The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Tuesday 28th April: Richard Nixon approves Cambodian incursion. (Nixon)
May: The George Baker Selection reach number 21 with 'Little Green Bag'. (Reservoir Dogs)
Friday 8th May: Richard Nixon defends invasion of Cambodia. (Nixon)
Tuesday 19th May: Ray Schalk dies. (Chicago, Illinois - Eight Men Out)
Wednesday 3rd June: Nixon calls Cambodian operation a success. (Nixon)
Thursday 11th June: The night Billy Blatts gets whacked: He is beaten, kicked and pistol-whipped to a bloody pulp in Henry Hill's bar by Tommy and Jimmy, then bundled into the trunk of the car. (Queens, New York - Goodfellas)
Friday 12th June: In the early hours, Tommy & Jimmy stop at Tommy's mother's for a shovel and a large kitchen knife, then stab, shoot and bury Billy Blatts. (Queens, New York - Goodfellas)
Tuesday 16th June: Brian Piccolo dies from embryonal cell carcinoma. (Brian's Song)
Tuesday 7th July: While strolling through the Naka Avenue Shopping District, family boss Masakichi Makihara is shot repeatedly and dies. His assailant, a yakuza recruit for the Hirono Family, walks away from the scene covered in his victims blood while his accompice cowers in a puddle of his own urine. (Kure, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode)
Wednesday 26th August: Jimi Hendrix opens a recording studio. (New York - Down on Us)
Sunday 13th September: Jason Bourne is bourne. And is born. (The Bourne Ultimatum)
Friday 18th September: While en route to his swearing-in ceremony in Osaka as Chairman of the Tensei Coalition, Tamotsu Matsumura's motorcade is ambushed near Imaike Station. Having switched places in the back seat with Vice Chairman Shoichi Eda, Matsumura escaped with a serious chest wound and his life while Eda died. (Nishinari, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode)
Wednesday 4th November: Serial killer Carl Rudolph Stargher is born. (The Cell)
Saturday 14th November: Southern Airways Flight 932 clips trees on a ridge short of the runway and crashes killing the Marshall University football team, coaching staff, boosters and air crew. (Ceredo, West Virginia - We Are Marshall)
Tuesday 17th November: The court-martial of 1st Lt. William Calley begins. (Pinkville)
Wednesday 18th November: Richard Nixon asks Congress for supplemental appropriations for the Cambodian government of Premier Lon Nol. (Nixon)
Wednesday 18th November: Police begin to investigate what is possibly the Zodiac Killer's first murder, from four years earlier. (Zodiac)
Wednesday 18th November: The police begin to investigate the first Zodiac killing. (Zodiac)
Sunday 13th December: Arnold "Chick" Gandil dies. (Calistoga, California - Eight Men Out)
Monday 21st December: Elvis Presley is greeted at the White House by President Richard M. Nixon. (Washington, D.C. - Nixon)
Woodward begins working for the Washington Post. (All the President's Men)
The film McMillan and Wife is released. (Best in Show)
Play Misty For Me released in cinemas. (Dirty Harry)
Deena Jones and The Dreams have a No 1 hit record. (Dreamgirls)
Dr Lanning, Designer of the 3 Laws of Robotics Programs is born. (I, Robot)
The break-up of The Main Street Singers, as founder Chuck Wiseman moves to San Francisco and sets up 'Three Wiseman's Sex Emporium' with brothers Howard and Dell. (A Mighty Wind)
Faith is again given the name of her soulmate, Damon Bradley, by a fortune-teller, again fixed. (Pittsburgh, PA - Only You)
After T.C. Williams High School Titans' perfect season, the team and the city become closer than ever. (Alexandria, Virginia - Remember the Titans)
Dr Gerald Finney stays in an old hotel and hypnotises himself back to 1571. (Venice - Somewhere In Time)
Dan Freeman resigns his post at the CIA and begins recruiting and training gang members to a black nationalist army. (New York - The Spook Who Sat by the Door)
Wednesday 6th January: The U.S. Army drops charges of an alleged cover-up in the My Lai massacre against four officers. After the charges were dropped, a total of 11 people had been cleared of responsibility during the My Lai trials. (Pinkville)
Thursday 18th February: Private healthcare is introduced to the US by President Richard Nixon. (Sicko)
April: Raoul Duke and Dr Gonzo go on a drug-fuelled trip. (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
Thursday 15th April: David Webb - later to become spy Jason Bourne - is born. (Missouri - The Bourne Supremacy)
Saturday 15th May: After graduating from college, five friends take one last road trip to Mexico before saying goodbye. (Austin, Tezas - Fandango)
Saturday 3rd July: Jim Morrison dies of heart failure, likely caused by a drug overdose. (Paris, France - The Doors)
Monday 26th July: Inspector William Armstrong traces the Zodiac Killer back to the school they suspect he worked at. (Zodiac)
Monday 26th July: Inspector William Armstrong traces the Zodiac killer back to a school janitor. (Zodiac)
Monday 2nd August: The Nixon administration officially acknowledges that the CIA is maintaining a force of 30,000 'irregulars' fighting the Communist Pathet Lao in Laos. (Nixon)
Wednesday 4th August: The police visit Arthur Leigh Allen in connection with the Zodiac killings. (Zodiac)
Sunday 15th August: Richard Nixon turns his attention away from the war in Vietnam and announces a sweeping series of economic initiatives, including a ninety-day freeze on wages and rents, as well as the end of America's twenty-five-year-old policy of converting foreign money into gold. (Nixon)
Friday 12th November: Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972, as the deadline for the withdrawal of an additional 45,000 U.S. troops. (Nixon)
Thursday 23rd December: Jimmy Hoffa released from prison on the condition he not participate in union activities for 10 years. (Hoffa)
Friday 24th December: Frank Cross dumps Claire Phillips to pursue his career. (Scrooged)
A Uruguayan college rugby team's chartered airplane crashes deep in the icy mountains. (Andes - Alive)
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover Watergate. (Washington DC - All the President's Men)
Young Frankie Maguire witnesses the murder of his father. (Belfast, Ireland - The Devil's Own)
President Nixon hires Betsy Jobs and Arlene Lorenzo as dog walkers for Checkers. (The White House - Dick)
Deena Jones and The Dreams have another No 1 hit record. (Dreamgirls)
3 talking apes from the future travel back in time and land off the coast of California. (Los Angles, Ca. - Escape from the Planet of the Apes)
Moonlight Graham dies. (Field of Dreams)
Lts. Jake Grafton, and Virgil Cole, make an illegal bombing run over Hanoi. (Hanoi, North Vietnam - Flight of the Intruder)
11 Israeli athletes are killed at the Olympics by terrorists; a group of Mossad agents track down the Black September group responsible. (Munich - Munich)
Richard Nixon makes a state visit. (China - Nixon)
Astronaut Landon graduates college, as 'the golden boy'. (Planet of the Apes (1968))
Johnny Smalls, David Durango, and friends try to get a model rocket back from Mr.Myrtle's dog, Goliath, son of Hercules. (Sawyer Valley, California - The Sandlot 2)
Monday 10th January: Former Vice President Hubert Humphrey criticizes President Richard Nixon, saying that it was taking longer for President Nixon to withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam than it did to defeat Hitler. (Nixon)
Thursday 13th January: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announces that 70,000 U.S. troops will leave South Vietnam over the next three months, (Nixon)
Monday 21st February: President Richard Nixon takes a dramatic first step toward normalizing relations with the communist People's Republic of China (PRC) by traveling to Beijing for a week of talks. (Nixon)
Wednesday 1st March: John Mitchell begins his job as Nixon's campaign manager. (All the President's Men)