The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Monday 24th January: Billy begins 2nd grade. (Billy Madison)
February: A blue collar worker is asked to reshingle the house of gangster Dominick "Baby Face" Bambino; he declines the job based on personal politics and asks a friend to do the job for him. The friend is killed when the Foresci family puts a hit out on "Baby Face." (Clerks)
February: Will Hunting commits grand theft auto. (Boston, MA - Good Will Hunting)
Friday 4th February: Billy wins in a spelling bee and passes 2nd grade. (Billy Madison)
Saturday 5th February: Byron de la Beckwith is convicted of the assassination of civil rights leader Medger Evers 31 years earlier, ending the lengthiest murder case in American history. (Ghosts of Mississippi)
Monday 7th February: Billy starts 3rd grade with Veronica Vaughn as his teacher. (Billy Madison)
Friday 11th February: Ms. Vaughn makes Billy write cursive on the board. (Billy Madison)
Monday 14th February: Principal Anderson subs for Ms. Vaughn. (Billy Madison)
Monday 14th February: Chris Brander sends fellow high school junior Jamie Palamino a dozen red roses. (New Jersey - Just Friends)
Thursday 17th February: Ms. Vaughn's 3rd grade class goes on a field trip to an Amish village. (Billy Madison)
Friday 18th February: Billy finishes 3rd grade. (Billy Madison)
Monday 21st February: Billy begins 4th grade. (Billy Madison)
March: Mathematician John Nash is informed that he is to be awarded the Noble Prize for his research in governing dynamics. (Princeton University - A Beautiful Mind)
March: Rocco Dillon plans a terrorist attack by smuggling a bomb into the Oscars - a retired Frank Drebin averts the disaster. (Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult)
Friday 4th March: Billy passes 4th grade. (Billy Madison)
Monday 7th March: Billy begins 5th grade. (Billy Madison)
Friday 18th March: Billy passes 5th grade. (Billy Madison)
Monday 21st March: Billy begins 6th grade. (Billy Madison)
April: Olive Penderghast is born. (Ojai, California - Easy A)
April: Mad John kills his wife in a supermarket. (North London - Gangster No 1)
April: Willam Black becomes obsessed with seeing a hidden magic eye picture; Brodie Bruce farts while Rene Mosier is going down on him; Brodie cites this as a possible reason for their break up a week later. (Mallrats)
April: Julie takes care of an injured hawk on the roof of her high school. (Boston, MA - The Next Karate Kid)
Friday 1st April: Billy passes 6th grade. (Billy Madison)
Monday 4th April: Billy begins 7th grade. (Billy Madison)
Thursday 7th April: Kara is born. (East Great Falls, Michigan - American Reunion)
Wednesday 13th April: Randal Graves calls the cops on Jay and Silent Bob while they are standing in front of RST video; Shannon Hamilton screws Tricia Jones in a very uncomfortable place. (Mallrats)
Thursday 14th April: Alyssa Jones and some friends hold a vigil outside the YMCA for Julie Dwyer. (Chasing Amy)
Thursday 14th April: Caitlin Bree's mother tells her that she has placed a wedding announcement for Caitlin and Sang in the paper. (Clerks)
Thursday 14th April: Brodie Bruce and T.S. Quint hang out at the mall, and are dumped then reunited with Rene Mosier and Brandi Svenning; Brodie is picked up to host The Tonight Show and Willam tries and fails to see a sailboat in a magic eye picture (Mallrats)
Friday 15th April: Billy passes 7th grade. (Billy Madison)
Friday 15th April: Dante Hicks is called into work at Quick Stop Convenience on his day off. His friend Randal Graves shows up late to work at the neighboring RST video, and the two have several misadventures that include a hockey match on the roof and attending Julie Dwyer's wake. (Clerks)
Saturday 16th April: Julie Dywer is buried. Dante Hicks calls in sick that morning, and goes to visit Caitlin at Riverview hospital. (Clerks)
Monday 18th April: Billy begins 8th grade. (Billy Madison)
Monday 18th April: John Edward Gammell's car registration expires. (San Francisco, California - Memento)
Friday 22nd April: Richard M Nixon dies. (New York - Nixon)
Wednesday 27th April: Nelson Mandela is elected president. (South Africa - Invictus)
Friday 29th April: Billy takes a test and passes 8th grade. (Billy Madison)
May: Rhiannon Abernathy is born. (Ojai, California - Easy A)
May: Paul Rusesabagina, himself a Hutu, shelters hundreds of Tutsi's and some Hutu moderates during the Hutu lead genocide, as the Western world ignores the situation . (Kilgali, Rwanda - Hotel Rwanda)
May: Mr. miyagi takes Julie to a Buddhist monastery to teach her karate. (Boston, MA - The Next Karate Kid)
Monday 2nd May: Billy starts going to Joseph Knibbs Memorial High School. (Billy Madison)
Friday 6th May: The events of Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan begin. (Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan)
Saturday 7th May: The events of Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan finish. (Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan)
Saturday 7th May: According to a mentally ill man named Harold, this is the date that John Wayne Gacy was executed. (Halloween: Resurrection)
Tuesday 10th May: Nelson Mandela inaugurated as first black president of South Africa. (Goodbye Bafana)
Friday 13th May: Jason Voorhees's body is blown apart by the FBI in an ambush, though during the autopsy, the coroner eats Jason's heart and becomes possessed by his spirit. (Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday)
Friday 13th May: Thomas Kubs is born. (North Pasadena, California - Project X)
June: Lord Voldemort returns in human form, and tries but fails to kill Harry Potter for the fourth time. (England - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
June: After graduating from college, T.S. Quint and Brandi Svenning are married at Universal Studios. (Mallrats)
June: Eric McGowen takes Julie Pierce to the prom. Julie defeats Ned and Mr. Miyagi defeats Colonel Dugan. (Boston, MA - The Next Karate Kid)
Sunday 12th June: O.J. Simpson is accused of killing ex-wife Nicole and Ron Goldman. (American Tragedy)
Wednesday 15th June: By this time Billy Madison has passed grades 1-12 and decides to go to college and become a teacher. Carl takes over the hotel chain. (Billy Madison)
Wednesday 15th June: Max videotapes Melissa trying to build a birdhouse. (Washington DC - Timecop)
Thursday 16th June: Jesse and Celine meet on a train and spend a romantic day together, without exchanging phone numbers. (Vienna, Austria - Before Sunrise)
Friday 17th June: O.J. Simpson arrested after flight from justice. (Los Angeles, California - American Tragedy)
Tuesday 12th July: Castor Troy assassinates Alfred Evans, Croatian Ambassador. (Berlin, Germany - Face/Off)
Friday 15th July: Julian McGrath is born. (Toronto - Big Daddy)
Monday 18th July: The magazine Out-Takes reports that two 23 year olds, Banky Edwards and Holden McNeil, are enjoying success with their first comic, 37, currently being sold only at Comic Toast in Eden Prairie Mall and Comicology. (Chasing Amy)
Friday 29th July: The Mask, which Cameron Diaz stars in, is released. (Funny People)
August: Charles & Duckface's ill-fated wedding at St Julian's church; Charles and Carrie stand in some rain. (Smithfield, London - Four Weddings and a Funeral)