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Monday 23rd August: Rudoph Valentino dies after surgery for a perforated ulcer. (New York City - Good Night Valentino )
Thursday 9th December: Benny Goodman records his first solo, 16 bars of a song called "He's the Last Word." (The Benny Goodman Story)
Friday 31st December: Tom Marvolo Riddle, aka Voldemort, is born. (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
Peter Pevensie is born. (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
Don Vito returns to avenge his father's murder; Constanzia 'Connie' Corleone born. (Sicily - The Godfather: Part II)
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness released in cinemas. (King Kong)
Ellis "Red" Redding arrives at Shawshank prison. (The Shawshank Redemption)
The Warner Brothers release the first talking picture "The Jazz Singer"; industry execs predict the new technology will not catch on. (Singin' in the Rain)
Tuesday 19th April: Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity. (Mae West)
Saturday 21st May: Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo flight across the Atlantic. (Meet Me in St. Louis)
The Abominable Dr Phibes. (The Abominable Dr. Phibes)
Susan Pevensie is born. (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
An interstellar teleportation device is discovered in Giza, Egypt, as well as what appear to be fossils in the stone underneath it. (Stargate)
The mother of Jem and Scout and husband of Atticus Finch dies. (To Kill A Mockingbird)
April: Margaret gives John a Church Hymnary book. (The 39 Steps)
Thursday 14th June: Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is born. (The Motorcycle Diaries)
Monday 6th August: Andy Warhol is born. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - I Shot Andy Warhol)
Thursday 16th August: Carl Panzram is arrested. (Washington, D.C. - Killer: A Journal of Murder)
Tuesday 6th November: Arnold Rothstein is killed by a gun shot. (New York - Mobsters)
Thursday 6th December: Hagrid born. (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
Roxie Hart murders her lover. (Chicago, IL - Chicago)
Sam Spade investigates the Maltese Falcon. (The Maltese Falcon)
Memoirs of a Geisha. (Memoirs of a Geisha)
Lee Bros' Meat Packing Co. is established. (Texas - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning)
Sunday 13th January: Wyatt Earp dies. (Los Angeles, California - Wyatt Earp)
Thursday 14th February: St Valentine's Day Massacre; two male musicians witness it and escape dressed as women. (Some Like It Hot)
Monday 3rd June: Chuck Barris is born. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Confessions of a Dangerous Mind)
Tuesday 29th October: The Day the Bubble Burst, aka Black Tuesday, aka the Great Crash, aka the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange. (New York - The Day the Bubble Burst)
Tuesday 29th October: George Bailey & Mary Hatch marry; The Bailey Building & Loan manages to stay open with only $2 left. (Bedford Falls, New York - It's a Wonderful Life)
Wednesday 30th October: Lyle Atwood and an unknown man jump from a Wall St skyscraper. They vanish, before Lyle reappears and lands on a car, dead. (Timecop)
Thursday 14th November: Jim Piersall is born. (Waterbury, Connecticut - Fear Strikes Out)
Howard Hughes produces 'Hell's Angels'. (The Aviator)
11 year-old Leonard Lowe begins showing signs of Encephalitis Lethargica. (New York - Awakenings)
Edmund Pevensie is born. (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives wrongly raise tariffs to alleviate The Great Depression. (Washington - Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
Pamela Voorhees born. (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter)
Clive Candy shoots a moose. (Nova Scotia - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Eliot Ness teams up with James Malone to take on Al Capone. (Chicago - The Untouchables)
Wednesday 28th May: Grover Cleveland Alexander plays final Major League Baseball game. (The Winning Team)
Tuesday 17th June: U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff which raises duties on imports to astronomical heights in hopes of preserving the domestic market for American-made goods. (The Day the Bubble Burst)
Sunday 14th September: Mobsters blow up a corner general store after the owner refuses to buy any more of their green beer. The bomb kills the store owner and a young girl. (Chicago, Ill - The Untouchables)
Monday 15th September: Elliot Ness' first day on the job is a flop. His first bust yeilds bumberchutes instead of booze, but he receives a free lesson in law enforcement from Malone. (Chicago, Ill - The Untouchables)
Tuesday 16th September: Eliot Ness receives a visit from the mother of the girl who died in the explosion. She thanks him for what he's doing. Ness seeks out Malone in an attempt to recruit him. Malone declines. (Chicago, Ill - The Untouchables)
Wednesday 17th September: Oscar Wallace arrives from the Washington Bureau; Malone changes his mind. He and Ness recruit George Stone from the police academy. (Chicago, Ill - The Untouchables)
Emmett Brown first reads Jules Verne. (Hill Valley, CA - Back to the Future Part III)
Sally Bowles makes a splash on the Berlin cabaret scene. (Berlin, Germany - Cabaret)
Apollonia (later to become Corleone) born. (The Godfather)
East of Borneo's cinematic release. (King Kong)
Karen Blixen arrives from Kenya. (Denmark - Out of Africa)
Saturday 11th April: Dorothy Parker resigns as drama critic for "The New Yorker". (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle)
Friday 1st May: Herbert Hoover dedicates the Empire State Building. (New York - The Day the Bubble Burst)
Friday 17th July: Ned Devine born. (Ireland - Waking Ned)
December: Michael Sullivan Jr joins his father for six weeks of assassination and repayment. (Road To Perdition)
Howard Hughes branches into aviation. (The Aviator)
Lucy Pevensie is born. (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
The Mummy released in cinemas. (King Kong)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is established. (The Kingdom)
The invading Japanese army found the state of Manchukuo and install Puyi as its ruler. (Manchuria, China - The Last Emperor)
Rayford Gibson and Claude Banks are sentenced to Life for a murder they didn't commit; they are sent to Camp 8 Mississippi. (Mississippi Camp 8 - Life)
Royal O'Reilly Tenenbaum born. (The Royal Tenenbaums)