The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie events on the 2nd January
William "Kid" Gleason dies. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (Eight Men Out)
Maria Callas walks off after the first act of a gala performance of Bellini's "Norma" claiming illness. (Rome, Italy) (Callas Forever)
Richard Nixon signs the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act, setting a new national maximum speed limit. (Nixon)
John Mitchell, John Ehrlichman and Bob Haldeman are found guilty on all counts. (All the President's Men)
The trial opens for ex-Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, accused of murdering his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen in October 1978. (Sid and Nancy)