Fictional dates, on the real day.
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November 1st, Romeo + Juliet.
30 years ago today, this hit US theaters: two teenagers make eye contact through a fish tank.
By the end of the week, everyone's dead. Shakespeare did warn us in the first fourteen lines.
November 1st, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.
45 years ago tonight, the greatest wizard of his age had one plan for an orphaned baby: a blanket, a letter, and the Dursleys' doorstep.
He didn't even ring the bell.
October 31st, Halloween.
The sheriff says everyone's entitled to one good scare. Haddonfield is about to go way over its allowance.
October 31st, Hocus Pocus.
The Sanderson sisters get one night back from the dead. At sunrise, they're dust.
Naturally, they spend it headlining the Town Hall costume party.
October 30th, The Shining.
Closing day at the Overlook. Everyone else goes home for the winter. Great time to start that novel.
October 29th, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Rory proposes at the wake for a Halloween wedding. Lydia does the math.
October 28th, The Social Network.
8:13 PM, a Tuesday night in 2003. Mark has a beer, a grudge and a LiveJournal.
That's how Facemash started. Nothing else ever came of it.
October 27th, It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
It first aired on CBS 60 years ago today.
Linus is still in the pumpkin patch. Charlie Brown is still holding the rock.
October 26th, Tombstone.
The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, 1881, which actually happened in a vacant lot down the street.
The O.K. Corral has been taking credit for 145 years.
October 26th, Back to the Future.
1:20 a.m., Twin Pines Mall: Einstein becomes the world's first time traveler.
He lands one minute later. Good boy.
October 25th, Back to the Future.
The original 1985 Friday. Marty blows up Doc's amp before school, then agrees to meet him at Twin Pines Mall at 1:15 a.m.
Normal day.
October 24th, The Fellowship of the Ring.
Frodo wakes up in Rivendell. Gandalf tells him the time and the date before he can ask.
A wizard is never late, and he always knows what day it is.
October 23rd, Fallout.
The day the bombs dropped in 2077.
Worst possible day for a kid's birthday party.
October 22nd, Blast from the Past.
"I'm sure this Cuban thing will resolve itself."
It did, six days later. The Webbers stayed underground for 35 years.
October 22nd, Back to the Future Part II.
The paper the morning after Marty's visit: "Hoverboard Rampage Destroys Courthouse."
Some tourists leave a bigger footprint than others.
October 21st, Back to the Future Part II.
Doc and Marty landed in the future eleven years ago. Still waiting on the hoverboards.
October 19th, Halloween.
Michael Myers, born October 19, 1957. Twenty-one years later, he came home.
