The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Monday 6th February: Ronald Reagan is born. (Tampico, Illinois - The Reagans)
Thursday 16th March: Dr. Josef Mengele is born. (Gunzburg, Germany - The Boys from Brazil)
Saturday 15th April: Grover Cleveland Alexander plays 1st Major League Baseball game. (The Winning Team)
Friday 19th May: Jocelyn Brandon Esq., Chairman of the London County Fire Brigade, opens the Fire Brigade Recruitment Center. (London, England - The Bells Go Down)
Wednesday 31st May: At 12:15 p.m. RMS Titanic launched from Harland & Wolfe shipyards. (Belfast, Ireland - Titanic)
Friday 21st July: David Lloyd George delivers the customary annual address of the British chancellor of the exchequer. (Mansion House, London, England - The Life Story of David Lloyd George)
Thursday 7th September: French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and jailed on suspicion of stealing Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum. (Paris, France - Waiting for the Moon )
Sunday 26th November: The New York Herald reports that Joseph Green, Stanley Berry and Daniel Hill murdered a man in Greenberry Hill. (Magnolia)
Thursday 14th December: Roald Amundsen becomes the first explorer to reach the South Pole. (Race for the Poles)
Canadian women get the right to vote. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
A young Indiana Jones separates from his boy scout troop, steals the Cross of Coronado and encounters snakes, a bullwhip and a fedora. (Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade)
Great Seal of Sommerton is made. (Sommerton, Arizona - The Last Stand)
Clive Candy shoots a situtunga. (South Africa - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Exposition presents Andre Toulon, Europe's greatest puppet master. (Cairo, Egypt - Puppet Master II)
Brooks Hatlin begins work at the Shawshank prison. (The Shawshank Redemption)
Lono Veccio's grandfather arrives in America by boat from Ireland. (Suicide Kings)
Wednesday 10th April: RMS Titanic arrives at Cherbourg, France at 5:15 pm - among the passangers that come aboard is Margert Brown, later to be known as the "Unsinkable Molly Brown". (Cherbourg, France - Titanic)
Friday 12th April: Titanic sets sail from Southampton; that night, steerage passenger Jack Dawson meets First Class passenger Rose Dewitt Bukater. (Titanic)
Saturday 13th April: Jack Dawson dines with Rose Dewitt Bukater. (Titanic)
Sunday 14th April: Titanic hits the iceberg. (Titanic)
Monday 15th April: Titanic sinks. (A Night to Remember)
Monday 15th April: Time-travelling dwarves appear on the intact Titanic, briefly. (Time Bandits)
Monday 15th April: Titanic sinks. (Titanic)
Tuesday 21st May: Monty Stratton is born. (Wagner, Texas - The Stratton Story)
Saturday 1st June: Adolph Zukor creates the Famous Players Film Company. (Will There Really Be a Morning?)
Thursday 27th June: At 6:00 P.M. on this date, Richard Collier traveled through time to meet Elise McKenna. (Somewhere In Time)
Thursday 27th June: Playwright Richard Collier arrives from 1980 via self-hypnosis to meet actress Elise McKenna. (Somewhere In Time)
Friday 28th June: At 9:18A.M. Richard Collier signs the hotel registry where Elise McKenna is staying. Hours later, he meets up with her on this day. (Somewhere In Time)
Friday 28th June: Miss Elise McKenna appears in Wisdom of the Heart by Bartlett Wells at the theatre at the Grand Hotel (Straits of Mackinac - Somewhere In Time)
Thursday 4th July: Harold Hill arrives to con the townsfolk into buying a boys band. (River City, Iowa - The Music Man)
Sunday 7th July: Marian Paroo discovers that Harold Hill is a con-man. (River City, Iowa - The Music Man)
Sunday 14th July: Woody Guthrie is born. (Okemah, Oklahoma - Bound for Glory)
Saturday 10th August: Virginia and Leonard Woolf marry. (London, England - The Hours)
October: The Dolphin Hotel opens, and the first death in room 1408 occurs, when a man slits his own throat then tries to restitch it. (New York - 1408)
