On this day 55 years ago...

Robert here, with a special look at this very important date.

On this day, 55 years ago...
George McFly and Lorraine Baines kiss for the first time, sealing a lifetime of love that would produce three children.

Also on this day, 55 years ago...
The Hill Valley Clock Tower is hit by lightning and hasn't worked since.

Yet still on this day 55 years ago...
Having just witnessed his parents' first kiss, a relieved Marty McFly invents a new kind of music.

And even more, on this day 55 years ago...
Local inventor/eccentric Doctor Emmitt Brown conducts some kind of experiment on the famous clock
tower.

And then, on this day 55 years ago...
Biff Tannen gets a visit from a familiar looking old man who hand him a sports almanac.

Following that, on this day 55 years ago...
Marty McFly, making his second visit, tails Tannen and retrieves the almanac, thus preventing the most dramatic city-wide deterioration since Pottersville.

And finally, on this day 55 years ago...
Marty receives a curious Western Union telegram that's been sitting around for decades.

And it all happened on this day, November 12, 1955.