The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Sunday 16th March: Susan Young is born to Buddy and Elaine. (Las Vegas - Mr. Saturday Night)
Wednesday 2nd April: Alberto and Ernesto emark on the Inca Trail. (Cuzco, Peru - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Wednesday 2nd April: Alberto pretends it's his 30th birthday. (The Motorcycle Diaries)
Saturday 5th April: Alerbto and Ernesto are 7014km into their epic trek. (Machu Picchu, Peru - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Monday 28th April: Dwight D Eisenhower steps down as Supreme Commander of NATO. (Ike)
Monday 12th May: Alberto and Ernesto arrive in Lima and are shocked at civlisation after seeing the lost Inca settlements. (Lima, Peru - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Thursday 15th May: Alberto and Ernesto are 8983km into their epic trek. (Pucallpa, Peru - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Sunday 8th June: 10223km into their journey, Alberto and Ernesto finally arrive in San Paolo by boat, after gambling to win a night with pretty prostitute Luz. (San Paolo, Peru - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Saturday 14th June: Dance night with the nuns at the leper colony, as Alberto and Ernesto begin to leave for home. (San Pablo, Peru - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Sunday 22nd June: Alberto and Ernesto are 10240km into their journey across South America. (Cerca de Leticia, Colombia - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Saturday 26th July: Alberto and Ernesto finish their journey across South America and board a plane for home. (Caracas, Venezuela - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Friday 8th August: Alberto Granado's actual 30th birthday. (The Motorcycle Diaries)
Monday 8th September: Mitch Robbins is born. (City Slickers)
Monday 8th September: Mitch Robbins is born. (City Slickers 2)
Monday 22nd September: Machinist's Mate 1st Class Dylan Rourke is awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal of Heroism despite abandoning his dive partner. (Bayonne, New Jersey - Men of Honour)
Tuesday 30th September: John C. McCloy born. (Manchester, England - Mission: Impossible 2)
Tuesday 4th November: Sam "Big Clobber" Puckett makes his Record Spit of 44 ft, 6 1/2" at Porky's Bar. (Wallacetown, Fl - Porky's)
Thursday 20th November: Frank Sinatra agrees to a screen test for a role in "From Here to Eternity". (Sinatra)
Sunday 23rd November: Francis Dollarhyde is born. (Chester, Missouri - Manhunter)
Wednesday 24th December: Members of the LAPD get into a brawl with a gang of Mexicans that assaulted two officers and the incident is caught by the press and labeled "Bloody Christmas". (Los Angeles, California - LA Confidential)
Mathematician John Nash deciphers a Soviet transmission. (The Pentagon - A Beautiful Mind)
The Hudson Hornet wins the Piston Cup. (Cars)
Mary Corleone born. (The Godfather)
LAPD's 'Bloody Christmas'; 'My Funny Valentine' recorded by Chet Baker, and 'The Christmas Blues' by Dean Martin; 'Roman Holiday' in cinemas. (Los Angeles - LA Confidential)
Victoria Lynn Riggs, future wife of Sgt Martin Riggs, is born. (Lethal Weapon)
Mona Lisa Smile. (Mona Lisa Smile)
A spaceship crashes carrying a strange visitor from another world. (nr Smallville, Kansas - Superman)
Dewey Cox performs for the first time at a talent show, inciting a near-riot. (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)
Earth invaded by Martians. (War of the Worlds)
Wednesday 7th January: Harry S. Truman tells the world that that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. (Washington, D.C. - Truman)
Friday 16th January: Tony Brancato and Anthony Trombino are machine gunned down in a car. (Los Angeles, California - LA Confidential)
Wednesday 21st January: Deuce Perkins, Mickey Cohen's drug lieutenant and associate are machine gunned down in his Brentwood home. (Los Angeles, California - LA Confidential)
Monday 26th January: 3 Nite Owl Killers, 1 Officer Slain in Bunker Hill Shootout. (Los Angeles, California - LA Confidential)
Thursday 5th March: Stalin dies of a stroke. (Stalin)
Tuesday 21st April: Roy Cohn and David Schine return to the United States after a controversial investigation of United States Information Service (USIS) posts in Europe. (Citizen Cohn)
Saturday 6th June: "Sleepy" Bill Burns dies. (Ramona, CA - Eight Men Out)
Friday 19th June: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed. (Citizen Cohn)
Wednesday 14th October: Fred Friendly and Edward R Murrow begin to question Senator McCarthy's methods. (CBS Studios - Good Night, and Good Luck)
Monday 19th October: Sig Mickelson convinced to run a story opposing Senator McCarthy's condemnation of Milo Radulovich. (CBS Studios - Good Night, and Good Luck)
Tuesday 20th October: 10:30pm - Ed Murrow broadcasts news report claiming Milo Radulovich was wrongly accused of Communist tendencies. (CBS Studios - Good Night, and Good Luck)
Friday 20th November: Billy Maharg dies. (Philadelphia, PA - Eight Men Out)
December: Peter Appleton has a car accident and loses his memory - he awakes being told he must be Luke Trimble, a lost solider from 9 years previous. (Lawson, California - The Majestic)
Sunday 6th December: Elwood Blues is born. (Cook County, Chicago, Illinois - Blues Brothers 2000)
Mathematician John Nash is attacked while delivering Top Secret newspaper clippings to an abandoned mansion, and stumbles home in a schizophrenic stupor. (Cambridge, MA - A Beautiful Mind)
The Hudson Hornet crashes during an attempt to qualify for the Piston Cup; afterward he retires from racing. (Cars)
Messrs Peacock, Scarlet, White, Plum, Mustard & Green may have murdered My Boddy, a cook, a maid, a policeman, a chauffeur & a singing telegram. (New England - Clue)
A group of researchers find a prehistoric "gillman" in the Amazon River. (Amazon River, South America - Creature from the Black Lagoon)
Peyton Westlake is born. (Darkman)
Dr. Freund is a Cornell college professor. (Ithaca, New York - Drag Me To Hell)
Don Vito Corleone dies while playing with his granddaughter; Carlo Rizzi dies and his son Michael Francis Rizzi is born. (The Godfather)
Godzilla destroys Tokyo for the first tme before being destroyed by the oxygen destroyer. (Gojira)
A type of MJ-12 is made. (Race to Witch Mountain)
John Kramer is born. (Saw IV)
Hank is born. (Saw VI)
The Military fights giant mutated ants. (New Mexico - Them!)
Dewey Cox' professional debut as a singer. He is immediately signed to a record deal by nice Jewish businessmen. (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)
Friday 5th March: Creature from the Black Lagoon is released. (American Pie: Beta House)
Tuesday 9th March: Edward Murrow broadcasts report condemning Senator McCarthy's methods. (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Tuesday 6th April: Senator McCarthy broadcasts his reply to Edward Murrow, accusing him of Communist leanings. (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Thursday 6th May: Roger Bannister runs the first four-minute mile. (Oxford - Four Minutes)