The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Alien invasion lands on Mars, before sending a test mission to Earth. (War of the Worlds)
Wednesday 23rd February: FBI investigator Ed Renard orders the German steamship Bismarck detained from leaving New York Harbor. He arrests suspected spy Hilda Kleinhauer and, after presenting her with coded messages found in her belongings, convinces her to cooperate by identifying her accomplices in the United States. (New York, New York - Confessions of a Nazi Spy)
Friday 1st April: George McFly born. (Back to the Future Part II)
Sunday 1st May: A Grand Jury Inquiry commences for four of eighteen accused Nazi spies: Kurt Schneider, a two-time army deserter; Werner Renz, a private in the US Air Corps; Hilda Kleinhauer, a former beauty operator on the steamship Bismarck; and Max Helldorf, a technician at the Zenith Munitions Corporation of New Jersey. Things look up for the accused when the prosecution's star witness Johann Westphal, an airplane draftsman with Emerson Aircraft Co., disappears on the eve of the inquiry. (New York, New York - Confessions of a Nazi Spy)
Saturday 21st May: Clark Savage Jr probes his fathers death. (New York City - Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze)
June: A boy reads a Superman comic. (Superman)
Thursday 2nd June: Nancy Drew suspects her girls' school benefactor, Mrs. Eldridge, has been kidnapped after she and her father, Carson Drew, are shadowed by suspicious characters. Nancy, with the help of her pal Ted Nickerson, solves her first mystery by tracking a homing pigeon. (River Heights, USA - Nancy Drew, Detective)
Sunday 17th July: Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan takes off on a flight that would finally win him a place in aviation history. (Brooklyn, New York - Flying Irishman, The )
Wednesday 20th July: Actress Dehlia Draycott born. (Los Angeles, CA - Nancy Drew)
Sunday 24th July: Artie Shaw records "Begin the Beguine". (New York - Second Chorus)
August: Peter Vadassy, an Austrian medical student living and working in France, is hauled in by the police while on holiday and accused of espionage. He is sent back to the Hotel Reserve to find out who might really be the spy. (South of France - Hotel Reserve)
Wednesday 24th August: Clark Gable reluctantly agrees to play Rhett Butler in David O. Selznick's "Gone with the Wind". (Gable and Lombard)
September: Tom Marvolo Riddle, aka Voldemort, starts first year at Hogwarts. (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
Tuesday 27th September: Monty Stratton plays what will be his last Major League game. (Cleveland, Ohio - The Stratton Story)
October: Alien Red Lectoids land in Grover's Mill, adopting the first name "John"; the event is passed off as a hoax radio drama, known as 'War of the Worlds'. (Grover's Mill, NJ - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension)
Thursday 6th October: Hindenbug III docks with Empire State Building; Prof. Jorge Vargas goes missing. he is the 3rd scientist in as many months to disappear. (New York, NY - Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow)
Tuesday 6th December: A factory owner jumps from the window of room 1408 at The Dolphin Hotel. (New York - 1408)
A scientist creates machines that destroy humankind. The Stitchpunks he created are the only survivors. (9)
Cecilia Tallis becomes a nurse in London and Robbie Turner fights reluctantly in mainland Europe. (Atonement)
Thomas and Martha Wayne are shot to death during a robbery, in front of their son Bruce. (Batman (1966))
The film Gone With The Wind is released. (Best in Show)
Lee Blanchard cracks the Boulevard Citizens Bank robbery case. (Los Angeles, Ca - The Black Dahlia)
Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi and family emigrates to the US. (Die Hard)
Captain Daniel McCormack agrees to be cryogenically frozen by Harry Finlay. (Forever Young)
Ruth Jamieson dies of cancer. (Whistle Stop, AL - Fried Green Tomatoes)
Edward Wilson is recruited to the Skull and Bones Society. (Yale University - The Good Shepherd)
Marcus Brody becomes Dean of the University. (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
The Norton 500 motorcycle, aka "The Mighty One", is constructed that Alberto Granado and Ernesto Guevara will ride across South America, and eventually leave wrecked before the Chilean desert. (The Motorcycle Diaries)
New York Knights' elder rookie Roy Hobbs spends about half the season sitting on the bench; once he gets into the line-up, Hobbs hits home run after home run. (New York - The Natural)
