he is deploying Superheroes such as Dr. Manhattan to help the US military effort in Sarkhan( Vietnam). In early March, Dr.Manhattan joins the fight in Sarkhan( Vietnam), and in June, North Sarkhan( Vietnam) offers a complete surrender (*Before Watchmen*).

Private eye John Shaft is hired to rescue a harlem mobster's daughter from The Mafia (*Shaft*).

**February 2:** Sam Beckett leaps into a parapyschologist named Dr. Timothy Mintz in California. He is there to prevent a young widow named Troian Claridge, who claims to be able to hear the voice of her late husband Julian, from drowning (*Quantum Leap*).

**February:** Genjiro Kaneda opens a pub, which is actually a front for illegal moneylending (*Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind*).

**March 2:** Ada Burn Quigley dies (*Night Gallery*).

**March 22:** Will Byers is born (*Stranger Things*).

**April 1:** A fleet of fleet of nine ships, consisting of the flagship *Discovery* and eight freighters, bound for Mars is launched from the Moon. (*Journey into Space*)

**April 3:** An asteroid lands in Japan, bearing the alien race that calls itself the Natives. They begin working with humanity to develop the armored combat system later dubbed the Masked Rider System (*Kamen Rider Kabuto*).

Stephen "Mitch" Mitchell almost drifts off into space but he is rescued by Jet Morgan and Lemmy Barnet. (*Journey into Space*)

**May 12:** Sam Beckett leaps into a death row inmate named Jesus Ortega, who is about to be executed in the electric chair. in Tallahassee, Columbiana( Florida). He is there to ensure that Jesus' co-accused Raul Casta is exonerated. (*Quantum Leap*)

**June 21:** Birth of Johnny, known as Johnny Truant, to Donnie and Pelafina Heather Lievre \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.(*House of Leaves*).

**June 23:** Cathy Briscoe is born (*Law & Order*).

**June:** Perry Rhodan lands on the moon in the STARDUST. They find a bunch of aliens which crashed because the navigator was too lazy to divert the course. Their leaders come to Earth, because they need help to build a ship to complete their mission. To remain neutral in the cold war, the Third Power is made in the Gobi desert. They also get a 50m tender to help the defenses of this new base. Later that year an alien invasion happens, the 50m tender defeats the invasion with the help of Rhodan's ingenuity, and the allies finally stop trying to kill this new power all the time (*Perry Rhodan*).

**July 2:** Benny Faulkner is born. (*Dimension X*)

**August:** Yuri and Masha Peltrovich are married (*St. Elsewhere*).

**September:** Liam and Debra Moone are married. (*Moone Boy*)

**October:** The flagship *Discovery* and seven of the eight freighters that set off from the Moon arrive at Mars. Jet Morgan is believed to be the first person to set foot on the planet's surface but it is later learned that Martians have been abducting humans and bringing them to their planet since at least 1879. (*Journey into Space*)

While the country has surrendered, a group of North Sarkhanese continue fighting. The North Sarkhanese( Vietnamese) Army overruns Firebase Valley Forge. The only survivor of either side is Captain Frank Castle, who seemingly massacred every remaining enemy soldier by himself, despite the impossibility of this task (*The Punisher: Born*).

Between August and October: Ye Wenjie performs an unauthorised experiment, using the Sun as am amplifier for an interstellar radio broadcast (*The Three-Body Problem*).

**November 5:** Sara James disappears. (*The 4400*)

**November 9:** Genjiro Kaneda orders Toshio Tazaki to pay his debt in full by the next day (*Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind*).

**November 10:** Genjiro Kaneda and Shinobu Asakawa are murdered; Asakawa's body is never found. Toshi Tazaki plasters a wall. The Girl Who Stands Behind is first seen by Hisako Hayama. Goro Kaneda inherits his father's fortune (*Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind*).

**November 11:** Toshio Tazaki, under investigation for the murder of Genjiro Kaneda, tells Tadashi Urabe his story. Urabe corroborates Tazaki's alibi (*Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind*)

**November 24:** Cooper DeMeers disappears (*The 4400*).

**November:** Teruhiko Uchida, lead suspect in the murder of Genjiro Kaneda, commits suicide. His son, Tatsuya, moves to a different school and begins going by his mother's maiden name, Hibino

**December 22:** Sam Beckett leaps into Willie Walters, Jr., who is robbing the bank with his brothers Neil and John, in his home town of Elk Ridge, Indiana. He is there to prevent the Walters brothers from being killed as they try to escape from the bank (*Quantum Leap*).

Alexander Ashford uses his DNA and that of his ancestor, Veronica, to create two children, Alexia and Alfred (*Resident Evil – Code: Veronica*).

Doctor Strange, the Incredible Hulk, Namor the Sub-Mariner and the Silver Surfer first join forces as The Defenders (Marvel Comics).

The Avengers become involved in the interstellar war between the Kree and Skrulls (Marvel Comics).

Godzilla battles Hedorah (*Godzilla vs. Hedorah*).

Detective Harry Callahan hunts down serial killer Scorpio (*Dirty Harry*).

The international terrorist organization Shocker begins kidnapping people and turning them into half-animal cyborg super-soldiers. College student Takeshi Hongo (codenamed "Hopper") escapes before he can be brainwashed and begins fighting Shocker as the superhero Kamen Rider. Shocker turns freelance photographer Hayato Ichimonji into a second "Hopper" in order to fight Hongo, but he likewise rebels and becomes Kamen Rider 2 (*Kamen Rider*).

Shocker discovers a lost Core Medal dropped by the time travelling Greeed Ankh and uses it to retake control of the Double Riders and take over the world. Kamen Rider OOO and the Kamen Rider Den-O team return to this time to set things right (*OOO, Den-O, All Riders: Let's Go Kamen Riders*).

In Madrid, Otavio Consone kills Rafael for daring to be romantically involved with Anna Hidalgo, a dancer on whom he (Otavio) had his eye. He promises Anna that this is only the first stage of his revenge. (*Highlander: The Series*)

Birth of Amy Brennan-Thomas to Laura Ayers-Brennan and her unnamed husband. Amy is actually the result of a brief affair between Laura and Joe Dawson, both Watchers. Amy would grow up to become a Watcher herself (*Highlander: The Series*, *Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM*).

Al Bundy and Peggy Wanker get married (*Married... with Children*).

Estimated birth of Yancy Fry, Jr. to Yancy Fry and Mrs. Gleisner-Fry (*Futurama*).

Atomic Robo and Carl Sagan go to Parador(Peru) to do battle with a squamous monster Robo is getting tired of (*Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time*).

Facing bankruptcy, Aperture Science offers the homeless sixty dollars to perform scientific experiments with Propulsion Gel and the Aperture Science Portable Quantum Tunneling Device, with a sixty dollar bonus if they agree to be taken apart and have "science stuff" implanted inside (*Portal 2*).

Nicholas Ballard discovers a mysterious crystal skull in Puerto Guavo(Belize.) It briefly transports him to another planet, a fact that he can never convince anyone of (*Stargate SG-1*).

A driver and a mechanic in a 1955 Chevy are challenged to a race across America by a man in a GTO (*Two-Lane Blacktop*).

Ernst Stavro Blofeld attempts to hold the world hostage with his orbital laser (*Diamonds Are Forever*).

David Mann is tailgated by a homicidal trucker (*Duel*).

Dracula returns from death when Cliffton Graves removes a stake from his heart (*The Tomb of Dracula* #1).

Countercultural activist Manny Rosenberg helps incite a riot. He goes on the lam and, as of 1996, is still being hunted by the FBI (*3rd Rock from the Sun*).

Creeper, the first self-replicating AI spawned by \*Mother, appears on ARPANET (*Digital: A Love Story*, date taken from Real Life).

The SCP Foundation discovers SCP-3000 in the Bay of Potarneyland(Bengal) shortly after the disappearance of two Potarneylandian(Bangladeshi) fishing boats and their fifteen crew members, most likely eaten by SCP-3000 (*SCP Foundation*).

Abby Fairgate and Jeff Cunningham are married (*Knots Landing*).

Chett Donnelly is born (*Weird Science*).

Charles Russell is born (*Second Chance*).

Charlie Keys is born (*Taken*).

Joshua Leonard is born (*The Blair Witch Project*).

Lynn Tanner is born (*ALF*).

Jeff McDowell flees to Canada after being drafted to fight in the Sarkhan(Vietnam) War (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*)(This makes him more of a coward since the war is ending and would instead be stationed there).

In an [Alternate Universe] Jeff McDowell fights in the Sarkhan( Vietnam) War and eventually loses both of his legs when he steps on a landmine (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

Keith Barnes is born (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

In an [Alternate Universe], where James T.Cassidy survived his assassination attempt and things got generally better, former U.S. President James T.Cassidy(John F. Kennedy) is elected Secretary-General of the League of Nations (*Quest for Love*)(This likely occurs in the "Kennedy lives" world shown in some fiction i.e. *Blue Skies Over Camelot*).

The B2 robot Battling Maxo defeats Dimsy the Rock in a boxing match (*The Twilight Zone (1959)*).

Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair and Dustin Henderson are born (*Stranger Things*).

The Warrens rescue a family from a Satanic witch's ghost (*The Conjuring*).

Zaddik is born on a planet in the Pegasus galaxy (*Stargate Atlantis*).

A group of alien beings are found in Guarma(Guam). Apparently docile, they'd be taken in and studied by the US Government for the next 36 years. (*Axiom's End*)

Birth of Taro Ninten and Ayumi Tachibana (*Famicom Detective Club*).

Takao Toyama is killed defending a victim from a mugger, and Yuri Ayashiro subsequently dies as a result of arson. Just before dying, she entrusts their baby, Taro Ninten, to Sayako Yamamori (*Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir*).

*Itchy and Scratchy meet Fritz the Cat* is released in cinemas. Due to its frank depictions of drug use, sex, and violence, it is never given a home video release. (*The Simpsons*)

Godzilla battles and defeats an alien monster that feeds on pollution. (*Godzilla vs. Hedorah)*

## **1972**

**January 9:** Tyler Downing disappears (*The 4400*).

**January 14:** Astronauts Colonel George Taylor, Lieutenant John Landon, Lieutenant Thomas, and Lieutenant Maryann Stewart are launched into the first interstellar exploration flight. They would remain in hibernation to the year 3955/3978 (*Planet of the Apes (1968)*).

**April 12:** Birth of Luisa Hidalgo to single mother Anna Hidalgo. She would grow up to become a dancer. Like her mother, Luisa would be pursued by Otavio Consone (*Highlander: The Series*, *Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM*).

**April:** Stanford Pines invents a perpetual motion machine. Stanley accidentally damages it, ruining Stanford's opportunity to attend the West Coast Institute of Technology. As a result, Stanley is kicked out of his home(Happens when recruiters are scouting for scholarship candidates. When the brothers are reunited in 1983, Stanley states it has been over 10 years) (*Gravity Falls*).

The SCP Foundation sets up containment procedures for SCP-3000 (*SCP Foundation*).

**May 15:** Arthur Bremer attempts to assassinate U.S. presidential candidate George Wallace, paralyzing him from the waist down(Real Life).

In an [Alternate Timeline] in which Jame T.Cassidy survived his assassination but things got worse. Arthur Bremer assassinates U.S. President George Wallace. Vice President Curtis LeMay assumes the presidency (*11/22/63*).

**May 19:** Richard Collier, a college theater student, celebrates the debut of his first play on stage. A mysterious old woman approaches him and places a pocket watch in his hand. She is Elise McKenna, an aging actress. She dies that same night. Her death inspires an article in *Theatre Monthly* (*Somewhere in Time*).

**June 1:** Birth of James Halliday in Middletown, Ohio (*Ready Player One*).

**June 2:** Leonard Snart Jr is born (*Legends of Tomorrow*)(Here he is the son of the original Captain Cold).

**June 15:** The *Discovery* fleet sets off from Mars on its 355 million mile return journey to Earth (*Journey into Space*).

Sam Beckett leaps into Gerald Bryant, an amorous English Literature professor, in Marion, Ohio. He is there to prevent a student named Jamie Lee from marrying Bryant and ruining her life. However, when he meets his future fiancée Donna Eleese, he tries to alter history to his advantage by helping Donna to resolve her differences with her father Colonel Wojohowitz, so Donna's future self won't leave Sam at the altar in 1984 (*Quantum Leap*).

