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August 31: Anniversary of Rob Zombie's first Halloween
- 69 BCE - John Carpenter is born. Rather than kicking, screaming and squirming at birth, he immediately decides to make others do just that.
- 320 CE - Knives are invented by Leonardo Da Vinci. Screaming is re-invented by Cosimo de Medici. Their combined work would develop into the horror genre we know today.
- 1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis is born. She is the only one found left alive in the delivery room. This would happen again in her home, foster home, day care, kindergarten, etc.
- 1963 - Mike Myers, the comedian-actor, is born, much to the amusement of horror fans.
- 1965 - Rob Zombie is born or so it is thought.
- 1966 - The Rolling Stones write an early version of Paint It Black with the sole lyric "Black isn't a color".
- 1966 - Randy Bachman removes the lyrics "These are the eyes of a psychopath" from the Guess Who hit These Eyes.
- 1978 - The original Halloween movie is released; people become terrified of the wrong Mike Myers.
- 1980 - Some little slasher-horror movie with some dumb holiday name is released. The killer is some chick with a son named Jacob or something like that.
- 1989 - Mike Myers joins the cast of Saturday Night Live, as Michael Myers rushes out another sequel, Halloween 5.
- 1995 - Michael Myers is back with a vengeance as Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers is released to little fanfare. Donald Pleasence dies and is replaced by a talking dog.
- 1997 - Princess Diana dies in a drink driving incident, while trying to engage in a spit roast in the back of a Mercedes, in Paris, France.
- 1998 - Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later saves the Halloween franchise.
- 2002 - The Halloween franchise is nearly killed by Busta Rhymes in Halloween: Resurrection.
- 2006 - Rob Zombie announces that he is remaking Halloween.
- 2007 - Rob Zombie's masterpiece, Halloween, is released and grosses more money than Mr. Bean, Balls of Fury, Superbad, Titanic II, and Transformers combined.
- 2009 - Audiences flock to see The Final Destination and Taking Woodstock instead of Halloween II