The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
September: Mathematician John Nash goes through Princeton graduate school orientation. (Princeton University - A Beautiful Mind)
Tuesday 14th October: Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier. (The Right Stuff)
Tuesday 14th October: Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in the Bell X-1. (Muroc Army Air Field, California - The Right Stuff)
Monday 3rd November: Benjamin Button sees Daisy in Carousel on Broadway. (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Friday 19th December: Stephen Altman is born. (New York, New York - Panic Room)
Carl is born. (Great Britain - The Boat That Rocked)
Sonny Corleone assassinated in his car; his son Vincent Mancini born to his mistress after his death. (The Godfather)
Remy Bressant is born (Gone Baby Gone)
James Reid is born. (Los Angeles, California - The Green Hornet)
A boy who one day becomes a law-enforcer is born. (Langdon, Illinois - Halloween: H20)
After assisting the Nazis in WW II, and getting paid handsomely for it, Arthur Case returns home and establishes the Manhattan Trust Bank. (New York City, NY - Inside Man)
Alfred Kinsey publishes 'Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'. (Kinsey)
Charlotte Flax is born. (Mermaids)
John and Mimi are photographed. (Liverpool, England - Nowhere Boy)
Frank Wheeler joins Knox Business Machines. (Connecticut - Revolutionary Road)
The planet Krypton explodes. (Superman)
According to Lois Lane's article, "I Spent the Night with Superman", Krypton explodes - baby Kal-El spends the next four years in a space ship while travelling to Earth. (Krypton - Superman)
The planet Krypton explodes (Krypton - Superman)
Harry Lime appears. (Vienna - The Third Man)
Future Spinal Tap lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel is born. (Squatney, London - This is Spinal Tap)
Friday 30th January: Mahatma Gandhi assassinated at point blank range by a fanatic during a prayer meeting. (New Delhi, India - Gandhi)
Monday 5th July: The National Health Service is established. (UK - Sicko)
Friday 23rd July: D.W. Griffith dies. (Hollywood, California - Good Morning, Babylon)
Monday 16th August: Babe Ruth dies of cancer. (New York City - The Babe)
Saturday 11th September: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan passed away. (Pakistan - Jinnah)
Monday 4th October: "The Wonder of It All", a new musical revue, opens at the Boston Theatre starring Nancy Eagen with newcomer Kip Cooper standing in for the ailing headliner, comedian Eddie Eagen. Cooper's reviews help to launch his career in the fledgling media of television. (Boston, Massachusetts - Always Leave Them Laughing)
Wednesday 20th October: Nicholas Van Orton born. (The Game)
Thursday 4th November: T.S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in literature (Tom & Viv)
Howard Hunt begins working for the CIA. (All the President's Men)
Future army conscript William Avery and future Bobby Kennedy presidential campaign volunteers Wade, Dwayne, Jimmy and Cooper are born. (Bobby)
As his family drives across the desert, young Jim sees a Native American dying by the roadside. (New Mexico - The Doors)
Mr Merrin is approached at a coffee shop in Cairo to head an archaeological dig in Kenya where there is a buried church. (Cairo, Egypt - Exorcist: The Beginning)
Victor Rizzi born, Don Vito's grandchild. (The Godfather)
Julia Child goes to France. (Julie & Julia)
Ray Robinson (later Charles) first earns money playing jazz. (Ray)
The roof of the licence-plate factory is re-tarred at Shawshank prison. (The Shawshank Redemption)
Eric Lensher immigrates to America, sees the Statue of Liberty for the first time. (New York - X-Men)
Thursday 20th January: Truman announces Point Four program. (Truman)
Tuesday 8th February: Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty is convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Communist People's Court. (Hungary - Guilty of Treason )
Wednesday 9th February: Shakka Holland, alias Shakka Kupor is born of wealthy parents; a spoiled woman who kills without provocation. (Tangiers, Morocco - Nighthawks)
Thursday 12th May: Berlin Blockade lifted. (Berlin - The Big Lift)
Monday 6th June: George Orwell's "1984" is published. (The Road to 1984)
Wednesday 8th June: FBI report names Hollywood figures as Communists. (Hoover)
Wednesday 3rd August: Diane Huber born. (Bobby)
Wednesday 10th August: Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Bill, which establishes the Department of Defense. (Truman)
Sunday 16th October: In an act of loyalty to the Yamamori Family, Shozo Hiirono guns down Yakuza boss Kiyoshi Doi in the streets of Hiroshima; abandoned by everything and everyone, his only path is to go back to prison. (Hiroshima, Japan - The Yakuza Papers)
Monday 17th October: Barbara Hummel, wife of General Francis Hummel, born. (The Rock)
Wednesday 26th October: Harry Allen tries to mercifully murder his wife, Pat, by mixing the darkroom developing chemical altrapeine into her antacid medication, later discovering his mistress, Kay, is dumping him after being carefully seduced by his best friend, Richard Langley. (USA - Married Life)
Saturday 17th December: Hiroshi Wakasugi, Doi Family Captain, kills Seiichi Kanbara gangland-style for betraying his bloodbrother, Shozo Hirono; Wakasugi is killed in a gun battle with police later that night. (Japan - The Yakuza Papers)
Verona De Tessant's mother is born. (Away We Go)
The Shoebridges die in a house fire. (Family Plot)
Irene Butterman is born. (Hot Fuzz)
Lars Olfen (future head of PBN TV network) is born. (Sweden - A Mighty Wind)
Ray Robinson becomes Ray Charles and begins recording songs. (Ray)
No Way Out is released. (Six Degrees of Separation)
Brushy Bill Roberts, who claimed to be Billy the Kid, dies. (Young Guns 2)
Tuesday 17th January: The Great Brinks Robbery (Boston, Massachusetts - The Brink's Job)
Wednesday 25th January: John Wayne on the Walk of Fame. (Hollywood, CA - Rush Hour)
Tuesday 31st January: U.S. President Harry S. Truman publicly announces his decision to support the development of the hydrogen bomb, a weapon theorized to be hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Japan during World War II. (Truman)
Thursday 9th February: Senator Joseph McCarthy claims that he has a list with the names of over 200 members of the Department of State that are "known communists." (Wheeling, West Virginia - Citizen Cohn)