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Grand Unified Timeline events from 1946 C.E. to 1959 C.E.

1946 C.E. to 1949 C.E.

1946

• January:
  • Gang leader "Shoulders" comes to the attention of Dick Tracy. He is believed dead after a plane crash, but in reality fakes his death and goes into hiding. (Dick Tracy)
  • Henry and Marguerite Spooner are married. (St. Elsewhere)
• March 3: Maia Rutledge disappears. She is the first of the 4400 to be taken. (The 4400)
• March-May: A hooded killer stalks the city of Texarkana, killing random couples. Despite the efforts of the Arkansas and Texas police, the "Phantom Killer" is never captured. (Real Life and The Town That Dreaded Sundown)
• April 20: Birth Patrick "Pat" Butcher. ^note  His date of birth is confirmed to have happen one this date in the tie-in book The Button House Archives. (Ghosts (UK))
• June 5-6: V. M. Straka is murdered in Havana after requesting to meet with his translator F. X. Caldeira for the first time. The only thing recovered are some of the pages from the last chapter of his final novel, Ship of Theseus. (S.)
• June: J.J. Pryor is born. (American Dreams)
• June 13: Jason Voorhees is born. (Friday the 13th)
• July 1: The United States conducts a series of nuclear tests on Bikini Atoll. (Real Life) The time travelers Phineas Bogg, Jeffrey Jones and Isaac Wolfstein narrowly avoid being caught up in the tests. (Voyagers!)
• July 16: A last ditch attack by U.S. and British forces on General Wilhelm "Deathshead" Strausse's fortress leads to heavy losses on both sides, but the advanced technology deployed by the Nazis is too much and the attack fails. Veteran soldier Captain B.J. Blazkowichz survives but is left in a vegetative state, and taken to a psychiatric asylum in Poland, where he is cared for by asylum nurse Anya Oliwa. (Wolfenstein: The New Order)
• July 18: The city of Chicago issues a radio license to WPMJ at 1020kHz. (Clubbin' With Grandpa)
• July 21: Constance de Lutrelle dies. (Mirror, Mirror (1995))
• November 5: Industrialist Andrew Ryan founds the city of Rapture on the ocean floor near Greenland and Iceland, intending to create a working-man's paradise free of government or moral regulation. Select individuals disappear from the surface and immigrate to Rapture. (BioShock)
• November: The villainous hypnotist Influence kidnaps Vitamin Flintheart and hypnotizes him into a slave due to unpaid gambling debts. (Dick Tracy)
• December 12: The Soviet Union surrenders to Nazi Germany. (Wolfenstein: The New Order)
• Rick O'Connell and allies battle the resurrected Dragon Emperor. (The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor)
• Albert Einstein completes his time machine in Trinity, New Mexico, and uses it to travel to 1924 and remove Adolf Hitler from history. In the resulting timeline, Josef Stalin leads the Soviet Union in an invasion of Europe, beginning World War II. (Command & Conquer: Red Alert)
• Duncan MacLeod prevents the immortal IRA member Liam O'Rourke and his girlfriend, Tara, from escaping the scene of a bombing in London. They go to prison, and Liam vows revenge. (Highlander: The Series)
• Birth of Diane Maza, a Nigerian-American, in New York City. She would grow up to become a professor at Columbia University. (Gargoyles)
• Birth of the immortal Manny in Hawaii. (Highlander: Endgame, character profiles)
• Liberal Party of Japan collapses due to incompetence. Toru Fukishima joins the UN Party and quickly becomes a major policy shaper. (killer7)
• The Super Squadron is founded. It is the world's first superteam. (Soon I Will Be Invincible)
• Hellboy is formally adopted by Trevor Bruttenholm. (Hellboy)
• In Polly Spark's altered version of history, Flip the High-Diving Robot tricks Jacques Cousteau into jumping off a high diving board while wearing SCUBA gear. (JumpStart Adventures 3rd Grade: Mystery Mountain)
• Henry and Abigail Morgan, along with their adopted son Abraham, move into a flat in Brooklyn. (Forever)
• Eccentric millionaire Horace Derwent purchases the Overlook Hotel. His ownership of the hotel is no more successful at turning a profit than previous owners, and is mired in scandals and rumors of connections to organized crime. (The Shining)
• The Ingsoc Party seizes power in post-war Britain, instituting a sophisticated fascist dystopia based on propaganda, torture and the worship of the all-knowing Big Brother. The office of Big Brother is given to Harry Wharton, formerly of Greyfriars. (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier)
• War between Nazi Germany and the United States dwindles to a Cold War after the United States drops an atomic bomb on Japan, and Germany responds by detonating an empty V-3 rocket over New York to demonstrate Germany could respond in kind if the US launched a nuclear attack. (Fatherland)
• Mark Cassidy and Christine Copperfield are born. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• Beth Mason is born. (American Dreams)
• Valene Clements (later Ewing) is born. (Dallas, Knots Landing)
• Marty Elroy and Ellen Murphy are married. (Quantum Leap)
• Jesse Keys is born. (Taken)
• Daniel Auschlander and Katherine Wellingham are married. (St. Elsewhere)
• Three Soviet cosmonauts, Professor Pavel Ivanovich Sedikh, Marina and Andryusha Orlov, travel to the Moon aboard a rocket ship designed by Professor Sedikh. (Cosmic Voyage)
• A low-level criminal and scam artist named Frank Gorland kills businessman Frank Fontaine and steals his identity to assume ownership of Fontaine Fisheries. (BioShock)
• Future Elan School founder Jay Cirri is born. Not long after, his mother abandons him, and his grandparents have to step in and raise him. (Joe vs. Elan School)
• While on her honeymoon in Scotland, Claire Randall is transported back in time to 1743. (Outlander)
• Martina Becker is born in war-torn Stuttgart, Germany. (Unimaa)
• Ewald Alphonso defeats President of Sordland Tarquin Soll in the United Sordland Party congress due to the latter's increasingly authoritarian policies. (Suzerain)

1947

• January: After a long decline, the Mid-Sodor Railway on the Island of Sodor closes down. The Railway’s No.3 and No.4 engines Falcon and Stuart, the former of whom had pulled the Railway’s last train, are purchased by the Sodor Aluminium Company to assist their Peel Godred expansion project, while their father figure and mentor, the Railway’s No.1 engine Duke, is sheeted up in the shed. (The Railway Series and Thomas & Friends)
• January 3: Nazi forces launch an amphibious invasion of Canada. (Wolfenstein: The New Order)
• January 15: Elizabeth Short is found murdered in Los Angeles. The murder case is later sensationalized in the press as the "Black Dahlia" murder. To this day, Short's murder is unsolved. (Real Life)
  • An LA cop named Bucky investigates and finds out ^whodunitRamona Linscott did it; Short had apparently looked too much like Linscott's daughter Madeline, whose biological father wanted to sleep with Short. (The Black Dahlia)
  • Dr. Henry Morgan consults on the "Black Dahlia" case. (Forever)
  • The so-called "Quarter Moon Murders" are revealed to be the work of the Black Dahlia killer by L.A homicide detective Cole Phelps. The killer turns out to be related to a high-ranking politician, and the affair is hushed up. The people arrested for the murders are quietly released on technicalities. (L.A. Noire).
• February 14: Lynn Benfield is born. (I'm Alan Partridge)
• February 26: Pearline Stuart disappears. (The 4400)
• February 28: William Patrick Gorinsky disappears. (The 4400)
• Late February/Early March: Estimated birth of Peter Parker.^{justification}The year is pinpointed by the dates given for Peter's graduation. Speculation points to him being a Pisces. (Marvel Universe, Spider-Man)
• April 10: Jackie Robinson signs a major-league contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers, setting the stage for him to break professional baseball's modern-era color barrier. (Real Life and 42)
• April 15:
  • Jackie Robinson makes his major-league debut with the Dodgers. (Real Life and 42)
  • On the day Jackie Robinson makes his major-league debut, several time travelers from the town of Eureka in 2010 accidentally arrive at the army base that is its predecessor. (Eureka)
• May 12: Courtney Campbell disappears. (The 4400)
• June 1: Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play. ("Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band") ^{justification}"It was twenty years ago today / Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play..." The date is based on the original release date of the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (June 1, 1967).
• June 13: An alien is shot down over New Mexico, before being imprisoned in Nevada. (Doctor Who Expanded Universe [animated serials])
• July 1: Lieutenants Howard Bowen and Marty Erickson are assigned to the 509th Bomb Group in Roswell, New Mexico. (Taken)
• July 2-8:
  • July 2: An alien ship crashes in Pine Lodge near Roswell, New Mexico after colliding with a Project Mogul high-altitude surveillance balloon. Three of its five occupants are killed in the crash while another later dies of its injuries. The fifth survives and manages to escape. Sue witnesses the crash and retrieves an artifact from the wreckage. (Taken)
  • July 5: Mac Brazel discovers the wreckage of the Mogul surveillance balloon on the Foster ranch in Roswell, New Mexico and reports it to the 509th Bomb Group. Although Colonel Thomas Campbell asks him to keep it quiet, Brazel tells the press that he has found a strange metal from another planet. In order to divert attention from Mogul, Campbell lends his support to the story and the Roswell Daily Record reports that the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) has discovered a flying saucer. (Taken)
  • July 7: Two young boys and their father discover a crashed alien spaceship while on a hiking trip in Pine Lodge near Roswell, New Mexico. They report their discovery to Captain Owen Crawford of the 509th Bomb Group. After taking care of the problem, Crawford notifies Colonel Thomas Campbell of the existence of the ship. (Taken)
  • July 8:
    • The Planet Express ship crashes in Roswell, New Mexico. Dr. John Zoidberg is briefly detained by the U.S. government on suspicion of being an alien invader. Philip J. Fry accidentally becomes his own grandfather. (Futurama)
    • A UFO is (allegedly) shot down with a shotgun and crash lands in Gravity Falls. (Gravity Falls)
    • The shuttlecraft Quark's Treasure crashes in Roswell, New Mexico, having been accidentally sent back in time from 2372. Three Ferengi travelers onboard, Quark, Rom and Nog, are briefly detained by the U.S. government on suspicion of being alien invaders. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
    • An alien spaceship crashes in Roswell, New Mexico. Its purpose and mission remain unknown until 49 years later, when it is discovered to have been a forward scout vessel for the alien fleet that attacks the Earth in July of that year. (Independence Day)
    • An alien spaceship crashes in Roswell, New Mexico. Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr. is called in to examine the wreck. (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
    • Delta Green is reformed after the Roswell incident. (Cthulhu Mythos, Delta Green)
    • [Alternate Universe] a Reticulan spaceship crash-lands in Roswell, New Mexico. U.S. President Adlai Stevenson reveals the existence of the Reticulans to the general public after entering office in 1953. The United States then opens up diplomatic relations with the aliens. (Sliders)
    • In the aftermath of the Roswell crash, Captain Russell Keys is abducted by aliens for the second time at 3am. He is returned to his bedroom at 5:30am with no memory of the intervening two and a half hours. Later that morning, he barricades the doors and windows of his house in an attempt to keep the aliens out. (Taken)
    • The survivor of the alien ship that crashed in Roswell makes his way to Lubbock, Texas. A lonely housewife named Sally Clarke finds him in her shed and he pretends to be a drifter named John who was injured in a farming accident. (Taken)
    • At a press conference, Colonel Thomas Campbell tells the reporters that the reports of the wreckage of a flying saucer being discovered in Roswell, New Mexico are entirely false. He claims that they found nothing more than a crashed weather balloon. Campbell then sidelines Captain Owen Crawford, pretending that he knows nothing about a craft or alien bodies. (Taken)
• July 9: Captain Owen Crawford takes Anne Campbell, the daughter of Colonel Thomas Campbell, for a horseriding lesson. After they have sex in the mountains, he proposes to her as part of a scheme to find out where Campbell has taken the crashed alien ship and the bodies. Anne tells Crawford that her father is at the Wright Air Field in Ohio. (Taken)
• July 11:
  • Captain Russell Keys visits his dying former co-pilot Lt. Lou Johnson at the Army hospital in Fort Bliss, Texas. Talking to Johnson helps Russell to realize that it was aliens and not Nazi doctors that abducted them and subjected them to strange experiments in August 1944. (Taken)
  • Sally Clarke and John have sex in her shed in Lubbock, Texas, leading to their half-alien son Jacob being conceived. Later that day, John reveals his alien status to Sally and leaves Earth. The resulting Lubbock Lights are witnessed by Sally, her children Tom and Becky, Lt. Howard Bowen, Lt. Marty Erickson and the town's sheriff. (Taken)
• July 17: Sue shows her former lover Captain Owen Crawford the artifact that she discovered in the wreckage of the alien ship that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. When she returns to her trailer that night, Sue finds Crawford lying in wait for her. He beats her to death in order to keep the artifact a secret. (Taken)
• July 25: Kerry Edward disappears. (The 4400)
• July: Car thief and chop shop fence Coffyhead attemps to frame the Crimestoppers Club to get them out of the way for his grand theft auto operations. When this fails, he kidnaps Junior Tracy and his friend Bronko to force them to disband the club. They refuse, and Coffyhead attempts to kill the two using poison gas, but this also fails and he is eventually tracked down and arrested. (Dick Tracy)
• August 15:
  • The Partition of India occurs, separating India and Pakistan, leading to violence. (Real Life)
  • All children born in India between 12 AM and 1 AM are given special powers. (Midnight's Children)
  • The Thirteenth Doctor and her companions Yaz, Ryan, and Graham, visiting from the year 2018, investigate an alien presence occurring during the partition. They take part in Yaz's grandmother's wedding as the partition occurs.^note Yaz's grandmother's new husband, Prem, is murdered in cold blood by a gang of Hindu extremists, including his own brother. (Doctor Who)
• September 13:
  • Owen Crawford and Anne Campbell are married in Roswell, New Mexico. At the reception, Crawford blackmails his new father-in-law Colonel Thomas Campbell into promoting him to major and placing him in command of the UFO project by threatening to go public with the artifact that Sue discovered at the Roswell crashsite and everything else that he knows. (Taken)
  • Sally Clarke discovers that she is pregnant with her half-human son Jacob. (Taken)
• September: Matt Bryan, Jr. is born. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• October 17: The Jupiter 2 returns to Earth but more than fifty years before its own time. The ship lands near the town of Manitou Junction, Michigan and is mistaken for a hostile alien ship by the townspeople. (Lost in Space)
• October: First known appearance of the criminal musician Mumbles, who would prove to be one of Dick Tracy's most persistent foes with an uncanny ability to escape certain death. (Dick Tracy)
• December 24: Young Harry Stadling finds out that the Santa Claus isn't real. (Christmas Evil)
• Marvin Acme, novelty gag tycoon and owner of Toontown, is found murdered. ^moreFurther investigation links his murder and that of cartoon mogul R.K. Maroon to a development scheme to buy the Toontown property, demolish it and replace it with a highway (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
• Donald Duck meets his uncle Scrooge McDuck for the first time in decades, after spending Christmas Eve in his cabin on Bear Mountain. (Donald Duck). The following day, Donald and his three nephews are invited for dinner with Scrooge at his mansion, eventually leading to an encounter with the notorious Beagle Boys. (The Life And Times Of Scrooge Mc Duck)
• War between Empire and GFFA ends with GFFA defeated, in no small part due to an alliance between the Empire and the New Sith Order. GFFA territories absorbed back into the Empire. Jedi massacred. New Sith Order turns on the Empire, and usurps the throne. (Star Wars)
• Maine banker Andy Dufresne is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover. Though he asserts his innocence, he's sentenced to life at the Shawshank State Penitentiary. (The Shawshank Redemption)
• Literary scholar "Humbert Humbert" rents a room in in the house of Charlotte Haze in Ramsdale, and falls in love with her 12-year-old daughter, Dolores "Lolita" Haze. (Lolita)
• Donald Duck and his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, bring Donald's uncle, Scrooge McDuck, out of seclusion. (The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck)
• Aperture Science Innovators is established, voted "Best New Science Company of 1947" by the Science and Business Institute of America. (Portal 2)
• Zombie outbreak in Jarvie, British Columbia. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• Birth of Will Navidson. (House of Leaves)
• Hellboy eats pancakes. It is Hell's blackest hour. (Hellboy)
• Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl marry. (The Incredibles)
• Disgraced L.A police officer Cole Phelps and his war buddy, insurance investigator Jack Kelso, find themselves embroiled in a land development conspiracy headed by real estate mogul Leland Monroe, alienist Dr Harlan Fontaine, police chief Willam Worrell and Mayor Fletcher Bowron. (L.A. Noire)
• Sonny Corleone is brutally killed at a tollbooth on the Jones Beach causeway. Soon after, his father Don Vito negotiates an end to the Five Families War. (The Godfather)
• Carol Novino is born. (St. Elsewhere)
• Luke Foley and Sam Walker are born. (American Dreams)
• [Alternate Universe] World War II comes to an end two years later than on Earth Prime as the Germans broke through the Allied lines at the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944. (Sliders)
• Ronny and Myra Sammis are married. (Quantum Leap)
• Charles Trafford, the former Governor of Alabama, dies. (Quantum Leap)
• A 2,000-year-old immortal man, calling himself Walter Jameson, joins the history faculty of an American university. He soon befriends the chemist Professor Samuel Kittridge. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Harry Folger is born. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• The newspaper The Hawkins Post is established in Hawkins, Indiana. (Stranger Things)
• Professor Peter Bartell uncovers a Nazi experiment of flesh-eating microbes. Sensing the potential for profit, he destroys the notes and goes hunting for the flesh eaters himself. (The Flesh Eaters)
• Nazi Germany conquers India. ("The Last Article")
• The National Progressive Front is founded by Henry A. Wallace. (The New Order Last Days Of Europe)
• [Alternate Timeline] the Goa'uld Supreme System Lord Ra invades Earth. (Stargate-verse)
• Abraham Simpson gives Chester J. Lampwick plate of corn muffins to paint his chicken coop. Lampwick refuses, claiming the corn muffins are "lousy". (The Simpsons)
• Edward VIII, with his wife Wallis Simpson, is reinstated as King of the United Kingdom. (Fatherland)

