The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Monday 17th August: Oscar "Happy" Felsch dies. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Eight Men Out)
September: Alma Junior Del Mar, the first child, a daughter, of Ennis and Alma Del Mar, is born. (Riverton, Wyoming. - Brokeback Mountain)
Wednesday 14th October: Nikita Khrushchev is ousted as both premier of the Soviet Union and chief of the Communist Party. (Enemy at the Gates)
Thursday 15th October: Cole Porter dies. (De-lovely)
December: Simon Birch saves a busload of kids when the bus goes into a river, but at the cost of his own life. (Maine - Simon Birch)
Saturday 5th December: The Toad is adopted by Prince Charles as a pet. (London - Flushed Away)
Thursday 24th December: Jack Starks born. (The Jacket)
Thursday 31st December: Drag-racer John Milner is killed in a head-on collision with a drunk driver. (More American Graffiti)
Future paranormal author Michael Enslin is born. (1408)
Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander is spotted in West Berlin. (Apt Pupil)
An invasion from the planet Natal is thwarted when all the Earth's nations fight back. (Battle in Outer Space)
Aaron Altman graduates high school, 2 months shy of his 15th birthday, then gets beaten up. (Boston, MA - Broadcast News)
Good Morning Vietnam. (Vietnam - Good Morning, Vietnam)
The Folksmen perform 'Old Joe's Place' on TV's Hoot Nite. (A Mighty Wind)
John Savage is born. (The Savages)
June Carter performs with Johnny Cash and is shunned by his wife and family. (Las Vegas, Nevada - Walk the Line)
Sunday 24th January: Winston Churchill dies. (London, England - Young Winston)
Sunday 24th January: Winston Churchill dies. (London, England - Young Winston)
Sunday 21st February: Malcolm X assassinated. (New York - Malcolm X)
Tuesday 23rd February: Stan Laurel dies. (Santa Monica, California - Chaplin)
Wednesday 14th April: Richard 'Dick' Hickock and Perry Smith are executed for the murder of the Clutter family, with Truman Capote present. (Kansas - Capote)
Tuesday 18th May: On his 1st wedding anniversary, Louis Jeffries is hit by a car and dies. In Heaven he opts to be reborn as someone else, but is not given his Memory-Forgetting Tranquilizer (or whatever it's called). (Chances Are)
Monday 7th June: The Five Heartbeats meet their future manager, Jimmy Potter after an unsuccessful appearance at Little G's Monthly Talent Show. (New York, New York - The Five Heartbeats)
Sunday 25th July: Bob Dylan performs for the first time with electric instruments. (I'm Not There)
Tuesday 17th August: Col. Jonathan Davis orders repairs stop on Wind Machine Rig # 35. (Cadence)
Friday 20th August: Sandra Dee ends her contract with Universal. (Beyond the Sea )
Friday 5th November: "Maverick" Mitchell's father is shot down while flying a Navy F4 Phantom. (Top Gun)
Sunday 14th November: Parts of the 1st Battalion 7th Cavalry, the 2nd Battalion 7th Cavalry, and the 1st Battalion 5th Cavalry of the United States Army land at LZ Xray. (Ia Drang Valley,Plei Mei, South Vietnam - We Were Soldiers)
Wednesday 17th November: A battalion from the 1st Cavalry Division is ambushed by the 8th Battalion of the North Vietnamese 66th Regiment. (Ia Drang Valley, Vietnam - We Were Soldiers)
Friday 31st December: Deena Jones & the Dreams make their Las Vegas debut. (Las Vegas, Nevada - Dreamgirls)
Friday 31st December: Terry "Toad" Fields is declared missing in action after a booby-trapped latrine explodes. (nr An Loc, Vietnam - More American Graffiti)
United Underworld, The Joker, The Penguin, The Riddler, and Catwoman plot to take over the world, but are stopped by Batman and Robin. (Gotham City - Batman (1966))
Jenny Del Mar, the second daughter and final child of Ennis and Alma Del Mar, is born. (Riverton, Wyoming. - Brokeback Mountain)
Bethany Sloane allows neighbour Bryan Johnson to urinate on her hand. (Dogma)
A medical team is shrunk down and injected into a dying man, to save his life. (L.A., Ca. - Fantastic Voyage)
Freddy is arrested for the murders of 20 children; Kathryn Krueger is put into foster care, then later adoption. (Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare)
Mitch & Mickey perform 'A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow' on TV's 'Lee Aikman's Folk Hour'. (A Mighty Wind)
Lars Olfen, aged 16, meets country music mogul Irving Steinbloom outside a Folksmen concert, and is given a free ticket. (A Mighty Wind)
Andy Dufresne escapes Shawshank Prison. (The Shawshank Redemption)
Most of the Earth's population wiped out by a plague, after three decades of global warfare. (Things To Come)
Marti DiBergi attends his first Spinal Tap concert at the Electric Banana. (Greenwich Village, New York - This is Spinal Tap)
Nuclear war between USA and Cuba; a time machine arrives to witness an air-raid. (The Time Machine (1960))
Johnny Cash tries to quit drugs and alcohol. (Nashville - Walk the Line)
Monday 23rd May: Sakichi Sugita, associate of the powerful Tensei Coalition, is murdered in the streets of the Takeya District by two armed recruits under orders from yakuza family head Terukichi Ichioka. (Hiroshima, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode)
June: His term of office expired, 2nd Chairman of the Tensei Coalition Akira Takeda is taken into custody on charges of smuggling and illegal possession of handguns only hours after passing the chairmanship to his handpicked successor, Managing Director Tamotsu Matsumura. (Hiroshima, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode)
Monday 6th June: Jojo Floss gets drunk for the last time, until her daughter is killed. (Moonlight Mile)
Monday 6th June: Damien Thorn, son of Satan, is born at 6:00am. (The Omen)
Monday 6th June: Andy/Adrian, son of Rosemary Woodhouse and Satan, is born, prompting one prominent Satanist to declare: "God is dead! Satan lives! The year is One!" (Possible alternate year for this event: 0001) . (New York City - Rosemary's Baby)
Tuesday 7th June: Ronald Reagan is elected Governor of California. (The Reagans)
Thursday 14th July: Eight student nurses are brutally murdered by Richard Speck at their group residence. (Chicago, Illinois - Speck)
Tuesday 19th July: Frank Sinatra marries Mia Farrow. (Sinatra)
Saturday 30th July: England beat West Germany in the FIFA World Cup Final. (Wembley Stadium, London - Sixty Six)
Thursday 18th August: Atomic satellite attack, George stops his time machine and speaks with David Filby's son James. (London - The Time Machine (1960))
Sunday 30th October: The Zodiac Killer takes his first victim. (Zodiac)
Sunday 30th October: The Zodiac Killer takes his first victim. (Zodiac)
Saturday 31st December: Deena Jones and The Dreams perform a special New Year's show at a Vegas hotel. (Dreamgirls)
Austin Powers frozen in time. (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery)
Retired hotel doorman John Casey's wife dies. (Bobby)
The Priory of Scion alleged as a hoax. (The Da Vinci Code)
Lt Dan loses his legs. (Vietnam - Forrest Gump)