The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Superman throws a terrorist bomb from the Eiffel Tower into space, freeing General Zod from his glass prison. (Superman II)
The Thing assimilates Norwegian and American science teams. (The Thing)
Kira, a muse, insipres Sonny to transform an old Auditorium into a roller disco rink. (Xanadu)
Friday 15th February: Lillian Hellman files a lawsuit claming $2.2 million in damages against novelist Mary McCarthy for libel. (Dash and Lilly )
Friday 22nd February: US Men's Hockey team of amateur and collegiate players beats USSR no.1 team, is dubbed the 'Miracle On Ice' and goes on to win Olympic gold. (Miracle)
Sunday 18th May: Joy Division singer Ian Curtis found hanged from apparent suicide in his flat, aged 26. (Manchester, England - 24 Hour Party People)
Sunday 18th May: Mount St. Helens erupts, causing a massive avalanche and killing 57 people. (96 miles south of Seattle, Washington - Mount St. Helens)
June: Llewelyn Moss steals 2 million dollars from drug smugglers who were killed when the deal went bad. (Texas - No Country For Old Men)
Thursday 31st July: Harry Potter born. (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
Sunday 21st December: Wealthy socialite Sunny" von Bulow is found in a coma--the result of what appeared to be an insulin overdose. (Newport, Rhode Island - Reversal of Fortune)
Movie producer Fanny Nash is stabbed by her personal trainer and then develops agoraphobia. (The Last Shot)
The events of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street take place. (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
Lew Hayward dies of a heart attack while playing golf. (Scrooged)
The Thing reaches civilisation and begins systematic assimilation of all animal life. (The Thing)
Carl Peterson meets Randy Dupree. (You, Me and Dupree)
Sunday 25th January: The Superdome: Philadelphia head coach Dick Vermeil leads the Eagles to their first Super Bowl appearance. (New Orleans, La - Invincible)
Sunday 1st March: Ron Weasley is born. (Hogwarts - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
Tuesday 24th March: An alignment of the stars in the Casseopeia region heralds the Second Coming of Christ. (England - Omen III: The Final Conflict)
Wednesday 13th May: Pope John Paul II is shot and wounded by Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca. (Rome, Italy - Pope John Paul II)
Wednesday 3rd June: McLovin is born. (Superbad)
July: Wet Hot American Summer. (Wet Hot American Summer)
July: The Laurel Canyon Murders or the Wonderland Murders happened. (Hollywood, Ca. - Wonderland)
Wednesday 8th July: A nurse tends to Hannibal Lecter, and he attacks her, causing her to need a reset jaw and eye. (The Silence of the Lambs)
Tuesday 14th July: Chris Gardner completes a sale of his medical device for the first time in months. (The Pursuit of Happyness)
Wednesday 2nd September: Chris Gardner receives a severe tax demand. (San Francisco - The Pursuit of Happyness)
Friday 25th September: Chris Gardner's bank account is drained by the government for his tax bill. (San Francisco - The Pursuit of Happyness)
Saturday 31st October: Voldemort tries to kill Harry Potter after murdering his parents & resultantly loses physical form. Hagrid rescues baby Harry from Godric's Hollow. (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
Saturday 31st October: An attack on Harry Potter destroys Lord Voldemort's powers; Harry survives, with a lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead, and Voldemort's spectral being flees to Albania. (Godric's Hollow, England - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
Tuesday 3rd November: Maggie Feller asks for a puppy, and for a day she her sister Rose get one, till their father removes it from them. (In Her Shoes)
Thursday 5th November: Caroline Feller commits suicide by driving into a tree, leaving two daughters - Rose and Maggie - in the care of her husband. (In Her Shoes)
Saturday 5th December: Thomas Marcano and John Reilly kill Sean Nokes. (New York City - Sleepers)
Friday 25th December: Jim Williams' lavish Christmas Party, where he murders his hotheaded ex-lover Billy. (Savannah, GA - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil)
Friday 25th December: Rocky Balboa defeats Ivan Drago, who was already killed Apollo Creed, in an exhibition boxing match. (Soviet Union - Rocky IV)
Evan Treborn is born, or in one timeline, deliberately strangles himself in the womb. (The Butterfly Effect)
Jeff Spicoli graduates from Ridgemont High. (San Diego, CA - Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Galaxy Quest TV series is cancelled. (USA - Galaxy Quest)
Vote to ban Andy Kaufman from Saturday Night Live. (Man on the Moon)
Rocky Balboa loses his fortune and moves back to his lower class Philadelphia neighborhood, where he trains upcoming fighter Tommy Gunn and manages him through 22 victories in one year. (Rocky V)
The Thing assimilates final indigenous lifeform. (The Thing)
Spinal Tap go on their second nation-wide tour of the United States. (United States - This is Spinal Tap)
Harry meets Sally again, on a plane. (When Harry Met Sally)
Monday 22nd March: Jenny Curran dies. (Forrest Gump)
Sunday 6th June: Katherine Lowell - fake name of Lissa - would have been born, if her fake ID were correct. (Best Laid Plans)
July: Events seen in Chris's flashback from Friday the 13th Part 3 take place. (Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D)
Wednesday 27th October: Admiral Jim Sandecker helped CIA agent Carl in an unknown event. He would remind Carl of this when Sandecker asks Carl for a favor in helping get Dirk and Al out of Mali. (Sahara)
Sunday 31st October: Elliot takes his first ride across the moon; ET phones home. (Los Angeles, Ca - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
Monday 1st November: Federal agents storm Elliot's house as he and E.T. fall gravely ill. (Los Angeles, Ca - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
Tuesday 2nd November: E.T. goes home. (Los Angeles, Ca - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
Jack Twist dies. (Brokeback Mountain)
A space virus kills every dog and cat on Earth. (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)
Retired US Air Force Major Mitchell Gant slips into the Soviet Union to steal the most advanced stealth fighter built, the MiG 31, NATO codename Firefox. (Bilyarsk, Soviet Union - Firefox)
10 yr Jeff Kohlver is caught with naked 5 yr old cousin, who has innocently jumped out of the bath onto him; Jeff is reprimanded by being sat on a hot stove. (Hard Candy)
Hannibal Lecter escapes, via a spot of murder. (Memphis, Tennessee - The Silence of the Lambs)
Rock and Roll singer Nick Rivers is recuited by the French underground to stop the overthrow of the German goverment. (Germany - Top Secret!)
Sunday 22nd May: Doc Brown commended/committed, depending on the timeline. (Back to the Future Part II)
June: The Reno Gazette reports that scuba diver Delmer Darion died when scooped up from a lake by a fire-fighting plane to extinguish a house-fire. (Magnolia)
Saturday 6th August: A military drop out is killed in a tragic car accident. (Montreal, Canada - Taking Lives)
Monday 24th October: An alien was accidently left behind, and later befriended by a 10 year old human boy . (Los Angles - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
Tuesday 25th October: President Ronald Reagan, citing the threat posed to American nationals on the Caribbean nation of Grenada by that nation's Marxist regime, orders the Marines to invade and secure their safety. (Heartbreak Ridge)
Tuesday 29th November: H.I. McDonough meets future wife Edwina as she takes his mugshot in the Maracopa County Jail. (Tempe, Arizona - Raising Arizona)