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1919

Wednesday 8th October: Chicago White Sox win Game 7 of World Series. (Cincinnati, Ohio - Eight Men Out)

Thursday 9th October: Chicago White Sox lose 8th and final game of 1919 World Series. (Chicago, Illinois - Eight Men Out)

Friday 10th October: Harold Abrahams meets Aubrey Montague at their first day at Caius College. (Cambridge - Chariots of Fire)

December: Harry Bailey drowns while sledging, or is saved by his brother George, timeline-dependent. (Bedford Falls, New York - It's a Wonderful Life)

Thursday 4th December: Susan Alexander makes the front page of the Washington Inquirer about her performance on stage. (Washington, USA - Citizen Kane)

Thursday 4th December: Susan Alexander makes the front page of the Washington Inquirer about her performance on stage. (Washington, USA - Citizen Kane)

Friday 12th December: Tristan writes to Susannah telling her how he has become a hunter and that she should marry another man. (Legends of the Fall)

1920

Emmett L Brown born. (Hill Valley, CA - Back to the Future Part III)

Eric Liddell begins running seriously. (Scottish Highlands - Chariots of Fire)

Charles Foster Kane runs for governor but loses after being caught in sex-scandal with a young starlet. (Citizen Kane)

Traudl Junge - future secretary to Adolf Hitler - is born. (Germany - Downfall)

The 'City of Albany' central train derails killing hundreds of people, later to become a ghost train. (New York - Ghostbusters)

Michael Corleone born; Theresa, Tom Hagen's future wife, born. (The Godfather)

At a dinner in his honour, Rasputin is poisoned, shot, stabbed, clubbed, castrated and drowned - he survives them all. (Hellboy)

Irving Steinbloom (future country music mogul) born. (A Mighty Wind)

Gerald Tovar is born. (Night of the Living Dead 3D)

Max Schrek, the last remaining vampire, cast as Nosferatu, a movie vampire based on Bram Stoker's creature; vampires saved from extinction and unleashed on modern society. (Romania - Shadow of the Vampire)

Drayton Sawyer is born. (Newt, Texas - Texas Chainsaw 3D)

Saturday 3rd January: Babe Ruth purchased by the New York Yankees from the Boston Red Sox. (The Babe)

Saturday 3rd January: Clive Candy is appointed commanding officer of troops in North China and relinquishes the temporary rank of Brigadier-General. (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)

Saturday 17th January: Drayton Sawyer, future father of Jedidiah, Loretta, Drayton Jr., Dunkin, and Henry Sawyer, is born. (Newt, Texas - Texas Chainsaw 3D)

Saturday 24th January: Painter Amedeo Modigliani dies as the result of the severe beating he received in a mugging. (Paris, France - Modigliani)

Sunday 25th January: Jeanne Hebuterne, fiancee to painter Amedeo Modigliani, grief-stricken over the death of her lover one day earlier and pregnant with his second child, commits suicide by intentionally falling from the fifth story window of their apartment. (Paris, France - Modigliani)

Sunday 22nd February: Don Rafael Acosta born. (Miranda, most likely - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie)

Sunday 28th March: Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford marry. (Chaplin)

Wednesday 19th May: Sid Hatfield, chief of police of the town of Matewan and his deputies have a gun battle with the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency. (Matewan, West Virginia - Matewan)

Wednesday 30th June: Dwight D Eisenhower and George S Patton demoted to Captain because of peacetime. (Patton)

Friday 23rd July: Future nightclub owner Victor Demond opens his first hamburger stand. He commemorates the occassion by stuffing and mounting his first burger. (Lambert Technical University, USA - Sweetheart of the Campus)

Friday 20th August: Papa Justify records the voodoo spell Conjure of Sacrifice onto an LP. (New Orleans - The Skeleton Key)

October: T.E. Lawrence starts to help Arabs to fight a guerilla war against the Ottoman Empire. (The Hitaz Region, Arabia - Lawrence of Arabia)

