The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Friday 19th June: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed. (Citizen Cohn)
Wednesday 14th October: Fred Friendly and Edward R Murrow begin to question Senator McCarthy's methods. (CBS Studios - Good Night, and Good Luck)
Monday 19th October: Sig Mickelson convinced to run a story opposing Senator McCarthy's condemnation of Milo Radulovich. (CBS Studios - Good Night, and Good Luck)
Tuesday 20th October: 10:30pm - Ed Murrow broadcasts news report claiming Milo Radulovich was wrongly accused of Communist tendencies. (CBS Studios - Good Night, and Good Luck)
December: Peter Appleton has a car accident and loses his memory - he awakes being told he must be Luke Trimble, a lost solider from 9 years previous. (Lawson, California - The Majestic)
Mathematician John Nash is attacked while delivering Top Secret newspaper clippings to an abandoned mansion, and stumbles home in a schizophrenic stupor. (Cambridge, MA - A Beautiful Mind)
The Hudson Hornet crashes during an attempt to qualify for the Piston Cup; afterward he retires from racing. (Cars)
Messrs Peacock, Scarlet, White, Plum, Mustard & Green may have murdered My Boddy, a cook, a maid, a policeman, a chauffeur & a singing telegram. (New England - Clue)
A group of researchers find a prehistoric "gillman" in the Amazon River. (Amazon River, South America - Creature from the Black Lagoon)
Don Vito Corleone dies while playing with his granddaughter; Carlo Rizzi dies and his son Michael Francis Rizzi is born. (The Godfather)
Godzilla destroys Tokyo for the first tme before being destroyed by the oxygen destroyer. (Gojira)
John Kramer is born. (Saw IV)
The Military fights giant mutated ants. (New Mexico - Them!)
Tuesday 9th March: Edward Murrow broadcasts report condemning Senator McCarthy's methods. (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Tuesday 6th April: Senator McCarthy broadcasts his reply to Edward Murrow, accusing him of Communist leanings. (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Thursday 6th May: Roger Bannister runs the first four-minute mile. (Oxford - Four Minutes)
June: Nigel Tufnel and David St Hubbins first meet, going on to form legendary rock band Spinal Tap. (Squatney, London - This is Spinal Tap)
Wednesday 9th June: Joseph Welch lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether communism has infiltrated the U.S. armed forces. (Citizen Cohn)
Tuesday 22nd June: Teens Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme murder Pauline's mother Honora. (Christchurch, New Zealand - Heavenly Creatures)
Monday 5th July: Elvis records "That's All Right, Mama". (Walk the Line)
Thursday 28th October: Yamamori Family Underboss, Shihichi Yamagata, is murdered in a gangland hit by a Shinkai faction drug dealer, sparking off a prolonged and deadly power struggle within the ranks of the once-powerful yakuza family. (Hiroshima, Japan - The Yakuza Papers)
November: Godzilla destroys Tokyo. (Tokyo - Godzilla, King of The Monsters!)