1948

• February: The criminal Shoulders resurfaces as the leader of a jewel smuggling ring. After going on the run, Shoulders accidentally kills himself with his own gun while trying to avoid arrest. (Dick Tracy)
• March: Roxanne Bojarski is born. (American Dreams)
• April: Jacob Clarke is born. (Taken)
• May 9: Having stolen several of SS-Obersturmführer Karl Rademacher's possessions from his office at Auschwitz on March 3, 1944, Nicholas Prentice travels to Philadelphia on this date. He places them in a safety deposit box in the Trustees Bank that he opens in the name of Leon Zgierski. Prentice then travels forward in time to gives the key to the box to Leon's son Aaron. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• May 14: Time travel technology debuts to the public at the Berlin World's Fair. (Chrononauts)
• August 28:
  • Meg Pryor is born. (American Dreams)
  • John "Boomer" Donovan is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• June: On their first adventure together, Scrooge McDuck brings his nephews Donald, Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck with him to his ancestral home, Castle McDuck in Scotland, in search for the long-lost treasure of Sir Quackly. (The Old Castle's Secret)
• August: Tim Stoddard is born. (Quantum Leap)
• Summer: The Lady Anne takes on its last new passenger before Alan and Eileen Ransome in 1963. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• October: The Broadway composer Bluestone chooses to be sent back to this time by the Prince of Darkness, in exchange for playing music for the denizens of Hell for all eternity, so that he can make it with Mary Ellen Cosgrove. He instead uses the opportunity to prevent his classmate Teresa Golowitz from committing suicide. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• November 2:
  • U.S. President Harry S. Truman is elected to a full term in his own right, defeating Thomas Dewey. (Real Life)
  • Joe Steele is elected to a fifth term as U.S. President, defeating Harold Stassen. ("Joe Steele")
  • [Alternate Universe] U.S. President William Dudley Pelley is elected to a second term, having stolen the election from Robert Taft. This leads to the outbreak of the Second American Civil War. (Infinite Worlds)
  • U.S. President Robert Taft is elected to a third term. (Dominion)
  • Thomas E. Dewey defeats Harry S. Truman in the U.S. presidential election. (Alternate Presidents)
• November 7/November 23: Birth of Al Bundy. (Married... with Children)
• November 23: Birth of Brianna Ellen Randall Fraser Mackenzie. (Outlander)
• December 21: The Nazis destroy New York City with a nuclear bomb, killing around three million people and rendering the area uninhabitable for over a decade afterwards. (Wolfenstein: The New Order)
• December 24: The United States surrenders to Nazi rule, ending World War II with a total Nazi victory. (Wolfenstein: The New Order)
• Brandon Shaw and Phillip Morgan murder a former classmate, David Kentley, in their apartment as an intellectual exercise: they want to prove their superiority by committing the "perfect murder". However, their strange behaviour following the murder attracts unwanted attention. (Rope)
• Estimated birth of Roberta Lincoln. She would grow up to become the assistant of Gary Seven. (Star Trek: The Original Series)
• Estimated birth of Yancy Fry to single mother Mildred Fry. He is registered as a son of Enos Fry. ^moreHe is actually a son of time-traveler Philip J. Fry, who is Yancy's own son. (Futurama)
• Rapture immigrant Brigid Tenenbaum discovers the miraculous properties of unstable stem cells harvested from a species of sea slug, called "ADAM". Smuggler Frank Fontaine finances her work and founds Fontaine Futuristics, selling ADAM to Rapture's public. The Little Sisters Orphanage is devised to recruit girls to serve as ADAM factories. Fontaine becomes wealthy and powerful enough to rival Andrew Ryan. (BioShock)
• The Parkreiners are placed in government custody. They are officially stated to have died in a car accident. (killer7)
• The Delinquent Five appear. They are the world's first supervillain teamup. (Soon I Will Be Invincible)
• U.S. Department Z recruits Alexander Waverly to form the international enforcement organization U.N.C.L.E., which begins a covert war against the terrorist group THRUSH. (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
• A forest fire engulfs Northpoint, Keen Wild, almost killing every member of a Romani tribe living in a cave. (The Prey)
• Nazi Germany officially claims victory in World War II after nuking New York City and forcing the U.S. to surrender. (Wolfenstein: The New Order)
• Laura Avery Sumner is born. (Knots Landing)
• Peter White is born. (St. Elsewhere)
• Lynelle Walters is born. (Quantum Leap)
• Marty Elroy and Rachel Goldstein are married. (Quantum Leap)
• Marion and Clifford Jefferson divorce. (Tenko)
• The Greater Soviet Union conquers the United Kingdom. (The Iron Dream)
• The radio station WPDA in Cederberg, New Jersey goes out of business. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Lou and Edie Grant are married. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• Harry Lovecraft uncovers a plot to summon dark gods while searching for a rich man's daughter. (Cast a Deadly Spell)
• Jonah Summerfield II is born. (Bernice Summerfield)
• Jay Allen is born. (The Flash (1990))
• Birth of Azusa to Kiku and Tokube Ayashiro. She would later marry into the Kasuga family (Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir)
• Birth of Kaori, future wife of Kanji Ayashiro. (Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir)
• Elizabeth Anscombe gives a savage review of Signs and Wonders, a work of Christian apologetics by Jack Hamilton, in which all of his arguments are refuted. Hamilton is so shocked by this defeat that he abandons trying to prove Christianity by reason and instead comes to believe that spiritual truth is too grand to be constrained by such. ("Oracle")

1949

• April: Donald Duck and his nephews set out in search for the source of the mysterious square eggs recently found among a museum collection, eventually tracking them to an isolated valley in the Andes, inhabited by a tribe of square-loving natives. (Lost in the Andes!)
• April 12: Estimated birth of Margaret "Peggy" Wanker. She would grow up to marry Al Bundy. (Married... with Children^{justification}Her birthday is given within the series. The year can be estimated because of mentions that Al and Peggy are of the same age.)
• Spring: Shortly before the 1949 baseball season begins, Daniel Malone meets Bobby Hanes, and the two become fast friends. One night a few weeks later, the two break into Ebbets Field. (The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn)
• June 19: The first race of the NASCAR Cup series, then known as the Strictly Stock series, is held at Charlotte Speedway. (Real Life)
• June 22: Jaime Sommers is born. (The Bionic Woman)
• June 23: Marina Furuta disappears. (The 4400)
• July: Hank and Emma Rickett are married. (Quantum Leap)
• August 16: Ben Song leaps into Robert Cook, a government agent with Project Sign. He's there to investigate a UFO incident in Starlight, New Mexico. Ben meets Hannah Carson for the first time. (Quantum Leap (2022))
• August 23: Gladys Crabtree dies. She is later reincarnated as a 1928 Porter car. (My Mother the Car)
• October 31: V. M. Straka's final novel, Ship of Theseus, is published with a foreword by translator F. X. Caldeira. (S.)
• December 31: After getting into a minor car accident, Trevor McPhee is abducted by aliens who have no concept of time through a wormhole. He is returned to Earth ten years later, having not aged a day. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• Late 1949: Alec Leamas returns to the British Intelligence Service. (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)
• Magneto arrives in America. (X-Men Film Series)
• Aperture Science comes in at #2 on "Mechanical Engineering World Journal"'s list of the top 100 applied science companies of 1949. (Portal 2)
• Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio. ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
• Birth of Wade Powers. (Black Light)
• Lucy, Peter, and Edmund Penvensie; their cousin, Eustance Scrubb; and their friends, Jill Pole, Digory Kirke, and Polly Plummer die in a train crash in England, but go on to live forever in Aslan's Country. (The Last Battle)
• Birth of Thursday Next in Swindon, England. She would go on to become a member of SpecOps, most prominently SpecOps 27, and of Jurisfiction. (Thursday Next)
• Lemuel "Lemmy" Barnet is born. (Journey into Space)
• Abby Fairgate (later Cunningham) is born. (Knots Landing)
• Liz Welles is born. (Sliders)
• Neil Walters is born. (Quantum Leap)
• Eric Crawford is born. (Taken)
• The boxer Bolie Jackson fights Sailor Levin in St. Louis. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• The first manned mission to Mars is launched. (Buck Rogers)
• Paul Stockton is born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Lex Luthor, who is in actuality the Ultra-Humanite, kidnaps Lois Lane Kent and exposes her to gold kryptonite so that the baby in her womb will never develop superpowers like those of his father Superman. (Superman & Batman: Generations)
• Dick Grayson retires as Robin and begins attending college. After qualifying as a lawyer, he is hired by the Manhattan District Attorney's office, fighting crime in a different way. In 1959, Dick returns to Gotham City and eventually succeeds Bruce Wayne as the second Batman. (Superman & Batman: Generations)
• Ewald Alphonso becomes the third President of Sordland. (Suzerain)

194X/1940s

• Professor Simon Potsherd locates the Chaos God crystal and setting. Rebecca Cunningham briefly comes into contact with the crystal and gets possessed by Solego; after rescuing her, Baloo and Kit fly out to the middle of the ocean and dump the crystal into the water. (The Legend of the Chaos God)
• Birth of Tadashi Urabe. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• Birth of Jiro to Kiki and Tokube Ayashiro (Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir)