Sunday 21st November: The Bloody Sunday massacre leaves more than 30 British and IRA troops dead. (Dublin, Ireland - Michael Collins)

Sunday 28th November: The Mask of Zorro opens, starring Douglas Fairbanks. (Chaplin)

1921

Ingrid Vassman born, with her original Jewish name. (The Aryan Couple)

Captain Elliott Spenser purchases the demonic Lament Configuration (black puzzle box) from a market in India, which later transforms him into Pinhead (Hellraiser)

An Ancient Egyptian priest called Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition led by Sir Joseph Whemple finds Imhotep's mummy. Despite the warning of his friend Dr. Muller, Sir Joseph's assistant Ralph Norton, recklessly reads aloud an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the archaeologists, taking the Scroll of Thoth, and prowls Cairo seeking the reincarnation of the soul of his ancient lover, Princess Ankh-es-en-amon. (Egypt - The Mummy)

The masked curator of a wax museum turns people into statues and sees his next Marie Antoinette. (Mystery of the Wax Museum)

Prohibition; Noodles and Max go into business against Bugsy, till he exacts his revenge. (New York - Once Upon a Time in America)

Alvin Straight born. (The Straight Story)

Jem Finch born. (Maycomb, Alabama - To Kill A Mockingbird)

507 Oleander Dr is built. (Los Angeles, California - We Bought a Zoo)

Sunday 23rd January: Chesley Burnett Sullenberger III is born. (Denison, Texas - Friends with Benefits)

Wednesday 2nd March: Mrs. Nellie St. Clair ventures to the London Docks to retrieve a package at the Aberdeen Steamship Co. There she spies a man she thinks is her husband, Neville St. Clair, being assaulted in the upstairs window. She alerts the police who storm the room, finding only a deformed begger and numerous signs of suspected foul play. In her distress, Nellie fails to recognized her husband is actually disguised as the begger. It will take Sherlock Holmes to solve that mystery. (London, England - The Man With the Twisted Lip)

Thursday 24th March: Maruska Kuder (Poland - ...And Give My Love to the Swallows)

Saturday 16th April: Eric Liddell is guest speaker at an athletics meeting. (East Weymss, Scotland - Chariots of Fire)

Wednesday 4th May: Mrs Clive Candy hosts an "at home" party. (72 Penang Road, Shanghai, China - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)

Monday 4th July: Jack Torrance appears in a photograph taken at a ball at the Overlook Hotel. (Colorado - The Shining)

Tuesday 5th July: The "Black Sox" are accused of throwing the World Series. (Eight Men Out)

Saturday 20th August: Jacqueline Susann is born. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Isn't She Great)

Wednesday 24th August: Future musical film star Daisy Clover is born. (Angel Beach, CA - Inside Daisy Clover)

Saturday 1st October: Nina Leeds returns home after working for a year at Alexander Memorial Hospital in Boston Mass, when family friend, "Good Old" Charlie Marsden, wires her that her father, the Professor, has fallen gravely ill. He dies before she can make it home. (Bradson, CT - Strange Interlude)

December: Héctor Rivera gets poisoned by Ernesto De La Cruz and dies at the age of 21. (Mexico - Coco)

1922

Future writer Briony Tallis is born. (Atonement)

Frida Kahlo sees artist Diego Rivera painting and seducing a nude model, she later gets into a bus accident and is impaled, but lives. (Mexico City - Frida)

Demented Hills Asylum starts rectricting the disturbed. (Good Burger)

People in the alternate universe have self-feeding, self-healing, and self-modifying computers. (John Dies at the End)

Irish patriot Michael Collins dies. (Michael Collins)

A building that later becomes the Five Points Trinity Church is made. (Dallas, Texas - Red State)

Millie Dillmount and friends smash a white slave trade ring run by Mrs Meers. (New York - Thoroughly Modern Millie)

Tuesday 10th January: Arthur Griffith is elected president of the newly established Irish Free State. (Michael Collins)

Sunday 12th March: Jack Kerouac is born. (Lowell, Massachusetts - Kerouac, the Movie)

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