List of important dates in fiction

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List of important dates in fiction is a list of fictional events whose dates have been specified by their respective media. Entries included here list dates and months (and, where available, years) compatible with the Gregorian Calendar; fictional dates taking place in fictional calendars (viz., events from J. R. R. Tolkien's Legendarium) are excluded.

1 January
2 February
3 March
4 April
5 May
6 June
7 July
8 August
9 September
10 October
11 November
12 December

[edit] January

January 1, 3000 - Phillip J. Fry awakens from a thousand years of suspended animation.

[edit] February

[edit] March

March 4, 1881 - Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson set out together on a case for the first time.
March 24, 1984 - The five members of the so-called "Breakfast Club" convene for the first (and likely only) time in Shermer, Illinois.

[edit] April

April 4, 1984 - Londoner Winston Smith first writes in an illegal personal diary.
April 5, 2063 - Humanity makes its first recognized contact with the Vulcan race.
April 13, year unknown - possible birthdate for James Bond. [1] (This date is also marks the original publication of the first Bond novel in 1953.)
April 22, 2054 - Washington, DC Precrime Detective John Anderton learns he may murder a man he's never met some twenty-eight hours later. (Note: although this date is said to be a Thursday, April 22, 2054, will be a Wednesday.)

[edit] May

May 4, 1911 - Sherlock Holmes kills Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland, beginning the "Great Hiatus".
May 20, 1932 - H.M. Consul Hugh Conway and three other Westerners are kidnapped by a rogue pilot and flown to the secret lamasery Shangri-La in the Kuen-Lun mountains.

[edit] June

[edit] July

July 24, 2004 - Postponed seven years, Judgment Day occurs at 6:18 PM PST.

[edit] August

August 29, 1997 - Shortly after Skynet becomes "self-aware" at 2:14 AM EST, three billion people are killed by in a nuclear holocaust popularly termed Judgement Day.

[edit] September

September 13, 1999 - Lunar nuclear waste dump explodes, sending the Moon hurtling into deep space in Space: 1999.
September 13, 2000 - Second Impact in Neon Genesis Evangelion.
September 22, 2004 - Oceanic Flight 815 crashes on a remote island in Lost.

[edit] October

October 12, 1985 - The Comedian is thrown to his death from the window of his New York City apartment at the beginning of Watchmen.
October 25, 1985 - Einstein the dog is sent one minute into the future in Hill Valley, California, thereby becoming the world's first unnatural time traveller.

[edit] November

November 7, year unknown (in or around 1910) - Professor Challenger lets a pterodactyl loose over London.
November 12th, 1955 - In the Back To The Future film trilogy, This is a key date. Lightning strikes the Hill Valley, California Clock Tower at exactly 10:04 PM, stopping the clock's arms for several decades. This storm sends Marty McFly back to 1985 in his DeLorean time machine, and the date Marty gets his parents together. In Back to the Future Part II, Marty and Doc Brown return to this date to stop Biff Tannen from changing history. Doc Brown hypothesizes that this date might hold some special significance, being the temporal junction point for the entire space-time continuum (or, as he says, "it could just be an amazing coincidence").