Andre Toulon shoots himself. His puppets live on. (Bodega Bay, California - Puppet Master)
New York is attacked by flying robots, and famous scientists vanish from around the world. (New York - Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow)
A governess falls in love with a captain with seven children; they escape the Nazis by climbing the Alps into Switzerland. (Salzburg, Austria - The Sound of Music)
Monday 9th January: Future secret service chief Ward Abbott is born. (The Bourne Ultimatum)
Friday 13th January: Arthur "Doc" Barker is killed while trying to escape from prison. (Alcatraz Prison - Bloody Mama)
Tuesday 31st January: Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter is born. (Unknown - Hannibal)
Sunday 12th February: Ray Manzarek, future keyboardist of The Doors, is born. (Chicago, Illinois - The Doors)
Friday 17th March: Doctor Totenkopf's robots attack New York City. (New York City - Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow)
Wednesday 29th March: Clark Gable & Carole Lombard marry. (Gable and Lombard)
Sunday 30th April: Lou Gehrig plays final game for New York Yankees. (The Pride of the Yankees)
Thursday 25th May: The Detective License Bureau of the California State Board of Prison Directors issues Michael Shayne his detective license. (Sacramento, CA - Michael Shayne, Private Detective)
Tuesday 13th June: "Doc" Barker is killed by prison guards as he attempts to escape from Alcatraz Prison. (San Francisco Bay - F.B.I. Story: The FBI Versus Alvin Karpis, Public Enemy Number One, The )
August: Thomas Hewitt, aka Leatherface, is born on the production floor of Lee Bros' Meat Packing Co; he is found by Luda Mae Hewitt in a dumpster outside the building. (Texas - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning)
Tuesday 1st August: Da Mayor takes off like white lightning up a black snake ass during a baseball game. (Snowhill, Alabama - Do the Right Thing)
Sunday 27th August: Robert James Matthews and Nan Elizabeth Harper have their banns of marriage published at the morning service of their local parish. (London, England - The Bells Go Down)
September: Lady Sarah Ashley arrives in Darwin. She meets Drover who takes her to her husband's estate, Faraway Downs. (Darwin, Australia - Australia)
September: Nazis take census of Polish Jews arriving in Krakow. (Schindler's List)
Sunday 3rd September: Bob Matthews and Nan Harper call off their engagement when war is declared. Having been turned down by the armed services, Bob joins the Auxiliary Fire Services along. (London, England - The Bells Go Down)
Sunday 3rd September: The United Kingdom declares war on Nazi Germany. (London, England - The King's Speech)
Tuesday 10th October: Eleanor Rigby dies 44 years of age asleep. (Liverpool, England - In His Life: The John Lennon Story)
Sunday 29th October: Lady Sarah Ashley, the Drover et al arrive in Darwin with 1,500 cattle ready for the army after successfully crossing the desert despite the evil designs of their enemy King Carney. (Darwin, Australia - Australia)
Thursday 2nd November: The military tribunal of POW Theodor Kretschmar-Schuldorff. (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Thursday 16th November: Danish sea captain Andersen, delayed in a British port, discovers his landing passes have been stolen by two German spies disguised as passengers. He sneaks ashore and onto a London-bound train in order to stop them. (Eastgate-On-Sea, England - Contraband)
Sunday 26th November: Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock) is born. (Brownsville, Tennessee - What's Love Got to Do with It)
Friday 1st December: Polish Jews are forced to wear stars, marking them out. (The Pianist)
Monday 25th December: King George VI delivers the Royal Christmas Message over the radio with friend and teacher Lionel Logue helping through every moment. (London, England - The King's Speech)
9 awakens and tries to unite the other eight Stitchpunks against the B.R.A.I.N. (9)
The film 'The Dark Jungle' is released in cinemas, covering the Confederate expansion of America in the early 20th century. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
The Egytian Mau, a sacred cat breed, imported into the US. (USA - Catwoman)
Four children travel through a wardrobe and discover Narnia. (England - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
An insurance investigator and an efficiency expert are hypnotised into a jewel heist. (The Curse of the Jade Scorpion)