The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Saturday 22nd September: Gen. George S. Patton tells reporters that he does not see the need for "this denazification thing" and compares the controversy over Nazism to a "Democratic and Republican election fight.". (Patton)
Wednesday 3rd October: Peter Appleton attends the 'Bread Instead Of Bullets Club' in order to impress a girl, and not because of any communist leanings. (The Majestic)
Thursday 11th October: George Berger born. (Hair)
Wednesday 17th October: Juan Peron addresses Argentina. (buenos aires - Evita)
Monday 22nd October: Russell Edwin Nash born to an unwed mother. She dies in childbirth and he immediately follows. (Syracuse, New York - Highlander)
Friday 16th November: The United States ships 88 German scientists to America to assist the nation in its production of rocket technology. (The Good Shepherd)
Monday 24th December: George Bailey decides to live again. (Bedford Falls, New York - It's a Wonderful Life)
Future Dreamgirl Lorrell Robinson is born. (Dreamgirls)
Juan Peron elected President of Argentina. (Evita)
Capt. Fairborne comes to Borneo and finds an American deserter has become king of the headhunters. (Borneo - Farewell to the King)
A big wave hits the coast. (California - Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Judith Myers born. (Halloween)
The country is controlled by the military-industrial man. (USA - Halloween 2 (2009))
Dean Martin flies to the 500 Club to help Jerry Lewis's ailing stage-show. (Atlantic City, New Jersey - Martin and Lewis)
Evelyn O'Connell gives a reading from her latest book about her last adventure with mummies to an eager audience. (England - The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor)
Lionel Twain picked up for smuggling a truckload of rich white Americans across into Mexico to pick melons. (El Paso - Murder By Death)
Brigid Connelly dies. Her daughter Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents. (Ireland - The Secret of Roan Inish)
Dewey Cox and his brother are playing, and Dewey accidentally cuts him in half with a machete. (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)
Tuesday 8th January: Robby Krieger, future guitarist of The Doors, is born. (Los Angeles, California - The Doors)
Thursday 7th March: Nicholas Garrigan - future doctor and advisor to Idi Amin - is born. (Scotland - The Last King of Scotland)
Thursday 7th March: Joan Crawford is awarded the Oscar for her performance in "Mildred Pierce". (Mommie Dearest)
April: Free democratic elections are held. (Czechoslovakia - Bobby)
Thursday 13th June: Jason Voorhees born. (Friday The 13th)
Thursday 13th June: Jason Voorhees is born to Pamela and Elias. (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter)
Thursday 13th June: Edward "Major" Bowes dies. (Rumson, New Jersey - Sinatra)
July: John Lennon decides not to leave with his father and stays with his mother. (Blackpool, England - In His Life: The John Lennon Story)
July: After John's parents argue, he decides to stay in Liverpool and is "stolen" by his aunt Mimi. (Liverpool, England - Nowhere Boy)
Thursday 4th July: Ron Kovic is born. (Ladysmith, Wisconsin - Born on the Fourth of July)
Sunday 7th July: Howard Hughes crashes his plane into three homes. (Beverly Hills, CA - The Aviator)
Tuesday 13th August: Linda Wilken, mother of Amelia Donaghy, born. (Salem, MA - The Bone Collector)
Friday 13th September: Amon Goeth executed for war crimes in Poland. (Schindler's List)
October: Gordie Lachance is born - Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp and Vern Tessio are born within months. (Castle Rock, Maine - Stand By Me)
Tuesday 5th November: Bucky "Mr Ice" Bleichert takes on his future partner, Lee "Mr Fire" Blanchard in a charity boxing match; Bleichert takes a dive in the 8th round. (Los Angeles, Ca - The Black Dahlia)
Sunday 24th November: Ted Bundy is born. (Burlington, Vermont - Halloween: Resurrection)
Sunday 22nd December: Pamela Courson is born. (Weed, California - The Doors)
Thursday 26th December: Bugsy Siegel opens The Pink Flamingo Hotel & Casino. (Las Vegas, Nevada - Bugsy)
Howard Hughes test-flights the Blue Spruce. (The Aviator)
Elizabeth Short is found brutally murdered & bizarrely mutilated; Emmett Linscott family is implicated. (Los Angeles, Ca - The Black Dahlia)
Bob Silver and Charlotte conceive Carl. (Great Britain - The Boat That Rocked)
Brighton Rock. (Brighton Rock)
Philadelphia Mass Turbulence, related to 'symmetrical bookstacking'. (Philadelphia, PA - Ghostbusters)
Tom Hagen becomes consigliere to Don Corleone; Michael Corleone marries Apollonia in Sicily, who dies very soon after. (The Godfather)
The U.S. Government shanghais Dr. Henry Jones, Jr. and a number of other scientists to examine the the wreckage of an alien spacecraft and the remains of its pilot. (Area 51 - Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
Indy first visits Roswell. (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull)
"Smiler" Grogan robs a tuna factory of $350,000 and buries the money under the big W at Rosita Beach State Park. (Santa Rosita, CA - It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World)
A little girl named Susan and her mom meet the real Kris Kringle. They learn to believe. (New York, New York - Miracle on 34th Street)
Andy Dufresne begins sentence at Shawshank for the murder of his wife. (The Shawshank Redemption)
The Grand Hotel hosts a graduation prom. (Straits of Mackinac - Somewhere In Time)
Roger Rabbit is framed. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
Wednesday 15th January: A year and a half after the end of WWII the body of Elizabeth Short (aka Black Dahlia) was found cut in half. (Los Angeles, California - The Black Dahlia)
Tuesday 21st January: Rick and Evy O'Connell arrive in Shanghai on Chinese New Year Eve to visit Evy's brother at his nightclub "Imhotep's" and to deliver the Eye of Shangri-La to the Chinese Musuem of History the following day. (The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor)
Tuesday 15th April: Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. (Brooklyn, New York - The Jackie Robinson Story)
Thursday 24th April: Willa Cather dies. (New York - Willa Cather: The Road Is All)
Friday 25th April: President Truman inaugurates White House bowling alley. (Washington DC - Truman)
Sunday 11th May: Enzo Ferrari makes racing debut. (Piacenza, Italy - Ferrari)
Friday 20th June: Bugsy Siegel killed by gunshot. (Bugsy)
July: An extraterrestrial spaceship lands on a farm, killing a dog and leaving behind one alien, later named "Paul." (Moorcroft, Wyoming - Paul)
Sunday 6th July: John Rambo is born. (Phoenix, Arizona - Rambo: First Blood Part II)
August: The independent states of India and Pakistan were created (India - Gandhi)
Wednesday 13th August: Future Spinal Tap lead singer and rhythm guitarist David St. Hubbins is born. (Squatney, London - This is Spinal Tap)