Oct. 26, 1985.

On October 26, 1985, early in the morning, Marty McFly met up with Doctor Emmett Brown, according to the Doc's wishes, at the Twin Pines mall parking lot.  Here, for the first time, Marty set eyes on Doc's DeLorean time machine.  It was that fateful morning when, in an attempt to avoid being slain by the Libyan terrorists, Marty accidentally went back to 1955.  That was thirty years ago, today... for us that is.  For Marty, it was just a few days ago...

Marty reminisces when he first set eyes on the DeLorean, roughly a week ago (give or take a day or two).