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On May 12, 1984, a T-800 Terminator from the future tried to kill Sarah Connor in an effort to eliminate humanity in the sci-fi classic 'The Terminator.'

On March 2, 1961, the Men in Black, a secret organization monitoring alien activity on the planet Earth, made first contact with extraterrestrials.

On Feb. 2, Bill Murray mysteriously lived the same day over and over again in the 1993 classic 'Groundhog Day.'

On Jan. 29, 1967, a groundbreaking reality television series called "The Truman Show" premiered to a world-wide audience.

On Jan. 14, 1979, Tommy DeSimone, portrayed as Tommy DeVito in Martin Scorcese's classic crime-drama 'Goodfellas,' was reported missing.

A variety of iconic and memorable moments in film and television have occurred on Dec. 24, from Ralphie Parker asking Santa for a BB gun in 'A Christmas Story' to John McClane fending off terrorists in 'Die Hard.'

On Nov. 24, 1987, Neal Page met Del Griffith in the John Hughes comedy 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles.'

On Oct. 19, 1957, Michael Myers, the masked antagonist from the 'Halloween' franchise was born.

On Oct. 2, 1988, high-schooler Donnie Darko met Frank, a six-foot tall rabbit, and was told that in 28 days the world would end.

On Oct. 1, 1990, Peter Weyland, founder and CEO of the Weyland Corporation in the 'Alien' franchise, was born.

Sept. 22 is the birthday of fictional hero Bilbo Baggins, and is also known as "Hobbit Day" by avid 'Lord of the Rings' fans.

On Sept. 1 every year, aspiring young witches and wizards across the UK meet at Platform 9 3/4 to attend the first day of the school term at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

On Aug. 11, 1980, Tony Montana began his rise to power when he assassinated one of Fidel Castro's top associates, Emilio Rebenga, in the 1983 crime-drama 'Scarface.'

On Aug. 5, 1989, racial tension reached a boiling point among the citizens of a neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY in Spike Lee's thought-provoking comedy-drama 'Do the Right Thing.'

On July 5, 1976, ping-pong champion and war hero Forrest Gump started running across America.

On June 16, 1994, two strangers met on a train, decided to spend the day together, and fell in love in Richard Linklater's 1995 romance 'Before Sunrise.'

Thanks to a diligent sports writer, we know that June 5, 1985 was the day Ferris Bueller and his buddies played hooky in the classic John Hughes film 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off.'

August 29th is the official date given by Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in the film 'Terminator 2: Judgment Day' for when Skynet, a man-made artificial intelligence program, becomes self-aware and annihilates most of humanity.

May 2, 2017 marks the 19th anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts during the Second Wizarding War, in which Harry Potter defeated Lord Voldemort.

April 15 marks the 105th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, an event dramatized in the 1997 James Cameron romantic epic 'Titanic.'

On March 7, 1992, FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully worked their first X-Files investigation.

Feb. 24 marks the day beloved homecoming queen Laura Palmer was found murdered in the surreal early-90s serial drama "Twin Peaks."

Feb. 13th marks the day Joel erased Clementine from his memory in the 2004 sci-fi romance 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.'

On Jan. 12, 1992, the HAL 9000 computer, made famous in the Stanley Kubrick science-fiction epic '2001: A Space Odyssey,' became fully operational.

On Jan. 1, 1976, Rocky Balboa fought Apollo Creed for the first time in the Academy Award-winning film 'Rocky.'