Today, October 16, in 1995, students from University of Maryland's Anthropology Department find a duffel bag with film cans, tapes, cassettes, a video camera, Heather's journal, and a film camera buried under the foundation of a 100 year-old cabin (The Blair Witch Project, 1999)

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#OnThisDay, May 8, in 1945, peace was declared across Europe and London celebrated the end of the war. British Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were allowed to join the VE Day celebrations, against the Queen's wishes (depicted in A Royal Night Out, 2015)

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#OnThisDay, May 8, in 1945, peace was declared across Europe and London celebrated the end of the war. British Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were allowed to join the VE Day celebrations, against the Queen's wishes (depicted in A Royal Night Out, 2015)

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Today, February 8, in 1899, stage magician Robert Angier visits America to ask scientist Nikola Tesla to build him a teleportation machine (The Prestige, 2006)

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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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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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Today, January 30, in 2010, the crew of the spacecraft Leonov discovers that sentient AI HAL 9000 malfunctioned during the 2001 Discovery One mission to Jupiter due to a classified directive to lie about the ship's true purpose: the monolith (2010: The Year We Make Contact, 1984)

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Today, January 29, in 1971, private detective John Shaft interviews some gangsters about a missing girl (Shaft, 1971)

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Today, January 28, in 1986, Rainbow Johnson experiences a rite of passage for many teens in the 80s: being gifted with her first mixtape. She remembers the exact date because it is the same day of the Challenger explosion (Mixed-ish, "When Doves Cry", 2019)

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