Today, February 6, in 1971, Dr. Jeremy Stone and Dr. Mark Hall are flown to Piedmont, New Mexico to investigate why all of its residents are dead following the nearby crash-landing of Scoop VII, a military satellite contaminated with an alien organism (The Andromeda Strain, 1971)
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[#]OnThisDay, February 6, in 1918, Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, widely known for his painting "The Kiss," died due to the worldwide influenza epidemic of that year (depicted in Klimt, 2006)
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[#]OnThisDay, February 5, in 1994, white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in the murder of African American civil rights leader Medgar Evers, over 30 years after the crime occurred (depicted in Ghosts of Mississippi, 1996)
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Today, February 5, androgynous, bisexual glam rocker Brian Slade, who performs as the character Maxwell Demon, fakes his own death on stage after the pressures of fame become overwhelming (Velvet Goldmine, 1998)
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[#]OnThisDay, February 4, in 2004, a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launched The Facebook, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another (depicted in The Social Network, 2010)
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Today, February 4, in 1979, 14-year-old Joe mourns the death of his mother Elizabeth, who was killed in an accident at the steel factory where she worked (Super 8, 2011)
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[#]OnThisDay, February 3, in 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, in an event that later became known as "The Day the Music Died" (depicted in La Bamba, 1987)
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Today, February 3, animal control officer Walter Sparrow celebrates his birthday. He receives the book "The Number 23" and becomes obsessed with the '23 enigma', the idea that the number 23 connects all incidents and events (The Number 23, 2007)
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Today, February 2, the trial begins for college students Bill Gambini and Stan Rothenstein, who stopped at a Sac-O-Suds convenience store in Alabama on a road trip from New York to Los Angeles (My Cousin Vinny, 1992)
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Today, February 2, at 7:20 and 30 seconds in the morning, Pittsburgh weatherman Phil Connors watches as a groundhog named "Punxsutawney Phil" sees his own shadow, foretelling 6 more weeks of winter (Groundhog Day, 1993)
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Today, November 25, Gwen Hines of Cornwall, England mails a letter to Santa asking for a pink Twinkle Bike with stabilizers (Arthur Christmas, 2011)
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[#]OnThisDay, November 25, in 1947, the first Hollywood blacklist was instituted when a group of film studio executives announced the firing of the "Hollywood Ten" due to alleged Communist ties (depicted in Trumbo, 2015)
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Today, November 24, newly-elected District Attorney Harvey Dent promises to investigate the corrupt syndicate that has a stranglehold on the city; the Gotham Globe reports on the story the next day (Batman, 1989)
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[#]OnThisDay, November 24, in 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy two days earlier, was shot dead by Dallas nightclub operator Jack Ruby (depicted in Ruby and Oswald, 1978)
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[#]OnThisDay, November 23, in 1499, pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck was hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London; he had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England (depicted in Princes in the Tower, 2005)
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Today, November 23, in 2009, Formula One driver Alex Furlong is snatched from the past and transported to dystopian future New York City, where he is to be used as a replacement body for a super-wealthy corporate executive (Freejack, 1992)
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[#]OnThisDay, November 22, in 1963, U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas (depicted in Parkland, 2013)
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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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[#]OnThisDay, November 21, in 164 BCE, Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restored the Temple in Jerusalem, an event commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah (depicted in A Rugrats Chanukah, 1996)
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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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