October 26 is the 299th day of the year.

Events

• 1859, Wednesday: Frank Selee, manager of the Boston Beaneaters and the Chicago Cubs, is born.
• 1985, Saturday:
  • Original timeline
    • Doctor Emmett Brown calls Marty McFly after midnight to come down to Twin Pines Mall
    • Marty picks up Doc's JVC recorder and arrives at the mall after 1 am.
    • Doc unveils his DeLorean time machine.
    • Doc creates the world's first temporal displacement test at 1:20:00 am, sending his dog Einstein one minute into the future.
    • At 1:21:00 am, the car reappears and the test is a success.
    • Doc places another pellet of plutonium in the car.
    • Libyan terrorists arrive and kill Doc at 1:33 am.
    • Marty escapes in the DeLorean, activating the time circuits, and accidentally travels back to 1955 at 1:35 am.
    • The Libyans crash into a photo booth.

• • Revised timeline
    • Marty arrives back in 1985 early at 1:24:00 am to save Doc, but the car dies and Marty runs down to the Lone Pine Mall.
    • Marty watches Doc get shot again and his other self travel back in time.
    • Marty finds that Doc was wearing a bulletproof vest, as a result of reading Marty's letter to him warning of his death.
    • Doc drives Marty back to his house.
    • Doc travels roughly 30 years into the future.
    • Marty wakes up to find a completely different family and life.
    • Jennifer Parker arrives.
    • Doc returns in an improved DeLorean from 2015 and takes them with him.
    • Biff Tannen watches the DeLorean take off and reach temporal displacement.

• • • George McFly Day is celebrated and George’s newest book, Back to the Future 4: Further Adventures of Kelvin Klien.

• 1985A, Saturday:
  • Marty arrives back in 1985A (believing he went to the original 1985) and is pursued out of "his" house.
  • Doc finds his alternate reality's double's (Doc-A) lab.
  • Marty is taken to Biff's Casino Hotel.
  • Marty finds his father's grave.

Behind the scenes

• 1991, Saturday: "Batter Up" first aired.

Appearances

• Back to the Future
• Back to the Future novelization
• Back to the Future Part II first draft screenplay
• Paradox script
• Back to the Future Part II
• Back to the Future Part II novelization
• Back to the Future: The Ride (Date shown on the time circuits in archive footage)
• Back to the Future: The Game
  • Back to the Future: The Game - Episode 1: It's About Time (Marty has a nightmare of the temporal displacement event.)