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A daily calendar of fictional significant dates from movies, TV, games, comics, and more.

Sometimes also historical events depicted in film taking place #OnThisDay!

For a curated list of films for every day of the year, check out my series with Letterboxd, Dating the Movies, July: https://letterboxd.com/crew/list/dating-the-movies-july/

Spot a date in a movie or show? 🔎 Let me know!

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Today, June 23, 1593, William Shakespeare and his acting troupe perform A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Morpheus and an audience of fae folk (The Sandman: Dream Country, by @neilhimself and Charles Vess)

A dark and mysterious figure greets William Shakespeare. The figure says, "You have come, then, Will Shekespear. It is all ready?"
An image of fairies, goblins, and other creatures entering the mortal realm
An audience of fairies watches a group of humans performing a play

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, June 19, 1964, having survived a 60-day filibuster, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed the US Senate, a milestone in the struggle to extend civil, political, and legal rights and protections to African Americans and to end segregation (depicted in All The Way, 2016)

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Oval Office of the White House. "Well, nothing in this country will ever change until Negroes can vote."
A close up of a document, the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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, June 17, in 1972, five burglars connected to senior figures in the Nixon administration were arrested in the office of the Democratic National Committee, in the Watergate complex of buildings in Washington, D.C. (depicted in All the President’s Men, 1976)

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Five men enter a building with pictures of Democratic presidents and politicians on the wall. They're wearing suits and rubber gloves

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, June 16, in 1931, Al Capone pleaded guilty to income tax evasion & 5,000 prohibition violations in a trial at the Chicago Federal Building (depicted in The Untouchables, 1987)

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Men holding back Al Capone who is looking at a judge, stunned. Behind him, reporters are standing up from their seats

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, June 15, in 1215, overseen by a council of barons, King John of England put his seal to Magna Carta, a cornerstone of the idea of the liberty of citizens (depicted in Ironclad, 2011)

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A group of medieval barons, standing in a row and looking very serious.
A document showing the signature of John of England, next to his royal seal, a large red wax circle.

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, June 14, 1940, the first German soldiers entered Paris and began the occupation during World War II (depicted in Casablanca, 1942)

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A man is being rained on as he reads a letter, which another man has just handed to him

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, June 9, 1954 was the turning point for Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-Communist crusade, when Army counsel Joseph Welch asked him, “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” (depicted in Tail Gunner Joe, 1977)

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A smug man speaking into a mic. “I know this hurts you, Mr. Welch.”
A man in a suit, sitting in a trial at a mic. “I'll say it hurts! And Senator, I think it hurts you, too.”
A standing ovation in a courtroom.

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, May 29, 1953, mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest (depicted in Hillary, "Everest" s01e03, 2018)

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, May 28, 1863, the all-Black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment left Boston with fanfare to fight in the U.S. Civil War (depicted in Glory, 1989)

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, May 16, 1568, Mary, Queen of Scots fled to England seeking the protection of her first cousin once removed, Queen Elizabeth I (depicted in Mary Queen of Scots, 2018)

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A woman in a curly wig looking serious. Her face is caked with white makeup, to hide the scars from a recent illness

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Today, April 30, on Walpurgis Night, Renfield travels to meet the mysterious Count Dracula in Transylvania (Dracula, 1931)

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A black and white image of a man with pale skin and dark lips, hair, and eyebrows. Light is focused on his eyes, which gaze intensely into the camera. This is Count Dracula, the immortal vampire, and he is ready to hypnotize you, the viewer.

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Today, April 30, 1967, flesh-eating ghouls begin attacking the living (Night of the Living Dead, 1968, dir. George A. Romero)

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A couple sit in a car. The man is saying, “Are you kidding? I certainly don't want to blow Sunday on this scene."

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, January 6, in 1994, U.S. Figure Skating Champion Nancy Kerrigan was bludgeoned with a police baton on her right lower thigh by an assailant hired by the husband of her rival, Tonya Harding (depicted in I, Tonya, 2017, starring Margot Robbie)

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, October 7, in 1849, American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe died from an unexplained cause after being found delirious on the streets of Baltimore (depicted in The Raven, 2012)

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, October 5, in 1972, Irish writer and painter Christy Brown, who had cerebral palsy and was able to write or type only with the toes of one foot, married Mary Carr (depicted in My Left Foot, 1989, starring Daniel Day-Lewis)

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, October 3, in 1712, the Duke of Montrose issued a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor, who was branded an outlaw for defaulting on a loan after the loan money was stolen (depicted in Rob Roy, 1995, starring Liam Neeson)

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, October 2, in 1902, Beatrix Potter’s “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” was published by Frederick Warne & Co. in London (depicted in Miss Potter, 2006)

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, September 17, in 1849, Harriet Tubman first escaped slavery in Maryland (depicted in Harriet, 2019)

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, September 14, in 1812, the Great Fire of Moscow began as Napoleon approached the city and retreating Russians burned it (depicted in the BBC series War & Peace, 2016)

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, September 11, in 1789, Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first United States Secretary of the Treasury (depicted in Hamilton, 2020)

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, August 26, in 1920, the 19th Amendment made laws reserving the ballot for men unconstitutional. Some American women were able to vote—due to voter suppression, Black women weren’t able to vote until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (depicted in Iron Jawed Angels, 2004)

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, August 25, in 1944, Germany surrendered the city of Paris to the Allies (depicted in Is Paris Burning?, 1966)

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, August 17, in 1585, a group of colonists landed off the coast of present-day North Carolina, creating a military colony on Roanoke Island, sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane (depicted in American Horror Story: Roanoke)

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, August 12, 30 BC, Cleopatra, queen of Egypt and lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, took her life following the defeat of her forces against Octavian, the future first emperor of Rome (depicted in Cleopatra, 1963)

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, August 7, 1974, Philippe Petit performed a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air (depicted in The Walk, 2015)

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In a cloudy scene, a man’s foot delicately steps out onto a high wire
A close-up of a man’s face as he concentrates intensely

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, July 28, in 2002, nine coal miners trapped in the flooded Quecreek Mine in Somerset County, PA, were rescued after 77 hours underground (depicted in The Pennsylvania Miners' Story, 2002)

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A group of people watch a television screen with nervous anticipation

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