Wednesday 24th November: Linda Porter dies, leaving Cole a widower who would rarely write again. (De-lovely)
Sunday 28th November: Enrice Fermi dies. (Chicago, Illinois - Fat Man and Little Boy )
Thursday 2nd December: The U.S. Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Senator Joseph R. McCarthy for conduct unbecoming of a senator. (Washington, D.C. - Citizen Cohn)
Saturday 11th December: Uichi Shinkai is killed by yakuza disguised as police, thus eliminating Tetsuya Sakai's last rival for control of the Yamamori Family. (Hiroshima, Japan - The Yakuza Papers)
Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander becomes an American citizen, according to his claims (Apt Pupil)
The film 'I Married An Abolitionist' is released in cinemas. (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
The mother of Ray and wife of John Kinsella dies. (Field of Dreams)
Michael Francis Rizzi born, during whose christening many enemies of the Corleones bite the dust, including Carlo Rizzi. (The Godfather)
Attempt on Michael Corleone's life; Tom Hagen takes temporary control of the Corleones. (The Godfather: Part II)
The Parker Center begins as the new LAPD facility; 'How Important Can It Be?' released by Joni James. (LA Confidential)
King Tristan and Queen Yvaine hand over reign of their throne of Stormhold to their children and grandchildren, before lighting a Babylon candle and becoming twin stars in the sky. (Stormhold - Stardust)
Johnny Cash meets June Carter on tour. (Memphis, TN & Texarkana, TX - Walk the Line)
Wednesday 16th March: The first battle between yakuza loyal to Katsutoshi Otomo, gambling boss, and the powerful Muraoka Family; 2 dead, 8 injured. (Hiroshima, Japan - The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 2: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima)
Wednesday 23rd March: Katsutoshi Otomo's last powerful ally, Kanishi Tokimori, is gunned down by yakuza boss Shozo Hirano; this paves the way for a takeover of the Otomo forces by the Muraoka Family. Koichi Shimada, member of the Hirano Family takes the blame and is sentenced to 12 years in prison. (Hiroshima, Japan - The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 2: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima)
Friday 6th May: Grace Kelly meets Prince Rainer. (Grace Kelly)
Monday 4th July: Holly Golightly's mother dies. (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
Friday 30th September: James Dean dies in a car srash on a California highway. (Cholame, California - September 30, 1955)
Saturday 5th November: Marty McFly arrives in Hill Valley, from 1985; Doc Brown invents the flux capacitor when he slips off his toilet. (Back to the Future)
Saturday 12th November: The Enchantment Under The Sea Dance, a bit of a storm, and some time-travel. (Back to the Future)
Wednesday 16th November: Marty McFly travels through time again, this time back to 1885. (Back to the Future Part II)
Saturday 24th December: A young Frank Cross is given veal by his father as a Christmas present. (Scrooged)
A radioactive Dinosaur awakens and destroys Tokyo. (Tokoyo - Godzilla, King of The Monsters!)
Peter Appleton returns to Lawson as himself, rather than as Luke Trimble. (Lawson, California - The Majestic)
Evelyn Ryan wins $5000 and a bike in a jingle-writing contest, enabling her family to get their own house. (Ohio - The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio)
While on tour, Johnny Cash kisses June Carter for the first time. (Walk the Line)
Wednesday 4th January: John W. Creasy is born. (Man on Fire)
Tuesday 31st January: George "Buck" Weaver dies. (Chicago, Illinois - Eight Men Out)
Sunday 19th February: Yakuza Captain, Tetsuya Sakai, is targeted and gunned down in public. (Hiroshima, Japan - The Yakuza Papers)
Saturday 25th February: Sylvia Plath meets her future husband, Ted Hughes, at a party. (Cambridge, United Kingdom - Sylvia)
April: Mathematician John Nash's wife threatens to leave him after he nearly drowns their son. (Princeton, NJ - A Beautiful Mind)
June: Mathematician John Nash returns to Princeton University and requests permission to "hang around". (Princeton University - A Beautiful Mind)
Tuesday 5th June: Elvis introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show. (Elvis)
Sunday 10th June: As a fulfillment of their "duty of resistence" to French colonialism, Mahmud and Fatiha are married in a secret ceremony under the authority of the FLN. (Algiers, Algeria - The Battle of Algiers)
Wednesday 20th June: While on morning patrol, a French policeman is stabbed in the throat and robbed of his pistol. An hour later, a police station is ambushed by locals and two more officers are killed. By the afternoon, the streets are openly menaced by automatic weapon fire between rebel factions and the territorial guard. (Algiers, Algeria - The Battle of Algiers)
Friday 20th July: A Muslim woman smuggles a pistol in her burka through a French Legionaire checkpoint so it may be used to murder a guardsman sitting at a street cafe. Later that day, two more patrolmen fall victim to meticulously planned and executed assassinations. (Algiers, Algeria - The Battle of Algiers)
Thursday 16th August: Bela Lugosi's dead... from a heart attack. (Los Angeles, CA - Ed Wood)
October: While holidaying, Ronnie and her Canadian husband bump into old colleague Rachel Stein - now a teacher on a kibbutz. (Israel - Black Book)
Lionel Pritchard and his girlfriend Paquita battle a horde of zombies. (New Zealand - Braindead)