Welcome to This Day in Fiction!
An intermittent, yet timely, look at important fictional occurrences
Feel free to submit your favorite fictional date
On This Day in Fiction: December 12
Marion Crane is killed in the shower
Psycho (1960)
On This Day in Fiction: October 11, 1985
The Comedian is killed
Watchmen (1987)
On This Day in Fiction: September 3
The day my daddy died
“Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” - The Temptations (1972)
On This Day In Fiction: September 1, 2024
The Bell Riots start in the Sanctuary District of San Francisco
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s3e11 “Past Tense” (1995)
On This Day in Fiction: August 2
District Attorney Harvey Dent is scarred by acid
Batman: The Long Halloween (1996)
On This Day in Fiction: July 14, 1999
A prisoner transport plane is hijacked by Cyrus “the Virus” Grissom
Con Air (1997)
On This Day in Fiction: June 3
Billie Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie bridge
“Ode To Billie Joe” - Bobbie Gentry (1967)
On This Day in Fiction: May 12, 1956
Homer Simpson is born
The Simpsons s4e16 “Duffless” (1993)
On This Day in Fiction: May 10, 1865
Virgil Caine and his wife watch confederate general Lee travel past
“The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” - The Band (1969)
On This Day in Fiction: April 1, 1954
Lucas Doolin makes his last bootlegging run
“The Ballad of Thunder Road” - Robert Mitchum (1958)