To celebrate the first year of It’s A Stampede!, every day for 365 days I am presenting a totally informative, yet totally useless fact under the banner heading: ‘On this day in geekdom’.

Yep, that’s 365 facts!

Here’s today’s slice of geekdom…

December 18th – On this day in 1996, Scream makes its cinematic debut in LA. The film – directed by Wes Craven – stars Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox and David Arquette and becomes the defining horror movie of the 1990s.

More tomorrow…