The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Andy Dufresne begins sentence at Shawshank for the murder of his wife. (The Shawshank Redemption)
The Grand Hotel hosts a graduation prom. (Straits of Mackinac - Somewhere In Time)
Alice is born. (The Ward)
Roger Rabbit is framed. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
Wednesday 15th January: A year and a half after the end of WWII the body of Elizabeth Short (aka Black Dahlia) was found cut in half. (Los Angeles, California - The Black Dahlia)
Tuesday 21st January: Rick and Evy O'Connell arrive in Shanghai on Chinese New Year Eve to visit Evy's brother at his nightclub "Imhotep's" and to deliver the Eye of Shangri-La to the Chinese Musuem of History the following day. (The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor)
Tuesday 15th April: Jackie Robinson becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. (Brooklyn, New York - The Jackie Robinson Story)
Thursday 24th April: Willa Cather dies. (New York - Willa Cather: The Road Is All)
Friday 25th April: President Truman inaugurates White House bowling alley. (Washington DC - Truman)
Sunday 11th May: Enzo Ferrari makes racing debut. (Piacenza, Italy - Ferrari)
Friday 6th June: Freddy Krueger born. (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
Friday 20th June: Bugsy Siegel killed by gunshot. (Bugsy)
July: An extraterrestrial spaceship lands on a farm, killing a dog and leaving behind one alien, later named "Paul." (Moorcroft, Wyoming - Paul)
Sunday 6th July: John Rambo is born. (Phoenix, Arizona - Rambo: First Blood Part II)
August: The independent states of India and Pakistan were created (India - Gandhi)
Wednesday 13th August: Future Spinal Tap lead singer and rhythm guitarist David St. Hubbins is born. (Squatney, London - This is Spinal Tap)
September: Mathematician John Nash goes through Princeton graduate school orientation. (Princeton University - A Beautiful Mind)
Tuesday 14th October: Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier. (The Right Stuff)
Tuesday 14th October: Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier in the Bell X-1. (Muroc Army Air Field, California - The Right Stuff)
Monday 3rd November: Benjamin Button sees Daisy in Carousel on Broadway. (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Friday 19th December: Stephen Altman is born. (New York, New York - Panic Room)
Dahlia Iyad is born on a farm. (Near Haifa, Palestine - Black Sunday)
Dahlia Iyad's father and brother are killed by Israeli commandos. (Black Sunday)
Carl is born. (Great Britain - The Boat That Rocked)
Sonny Corleone assassinated in his car; his son Vincent Mancini born to his mistress after his death. (The Godfather)
Remy Bressant is born (Gone Baby Gone)
James Reid is born. (Los Angeles, California - The Green Hornet)
A boy who one day becomes a law-enforcer is born. (Langdon, Illinois - Halloween: H20)
After assisting the Nazis in WW II, and getting paid handsomely for it, Arthur Case returns home and establishes the Manhattan Trust Bank. (New York City, NY - Inside Man)
Alfred Kinsey publishes 'Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'. (Kinsey)
Charlotte Flax is born. (Mermaids)
John and Mimi are photographed. (Liverpool, England - Nowhere Boy)
By this time, Norman Bates is running the motel. (Kern County, California - Psycho IV: The Beginning)
Frank Wheeler joins Knox Business Machines. (Connecticut - Revolutionary Road)
The planet Krypton explodes. (Superman)
According to Lois Lane's article, "I Spent the Night with Superman", Krypton explodes - baby Kal-El spends the next four years in a space ship while travelling to Earth. (Krypton - Superman)
The planet Krypton explodes (Krypton - Superman)
Harry Lime appears. (Vienna - The Third Man)
Future Spinal Tap lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel is born. (Squatney, London - This is Spinal Tap)
Friday 30th January: Mahatma Gandhi assassinated at point blank range by a fanatic during a prayer meeting. (New Delhi, India - Gandhi)
Wednesday 7th April: Francis "Frank" White is born. (Astoria, New York - King of New York)
Monday 5th July: The National Health Service is established. (UK - Sicko)
Friday 23rd July: D.W. Griffith dies. (Hollywood, California - Good Morning, Babylon)
Monday 16th August: Babe Ruth dies of cancer. (New York City - The Babe)
Saturday 11th September: Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of Pakistan passed away. (Pakistan - Jinnah)
Monday 13th September: Rollie Free raises American motorcycle speed record to 150.313 mph with minimal clothing. (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps)
Friday 17th September: Melvin Downing is born. (Illinois - Source Code)
Monday 4th October: "The Wonder of It All", a new musical revue, opens at the Boston Theatre starring Nancy Eagen with newcomer Kip Cooper standing in for the ailing headliner, comedian Eddie Eagen. Cooper's reviews help to launch his career in the fledgling media of television. (Boston, Massachusetts - Always Leave Them Laughing)
Wednesday 20th October: Nicholas Van Orton born. (The Game)
Thursday 4th November: T.S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in literature (Tom & Viv)
Howard Hunt begins working for the CIA. (All the President's Men)
Dahlia, her sister, and her mother are expelled and live in a desert refugee camp. (Black Sunday)
Future army conscript William Avery and future Bobby Kennedy presidential campaign volunteers Wade, Dwayne, Jimmy and Cooper are born. (Bobby)
As his family drives across the desert, young Jim sees a Native American dying by the roadside. (New Mexico - The Doors)
Mr Merrin is approached at a coffee shop in Cairo to head an archaeological dig in Kenya where there is a buried church. (Cairo, Egypt - Exorcist: The Beginning)
Victor Rizzi born, Don Vito's grandchild. (The Godfather)
Julia Child goes to France. (Julie & Julia)
Norman Bates kills his mother Norma and her new lover with strychnine. It is believed that Norma's body is buried at Greenlawn Cemetery, but Norman keeps the corpse in the motel and emulates her personality. (Kern County, California - Psycho)
Norman Bates poisons his mother and her husband Chet Rudolph. (Kern County, California - Psycho IV: The Beginning)
Ray Robinson (later Charles) first earns money playing jazz. (Ray)