| # | | 1862 - 164 years ago | | 1 | April 4, 1862   | 19th Century and earlier | Events | |
April 4, 1862
Date of posted order: Any civilian caught interfering with the railroad bridges, tunnels or trains will be summarily hanged.
| | 1865 - 161 years ago | | 2 | April 14, 1865  | 19th Century and earlier | Events | |
April 14, 1865
After Peter Corrigan discusses the possibility of time travel with his friends at the Potomac Club on April 14, 1961, he steps outside the club to find himself magically transported back in time to April 14, 1865, the night of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination. He attempts to save the president's life, but fails.
| | 1876 - 150 years ago | | 3 | June 25, 1876 | 19th Century and earlier | Events | |
June 25, 1876
On the 88th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, three United States Army National Guard soldiers participating in a war game are transported back to 1876.
| | 1880 - 146 years ago | | 4 | November 14, 1880 | 19th Century and earlier | Events | |
November 14, 1880
In 1960, Professor Manion uses his time machine to pluck outlaw cowboy Joe Caswell from 1880 just as he is about to be hanged for murder.
| | 1881 - 145 years ago | | 5 | July 1, 1881 | 19th Century and earlier | Headlines | |
July 1, 1881
Time traveler Paul Driscoll arrives in Homeville, Indiana from the future. The Homeville Clarion newspaper headline: President Garfield to Attend Commencement Exercises at Williams' College.
| | 6 | July 2, 1881 | 19th Century and earlier | Events | |
July 2, 1881
Time traveler Paul Driscoll argues with fellow boarding house resident Mr. Hanlon over politics and war during dinner. Later, Paul kisses schoolteacher Abby Sloan outside when news of President Garfield being shot becomes known.
| | 7 | July 3, 1881 | 19th Century and earlier | Headlines | |
July 3, 1881
While trying to prevent a runaway wagon's kerosene lantern from gutting the county school and injuring twelve schoolchildren rehearsing for the 4th of July celebration, time traveler Paul Driscoll unintentionally causes the disaster himself. The Homeville Clarion newspaper headline: PRESIDENT GARFIELD'S CONDITION UNCHANGED. NATION PRAYS.
| | 8 | July 4, 1881 | 19th Century and earlier | Events | |
July 4, 1881
Schedule for Homeville, Indiana's planned 4th of July celebration according to schoolteacher Abby Sloan: Parade at 9, speech at 11, games from noon to 5, picnic supper, and then fireworks and concert. Festivities are canceled following the fire at the schoolhouse the day before, a disaster time traveler Paul Driscoll unintentionally causes while trying to prevent.
| | 1890 - 136 years ago | | 9 | March 10, 1890 | 19th Century and earlier | Headlines | |
March 10, 1890
The Daily Courier newspaper headline: Government surplus only 85 million.
| | 1915 - 111 years ago | | 10 | May 6, 1915 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | |
May 6, 1915
Time traveler Paul Driscoll attempts and fails to warn the captain and change the course of the doomed Lusitania, before it is torpedoed by a German U-Boat.
| | 1917 - 109 years ago | | 11 | March 5, 1917 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | |
March 5, 1917
British military Lieutenant Terry Decker of 56 Squadron Royal Flying Corps flies through a strange white cloud in 1917 that transports him forward in time to 1959.
| | 1918 - 108 years ago | | 12 | July 18, 1918 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Death Dates | |
July 18, 1918
Elderly English literature professor Ellis Fowler's former student Rice dies of wounds at the Battle of Chateau-Thierry. Fowler taught him about courage.
| | 1923 - 103 years ago | | 13 | January 12, 1923 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Headlines | |
January 12, 1923
Newspaper headline: At the Wells on Road Show Tour, featuring a photo of actress Gladys Gregory, who looks remarkably like ageless actress Pamela Morris.
| | 1929 - 97 years ago | | 14 | October 23, 1929 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | |
October 23, 1929
At the Potomac Club, Corrigan and Whittaker discuss the possibility of traveling back in time to the night before the stock market crash and selling out their securities.
Whittaker: Let's say, Corrigan that you go back in time. It's October 1929, the day before the stock market crashed. Now, you know that on the following morning securities are going to tumble into an abyss. Now, using this prior knowledge, there's a hundred things you could do to protect yourself.
Corrigan: But I'd be an anachronism. I really don't belong back there.
Whittaker: You could sell out the day before the crash.
Corrigan: But what if I did, and started the crash earlier?
