The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
Monday 2nd April: President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to send U.S. troops into battle against Germany in World War I. (Wilson)
Wednesday 11th April: Scott Joplin dies. (Scott Joplin)
Tuesday 15th May: Dwight D Eisenhower and George S Patton promoted to the rank of Captain. (Patton)
Tuesday 29th May: John F. Kennedy is born. (Brookline, Massachusetts - J.F.K.: Reckless Youth)
Thursday 7th June: Dean Martin is born. (Steubenville, Ohio - Martin and Lewis)
Thursday 14th June: US President Woodrow Wilson gives Flag Day address. (Wilson)
Wednesday 25th July: Mata Hari sentenced to die. (France - Mata Hari)
Tuesday 28th August: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson is picketed by woman suffragists in front of the White House, who demand that he support an amendment to the Constitution that would guarantee women the right to vote. (Washington, DC - Wilson)
Thursday 13th September: George stops his time machine and learns that his friend David Filby was killed in "the war". (The Time Machine (1960))
Monday 15th October: Mata Hari is executed for spying. (Vincennes, France - Mata Hari)
Americans and French enter Berlin. (Berlin - Casablanca)
Cole Porter meets Linda Lee Thomas. (Paris - De-lovely)
Boston Red Sox win the World Series for the last time in 86 years. (Fever Pitch)
John Kinsella first sees a big city when he returns from The Great War in France. (Field of Dreams)
The Chicago White Sox lose the World Series. (Field of Dreams)
Clive Candy shoots a German soldier. (Flanders - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Tuesday 8th January: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson discusses the aims of the United States in World War I and outlines his "14 Points" for achieving a lasting peace in Europe. (Washington, D.C. - Wilson)
Sunday 3rd February: Joey Bishop is born. (Bronx, New York - The Rat Pack)
Friday 22nd February: Swept along by hysterical fears of treacherous German spies and domestic labor violence, the Montana legislature passes a Sedition Law that severely restricts freedom of speech and assembly. (Montana - Legends of the Fall)
Saturday 20th April: Susannah Fincannon writes to Tristan asking if he will ever return and about Alfred's successful business ventures. (Legends of the Fall)
Sunday 21st April: Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the notorious German flying ace known as the Red Baron," is killed by Allied fire. (Somme River, France - Red Baron, The )
Monday 8th July: Ernest Hemingway is severely wounded while carrying a companion to safety on the Austro-Italian front during World War I. (In Love and War)
Sunday 14th July: Quentin Roosevelt is shot down and killed by a German Fokker plane. (Marne River, France. - Wind and the Lion, The )
Wednesday 17th July: Czar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra, and their children are shot to death by the Bolsheviks during the 1917 Russian Revolution, which brought Communism to Russia. (Russia - Nicholas and Alexandra)
October: Paul Baumer is killed a month before the Armistice ending The Great War. (All Quiet on the Western Front)
October: T.E. Lawrence and Prince Feisal conquer Damascus; Lawrence returns to Britain. (Lawrence of Arabia)
Tuesday 8th October: Alvin C. York is credited with single-handedly killing 25 German soldiers and capturing 132 in the Argonne Forest. (France - Sergeant York )
November: As the Great War ends in Germany, art dealer Max Rothman befriends art student Adolf Hitler. (Max)
Monday 4th November: British poet Wilfred Owen is killed in action. (Sambre Canal - War Requiem)
Wednesday 4th December: Woodrow Wilson departs on the first European trip by a U.S. President. (Wilson)
The last double-fault final-play elimination in a Dodgeball tournament. (Helsinki, Finland - Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story)
The Dolly Sisters reunite for one final performance as part of an All Star Benefit for The Actors' Guild at the Manhattan Opera House. (New York - The Dolly Sisters)
Seven Chicago White Sox players throw the World Series - Shoeless Joe Jackson's involvement is never proved. (Field of Dreams)
Frederico 'Freddy' Corleone born. (The Godfather)
The Opera Populaire's public auction, inc. Lot 666, the chandelier in pieces; Raoul buys the music box for Christine's grave where the Phantom places her engagement ring. (Paris - The Phantom of the Opera)
Saturday 3rd May: Emil Gower receives a telegram informing him that his son has died from influenza. (It's a Wonderful Life)
Saturday 28th June: Harry S. Truman marries Elizabeth Virginia Wallace. (Independence, Missouri - MacArthur)
Tuesday 15th July: Iris Murdoch is born. (Dublin, Ireland - Iris)
Saturday 9th August: Ralph Houk is born. (Lawrence, Kansas - 61*)
Tuesday 19th August: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson appears personally before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to argue in favor of its ratification of the Versailles Treaty, the peace settlement that ended the First World War. (Wilson)
October: The Chicago White Sox conspire to throw the World Series. (Eight Men Out)
Wednesday 1st October: Chicago White Sox lose Game 1 of World Series. (Cincinnati, Ohio - Eight Men Out)
Thursday 2nd October: Chicago White Sox lose Game 2 of World Series. (Cincinnati, Ohio - Eight Men Out)
Friday 3rd October: Chicago White Sox win Game 3 of World Series. (Chicago, Illinois - Eight Men Out)
Saturday 4th October: Chicago White Sox lose Game 4 of World Series. (Chicago, Illinois - Eight Men Out)
Monday 6th October: Chicago White Sox lose Game 5 of World Series. (Chicago, Illinois - Eight Men Out)
Tuesday 7th October: Chicago White Sox win Game 6 of World Series. (Cincinnati, Ohio - Eight Men Out)
Wednesday 8th October: Chicago White Sox win Game 7 of World Series. (Cincinnati, Ohio - Eight Men Out)
Thursday 9th October: Chicago White Sox lose 8th and final game of 1919 World Series. (Chicago, Illinois - Eight Men Out)
Friday 10th October: Harold Abrahams meets Aubrey Montague at their first day at Caius College. (Cambridge - Chariots of Fire)
December: Harry Bailey drowns while sledging, or is saved by his brother George, timeline-dependent. (Bedford Falls, New York - It's a Wonderful Life)
Friday 12th December: Tristan writes to Susannah telling her how he has become a hunter and that she should marry another man. (Legends of the Fall)
Emmett L Brown born. (Hill Valley, CA - Back to the Future Part III)
Eric Liddell begins running seriously. (Scottish Highlands - Chariots of Fire)
Charles Foster Kane runs for governor but loses after being caught in sex-scandal with a young starlet. (Citizen Kane)
Traudl Junge - future secretary to Adolf Hitler - is born. (Germany - Downfall)
The 'City of Albany' central train derails killing hundreds of people, later to become a ghost train. (New York - Ghostbusters)
Michael Corleone born; Theresa, Tom Hagen's future wife, born. (The Godfather)
At a dinner in his honour, Rasputin is poisoned, shot, stabbed, clubbed, castrated and drowned - he survives them all. (Hellboy)
Irving Steinbloom (future country music mogul) born. (A Mighty Wind)