1950 C.E. - 1954 C.E.

1950

• February 16: Bobby Ewing is born. (Dallas)
• February: Alec Leamas is assigned to Satellites Four in order to assess military strengths in various Iron Curtain countries. His colleagues are George Smiley, Peter Guillam, and Brian de Grey. (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)
• March 16: Martin Stein is born. (Legends of Tomorrow)
• March 28: Birth of Geki, a future Ninja in Japan. (Street Fighter)
• June 25:
  • North Korea invades the South. (Real Life)
  • Vought-American debuts Crimefighters Incorporated, a new team with the identities of those whom they tried to use in the Battle of the Bulge. Greg Mallory begins collating information on superhumans. (The Boys)
• Summer: Mary Richards and Rochelle Margaret "Twinks" McFarland go to Camp Umwok. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• November 2: Cora Tomkins disappears. (The 4400)
• December 25:
  • The Stone of Scone is stolen from Westminster Abbey by four Scottish students. (Real Life)
  • The Stone of Scone is stolen from Westminster Abbey by Duncan MacLeod, Hugh Fitzcairn, and Amanda. (Highlander: The Series)
  • The Stone of Scone is stolen from Westminster Abbey by Macbeth and four others. (Gargoyles)
  • Nan Haley leaves her husband Alex, taking their children Lydia and Billy, as she is tired of him neglecting the family in order to pursue his writing career. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• December: Joey DeNardo is born. (Quantum Leap)
• Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce is drafted and assigned to the 4077th MASH in the Korean War. (M*A*S*H)
• Eve Gill, an acting student, investigates the murder of the husband of singer/actress Charlotte Inwood. (Stage Fright (1950))
• The Centauri start using telepaths for military ends. (Babylon 5)
• World War II finally reaches a devastating close as most countries are exhausted from both the war and deepening economic crisis as the world falls to hell. (The Shape of Things to Come)
• Irene Butterman is born. (Hot Fuzz)
• Sofia Lamb is invited to Rapture to help deal with the psychological issues stemming from life in an underwater city. She senses growing dissatisfaction within the city and leads a collectivist counter-movement against Andrew Ryan's libertarian philosophy. In response, Ryan has her interred within the Persephone Penal Colony. Lamb prepares the prison as her new power base, planning to wait for Rapture's inevitable collapse before retaking the city. (BioShock)
• Zoe Kuryakin becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television, North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
• Mycroft Holmes’s (unknown) successor as "M" is assassinated at his desk. Sir Miles Messervy succeeds him, and recruits Commander James Bond to the Double-0 section of Secret Service. (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
• Bakaru ("Buckaroo") Banzai is born in London. (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)
• Donna McCallum (later Culver Krebbs) is born. (Dallas)
• [Alternate Universe] World War II comes to an end five years later than on Earth Prime because the atomic bomb was never invented. (Sliders)
• Lawrence Stanton III and Sherilyn Stanton are married. (Quantum Leap)
• Josh Elroy is born. (Quantum Leap)
• Colin Stafford and Della Stevens are married. ("Random Quest")
• Harold J. Swanson becomes the principal of Dansburg High School. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Bob Larson is born. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• Bruce Wayne Jr. is born. (Superman & Batman: Generations)
• Joel Perry Kent is born to Clark Kent and Lois Lane Kent. (Superman & Batman: Generations)
• Nanites are created on Orban. (Stargate SG-1)
• In order to escape the devastating atomic / bacteriological war in 2155, the atomic scientist William Travis and his wife Susan, a bacteriologist, travel back in time to 1950. Searchers are sent after them to return them to their own time. (Dimension X)
• Welter Faye is born. (The City of Never)
• Leahtrah Middlesmith meets Thorin Leonius in the deserts of the Planet Katmandu. The Velite-Hoplite Wars ends afterwards (Katmandu)
• George McFly hesitates to punch a bully in retaliation for punching his friend Billy Stockhousen. By 1985 in the Twin Pines timeline, he'd pin this down as the moment when his lifelong cowardice began. (Back to the Future)
• Birth of Shunsuke Utsugi. (Famicom Detective Club).
• Birth of Amachi (Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir)
• Birth of Kyonsuke Konda (Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir)
• German economic crash. Instability ensues. (The New Order Last Days Of Europe)
• Gene Frenkle, future cowbell player for Blue Öyster Cult, is born. (Saturday Night Live)

1951

• January 23:
  • World War III breaks out. (The Hot War)
  • Angus MacGyver is born. (MacGyver (1985))
• January 21: Jean-Bernard Desjardins marries Signe Rabe. (S.)
• January: Alexandra Rickett is born. (Quantum Leap)
• March: Hickory High School, a tiny rural Indiana institution, wins the state basketball championship over South Bend Central High 42–40. (Hoosiers)
• Before May: George Smiley moves from Satellites Four to the Counter-Intelligence division. (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)
• May 11: Richard Tyler disappears. (The 4400)
• c. May 14-21: Sarah Jane Smith born in Foxgrove, England. ^{justification}Sarah Jane is a Taurus and was three months old when her parents died on August 18 (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
• May 17: Amie Karan disappears. (The 4400)
• May: Alec Leamas is posted to Berlin as the Deputy Controller of Area. His subordinates are named Hackett, Sarrow, and de Jong. (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)
• June: Whiting graduates from the Rock Spring School for Boys. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• July 4: Amanda Q. Russle is born. (Alien Nation)
• July 24: King Hurl is born. (The Tick (2001))
• July 28: Sam Crawford is born. (Taken)
• July: The alien Klaatu lands in Washington, DC, with a message for the world. (The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951))
• August 18: Sarah Jane Smith falls into the Trickster's trap when she saves her parents from their deaths. In an alternate timeline, the Trickster manifests through a weak point in time and conquers the world. ^moreSarah Jane's parents sacrifice themselves when they realise what's going on, returning the timeline to normal. (The Sarah Jane Adventures)
• September 21: Kim Karlsen is born in Oslo, coming out with his feet first. (Beatles)
• October: Birth of Beryl McKenzie in Nova Scotia. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• December 5: Shoeless Joe Jackson dies. (Real Life, Field of Dreams)
• December 10: Richard Belding is born. (Saved by the Bell: The New Class)
• December 25: Robert Stoney begins to date a young man named Arthur. ("Oracle")
• December: SCP-ES-165 comes to the Foundation's attention after several amateur astronomers reported the presence of "flickering lights" in the Nyx Olympica region. (SCP Foundation)
• Guy Haines, an amateur tennis star, meets the eccentric Bruno Antony on a train. Bruno has read about Guy's romantic troubles in the paper, and suggests that he might want to...dispose of his wife, the unfaithful Mrs. Miriam Joyce Haines, so he can marry Anne Morton, the daughter of a senator. Bruno outlines his plot for the perfect murder: two strangers who both have someone they want dead "exchange murders". Guy laughs the whole thing off and gets off the train but, as he learns a few days later, Bruno wasn't joking. (Strangers on a Train)
• The underwater city of Rapture is completed, prompting a new wave of immigrants before the city severs ties with the surface. (BioShock)
• Pete's TV in Manhattan installs TVs running news feed in its storefront for people to conveniently notice. (Futurama)
• Estimated birth of Peter "Pete" Burke in Jersey City. He would grow up to become an astronaut. (Planet of the Apes)
• Dr. Henry Walton Jones dies of natural causes. He is survived by his son Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr. (Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide)
• After a Congressional committee insists the members of the Justice Society of America reveal their secret identities, the JSA members refuse, and voluntarily disband. Most of the members go into retirement. Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman are allowed to continue their superheroic activities. (Adventure Comics #466)
• Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom, Brando, The King and I, and The Catcher in the Rye ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
• BJ Blazkowicz marries Julia Marie Peterson and emigrates to America. (Wolfenstein 3-D)
• The baby who will become the Homelander is cloned from Stormfront's DNA. (The Boys)
• Atomic Robo crashes into a conflict between a Japanese sleeper cell intent on continuing World War II and a band of all-female, jetpacking sky pirates. (Atomic Robo and the Flying She-Devils of the Pacific)
• Mark Craig meets his future wife Ellen Harper at the University of Pennsylvania. (St. Elsewhere)
• Sarah Rutledge is born. (The 4400)
• Patty Pryor and Angela Walker are born. (American Dreams)
• Sonny Delissio, Butchie Rickett and Willie Walters are born. (Quantum Leap)
• Bobby Caldwell is born. (St. Elsewhere)
• WJM-TV receives its license from the Federal Communications Commission. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• Alan Turing is arrested for homosexuality, being Driven to Suicide by the ensuing persecution. (Real Life and The Imitation Game)
• Della Stevens dies. ("Random Quest")
• Jo Grant is born. (Doctor Who)
• David Andrew Gurney and Wilma Berenson are married. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Ilse Nielsen is born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Ted Baxter begins his broadcasting career at a 5,000 watt radio station in Fresno, California. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• Tetsuji Komada begins teaching at Ushimitsu Hight School. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• Victor Martin Summersby dies by falling from an ocean liner in the Atlantic Ocean after recording a tape claiming to be elusive author V. M. Straka. (S.)
• Indiana Jones visits Basil Shaw, who has been driven mad by his research of the Antikythera Dial, for the last time. This is also the last time Jones would see Basil's daughter Helena until 1969. Jones takes Basil's half of the Dial with him when he leaves; Basil passes away shortly after. (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny)
• The economic liberalisation policies of President of Sordland Ewald Alphonso trigger an economic crisis, which soon turns into a recession. (Suzerain)

1952

• January 4: Best friends Alberto Granado and Ernesto "Fuser" (later Che) Guevara set off from Buenos Aires, Argentina on a grand adventure across South America. (The Motorcycle Diaries and Real Life)
• January 13: Alberto and Che stop in Miramar, Argentina for 6 days to meet Fuser's girlfriend Chichina. She gives them $15 USD. (The Motorcycle Diaries)
• February 26: Fuser and Alberto arrive in Los Ángeles, Chile. Their motorcycle is pronounced dead by a mechanic. (The Motorcycle Diaries)
• February: Arthur and a friend conspire to rob Robert Stoney's house, but Arthur backs out, and tells Robert that he gave away his address. The unnamed conspirator still steals an electric razor, and Robert informs the police, but lies about the circumstances in order to hide his homosexuality, however, his lie is discovered. He is then arrested one week later, and Peter Quint of the secret service gives him the choice of either three years' imprisonment or working for them part-time. Robert chooses the latter. ("Oracle")
• March 15: Alberto and Fuser arrive at the Chuquicamata Mine in Chile after having met some native miners in the Acatama Desert. Fuser tries to confront the manager. (The Motorcycle Diaries)
• April 2: Fuser and Alberto enter Peru. In Cuzco, the "Heart of America", they discover the position of the natives in modern society and reflect on the situation of the Spanish and the Inca. (The Motorcycle Diaries)
• April: Dick Tracy is made aware of a nationwide crime syndicate controlled by a kingpin known only as Mr Crime. He's eventually discovered to be prominent businessman George Alpha. (Dick Tracy)
• May 12: Alberto and Fuser arrive in Lima, Peru. There, they meet Dr. Hugo Pesce, who lets them help out with the hospital's leprosy patients and takes to Fuser about Latin American nationalism. (The Motorcycle Diaries)
• June 8: Alberto and Fuser arrive as volunteers at the leper colony in San Pablo, Peru. Their time there profoundly impacts Fuser. (The Motorcycle Diaries)
• June 14: Fuser turns 24. He proposes to the staff of the leper colony an idea of a united Latin America, then prepares to leave with Alberto the next day. (The Motorcycle Diaries)
• June 24: FBI Special Agent Arthur Dales arrests Edward Skur, a State Department official and suspected communist. The seemingly straightforward matter will plunge Dales into a macabre series of events involving Skur, a series of gruesome murders, a mysterious man called Mulder and the FBI's bizarre 'unexplained' case division. (The X-Files)
• July 26: Fuser and Alberto finish their journey in Caracas, Venezuela, after 204 days and 12,425 kilometers. (The Motorcycle Diaries and Real Life)
• July 27: Michael Ferrand disappears. (The 4400)
• September 13: On the same day, thirty-one years after the wreck of the Lady Crithania, another ocean liner, the S.S. Lawrence, is wrecked off the coast of Humbleton, England, on its maiden voyage, the same coast the Lady Crithania capsized during the storm and sank. It is unknown how many people have escaped or died there. (SOS — "Luke Haines' Good Epilogue")
• October 20: Birth of Jack O'Neill, future leader of SG-1. (Stargate SG-1)
• November 4:
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Adlai Stevenson in the U.S. presidential election. (Real Life)
  • Joe Steele is elected to his sixth and final term as U.S. President, defeating Robert Taft. ("Joe Steele")
  • [Alternate Universe] Adlai Stevenson is elected U.S. President. (Sliders)
  • On Earth-C, former Second Weird War general Dwight D. Eisenhowler is elected President of the United Species of America. (Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!, date based on Real Life)
  • U.S. President Robert Taft is defeated in his bid for a fourth term by Adlai Stevenson. (Dominion)
  • Adlai Stevenson defeats Dwight D. Eisenhower in the U.S. presidential election after Eisenhower chooses Joseph McCarthy as his running mate. (Alternate Presidents)
  • Robert Taft is elected U.S. President with Joseph McCarthy as his running mate. ("We Could Do Worse")
• November 8: Elizabeth Rove is born. (Joan of Arcadia)
• November 22: Birth of Dhalsim in India. He would grow up to be a master of mysticism and a Martial Pacifist. (Street Fighter II)
• November 28: The GOC interrupts a Sarkic ritual by the Adytum's Wake cult, resulting in the death of everyone at the scene and the creation of SCP-2480. (SCP Foundation)
• December 9: The second issue of MAD goes on sale. (Real Life)
• December 11: The first-ever letter complaining that MAD "just isn't as funny and original like it used to be" arrives. (MAD)
• December 17: A sailor is found floating in radioactive water with superpowers. (The Mighty)
• December 24: The Eleventh Doctor accidentally gets engaged to Marilyn Monroe. (Doctor Who)
• December:
  • Zoe Kuryakin dies in the course of her Cruciamentum, during which she takes on Creighton Faust. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • A drunken Digger Barnes kills Hutch McKinney in a rage when he learns that he is having an affair with his wife Rebecca. Digger later buries Hutch's body on Southfork, where it is discovered during excavation work in 1980. (Dallas)
• Hellboy becomes a field agent for the BPRD. (Hellboy)
• Edward Roivas discovers the Ancient stronghold of En'gha beneath his family's Rhode Island mansion. Braving the ruins, he succeeds in a ritual that destroys the city's guardians. (Eternal Darkness)
• Birth of Richard Collier. He would grow up to become a playwright and a time-traveler. (Somewhere in Time)
• Birth of Martin Hacker. He would grow up to become an FBI agent and member of the Illuminati. (Gargoyles)
• Birth of the immortal Michael Christian in Des Moines, Iowa. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• Birth of Elena Moreno in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She would become the adoptive daughter of Katya of Greenhill. (Highlander: The Series)
• Robert E.O. Speedwagon dies of a heart attack. (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)
• Marcus Brody dies of natural causes. (Indiana Jones: The Ultimate Guide)
• The Eleventh Doctor, Albert Einstein, and Father Christmas have their picture taken together at Frank Sinatra's hunting lodge. Whether this happens at the same party as he got engaged is debatable. (Doctor Who)
• Aperture Science is a runner-up in the US Department of Defense's "Contractor of the Year" award. (Portal 2)
• Eisenhower, vaccine, England's got a new Queen, Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
• Emir Parkreiner kills his parents and disappears from society. (killer7)
• Approximate birth of Arthur to BJ and Julia Blazcowicz. Arthur would pursue a career in show business, and change his surname to Blaze. (Wolfenstein 3-D)
• An enterprising FBI file clerk moves the backlog of "Unexplained" cases from the U-files to the roomier "X" drawer. (The X-Files)
• A Time Gate from a little over thirty thousand years in the future appears in Bob Wilson's room, and he is visited by his future self. (By His Bootstraps)
• Horace Derwent sells the Overlook Hotel to a group of California investors and retreats into seclusion. His scandalous reputation remains connected to the hotel (The Shining).
• Earliest possible birth date of Montague Jetson, George Jetson's grandfather. (The Jetsons)
• Joe and Irene Basch are married. (Quantum Leap)
• Maggie Polanski and Timmy Danbers are born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• A mass shooting at a Thai Catholic school is covered up. (303 Fear/Faith/Revenge)
• Cynthia Harvey Palmer dies. (Roots: The Next Generations)
• Katy Lane dies. (Night Gallery)
• On Earth-Eleven, a small western European country launches the first manned mission to The Moon. (DC Comics)
• Ray Kinsella is born. (Field of Dreams)

