# What fictional events occurred on your birthday?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 28, 2015, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696 "2015-04-28T03:19:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/1 "2015-04-28T03:19:43Z")
We’re watching the dinner scene from _The Hobbit_ which, my wife claims, takes place on this very day… her birthday (4-27)\*.
So, what fictional happenings have occurred on your day of days? While I know that some things have happened on my birthday, damned if I can remember them now.
\*If you know otherwise, don’t worry about telling me - it’s not like I’m going to argue with her about this. 😉
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/2 "2015-04-28T03:20:41Z")
Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery. June 27.
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/3 "2015-04-28T03:37:47Z")
The controlled demolition of the World Trade Center. :rolleyes:
(Sorry, I’m a 9-11 baby.)
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### Author:  [@Sandra\_Battye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sandra_Battye)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/4 "2015-04-28T03:53:06Z")
The People’s Revolution of the Glorious Twenty-Fifth of May, Discworld.
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/5 "2015-04-28T03:56:38Z")
Frodo and Sam journeyed to the foot of Mount Doom, while the Army of the West camped in the Desolation of the Morannon. (March 24th; the following day was the destruction of the One Ring.)
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### Author:  [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/6 "2015-04-28T04:09:33Z")
St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland.
(I actually don’t think that was meant to have happened on March 17th, but it is a fictional event so I can have it happen on March 17th when I do the gritty reboot.)
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### Author:  [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/7 "2015-04-28T04:20:08Z")
[Bloomsday](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday).
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### Author:  [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/8 "2015-04-28T04:36:10Z")
Easter, every eleven years.
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### Author:  [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/9 "2015-04-28T06:21:23Z")
The _Edmund Fitzgerald_ sank.
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### Author:  [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/10 "2015-04-28T12:45:44Z")
Robinson Crusoe was shipwrecked in 1659 (source: D. Defoe).
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### Author:  [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/11 "2015-04-28T12:53:54Z")
My birthday is on Whacking Day.
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### Author:  [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/12 "2015-04-28T13:05:54Z")
Kim Jong Il’s ‘official’ birthday, the one with the double rainbow, new star heralding his birth, and other such fun (also his actual recorded birthday, which was much duller, and took place the previous year).
Oh, and the fellowship leave Lothlórien; nothin’ too exciting.
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### Author:  [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/13 "2015-04-28T13:19:56Z")
HAL 9000 was first activated on January 12, 1992 (or 1997, depending on if you’re going by the book or the movie). That’s the day before my 30th or 35th birthday, and that’s the closest I’ve seen.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/14 "2015-04-28T13:24:39Z")
> [@movingfinger](#):
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> The _Edmund Fitzgerald_ sank.
FICTIONAL???
Jesus was born. Supposedly.
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/15 "2015-04-28T13:32:40Z")
My birthday is apparently on National Blasé Day.
So, meh.
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### Author:  [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/16 "2015-04-28T13:40:25Z")
It was the day the machines took over.
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### Author:  [@Indyellen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indyellen)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/17 "2015-04-28T16:47:00Z")
Based on last week’s _Agents of SHIELD_, I am exactly 19 years older than Daisy (Skye/Quake) Johnson.
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### Author:  [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/18 "2015-04-28T17:03:12Z")
If I remember correctly, Marty McFly did his time traveling in BTTF on my birthday, Oct 26.
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### Author:  [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/19 "2015-04-28T17:14:19Z")
Carrie White – of the Stephen King novel – was born. (September 21st is also King’s birthday.)
Something good happened to whoever wrote the Earth, Wind and Fire song “September”: the first line is “Do you remember the 21st night of September…”
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### Author:  [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/20 "2015-04-28T17:27:27Z")
Betty and Barney Hill were abducted by aliens a few hours after I was born.
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