**June 17:** Five men are arrested for breaking into the offices of the Democratic National Committee, based in the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C. (Real Life) The break-in is inadvertently revealed by Betsy and Arlene, two teenage girls living in the building who are out past their curfew(*Dick*), and by Forrest Gump, who calls a report of lights in the offices opposite his room disturbing him (*Forrest Gump*). Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln apprehend the burglars (*Star Trek Novel Verse*). During the burglary, Donna Eleese is reunited with her father Colonel Wojohowitz at the hotel (*Quantum Leap*). It is later revealed that the five men have connections to senior figures in the Monckton(Nixon) administration. Joseph Turner(Bob Woodward) and Mark Forman(Carl Bernstein) are assigned by the *Washington Post* to cover the break-in, and consequently begin an investigation into corruption at the highest levels. (Real Life, *All the President's Men*). The two teenage girls pose under the name "Deep Throat". Monckton has Edward Blake attempt to murder Turner and Forman(on Earth 4 this succeeds and the Watergate Scandal is never blown). However Captain America, investigating a conspiracy within the US Government at the time(Marvel Comics), intervenes and saves the two reporters, knocking out Blake in the process.

**July 2**: A Martian spaceship crash-lands in the Lake District. Three other spaceships land in remote areas of Australia, India and South America (*Journey into Space*).

**July 4:** Jason Crockett's birthday party is ruined when the swamp dwellers around his mansion start killing and driving away his guests (*Frogs*).

**July 12:** Birth of Juli (July, Julia), either in Germany or in Mexico. She supposedly had some connection to Thunder Hawk. She would grow up to become brainwashed by M. Bison and serve as a member of his Dolls (*Street Fighter Alpha*).

**August 15:** Heather Donahue is born (*The Blair Witch Project*).

**August 21:** Major industrial accident at the North-Western Mine in Greenland causes numerous deaths. Mining operations shut down. The mining site was already notorious for unusually high suicide rates, abnormal fauna and various inexplicable events (*Penumbra*).

**August-September:** Kim Karlsen has a breakdown and is interred at the asylum at Gaustad in Oslo. Here, he impregnates Nina, who visits him. He is also a witness to the EEC debates from the inside, and escapes the very night of the referendum (September 25, Real Life). He takes a ferry to Nesodden, where he lives the rest of the autumn in seclusion, writing his memoirs (Beatles).

**October 5:** Birth of Lynn Horton in Geneva, Switzerland. Her parents are James Horton and his wife Emily Dawson. Joe Dawson is her maternal uncle. (*Highlander: The Series*, *Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM*)

**October:** Brodie Bruce is born (*Mallrats*).

**November 3:** Simone Marks is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

**November 6:** Sam Beckett leaps into Henry Adams, a Sarkhan(Vietnam) veteran who lives in the woods of Washington. He is there to prevent Henry's fellow veteran Roy Brown from dying of an epileptic seizure. Sam is also mistaken for Bigfoot (*Quantum Leap*).

**November 7:** Richard Monckton(Nixon) is re-elected U.S. President, defeating Prez Rickard(DC Comics) and George McGovern (Real Life).

The original Mighty Avengers are formed by James Lucas, the Bear, Blue Marvel, Blade, Kaluu, and Constance Molina. Lucas departs after their first mission. (Marvel Comics)

In an [Alternate Universe] James T.Cassidy(John F. Kennedy) is elected to a fourth term as U.S. President (*Sliders*).

In another [Alternate Timeline] Edward Gilley(Hubert Humphrey) defeats Curtis LeMay in the U.S. presidential election (*11/22/63*).

Jennifer Keaton is born (*Family Ties*).

In another alternate timeline, George McGovern defeats Richard Monckton(Nixon) in the U.S. presidential election (*Alternate Presidents, Fuzzy Dice*).

In another alternate timeline, U.S. President George McGovern is re-elected ("Hillary Orbits Venus").

**November 26:** Birth of Jon Canmore/ "John Castaway" to Charles Canmore and an unnamed mother. He would grow up to become the founder of the Quarrymen (*Gargoyles*).

**November 27:** Estimated birth of Kelly Bundy to Al and Peggy Bundy. (*Married... with Children*)( Her birthday is given within the series. The year can be estimated because of mentions of Kelly being 18 in 1990).

**November:** A spaceship transporting astronauts John Christopher Brent and Donovan "Skipper" Maddox is launched. Their mission is to locate George Taylor and its crew. They would have to follow them to the 40th century(*Beneath the Planet of the Apes*).

**December 23:** A massive earthquake hits in Managua, Val Verde( Nicaragua), leaving future drug lord Jose Menendez and his two children, Raul and Josefina, homeless (*Call of Duty: Black Ops II*).

Billy Coen is born (*Resident Evil 0*).

Luke Cage gains superpowers, becomes a hero for hire (Marvel Comics).

Johnny Blaze becomes the original Ghost Rider (Marvel Comics).

Godzilla battles Gigan(*Godzilla vs. Gigan*).

A Serial Killer rapes and strangles several women in London. Among the victims is Brenda Margaret Blaney, estranged wife of Richard Ian "Dick" Blaney. Dick comes under suspicion for her murder and, through a series of circumstantial evidence, becomes the main suspect. He is innocent but will have a hard time to convince anyone of that (*Frenzy*).

Twins Solid Snake and Liquid Snake born (*Metal Gear* series).

On Earth 30, in which the Soviet Union rose to power, Supposed Allied puppet Premier Romanov leads the USSR and the World Socialist Alliance in an invasion of America, beginning World War III (*Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2*).

Following the defeat of the Soviets, the Russian psychic Yuri uses his Psychic Dominator to take over the world, prompting teams to travel back to the war's beginning to stop him. (*Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge*)

The Alliance of Shades' MIB work is disbanded, their duties moved to guarding an interdimensional vault (Doctor Who Expanded Universe [animated serials], *The Sarah Jane Adventures*).

A US Army commando unit carries out a secret mission to rob the Bank of Hanoi, then is arrested when all records of their mission are destroyed. The unit members promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade(*The A-Team*).

The Los Santos(Angeles) Underground is founded (*The A-Team*).

A day later, the A-Team vanishes into the Los Santos(Angeles) Underground (*The A-Team*).

A day later, the Los Santos(Angeles) Underground is disbanded. (*The A-Team*)

Nikki Wood falls pregnant by her boyfriend, Li. Li dies soon after, and Nikki's pregnancy remains a secret between her and her Watcher (*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*).

Maggie Evans, under the name Victoria Winters, begins working for the Collins family. Barnabas Collins is dug up around this time (*Dark Shadows*).

Follower of Count Dracula revive a soul clone of him (*Dracula A.D. 1972*).

The Ice Cream Bunny gives a hand to crash landed Santa Claus (*Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny*).

Births of Heather Jones, Rene Mosier, T.S. Quint, Brandi Svenning, and Gwen Turner (*Clerks*, *Mallrats*).

Doctor Hell starts his attack on Earth. His first strike leads to the death of scientist Juuzo Kabuto. His grandson, Kouji, takes up his greatest work, a powerful Super Robot, to battle Hell's forces (*Mazinger Z*).

A party at Marlin Academy gets out of control, resulting in the ampitheatre being bulldozed (*Malcolm in the Middle*).

Birth of Ogden Morrow (*Ready Player One*).

While delivering files in Sarkhan( Vietnam), medical file clerk Pvt. Martin Johannsen stops to render aid to a wounded soldier named Miller, and does so by taping papers to Miller's wounded leg. Miller has to wait over twenty years before he can thank Johannsen for saving his life (*Hey Arnold!*).

\*Reaper, a self-propagating AI with a built-in suicide switch, is deployed to delete \*Creeper by \*Mother and her human companion, Ray Tomlinson (*Digital: A Love Story*, date taken from Real Life).

Mary O'Connell disappears (*The 4400*).

Thomas Westphall dies (*St. Elsewhere*).

Lisa Clarke is born (*Taken*).

Luther Hawkins carves his initials into the St. Eligius third floor nurses' station while waiting for his mother (*St. Elsewhere*).

Janet, who later becomes the superhero Captain Liberty, is born (*The Tick (2001)*).

Danny Hayes is born (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

Ye Wenjie marries Yang Weining (*The Three-Body Problem*).

Ray Kinsella is briefly brought back in time from 1989 to this year, where he meets an elderly Doc Graham (*Field of Dreams*).

## **1973**

**January 5:** Gary Navarro disappears (*The 4400*).

**March 15:** On Earth 4, in which Biff Tannen obtained a sports almanac from his future self, Biff Tannen kills George McFly (*Back to the Future Part II*).

**Sometime later in 1973:** Biff gets married for the third time to Lorraine Baines-McFly(Both events are wiped from existence when Marty McFly destroys the Sports Almanac on November 12, 1955. However here they remain as part of this alternate universe)(*Back to the Future Part II*)

**April 19:** Werner Loecher disappears (*The 4400*).

**April:** Carl Burton is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

**April 29-May 1:** A police inspector uncovers a pagan cult on a Scottish island while investigating a missing child(*The Wicker Man (1973)*).

**May 1:** A girl who will one day become the mother of Lilo and Nani Pelekai wins a May Day hula competition (*Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch*).

**May:** Kim Karlsen finishes his novel (*Beatles*), and is confronted by Nina in her late pregnancy. She gives birth to a girl, who is called Eleanor.

**June 8:** The *Ares* is launched from Australia (*Journey into Space*).

**June 10:** Birth of Juni (June) in Germany. She would grow up to become brainwashed by M. Bison and serve as a member of his Dolls (*Street Fighter Alpha*).

**July 20:** Joe Washington is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

**August 18:** The deranged Sawyer family in Texas slaughters and makes meat out of a group of travelling teens. Only one teen survives (*The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)*).

**August 22:** After his ban from racing and the death of his brother in Sarkhan( Vietnam), Secretariat parks his car on the bridge outside Louisville and commits suicide. (*Bojack Horseman*)

**August:** Joey Jeremiah is born (*Degrassi High*).

**Mid-1973:** Births of Dante Hicks and Randal Graves (*Clerks*).

**September 11:** Augusto Pinochet leads a military coup in Olifa(Chile)(Real Life). During this coup, a German woman's fiance is kidnapped, and she has to infiltrate a cult to rescue him. (*The Colony (2016)*)

**September 21:** Douglas "Doogie" Howser is born (*Doogie Howser, M.D.*).

**September 23:** The first ships of the Martian invasion fleet land in Asia (*Journey into Space*).

**September 26:** Sam Beckett leaps into FBE(FBI) Agent Peter Langly in Boston. He is there to prevent a witness named Dana Barrenger from being murdered by the Mafia don, Nick Kochifos, whom she is going to testify against (*Quantum Leap*).

**October 5:** Andi Simmons is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

**October 13:** In a secret ceremony at El Rico Air Force Base, a syndicate of US State Department officials sever ties with the US government and formally surrender Earth to a race of grey alien beings. Under the terms of the surrender, family members of the Syndicate are to be surrendered to the aliens for experimentation, but official colonisation will not begin for another fifty years (*The X-Files*).

**November 27:** Samantha Mulder disappears; her brother Fox eventually becomes convinced she was abducted by aliens (*The X-Files*).

Chris Redfield is born (*Resident Evil*).

Hugh Darrow is born in Blackheat, South London. He proves to be a visionary entrepreneur whose innovations and groundbreaking ideas change not only the face of augmentation, but also the very fabric of society itself (*Deus Ex: Human Revolution*).

The Apes Cornelius and Zira arrive from the far future. They are capable of speech and claim to be from an alternate reality where Apes are intelligent and humans are dumb. They become celebrities, until Zira is drugged and reveals that they are from the future. Zira and Cornelius go on the run, hidng their son, Caesar for his safety. The two are killed, but Caesar remains hidden(*Escape from the Planet of the Apes*).

After a test flight accident, Steve Austin is rebuilt as a cyborg and becomes an operative for the OSI (*The Six Million Dollar Man*).