Whittaker: Now, history tells us that October 24, 1929, the bottom fell out of the stock market. That's a fixed date. It exists as an event in the history of our times. It can't be altered.
| | 1939 - 87 years ago | | 15 | June 13, 1939 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | |
June 13, 1939
Anne Marie Henderson's engagement party. As she rides a horse across her family's property, she is accosted by another woman on a horse, dressed in black. The woman screams at her and chases her. 25 years later, she finds herself on the other side of the interaction, as the woman chasing her younger self.
| | 1941 - 85 years ago | | 16 | December 7, 1941 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | |
December 7, 1941
Elderly English literature professor Ellis Fowler's former student and ensign on the U.S.S. Arizona Dickie Weiss is the first one to die during the Attack on Pearl Harbor. He loses his life saving a dozen men by getting them out of a boiler room after they were trapped.
| | 1942 - 84 years ago | | 17 | May 4, 1942 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | |
May 4, 1942
Second Lieutenant Katell suddenly finds himself in Corregidor fighting in the Imperial Japanese Army as a Japanese man named Lt. Yamuri. The year is now 1942, and he is ordered to attack a group of sick and wounded American soldiers who are holed up in a cave.
| | 18 | August 7, 1942 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | |
August 7, 1942
Submarine 714 sinks in action during the First Battle of the Solomon Sea. "Look for this one filed under 'H' for haunting in the Twilight Zone."
| | 1943 - 83 years ago | | 19 | April 5, 1943 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | |
April 5, 1943
According to the tombstone that Captain James Embry finds in the desert, his buddy Kline died on April 5, 1943: "T/SGT. WM. F. KLINE - DIED OF INJURIES RECEIVED IN CRASH 5 APR, 1943 REST IN PEACE, BUDDY - THE CREW"
| | 1944 - 82 years ago | | 20 | June 6, 1944 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | |
June 6, 1944
Somerset Frisby is the very first man to climb into a landing craft headed for the French coast. Dwight David Eisenhower told him, "Stoney, you lead the invasion. There'll be mines, German e-boats, stuka bomb, coast artillery, but you can do it."
| | 1945 - 81 years ago | | 21 | January 12, 1945 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | |
January 12, 1945
Suddenly gaining the mysterious ability to see who is about to die, Lieutenant William Fitzgerald writes down a list of soldiers names that will die the following day.
| | 22 | January 13, 1945 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | |
January 13, 1945
After suddenly gaining the mysterious ability to see who is about to die, writing down a list of names the previous day, Lieutenant William Fitzgerald shows the list to Captain Riker following their deaths.
| | 23 | August 6, 1945 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | |
August 6, 1945
Second Lieutenant Katell orders his war-weary soldiers to make a desperate attack on a group of sick and wounded Japanese soldiers holed up in a cave.
| | 24 | August 6, 1945 | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events | |
August 6, 1945
Time traveler Paul Driscoll attempts and fails to warn authorities and evacuate the doomed city of Hiroshima before it is annihilated by an atomic bomb.
| | 1953 - 73 years ago | | 25 | March 6, 1953 | 20th Century: 50s | Headlines | |
March 6, 1953
Reporter Philip Redfield finds a copy of The Bredon Gazette newspaper in the Horn Hotel in Peaceful Valley dated March 6, 1953 with the headline: STALIN DEAD.
| | 1958 - 68 years ago | | 26 | December 5, 1958 | 20th Century: 50s | Events | |
December 5, 1958
According to the Oakwood High School Basketball 1958-1959 schedule in the Park Drugs drugstore, Oakwood High School plays Corinth High School in Oakwood.
| | 27 | December 12, 1958 | 20th Century: 50s | Events | |
December 12, 1958
According to the Oakwood High School Basketball schedule in the Park Drugs drugstore, Oakwood High School plays Allerton High School in Allerton.
| | 28 | December 22, 1958 | 20th Century: 50s | Events | |
December 22, 1958
According to the Oakwood High School Basketball schedule in the Park Drugs drugstore, Oakwood High School plays Clarion High School in Oakwood.
| | 1959 - 67 years ago | | 29 | January 2, 1959 | 20th Century: 50s | Events | |
January 2, 1959
According to the Oakwood High School Basketball schedule in the Park Drugs drugstore, Oakwood High School plays Manchester High School in Manchester.
| | 30 | January 9, 1959 | 20th Century: 50s | Events | |
January 9, 1959
According to the Oakwood High School Basketball schedule in the Park Drugs drugstore, Oakwood High School plays Plainville High School in Oakwood.
| | 31 | January 16, 1959 | 20th Century: 50s | Events | |
January 16, 1959
According to the Oakwood High School Basketball schedule in the Park Drugs drugstore, Oakwood High School plays Manchester High School in Oakwood.
| | 32 | January 30, 1959 | 20th Century: 50s | Events | |
January 30, 1959
According to the Oakwood High School Basketball schedule in the Park Drugs drugstore, Oakwood High School plays Plainville High School in Plainville.
