In spite of what your Facebook friends may have told you in the past, it's today - Oct. 21, 2015 - that marks the date in the future that Marty McFly travels to in "Back to the Future: Part II."
A popular meme over that past few years has been to create altered images of the film's time-traveling DeLorean's "time circuits", then circulating them on the Internet for hapless-uncle types to post obliviously to their walls (sometimes more than once). But today is the real deal.
The 1989 sequel picks up right where the first film left off, with a transparent-tie-wearing Doc Brown having returned to 1985 to whisk Marty and his girlfriend forward to a time when "Something's got to be done about your kids!"
They arrive on Oct. 21, 2015 to find a world where hoverboards glide over the streets, flying cars navigate aerial highways, humans have mastered control of the weather and "The justice system works swiftly in the future now that they've abolished all lawyers."
While we now can only lament that none of those things have come to pass, the jury is still out on another one: Upon his arrival in 2015, Marty is astounded to see that the Chicago Cubs have just won the World Series against Miami. While the film correctly foresaw Miami getting an MLB team (they had none in 1989), it failed to realize that the Marlins would join the Cubs in the National League, and therefore be unable to meet for the championship.
Other predictions the movie made have proven more accurate. Still, at time of writing, the Cubs are one series win away from playing in the World Series, and if they are to break their 107-year-old drought by winning it all this year, that would easily be the most impressive prediction to come true.
Check out the videos in this post for more comparisons between the movie's fictional Oct. 21, 2015 and the real one, today.