1953

• March: Suffering from memory problems, Scrooge McDuck decides to return to the Klondike, the place where he first earned his wealth during the 1890's gold rush, only to find himself reunited with Glittering Goldie, a former rival and love interest. (Back to the Klondike)
• March 5: Josef Stalin dies. (Real Life)
  • Josef Stalin is assassinated by a member of The Commission. (The Umbrella Academy (2019))
• April 14: Sam Beckett leaps into Nick Allen, a private investigator who resembles Humphrey Bogart, in New York. He is there to prevent Nick from being murdered the next day. (Quantum Leap)
• May 12: The FBI arrest Professor Russell Cromwell, a scientist with the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington, as they have discovered that his birth certificate and identification papers are forgeries. They believe that he is a spy. Cromwell tells him that he is a time traveller and that he stole atomic fuel in order to power his time machine. He intends to use it to travel back in time to April 14, 1865 and prevent the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, which he accidentally caused on his first visit to the past. (Weird Fantasy)
• May: Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill dies in exile in Canada. (Fatherland)
• June 1: The Tenth Doctor and Rose Tyler discover a street with an unusually high number of television sets, along with kidnappings of people by The Men in Black. (Doctor Who)
• June 2: Elizabeth II is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. (The Crown and Real Life)
  • The Tenth Doctor prevents the Wire from using the broadcast of the coronation to consume minds across Great Britain. (Doctor Who)
  • A pair of children from Dorset run into a number of mishaps and situations trying to get to London to see the coronation. (John and Julie)
• June 19: Elliot Garvey is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• July 27: The Korean Armistice Agreement is signed. (Real Life) and (M*A*S*H)
• August 4: Sam Beckett leaps into a sailor named Charlie MacKenzie who has returned to his home town of Oak Creek, Ohio with a Japanese bride named Machiko. He is there to help Machiko integrate into American society and be accepted by Charlie's mother Lenore. (Quantum Leap)
• August 8:
  • At 12:30pm, Sam Beckett is born in Elk Ridge, Indiana. (Quantum Leap)
  • Sam Beckett leaps into an adult version of himself in a bar in Cokeburg, Pennsylvania at the exact moment of his birth. While there, he meets numerous individuals who resemble people whom he has met on previous leaps and others who share the names of important figures at Project Quantum Leap. (Quantum Leap)
• August: [Alternate Universe] Noël Coward dies. ("Random Quest")
• September 7: Sam Beckett leaps into a rainmaker named Billy Beaumont in Clover Bend, Texas, which is suffering a severe drought. He is there to both relieve the drought by making it rain and prevent Billy's sister-in-law Annie from leaving his brother Ralph. (Quantum Leap)
• October 20: See It Now reports on the US Air Force's discharge of reserve Lieutenant Milo Radulovich over his refusal to disassociate himself with his father and sister, who the Air Force alleges are Communist sympathizers. The report helps sway public opinion against the McCarthyist allegations, and Radulovich is reinstated a month later. (Real Life, Good Night, and Good Luck.)
• November 1: The seven-year-old Jesse Keys is abducted by aliens for the first time. They lure him onto their ship by creating an image of the title character of the children's book The Adventures of Artemis P. Fonswick that his mother Kate reads to him every night. Several hours later, he is returned to Earth in the middle of a road and is almost run over by a truck. (Taken)
• December 18: An airplane flying to Ireland falls through the Cardiff rift, and is assumed to be lost at sea. It will actually reappear in 2007. (Torchwood)
• December 31: Birth of Eagle in the United Kingdom. He would grow up to become a bouncer and bodyguard with a sense of culture. (Street Fighter Alpha)
• Aperture Science hires war heroes, Olympians, and later astronauts to test Repulsion Gel, a failed attempt at creating a dietetic pudding substitute, in conjunction with the Aperture Science Portable Quantum Tunneling Device, designed to create a portal between the inside and outside of a shower. (Portal 2)
• The Martians invade Earth. They are defeated by germs. (The War of the Worlds [1953 film])
• Otto Keller murders Villette and confesses to Father Michael William Logan, a Catholic priest. Logan had reasons to want Villete dead himself and is arrested for the murder. (I Confess)
• Christopher Emmanuel "Manny" Balestrero visits an insurance office to attempt to get some money for his wife Rose's dental work. He is mistaken for a lookalike armed robber and finds himself on trial. (Real Life, The Wrong Man)
• World War II ends when Allied armies invade Moscow with the aid of Chronosphere technology. Josef Stalin is among the 100 million casualties of the conflict. (Command & Conquer: Red Alert)
• Mary, future wife of Roy Porter, is born. (Hot Fuzz)
• An Austrian immigrant to New York named Adolf Hitler completes his sci-fi bestseller Lord of the Swastika shortly before he dies of a cerebral hemorrhage possibly caused by syphilis. (The Iron Dream)
• Birth of the merman Rikuo/Aulbath in Brazil. His race lives deep beneath the Amazon. (Darkstalkers)
• Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev, Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
• The Union 7, a group of young members of the Liberal Party of Japan, write the Yakumo, a policy document intended as a last-ditch effort to salvage the party. The Yakumo is presented to the president of the party, but he disappears. (killer7)
• Birth of Karen Green. (House of Leaves)
• Bob Phillips is born. (Knots Landing)
• Edward George Pryor dies. (American Dreams)
• Trudy Calavicci and Violet Aider die. (Quantum Leap)
• Jessica Elroy are born. (Quantum Leap)
• [Alternate Timeline] Earth is a utopian, unified republic which has eliminated war, bigotry, disease and prejudice. Space travel is commonplace and atomic war is used for the purposes of construction rather than destruction. The Republic of Earth owes its existence to the teachings of the Great Man Abraham Lincoln. This timeline is accidentally negated by the time traveler Professor Russell Cromwell, who inadvertently allowed John Wilkes Booth to assassinate Lincoln at Ford's Theatre on April 14, 1865. (Weird Fantasy)
• The Republican-Democratic party (R-D) is founded as a coalition between the Republican and Democratic parties. George S. Patton founds the Patriotic Party the same year. (The New Order Last Days Of Europe)
• In Eerie, Indiana, the fourth 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)
• Pedro is born in Madeiro, Mexico. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• In Düsseldorf, four couples - the Nielsens, the Werners, the Elkenbergs and the Kalders - agree to make their children the subject of an experiment: to induce telepathic ability in them by never speaking to them. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Kara Kent is born to Clark Kent and Lois Lane Kent. (Superman & Batman: Generations)
• Brenda Morgenstern is born. (Rhoda)
• Birth of Mizuno, a future nightclub owner. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• Jack Hamilton takes up the post of Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge University. ("Oracle")
• Martina Becker gives up her real life to join Frida's Friends Club. (Unimaa)
• The battle of Marienburg rages on Nazi Germany's doorstep after the Soviet Union repels them and goes on the offensive. Hochmeister Zytek unleashes the final step of his plan. (Block 109)
• Anton Rayne is elected the Fourth President of Sordland following the disastrous economic management of his predecessor, Ewald Alphonso. (Suzerain)

1954

• January: [Alternate Universe] there are widespread demonstrations of civil disobedience in Delhi calling for the immediate release of Jawaharlal Nehru from prison. ("Random Quest")
• March 1: General Douglas MacArthur attempts to destroy Godzilla via a nuclear bomb. The nuclear detonation is recorded under the guise of the "Castle Bravo" test on Bikini Atoll. (Godzilla (2014))
• March 9: Reporter Edward R. Murrow and producer Fred Friendly air a report on CBS's See It Now that is critical of Senator Joseph McCarthy. (Real Life, Good Night, and Good Luck.)
• March 20: In the real-life inspiration for the film Hoosiers, Milan High School, a tiny rural Indiana institution, wins the state basketball title 32–30 over Muncie Central High.
• April 6: Senator McCarthy appears in a pre-recorded segment on See It Now to rebut Ed Murrow's report. The rebuttal consists primarily of personal attacks and wild accusations of Murrow being a socialist and Communist sympathizer. (Real Life, Good Night, and Good Luck.)
• April 13: Ed Murrow goes on See It Now to point out errors in Senator McCarthy's allegations against him. (Real Life, Good Night, and Good Luck.)
• April 17: Birth of M. Bison. He would grow up to become the leader of the paramilitary organization Shadaloo/Shadowlaw and a would-be world conqueror. (Street Fighter II)
• May 8: Jane Nance is born. (The 4400)
• May 17: Racial segregation is declared unconstitutional in America thanks to the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Supreme Court decision. (Real Life)
  • Duncan MacLeod and Carl Robinson are pleased by the outcome of Brown. (Highlander: The Series)
  • Ben Song leaps into Liam O'Connor, a PI hired to go undercover at an insane asylum to rescue a woman named Judith. (Quantum Leap (2022)^{Justification}A deleted scene references the Brown decision.)
• May 18:
  • Ben's leap is put into jeopardy when the other leaper Martinez leaps into an orderly named Lawrence. (Quantum Leap (2022))
  • Ben and Martinez leap back into Liam and Lawrence while leaping back through their previous encounters. Martinez beats Ben to a pulp before they leap out again. (Quantum Leap (2022))
• June 3: Sam Beckett leaps into Phillip Dumont aboard the RMS Queen Mary. He is there to prevent Phillip's ex-wife Catherine Farrington from marrying a gangster named Vincent "Vinny the Vipper" Loggia. (Quantum Leap)
• July 3:
  • Sam Beckett leaps into Elvis Presley in Memphis, Tennessee two days before he is discovered by Sun Records. He is there to prevent a shy young woman named Sue Anne Winters from marrying the abusive Frank Begley. (Quantum Leap)
  • Gary Pitkin, an Elvis impersonator from 1986, is transported back in time to Memphis, Tennessee where he meets the real Elvis Presley. Due to their strong resemblance, Elvis comes to believe that Gary is his twin brother Jesse who died at birth. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• July 4: Gary Pitkin helps Elvis Presley prepare for his audition at Sun Records. When he begins playing "I Love You Because" on his guitar, Gary tells him that he should play "That's All Right" instead. However, Elvis thinks that this is "Devil's music" and the two of them get into a fight. Elvis is accidentally impaled on the broken neck of his guitar and dies. Gary buries him and assumes his identity. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• July 5:
  • Elvis Presley records his first single "That's All Right" for Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. (Real Life)
  • Having assumed the identity of the late Elvis Presley, Gary Pitkin records the single "That's All Right" for Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
  • After accidentally changing history, Sam Beckett performs "That's All Right" in a diner in Memphis, Tennessee for Sun Records producer Sam Phillips so that Elvis Presley will be signed. (Quantum Leap)
• September 4: Sam Beckett leaps into a legendary pool player named Charlie "Black Magic" Walters in Chicago. He is there to win a high stakes pool game so that Charlie's granddaughter Violet Walters can keep her bar. (Quantum Leap)
• September 15: Peter Alan Tyler is born. (Doctor Who)
• October 3: Sam Beckett leaps into Sam Beiderman, the inmate of a mental institution, in Havenwell, Pennsylvania. He is there to teach a fellow inmate named Tibby Johnson to read and write so that he will be able to get a job and take care of himself once he is released. However, Sam is subjected to electroshock therapy and assumes the identities of numerous previous leapees. (Quantum Leap)
• October: Tim Taylor is born. (Home Improvement)
• November 9: After becoming involved in the events preceding the Salem witch trials in January 1692, the First Doctor and his companions Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright arrive in Bristol. They go to see a performance of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible in which the trials are depicted. Susan is very upset to learn the fate of the people that she had met in Salem and uses the fast return switch to bring the TARDIS back to Salem in the hope of altering history. (Past Doctor Adventures)
• November: The Berlin assignment obtains a defector named Fritz Feger, second man in the East German Defence Agency. (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)
• December 26: Bettie Petrowski is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• The first Godzilla appears and destroys Tokyo. He is eventually killed, but scientists fear he wasn't the only member of his species. (Gojira)
• Explorers encounter a "gill man" in the Black Lagoon. (Creature from the Black Lagoon)
• Tony Wendice, a retired professional tennis player, hires an assassin to kill his wife, Margot, so he can claim the insurance money. When Margot kills the assassin in self-defence, Tony tries to get her convicted of murder so she will get the death penalty. (Dial M for Murder)
• L. B. "Jeff" Jeffries, a professional photographer, breaks his leg during a dangerous assignment. Confined for a while to his small apartment, he starts spying on his neighbours out of boredom. Lars Thorwald starts acting suspiciously at about the same time. (Rear Window)
• The ^{heavy season 5 spoilers}hydrogen bomb is buried on the Island by the Others, with the help of the Losties. (Lost)
• End of the Third Jedi Purge; New Jedi Order dissolved and Jedi scattered. Exiled Jedi and bounty hunter Cade Skywalker discovers his destiny and begins combating the New Sith Order. (Star Wars)
• Birth of Claw. (Gargoyles)
• Aperture Science is again a runner-up to the US Department of Defense's "Contractor of the Year" award. (Portal 2)
• Asha Sayre becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Birth of Nikki Wood. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Roy Cohn, Juan Perón, Toscanini, dacron, Dien Bien Phu falls, "Rock Around the Clock" ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
• Bloody Heartland murders gain attention. UN Party becomes the dominant political party in Japan. (killer7)
• In England, Hellboy meets the Osiris Club and becomes tasked with slaying the Saint Leonard Worm. In the aftermath, white lilies are seen sprouting from his blood. (Hellboy: The Nature of the Beast)
• Birth of Stanley and Stanford Pines in New Jersey. ^{Justification}Tracing the chronology of "A Tale of Two Stans" indicates that the two were about to graduate high school in 1972, making them 18 years old at that point. Stanley states in "Dipper and Mabel vs the Future" that he is nearly 70, but this is inconsistent with other episodes, and Stanley is not known for his honesty.. (Gravity Falls)
• Brooks Hatlen is released from Shawshank Prison on parole after 50 years. He finds it impossible to adapt to the modern world and hangs himself in his apartment. (The Shawshank Redemption)
• William R. Simonson is born. (Soylent Green)
• Allan Hartley graduates from Penn State while his childhood friend Larry Morton graduates from Cornell. ("Time and Time Again")
• Bayside High School is founded. (Saved by the Bell: The New Class)
• Paul Nader dies. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Randy is born. (Airplane!)
• Barbara Wright is a student teacher in Cricklewood, London. (Past Doctor Adventures)
• Tulung is born in Alaska. (Big Finish Doctor Who)
• Nodal and Layale are married on Vyus. (Stargate SG-1)
• Deimos is released in theaters. It would go on to become a very successful kaiju franchise. (13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim)
• Birth of Hisako Hayama. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• Birth of Goro Kaneda. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• Robert Stoney begins work on generalizing Maxwell's field equations to gravitation. ("Oracle")
• The Ordenstaat Burgund (SS State of Burgundy) is created as a compromise between Hitler and Himmler. (The New Order Last Days Of Europe)
• A telethon for the St. Fanny's Hospital TV Fundraiser for Dying Children is hosted by Graham Bannon (Patrick's father), who informs the viewers that he requests their help, because a little girl named Suzie Button has a life-threatening condition called "pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism" (the name that he has trouble pronouncing), and that she may die unless a sum of $20,000 is raised for funding. He starts off with a caller presentation before moving to the Raj and Rishik Act, followed by an acrobat, and the Lovely Legs Contest in the first act; a magician, a fire-breathing man, and a dive into a bucket of water by a daredevil for Act 2; and a unicyclist and a "Strong Man" for Act 3, followed by a Grand Finale. During the first act, however, Graham is told that the producer, director, most of the acts, and all of the audience are unable to come to the stage. Fortunately, an unknown stagehand fills in as the producer. While trying to keep up, most of the acts (except for the Scritchford Dance Club Performance) have gone awry. By the time the final act is coming to a close, a real monkey shows up. Graham asks him to dance, but the monkey stubbornly refuses and fights. The producer saves the day by telling Graham that if they work together as a team, everything is possible.^SpoilerThe Producer then reveals himself to be Peter Clement, future co-founder of Advance. Afterwards, the grand finale is capped off an exit dance that raises all the funding to $20,000, enough for a cure or a treatment to save Suzie. (Not for Broadcast — Day 56: The Telethon)

