The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Wednesday 9th September: Michael Clayton is born. (Michael Clayton)
Sunday 13th September: The Castle Rock Women's Auxiliary Club Quilting Bee. (Castle Rock, Maine - Stand By Me)
Wednesday 4th November: Claude "Lefty" Williams is born. (Laguna Beach, California - Eight Men Out)
Sunday 15th November: The Clutter family are murdered by burglars Richard 'Dick' Hickock and Perry Smith. (Holcomb, Kansas - Capote)
December: Oswald Cobblepot, aka: The Penguin, is born. (Gotham City, USA - Batman Returns)
December: Richard 'Dick' Hickock and Perry Smith are arrested for the murder of the Clutter family. (Capote)
Friday 25th December: Dawn Davenport runs away from home after not receiving cha-cha heel shoes for Christmas and is impregnated by Earl Peterson. (Baltimore, Maryland - Female Trouble)
The world picks itself up after the ravaging of World War III, spawning the rise of Big Brother. (1984)
President-elect John F Kennedy, the first president from the north since the War of Northern Aggression, looks to ban slavery, while fighting the Cold War in Canada. (CSA - C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
Che Guevara meets Alberto Granado for the first time since their epic trek across South America eight years beforehand. (Cuba - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Peggy Sue relives her high-school youth. (Peggy Sue Got Married)
The nuclear powered submarine USOS Seaview under goes her sea trials, which include a trip under the North Pole. (Santa Barbra, Ca. - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
Sunday 1st May: American U-2 spy plane shot down. (Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident)
Saturday 7th May: Leonid Brezhnev becomes President of the USSR. (Brezhnev)
Monday 23rd May: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion announces to the world that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann has been captured and will stand trial in Israel. (The Man Who Captured Eichmann)
Wednesday 13th July: Senator John F. Kennedy is nominated for the presidency by the Democratic Party Convention. (Los Angeles, California - The Rat Pack)
Wednesday 10th August: 'Ocean's Eleven' opens in cinemas. (The Rat Pack)
September: Fumio Sugihara, sworn brother to ailing yakuza boss Muraoka, is shot to death in a bold daylight attack; this leads to Muraoka's decision to step down. (Kure, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 3: Proxy War)
Monday 26th September: Kennedy and Nixon square off in a televised presidential debate. (Nixon)
Tuesday 25th October: Holly Golightly receives a cheque. (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
Tuesday 8th November: John F Kennedy elected U.S. President. (The Rat Pack)
Wednesday 16th November: Clark Gable dies of a heart attack. (Los Angeles, California - Gable and Lombard)
Thursday 1st December: Sandra Dee marries Bobby Darin. (Beyond the Sea )
Sunday 25th December: Zachary Beaulieu born. (Quebec - C.R.A.Z.Y.)
Kathryn Krueger is born (Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare)
Grease 2. (Grease 2)
K-19 The Widowmaker. (K-19: The Widowmaker)
At the American Association of Forensic Science awards dinner, Dr Donald Harper relates the tale of Sidney Barringer's suicide/murder in 1958. (Magnolia)
Project Mercury begins. (Cape Canaveral, Fla - The Right Stuff)
Elijah Prince, aka Mr Glass, born in a department store. (Philadelphia, PA - Unbreakable)
Tuesday 10th January: Dashiell Hammett dies. (New York, New York - Julia)
Tuesday 24th January: Marilyn Monroe divorces Arthur Miller. (The Rat Pack)
Thursday 2nd March: 7 MIB agents, an astronomer and a dumb kid who went down the wrong back road encounter aliens outside New York. (Men in Black)
Wednesday 12th April: First Manned Space Flight, Yuri Gagarin. (Soviet Union - The Right Stuff)
Saturday 3rd June: Clarence Gideon is arrested and charged with breaking into a poolroom. (Florida - Gideon's Trumpet)
Monday 17th July: Ty Cobb dies. (Atlanta, Georgia - Cobb)
Saturday 2nd December: Fidel Castro openly declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist. (Che!)
Dean Vernon Wormer attempts to close down the Delta House Fraternity at Faber College. (Tennessee - Animal House)
Cuban Missile Crisis; a family goes into hiding. (Blast from the Past)
'To Kill A Mockingbird' released in cinemas. (Capote)
Down With Love. (Down With Love)
Hairspray. (Hairspray)
'How Important Can It Be?' recorded by Wanda Jackson. (LA Confidential)
Matinee. (Matinee)
John Mason is imprisoned in Alcatraz prison. (san francisco - The Rock)
Scotty Smalls, Ben Rodriguez, and friends try to get an autographed baseball back from Mr.Myrtle's dog, Hercules. (Sawyer Valley, California - The Sandlot)
Ben & Violet Devereaux buy a large house from the Thorpe family. (New Orleans - The Skeleton Key)
Cuban Missile Crisis. (Thirteen Days)
900 B.C The Three Stooges useing a time machine and "Calm-Down Pills" help King Odius defeat good King Ullyllius in battle (Ithaca, Greece - The Three Stooges Meet Hercules)
Thursday 22nd February: Astronaunt John Glenn makes his first orbital flight. (Cape Canaveral - The Right Stuff)
Tuesday 13th March: Don, future zombie and father to Andy and Tammy, is born. (28 Weeks Later)
Saturday 28th April: Oskar Schindler awarded the honour of righteous Gentile. (Schindler's List)
May: The Corny Collins Show becomes racially integrated. The entire movie takes place within the week or so after we see the newspaper at the beginning. The date on the newspaper is May 3, 1962. I don't know if the 1988 version has the same date, but it is in May, 1962. (Baltimore, MD - Hairspray (2007))
Saturday 12th May: Neil Daniels is born. (The Bourne Ultimatum)
Monday 11th June: John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Lee Morris escape from Alcatraz federal prison. (San Francisco Bay - Escape from Alcatraz)
Tuesday 12th June: George Lucas survives a nearly fatal wreck after racing his car at top speed just two days before his high school graduation. (Fall of a Saga )
Thursday 14th June: Evan Baxter, newscaster, congressman, and ark builder, is born. (Evan Almighty)
Friday 15th June: Future news-anchor, congressman and ark-builder Evan Baxter is born. (Evan Almighty)
Thursday 28th June: Mickey Cochrane dies. (Lake Forest, Illinois - Cobb)
August: The giant ape King Kong is kidnapped and transported to Japan to fight Godzilla. (Tokoyo, Japan - King Kong vs Godzilla)