{"id":1421,"date":"2012-11-05T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2012-11-05T07:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-05T15:15:00","slug":"more-red-letter-dates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/more-red-letter-dates\/","title":{"rendered":"More Red Letter Dates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most famous red letter date in the history of time travel is November 5, 1955 from <em>Back to the Future<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224\" style=\"width: 421px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/screenshot_86.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-224 \" title=\"BTTF110555\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/screenshot_86.jpg?resize=421%2C159\" alt=\"\" width=\"421\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/screenshot_86.jpg?w=702&amp;ssl=1 702w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/screenshot_86.jpg?resize=300%2C113&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 421px) 100vw, 421px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">November 5, 1955<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lesser known BTTF dates include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>January 1, 1885 (Doc&#8217;s trip to the Old West)<\/li>\n<li>September 2, 1885 (Marty&#8217;s trip to the Old West)<\/li>\n<li>November 12, 1955 (Enchantment Under The Sea \/ Lighting vs the Clock Tower \/ Biff gives himself the Sports Almanac)<\/li>\n<li>October 26, 1985 (The day it all started)<\/li>\n<li>October 21, 2015 (Marty &amp; Jennifer&#8217;s trip to the future)<\/li>\n<li>October 26, 2015 (Doc&#8217;s first trip to the future, assuming &#8220;30 is a nice round number&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In <a title=\"Amazon.com - Timely Persuasion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0026ZOVHU\/\"><em>Timely Persuasion<\/em><\/a> many of the actual time travel dates are vague &#8212; but there are some key red letter dates based on the narrator&#8217;s memories or bits of musical trivia:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>October 12, 1969 (WKNR DJ Russ Gibb starts the &#8220;Paul is Dead&#8221; rumor)<\/li>\n<li>September 18, 1970 (Jimi Hendrix found dead)<\/li>\n<li>April 7, 1994 (Eve of discovery of Kurt Cobain&#8217;s body; Tom Grant &amp; Dylan Carlson search house)<\/li>\n<li>April 12, 2000 (Napster\/Metallica copyright suit)<\/li>\n<li>September 10, 2001 (Trying to save sister)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As long as we&#8217;re on the subject, let&#8217;s extend the red letter dates to include some of my other favorite time travel tales:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>September 13, 1956 (Sam Beckett&#8217;s first\u00c2\u00a0<em>Quantum Leap<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>September 9, 1958 (Destination of the time portal in <em>11\/22\/63<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>February 22, 1972 (Mickey Wade&#8217;s pills bring him here in <em>Expiration Date<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>September 23, 1977 (Clare first meets Henry in <em>The Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>October 2, 1988 (Jet Engine &amp; Frank the Rabbit travel back to this date in\u00c2\u00a0<em>Donnie Darko<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>October 18, 1988 (Jeff Winston dies and starts replaying in <em>Replay<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>October 26, 1991 (Henry first meets Clare in\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>December 12, 1996 (James Cole witnesses the death of his future self at the airport in <em>12<\/em> Monkeys)<\/li>\n<li>November 5, 1999 (Jacob travels back to visit Peter at the cafe in <em>Trickshot<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>March 16, 2005 (Uncle Jim visits Danny Deakins in<em> The Man Who Folded Himself<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>October 23, 2030 (The date of the future visions seen in the novel<em> Flashforward<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>I&#8217;ve never noticed this before, but time travelers sure like the fall. \u00c2\u00a017 of the 23 dates listed above are in Sept\/Oct\/Nov!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most famous red letter date in the history of time travel is November 5, 1955 from Back to the Future. Lesser known BTTF dates include: January 1, 1885 (Doc&#8217;s trip to the Old West) September 2, 1885 (Marty&#8217;s trip to the Old West) November 12, 1955 (Enchantment Under The Sea \/ Lighting vs the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[31,5],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-time-travel","tag-back-to-the-future","tag-quantum-leap"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfx3-mV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":223,"url":"https:\/\/blog.timelypersuasion.com\/blog\/a-red-letter-date\/","url_meta":{"origin":1421,"position":0},"title":"A Red Letter Date","author":"LBDG","date":"November 5, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I just realized the significance of today's date. 53 years ago, Dr. Emmett Brown invented the flux capicitor -- which is what makes time travel possible. 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