1955 C.E. - 1959 C.E.

1954 or 1955

• Alfred Hitchcock offers Amanda a job as a 'technical advisor' in his current project: To Catch a Thief, a film about cat burglars. Amanda turns him down, as the job would interfere with her busy schedule of committing cat burglaries. (Highlander: The Raven)
• Michigan J. Frog is discovered alive having been sealed in the cornerstone of a building built in 1892. (Looney Tunes: One Froggy Evening)
• Elizabeth Gold joins the British Communist Party. (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)

1955

• January: Mark Craig and Ellen Harper are married. (St. Elsewhere)
• April 3: Tess Doerner disappears. (The 4400)
• April 19: Lewis Mesirow disappears. (The 4400)
• May 15: Ben Song leaps into Professor Henry McCoy at Princeton University. He's there to stop a secret fusion formula written by Albert Einstein from falling into the wrong hands. He meets Hannah Carson for the second time and reveals his true identity to her. (Quantum Leap (2022))
• July 2: Birth of Sagat in Thailand. He would grow up to become a master of the Muay Thai fighting style. (Street Fighter Alpha)
• July 23: Sam Beckett leaps into a professional wrestler named Terry Sammis in Atlanta. He is there to prevent Terry's elder brother and partner Ronny from dying in the ring due to an undiagnosed heart defect. (Quantum Leap)
• August 5: Eric Papequash disappears. (The 4400)
• August 8:
  • Sam Beckett celebrates his second birthday. (Quantum Leap)
  • Sam Beckett leaps into Jesse Tyler, a 79-year-old African-American chauffeur, in Alabama. He is there to prevent Jesse's employer Miss Melanie Trafford, the widow of the former governor, from being killed when a train hits her car. (Quantum Leap)
  • Sam Beckett leaps into Clayton Fuller, the sheriff of Pottersville, Louisiana. He is there to prevent Clayton and his ten-year-old daughter Abagail from being killed in a house fire set by Leta Aider. (Quantum Leap)
• Spring/Summer: Michael Corleone order the simultaneous execution of the heads of the “Five Families” of New York and Moe Greene in Las Vegas. (The Godfather)
• September 4: Will Girardi is born. (Joan of Arcadia)
• September 24: President Dwight D. Eisenhower has a heart attack. (Real Life) Martha Peabody's classmate Peggy Ann takes notes from a television news report about it to write a report for class. (Back to the Future)
• October 4: The Brooklyn Dodgers win the World Series against the New York Yankees. (Real Life) Bobby Hanes takes Daniel Malone to a fine dining establishment to celebrate. (The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn)
• October 7: Allen Ginsberg first reads Howl (1955) publicly in San Francisco. (Howl 2010 film)
• November 4: At dinner, Otis Peabody's children Martha and Sherman beg him to buy a television set, but he doesn't see any use for it. (Back to the Future)
• November 5: Dr. Emmett Brown falls off his toilet, bumps his head, and has a vision of the flux capacitor, which makes time travel possible. (Back to the Future)
  • In the original timeline, George McFly is struck by Sam Baines' car after falling from a tree. Baines' daughter Lorraine feels sorry for George and develops the Florence Nightingale Effect. (Back to the Future)
  • Marty McFly, a time traveler and protege of Doc Brown, arrives from 1985, accidentally prevents the incident that caused his parents to meet, altering the timeline. He makes his way to Doc Brown's house. (Back to the Future)
• November 7: Marty tries to introduce George and Lorraine to each other at school, but Lorraine is uninterested in George and has the hots for Marty. Later that night, "Darth Vader" visits George and orders him to ask Lorraine to the dance. (Back to the Future)
• November 8: Biff Tannen and his goons chase Marty around Courthouse Square. Lorraine asks Marty to ask her to the dance. (Back to the Future)
• November 9: George and Marty conspire to make George look like a "fighter" to Lorraine. (Back to the Future)
• November 12: Hill Valley High School has its "Enchantment Under the Sea" dance, where George and Lorraine kiss for the first time. The Hill Valley courthouse clock tower is struck by lightning and permanently damaged. (Back to the Future)
  • In the altered timeline, George stands up to Biff and kisses Lorraine at the dance, ensuring Marty's existence. Doc Brown uses foreknowledge of the clock tower lightning strike to send Marty home. (Back to the Future)
  • Biff Tannen is given a sports almanac from his future self, which he uses to gather a large fortune in sports betting. Or would have in an alternate timeline, if not for the intervention of Marty McFly and Doc Brown coming back to prevent an alternate 1985.^MoreThe confluence of time-travel and time-traveler related events on this date leads Brown to speculate that November 12, 1955 is inherently a date of cosmic significance, possibly even the temporal junction point for the entire space-time continuum. That, or an amazing coincidence. The DeLorean is struck by lightning, sending Doc Brown back to 1885. (Back to the Future Part II)
• November 13: The 1955 version of Doc Brown, still shaken from the previous night's events, is shocked to see Marty back from the future. They read a letter from Doc's older self, stranded in the Old West. (Back to the Future Part III)
• November 14: Doc and Marty retrieve the time machine from a mine. They discover the future Doc's grave and cause of death. (Back to the Future Part III)
• November 15: Sam Beckett leaps into Billie Jean Crockett, a heavily pregnant 16-year-old girl, in Claremont, Oklahoma. He is there to prevent Billie Jean from giving her baby up for adoption, which she regretted for the rest of her life. (Quantum Leap)
• November 16: Marty departs 1955 for the last time, headed to 1885 to rescue Doc. (Back to the Future Part III)
• November: Dr. Erdel succeeds in teleporting a Martian to Earth, but promptly dies of a heart attack. The alien, J'onn J'onnz, becomes the Martian Manhunter. (DC Comics)
• December 1: African-American seamstress Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. This sets off the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a key moment in the American civil rights movement. (Real Life) The Thirteenth Doctor and her companions are forced to ensure Rosa's arrest by undoing the meddling a racist from the future, who seeks to preemptively end the civil rights movement at one of its key moments. (Doctor Who)
• John "The Cat" Robie, a retired burglar, is forced pursued by the police when a copycat criminal comes on the scene. (To Catch a Thief)
• Harry Worp dies just outside a small Vermont town in which Jennifer Rogers, his estranged wife, has taken residence in. Everyone assumes they somehow caused Harry's death. (The Trouble with Harry)
• A second Godzilla is discovered as well as a mutated Ankylosaurus known as "Anguirus". Anguirus is killed by the second Godzilla (also known as "Gigantis"), and Godzilla is soon frozen alive by the JSDF. (Godzilla Raids Again)
• Birth of David Xanatos in Bar Harbor, Maine. His father Petros Xanatos is a Greek immigrant and impoverished fisherman. David would grow up to become a businessman. (Gargoyles)
• Public backlash and lawsuits against superheroes leads to the passing of the Superhero Relocation Act, and the retirement of all known supers. (The Incredibles)
• Estimated birth of Miri on a planet nearly-identical to Earth. Due to receiving a life-prolongation treatment as a child, Miri would age extremely slowly. She was still prepubescent in the 23rd century. The catch being that entering puberty could be fatal to her. (Star Trek: The Original Series)
• Donald Salzer joins the Watchers as a historian. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• Birth of the immortal Frank Brennan. (Highlander: The Raven)
• Donald Duck reconciles Scrooge and Matilda McDuck (The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck)
• The National Potato Board recognizes Aperture Science with the Spirit of Idaho award for its work promoting potato science. (Portal 2)
• Michigan J. Frog is buried alive in the cornerstone of the new "Tregoweth Brown Building" to be rediscovered when that building is demolished in 2056. (Looney Tunes: One Froggy Evening)
• Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team, Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
• Union 7 attend a secret meeting in the Union Hotel, where they are killed by Emir Parkreiner. Parkreiner himself is then killed by Harman Smith. Harman Deltahead and Kun Lan resurrect. (killer7)
• Henry and Abigail Morgan travel aboard the Orient Express for their honeymoon. While aboard, Henry saves the life of King of Urkesh's son; the king rewards Henry with a ring. (Forever)
• Detective Harry Angel is retained to track down the vanished prewar musician Johnny Favorite. (Angel Heart)
• Henry Allen is born. (The Flash (2014))
• Dr. Mark Craig finishes his internship at St. Eligius and becomes a cardiac surgeon at Boston General Hospital. (St. Elsewhere)
• Sarah O'Casey dies of polio. (St. Elsewhere)
• Father Joseph McCabe is relieved of his position as chief administrator of St. Eligius by the Archbishop of Boston Richard Cushing. He is reassigned to a parish in Phoenix, Arizona to convert the Hopi tribe to Christianity. Dr. Daniel Auschlander succeeds him at St. Eligius. (St. Elsewhere)
• Rose Greenman dies. (Quantum Leap)
• Nina Morrison and Walter Sandler are born. (St. Elsewhere)
• The Ghost enters suspended animation. He is revived in 1990. (The Flash (1990))
• Anthony Fremont is born in Peaksville, Ohio to Bill and Agnes Fremont. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• On Altair IV, aliens run a commando training simulation in preparation for their upcoming invasion of Earth. Two aliens playing the roles of the young couple Dr. Kevin Carlson and Faith suffer memory loss and begin to believe that they are humans caught up in an alien invasion. (The Twilight Zone (1985))
• The film I Married An Abolitionist is released in the Confederate States. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
• A 22nd Century time traveler named Teddy Cochrane breaks the rules and lands his flying saucer in Ohio in 1955. In the process, he accidentally kills a dog. This results in history being altered as the dog was supposed to raise the alarm about a fire. In the dog's absence, the fire kills many people who would have otherwise lived and their descendants are erased from existence. The story of Teddy Cochrane later serves as a cautionary tale to other time travelers. (The Flipside of Dominick Hide)
• Murray Slaughter and Marie Maguire are married. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• Ground is broken on the Malgrave Factory for bottling the pink dust on Malgrave Island. (Mystery Case Files: The Malgrave Incident)
• Ray Kinsella's mother dies. (Field of Dreams)
• Birth of Tatsuya to Teruhiko Uchida and his unnamed wife. ^more Actually, Tatsuya is adopted; his biological father is Tadashi Urabe, whose wife died of complications after giving birth and did not want his son to grow up in a single-parent household. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• Birth of Sayaka Ishibashi. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• Birth of Goro Kaneda. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• British intelligence agent George Smiley intercepts Russian agent Karla in Delhi, as the latter is being brought back to the USSR. Even though Karla's return is almost certainly to face execution, Smiley is unable to convince him to become a double agent. (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy)
• Jun Tanaka is born in Osaka. (Unimaa)