| | 33 | February 6, 1959 | 20th Century: 50s | Events | |
February 6, 1959
According to the Oakwood High School Basketball schedule in the Park Drugs drugstore, Oakwood High School plays Clarion High School in Clarion.
| | 34 | February 13, 1959 | 20th Century: 50s | Events | |
February 13, 1959
According to the Oakwood High School Basketball schedule in the Park Drugs drugstore, Oakwood High School plays Allerton High School in Oakwood.
| | 35 | February 27, 1959 | 20th Century: 50s | Events | |
February 27, 1959
According to the Oakwood High School Basketball schedule in the Park Drugs drugstore, Oakwood High School plays Corinth High School in Corinth.
| | 36 | March 5, 1959 | 20th Century: 50s | Events | |
March 5, 1959
British military Lieutenant Terry Decker of 56 Squadron Royal Flying Corps flies through a strange white cloud in 1917 that transports him forward in time to 1959.
| | 37 | July 4, 1959 | 20th Century: 50s | Events | |
July 4, 1959
Date of firework display at Coney Island sponsored by the American Legion.
| | 38 | July 19, 1959 | 20th Century: 50s | Events | |
July 19, 1959
Death comes calling on sidewalk pitchman Lew Bookman, informing him that he has a departure appointment at midnight. Bookman convinces him to wait until he has made his greatest sales pitch, "one for the angels".
| | 39 | July 20, 1959 | 20th Century: 50s | Events | |
July 20, 1959
Shortly after midnight, after making his greatest sales pitch, Lew Bookman meets the original terms of his deal with death, sparing his neighbor Maggie, and leaves with Death.
| | 40 | October 15, 1959 | 20th Century: 50s | Events | |
October 15, 1959
Date on the shooting script for movie The Private World of Arthur Curtis, featuring actor Gerald Raigan.
| | 1960 - 66 years ago | | 41 | December 24, 1960 | 20th Century: 60s | Events | |
December 24, 1960
Drunk department store Santa Claus Corwin finds the real Santa Claus' magic bag of gifts and proceeds to distribute them.
| | 1961 - 65 years ago | | 42 | March 12, 1961 | 20th Century: 60s | Events | |
March 12, 1961
According to hate-ridden fanatic Oliver Crangle: while serving in the emergency ward at East Side Hospital, second-year intern Kurt J. Lucas, M.D. permits the death of one Mrs. Angela Rienti by failing to relieve pressure accumulated as a result of a brain injury sustained in a traffic accident.
| | 43 | April 14, 1961 | 20th Century: 60s | Events | |
April 14, 1961
After Peter Corrigan discusses the possibility of time travel with his friends at the Potomac Club on April 14, 1961, he steps outside the club to find himself magically transported back in time to April 14, 1865, the night of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination. He attempts to save the president's life, but fails.
| | 44 | June 2, 1961 | 20th Century: 60s | Events | |
June 2, 1961
Having difficulty enjoying his men's club because of the constant chatter of fellow member Jamie Tennyson, Colonel Archie Taylor bets Tennyson $500,000 that he cannot remain silent for one year while residing in a small glass-walled apartment in the club's game room, surrounded by microphones.
| | 45 | June 3, 1961 | 20th Century: 60s | Events | |
June 3, 1961
As part of Colonel Archie Taylor's bet that he cannot remain silent for one year, Jamie Tennyson begins residing in a small glass-walled apartment in their men's club's game room, surrounded by microphones.
| | 46 | August 5, 1961 | 20th Century: 60s | Events | |
August 5, 1961
The nine week anniversary of Jamie Tennyson residing in a small glass-walled apartment in the club's game room, surrounded by microphones as part of Colonel Archie Taylor's bet that he cannot remain silent for one year. Taylor inquires about Taylor's appetite and health.
| | 1962 - 64 years ago | | 47 | March 6, 1962 | 20th Century: 60s | Events | |
March 6, 1962
With three months left to go in their bet (in which Jamie Tennyson must remain silent for a year while residing in a small glass-walled apartment in the club's game room surrounded by microphones), Colonel Archie Taylor offers Tennyson a thousand dollars to end the bet early.
| | 48 | April 1, 1962 | 20th Century: 60s | Events | |
April 1, 1962
With two months left to go in their bet (in which Jamie Tennyson must remain silent for a year while residing in a small glass-walled apartment in the club's game room surrounded by microphones), Colonel Archie Taylor taunts Tennyson, calling him a fool to keep their bet going with what's going in the outside world with his wife, who hasn't come to see him.
