# 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:** 18
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2015, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/41 "2015-04-29T17:40:04Z")
Scarlett O’Hara’s mom, according to the brief glimpse we get of her tombstone in _Gone with the Wind_, died on Sept. 1, 1864, exactly a century to the day before I was born.
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### Author:  [@Teuton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teuton)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2015, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/42 "2015-04-29T18:02:21Z")
> [@delphica](#):
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> Harry Potter (and Neville, too!) were born on my birthday.
Which is also my birthday! July 31st.
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### Author:  [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/43 "2015-04-29T18:10:23Z")
> [@Clawdio](#):
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> I know at least once I saw Lennie Briscoe and whoever his partner was at the time investigate some perp on my Birthday. DUN DUN.
Thanks! I knew that _something_ fictional had to happen on March 30th, and your post reminded me of a time or two that it appeared on L&O.
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### Author:  [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2015, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/44 "2015-04-29T18:17:13Z")
> [@delphica](#):
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> Harry Potter (and Neville, too!) were born on my birthday.
I’m another one for HP’s birthday, I was 19 when he was born.
BTW, Neville was born on the 30th, not the 31st, which is my wife’s birthday.
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### Author:  [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2015, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/45 "2015-04-29T18:23:03Z")
> [@Shoeless](#):
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> If I remember correctly, Marty McFly did his time traveling in BTTF on my birthday, Oct 26.
Same here, and you are correct.
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### Author:  [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2015, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/46 "2015-04-29T18:26:22Z")
The day I turned 1 the [Vela Incident](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_Incident) occurred. It could have been a joint South African/ Israeli nuclear test or the flash of light in the sky was swamp gas from a weather balloon trapped in a thermal pocket and refracted the light from Venus.
No one knows for sure. :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/47 "2015-04-29T18:35:51Z")
Fun idea for thread, btw.
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### Author:  [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/48 "2015-04-29T19:11:59Z")
My birthday is September 11. So insert Truther joke here.
But that does make it pretty much impossible to search for literary instances of the date.
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### Author:  [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2015, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/49 "2015-04-29T23:13:18Z")
Well, apparently [Thunderhead died when his cape caught on a missile fin](http://www.fictional-history.com/archive), five years before I was born.
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### Author:  [@Reeses\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeses_Monkey)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2015, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/50 "2015-04-29T23:34:29Z")
Duncan McLeod of the Clan McLeod met Methos, the alleged oldest immortal, on March 7th.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2015, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/51 "2015-04-30T03:50:34Z")
> [@Sitnam](#):
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> The day I turned 1 the [Vela Incident](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_Incident) occurred. It could have been a joint South African/ Israeli nuclear test or the flash of light in the sky was swamp gas from a weather balloon trapped in a thermal pocket and refracted the light from Venus.
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> No one knows for sure. :rolleyes:
Well, it may be ambiguous, but it’s not a fictional event.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2015, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/52 "2015-04-30T10:44:23Z")
I’ll give you a clue:
it was another sleepy dusty Delta day.
mmm
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### Author:  [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2015, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/53 "2015-04-30T12:40:14Z")
This short documentary presents information about a lunar event on 13 September (my birthday) 1999:
My older brother teased the shit out of me about this during the entire run of the show back in the 1970s. He's since been written out of my parents' will.\* Twat.
\*Honestly!
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### Author:  [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2015, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/54 "2015-04-30T14:08:58Z")
On November 20th, the infamous TV movie, “The Day After” was broadcast - it remains the highest rated made for TV movie to date.
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### Author:  [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2015, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/55 "2015-04-30T14:17:13Z")
The day men supposedly first stepped foot on the moon.
We wear foil party hats in my family.
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### Author:  [@Cartoonacy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartoonacy)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2015, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/56 "2015-05-01T22:21:47Z")
[Batman’s first clash with Catwoman.](http://docquantum.tripod.com/ttt/calendar.htm)
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### Author:  [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/57 "2015-05-02T00:08:17Z")
The study group took Troy to a bar for what’s apparently his birthday too.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2015, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-fictional-events-occurred-on-your-birthday/718696/58 "2015-05-02T00:23:28Z")
Caesar got whacked.
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