The Movie Timeline - of all the movie timelines on all the net, you walked into this one
Wednesday 15th March: Earliest phone call made to the GOP from Watergate burglars. (All the President's Men)
Wednesday 15th March: Actor Edward Lionheart comes out of retirement and murders critic George Maxwell. (London - Theatre of Blood)
Monday 10th April: Date of incriminating cashiers check written out to Kenneth H Dahlberg. (All the President's Men)
Monday 10th April: Charlie Chaplin accepts an honorary Academy Award for his "incalculable" contribution to the art of filmmaking. (Los Angeles, California - Chaplin)
Monday 10th April: The U.S. table tennis team begins a weeklong visit to the People's Republic of China at the invitation of China's communist government. (Forrest Gump)
May: Richard Collier is given an old pocket-watch by an old woman who whispers "Come back to me". (Somewhere In Time)
Friday 5th May: J Edgar Hoover dies. (Washington DC - Nixon)
Monday 15th May: George Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer. (Laurel, Maryland - George Wallace)
Friday 19th May: 'Too Much Spring' by Richard Collier opens; Elise McKenna visits him and presents him with a watch, before dying that same night. (Somewhere In Time)
Monday 22nd May: Richard Nixon arrives in Moscow for a summit with Soviet leaders. (Moscow - Nixon)
Saturday 17th June: The break-in at the Democratic National Committee occurs. (All the President's Men)
Wednesday 28th June: U.S. President Nixon announces that no more draftees will be sent to Vietnam unless they volunteer for such duty. (Nixon)
July: Theatre Monthly prints an article entitled 'Elise McKenna: The Final Years'. (Somewhere In Time)
Monday 24th July: Story in the New York Times published about calls to the GOP offices linked to Watergate. (All the President's Men)
August: The Washington Post publishes the Dahlberg story. (All the President's Men)
Friday 4th August: Dictator Idi Amin gives Uganda's 50,000 Asians 90 days to leave the country thanks to a dream. (Uganda - The Last King of Scotland)
Tuesday 22nd August: A bank robbery to afford a transexual operation becomes a siege. (Dog Day Afternoon)
September: The Washington Post publishes the Mitchell story. (All the President's Men)
October: The Washington Post learns Ken Clawson is alleged to have written the Canuck letter. (All the President's Men)
Thursday 5th October: Artist/Poet Chrsity Brown marries Mary Carr. (County Kerry, Ireland - My Left Foot)
Wednesday 25th October: The White House orders a suspension of bombing above the 20th parallel as a signal of U.S. approval of recent North Vietnamese concessions at the secret peace talks in Paris. (Nixon)
Friday 17th November: Wealthy socialite Barbara Baekeland is stabbed to death with a kitchen knife by her 25-year-old son, Antony, in her penthouse. (London, England - Savage Grace)
Saturday 9th December: Louella Parsons dies of arteriosclerosis. (Santa Monica, California - The Cat's Meow )
Monday 18th December: Following the breakdown of peace talks with North Vietnam just a few days earlier, President Richard Nixon announces the beginning of a massive bombing campaign to break the stalemate. For nearly two weeks, American bombers pounded North Vietnam. (Nixon)
Tuesday 26th December: Former U.S. President Harry S. Truman dies. (Independence, Missouri - Truman)
Sunday 31st December: Forrest Gump celebrates New Year in New York. (New York - Forrest Gump)
William Miller and Penny Lane go on tour with Stillwater. (New York - Almost Famous)
Sam "Ace" Rothstein begins running a casino. (Las Vegas - Casino)
Dante Hicks poos his pants because the seat to his potty is down and he refuses to lift it. (Clerks)
Caesar's ape parents are killed by humans, and the caretaker hides him in a circus. (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)
Deena Jones and The Dreams have another No 1 hit record, called 'In Touch'. (Dreamgirls)
Terence Mann gives his last interview, saying that his one regret was that he would have loved to have played with the Chicago White Sox. (Field of Dreams)
Gloria Mundy is unknowningly given information about an upcoming assassination attempt on Pope Pius XIII. (San Francisco, CA - Foul Play)
Future suspected paedophile Jeff Kohlver is born. (Hard Candy)
The Ice Storm. (The Ice Storm)
The Saudi Arabian oil embargo begins. (The Kingdom)
Astronauts travel 3000 years into the future and bring back talking apes, who are killed by the police and the investigation files sealed. (Planet of the Apes (1968))
Dan Freeman launches black nationalist guerrilla war in Chicago using tactics learned in CIA training. (Chicago - The Spook Who Sat by the Door)
Princess Daisy is hatched and raised at St Teresa's. (Brooklyn, New York - Super Mario Bros.)
Monday 1st January: 12:01am - The Poseidon, a luxury liner on its last voyage from Athens to New York, is struck by a 90ft tidal wave and capsizes. (The Poseidon Adventure)
Saturday 6th January: A Mercedes-Benz 770K sedan, supposedly Adolf Hitler's parade car, was sold at auction for $153,000.00, the most money ever paid for a car at auction at that time. (The Boys from Brazil)
Thursday 11th January: Howard Hunt pleads guilty to three counts of conspiracy. (All the President's Men)
Monday 15th January: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon suspends military action in North Vietnam giving peace talks between his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, and North Vietnamese leader Le Duc Tho a chance to succeed. (Nixon)
Tuesday 23rd January: President Nixon announces that Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho have initialled a peace agreement in Paris "to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam and Southeast Asia." (Nixon)
Thursday 15th March: George McFly wins a writing award, or is killed, depending on the timeline. (Hill Valley, CA - Back to the Future Part II)
Thursday 15th March: President Nixon hints that the United States might intervene again in Vietnam to prevent communist violations of the truce. (Nixon)
May: Travis Bickle receives an honorable discharge from the Marines. (Taxi Driver)
June: Mossad debriefs a killer it may or may not have hired. (Munich)
Wednesday 13th June: Kissinger and Le Duc Tho sign new peace agreement. (Kissinger and Nixon )
Monday 23rd July: Eddie Rickenbacker dies. (Zurich, Switzerland - Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, The )
Friday 17th August: Jeb Stuart Magruder pleads guilty to helping plan Watergate break-in. (All the President's Men)
Saturday 18th August: 5 people are terrorized after a woman kills herself in their van; they travel to the nearest town only to find a crazed man wielding a chainsaw. (Texas - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003))
Saturday 18th August: Five kids fallprey to a cannibalistic family. (TExas - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
Monday 20th August: Police are dispatched to a remote farmhouse in Travis County where they find the butchered remains of 33 victims, killed by Leatherface. (Travis County, Texas - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003))
Saturday 6th October: Yom Kippur War begins. (Ayam El-Sadat)
Saturday 20th October: Solicitor General Robert Bork dismisses Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox; Attorney General Richardson and Deputy Attorney General Ruckelshaus resign in protest. (Nixon)
Thursday 25th October: President Nixon vetoes the War Powers Resolution, which would limit presidential power to commit armed forces abroad without Congressional approval. (Nixon)
Monday 5th November: Donald Segretti is sentenced to six months in prison. (All the President's Men)
Friday 16th November: Richard Nixon declares that America’s energy requirements have outpaced its production capacity and urges Congress to pass Senate Bill 1081, which would authorize the construction of a pipeline to access oil from the North Slope of Alaska. (Nixon)
Saturday 17th November: Richard Nixon tells a group of newspaper editors that he is "not a crook." (Orlando, Florida - Nixon)