Everyone should take a moment today to mark this great anniversary that is occurring today.  Not many people know about it, but it’s truly an event that changed human history as we know it.  Time travel was invented 50 years ago today.

That’s right.  Remember that girl who asked me whether there were non-fiction time travel stories in the book I was reading?  She was spot-on.  I shouldn’t have ridiculed her in my head… or on my site.  Because on Saturday, November 5, 1955, Dr. Emmett Brown was standing on his toilet while hanging a clock, but the porcelain was wet and he slipped and hit his head—and when he came to, he had a revelation.  A vision.  A picture in his head.  A picture of the flux capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible.

Congratulations, Dr. Brown, on the 50th anniversary of your momentous event.  You truly are a Real American Hero, and I salute you.