The following events occured on October 26.
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.
- Marty escapes in the DeLorean, activating the time circuits, and accidentally travels back to 1955.
- The Libyans crash into a photo booth.
Revised timeline
- Marty arrives back in 1985 early 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.