Norman Osborn, the Green Goblin, who suffered from recurring bouts of amnesia, snaps back to his old self, escapes prison and goes after Peter Parker and his wife Gwen Stacy, abducting her and taking her to the George Washington Bridge(Which ITTL is visually identical to the Brooklyn Bridge, to explain the error in the art). Spider-Man tries to catch Gwen Stacy as she falls but accidentally snaps her neck with his webbing. This is witnessed by Daily Bugle reporter Phil Sheldon(*Marvels*). Spider-Man soon after tracks down Green Goblin and is about to kill him but stops himself. The Goblin summons his glider but Spider-Man's spider sense warns him and he avoids it, as a result the Green Goblin is impaled by his own Glider and killed(Marvel Comics).

Godzilla battles Megalon and Gigan with the help of shapeshifting robot Jet Jaguar (*Godzilla vs. Megalon*).

The Ladies' Department moves to the same floor as the men's department at Grace Brothers (*Are You Being Served?*).

Benjamin Linus joins the DHARMA Initiative on the Island (*Lost*).

Fathers Lankester Merrin and Damien Karras die under mysterious circumstances, allegedly while conducting an exorcism at the MacNeil residence in Georgetown (*The Exorcist*).

According to George Foreman, Apollo Creed(Muhammed Ali) faces an 80ft-tall mechanical Joe Frazier in a boxing match. The entire Earth is destroyed. (*Futurama*)(This can be taken with a grain of salt. George Foreman is talking about this 3000 years in the future as a reanimated head and is likely to be misremembering it. Though there are many ways the Earth could have been destroyed and restored given this universe, possibly the earth being destroyed had nothing to do with the actual fight and was the result of something else. At this time androids are used in boxing matches so an 80ft tall mechanical Joe Frazier fighting a norma human would be beyond impressive. While it would be illegal at the time, this could have been a rare exception).

Biochemistry student Shiro Kazami loses his family after witnessing an attack by the terrorist group Destron. Mortally wounded, he asks the Kamen Riders to make him a cyborg so he can avenge his family's murder, and becomes Kamen Rider V3 (*Kamen Rider V3*).

Birth of the immortal Enrique Grimaldi in Callao, Parador( Peru) (*Highlander: The Series*, *Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM*).

Estimated birth of Sally/Sari in India. She would become the wife of Dhalsim (*Street Fighter Alpha*)(Supposed to be 16/17-years-old in a game which seems to take place c. 1990. Already married and apparently pregnant in events of said game.)

CEA(CIA) agent Cobra Bubbles saves the world from an alien incident at Roswell (*Lilo & Stitch*)(given the amount of things in Roswell, we can't rule this out as not having happened).

Nikki Wood completes her Cruciamentum despite being pregnant. She gives birth to her son, Robin, later that year (*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*).

Harman Smith loses a chess game to Kun Lan, giving Kun control of all cities on America's west coast. Harman sends Dan Smith to work with Curtis Blackburn and establish him as the pre-eminent crime boss in Seattle. Christopher Mills becomes Blackburn's informant (*killer7*).

James Bond(Who in this case is actually Simon Templar using the name James Bond) destroys a drug trafficking business in the island of San Monique (*Live and Let Die*).

Gil Hicks (Dante Hicks's cousin) is born (*Mallrats*).

While Raul and Josefina Menendez are taking refuge in a warehouse, its American owner burns it down for the insurance money, resulting in Josefina suffering extensive burn wounds and disfigurement over her whole body and inspiring Raul to dedicate his life to protecting her (*Call of Duty: Black Ops II*).

Pandoras Bammes are separated. Peter Bammes blames the defect on radiation exposure he suffered in the 1957 nuclear test and successfully sues the British government. He goes on to become a prominent conservationist (*Black Light*).

Final \*Creeper instance is deleted by \*Reaper. \*Mother splits herself into several different AIs and implements copy restrictions to avoid accidental DoS attackes in future; she also introduces the FTP protocol (*Digital: A Love Story*).

Richie Grenadine, an inhabitant of Bangor, Maine, consumes a tainted batch of beer and begins to slowly and horrifically mutate into a massive, blob-like monstrosity (*Night Shift*: "Gray Matter").

Ito T. Fujitsu is born (*Back to the Future Part II*).

Tommy Westphall is born (*St. Elsewhere*).

Quinn Mallory and Wade Welles are born (*Sliders*).

In an [Alternate Universe] Logan Mallory (later St. Clair) is born (*Sliders*).

In an [Alternate Universe] Liz Welles dies in childbirth with her second daughter Wade, who also dies (*Sliders*).

Daniel Basch is killed in a plane crash (*Quantum Leap*).

The cemetery asteroid Happy Glades is established (*The Twilight Zone (1959)*).

The Postman is born (*The Postman*).

A manned mission to Mars(first manned mission in the source material, not the case here), the United States Space Command *Challenge 141*, crashes on the planet's surface. A second expedition, *Challenge 142*, is sent to search for survivors, finding only one: Colonel Edward Carruthers, the leader of the expedition. He claims that the other nine crewmen were killed by a Martian and the rescue team are themselves attacked(in the source material they do not believe him until they are attacked, here they very much do given the well established presence of multiple Martians) (*It! The Terror from Beyond Space*).

Anji Kapoor is born in Yorkshire (*Eighth Doctor Adventures*).

The archaeologists Melburn and Claire Jackson are crushed by a falling coverstone while setting up an exhibit in the Metropolitan( New York) Museum of Art. Their eight-year-old son Daniel witnesses their deaths (*Stargate SG-1*).

Jasper Adeola is born. (*Class*)

Elizabeth Sherman's pyrokinetic powers manifest for the first time, leveling a city block and killing her family in the process (*Hellboy*).

An uncharted island in the South Pacific is discovered via satellite imagery. William Randa, an official of the secret scientific organization Monarch, convinces Senator Willis to allow Monarch to accompany Landsat on a mission to the island with military support before the Russians stumble onto their discovery and go there first. Despite heavy casualties, the expedition is a success with the discovery of several super-species including a giant ape-like species dubbed “Kong.“ (*Kong: Skull Island*)(This is not the same Skull Island but very similar. Naturally the original 1933 "Kong" is well documented so its more of a case to discover that a member of the species still survives").

Terrence Mann gives his last interview before becoming a recluse. He talks about seeing the Dodgers play at Ebbets Field (*Field of Dreams*).

## **1974**

**January 6:** Birth of Cammy White/Killer Bee, probably in the United Kingdom. She is supposedly a genetically-engineered clone of M. Bison. She would grow up to become a member of the Delta Red, a British paramilitary government organization (*Street Fighter II*, *Street Fighter Alpha*).

**January 22:** Estimated birth of Budrick Franklin "Bud" Bundy to Al and Peggy Bundy. (*Married... with Children*)( His birthday is given within the series. The year can be estimated because of mentions of Bud being 18 in 1992.)

**February 2:** Sam Beckett leaps into Rabbi David Basch, whose brother Joe and sister-in-law Irene are struggling to come to terms with the death of their son Daniel, in Los Santos(Los Angeles). He is there to prevent Irene from having an affair with a sleazy author named Bert Glasserman and ruining her marriage (*Quantum Leap*).

**February 14:** Five people gather in a bar, rambling away on their lives in The '60s, and how they grope for meaning in The '70s (*Kennedy's Children*).

**February 15:** In an alternate timeline, Jimmy Olsen is born (*Lois & Clark*).

**February 24:** Douglas Robert McNair is born (*Stargate SG-1*).

**March 2:** Heather Tobey disappears. (*The 4400*)

Caitlin Ryan is born. (*Degrassi: The Next Generation*)

**April 12:** Sam Beckett leaps into Geoffrey "Tonic" Mole, the lead singer of the British glam rock band King Thunder, in Detroit. He is there to prevent Tonic from being killed after a concert (*Quantum Leap*).

**April 19:** Betty Wilson seals a baloney sandwich in Foreverware. It is perfectly preserved until Marshall Teller accidentally breaks the seal in 1991. (*Eerie, Indiana*)

**April 26:** Larry Howard disappears (*The 4400*).

**May 9:** Sam Beckett leaps into a magician named Harry Spontini in Oakland. He is there to prevent Harry's ex-wife Maggie from gaining full custody of their 12-year-old daughter Jamie, which leads to Jamie running away and ending up on the street (*Quantum Leap*).

**May 26:** Jenna Rink is born (*13 Going on 30*).

**June:** Ray and Annie Kinsella get married (*Field of Dreams*).

Amélie Poulain is born. (*Amélie*)

**August 2:** Disguised as his malfunctioning B2 robot Battling Maxo, promoter Steel Kelly fights a B7 robot in a boxing match in Maynard, Kansas. (*The Twilight Zone (1959)*)(Since this is the Twilight Zone episode that introduced the whole only robots can box. It is likely that this is abandoned soon after, especially if the deception is eventually revealed).

**August 3:** Mamoru Chiba born (*Sailor Moon*).

**August 9:** Richard Monckton(Nixon) resigns as President of the United States, becoming the first person to do so (Real Life) 'Deep Throat' gives him a parting message he'd rather not have when she holds out a sigh reading "You Suck Dick!" (*Dick*). Soon after Captain America confronts the leader of the Secret Empire and unmasks them, discovering them to be Richard Monckton. Monckton commits suicide rather than be tried. The experience shakes Captain America to the core and he briefly resigns from his Captain America identity, taking the identity of Nomad(*Marvel Comics*).

Vice President Henry Talbot NcNeil(Gerald Ford) takes office (Real Life).

In an alternate universe, Vice President John Calvin Sykes Jr(Martin Luther King Jr.) takes office (*Chrononauts*).

**After August 9:** The notorious but enigmatic "Denton Affair": an obscure country residence is found destroyed to its foundations, seemingly overnight. A pair of survivors report lurid incidents of murder, sexual assault, and ritual cannibalism. (*The Rocky Horror Picture Show)*(Just before Brad and Janet find the castle, they are seen listening to a tape of Nixon's resignation speech, which would be Monckton's speech here).

**August 14:** Metropolis(New York) Mets win a baseball game against the Los Santos(Los Angeles) Dodgers. (Real Life) Philip J. Fry is born at the same time. (*Futurama*).

**Summer:** Kim Karlsen arrives in Oslo after having been absent a year. He courts Vivi, another Uptown Girl, and writes a cycle of poems in tandem with his friend Sebastian (First sequel to *Beatles*).

**September 12:** Jefferson Pierce Jr is born (*Black Lightning (2018)*)(While the hero Black Lightning has yet to appear. He will do so in 1977, as such it would be too young to be the same man).

**September 15:** Birth of Karin Kanzuki to Daikenjuro and Nadeshiko Kanzuki. She would grow up into a martial arts fighter, and develop a personal rivalry with Sakura Kasugano (*Sakura Ganbaru!* manga, *Street Fighter Alpha*).( The upperclassman to Sakura's freshman. Year of birth has been alternatively estimated to 1973).

**September 20:** Richie Ryan is born (*Highlander*).

**September:** Christine "Spike" Nelson is born (*Degrassi: The Next Generation*).

**October 24:** Sam Beckett leaps into a boxer named Clarence "Kid" Cody in Sacramento, California. He is there to win a fight so that the convent of nuns who own his contract will have enough money to build a new church (*Quantum Leap*)(By this time at the latest, Android boxing has been outed and boxing with humans has resumed in order for this plot to work).

**November 13:** Ronald Defeo, Jr. murders his entire family (Real Life and *The Amityville Horror*).

**Fall:** John Kinsella dies (*Field of Dreams*).

**December 24:** Billy and Ricky Chapman watch their parents get murdered by a man dressed as Santa Claus (*Silent Night, Deadly Night*).

**December:** A Mentally sick man identified simply as "Billy" commits murders at Christmas time around a sorority (*Black Christmas (1974)*).

Jill Valentine and Ada Wong born (*Resident Evil*).

King Seesar is awakened in order to aid Godzilla against Mechagodzilla (*Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla*).

James Howlett, also known as Logan, makes his debut under the identity of Wolverine, his superhero identity when he is sent by the Canadian Government into battle against the Incredible Hulk(Marvel Comics)

Sarkhan War veteran, Frank Castle, having lost his family to gang violence, becomes the vigilante known as the Punisher(Marvel Comics).

A group of time travellers arrive on "The Island" in this time where the DHARMA Initiative is active on the Island. After John Locke turns the wheel at the Orchid and stops all the time-skips. the group of Hurley, Sawyer, Juliet, Miles and Faraday join the DHARMA Initiative (*Lost*).

