The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
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)
Imhotep calls upon Sir Joseph's son Frank and Prof. Pearson, claims that his name is Ardath Bey, a modern Egyptian, and shows them where to dig to find Ankh-es-en-amon's tomb. The archaeologists find the tomb and give the mummy and the treasures to the Cairo Museum. Imhotep finds Helen Grosvenor, who resembles the Princess, and wishes to kill her and mummify her. She is saved when she remembers her past life and prays to the goddess Isis to save her. The prayer causes a ray from the statue of Isis to burst out raising its arm to point a glowing ankh at Bey. He ages and crumbles into dust. Frank then calls Helen back to the world of the living as the Scroll of Thoth burns. (Cairo, Egypt - The Mummy (1932))
The 20th Phantom is killed by the mercenary Quill. (Bengalla Island - The Phantom)
Royal O'Reilly Tenenbaum born. (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Johnny Hooker and Henry Gondorff con Doyle Lonnegan out of half a million dollars. (Chicago, Illinois - The Sting)
Atticus Finch defends Tom Robinson in a rape trial. (To Kill A Mockingbird)
Saturday 5th March: $3,000 is found missing from the Plain View Bank. The banker's son, Joe Abercrombie Jr., frames one of the clerks, Lee Austen. Austen is convicted on Abercrombie's testimony and spends three years in prison. (Plainview, Kentucky - Life Begins at Forty)
Tuesday 8th March: Joe Abercrombie Jr. and his pal Wally Stevens lose the $3,000 Abercrombie stole from his father's bank betting on horses at Churchill Downs. (Louisville, Kentucky - Life Begins at Forty)
Tuesday 12th April: Johnny Dangerously takes over the Dundee Mob, District Attorney Burr dies in a beer commercial, and gun manufacturer makes .88 Magnum for gangsters. (New York, New York - Johnny Dangerously)
Tuesday 19th April: James Bond is born. (England - Diamonds are Forever)
Friday 27th May: Businessman C.B. Gaerste discovers is mistress, Red Andrews Legendre, has been carrying on under his nose behind his back with Albert the chauffeur. C.B. fires Albert and Red wires her husband Willie Legendre Jr. in Renwood, Ohio, that she wants to come home. (New York City, New York - Red-Headed Woman)
Sunday 5th June: Christy Brown is born with "complications." (Dublin, Ireland - My Left Foot)
Thursday 16th June: Mae West leaves New York for California to make her first film. (Mae West)
Friday 19th August: 'Gunny' Saks and his dance partner Jenny win the Coney Island Marathon and, despite having just met, recklessly decide to marry. (New York, New York - Born to Dance)
Sunday 21st August: Melvin Van Peebles is born. (Chicago, Illinois - Baadasssss!)
Sunday 21st August: The alleged rape of Mayella Ewell by Tom Robinson. (Maycomb, Alabama - To Kill A Mockingbird)
September: Idgie Threadgoode takes a pregnant Ruth Bennet away from her abusive husband. (Georgia - Fried Green Tomatoes)
September: Scout Finch starts school, and wears a dress she hates. (To Kill A Mockingbird)
Friday 16th September: Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike to protest caste separation. (near Bombay, India - Gandhi)
Thursday 27th October: Sylvia Plath is born. (Boston, Massachusetts - Sylvia)
Tuesday 13th December: Prof. Auguste A. Topaze is unfairly dismissed from his teaching position when the Baroness Hortense de la Tour complains that he won't show special treatment to her spoiled son, Charlemagne. (France - Topaze)
Thursday 15th December: San Francisco police detective Steve Burke proposes to Countess Barilhaus even after she confesses her true identity to be conwoman 'Barrel House' Betty. (Aboard the SS Maloa bound for San Francisco - One Way Passage)
Thursday 15th December: On the gangplank of the SS Maloa, dapper murder suspect Dan Hardesty says "Auf wiedershen" to his shipboard romance, Joan Ames. Hardesty is handcuffed to police detective Steve Burke on his way to stand trial. (San Francisco, CA - One Way Passage)
Sunday 25th December: King George V delivers the first Royal Christmas Message over the radio and bullies his son Albert, the Duke York. (London, England - The King's Speech)
Pete Daytona is born. (Balls of Fury)
Philip Marlowe becomes a private investigator. (The Big Sleep)
Eustace Scrubb is born. (England - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader)
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo go to New York so Diego can paint a mural comissioned by Nelson Rockefeller. (New York - Frida)
Don Narducci extorts money from Vincenzo Cartino on his son Joey's birthday. (New York - Jane Austen's Mafia!)
