The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
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)
August: The Muraoka Family in Hiroshima and the Yamamori Family in Kure join forces. Yamamori becomes the yakuza boss of the newly combined family with 200 members. (Kure, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 3: Proxy War)
Sunday 5th August: Marilyn Monroe dies from an overdose of barbiturates(?). (Los Angeles, California - Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn)
September: Bob Falfa loses a race to John Milner by wrecking his car; Steve and his teenage friends go their separate ways. (Modesto, CA - American Graffiti)
Sunday 14th October: The Cuban Missile Crisis begins. (Thirteen Days)
Saturday 20th October: The White House press corps is told that President John F. Kennedy has a cold; in reality, he is holding secret meetings with advisors on the eve of ordering a blockade of Cuba. (Thirteen Days)
Monday 22nd October: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces that the Soviet Union has placed nuclear weapons in Cuba and, in response, the United States will establish a blockade around the island to prevent any other offensive weapons from entering Castro's state. (Thirteen Days)
Wednesday 7th November: Eleanor Roosevelt dies of bone marrow tuberculosis. (Manhattan, New York - Eleanor, First Lady of the World)
Friday 9th November: Bridget Jones born. (Bridget Jones's Diary)
For some unknown reason, birds begin a series of attacks on people. (Bodega Bay, California - The Birds)
Cowboys Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar meet and fall in love. (Brokeback Mountain)
Frank Abangale Sr. is made a lifetime member of the Rotary Club. (New Rochelle, NY - Catch Me If You Can)
Dirty Dancing. (Dirty Dancing)
Gen Jack D Ripper orders four B-52s to bomb a secret nuclear site beneath the Arctic peaks of the Zhokhov Islands. (Dr. Strangelove)
A cargo aircraft crashes after running into a sand storm, the crew rebuilds the aircraft and flies to safety. (Sahara dessert - Flight of the Phoenix)
Integration of the University of Alabama. (Forrest Gump)
The Tax The Churches League is sent to prison for the attempted kidnapping of Billy Graham. (Foul Play)
Full Metal Jacket. (Full Metal Jacket)
Michael Myers murders his sister Judith and is committed to a mental asylum. (Halloween)
JFK assassinated by... someone. (JFK)
Tuff Ryan get taught to drive by her father. (Defiance, OH - The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio)
Frank Castle, aka: the Punisher, is born. (The Punisher)
Charlie Babbit born. (Rain Man)
John Mason escapes Alcatraz prison. (San Francisco, CA - The Rock)
JFK starts an embargo against Cuba, putting an end to Cuban-made sansabelt slacks. The move sets him up to be assassinated by male models. (Zoolander)
Thursday 21st March: Alcatraz Prison closes down and transfers its last prisoners. (San Francisco Bay - Escape from Alcatraz)
May: Gordon Cooper made the last and longest of the Mercury flights. (Cape Canaveral, Fla - The Right Stuff)
June: Henry Hill helps bury mob captain Billy Batts, killed by Tommy Desimone and Jimmy Burke. (Upstate New York - Goodfellas)
Wednesday 5th June: British Secretary of War John Profumo resigns his post following revelations that he had lied to the House of Commons about his sexual affair with Christine Keeler, an alleged prostitute. (Scandal)
Wednesday 12th June: Medgar Evers assassinated. (Jackson, Mississippi - For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story )
Sunday 23rd June: Marin Luther King gives the first version of his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the The Great March On Detroit at Cobo Hall Detroit, Michigan. (This is the version heard in the film, not the version from the March on Washington two months later) (Detroit, Michigan - Dreamgirls)
July: Frances "Baby" Houseman holidays with her family, and falls for dance instructor Johnny Castle. (Catskill Mountains of New York - Dirty Dancing)
Sunday 25th August: The 'Jackal' attempts to assassinate Charles De Gaulle (Paris - The Day of the Jackal)
Monday 26th August: Hideo Hayakawa, Yoshio Yamamori's ally, attacks the family of his former boss Noboru Uchimoto, now an ally of yakuza boss Tatsuo Akashi. The Hiroshima Battle begins. (Hiroshima, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 3: Proxy War)
Wednesday 28th August: Martin Luther King delivers his 'I Have A Dream' speech. (Lincoln Memorial - Dreamgirls)
Tuesday 10th September: After a brief argument with members of the Makihara family, Hirono family member Kiyoshi Kawanishi drew his gun and pulled the trigger three times, misfiring each time. He was then shot dead in the street, sparking a new wave of violence between powerful yakuza families in Hiroshima and Kobe. (Kure, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 4: Police Tactics)
Friday 11th October: Tomoji Okajima, chairman of Gisei Group, is gunned down in his garden. (Kure, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 4: Police Tactics)
Thursday 17th October: The Gun Battle of Shintenchi: 2 dead, 3 critically wounded. After the wild public brawl turned deadly and directly threatened ordinary citizens, anti-gang sentiment boiled over. Pressured from all sides, the District Attorney orders the round-up of all yakuza family leaders. (Shintenchi, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 4: Police Tactics)
Sunday 20th October: Boss Tatsuo Akashi's residence is bombed; in retaliation, the Shinwa Group offices are attacked, and gun-battles also erupt in Hiroshima between Akira Takeda loyalists and Shinichi Iwai's men at Takeda's offices. (Kure, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 4: Police Tactics)
Friday 25th October: Shoichi Fujita, underboss of the Gisei Group, is shot dead by Hiroshi Yakuzi with the same gun Yakuzi received as a gift from Fujita; Yakuzi is apprehended that night. (Kure, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 4: Police Tactics)
November: Ennis Del Mar marries Alma Beers. (Riverton, Wyoming - Brokeback Mountain)
Friday 1st November: Phillip Perry is abducted from his house by escaped convicts Butch Haynes & Terry Pugh. (Texas - A Perfect World)
Friday 22nd November: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. (Dallas, Texas - JFK)
Sunday 24th November: Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected assassin of president Kennedy, is assassinated by nighclub owner Jack Ruby. (Dallas, Texas - JFK)
December: Tommy, Jimmy and Henry move Billy Batts' body when mob boss Paul Vario tells them they're building condos up there. (Upstate New York - Goodfellas)