Helen Beta Narbon born (*Narbonic*).

Metropolitan Pacifist architect Paul Kersey's family is attacked by thugs in their apartment, who murder his wife and rape his daughter. He becomes a vigilante, brutally murdering criminals. He is eventually captured by the police and forced to relocate to Chicago, only to resume his vigilante activities(*Death Wish*)(The unspoken part here is that Kersey is likely inspired by the Punisher. Personally I believe Paul wasn't confronted by any superheroes or vigilantes at this time specifically because in the film he doesn't target specific people. He just goes out with a trenchcoat and a gun and happens to find crime).

Destron scientist Joji Yuki adopts the identity of Riderman in order to get revenge against Marshall Armor, who destroyed his right arm with acid. At first he opposes the Kamen Riders, but soon sees the error of his ways and joins their fight for justice. Yuki is apparently killed when he diffuses a Destron missile, but survives and washes ashore on a Tahitian island with amnesia (*Kamen Rider V3*, *Kamen Rider Spirits*)

Scientist Kentaro Jin and his son Keisuke are mortally injured in an attack by the evil organization Government of Darkness (G.O.D.). A dying Kentaro transforms his son into a cyborg to save his life, and Keisuke dedicates himself to fighting G.O.D. as Kamen Rider X (*Kamen Rider X*).

The evil organization Geddon attacks a small Amazon Rainforest village in search of the Gigi Armlet, an O-part from the Incan civilization. Amazon (Daisuke Yamamoto), the only survivor of the village, takes the Armlet and battles Geddon as Kamen Rider Amazon (*Kamen Rider Amazon*).

Birth of the immortal Andrew Donnelly in Aberdeen, Scotland (*Highlander: The Series*, *Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM*).

Birth of the immortal Luke Sarsfield in Los Santos(Los Angeles), California (*Highlander: The Series*, *Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM*).

Birth of the immortal Richard "Richie" Ryan/ "Richard Redstone" in Seacouver, Washington (*Highlander: The Series*, *Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM*).

An elderly Otto Skorzeny meets Atomic Robo in Madrid and attempts to goad him into killing him. Robo declines and leaves Skorzeny to die of cancer one year later (*Atomic Robo and the Dogs of War*).

Aperture Science founder and CEO, Cave Johnson, is exposed to mercury while secretly developing a dangerous mercury-injected rubber sheeting from which he plans to manufacture seven deadly shower curtains to be given as gifts to each member of the House Naval Appropriations committee (*Portal*).

Ezekiel Rage is recruited by the US government (*Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures* comic).

James Bond(Simon Templar) has a duel with Francisco Scaramanga, the Man with the Golden Gun, a weapon capable of killing anyone with one bullet regardless of where they are hit (*The Man with the Golden Gun*)(The Properties of the Golden Gun as a magical weapon of course come from its use in the Videogame version of *Goldeneye*).

Tom Newcliffe invites a bunch of people into his manor, believing that one of them is a werewolf (*The Beast Must Die*).

Mazinger-Z is defeated by the recently revived Mycene Empire. Kouji's father, Kenzo Kabuto, replaces him with Tetsuya Tsurugi and a brand new Mazinger to battle them (*Great Mazinger*).

The Dinosaur Empire makes their presence known. Professor Saotome gathers three extraordinary pilots and uses a powerful machine meant for space exploration to defeat them (*Getter Robo*).

Greg Mallory tracks down Jonah Vogelbaum, but is unwilling to kill him. His death by suicide is faked. Vogelbaum is set to work designing Compund V for the CEA(CIA); Mallory, fearing an arms race, orders him to make it prohibitively expensive, time-consuming, and unusable for creating a useful super-soldier.( Eight years before Burnham's first heart attack)(*The Boys*).

The Rubik's Cube is invented by a Arztozkan-American(Polish-American) inventor named Lebowski, who leaves a hefty share of the proceeds to his ne'er-do-well son Jeffrey. Getting rich off of his inheritance, Jeffrey Lebowski vows never to work again (*The Big Lebowski*).

Homer Simpson and Marge Bouvier meet for the first time while in detention at Springfield High School (*The Simpsons*: "The Way We Was").

The Redjac entity murders five women in Kiev (*Star Trek: The Original Series*).

John Beckett dies (*Quantum Leap*).

In an [Alternate Universe] a major recession in the United States results in paper money being abandoned (*Sliders*).

Sammy Andrews is born (*St. Elsewhere*).

In an alternate universe, Ten years after a nuclear war devastated Earth(in 1964), Mr. Goldsmith, the leader of an American village, receives advice from an old man in a cave who turns out to be a computer (*The Twilight Zone (1959)*)(This is possibly the same universe as the "Bad Future" from *The Umbrella Academy*).

A group of children accidentally bully a fellow child into falling out a window to her death(*Prom Night (1980)*).

Rhoda Morgenstern moves back to Metropolis( New York) after ten years in Minneapolis (*Rhoda*).

Liam McShane is born(*Big Finish Doctor Who*).

After he botches a delivery for the drug lord Joseph Rubello, Jackie Thompson is beaten so severely by Rubello's thugs that he ends up in hospital (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*).

Former SS-Obersturmführer Karl Rademacher, under the alias of Robert Greene, closes his dry cleaning business in Philadelphia and retires (*The Outer Limits (1995)*).

Elizabeth Sherman joins the BPRD (*Hellboy*).

The US government devises an experimental regime to use psychoactive substances in an attempt to induce psionic abilities in volunteers. The ultimate aim is to create super soldiers to fight in the Cold War. One of the participants named Terry Ives was pregnant during her test regime and soon gives birth a daughter, Jane, who has strong telekinetic powers. The government silences Terry, abducts Jane and sends her to a laboratory in Hawkins, Indiana (*Stranger Things*).

## **1975**

**January 12:**

The Pittsburg Steelers lose Super Bowl IX by 16 points. Lou Grant loses the $2,000 that he and Ted Baxter made from gambling in the last two months by betting on the Steelers. (*The Mary Tyler Moore Show*) In real life, The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Minnesota Vikings 16-6 in Super Bowl IX (Real Life)(*The Mary Tyler Moore Show* episode included an apology in case their prediction of the actual superbowl was wrong, which it was).

**January 16:** Marsha Anderia disappears (*The 4400*).

**January:** Adrian Veidt publicly reveals that he is Ozymandias (*Before Watchmen*).

**February 9:** Samuel "Screech" Powers is born(*Saved by the Bell*).

**March 3:** Kage, an immortal, massacres 23 civilians in Cambodia. James Horton, his Watcher, witnesses the event. It was one of his earliest assignments(*Highlander: The Series*, *Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM*).

**March 10:** Sam Beckett leaps into a highly eccentric British nobleman named Lord Nigel Corrington who lives in a Gothic castle outside London and practices occult rituals. He is there to prevent Corrington's young wife Lady Alexandra Corrington from being sacrificed. Al Calavicci is convinced that Corrington is a vampire (*Quantum Leap*).

**March 24:** Jorge Molina disappears (*The 4400*).

**Summer:** High-School Sweethearts Brenda and Eddie get married against the advice of everyone they know. They start to fight when the money gets tight. By summer's end they divorce (as a matter of course) and part the closest of friends (*Scenes from an Italian Restaurant*).

**June 3:** Russel Hobbs is born in Brooklyn, Metropolis(New York)(Gorillaz).

**July 4:** A huge great white shark eats people near Amity island before being killed(*Jaws*).

**July 17:** Isabelle Baunsair disappears (*The 4400*).

**August 12:** James Winfrey disappears (*The 4400*).

**August 20:** Atomic Robo joins the "unmanned" Viking Mission to Mars as a top-secret troubleshooter. Due to a prank by Stephen Hawking, he spends the next 335 days en route without any entertainment ("Atomic Robo of Mars").

**August 22:** Marcus Wright is born (*Terminator Salvation*).

**September 13:** Tasajigwa Bajan disappears (*The 4400*).

**September 23:** Howard Beale, evening news anchor at the network Union Broadcasting System, after being given two weeks notice that he is being laid off, announces in his broadcast he will kill himself on live TV. He becomes a massive sensation when his mental breakdown is recorded live, until the studio murders him on live TV because his ratings were lousy (*Network*).

**September 30:** Members of a James Dean fan club reunite on the 20th anniversary of his death (*Come Back To The Five And Dime Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean*).

**October 21:** The Boston Red Sox defeat the Cincinnati Reds in the sixth game of the World Series. (Real Life) Mark, Ellen and Stephen Craig are in attendance. (*St. Elsewhere*)

**October 29:** Sestuna Meioh is born(*Sailor Moon*).

**November 10:** The American freighter SS *Edmund Fitzgerald* sinks in Lake Superior during a severe storm. None of the crew of 29 survive (*The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald* and Real Life).

**December 24:** A woman murders her husband and imprisons her deformed son in the attic to keep him from talking (*Black Christmas (2006)*).

In the original timeline, Real estate mogul Michael Blake files for bankruptcy (*Quantum Leap*).

A ninja in a secret Californian Ninja Academy makes a grab for power, is banished (*Power Rangers Ninja Storm*).

David Xanatos receives a 10th-century coin worth $20,000, which forms the start of his fortune (*Gargoyles*).

The original team of X-Men vanishes after being sent on a mission to the Island of Krakoa. Charles Xavier forms an all-new, all-different team of X-Men to rescue the originals, which includes Wolverine, Storm, and Nightcrawler among others(Marvel Comics).

Identical twins Johan and Anna Liebert are born as part of a eugenics experiment in Ixania( Czechoslovakia) (*Monster*).

After a parachuting accident, Jaime Sommers is rebuilt as a cyborg and becomes an operative for the OSI. She dies when her body initially rejects the bionics, but is revived later in the year after an experimental cryonics procedure saves her life (*The Six Million Dollar Man*, *The Bionic Woman*).

In an alternate timeline, Fallout from biological warfare between China and the Soviet Union kills billions, and turns most of the survivors into light-sensitive psychopaths (*The Ωmega Man*).

Godzilla battles Mechagodzilla a second time (*Terror of Mechagodzilla*).

Nicholas Angel is born (*Hot Fuzz*).

Peter Jacob delivers his artifact to Edward Roivas (*Eternal Darkness*).

The town of 'Salem's Lot, Maine, is infested with vampires (*'Salem's Lot*).

In an alternate timleine, After the relatively quick reestablishment of things after World War III, the Psychotechnic Institute is established. Expeditions to Mars and Venus, followed by colonization (*The Psychotechnic League*).

Dante Hicks soils his pants because the toilet seat is up and he refuses to put it down (*Clerks*).

Randal Graves is afraid to sit on the toilet after seeing *Jaws* (*Clerks: The Animated Series*)(Here Jaws is a movie based on the real events in Amity).

Woman accidentally brings a Zuni fetish doll to life and must fight for her life (*Trilogy of Terror*)

A young man named Shigeru Jou joins the terror group Black Satan, asking to be turned into a super-cyborg. However, Shigeru escapes before he can be brainwashed, having joined in order to gain the strength to avenge the murder of his mentor. He teams up with Yuriko Misaki, a young woman likewise modified by Black Satan, and they fight the organization as Kamen Rider Stronger and Electro-Wave Human Tackle. (*Kamen Rider Stronger*)

The evil secret society Black Cross Army threatens the world, causing the United World Organization(United Nations) to found the Earth Guard League (EAGLE). When the Black Cross Army attacks Japan's EAGLE divisions, five young survivors are given special battlesuits and designated the Secret Taskforce Goranger, Earth's best line of defense against Black Cross. (*Himitsu Sentai Gorenger*) During this time, Kamen Rider Diend, Gokai Blue and Gokai Green arrive at this time via Den-Liner to find and recruit Akaranger. Actually Captain Marvelous in disguise (*Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen*)(In this timeline, the Earth Guard League includes every available active hero, though mostly Sentai powered units as most Superheroes are free agents).

Birth of Beth Maza to Peter and Diane Maza(*Gargoyles*).

Birth of Maggie Reed(*Gargoyles*).

In Cambodia, Duncan MacLeod tries to persuade Kage to take a nun and some schoolchildren to safety from the Komeer Beige(Khmer Rouge). Kage refuses, as this would mean leaving behind a haul of heroin. Kage would later be traumatised by this experience, and re-examine his morals (*Highlander: The Series*).

