Mean Girls Day. Judgment Day. McLovin’s birthday..? There are some fictional film dates ingrained in our collective memories, and some that you might have missed. We’ve created a calendar of all the iconic events and dates from your favourite films.

January

1st: Bridget meets Mark at her mum’s turkey curry buffet in Bridget Jones’s Diary

12th: Hal 9000 goes online in 2001: A Space Odyssey

February

1st: Willy Wonka opens his factory doors in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

14th: The end of the world according to a psychic called Elaine in Ghostbusters

March

2nd: The Men In Black agency first made contact with aliens

24th: The day The Breakfast Club were in detention together

April

25th: The perfect day according to Miss Rhode Island, Cheryl Frasier in Miss Congeniality

May

19th: Jake Sully lands on the moon Pandora in Avatar

June

3rd: The day McLovin was born in SuperBad

July

5th: Forrest Gump started running across America

August

29th: Judgment Day from Terminator 2

September

22nd: Bilbo and Frodo Baggins birthday, more fondly known as Hobbit Day

October

3rd: Mean Girls Day - aka the day Aaron asked Cady what day it was

26th: Einstein the dog from Back to the Future becomes the world’s first time traveler at 1:20AM in 1895

31st: The day Harry Potter survived Voldemort’s attack

         Max lights the Black Flame candle, bringing the Sanderson sisters back in Hocus Pocus

November

2nd: ET goes home

December

24th: Howard Langston embarked on his quest to find a Turbo Man for his son in Jingle All The Way