The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
Michael Myers born. (Halloween)
The Iron Giant. (The Iron Giant)
Scientists, from Labcentral try to stop a giant rampaging engery stealing robot from another planet. (Los Alamos, New Mexico - Kronos)
Lana Turner meets Johnny Stompanato. (Los Angeles - LA Confidential)
October Sky. (October Sky)
Monday 28th January: The United Nations opens debate on the French/Algerian Question. (New York, NY - The Battle of Algiers)
Tuesday 29th January: The FNL calls for a seven-day general strike for all Arab Algerians. (Algiers, Algeria - The Battle of Algiers)
April: Stratogirl sucked into a jet turbine. (The Incredibles)
Thursday 2nd May: Joseph McCarthy dies. (Bethesda, Maryland - Tail Gunner Joe)
July: Jason Voorhees purportedly drowns in Crystal Lake when the counselors are having sex - no body is found. (Friday The 13th)
Friday 5th July: Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra divorce. (The Rat Pack)
August: Ben & May Parker are married. (Queens, NY - Spider-Man 3)
Wednesday 7th August: Oliver Hardy dies. (North Hollywood, California - Sunset)
Friday 4th October: Sputnik One launched, starting the Space Race. (Soviet Union - The Right Stuff)
Saturday 16th November: Edward Gein murders his last victim Bernice Worden. (Plainfield, Wisconsin - In the Light of the Moon)
Biff Tannen wins money on his first horse-race, aged, 21 - in one timeline. (Back to the Future Part II)
The Confederate States Department of Education produce the information video series 'Why We Fought' (C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
Christine chomps off hand of assembly plant worker with her hood and kills a supervisor. (Detroit, Michigan - Christine)
The Dodgers move away from Brooklyn and become the Los Angeles Dodgers. (Field of Dreams)
Attempt on Michael Corleone's life; Tom Hagen takes temporary control of the Corleones. (The Godfather: Part II)
Edna Buxton, originally slated to sing "You'll Never Walk Alone" at the McMartin Singing competition, sings "Hey There" instead. She wins the competition. (Pennsylvania - Grace of My Heart)
Hitler actually dies, World War II actually ends. (Hellboy)
The Village Folk Ensemble are formed by Chuck Wiseman, George Menschell, Bill Wayburn, Fred Knox and Ramblin' Sandy Pitnick. (Greenwich Village, New York - A Mighty Wind)
David and Jennifer arrive in the fictional world of Pleasantville, and slowly change it from black-and=white to colour. (Pleasantville)
Paul Stallberg is born. (Saw)
Johnny Cash duets with June Carter for the first time. (Wheeling, WV - Walk the Line)
Thursday 2nd January: Maria Callas walks off after the first act of a gala performance of Bellini's "Norma" claiming illness. (Rome, Italy - Callas Forever)
Tuesday 28th January: Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, kill a Nebraskan businessman, his wife and their maid, as part of a murderous crime spree that began a week earlier and would leave 10 people dead. (Starkweather )
Sunday 23rd February: Scott Hayward receives a vast oil field on his 18th birthday from his oil baron father, Duster Hayward. (Texas, USA - Clambake)
Sunday 23rd March: Sidney Barringer attempts suicide by jumping off his apartment, but is killed by a passing bullet fired by his mother 3 stories below. (Los Angeles - Magnolia)
Wednesday 26th March: In one timeline, Biff Tannen wins his first million on a horse race. (Back to the Future Part II)
Friday 4th April: Johnny Stompanato stabbed by Lana Turner's 14 year-old daughter on Academy Awards night, as Lana is nominated for Peyton Place. (Los Angeles - LA Confidential)
Tuesday 13th May: Richard Nixon's car is attacked by an angry crowd and nearly overturned. (Caracas, Venezuela - Nixon)
Friday 13th June: Two Camp Crystal Lake counselors are mysteriously murdered. (Friday The 13th)
July: A flesh eating mass from another world is stopped by a group of teenagers. (Phoenixville, Pa. - The Blob (1958))
Sunday 20th July: Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts goes off the air. (Sweet Dreams )
Saturday 25th October: Radio-Television News Directors Association's Salute to Edward R Murrow. (Good Night, and Good Luck)
November: Thunderhead's cape snags on a missile. (The Incredibles)
Monday 8th December: Tris Speaker dies. (Lake Whitney, Texas - The Babe)
In one timeline, Biff Tannen named 'The Luckiest Man on Earth'. (Back to the Future Part II)
Truman Capote develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, a killer he's interviewing for his book In Cold Blood. (Capote)
Carmella Corleone and son Fredo die; Kay separates from Michael Corleone. (The Godfather: Part II)
Edna Buxton meets Joel Millner, who hires her as a songwriter for the Brill Building, and changes her name to Denise Waverly. (New York - Grace of My Heart)
Frederick Loren and his wife invite five strangers for a "party" at a haunted house-a party that invoves murder, mystery, money and supernatural beings. (House on Haunted Hill)
North By Northwest released seen by cinema-goers, including Shlomo and his father. (Lucky Number Slevin)
Jamming with The Clapper Family, George Menschell suggests a neuftet with his own The Village Folk Ensemble - The Main Street Singers are born. (A Mighty Wind)
Stand By Me. (Stand By Me)
Sarah Connor is born. (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)
Thursday 1st January: Mob boss Michael Corleone flees when Fidel Castro takes power. (Cuba - The Godfather: Part II)
Thursday 1st January: Gambler Jack Weil flees when Fidel Castro takes power. (Cuba - Havana)
Thursday 1st January: Norville Barnes falls from the 45th storey of the Hudsucker Building at the strike of midnight, yet survives. (New York - The Hudsucker Proxy)
Tuesday 3rd February: "The Day the Music Died" - plane crash takes the life of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J.D.Richardson. (Clear Lake, Iowa - La Bamba)
Monday 11th May: Peter Callahan is born. (While You Were Sleeping)
Sunday 24th May: John Foster Dulles dies of cancer. (Bethesda, Maryland - Eleanor, First Lady of the World)
Sunday 7th June: Paramount agrees to pay Jerry Lewis $10 million to appear in 14 films. (Martin and Lewis)
Tuesday 16th June: George Reeves commits suicide. (Los Angeles, CA - Hollywoodland )
July: 'Plan 9 from Outer Space' premieres. (Ed Wood)
July: Danny Zucko has fun with Sandy, down in the sand. (Grease)
Friday 17th July: Billie Holiday dies of cardiac failure. (New York City - Lady Sings the Blues)
August: Teddy Duchamp, Vern Tessio, Gordie Lachance and Chris Chambers see a dead body for the first time, and come back changed from boys into men. (just off the railway, outside Castle Rock, Maine - Stand By Me)