| | 49 | May 3, 1962 | 20th Century: 60s | Events | |
May 3, 1962
With only a month left to go in their bet (in which Jamie Tennyson must remain silent for a year while residing in a small glass-walled apartment in the club's game room surrounded by microphones), Colonel Archie Taylor offers Tennyson six thousand dollars to end the bet early.
| | 50 | June 3, 1962 | 20th Century: 60s | Events | |
June 3, 1962
After residing in a small glass-walled apartment in their men's club's game room surrounded by microphones as part of Colonel Archie Taylor's bet that he cannot remain silent for one year, Jamie Tennyson emerges victorious - only to discover that Taylor is a fraud and has no money to give him. Distraught, Tennyson scribbles a note, which Taylor reads aloud: "I knew I would not be able to keep my part of the bargain, so one year ago I had the nerves to my vocal cords severed." Tennyson displays the scar on his throat from the operation, which he has concealed for the past twelve months under scarves and turtlenecks.
| | 51 | December 24, 1962 | 20th Century: 60s | Events | |
December 24, 1962
Elderly English literature professor Ellis Fowler considers suicide after being forced to retire from the Rock Spring School for Boys in Rock Springs, Vermont.
| | 1963 - 63 years ago | | 52 | March 13, 1963 | 20th Century: 60s | Events | |
March 13, 1963
Date of suggestion that 41-year old biggest bore on Earth Patrick Thomas McNulty put in Mr. Cooper's Suggestion Box: "Make hotdogs flat, so that they can fit easily into a hamburger bun."
| | 1964 - 62 years ago | | 53 | February 11, 1964 | 20th Century: 60s | Events | |
February 11, 1964
While the city celebrates Mardi Gras outside, wealthy old man Jason Foster is on his death bed, surrounded by daughter Emily Harper and her family, whom Jason forces to wear hideous masks until midnight in order to get access to his vast fortune.
| | 54 | May 25, 1964 | 20th Century: 60s | Events | |
May 25, 1964
The sun fails to rise on the day that a man named Jagger is scheduled to die by hanging at 9:30 in the morning in a small village. The town debates a possible connection, but hangs him anyway. Following the hanging, it gets even darker, and aa radio broadcast reveals that other places all over the world are turning black as well.
| | 55 | June 25, 1964 | 20th Century: 60s | Events | |
June 25, 1964
On the 88th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, three United States Army National Guard soldiers participating in a war game are transported back to 1876.
| | 56 | September 11, 1964 | 20th Century: 60s | Journal Entries | |
September 11, 1964
Date of entry in Civil War soldier Major Hugh Skelton's diary that Professor Walter Jameson reads to his history class.
| | 1987 - 39 years ago | | 57 | December 31, 1987 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
December 31, 1987
Astronaut Commander Douglas Stansfield departs on an exploratory mission to a planetary system roughly 141 light years from Earth.
| | 1988 - 38 years ago | | 58 | January 1, 1988 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
January 1, 1988
Day 1 of Astronaut Commander Douglas Stansfield's exploratory mission to a planetary system roughly 141 light years from Earth.
| | 59 | April 19, 1988 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
April 19, 1988
Astronaut Commander Douglas Stansfield remains in suspended animation on his exploratory mission to a planetary system roughly 141 light years from Earth.
| | 60 | May 1, 1988 | 20th Century: 80s | Events | |
May 1, 1988
Astronaut Commander Douglas Stansfield remains in suspended animation on his exploratory mission to a planetary system roughly 141 light years from Earth.
| | Year Unknown | | 61 | May 25 | No Year | Events | |
May 25
A man named Jagger is hanged at 9:30 in the morning in a small, inconsequential village that's been covered by a mysterious darkness, a darkness made of hate that spreads across the world, to North Vietnam, a section of the Berlin Wall, a political prison in Budapest, a section of Chicago, a street in Dallas, Texas and Birmingham, Alabama, a section of Shanghai and elsewhere.
| | 62 | August 3 | No Year | Events | |
August 3
A fire at her family's house kills Ilsa's parents, and she is taken in by Harry and Cora Wheeler.
| | 63 | August 24 | No Year | Events | |
August 24
Harry Wheeler writes a letter to Professor and Mrs. Kalder, the mute girl Ilsa Nielson's relatives.
| | 64 | October 16 | No Year | Events | |
October 16
Date as of which Hyder Simpson and his wife Rachel will have been married 50 years.
| | 65 | October 30 | No Year | Events | |
October 30
Date from narration in Julius Moomer's new production The Tragic Cycle, ghostwritten by William Shakespeare: "On October 30, the gardener's wife returned to the scene of the crime. The police had already arrived, and, once again, the Federal Bureau of Investigation... "
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