The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
18th November: Chester A. Arthur dies. (New York City - Cattle King)
18th December: Tyrus Raymond "Ty" Cobb is born. (Narrows, Georgia - Cobb)
The bridge over the ravine is completed. (Hill Valley, CA - Back to the Future Part III)
Paolo Andolini, elder brother of the future Godfather, is born. (The Godfather)
Captain Elliott Spenser (Pinhead) was born into the middle class British society of the Victorian Era (Britain - Hellraiser)
The Island of Dr Moreau. (Island of Dr. Moreau, The (1977))
Chon Wang and Roy O'Bannon fight for the Imperial Seal. (London - Shanghai Knights)
Dracula (Vladislaus Valerious) kills Dr Victor Frankenstein at Frankenstein's castle. (Transylvania - Van Helsing)
26th February: Grover Cleveland Alexander is born. (Elba, Nebraska - The Winning Team)
2nd May: Eddie Collins is born. (Millerton, New York - Eight Men Out)
15th August: Edna Ferber is born. (Kalamazoo, Michigan - Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle)
8th November: John "Doc" Holliday dies from tuberculosis. (Glenwood Springs, Colorado - Tombstone)
17th November: Bernard Law Montgomery is born. (London, England - Patton)
Chisholm, Minnesota founded as a town. (Minnesota - Field of Dreams)
Jack The Ripper is identified as the Royal Family's doctor. (From Hell)
Dracula wipes out the Valerious family, and is killed once again by Van Helsing. (Van Helsing)
19th January: Arnold "Chick" Gandil is born. (St. Paul, Minnesota - Eight Men Out)
4th March: Knute Rockne is born. (Voss, Norway - Knute Rockne All American )
4th April: Tris Speaker is born. (Hubbard, Texas - The Babe)
22nd November: Lord Greystoke born, and adopted by Kala the ape. (Tarzan)
Gotham City celebrates it's centennial. (Gotham City, USA - Batman)
"Dirt Dragons" (known in future generations as "Graboids") plague a small desert community; they are killed and the community swears never to mention them again. (Rejection Valley, Nevada - Tremors 4: The Legend Begins)
3rd February: The outlaw Belle Starr is killed when an unknown assailant fatally wounds the famous "Bandit Queen" with two shotgun blasts from behind. (Oklahoma - Belle Starr)
16th April: Charlie Chaplin is born. (Walworth, London, England - Chaplin)
20th April: Adolf Hitler is born. (Braunau am Inn, Austria - Hitler: The Rise of Evil)
16th July: "Shoeless" Joe Jackson is born. (Pickens County, South Carolina - Eight Men Out)
Cody Zamora, Anita Crown, Eileen Spenser and Lilly Laronette are forced to leave their brothel when Cody kills an abusive client hurting Anita. (Bad Girls)
The Hound of the Baskervilles. (The Hound of the Baskervilles)
Sir Robert Chiltern turns to Lord Arthur Goring when blackmailed by Mrs Laura Cheveley. (An Ideal Husband)
Beatrix Potter has her final suitor brought to her by her mother - she rejects him just as she has with so many others. (Miss Potter)
11th April: John Merrick, the Elephant Man, dies. (London - The Elephant Man)
16th June: Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson) is born. (Ulverston, England - Chaplin)
17th June: Daniel Nicholson alleged to have been born - later proved to be a lie. (Philadelphia, PA - The Village)
18th August: George "Buck" Weaver is born. (Pottstown, Pennsylvania - Eight Men Out)
15th September: Agatha Christie is born. (Torquay, Devon, England. - Agatha)
14th October: Dwight D. Eisenhower is born. (near Abilene, Texas - The Right Stuff)
Future prison guard Paul Edgecomb is born. (The Green Mile)
July: First Sherlock Holmes short story published by Arthur Conan Doyle. (London - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
22nd August: Oscar "Happy" Felsch is born. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Eight Men Out)
24th October: Professor Moriarty seeks out Dr. Watson in hopes of enlisting his aid in stopping Sherlock Holmes' incessant persecution. (London, England - The Seven Percent Solution)
29th April: Vito Andolini (to become Don Corleone) born, according to his tombstone. (corleone sicily - The Godfather)
12th August: Ray Schalk is born. (Harvel, Illinois - Eight Men Out)
17th August: Mae West is born. (Brooklyn, New York - Marlene)
7th December: Vito Andolini (to become Don Corleone) born, according to his children's conversation. (The Godfather: Part II)
A Vatican researcher found a letter mentioning the buried church in Kenya. A team came to excavate it. Everyone disappeared. (Vatican City - Exorcist: The Beginning)
Villagers defeat members of British cantonment at cricket in bid to avoid paying unfair agrarian taxes known as 'Lagaan'. (Champaner, a village in India - Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India)
9th March: Claude "Lefty" Williams is born. (Aurora, Missouri - Eight Men Out)
26th April: Anita Loos is born. (Mt. Shasta, California - The Audrey Hepburn Story)
1st May: John Phillip Sousa's band debuts on Opening Day at the World's Fair in Chicago. (Chicago, Illinois - Stars and Stripes Forever )
7th June: Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience. (Pietermaritzburg, South Africa - Gandhi)
Alec Henderson is born. (Mrs. Henderson Presents)
26th April: Rudolf Hess is born. (Alexandria, Egypt - Wild Geese II )
27th May: Dashiell Hammett is born. (St. Mary's County, Maryland - Julia)
13th October: Charles "Swede" Risberg is born. (San Francisco, California - Eight Men Out)
The Christian Reform Act outlaws any religion in America not based on Christianity. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
Some people carry on. (The Khyber Pass - Carry On Up the Khyber)
Charles Foster Kane begins his newspaper career. (Citizen Kane)
Louis Lumiere develops and markets a commercially-successful motion picture camera, inventing 'The Movies'. (France - Ragtime)
Rose Dewitt Bukater is born. (Titanic)
1st January: J. Edgar Hoover is born. (Washington, DC - Hoover)