Early to mid 1950s

• Sometime before or during 1954: The SS Rebellion, an attempted coup by Heinrich Himmler, takes place. The plot is uncovered by Hans Speidel. (The New Order Last Days Of Europe)
• The West Russian War begins. The WRRF launches a major counter-attack against the Reich. (The New Order Last Days Of Europe)
• The Alliance of Shades are established on Earth, covering up any alien invasions. (Doctor Who Expanded Universe [animated serials], Men in Black, The Sarah Jane Adventures)
• Latest possible date for the birth of Akuma/Gouki, presumably in Japan. He would grow up to become a combat addict with a code of honour: he will fight worthy opponents to the death but refuse to fight or kill those clearly inferior to himself. (Street Fighter II^{justification}Estimated to be in his forties at his first appearance in 1993. Believed to be among the older fighters in the game. )
• Earliest possible date for the birth of Gill. He would become the leader of the Illuminati by his 22nd year. His organization is devoted to the service of mankind, but they tend to take things a bit far. (Street Fighter III^{justification:}His profile states that Gill is obligated to step down at his 46th year, when reaching the maximum age for an active leader. He is presumed to be still under 46 years old in 1997-1998.)
• Earliest possible date for the birth of Urien, younger brother of Gill. He would constantly rival him for the leadership of the Illuminati. (Street Fighter III^{justification}His profile states Urien was an eligible candidate for the position since before Gill took it, making them sound close in age.)
• On Earth-2, Clark Kent married fellow Daily Star reporter Lois Lane; Lois also learned her husband's secret identity. (Action Comics #484, DC Comics)
• On Earth-2, Bruce Wayne married a now-reformed Selina Kyle. Unlike her Earth-1 counterpart (as shown in Detective Comics #203), Selina never returned to crime. (Superman Family #211, DC Comics)
• Fearing the superweapon research being conducted on the Space Colony Ark, especially Project SHADOW, G.U.N. invade the Ark and kill many of the personnel on-board. Before Maria Robotnik succumbs to her injuries, she sends Shadow the Hedgehog to the planet's surface where he would spend several decades in stasis. (Sonic the Hedgehog) ^*In the cutscene before the G.U.N. Fortress level of Shadow the Hedgehog, the G.U.N. Commander says it's been 50 years (probably not an exact figure) since the Ark's invasion. This timeline places the events of Shadow in 2006, largely on year of release.
• When he is seven or eight years old, Jesse Keys is brought to a carnival in Bement, Illinois by his stepfather Sheriff Bill Walker. He loves all of the rides and attractions but he is frightened by the carnies. The image of one particular carny is used by the aliens during his later abductions as well as those of his son Charlie and Lisa Clarke. (Taken)
• Neil Abbott is killed in the Korean War. (St. Elsewhere)
• Professor Peter Bartell discovers the location of the flesh-eating microbes he's been hunting by following a pattern of fish skeletons popping up on shores. (The Flesh Eaters)
• Birth of Seymour to Agnes and Sheldon Skinner. (The Simpsons)
• Birth of John Walters. (Walkyverse)
• President of Sordland Ewald Alphonso enacts significant liberalisation of the Sordish economy, with many key industries being privatised and improved political and economic rights given to its citizens. (Suzerain)

1956

• January: The city of Boston takes over operation of St. Eligius from the Archdiocese of Boston. (St. Elsewhere)
• March 13: Kevin Arnold is born. (The Wonder Years)
• April 20: On Earth 10, Nazi Germany captures Washington. This is the final step in their conquest of Earth. (DC Comics)
• April: Flattop Jr, the son of notorious hitman Flattop Jones, and his accomplice Joe Period embark on a two-state crime spree. Joe Period is caught, but Flattop Jr goes into hiding. (Dick Tracy)
• June 1: Birth of Zangief in the Soviet Union. He would grow up to became a professional wrestler. (Street Fighter II)
• June: Howard Arnell graduates from Leif Erickson High School. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• July 25: The Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collides with the Swedish ocean liner MS Stockholm 45 miles off Nantucket, Massachusetts. 46 people are killed. (Real Life) Several hours before the sinking, the Andrea Doria finds a lifeboat from the RMS Lusitania containing a survivor who has inexplicably managed to survive for 41 years. (Night Gallery)
• August 5: Sam Beckett leaps into the veterinarian Dr. Daniel "Doc" Young in Texas. He is there to fix Tess McGill up with a ranch-hand named Wayne and to help Buddy Holly write "Peggy Sue". (Quantum Leap)
• August 12: Grant Cutter Jr. and Michelle Temple are married. (Quantum Leap)
• August 13: Sam Beckett leaps into Eddie Brackett, the co-pilot of an air taxi, over the Bermuda Triangle. He is there to prevent the plane from disappearing without a trace. (Quantum Leap)
• August 13-17: Marilyn Monroe goes to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago to coach and help Senator John F. Kennedy rehearse his speech nominating Adlai Stevenson. (The Immortals)
• September 6: Alfred Twenter disappears. (The 4400)
• September 13: After stepping into the quantum leap accelerator in 1995, Dr. Sam Beckett leaps into Captain Tom Stratton, an Air Force test pilot, in Brockfield, California. He is there to prevent not only Tom from dying in the attempt to reach Mach 3 but his wife Peggy from having a miscarriage. (Quantum Leap)
• September 27: Sam Beckett leaps into a Greek sailor named Nikos Stathotos who is on a lifeboat in the Aegean Sea with a wealthy heiress named Vanessa Foster. He is there to prevent Nikos and Vanessa from being rescued so they can start a family on a desert island. (Quantum Leap)
• September 30: Jung Pak disappears. (The 4400)
• October 8:
  • Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitches a perfect game against the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 5 of the World Series. (Real Life) Dr. Henry Morgan misses it due to a work commitment, much to the consternation of his young son Abraham. (Forever)
  • Sam Beckett leaps into Arnold Watkins ("the Midnight Marauder") in order to stop a fraternity pledge from dying in an initiation. The success of Sam's leap is put into jeopardy when he crosses paths with evil leaper Alia for the second time.^note Alia, eager to reform and escape Lothos, dual-leaps out with Sam. (Quantum Leap)
• October 9: Thomas E. Dewey defeats Harry S. Truman in the U.S. presidential election; Atlanta beats New England to be the Super Bowl LI champion. (Fake Blues)
• November 2: Sam Beckett leaps into Chance Cole, an escaped convict and member of a chain gang, in Talawaga County, Mississippi. He is there to prevent Chance's fellow prisoner Jasper Boone, a wrongfully convicted African-American man, from being killed. (Quantum Leap)
• November 6:
  • U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower is re-elected, once again defeating Adlai Stevenson. (Real Life) and (Happy Days)
  • U.S. President Adlai Stevenson is re-elected, once again defeating Dwight D. Eisenhower. (Alternate Presidents)
  • U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower is defeated in his bid for re-election by Adlai Stevenson. (Alternities)
  • Ernest Hemingway is elected U.S. President. ("Boozing in the Oval Room")
• November 15: Birth of Rolento F. Schugerg, a German-American boy. He would grow up to become a member of the American special forces, a mercenary and a gang leader. Later in life, Rolento would strive to create his own utopian nation. (Final Fight, Street Fighter Alpha)
• November:
  • Flattop Jr. is killed in a shootout with police officer Lizz Worthington. (Dick Tracy)
  • Jill Patterson (later Taylor) is born. (Home Improvement)
  • Fritz Feger loses contact with the Berlin section. He is suspected to have died in prison. (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)
• December 1: Verena Artinger disappears. (The 4400)
• December 13: Birth of Lee in China. He would grow up to become a master of the kenpo fighting style. (Street Fighter)
• Late 1956: Hans-Dieter Mundt is posted to London, officially on behalf of the East German Steel Mission, but secretly to perform counter-intelligence. (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)
• Barry Allen becomes The Flash. (DC Comics)
• Dr. Benjamin "Ben" McKenna, his wife Josephine Conway "Jo" McKenna and their young son Henry ("Hank") are enjoying a vacation in Morocco. They befriend Louis Bernard, a mysterious Frenchman who turns out to be an agent for the French Intelligence Services. He is later literally backstabbed. His last words to Ben warn of an assassination that is going to happen in London. The McKennas find themselves involved in the espionage business. (The Man Who Knew Too Much)
• The Eisenhower Administration awards Aperture Science a contract to provide shower curtains to all branches of the military except the Navy. (Portal)
• Asha Sayre and her Watcher prevent the Ku Klux Klan, which is under vampiric control, from burning down a black church, but both die in the attempt. Mariko becomes the Slayer. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
• Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev, Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
• In Norway, Hellboy encounters King Vold when meeting with a Professor Edmond Aickman. (Hellboy: King Vold)
• In Mexico, Hellboy teams up with a trio of luchador brothers to battle vampires. (Hellboy in Mexico)
• The flying doctor is abducted from the Australian Outback and brought to Mars. (Journey into Space)
• Stephen Craig is born. (St. Elsewhere)
• Will Pryor is born. (American Dreams)
• Daniel Basch is born. (Quantum Leap)
• The Challengers of the Unknown form. (DC Comics)
• Billy Bayles, Tina Miller and Douglas Stansfield are born. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Carl Jasperson dies. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Helen Foley is born. (Twilight Zone: The Movie)
• Fitzgerald and Esther Fortune are married. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Rachel Rosso is born. (The Flash (2014))
• [Alternate Universe] the German Empire attacks the United States with nuclear weapons during the War of 1956. Germany subsequently occupies the defeated US. The occuption continues until at least the 2090s. (Crosstime Traffic)
• Ruslan Chernovshev is born. (Stargate SG-1)
• Birth of Ryoko Katsuragi. (Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind)
• Signe Rabe dies of an illness. (S.)
• Four guys named Sparky, Smudge, Jinx, and Frankie meet for the first time in high school when they all join the Audio-Visual club. (Forever Plaid)

1957

• January 9: William Anthony "Buck" Rogers is born. (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century)
• January 14: John Robinson is born. (Lost in Space)
• March 2: Sam Beckett leaps into an archaeologist named Dr. Dale Conway in Saqqara, Egypt. He is there to prevent Dale and his fellow archaeologist Dr. Ginny Wills from falling victim to the curse of Ptah-Hotep. (Quantum Leap)
• April 15: Michael Ferdman disappears. (The 4400)
• April 23: Stratogale is killed when her cape gets caught in a jet’s turbine. (The Incredibles)
• Summer: As the Dodgers play their final season in Brooklyn, Daniel Malone plays for their farm team in Montreal. (The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn)
• June 15:
  • Houston Palmer Cotter is killed. (Quantum Leap)
  • Bryan Mills is born. (Taken)
• June 22: Sam Beckett leaps into the 23-year-old version of his holographic observer Al Calavicci in San Diego. The young Al, known by his call sign Bingo, is suspected of the rape and murder of Marci Riker, the wife of his commanding officer Dirk Riker. Sam accidentally changes history so that Al is found guilty of Marci's murder and executed in the gas chamber. As such, Sam gains a new observer, Edward St. John V. (Quantum Leap)
• June: Jacqueline Wade is born. (St. Elsewhere)
• July 27: Philip Silbart is born in Hastings, Nebraska. (Quantum Leap)
• July 29: Sam Beckett leaps into an attorney named Leonard Darcey in Louisiana. He is there to prevent Leonard's client Delilah "Lila" Berry from being convicted of the murder of Houston Palmer Cotter. (Quantum Leap)
• July 31: Luba Skekhter disappears. (The 4400)
• July: An alien lifeform crashes to Earth in a meteorite and proceeds to consume everything in its path, growing larger as it does so. (The Blob (1958))
• August 7: April Stevens (later Ewing) is born. (Dallas)
• September 24: The Dodgers play their last game at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn before moving away to Los Angeles. (Real Life) After this, Ray Kinsella and his father find other things to argue about. (Field of Dreams)
• October 4:
  • The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite, into an elliptical low Earth orbit. (Real Life)
  • The launch attracts the attention of the Vulcans. They proceed to sent a survey ship to observe planet Earth. The surveillance works fine for three weeks. Then the ship faces a mechanical problem and crashlands near Carbon Creek, Pennsylvania. Three surviving Vulcans (T'Mir, Stron and Mestral) have to pose as humans and settle in town. Mestral discovers a new talent: hustling pool. (Star Trek: Enterprise)
  • Lt. Colonel Owen Crawford believes that the successful launch of Sputnik 1 is due to the Soviets capturing an alien ship and managing to determine how it works. (Taken)
  • Sputnik 1 explodes on the launchpad, allowing the American Vanguard satellite to be the first to orbit Earth. (Chrononauts)
  • While searching Earth for Sputnik 1, aliens Omicron and Noodnicron hide inside a metal ball. This ball turns out to be Sputnik, which is launched into space with both aliens aboard. (Mel-O-Toons short "Omicron and the Sputnik")
• October 5: Sam Beckett leaps into Lee Harvey Oswald, then a member of the Marine Corps, in Atsugi, Kanagwa, Japan. He is there to prevent Oswald from killing his superior officer Sgt. Lopez. (Quantum Leap)
• October 6: Sam Beckett leaps into Kenny Sharp, an actor who plays Future Boy in the children's science fiction series Captain Galaxy, in St. Louis. He is there to prevent Moe Stein, who plays Captain Galaxy, from being committed to a mental institution by his daughter Irene Kiner. (Quantum Leap)
• October 19: Michael Audrey Myers is born in Haddonfield, Illinois. The boy will grow up to be one of the worst mass murderers in the world. (Halloween)
• November 9: Sam Beckett leaps into a mortician named Melvyn Spooner in River Rock, Massachusetts. He is there to solve the murder of Hilla "Hilly" Doehner, who died on her 19th birthday. (Quantum Leap)
• November 28: Sam Beckett leaps into Tyler Means, a 82-year-old retired gunfighter, in Coffin, Arizona. He is there to prevent not only Tyler from being killed by his former partner Pat Knight but his disillusioned grandson Stevie from pursuing a life of crime. (Quantum Leap)
• December 9: Atomic Robo and a team from TeslaDyne investigate strange events in the town of Cloverdale, Oregon, encountering a now-familiar monster. (Atomic Robo and the Shadow from Beyond Time)
• December: Wayne Fiscus is born. (St. Elsewhere)
• Indiana Jones travels to Peru to prevent the Soviet Union from obtaining a crystal skull ^morethat turns out to come from aliens. (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
• The Soviet Union launches several ICBMs, turning most of the United States into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The Kingdom of Elvis, encompassing much of Nevada and California, is founded with its capital in Lost Vegas. (Six String Samurai)
• An object is sighted falling into the waters off Rockwell, Maine. The object is later revealed to be a giant robot. ^moreAfter a brief skirmish with the military, the robot sacrifices itself to save Rockwell from a mislaunched nuclear missile. (The Iron Giant)
• A pandemic rages at the wartorn and economic shot countries of the world. (The Shape of Things to Come)
• Birth of Wolf, a distant descendant of Hakon. He would grow up to become a member of the Pack. (Gargoyles)
• During the Mau Mau Uprising, several white zombies are killed by Gikuyu rebels. (The Zombie Survival Guide)
• Lt. Col. Glenn Manning is injured in a nuclear explosion, miraculously he survives but slowly turns into an insane giant. (The Amazing Colossal Man)
• Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac, Sputnik, Chou En-Lai,^note now rendered as Zhou Enlai Bridge on the River Kwai ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
• Harman Smith forms the Second Smith Syndicate, also known as the Killer 7, consisting of himself, Garcian Smith ^moreAKA Emir Parkreiner, Dan Smith, Kaede Smith, Kevin Smith, Coyote Smith, Con Smith, and Mask de Smith. (killer7)
• Amy Archer wins a Pulitzer. (The Hudsucker Proxy)
• Mary Lou Maloney burns to death after she is crowned the queen of Hamilton High prom. At the same time, two students are killed outside the school building. (Hello Mary-Lou: Prom Night II and Prom Night IV: Deliver Us From Evil)
• Strange events surround the first successful test of a British nuclear weapon near Christmas Island. (Black Light)
• Nurse Jenny Lee goes to work as a midwife in London's East End. (Call the Midwife)
• Henry Morgan is recognized in passing by a war buddy, who can't understand how Henry is alive. Fearing that his immortality secret is in jeopardy, Henry and his family pack up and move away. (Forever)
• Arthur "The Fonz" Fonzarelli, Richie Cunningham, and Ralph Malph meet a time-traveler from the 25th century, who takes them to various eras in the past and future in her malfunctioning time machine. Eventually, the gang return home to Milwaukee. (The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang)
• A Nigerian woman who emigrated to London to become a nurse attempts to commit suicide by jumping off Tower Bridge. Instead she is chosen to become the new spirit of the tidal river as Mama Thames. (Rivers of London)
• On Earth-2, Helena Wayne is born to that world's married Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle. (DC Comics)
• George Denbrough, a six-year-old resident of Derry, Maine, is brutally murdered by Pennywise The Dancing Clown, in reality a demonic, extradimensional entity living in the sewers beneath the town. George's death marks the first of one of the creatures feeding frenzies, which occurs once every 27 years. (IT)
• Dr. Pascal Keldermans dies. (Secret Army)
• Howard and Shirley Winnick are married. (Quantum Leap)
• Katie Beckett is born in Elk Ridge, Indiana. (Quantum Leap)
• Sam Beckett leaps into a firefighter and rescues a cat from a tree. (Quantum Leap)
• Brett Johnson is born. (St. Elsewhere)
• Alan and Eileen Ransome are married. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• Alan Parrish and Sarah Whittle are born. (Jumanji)
• Janet Boyce receives a telepathic message from a flying saucer but refuses to divulge its contents. As a result, a congressional committee sentences her to four years in prison for contempt. (X Minus One)
• Lois Einhorn is born.^note The real one, anyway. (Ace Ventura)
• Both American and Soviet defense documents indicate fears relating to the succession of Hermès Bouchard's arms manufacturing company. (S.)
• The National Progressive Front and Patriotic Party merge into the National Progressive Party (NPP), America's second major political party. (The New Order Last Days Of Europe)

