Read my lips.
HAL became operational on 12 January 1997.
1999: Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, Dr. Sam Beckett led an elite group of scientists into the desert to develop a top-secret project known as Quantum Leap. Pressured to prove his theories or lose funding, Dr. Beckett prematurely stepped into the project accelerator, and vanished.
Hey, you said yourself it was top-secret. 
2004 - global feline distemper pandemic renders Felis catus extinct. (To Say Nothing of the Dog, Connie Willis)
Hir???
I have no idea what sex/gender WotNot is, so his/her, or hir. I guess I could have used “their” instead. English could really use a good neutral singular pronoun.
The book wasn’t a novelization. It was written in 1967. The movie was adapted from the book in 1976 (although it also took a lot from another lesser-known movie called Glen and Randa, which was made in 1971).
2002: Nomad, the first interstellar probe with an onboard artificial intelligence, is launched (ST:TOS)
In 1869 there was that brick moon fiasco.
There is one: “their.”
During the Administration of the Governor of the State of England- Chuck Windsor.
We’re still waiting for the Big One to hit California, dropping everything west of the San Andreas into the sea (the Dream Park books - the date of the earthquake gets “updated” in the sequels but IIRC it’s 1985 in the first book and 1995 later).
if you’ve got a woody that lasts a thousand years GO SEE A DOCTOR!!!
The Billy Joel song “Miami 2017 (Seen The Lights Go Out On Broadway)” is about New York City being dismantled. The lyrics are narrated as a reminiscence of the long ago event, so technically the destruction of NYC already happened.
2006 - Paul McCartney is the grandfather of Vera, Chuck, and Dave.
By around 1976, not only had British astronauts returned from a Mars mission (those radioactive aliens notwithstanding) but Guy Crayford managed to reach Jupiter! (Of course he brought back some other aliens and their silly androids, but what the hell…)
2009 - Baby Diego, the last baby on the planet, is born: (Children of Men (set in 2027, but he was 18 when he died).
Wow, thanks for this link, BG!
Reader’s Digest or someone like that used to publish a Book of Lists every year that had predictions. In about 1980 some nut predicted that in 1999 a black rainbow would appear and suck all the oxygen from the Earth’s atmosphere. Maybe it was just a metaphor for the election of Hugo Chavez.
In 1979 The Earth was destroyed to make way for a hyperspatial express route. I hope you all remembered to grab your towels. oh and “Dont Panic”