The body of a rich industrialist is found at the building site of the Woolworth Building. The victim was kidnapped a year earlier. (New York - The Bone Collector)
Mondoshawans return to Earth at the pyramids, to recover the four elements. (Egypt - The Fifth Element)
Samuel Ludlow and fiance Susanna Fincannon arrive this summer for Susanna to meet Samuel's brothers and father. (Ludlow Homestead, Montana - Legends of the Fall)
Beatrix Potter marries local solicitor and former childhood friend William Heelis. (The Lake District - Miss Potter)
Karen Blixen moves to Kenya. (Kenya - Out of Africa)
The All Spark is located by Sector 7. (Transformers)
Thursday 9th January: Richard M Nixon is born. (Yorba Linda, CA - Nixon)
Friday 14th February: Jimmy Hoffa is born. (Brazil, Indiana - Hoffa)
Tuesday 4th March: Woodrow Wilson takes office as the 28th President of the United States. (Washington, DC - Wilson)
Sunday 9th March: Virginia Woolf delivers her first novel, "The Voyage Out". (The Hours)
Saturday 22nd March: Jack London writes letters to H.G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and Winston Churchill, asking how much they are paid for their writing. (Jack London)
Sunday 13th April: William Ludlow laments his inability to properly raise his sons, saying he is better suited to leading soldiers. (Ludlow Homestead, Montana - Legends of the Fall)
Monday 14th July: Future U.S. President Gerald R. Ford (born Leslie L. King, Jr.) is born. (Omaha, Nebraska - Commission, The )
Thursday 18th September: First two rounds of the 1913 U.S. Open (Brookline, Massachusetts - The Greatest Game Ever Played)
Friday 19th September: Final two rounds of the 1913 U.S. Open, which ends with a three-way tie between Britons Harry Vardon and Ted Ray and American amateur Francis Ouimet. (Brookline, Massachusetts - The Greatest Game Ever Played)
Saturday 20th September: In an upset, American Francis Ouimet defeats Britons Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in an 18-hole playoff at the 1913 U.S. Open. He becomes the first amateur to win the U.S. Open. (Brookline, Massachusetts - The Greatest Game Ever Played)
Thursday 25th September: Charlie Chaplin signs with Keystone. (Chaplin)
Wednesday 24th December: Filmmaker Leo Harrigan, having just discovered that Atlantic Pictures' studio boss H.H. Cobb has been recutting his romantic adventure two-reelers into slapstick nonsense, confronts Cobb at his lavish Christmas party, demanding a contract and more money. Cobb calmly fires Harrigan and his crew. (Los Angeles, California - Nickelodeon)
Wednesday 24th December: Filmmaker Leo Harrigan makes his first trip to Los Angeles accompanied by his team of actors and crew. Dressed in evening attire, they take in a matinee and discover that their boss, Atlantic Pictures studio head H.H. Cobb, stole brief snippets from various Harrigan films, including "Rattlesnakes and Gunpowder", "Romeo's Balloon", "Pasha's Passion", "Caves and Clubs" and "Gunman's Guilt" and recut them into an incomprehensible mess called "Tuttle's Muddle." Angered by Cobb's betrayal, Harrigan steals the projectionist's copy of the film. Outside the theater, the film audience recognize Harrigan's actors Buck Greenway and Kathleen Cooke and proceed to tear pieces of their clothing for souveniers until they're down to their undergarments. (Los Angeles, California - Nickelodeon)
Milo Thatch leads an expedition to discover Atlantis. When the team attempts to steal the city's life source, Milo leads a fight to get it back and save Atlantis. (Washington D.C. - Atlantis: The Lost Empire)
The year on the flag that is on the pole. (Captain America: The First Avenger)
Mondoshawan come to Earth to take away the five elements stones as they know World War One is about to start. (Egypt - The Fifth Element)
Gandhi returns home. (India - Gandhi)
Vito and Carmella Corleone move in. (Little Italy, New York - The Godfather: Part II)
Clive Candy shoots an Indian elephant. (Central Province - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Blue Rider Exhibition (Six Degrees of Separation)