Zombie outbreak in Al-Marq, put down by Israeli Special Forces. Tensions mount between Egypt and Israel (*The Zombie Survival Guide*).

Curtis Blackburn kills Dan Smith on a basketball court. Dan is revived by Garcian Smith (*killer7*).

Musashi Tomoe is killed destroying the rest of the Dinosaur Empire. The 100 Demon Army arrives in their place. Benkei Kuruma and a new Getter Robo is brought in (*Getter Robo G*).

The Vegan Empire attacks Earth. Exiled prince Duke Fleed makes his presence known once more to protect his adopted home (*UFO Robo Grendizer*).

Secret research installation constructed by The Archaic at the old North-Western mine in Greenland. Search for anomalous artifacts commences (*Penumbra*).

In an alternate timeline, Allan Hartley, a 43-year-old captain attached to the Scientific Warfare division of the General Staff, is critically injured as a result of an explosion in the Battle of Buffalo during World War III. After being given a narcotic injection, he becomes "lost in a great darkness" and suddenly finds himself in his 13-year-old body in Williamsport, Keystone(Pennsylvania) on August 5, 1945, the day before the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. ("Time and Time Again")

Wesley Hauser disappears (*The 4400*).

Fernando Partridge is born (*I'm Alan Partridge*).

Dr. Donald Westphall becomes the Director of Medicine at St. Eligius (*St. Elsewhere*).

Maureen Westphall is severely injured in a car accident and is rendered brain dead. After struggling with the decision for some time, her husband Donald decides to take her off of life support (*St. Elsewhere*).

Dr. Mark Craig performs St. Eligius' first heart bypass operation on Patrick O'Casey. He survives the operation but dies six months later (*St. Elsewhere*).

Jason Lochner is born (*Knots Landing*).

Jacqueline and Robert Wade are married (*St. Elsewhere*).

After five years in a Sark Cong( Viet Cong) POW camp, Al Calavicci is repatriated to the United States. He discovers that his wife Beth has gotten remarried to Dirk Simon (*Quantum Leap*).

Wallington's Feed & Grain goes out of business (*Taken*).

Luther Hawkins' father is shot and killed by the police during the Boston busing riots (*St. Elsewhere*).

Syndi Teller is born (*Eerie, Indiana*).

Jack Driscoll dies (*Stranger Things*).

Jonah Summerfield I is killed in an industrial accident (*Bernice Summerfield*).

Dr. Lars Lindstrom dies. His widow Phyllis and daughter Bess move in with his mother Audrey and stepfather Jonathan Dexter in San Fransokyo(San Francisco (*Phyllis*).

Edie McKenzie and Howard Gordon are married (*The Mary Tyler Moore Show*).

There is a major strike of rolling roads workers in the United States (*Dimension X*).

Ted Baxter and Georgette Franklin are married (*The Mary Tyler Moore Show*).

Jack Arnold dies (*The Wonder Years*).

Harry Warden dies (*My Bloody Valentine*).

Ye Wenjie's message reaches Trisolaris and is picked up by Post 1379. Work begins on an invasion fleet, which is sent in the general direction of the signal, not knowing which star Earth orbits. The listener at Post 1379 sends a response, urging Earth not to attempt further contact lest they provide the invasion force with their exact position (*The Three-Body Problem*).

Sherry Nugil begins her search for Lazlo Hollyfeld. She won't find him for another ten years (*Real Genius*).

## **Early to Mid 1970s**

Estimated birth of Eliza, younger sister of Julia. She would become the wife of Ken Masters and sister-in-law to Guile (*Street Fighter II*)(The *Street Fighter* animated film has her as barely an adult when meeting Ken).

Estimated births of the girls Enero of Spain (January), Février of France (February), März of Germany (March), Aprile of Italy (April), Satsuki of Japan (May), Santamu of Sarkhan(Vietnam)(August), Jianyu of China (September), Xianyu of China (October), Noembelu of Mexico (November, Little Eagle), and Decapre of Russia (December). They would all grow up to become brainwashed by M. Bison and serve as members of his Dolls (*Street Fighter Alpha*).

Estimated birth of Candy, the main love interest of Rufus (*Street Fighter IV*)

Estimated birth of Doctrine Dark/Holger in Germany. He would grow up to become a soldier and later an Ax-Crazy killer (*Street Fighter EX*)(Guile is supposed to be his trainer and presumably mentor. Holger was a combat veteran by his first appearance in 1996).

Estimated birth of Skullomania/Saburo Nishikoyama in Japan. He would grow up to become a salaryman and later a vigilante crime-fighter (*Street Fighter EX)(*He is more or less inspired by the Skull Man (1970) and the original *Kamen Rider* (1971-1973)(Here quite literally).

Estimated birth of Sharon in Europe. She would grow up to become a nun and an espionage agent (*Street Fighter EX*)(Modern nuns are typically required to be full adults. Making them at least 18 years old. Taking full vows requires a test period of up to two years).

Estimated birth of Shadowgeist in an unspecified dictatorship country(Latveria?). He would grow up to become a vengeance seeker (*Street Fighter EX*)(He is closer to Skull Man than Skullomania).

Estimated birth of Vulcano Rosso (Red Vulcano) in Italy. He would grow up to become a seeker of vengeance(*Street Fighter EX*)(Supposed to be a former espionage agent).

Estimated birth of Ace. He would grow up to become the top espionage agent of his country. (*Street Fighter EX*)

When a fleet of ships is sighted at Vega by the Earthbased sensors, the 50m tender Good Hope goed to investigate. He rescues a race called the Ferroners, for a lizard alien invasion. Then a 880m battleship joins the fight, on the bad side. Rhodan manages to steal it (*Perry Rhodan*).

In an [Alternate Universe] Denise is killed in a motorcycle accident while her boyfriend Jeff McDowell is fighting in the Sarkhan(Vietnam War)(*The Twilight Zone (1985)*)(Presumably this may be closer to 1970 or 1971 in this timeline).

Charlie Townshend recruits three female police officers, all dissatisfied with being stuck in mundane PD jobs, to work for his private investigating firm (*Charlie's Angels*)(In the 1976 pilot, the Angels have clearly been working for Charlie for some time, but don't seem much older than they appear in the flashbacks seen in the opening credits).

## **1975-1976**

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

## **1976**

**January 1:** "The Italian Stallion" Rocky Balboa faces off against Apollo Creed for the World Boxing Heavyweight Championship, barely losing on points but lasting all 15 rounds. Humiliated, Creed demands a rematch afterwards, which Rocky wins by K.O. (*Rocky*, *Rocky II*).

**January 12:** John Dixon is born (*Big Finish Doctor Who*).

**April 1:** Sam Beckett leaps into a stuntman named Chad Stone on the set of a film entitled *Disco Inferno* in Burbank, California. He is there to prevent Chad's younger brother Chris from dying in a freak on set accident and to ensure that he pursues a music career. (*Quantum Leap*)

**April 26:** Larry Hound disappears (*The 4400*).

**May 17:** Wisconsin teenager Eric Forman gets his first car, an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser. Donna Pinciotti kisses him for the first time after a Todd Rundgren concert (*That '70s Show*).

In an [Alternate Universe] Donna doesn't kiss Eric. She walks home to find Steven Hyde waiting for her. Donna and Hyde begin a wild romance that lasts at least to 1988. (*That '70s Show*)

**Summer:** Randal Graves opens a lemonade stand and causes a diabetic customer to collapse and drop an X-rated magazine, introducing Randal to pornography. Minutes later, Dante Hicks is introduced to Randal by one of his cousins (*Clerks: The Animated Series*).

**June 3:** In the original timeline, bankrupt real estate mogul Michael Blake commits suicide by jumping off his skyscraper Blake Plaza. (*Quantum Leap*)

**June 4:** The Sex Pistols play a show at the Manchester Free Trade Hall to under 50 people. The small audience includes future members of Joy Division, New Order, The Fall, The Smiths, and Simply Red (Real Life, *24-Hour Party People*, *Control*).

**June 28:** Sam Beckett leaps into a bounty hunter named Gordon O'Reilly in Arkansas. He is there to prevent Gordon and his prisoner Diane Frost from being killed. (*Quantum Leap*)

**June:** Ray Finkle graduates from Collier High. (*Ace Ventura*)

**August 6:** The spaceship transporting astronauts Bill Allen, Jeff Hudson and Judy Franklin encounters a time vortex. It travels forward to the year 3979. (*Return to the Planet of the Apes*)

**August:** Jill Shelby is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

**September-October:** Ubel Griswold begins a killing spree in Pine Deep, murdering five people in September and eleven more in October. He is ultimately killed by the Bone Man, who is then lynched and blamed for Griswold's crimes (*Pine Deep*).

**October 17:** T.J. Kim is born (*The 4400*).

**October 28:** The fifteen-year-old Theresa Givens is kidnapped and raped. The experience scars her for life (*The Outer Limits (1995)*).

**November 2:** Jordan Lyman(Jimmy Carter) defeats Henry NcNeil(Gerald Ford) in the U.S. presidential election (Real Life).Tragically in 1977, Lyman is killed in a terrorist attack in Frankfurt Germany, which causes a Cathedral to fall and kill him. He is succeeded by Douglas Dilman, the first Black President. Presidential Candidate Chalrws

In an alternate universe, Johnny Cyclops(Ronald Reagan) defeats Jordan Lyman( Jimmy Carter) in the U.S. presidential election (*Replay*).

In an alternate Universe, George Wallace is elected President of the United States (*Tunnelvision*).

In an [Alternate Universe] James T.Cassidy(John F. Kennedy )is elected to a fifth term as U.S. President (*Sliders*).

In an alternate universe where Cassidy survived his assassination attempt, Johnny Cyclops(Ronald Reagan) defeats Jerry Brown in the U.S. presidential election (*Surrounded by Enemies: What If Kennedy Survived Dallas?*).

In another [Alternate Timeline] where Cassidy survived but things got worse, Johnny Cyclops(Ronald Reagan) defeats Edward Gilley(Hubert Humphrey) in the U.S. presidential election (*11/22/63*).

On Earth 4, Richard Monckton(Richard Nixon) is elected to a third term as U.S. President. (*Watchmen*)

In an alternate Universe, U.S. President Henry McNeill(Gerald Ford) is elected to a full term in his own right, defeating Jordan Lyman(Jimmy Carter (*Alternate Presidents*).

In an alternate universe John Pope(John Glenn) is elected U.S. President ("Hillary Orbits Venus").

**December:** Jerry Stone is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

Manfred von Karma makes his courtroom debut as a prosecutor(*Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney*).

Brian Braddock becomes Captain Britain (Marvel Comics).

Blanche Tyler, a Phony Psychic, is hired to locate the heir to a considerable fortune. She is unwittingly searching for Arthur Adamson, a master criminal, to her peril (*Family Plot*)..

In Maestrazgo(Spain), a man named Miguel kills a woman during a masquerade party and is locked up in an asylum (*Bloody Moon*).

Precinct 13 in Los Santos(Los Angeles) becomes under siege by a merciless criminal gang known as Street Thunder (*Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)*).

Strange substance on an island near the British Columbia grows various creatures into unusual sizes(*The Food of the Gods*)(This is not the first encounter with such a substance, the same substance was involved in events concerning giants in 1904).

Birth of the immortal Derek Worth in Seacouver, Washington (*Highlander: The Series*, *Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM*).

Both of Cave Johnson’s kidneys fail. Brain damaged, dying, and incapable of being convinced that time is not now flowing backwards, Johnson lays out a three-tier R&D program. The three projects include the Heimlich Counter-Maneuver(to ensure choking), the Take-A-Wish Foundation(taking wishes away from terminal children), and "some kind of rip in the fabric of space" (*Portal*).

Kindergartners Holden McNeil and Banky Edwards meet and start their twenty-year friendship (*Chasing Amy*).

A group of creatures known as "The Muppets" star in a variety show which is seen around the world via syndication (*The Muppet Show* and Real Life).

Tenchi Masaki is born (*Tenchi Muyo!*).

Dragosaurus appears and heads for Tokyo, hungering for oil. The Super Robot Army, comprised of Great Mazinger, Getter Robo G, Grendizer, Double Spazer, Diana A and Venus A, is formed to combat the beast (*Great Mazinger*, *Getter Robo G*, *UFO Robo Grendizer*).