Fay Wray stars in King Kong. (New York - King Kong)
King Kong is discovered on Skull Island and set loose in New York. (King Kong)
Oil found in Saudi Arabia. (The Kingdom)
Grace and her father head south from Dogville with their group of gangsters. (Manderlay)
Year Of The Scorpion; Imhotep is resurrected once again to fight The Scorpion King. (The Mummy Returns)
Depression; Noodles released from prison. (Once Upon a Time in America)
Adolf Hitler appointed German Chancellor, and granted dictatorial powers. (Germany - The Pianist)
The court case of black man Tom Robinson's alleged rape of white farmer's daughter Mayella Ewell. (Maycomb, Alabama - To Kill A Mockingbird)
Monday 2nd January: William "Kid" Gleason dies. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Eight Men Out)
Monday 30th January: Adolf Hitler is named chancellor of Germany. (Hitler: The Last Ten Days)
Thursday 2nd February: Henry L. Parker, his wife and daughter perish in a private airplane crash. His son, Terrence C. Parker, who was at the controls, escaped unhurt. (Newport, Conn. - Living on Velvet)
Tuesday 28th February: Birth date of Peggy Sue Ingram, whose death brings together the members of her family. (Texas - Sordid Lives)
Tuesday 7th March: Harold Nixon dies of tuberculosis. (Nixon)
Saturday 15th April: Terrence C. Parker, son of the late Henry L. Parker, disappears two months arter surviving the same plane crash that killed his father. Many friends and business associates ask police to aid in the search. (Newport, Conn. - Living on Velvet)
Tuesday 23rd May: Joan Collins is born. (London, England - Dynasty: The Making of a Guilty Pleasure)
Thursday 15th June: George "Machine Gun" Kelly's kidnaps millionaire oilman Charles Urschel, and collects a $200,000 ransom before his capture by the FBI. (Machine-Gun Kelly)
Thursday 29th June: Fatty Arbuckle dies of a heart attack. (New York, New York - The Black Dahlia)
Saturday 22nd July: American aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field, having flown solo around the world in 7 days, 18 hours, and 49 minutes. (New York - Story of Will Rogers, The )
Thursday 17th August: Lou Gehrig plays in his 1,308th consecutive game, breaking the record for consecutive games played. (St. Louis, Missouri - The Pride of the Yankees)
Monday 28th August: Socialite Miss Glory Franklyn, daughter of Mrs. S.T. Franklyn, elopes with gas station owner and operator Blackstone 'Blacky' Gorman. (Springfield, Mass - Chance at Heaven)
Wednesday 20th September: Hot on the heels of her breakout recording "Weary", Winnie Wharton follows the advice of her new manager, Lucky Lorimer, and inks a contract with Acme Record Co. (New York, NY - Broadway Hostess)
Saturday 30th September: Frank Bennet is killed trying to kidnap his and Ruth's baby. (Whistle Stop, AL - Fried Green Tomatoes)
Tuesday 24th October: Ronnie and Reggie Kray are born. (Hoxton, London, England - The Krays)
Saturday 28th October: Jem and Scout are attacked by Mr Ewell, who is stabbed and killed, presumably by Boo Radley, though the Sheriff's ruling is that Mr Ewell fell on his own knife. (Maycomb, Alabama - To Kill A Mockingbird)
Tuesday 14th November: Danny Greene is born. (Cleveland, Ohio - Kill The Irishman)
Monday 20th November: The Miami Herald reports that the Volstead Act is repealed and Prohibition is over in December, thus making Max, Noodles, Cockeye and Patsy unemployed. (Miami, Florida - Once Upon a Time in America)
Karen Blixen publishes her first stories under the name Isak Dinesen. (not in Africa - Out of Africa)
Megatron transported to the US from the North Pole. (USA - Transformers)
A coin that Erik Lensherr later tries to control is made. (X-Men: First Class)
Sunday 18th February: Terrence C. Parker, missing since April 1933, was discovered flying in the Chinese Air Service. (Shanghai, China - Living on Velvet)
Saturday 3rd March: John Dillinger escapes from jail using a wooden pistol. (Crown Point, Indiana - Public Enemies)