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Today, March 15, in 1973, sci-fi author George McFly is shot in an alleyway. After his son Marty burns a stolen sports almanac from the future and corrects the timeline, today, March 15, in 1973, sci-fi author George McFly receives an award (Back to the Future: Part II, 1989)

Today, March 14, in 2077, drone repair technician Jack Harper wakes up near the end of his five-year mission on Earth. He is one of the few humans on the planet, which was ravaged by nuclear war and natural disaster after the moon was destroyed 60 years earlier (Oblivion, 2013)

Today, March 12, asylum director Dr. Caligari excitedly writes about a somnambulist, or sleepwalker, who has been brought to his hospital. He hopes to emulate an 18th-century mystic who utilized sleepwalkers to commit murders (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920)

On this day, March 11, 1952, 23-year-old medical student Ernesto "Che" Guevara and his friend, 29-year-old biochemist Alberto Granado, spent the night in the Atacama Desert, speaking with a homeless communist couple in search of mining work (The Motorcycle Diaries, 2004)

On this day, March 11, 1918, Spanish Flu was diagnosed in Queens, New York, one week after it was first recorded on a military base in Kansas. It infected 500 million people around the world, about 27% of the world’s population (Spanish Flu: The Forgotten Fallen, 2009)

Today, March 11, in 2008, at 11:47 pm, reporter Angela Vidal and cameraman Scott Percival go on a ride-along with LAPD firefighters during an emergency call. They enter a building and are trapped inside when it is suddenly locked down (Quarantine, 2008)