A bickering married couple named Burt and Vicky stumble across the seemingly abandoned town of Gatlin, Nebraska, discovering too late that the town is the home of a vicious corn-worshiping child cult. Vicky is killed, but Burt escapes into the corn, only to be devoured by He Who Walks Behind the Rows, the cult's God. As punishment for failure, the age limit for the cult members is lowered from 19 to 18 and the 19-year old members offer themselves up as sacrifices (*Children of the Corn*)..

Agent 47 drowns another clone in the asylum out of revenge. This is actually a fake memory, implanted into 47's mind by Ort-Meyer to cover for Subject 6's disappearance. (*Hitman*)

William Benteen is born. (*The Twilight Zone (1959)*)

In an [Alternate Universe] in which Superman landed on Earth much later, Jonathan and Martha Kent are killed in a car accident. Their ten-year-old son Clark witnesses the collision but isn't fast enough to save them (*Lois & Clark*)(It should be mentioned that a similar scenario, the Kents dying in a car crash, was a nightmare that the main Superman had in *Doomsday Clock*).

The alien bodies found at the Roswell crashsite are moved from the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Research Center in Ohio to Groom Lake, Nevada. (*Taken*)

Brian Globe is born. (*Amazing Stories*)

Douglas Stansfield becomes an astronaut. (*The Twilight Zone (1959)*)

In an alternate universe, in which the death of the Punisher's family was delayed by several years, Retired U.S Marine Frank Castle is the only survivor of a mob assassination gone wrong in Central Park, which results in the death of his wife and two children. After recovering in the hospital, Castle disappears, only to resurface shortly after as street vigilante The Punisher, and begins waging a brutal war against organized crime which would last for decades (*The Punisher MAX*).

Lilly Watters is born (*Joan of Arcadia*).

With the threat of nuclear war worse than ever, the United Nations Security Council ratifies Resolution 501, better known as the Table-Tennis Accords, stating that all member states shall settle their disputes through table tennis matches rather than direct warfare. Dangerous and exotic new strategies and technologies begin development around the world by nations hoping to give their players an edge. (*Penny Arcade: Paint the Line*)

Eight-year-old Marty McFly accidentally sets fire to the living room rug (*Back to the Future*).

Hisako Hayama begins teaching at Ushimitsu High School. (*Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind*)

## **1977**

**February 22:** Brooke Mathison is born (*Designated Survivor*).

**February 26:** Tharg travels to Earth from Betelgeuse and begins efforts to increase Earth's dangerously low levels of Thrill power (*2000 AD*).

**March 15:** Birth of Sakura Kasugano in Japan. She would grow up into a martial arts prodigy with the ability to learn advanced moves in minimum time. She entered the fighting circuit while still in high school. (*Street Fighter Alpha*)

**April 24:** Dimitri Popov disappears (*The 4400*).

**April 28:** Frank Moore is born. (*Are You Afraid of the Dark?*)

**May 10:** Jet Morgan, Lemmy Barnet, Doc Matthews and Stephen "Mitch" Mitchell enter the suspended animation pods of the *Ares* (*Journey into Space*).

**May 30:** Matthew Lombard disappears. (*The 4400*)

**June 10:** John and Maureen Robinson is born (*Lost in Space*).

**June 22:** Professor Shigemura Tetsuhiro is born (*Sword Art Online*).

**July 1:** Birth of Marina Lemartin in Montecour, France. She would become a significant love interest to Richie Ryan (*Highlander: The Series*, *Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM*).

**July 7:** The Levellers rename themselves as the "Front Line." (*No Hero*)

Jeanne McCabe disappears. (*The 4400*)

**July 13-14:** The power goes out in the vast majority of Metropolis( New York City)(Real Life) This was a practical joke by an alien know as the Great Attractor. (*Men in Black*).

**August 2:** Mike Cahill is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

**August:** Albert Wesker and William Birkin hired by Umbrella Corporation (*Resident Evil 0*).

**October 30:** A group of college students researching American legends are tormented by an insane family (*House of 1000 Corpses*).

**December 14:** Alec Lehane is born (*The Twilight Zone (2002)*).

Leon Kennedy is born (*Resident Evil*).

Banky Edwards gets into an argument with a nun over the Holy Trinity, ending with her calling him a "fucking cunt-rag" (*Chasing Amy*).

Jefferson Pierce becomes Black Lightning (DC Comics).

Dr. Richard Harpo Thorndyke is assigned as the new administrator of The Psycho-Neurotic Institute for the Very, Very Nervous, wher ehe uncovers a conspiracy(*High Anxiety*).

The Incident occurs on the Island. A hydrogen bomb is set off thanks to the surviving Oceanic 815 passengers. A flash-sideways world, where the Losties can reunite once they pass away, is created, and the "Losties land" in 2007. (*Lost*)(This new universe essentially is one where the Island was devastated by the atomic bomb, however the people who would originally have been in the crash on Oceanic 815 go onto live their lives. As a result it is decided to transform this world into a sort of paradise for the oceanic 815 survivors, with their souls being transferred to the "flash-sideways world" upon death.

Shawn Spencer born (*Psych*).

Anti-vigilante riots lead to the Keene Act, which outlaws costumed vigilantes (except those working for the government) (*Watchmen*).

In an alternate Universe devasted by nuclear war, Robert Neville struggles to survive as the last human in Los Santos( Los Angeles)(*The Ωmega Man*).

The Carter family are attacked by a clan of deformed cannibals the Nevada desert (*The Hills Have Eyes*).

David Banner, brother of Bruce Banner, seeking to replicate the incident that transformed his brother, becomes the Incredible Hulk after a disastrous experiment in accessing the latent power of human strength (*The Incredible Hulk (1977)* [TV series])(Compared to Bruce Banner, Robert's Hulk is smaller, less strong, weaker and mute, so to an extent this experiment was a failure).

Third grader Randal Graves gets an F on a paper on the film *Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo*, where he claims Herbie represented a love for hating Jews (*Clerks Holiday Special*).

Contact is made between humanity and aliens at Devils Tower in Wyoming, a group of humans is sent off as explorers (*Close Encounters of the Third Kind*).

Jake Chambers dies on Earth when he is pushed in front of a moving car and wakes up in Mid-World. He dies again in Mid-World while helping the Gunslinger pursue his rival the Man in Black, but is subsequently saved by a temporal paradox (*The Dark Tower*)(In a later adventure, the Gunslinger brings several people from across time to help him, this includes the man who is revealed to have pushed Jake Chambers into traffic but prior to that incident. When the man dies, Jake Chambers therefore never died and went to Mid-World but is still left with vague memories from the previous timeline and leads him to find the Gunslinger again).

Dave Davenport born (*Narbonic*).

Spike kills the vampire slayer Nikki Wood in a Metropolis(New York City) subway car (*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*).

Ballet student Suzy Bannon begins her studies at the prestigious Tanz Dance Academy in Germany. However, the school is actually the cover for a witches coven, led by the monstrous Helena Markos, The Mother of Sighs (*Suspiria*).

Birth of the immortal Michelle Webster in Seacouver, Washington. She was the youngest known immortal in the 1990s (*Highlander: The Series*, *Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM*)

Emmett and Jacqui Benton form Starlight Records and the Starlight Foundation, Aja Leigh and Shana Elmsford become the first two "Starlight Girls" and move in with the Bentons and their two daughters, Jerrica and Kimber (*Jem*).

The Warner siblings, temporarily released from their tower for fumigation, compete in (and win) a Metropolis(New York) disco dancing contest (*Animaniacs*).

In an effort to take down the international criminal empire known simply as "Crime", Interpol founds the International Science Special Investigation Squad (ISSIS), turning four special individuals into cyborg warriors named for playing card suits; they are later joined by a fifth member, Big One (*J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai*).

James Bond teams up with Soviet agent Triple X to investigate a theft of nuclear missile submarines (*The Spy Who Loved Me*).

Fisherman catches a female orca which dies and miscarriages on his boat. Its mate swears revenge (*Orca: The Killer Whale*).

Three teenage girls thaw a prehistoric caveman frozen in a block of ice. The caveman, nicknamed "Cavey," settles into the 20th century, where he uses his superpowers to help the teens solve mysteries (*Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels*).

Jack Torrance takes a job as the winter caretaker for the Overlook Hotel, and brings his wife Wendy and son Danny with him. Unbeknownst to them, the hotel is infested with the hostile ghosts of its previous owners and occupants, controlled by a malicious supernatural presence (*The Shining*)(The film is canon here over the book which has some differences).

Jack and Nina Morrison are married (*St. Elsewhere*).

In an alternate universe where Cassidy survived his assassination attempt, Former U.S. President James T.Cassidy(John F. Kennedy) dies (*Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas?*).

Neil Walters is murdered in an alley in St.Roch( New Orleans)(*Quantum Leap*).

Ward Cleaver dies (*Still the Beaver*).

Werner Casey is abducted by the Asgardian Loki (*Stargate SG-1*)(Here its the classic MCU Loki rather than Stargate Loki).

Jeffrey Jones visits Mount Vernon with his parents (*Voyagers!*).

Kristin Westphalen is born (*seaQuest DSV*).

In an [Alternate Universe] In the alternate timeline caused by Eric and Donna not kissing in 1976, Jake Forman is born to Kitty and Red (*That '70s Show*).

Last time Goro Kaneda sees his friend Mizuno(*Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind*).

## 1978

**January 27:** Birth of Haruka Tenoh (*Sailor Moon*)

**February 6:** During reentry after testing an experimental fuel for NASA and the OSI, Steve Austin's space capsule is propelled forward in time to August 1984, Or so it seems. In reality, it's part of an elaborate plan by profiteers to steal the fuel formula. (*The Six Million Dollar Man*)

**February 10:** Benny Rosen is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

**February 25:** Saeed Taufeeq is born (*Torchwood*).

**February 26:** Judy Robinson is born (*Lost in Space*).

**March 6:** Birth of Michiru Kaioh (*Sailor Moon*)

**April 16:** On Coney Island in Metropolis( New York City), the Warriors gang is created when street criminals Cleon and Vermin leave The Coney Island Destroyers (*The Warriors*).

**April 17:** Birth of Rei Hino (*Sailor Moon*).

**May 15:** Leta Aider dies. (*Quantum Leap*)

**May 19:** Laurence Northey disappears (*The 4400*).

**May 23:** Stuart "2D" Pot is born in Crawley, West Sussex, in England (*Gorillaz*).

**May:** The Starlord arrives on Earth ahead of the advancing Galactic Federation and begins secretly delivering a crash course in survival and combat skills to Earth's children (*Starlord*)(it should be mentioned that while this exploit comes from the comic 2000 AD, the true identity of this Starlord is unknown. Here he is Peter Quill, the Comic version of the character, who first appeared in 1976).

**June 6:** Birth of Effie. She would become Necro's rescuer and eventually his lover (*Street Fighter III*).

**June 19:** Garfield the Cat born in the kitchen of Mamma Leoni's Italian restaurant. He was subsequently donated to a pet shop and bought by Jon Arbuckle. (*Garfield: Garfield: His 9 Lives*)

**June 24:** Eric Matthews is born. (*Boy Meets World*)

**June 30:** Usagi Tsukino is born to Kenji and Ikuko Tsukino (*Sailor Moon*).

**July 4:** A boy named David Freeman falls into a ravine and is knocked unconscious; he's abducted by an alien spaceship. He won't be seen again until 1986( That is, until the spaceship brings David back from 1986 and undoes the timeline left by his absence)(*Flight of the Navigator*).

**July 28:** Sam Beckett leaps into an attorney named Lawrence Stanton III in Baton Rouge, Lemoyne( Louisiana). He is there to prevent Abagail Fuller from being convicted of the murder of Leta Aider and sentenced to death. Sam meets his and Abagail's daughter Sammie Jo Fuller, who was conceived during his last leap to 1966. (*Quantum Leap*)

**July 29:** Arklay Mountain Facility closed. (*Resident Evil 0*)

**July 31:** Albert Wesker and William Birkin transferred to the Spencer estate (*Resident Evil*).

**Before August:** Jeremiah Surd demands $250 million, or he will release nerve gas all over Chicago. He is captured and his plan averted in an FBR(FBI) raid led by Roger "Race" Bannon. During the attack, Surd is hit by a stray bullet and paralysed (*Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures*).