1958

• January 28: Dodgers catcher Roy Campanella is paralyzed in a car accident, ending his professional baseball career. (Real Life)
• January 29: Daniel Malone, recovering from a car accident and leg amputation performed a few weeks prior, reads a newspaper report about Roy Campanella's accident. (The Man Who Brought the Dodgers Back to Brooklyn)
• January: A Vulcan survey ship arrives at Earth, attempting to rescue three Vulcans who crashlanded there in October 1957. The trio had spend three months posing as humans in Carbon Creek, Pennsylvania. T'Mir and Stron choose to leave. Mestral likes his new home and decides to stay. T'Mir is the lookalike great-grandmother of T'Pol. (Star Trek: Enterprise)
• February 25: Sam Beckett leaps into a bigamist named Marty Elroy in Florida. He is there to ensure that both of Marty's wives, Ellen and Rachel, leave him so that they can have better lives for themselves. (Quantum Leap)
• March 24: Elvis Presley joins the US Army. (Real Life) Irish Dave regards it as the death of rock 'n' roll. (Taken)
• March 27: Biff Tannen uses the Sports Almanac to make his first million 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 ^{Justification}The newspaper reporting this event also reports that Nikita Khrushchev is appointed premier of the the Soviet Union, which occurred on this date.)
• April 4: Arnold Culliver is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• April 22: Jeff Kern is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• May 10: Sam Beckett leaps into a New York taxi driver named Max Greenman. He is there to prevent Max from being murdered. Along the way, he meets Angelita Carmen Guadalupe Cecelia Jimenez and a young Donald Trump. (Quantum Leap)
• May 25: Janet Gay Kelly is murdered by Leon Stiles in Danbury, Texas. (Quantum Leap)
• Summer: A young boy discovers that his neighbour is horrifically abusing her niece. (The Girl Next Door)
• June 5:
  • Kathryn M. Dorney is murdered by Leon Stiles in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. (Quantum Leap)
  • Peter Quint and Her Majesty's Secret Service decide, in their paranoia, that their agent Robert Stoney is a risk to national security for as long as he remains a homosexual, so they lock him in a cage for six days a week until he gives in. ("Oracle")
• June 7: Sam Beckett leaps into Darlene Monte, a contestant in the beauty pageant Miss Deep South, in Louisiana. He is there to prevent a sleazy photographer named Clint Beaumont from taking nude photos of another contestant, Connie Duncan, and ruining her life. (Quantum Leap)
• June 8: Robin Myles is murdered by Leon Stiles in Enid, Oklahoma. (Quantum Leap)
• June 10: Karen J. Milne is murdered by Leon Stiles in Milne, Arkansas. (Quantum Leap)
• June 18: Sam Beckett leaps into a murderer named Leon Stiles who is holding a mother and daughter, Carol and Becky Pruitt, hostage in Pine County, Oklahoma. He is there to prevent not only Becky from being killed when the police storm the house but also Sheriff John Hoyt from killing Stiles. Complications arise in 1999 when Stiles escapes from the Waiting Room. Al Calavicci must track him down or Sam won't be able to leap. (Quantum Leap)
• June 23:
  • Rowan Morrison is born. (The Wicker Man (1973))
  • A post-human android known as Helen travels back in time to this date, to free Robert Stoney from his imprisonment. ("Oracle")
• June 25: Maureen Robinson is born. (Lost in Space)
• August 10: The death of Sgt. Pepper, he leaves his band's magical instruments to the citizens of his hometown of Heartland. (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
• August 24: Birth of Tessa Noël in Lille, France. She would grow up to become a professional artist (mostly a sculptor), an antiques store owner, and a museum curator. She would also become a significant love interest to Duncan MacLeod. (Highlander: The Series^{justification}The date was depicted on Tessa's gravestone.)
• August 29: John "The Hawk" Hawkins is murdered in Philadelphia. (Cold Case)
• September 1: Sam Beckett leaps into Shane "Funny Bone" Thomas, a member of a motorcycle gang, near Big Sur, California. He is there to prevent Becky from being raped and murdered by the gang's leader Dillon. (Quantum Leap)
• September 12: A raid by Andrew Ryan's forces on Fontaine Futuristics ends in a shootout and Fontaine's apparent death. Ryan nationalizes and takes over the company, and in response to growing disorder and an increasingly ADAM-craving population develops the Big Daddies to protect the Little Sisters as they gather ADAM. A new populist leader known only as Atlas emerges to oppose Ryan. (BioShock)
• October 25: Edward R. Murrow gives his "Wires and Lights" speech before the Radio and Television News Directors Association in Chicago. (Good Night, and Good Luck.^note Date taken from the movie; the Real Life speech was given ten days earlier on October 15.)
• October: Waring Hudsucker commits suicide. Norville Barnes, who started working in the mailroom on the same day, is appointed president of Hudsucker Industries as part of a scheme to prevent company stock from being made public.^{Justification}At the start of the movie, one of the board of management is going over the quarter 3 profits, and other dialogue indicates that the fiscal year is the same as a the astronomical year. This suggests a date of October. (The Hudsucker Proxy)
• November 15: Thunderhead saves a city from being attacked by a rocket, but then is killed when his cape gets caught on the rocket as it launches. (The Incredibles)
• November 18: Sam Beckett leaps into a trapeze artist named Victor Panzini in Colorado. He is there to prevent Victor's younger sister Eva from dying in a stunt that goes wrong. (Quantum Leap)
• November 22: George McFly and Lorraine Baines visit Doc Brown's house, each separately intending to ask "Calvin Klein" for relationship advice. Doc attempts to fix their problems himself by using his knowledge of the future. (Back to the Future)
• November 23: Terry Fisher disappears. (The 4400)
• December 4: Jamie Ewing is born. (Dallas)
• December 18: After eleven years of failing to determine how the alien ship that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico works, the entire scientific research team at Groom Lake, Nevada is reassigned to Iceland. They are replaced by the former Nazi rocket scientist Dr. Kreutz. (Taken)
• December 19:
  • Russell Keys, who has become a drifter, jumps on a train in Granby, Colorado. That night, another drifter named Irish Dave attempts to steal Russell's World War II medals while he is asleep but Russell wakes up and they get into a fight. Irish Dave beats Russell to the point of death. The aliens abduct Russell in order to save his life. While he is aboard the ship, he sees his 12-year-old son Jesse. Russell is returned to the train carriage the next morning. This is the last time that he is abducted. (Taken)
  • Sally Clarke and her 10-year-old son Jacob attend a spacecraft convention in Amarillo, Texas. The keynote speaker is Dr. Peter Quarrington, the author of the book My Life Inside the Flying Saucers who claims to have visited Venus multiple times. Quarrington is secretly an agent of the UFO project who says whatever they tell him to say. (Taken)
• December 24: Russell Keys goes to his home town of Bement, Illinois in order to protect his son Jesse from the aliens. However, Jesse's stepfather Sheriff Bill Walker refuses to let Russell talk to him. (Taken)
• December 25:
  • Russell Keys approaches Jesse outside of his house in Bement, Illinois and convinces him to come with him. The two of them jump a train passing through town. Russell gives his World War II medals to Jesse as a Christmas present. Jesse keeps them with him for the remaining 34 years of his life. That night, Jesse is abducted from the train carriage by the aliens while Russell is asleep. His abduction results in 200 reports of strange lights in the sky over Illinois being reported to the UFO project. (Taken)
  • At the suggestion of Dr. Kreutz, Lt. Colonel Owen Crawford has the psychic identical twins Gladys and Mavis Erenberg brought to Groom Lake, Nevada in order to determine whether they can power the alien ship. Their efforts are unsuccessful and they die from prolonged exposure to the aliens' technology. As a result of this experiment, Crawford misses Christmas Day with his wife Anne and their sons Eric and Sam, causing a strain in his marriage. (Taken)
  • Tom and Becky Clarke return to their childhood home in Lubbock, Texas to spend Christmas Day with their mother Sally and younger half-brother Jacob. Becky tries to convince Sally to send Jacob to the Greenspan School in Missoula, Montana but she refuses to even consider it. (Taken)
• December 26: Russell Keys is arrested for the kidnapping of his son Jesse by his former friend and Jesse's stepfather Sheriff Bill Walker in Mattoon, Illinois. (Taken)
• Before December 31: Hudsucker Industries introduces the hula hoop. (The Hudsucker Proxy)
• December 31:
  • At 11:59, Norville Barnes finds out why he was made president, and attempts suicide. (The Hudsucker Proxy)
  • Lt. Colonel Owen Crawford meets Sally Clarke at a spacecraft convention in Tucumcari, New Mexico. He pretends to be interested in her romantically but his true objective is to kidnap her son Jacob in the hope of using him to power the alien ship. (Taken)
  • Atlas leads an army of splicers and revolutionaries in an all-out attack against Rapture on New Year's Eve, finally pushing the already crumbling city into open war. (BioShock)
• Adam Strange's first adventures on the planet Rann. (DC Comics)
• During a police chase across the rooftops of San Francisco, Detective John "Scottie" Ferguson nearly falls to his death and develops a fear of heights. Soon after, his wife, Madeline, falls to her death from the top of a bell tower, but ^moreMadeline has been dead for a while, murdered by her husband. The woman Scottie is following is actually named Judy Barton and the suicide is staged. (Vertigo)
• Adrian Veidt makes his debut as Ozymandias. (Watchmen)
• Mina Murray and Allan Quatermain, on the run from the corrupted British Secret Service, find The Black Dossier, which tells about the history of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, and escape to the Blazing World. (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)
• The Occult War ends with the death of Adolf Hitler. (Hellboy film series)
• World War III decimates the world. (The Psychotechnic League)
• The Tenth Doctor gets sent to the secret base Dreamland, and discovers a bug war in progress. (Doctor Who Expanded Universe [animated serials])
• Birth of Shannon O'Donnell. She would grow up to become an aerospace engineer and look-alike ancestor of Kathryn Janeway. (Star Trek: Voyager)
• Birth of Brenda Wyatt in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Thomas and Elizabeth Wyatt. She would grow up to become a forenscic scientist and the second wife of Connor MacLeod. (Highlander and novelization)
• Duncan MacLeod and James "Jim" Coltek meet again in Greenwich Village, New York to hunt immortal serial killer Bryce Korland. (Highlander: The Series)
• In Buenos Aires, the immortal Katya of Greenhill meets and adopts Elena Moreno. . (Highlander: The Series)
• Birth of Maria Chavez. She would grow up to become Captain of Detectives in the 23rd precinct of New York City. (Gargoyles)
• Birth of the gargoyle Sora to the Ishimura Clan of Japan. She would become the mate of Yama. (Gargoyles)
• Glen Manning is found in Mexico after believed to be dead, now a disfigured and crazed giant. (War of the Colossal Beast)
• Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball, Starkweather homicide, children of thalidomide. ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
• The monster known as Blackout rises in London. It takes over the city and kills two successive Midnight Mayors before being stopped by a young Robert James Bakker. (The Neon Court)
• Titus Cobbett is cycling through post-war Europe and is writing about it in his diary. (The Shape of Things to Come)
• Birth of Elise (later Elise Davies). (Tru Calling)
• In Virginia, Hellboy encounters witches and a being called The Crooked Man in the Appalachian Mountains. He is assisted by one Tom Ferrel. (Hellboy: The Crooked Man)
• In Malyasia, Hellboy encounters and destroys the Penanggalan. (Hellboy: Penanggalan)
• The Losers Club, a ground of seven 11-year-old misfits and outcasts living in Derry, first befriend each other. Shortly afer, the group realizes that they've all had encounters with a hostile, shapeshifting entity that haunts Derry, and that the entity has been responsible for countless deaths and tragedies over the decades, including William's younger brother George. The Losers battle IT in the sewers, and manages to drive it back into hibernation using a magic ritual, swearing a blood oath to reunite if IT ever returns. (IT)
• Matt Sikes is born. (Alien Nation)
• Charlie O'Reilly is killed when he is run over by a bus. (Quantum Leap)
• Sylvia Walters dies. (Quantum Leap)
• Lou Grant visits Iwo Jima and Guadalcanal. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• Bonnie Slaughter is born. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• Harmon and Flora Gordon are married. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• John Frobisher is born. (Torchwood: Children of Earth)
• The Kusakabe family move to a new house in the country.^note Year identified according to this FAQ. (My Neighbor Totoro)
• Kevin Brown joins the Men in Black, codenamed Agent K. (Men in Black)
• F. X. Caldeira returns to São Paulo, Brazil. (S.)
• Gordon Brittas is born. (The Brittas Empire)
• Robert Stoney quits his position at Manchester after his name is cleared and gets a post at Cambridge. He recruits scientists in many fields to jump-start technological progress. ("Oracle")
• Popular sportsman John B. "Johnny" Hamsleeves is born. (Not for Broadcast)
• Charlie Dompler's grandma says "Damn!" when she sees her husband get shot in the head by a rrrotten burglar. (Smiling Friends)
• Birth of Martha, the future wife of John Walters. (Walkyverse
• Chuck Chandler is turned into the superpowered 3-D Man by Skrull experiments. (Marvel Universe)

