The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Friday 10th February: Adrianna Pennino is born. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Rocky Balboa)
Monday 20th February: Welsh poet Dylan Thomas arrives for his first reading tour of the United States. (New York - Dylan Thomas: Return Journey )
Monday 29th May: Preston Tucker's lawsuit against his former prosecutors is thrown out of court. (Tucker: The Man and His Dream )
Thursday 22nd June: Radio contest winner Mrs. Hattie O'Malley sings in a New York nightclub. (New York City, New York - Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone)
Friday 30th June: President Harry S. Truman orders U.S. armed forces to assist in defending that South Korea from invading North Korean armies. (Truman)
Saturday 8th July: General Douglas MacArthur is appointed head of the United Nations Command in Korea by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. (MacArthur)
Friday 25th August: In anticipation of a crippling strike by railroad workers, President Harry S. Truman issues an executive order putting America’s railroads under the control of the U.S. Army. (Truman)
Wednesday 1st November: Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate President Harry S. Truman at the Blair House. (Washington, D.C. - Truman)
Saturday 4th November: Grover Cleveland Alexander dies. (St. Paul, Nebraska - The Winning Team)
The Hudson Hornet wins the Piston Cup in auto racing. (Cars)
Michael Corleone marries college sweetheart Kay Adams, and their son Anthony is born. (The Godfather)
Norman Dale hired to coach Hickory Huskers basketball team. (Indiana - Hoosiers)
Laura Brown can't put down 'Mrs Dalloway' while planning her husband's birthday party. (The Hours)
'When Worlds Collide' premieres. (LA Confidential)
A blacklisted Hollywood writer moves to a small town. (The Majestic)
John and Julia are photographed. (Liverpool, England - Nowhere Boy)
Kal-El arrives from Krypton. (Smallville, Kansas - Superman)
Superman's rocket lands on Earth (Kansas - Superman)
A group of Air Force personnel fight and defeat an alien found frozen in ice. (The North Pole - The Thing From Another World)
Tommy witnesses his father's murder and becomes blind, deaf and dumb from the trauma. (England - Tommy)
Wednesday 14th February: Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta for the middleweight boxing championship after LaMotta refuses to fall; finally, in the 13th round, the referee stops the contest - Robinson wins. (Chicago Stadium, IL - Raging Bull)
Tuesday 6th March: The Rosenberg trial begins. (New York - Citizen Cohn)
Thursday 8th March: Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck are executed by the electric chair for multiple murder. (Sing Sing Prison - The Honeymoon Killers)
Sunday 25th March: Eddie Collins dies. (Boston, Massachusetts - Eight Men Out)
Wednesday 11th April: US President Harry S Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of command of the US forces in Korea. (MacArthur)
Tuesday 29th May: Fanny Brice dies of a cerebral hemorrhage. (Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California - Funny Girl)
Wednesday 18th July: Klaatu arrives on Earth with Gort and a cautionary message to halt experiments with violence, atomic energy, and space travel. (Washington DC - The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951))
Wednesday 5th December: "Shoeless" Joe Jackson dies. (Greenville, South Carolina - Eight Men Out)
Howard Hunt is connected to the Eisenhower campaign. (All the President's Men)
Gloria is born. (Away We Go)
The Hudon Hornet has a record breaking 27 wins and also wins the Piston Cup. (Cars)
Ray Kinsella born. (New York - Field of Dreams)
Ray Kinsella born. (Field of Dreams)
Michael Corleone assumes control of family business interests. (The Godfather)
Walt Kowalski fights in the Korean War. (Gran Torino)
Hannibal escapes from Lecter Castle, converted into an orphanage, and makes his way to France where he begins his quest for revenge. (Lithuania - Hannibal Rising)
Hickory Huskers shock Muncie to win Indiana High School basketball title. (Indiana - Hoosiers)
Hickory Huskers shock South Bend Central to win Indiana High School basketball title. (Butler Fieldhouse - Indianapolis - Hoosiers)
Ella Hirsch wears a particular pair of shoes, presumably as she gets married to husband Ira. (In Her Shoes)
The new LAPD facility begins construction at the Parker Center. (Los Angeles, CA - LA Confidential)
A medical breakthrough means that human lifespan now typically exceeds 100 years. (Never Let Me Go)
The Tablet of Ashkmenrah arrives at the Museum of Natural History, causing everything in the museum to come to life. (New York - Night at the Museum)
People start performing a ritual called the virgin sacrifice. (Del Mar, California - Psycho Beach Party)
The Quiet American. (Saigon - The Quiet American)
Ray Charles records Mess-Around. (Ray)
Lillian Crabtree dies. (Louisville, Kentucky - The Return of the Living Dead)
The deadly VX nerve gas accidentally discovered. (The Rock)
Cry The Beloved Country is released. (Six Degrees of Separation)
Undercover FBI agent Freeman Heller is shot & killed by mafioso Primo Sparazza. Sparazza then undergoes a series of plastic surgeries. (Las Vegas, Nv - Smokin' Aces)
Johnny Cash posted in the military. (Landsberg, Germany - Walk the Line)
Senator Joseph McCarthy continues his witch-hunts. (Walk the Line)
Friday 4th January: Ernesto Guevara de la Serna finishes his medical exams. (Argentina - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Sunday 27th January: Amid celebration of the Chinese New Year, the body of a young American is found face down in the muddy banks of the Saigon River along with that of his dog. His murderers are unknown. (Saigon, Vietnam - The Quiet American (1958))
Tuesday 29th January: 1809km in to their cross-continent motorcycle journey, Ernesto Guevara and Alberto Granado continue their journey after seeing Ernesto's lady-friend Chichina. (Piedra del Aguila, Argentina - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Saturday 2nd February: 2270km into their motorcycle journey, Ernesto and Alberto catch a duck. (Estacion de Tren de Bariloche, Argentina - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Friday 15th February: 2306km into their motorcycle journey, Ernesto and Alberto cross into Chile. (Lago Frias, Argentina - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Monday 18th February: Ernesto and Alberto are 2772km into their motorcycle journey. (Temugo, Chile - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Sunday 24th February: John Donaghy, father of Amelia Donaghy, born. (Brooklyn, NY - The Bone Collector)
Tuesday 11th March: Ernesto and Alberto lose their motorcycle at the desert, 4960km into their trek across South America. (The Atagama Desert, Chile - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Saturday 15th March: Ernesto and Alberto face security at the mine. (The Chiquicamata Mine, Chile - The Motorcycle Diaries)