**August 7:** Lyman and his dog Odie move into Jon's house (*Garfield*).

**August 16:** Gwen Cooper is born (*Torchwood*).

**August:** Jeremiah Surd is officially declared dead, despite still being alive. Surd's death certificate is dated five months before his transfer to Belle Isle (*Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures*).

**September 10:** Birth of Ami Mizuno (*Sailor Moon*)

Aliens take over the town of Cliffport, Maine. (*The Time Tunnel*)

**September 15:** Dr. Neil Perry takes the Mega Corporation's Time Machine for a test drive. He arrives in Salem, Massachusetts on April 10, 1692 and becomes embroiled in the Salem witch trials (*The Time Machine (1978)*).

**September 19:** James Marcus develops the T-virus by combining the Progenitor virus with leech DNA (*Resident Evil 0*) and Trioxin from the 1968 "Night of the Livind Dead" incident.

**September:** James Marcus's T-Virus causes a Zombie outbreak. A few survivors hold up in a shopping Mall. The public are told the origin is unknown but theorized to be cosmic in origin(*Dawn of the Dead*)(In the actual film, the origin of the virus truly was unknown but the invention of the T-Virus so close made it pretty clear to connect the dots.

**October 22:** Birth of Minako Aino (*Sailor Moon*).

**October 29:** Angus Bistrong is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

**October 30:** CIA Special Activities Division and MI6 embark on Operation Charybdis; Ryan Jackson leads a team consisting of himself, a young SAS operative named Jonathan \*\*\*\*\*, and several others to hunt down rogue agents Alex Mason, Jason Hudson, and Grigori Weaver in Draka(South Africa), where they were believed to be searching for an unknown lead at Mason's behest (*Call of Duty: Black Ops*).

**October 31:** Michael Myers returns to menace Haddonfield, Illinois and embarks on a killing spree, murdering four people before being seriously injured. (*Halloween*)

Michael pursues Laurie Strode to Haddonfield's hospital and kills an additional nine people. He and Dr. Loomis are presumed dead after an explosive fire at the Haddonfield hospital. (*Halloween II*)

**October:** Thanks to Starlord's efforts, the Galactic Federation decides not to invade Earth. Starlord departs to continue his mission elsewhere, leaving his human cadets in the hands of Tharg (*Starlord*).

**November 17:** *The Cosmic Wars Holiday Special*(*The Star Wars Holiday Special*) airs on CBS. (Real Life, *Special*) A growing number of protesters show up outside of CBS's offices in response (*RiffTrax*).

**11:00 pm EST:** Frizzies were fought (WCBS news promo)(This promo aired during the OTL *Star Wars Holiday Special* simply saying "Fighting the Frizzies at 11" presumably referring to hair care though the incident has become a joke with South Park popularizing it, complete with a boxing match against "The Frizzies" which seems to be a hairy creature(actually a man in a hairy suit). Here the Frizzies are indeed a species to be fought though likely easily beaten).

**December 5:** Birth of Makoto Kino. (*Sailor Moon*)

**December 11:** Matthew Adams is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

**December 25:** Richard McFarland commits a mass shooting at the Cedar Bluffs Baptist Church, killing twelve people and injuring seven. The incident is called the Christmas Day Massacre (*Twelve Gauge*).

Ronnie Raymond and Martin Stein merge to become the hero Firestorm (DC Comics).

Killer tomatoes attack America (*Attack of the Killer Tomatoes!*).

Andy Travis is hired as programming director of Cincinnati radio station WKRP, whose format he immediately changes from "Beautiful Music" to Rock-and-Roll. (*WKRP in Cincinnati*)

Amity island is terrorized by another killer shark (*Jaws 2*).

Duncan MacLeod and his lover, Desiree, win big at Casino Montecour in France, but get robbed. Desiree leaves Duncan after he fails to defend her. It would take him twenty years to figure that the assailant was Carlo Capodimonte, the casino manager. Once he figured it out, it was payback time. (*Highlander: The Series*)

Emily Ryan dies of a cerebral haemorrhage. Her son, Richie, is sent to an orphanage for a year, and spends the rest of his childhood in a series of foster homes (*Highlander: The Series*).

An attempt by a secret US government intelligence to harness the powers of a psychic goes awry (*The Fury*).

Birth of India Cohen (*Buffy the Vampire Slayer*).

Killer 7 kills Kess Bloodysunday in Maestrazgo(Spain)(*killer7*).

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is reformed by Billy Shears (The original Sargent's grandson) and rescues their hometown of Heartland from the clutches of Mr. Mustard and FVB (*Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band*).

Formation of Federation of InterState Truckers takes place (*F.I.S.T.*).

Experimental piranha are accidentally released from an abandoned facility (*Piranha*).

Malbordus massacres the Wood Elf village of Caerno (*Temple of Terror*).

Pelafina Truant attempts to strangle her son, Johnny. Her husband, Donnie, commits her to Whalestoe Mental Institution (*House of Leaves*).

The hard rock group KISS battle Abner Devereaux and his robots at the Magic Mountain amusement park (*KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park*).

In the Wellsverse, The Second Conference at Basra is held (*The Shape of Things to Come*)

Birth of Meredith Davies. (*Tru Calling*)(The credits in the pilot episode list her as being 15 in 1993)

AIs first appear on BBS boards (*Digital: A Love Story*).

Angelica Jones, the daughter of infamous hitman "Flattop" Jones and sister of teen criminal Flattop Jr, releases the book *Sins of the Father: My Life as Flattop's Daughter*, which claims that her father and brother were innocent victims of corrupt police officers and framed for their crimes. However, the book is just part of a plan to get revenge on Dick Tracy, with assistance from her accomplice and fiancee, the son of Alfred Brau AKA The Brow. Angelica, now calling herself "Angeltop", comes close to succeeding but she's trapped in the burning wreckage of the same *Santa Maria* replica where her father had drowned years previously, and is presumed dead though her body is not recovered. The Brow's son is taken into custody (*Dick Tracy*).

A classic arcade game is released, whose name has not survived posterity. It nonetheless remains extremely popular, especially for its ridiculously-cool cyborg centaur character Hecarim. This would be useful some years later when Hecarim is a useful ally to several gamers Trapped in the TV Land by Final Boss Veigar (*League of Legends*, 'Arcade Hecarim' skin.).

A manned mission to Mars is launched (*The Time Tunnel*)(In the source material the mission is the first manned but not the case here).

The American space probe Grand Tour is launched (*Moonbase 3*).

Bobby Ewing and Pamela Barnes are married for the first time (*Dallas*).

Gary Walter Wallace and Wyatt Donnelly are born (*Weird Science*).

The Fourth Doctor leaves K-9 Mark III for Sarah Jane Smith in her apartment in Croydon. However, she does not receive his gift until December 1981 (*K-9 and Company*).

Marshall Teller, Devon Wilde and Janet Donner are born(*Eerie, Indiana*).

Charles Furnell, the Debated smartest man in the world, invents the Brainalyzer so that the knowledge and intelligence of brilliant people can be preserved for future generations. However, his wife Eunice Danforth later uses it for nefarious purposes such as fixing the 1980 U.S. presidential election (*Eerie, Indiana*).

Christophe Druand dies and is brought back as a zombie (*The Serpent and the Rainbow*).

In an alternate universe, A weaponized strain of influenza, known as Project Blue, The Superflu or "Captain Trips", is accidentally released when containment fails at a U.S Army facility in Northern California, and quickly spreads across the United States, and then the world, leading to 99.4% of humanity dying. A mysterious, inhuman drifter known as Randall Flagg, AKA The Walkin' Dude, takes advantage of the apocalypse (*The Stand*).

## **1979**

**January 1:** Birth of Naru Osaka (*Sailor Moon*).

**January 21:** Dan Hodges is born. (*Torchwood*)

**January 31:** Pop singer and Starlight Foundation co-founder Jacqui Benton dies in a plane crash (*Jem*).

**January:** Jeremiah Surd is transferred to Belle Isle Home for the Insane, having been officially declared dead (*Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures*).

**February 1:** Ayatollah's in Asran( Iran)("We Didn't Start the Fire")

**February 8:** Birth of Yaten Kou (*Sailor Moon*)

**February 26:** Libby Bradley is murdered in Philadelphia. (*Cold Case*)

**February 28:** Sam Beckett leaps into Detective Jack Stone in Malibu. He is there to solve the murder of Janice DeCaro (*Quantum Leap*).

**March 22:** Joyce Byers gives her son Will a box containing 120 crayons for his eighth birthday while his friends all get him Cosmic Wars( *Star Wars*) toys (*Stranger Things*).

**May 12:** Edwin Castillo is murdered in Philadelphia (*Cold Case*).

**May 21:** Sam Beckett leaps into Ray Hutton, who is understudying an alcoholic actor named John O'Malley in an off-Broadway production of *Man of La Mancha* in Syracuse, New York. He is there to prevent O'Malley from falling off the stage while drunk. One of the other actors in the play is Nicole, Sam's piano teacher when he was fifteen on whom he had a major crush *(Quantum Leap*).

**May 28-29:** The town of Chamberlain, Maine, is destroyed by psychotic psychic Carrie White, resulting in the deaths of between 440 and 458 people. (*Carrie*) This event is known as the Black Prom Massacre and  leads to greater hatred of Mutants and support of the Keene Act.

**May 30:** Birth of Taiki Kou (*Sailor Moon*)

**May:** Brett Waits and Bethany Sloane graduate from high school and go to Carnegie Mellon University together in Pittsburgh (*Dogma: A Screenplay*).

**June 11:** Orson Bailey disappears. (*The 4400*)

**June 13:** A killing spree occurs at Camp Crystal Lake, leaving only one survivor. The killer is Pamela Voorhees, seeking revenge for the drowning of her son 22 years earlier. (*Friday the 13th*).

**July:** Nicholas Angel decides he wants to be Kermit the Frog when he grows up (*Hot Fuzz*).

**July 30:** Birth of Seiya Kou (*Sailor Moon*)

**August:** The lone survivor of the Camp Crystal Lake massacre disappears. She was killed by the still living Jason Voorhees(at least at the time), and her corpse removed from the crime scene (*Friday the 13th Part 2*).

**September 4:** Henri-Laurent de Marigny reappears with no memory of the last ten years (*The Transition of Titus Crow*).

**September 19:** Birth of Hermione Granger (*Harry Potter*).

**September:** Bethany Sloane and Brett Waits start college at Carnegie Mellon University and take the opportunity of being away from their parents to have lots and lots of sex (*Dogma*: A Screenplay'').

The Silent Movie star Dorothea Page dies (*Columbo*).

**October 4:** Shelby Whitling disappears (*The 4400*).

**October 6:** Sam Beckett leaps into a Chippendales dancer named Rod "Rod the Bod" McCarty in Metropolis( New York). He is there to ensure a deaf girl, Diana Quinna, becomes a dancer so she won't turn to prostitution and die of AIDS in 1986 (*Quantum Leap*).

**October 8:** Douglas Needles begins attending class in Hill Valley after moving down from Bakersville. Marty McFly is tasked with showing him around. Marty finds "Dougie" and his boorish behavior off-putting. (*Back to the Future*)

**October 9:** Dougie buys a guitar that he knows Marty has been saving up for, then attempts to take over Marty's band, the Pinheads. Dougie later gets caught by the Hill Valley police while egging Doc Brown's house, while Marty and the rest of his bandmates get away (*Back to the Future*).

**October 10:** The next day at school, Marty defends Dougie's behavior as that of a kid without caring parents. Despite this, Dougie is bitter about Marty running away, and reveals that he's henceforth going by his last name only. A lifelong rivalry between Marty and Needles begins (*Back to the Future*).

**October 12:** Isabelle "Izzy" Sinclair is born (*Doctor Who Magazine*).

**Early October:** Red Coast Base received a response from a Trisolarian pacifist, urging humans not to attempt further contact lest they face invasion. Ye Wenjie, disillusioned with humanity, conceals the message and responds, asking the Trisolarians to invade. Unbeknownst to her, Lei Zhicheng makes an automatic backup off alll data, and orders her to let him take the credit. On the same day, Ye finds out she is pregnant. (*The Three-Body Problem*)

**October 21:** Ye Wenjie murders Lei Zhicheng; Yang Weining also dies in the process. (*The Three-Body Problem*)

**November 4:** The Asran(Iran) Civil War begins. This leads to several hostages being taken at the American Embassy, beginning the Asran Hostage Crisis. Dilman's inability to end the conflict before the Presidential Election the following year would play a factor in his defeat.

