Notices by Today On Screen (todayonscreen@xoxo.zone)

Today, November 22, in 1987, the Earth is destroyed in a devastating nuclear attack (Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, 1979)

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Today, November 21, in 2059, the first human colony on Mars was destroyed, killing its crew. The death of Captain Adelaide Brooke inspires her granddaughter to become a pilot and captain humanity’s first lightspeed ship (Doctor Who, "Waters of Mars," 2009)

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Today, November 1, insurance employee C. C. "Bud” Baxter waits outside of his own apartment, which he lends to company executives who use it to conduct affairs (The Apartment, 1960)

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Today, October 30, in 1938, a radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds," narrated by Orson Welles, caused a mass panic (depicted in The Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror XVII)

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Today, October 26, in 1985, at 1:18 AM, Marty McFly films Dr. Emmett Brown’s first temporal experiment, sending his time machine DeLorean and pet dog Einstein one minute into the future (Back to the Future, 1985)

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Today, October 21, Doc Brown, Marty McFly, and Jennifer Parker arrive in 2015 from the year 1985 (Back to the Future: Part II, 1989)

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Today, October 16, in 1995, students from University of Maryland's Anthropology Department find a duffel bag with film cans, tapes, cassettes, a video camera, Heather's journal, and a film camera buried under the foundation of a 100 year-old cabin (The Blair Witch Project, 1999)

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Today, October 14, a group of NYC hackers overloads the Gibson and destroys the Da VInci virus, defeating the hacker Eugene "The Plague" Belford and saving the world from an environmental disaster (Hackers, 1995) #HackThePlanet

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Today, October 13, a group of NYC hackers discover that a virus in a computer system was created to cover traces of a hidden worm program. They learn that they will be arrested by the FBI the next day, so must act quickly to stop it (Hackers, 1995)

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Today, October 9, 1962, Baltimore cleaner Elisa Esposito spends the night with an Amphibian Man the night before she plans to help him escape (The Shape of Water, 2017, dir. Guillermo del Toro)

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Today, October 9, in 1944, Nazi occultists attempt to open a portal to release the Seven Gods of Chaos. Their attempt fails, but a small, red demon makes it through the portal; he is dubbed “Hellboy” and adopted by Professor Trevor Broom (Hellboy, 2004, dir. Guillermo del Toro)

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#OnThisDay, October 4, in 1957, the Soviet Union made history by sending the first artificial satellite into outer space (depicted in October Sky, 1999, starring Jake Gyllenhaal)

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Today, October 3, Aaron Samuels asks new girl Cady Heron what day it is (Mean Girls, 2004)

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Today, October 2, Virginia teen Donnie Darko sleepwalks to a hallucinatory meeting with Frank, a figure in a monster-like rabbit costume. Frank tells Donnie that the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds (Donnie Darko, 2001)

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#OnThisDay, September 30, in 1955, young movie star James Dean, who starred in Rebel Without A Cause, died at the age of 24 in a car crash in his Porsche in California (depicted in Crash, 1996, directed by David Cronenberg)

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Today, September 28, at exactly 11 AM, at the funfair near the ghost train, the marshmallow twister’s twisting. Meanwhile on a bench in Villette Park, Félix Lerbier learns there are more links in his brain than atoms in the universe. Amélie starts a new adventure (Amélie, 2001)

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Today, September 27, Quinn Mallory first enters the interdimensional portal he accidentally created in his San Francisco basement while trying to invent an antigravity device (Sliders, 1995)

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Today, September 18, Klaatu delivers his message of absolute peace to a group of Earth's leaders, informing them that if the planet cannot contain its violent tendencies, it will be incinerated for the safety of the rest of the universe (The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951)

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Today, September 16, NYC indie bookstore owner Kathleen Kelly and corporate exec Joe Fox are starting their workdays and logging into AOL to check their email (You’ve Got Mail, 1998)

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Today, September 13, 1966, Mississippi police officer Sam Wood discovers the body of factory builder Mr. Colbert. Police detective Virgil Tibbs, who has come from Philadelphia to assist on the case, is arrested and meets Chief Gillespie (In the Heat of the Night, 1967)

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