Notices by Today On Screen (todayonscreen@xoxo.zone), page 3

#OnThisDay, May 31, 1921, the Greenwood district in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as “Black Wall Street”, was attacked by a white mob that burned the neighborhood, killing between 100 and 300 black people and injuring hundreds more (depicted in Watchmen, 2019)

#TV #Television #Watchmen #BlackWallStreet

Today, May 28, 1976, is the last day of school at Lee High School in Austin, Texas (Dazed and Confused, 1993)

#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #DazedAndConfused #Texas

Today, May 25, Carrie White is awarded Prom Queen at her senior dance (Carrie, 1976)

#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Carrie #Horror

Today, May 22, 1983, Dr. Emmett Brown is committed to a mental institution. After Marty McFly burns a stolen sports almanac from the future and corrects the timeline, today, May 22, 1985, scientist Dr. Emmett Brown receives a civic award (Back to the Future: Part II, 1989)

#Film #Movies #Cinemastodon #BackToTheFuture #BackToTheFuturePartII

Today, May 21, is the would-be date of "Other Mother's Day", a new holiday proposed by greeting card writer Tom Hansen's colleague right before Tom meets Summer for the first time (500 Days of Summer, 2009)

#Film #Movies #Cinemastodon #500DaysOfSummer #OtherMothersDay #FictionalHolidays

Today, May 16, 20xx, the Anomalous Materials department at Black Mesa Research Facility triggers a Resonance Cascade during an experiment, allowing extraterrestrials to teleport into the facility (Half-Life, 1998)

#Games #VideoGames #BlackMesaIncident #HalfLife

Today, May 9, fsociety hacks mega-conglomerate E Corp, intending to destabilize financial markets, destroy financial records, and redistribute wealth in America (Mr. Robot, s01e09 “Eps1.9_zer0-day.avi/Zero Day”, 2015)

#TV #Television #MrRobot #FSociety #ZeroDay

Today, May 3, 2012, jeweler Howard Ratner has a colonoscopy (Uncut Gems, 2019)

#Film #Movies #Cinemastodon #UncutGems #SafdieBrothers #A24

Today, May 1, 1973, Police Sergeant Neil Howie finds that he is unable to leave remote Hebridean island Summerisle. The island residents celebrate May Day with pagan rituals (The Wicker Man, 1973)

#Film #Movies #Cinemastodon #Horror #FolkHorror #MayDay #Beltane #TheWickerMan

Today, April 30, is Dromiceiomimus's birthday. Happy birthday, Dromiceiomimus! (Dinosaur Comics, Ryan Q. North)

#Comics #Webcomics #DinosaurComics

Today, April 18, Strong Bad celebrates The Cheat’s birthday on the only day they know *isn’t* his birthday, the date on his fake ID. Happy birthday, The Cheat! (Homestar Runner, Strong Bad Email 107, 2001)

#StrongBad #HomestarRunner

Today, April 14, 2065, M.A.R.Go.T. (Metro Authority Rapid Governmental Transit System) was installed, activated, and switched on at precisely 5:20 am to oversee the Presidential Metro (Fallout 3: Broken Steel, 2009)

#Games #VideoGames #Fallout #Fallout3 #Bethesda #Fallout3BrokenSteel

Today, April 13, 2009, a young man stands in his bedroom on his birthday (Homestuck, 2009)

#Homestuck #HomestuckDay #Webcomic

Today, April 12, 2001, just after sunset, a black monolith dubbed TMA-1 is discovered near lunar crater Tycho (2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968)

#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #Kubrick #2001 #2001ASpaceOdyssey

Today, April 10, 2017, is the birthdate of the replicant known as Leon Kowalski. Bioengineered humans created by Tyrell Corporation for cheap labor have implanted memories and a built-in four year lifespan to prevent them from developing empathetic abilities (Blade Runner, 1982)

#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #BladeRunner

Happy #RexManningDay! Today, April 8, is the day 80s pop idol Rex Manning comes to Delaware independent record store Empire Records to sign autographs (Empire Records, 1995)

#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #EmpireRecords

Today, April 4, 1984, it was a bright cold day, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Ministry of Truth records editor Winston Smith begins a secret diary, although he is unsure of the true date (Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1984)

#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #NineteenEightyFour

Today, April 1, or March 32nd, the Greendale Community College officially bans April Fools' Day (Community, s01e20, 2010)

#TV #Television #Community #March32 #April1 #AprilFoolsDay

#OnThisDay, March 25, 1944, 76 Western Allied air force personnel escaped the Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp by crawling through a tunnel. At 4:55 AM, the 77th man was spotted emerging by a guard (depicted in The Great Escape, 1963)

#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #TodayInHistory #Histodons #TheGreatEscape

Today, March 18, in 2263, taxicab driver Korben Dallas picks up an unusual passenger (The Fifth Element, 1997)

#Movies #Film #Cinemastodon #Letterboxd #TheFifthElement