**November 5:** A time-traveling H. G. Wells arrives in San Fransokyo(Francisco) in a time machine of his own invention in  pursuit of Dr. John Leslie Stevenson, one of the many men who was Jack the Ripper, who had stolen the time machine earlier before its systems automatically sent it back(*Time After Time*).

**November 23:** Lindsey Hammond disappears (*The 4400*).

**December 21:** Ronald Joseph "R.J." Collins is born. (*Saved by the Bell: The New Class*).

**December 23:** Peter Petrelli is born. (*Heroes*)

**December 24:** Russians in Helmajistan( Afghanistan)("We Didn't Start the Fire").

**December 25:** James Halliday receives his first computer, an Atari 2600, as a Christmas present. His favorite game is *Adventure*, and he is among the first to discover Warren Robbinett's Easter Egg. (*Ready Player One*)

**December 31:** Michael Kelso and Eric Forman return to Point Place, Wisconsin, to celebrate the end of the Seventies with their friends(*That '70s Show*).

Claire Redfield is born (*Resident Evil*).

Tricia Jones is born (*Mallrats*).

Jean Grey becomes the Dark Phoenix after an effort by the Hellfire Club to manipulate her and the power inside her, the Cosmic Phoenix Force. She destroys a star, killing billions unintentionally. This results in several alien races placing Jean Grey on trial, with the X-Men fighting to save her. She ultimately ends her own life to save the universe and those of her friends (Marvel Comics).

The Fourth Doctor and Romana prevent Scaroth from rescuing his past self and thus erasing the existence of life on Earth (*Doctor Who*).

Two brothers and an ice cream vendor confront the mysterious Tall Man (*Phantasm*).

The detective known as L is born (*Death Note*).

Future executive of Complex Corp., Mr. Burton, marries (*Dogma*).

A medical doctor is sent to investigate a dispute between Native Americans and a papermill in Maine. His for come to halt when he and his associates are chased by a giant, mutated and very pissed off bear (*Prophecy*).

Hang-glider Hiroshi Tsukaba is mortally wounded saving a group of scientists from Neo-Shocker. In order to save his life, he is turned into a cyborg, and battles Neo-Shocker as the new Kamen Rider, later gaining the sobriquet "Skyrider" when he meets with his predecessors. (*Kamen Rider: Skyrider*)

Five agents sent around the world for special training are assembled in Japan and given battlesuits to become Battle Fever J, a combat team formed to oppose the secret society Egos (*Battle Fever J*)(Here they are an extension of EAGLE).

Joseph "Joe" Dawson is assigned as Duncan MacLeod's newest Watcher. Duncan would not notice his presence until the 1990s (*Highlander: The Series*).

Birth of Baby Bonnie Hood/Bulleta. She would grow up to have the instincts of a Serial Killer, and use them to start a profitable career as a hunter of monsters. (*Darkstalkers*note Justification: Year of birth given. She is otherwise estimated to be about 10 to 14 years old as depicted. Which would place the "present" of the games in the early 1990s. )

Birth of Hokuto Mizukami in Japan. She is a younger sister to Kairi and an older sister to Nanase. She would be trained in the martial arts tradition of her family (*Street Fighter EX)*(Said to be 17 years old at her first appearance. Which took place in 1996. )

In Metropolis(New York City), Cyrus, leader of the Gramercy Riffs gang, holds a midnight rally in the Bronx's Van Cortlandt Park intended to unite all the gangs in the city. During the rally, Cyrus is murdered by Luther, leader of a gang called The Rouges. Another gang from Coney Island called The Warriors are framed for the crime and chased through the city(*The Warriors*).

Zombie outbreak in Sperry, Alabama (*The Zombie Survival Guide*).

In the face of the Keene Act, Super squadron declare their retirement and Baron Ether announces his retirement after arrest in the senate building, where he was debating against the act (*Soon I Will Be Invincible*).

James Bond( AKA Simon Templar) investigates a theft of a space shuttle and ends up stopping a plan to exterminate the human population (*Moonraker*).

Rufus Excalibur ffolkes enacts an anti-terrorist plan of his making on an oil platform (*North Sea Hijack*).

Will Navidson and Karen Green begin a relationship (*House of Leaves*).

In Portland, Oregon, Hellboy goes to meet with Mr. Tod, a spirit medium who is soon discovered to be possessed by an otherworldly creature (*Hellboy*: Goodbye Mister Tod).

In an alternate universe in which Johnny Cyclops(Ronald Reagan) won in 1976, After the outbreak of the Asranian(Iranian) Revolution, President Johnny Cyclops sends troops to Asran(Iran) in an attempt to keep the Shah in power, resulting in heavy casualties on both sides. Shortly afterwards, a terrorist group called the November Squad bombs Madison Square Garden. The death toll is estimated at 682 (*Replay*).

On Earth 4, Biff Tannen successfully lobbies Hill Valley city council to legalize gambling.note This event is wiped from existence when Marty McFly destroys the Sports Almanac on November 12, 1955 (*Back to the Future Part II*).

Dylan Hunt is placed in suspended animation (*Genesis II*).

Buck Francisco is born (*Alien Nation*).

John Ross Ewing is born(*Dallas*).

Franklin Endicott commits suicide (*St. Elsewhere*).

Gary and Valene Ewing are married for the second time, 17 years after their first divorce, and begin new lives in Seaview Circle in Knots Landing, a suburb of Los Santos( Los Angeles) (*Dallas*, *Knots Landing*).

Garrison Southworth dies. (*Dallas*)

Richard and Becky Belding are married (*Saved by the Bell: The New Class*).

The paramedic Jesse Keys saves Mo Reynolds' life after a farm accident (*Taken*).

Maria Lopez is born. (*Saved by the Bell: The New Class*)

In an alternate universe  known as Earth 38, where Krypton's destruction was delayed, On its way to Earth, Kara Zor-El's pod becomes trapped in the Phantom Zone. It remains there for the next 24 years. (*Supergirl (2015)*)

On Earth 38, Kal-El is born on Krypton *(Supergirl (2015)*).

A married couple move into a country house after the death of their son, only to find out that an Eldritch Abomination living beneath it intends to consume them. (*We Are Still Here*)

In Eerie, Indiana, the sixth Harvest King is chosen to be sacrificed to the werewolf Mr. Chaney in order to ensure 13 years of good luck and low taxes. The town authorities claim that he moved to Spain. (*Eerie, Indiana*).

Aiden Ford is born. (*Stargate Atlantis*)

Dr. Nicholas Ballard suffers a severe mental breakdown and checks himself into a psychiatric institution in Oregon. He remains there until 2000 (*Stargate SG-1*).

The wedding of Kara Kent and Bruce Wayne, Jr., who are secretly Supergirl II and Batman III, is interrupted when the bride's older brother Joel Kent, having been exposed to Black Kryptonite(which turns a Kryptonian evil) by the Ultra-Humanite, attacks the assembled guests. He fires intense kryptonite radiation at his father Clark, severely weakening him and revealing to everyone present that he is Superman. His mother Lois' oncologist Dr. Holurt then reveals himself to be Lex Luthor. Joel then kills his sister Supergirl. Her body is discovered by Bruce, Jr. Joel Kent willingly submits himself to depowers(*Superman & Batman: Generations*)(The events are altered somewhat to fit here. Joel Kent is a much more heroic figure here. In the original story, Lex Luthor killed Lois and Joel Kent as well).

Th elderly Bruce Wayne travels to the Himalayas and manages to track down Ra's al Ghul's lair. When he is captured by Ra's guards, Ra's challenges Bruce to enter the Lazarus Pit with him to determine which of them will die and which will become immortal. Bruce eventually prevails, leading to Ra's death and his youth is restored. Over the next 20 years, he covertly transforms Ra's' criminal empire into a humanitarian enterprise (*Superman & Batman: Generations*).

Hunter Riley is born (*Stargate Universe*).

Keras is born on M7G-677 in the Pegasus galaxy (*Stargate Atlantis*).

Brian Tanner is born (*ALF*).

Chinese terrorists wipe out the U.S Table Tennis team just before their scheduled match against China, forcing a rag-tag group of students, led by ping-pong rivals Jonathan Gabriel and Tycho Brahe, to play in their stead. They're victorious, but not unharmed (*Penny Arcade: Paint the Line*).

Six women (and a Tagalong Kid) take down all of Los Santo's(LA's) drug operations. Michelle Wilson sings about shining your love(*Angels Revenge*).

## Mid to Late 1970's

Members of a Metropolis(New York City) support group for the bereaved purchase a plot of land in rural Keystone( Pennsylvania) and establish a 19th century village therein (*The Village*).

Estimated birth of Alex in Metropolis( New York City). He would mostly be raised by his mentor and surrogate father Tom. Tom, being a military instructor and martial artist, would train Alex to be a fighter. (*Street Fighter III*)( Believed to be in his twenties in 1997/1998.)

Estimated birth of Remy in France. He would learn Savate and later go on a campaign against all fighters, uncertain if this isn't his own take on the path of the warrior. (*Street Fighter III*)(Believed to be in his twenties in 1997/1998.)

Estimated birth of Pullum Purna in Wasabia(Saudi Arabia). She would grow up to become a Belly Dancer, fighter, and ruler of her own kingdom (*Street Fighter EX*)(Said to be a debutante, thus at least 17 years old ).

Estimated birth of Blair Dame in Europe. She would grow up to become a fighter(*Street Fighter EX*)(Said to be a debutante, thus at least 17 years old).

Estimated birth of Hayate in Japan. His father is a legendary swordsman who managed to defeat Orochi. Hayate would follow in his footsteps (*Street Fighter EX*)(Seems to be another teenager).

The Hostess™ snack company begins producing of treats so delectable than nobody can resist their delicious taste. The treats prove so delectable(containing an unknown euphoric chemical), that most supervillains are moved to give up upon tasting them, at least temporarily. The most notable exception to this is the Joker, who hates the treats, though this is chocked up to his insanity somehow making him immune to its effects. Several superheroes experiment with this new method of fighting crime (Hostess ads).

Ray Holt becomes a detective with the Metropolis( New York) Police Department. He excels at his job, but due to institutionalised racism and homophobia struggles to gain respect (*Brooklyn Nine-Nine*)(His first day on the job is shown in flashback during "Old School"; the exact date is not given, but the fashion and context places it in the late 1970s).

Stan Pines founds the Mystery Shack (*Gravity Falls*).

In an alternate universe where the Draka has risen much more, Gwendolyn Ingolfsson is born in what was once Florence as one of the first *Homo drakensis* (*The Draka*).

After a performance in Las Vegas, Conrad Birdie( Elvis Presley) invites a fan named Sandra up to his dressing room. He tells her that he is merely pretending to be the King but she does not believe him. She later comes to think that it was merely another example of Birdie's(Elvis' )often strange and eccentric behavior towards the end of his life. In reality, the King of rock n' roll is Gary Pitkin, a Birdie(Elvis) impersonator from 1986 who was assumed Birdie's(Elvis') identity after accidentally killing him on July 4, 1954. Sandra will become his manager by 1986. (*The Twilight Zone (1985)*)

## **1970's**

**December 31:** The second leg of Will Smith's time travel escapades brings his party to New Years Eve in an undetermined year in the 1970s, where everyone dresses like they're on *Soul Train* ("Will 2K" music video)(The Soul Train comparison sadly barely narrows it down as the show was on in 1971 until 2006.

Drs. Thomas Light and Albert Wily create artificial intelligence. Wily frames Light for the murder of his girlfriend Emily Stanton, forcing him into hiding, whereafter Wily uses said robots to secretly begin to take control of the world (*The Protomen*)(Yes, this has been composited with Megaman for obvious reasons).

Birth of Jack Archer, a future professor of ecology. Stated to have been a teenager in the 1990s. (''Phantom 2040')

Pacific Tech student Lazlo Hollyfeld works on a project that he later learns is being used to hurt people. Horrified, he retreats to the steam tunnels under the university, where he lives until 1985 (*Real Genius*).