1959

• January 1:
  • 12:00 - Norville Barnes speaks with the angel of Waring Hudsucker. (The Hudsucker Proxy)
  • 12:01 - Norville Barnes does not die, and retakes control of Hudsucker Industries. (The Hudsucker Proxy)
  • The New Year's Eve Riots escalate into a civil war within Rapture, pitting followers of the populist leader Atlas against an increasingly tyrannical Andrew Ryan. (BioShock)
  • As it has been a week since his disappearance, the search for Jesse Keys is called off by his stepfather Sheriff Bill Walker, who believes that he is dead. His mother Kate is devastated. (Taken)
  • Lt. Colonel Owen Crawford sabotages Sally Clarke's truck in Tucumcari, New Mexico so that he has an excuse to drive her home to Lubbock, Texas and an opportunity to kidnap Jacob. (Taken)
• January 3:
  • Using the pretense of a fishing trip to get acquainted, Owen Crawford kidnaps Jacob Clarke. Jacob's mother Sally is none the wiser until Crawford's wife Anne shows up at her house, having learned of her husband's whereabouts from his subordinate Captain Marty Erickson. (Taken)
  • After spending ten days aboard an alien ship, Jesse Keys is returned to Earth. His overjoyed mother Kate finds him sitting under a tree in their frontyard in Bement, Illinois. (Taken)
• January 4:
  • Jacob Clarke escapes from Lt. Colonel Owen Crawford by using his powers to show Crawford all of his memories and all of his fears. Crawford is traumatized by the experience as he sees his own death from a stroke on April 27, 1970. That night, a severely weakened Jacob is found wandering down the road by his elder half-siblings Tom and Becky. After bringing him home to Lubbock, Texas, they fake Jacob's death by burning down the shed where their mother Sally had been building a transmitter in the hope of contacting the alien John. Jacob begins attending the Greenspan School in Missoula, Montana. (Taken)
  • Russell Keys is released from the jail in Bement, Illinois as his ex-wife Kate refuses to press kidnapping charges. After giving him $50, Sheriff Bill Walker punches him in the stomach and warns him to never come back. (Taken)
• January 5: Anne Crawford tells her husband Owen that she wants to leave him because of his affair with Sally Clarke. He refuses to let her do so as she knows too much about the UFO project. (Taken)
• January 6: Sam Beckett leaps into Lee Harvey Oswald in Tustin, California. He meets another Marine named Donald P. Bellisario, who objects to Oswald reading Pravda and his Communist beliefs. (Quantum Leap)
• January 27: Birth of Dudley in the United Kingdom to a wealthy family. Dudley would become a professional fighter to raise money after the family fortune was lost. (Street Fighter III)
• February 3: Shortly after a concert in Clear Lake, Iowa on the Winter Dance Party tour, the plane carrying The Big Bopper, Buddy Holly, and Ritchie Valens crashes soon after takeoff, killing all on board. The incident would go down in music history, most notably in Don McLean's "American Pie", as "The Day the Music Died". (Real Life)
• February 15: Jerome Horowitz is born. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• March 5: Flight Lieutenant William Terrance Decker of the Royal Flying Corps lands his plane in Lafayette Air Base in Reims, France, having traveled 42 years forward in time. (The Twilight Zone (1959))
• March 24: Vanessa Ambres is born. (The Flash (2014))
• April 6: Bugs Bunny wins the Academy Award for Best Animated Short for 1958's "Knighty Knight Bugs." This infuriates rival nominee Slappy Stanley, who promptly moves to France, where he stays for the next 30+ years. (Looney Tunes, Tiny Toon Adventures, date from Real Life)
• April 19: Bobby Darin sells out at the Crystal Room of the Sheraton. Across the street at the Swinglane Alleys bowling alley, the Ladies' Championship Bowling League is crooned to by four-piece pop group Forever Plaid, whose sound is described by the Wilkes-Barre Chronicle as being "to contemporary music as formica is to marble". (Forever Plaid)
• April 30: Sam Beckett leaps into a stand-up comedian named Davey Parker in Glendale, Arizona. He is there to prevent Davey's partner Mac MacKay from being murdered by the Mafia. (Quantum Leap)
• May 30: Nikki Carpenter is born. (MacGyver (1985))
• Spring: After being tormented by visions, Victor Creel gruesomely kills his wife and children in their home in Hawkins, Indiana. He insists it was performed by a demon, which gets him sent to Pennhurst Mental Hospital^SpoilersThe killings are actually performed by Victor's young son Henry using his emergent psychic powers. The strain of his abilities causes him to fall into a coma, which conveniently voids him as a suspect. However, it also causes him to come to the attention of Dr. Martin Brenner. (Stranger Things)
• June 2: Dot's grandparents, Mavis and Karl, agree to the housing deal with Michael H. Murphy I, buying or renting their new home in Detroit. (Dot's Home)
• June 11: Gregory House is born. (House)
• June:
  • Mary Richards, Estelle Kamser, Ed Mims and Eldon Colfax graduate from Leif Erickson High School. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
  • J. Walter "Wally" McMillan and Sandy Bennett graduate from Bayside High School. (Saved by the Bell: The New Class)
• July 21:
  • Famous poet John Shade is shot and killed by someone who may or may not be an assassin or possibly an escapee from a local insane asylum. (Pale Fire)
  • Birth of Thunder Hawk in the Thunderfoot Tribe of Mexico. His father Arroyo Hawk would eventually be killed by M. Bison. Thunder would grow up to seeker of vengeance. (Street Fighter II)
• September 9: Sam Beckett leaps into a DJ named Chick Howell in Peoria, Illinois. He is there to bring Rock & Roll to the city. (Quantum Leap)
• September: Jon Osterman gets accidentally stuck in the intrinsic test chamber in Gila Flats, AZ, right before it is about to start an experiment. Osterman's body is completely disintegrated.
• October 15: Adrian Monk is born. (Monk)
• October 21: Sam Beckett leaps into Lee Harvey Oswald in Lubyanka, Moscow, Russia, shortly after Oswald defected to the Soviet Union. (Quantum Leap)
• October:
  • Aging movie actress Barbara Jean Trenton mysteriously disappears from the screening room in her home where she had obsessively watching her old movies for many years. Her agent Danny Weiss sees Barbara, once again young and vibrant, surrounded by her former friends and fellow actors on the screen, having seemingly transported herself into the fantasy she so desperately wanted. (The Twilight Zone: The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine)
  • Ad executive Martin Sloan returns to his hometown Homewood by chance when his car breaks down, and finds himself mysteriously transported to the summer of 1934, where he encounters his 11-year-old self. (The Twilight Zone: Walking Distance)
• November 1: Terry Spencer disappears. (The 4400)
• November 22: Jon Osterman, after being torn apart on molecular level in a Freak Lab Accident two months prior, successfully reassembles himself and becomes Doctor Manhattan. (Watchmen)
• Superman's cousin Supergirl arrives on Earth. (DC Comics)
• Hal Jordan becomes Green Lantern. (DC Comics)
• Madison Avenue advertising executive Roger Thornhill is mistaken for espionage agent George Kaplan and chased halfway across America by enemy spies. During all this, Eve Kendall enters his life and said life is changed forever. (North By Northwest)
• The Seventh Doctor and Mel defeat the Bannermen. (Doctor Who)
• Stephen Peacock, who later will become the floorwalker in the Ladies' and Gentlemen's department at Grace Brothers, gets married. (Are You Being Served?)
• The beginning of the creation of the 'Dictatorship of the Air'. It bans religion as well as making Basic English the global language and the Common Era the common dating system. (The Shape of Things to Come)
• Birth of Clare Raymond. She would grow up to become a homemaker and mother of two. Being subject to cryogenic stasis, Clare was still alive in the 24th century. (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
• Donald Salzer becomes a historical researcher for the Watchers. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• Birth of the immortal Alfred Cahill in London, England. (Highlander: The Series, Watcher Chronicles CD-ROM)
• Birth of Morgan Morgan. He would grow up to become a NYPD police officer and a close friend of Eliza Maza. (Gargoyles)
• Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, space monkey, Mafia, hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go. ("We Didn't Start the Fire")
• A treaty is signed between the Midnight Mayor of London and the Neon Court. (The Neon Court)
• Curtis Blackburn commits various secret atrocities on behalf of the US government and becomes known in Seattle's underground circles. (killer7)
• The Utonium boy is saved from an evil time-travelling monkey by a trio of little girls. This sparks his interest in science and drive to one day create the perfect little girl. (The Powerpuff Girls)
• A "psychic investigation" at the Hugh Crain manor in New England ends disastrously. (The Haunting of Hill House)
• The Pound Puppies defeat Marvin McNasty to restore the Bone of Scone (Pound Puppies and the Legend of Big Paw)
• In Ireland, Hellboy investigates the abduction of Alice Monhagan, eventually rescuing the child. Gruagach, a fairy involved in the abduction, swears vengeance on him. (Hellboy: The Corpse)
• In Brazil, Hellboy rescues a women from Nazi scientist and war criminal Herman von Klempt. (Hellboy: World's Greatest Paranormal Investigator)
• Bank teller Henry Bemis survives World War III through sheer luck while stuck in a bank vault. Believing himself to be the last man on Earth, Bemis delights in finally being able to indulge in his passion of reading with no other demands on his time, but in a moment of cruel irony he accidentally breaks his glasses, leaving him virtually blind. (The Twilight Zone: Time Enough At Last)
• Pervis Takins, Carol Benning and Daniel Burke are born. (Quantum Leap)
• Phyllis Sutherland and Lars Lindstrom are married. (The Mary Tyler Moore Show)
• The six-year-old Kara Kent first exhibits superpowers when she floats in the air. In order to suppress her powers, her mother Lois Lane Kent gives her an amulet that mimics the effects of a red sun. Her husband Clark Kent had made the amulet for her when she was pregnant with Kara so that the baby would not develop powers in the womb. (Superman & Batman: Generations)
• Lex Luthor, who is in actuality the Ultra-Humanite, approaches the nine-year-old Joel Kent. He tells him that his father Clark Kent is Superman and that he exposed his mother Lois to gold kryptonite while she was pregnant with him so that he would not develop powers. According to Luthor's twisted narrative, Clark feared that Joel would eventually become more powerful than him and eclipse him as Earth's greatest superhero. (Superman & Batman: Generations)
• Nora Thompson (later Allen) is born. (The Flash (2014))
• Heinz Buckliger is born in Breslau in the Greater German Reich. (In the Presence of Mine Enemies)
• Reginald Pearson begins working as Michael Blake's valet. (Quantum Leap)
• Former SS-Obersturmführer Karl Rademacher immigrates to the United States under the alias of a Swiss national named Robert Greene. He opens a dry cleaning business in Philadelphia. (The Outer Limits (1995))
• Hans-Dieter Mundt escapes British police and returns to East Germany ^note after making a deal with British intelligence to become an informer. Mr. de Jong dies in what appears to be a traffic accident. Karl Riemek, on the Praesidium of the East German Communist Party, makes contact with Alec Leamas and Berlin section ^note on the orders and direction of Mundt. (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold)
• Robert Stoney holds an exhibition of the scientific wonders he and his colleagues have developed thanks to Helen's futuristic knowledge. Jack Hamilton attends the exhibition and is perturbed. That night, he confronts Stoney, and witnesses him effortlessly dispatch Peter Quint. This convinces Hamilton that Stoney is receiving demonic assistance. ("Oracle")

mid to late 1950s

• Latest possible date for the birth of Donovan Baine. He would grow up to become a Buddhist monk and a vampire hunter. (Darkstalkers^{justification}The youngest possible age of taking bhikkhu vows and becoming a full monk is 20 years old. Donovan supposedly spend "ten years" seeking peace as a monk, making him 30. He then started a Walking the Earth period which supposedly took him on numerous journeys. All before making his debut in 1995.)
• Estimated birth of Darun Mister in India. He would become the most prominent wrestler of his country. (Street Fighter EX^{justification}Counterpart to Zangief. Presumably close in age to his rival.)
• The launch of Sputnik, and resulting popular interest in space and science fiction, causes a decline in interest in cowboy-themed television programming and toys which results in the cancellation of Woody's Round-up and the termination of the related line of toys. (Toy Story 2)
• J.R. Dobbs, a struggling mid-American salesman, claims to have undergone a bizarre religious epiphany. (The Church of the Subgenius)
• Earliest possible date for the first appearance of Cure Flower. Encounters and defeats Dune by herself (HeartCatch Pretty Cure!)
• Despite its lofty ambitions, the Ingsoc government fails after less than a decade in power, and Big Brother is assassinated. The regime is completely dismantled by 1958. (The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier)
• The West Russian War ends. Pyrrhic German victory. (The New Order Last Days Of Europe)

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