The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
Peggy Sue relives her high-school youth. (Peggy Sue Got Married)
The growing ranks of Brigade 2506 train in southern Florida and at a CIA-run training base near Retalhuleu, Guatamala. (Race to Witch Mountain)
Estelle reads Edgar Paddington's mind when he tries to ask her out. (Los Angeles, California - Valentine's Day)
The nuclear powered submarine USOS Seaview under goes her sea trials, which include a trip under the North Pole. (Santa Barbra, Ca. - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
Wednesday 16th March: A bout de souffle is released. (France - The Squid and the Whale)
Sunday 1st May: American U-2 spy plane shot down. (Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident)
Saturday 7th May: Leonid Brezhnev becomes President of the USSR. (Brezhnev)
Monday 23rd May: Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion announces to the world that Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann has been captured and will stand trial in Israel. (The Man Who Captured Eichmann)
Wednesday 13th July: Senator John F. Kennedy is nominated for the presidency by the Democratic Party Convention. (Los Angeles, California - The Rat Pack)
Wednesday 10th August: 'Ocean's Eleven' opens in cinemas. (The Rat Pack)
Wednesday 17th August: The Beatles arrive in Hamburg. (Hamburg, Germany - In His Life: The John Lennon Story)
Wednesday 17th August: John Lennon calls his aunt Mimi as soon as he gets to Hamburg, and will call her every week since then until he dies. (Hamburg, Germany - Nowhere Boy)
September: Fumio Sugihara, sworn brother to ailing yakuza boss Muraoka, is shot to death in a bold daylight attack; this leads to Muraoka's decision to step down. (Kure, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 3: Proxy War)
Monday 26th September: Kennedy and Nixon square off in a televised presidential debate. (Nixon)
Tuesday 25th October: Holly Golightly receives a cheque. (Breakfast at Tiffany's)
Tuesday 8th November: John F Kennedy elected U.S. President. (The Rat Pack)
Wednesday 16th November: Clark Gable dies of a heart attack. (Los Angeles, California - Gable and Lombard)
Thursday 1st December: Sandra Dee marries Bobby Darin. (Beyond the Sea )
Sunday 25th December: Zachary Beaulieu born. (Quebec - C.R.A.Z.Y.)
Less than 100 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California cars are made. (California - Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
Kathryn Krueger is born (Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare)
Grease 2. (Grease 2)
Laurie Myers is born. (Haddonfield, Illinois - Halloween II)
Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child is released. (Julie & Julia)
K-19 The Widowmaker. (K-19: The Widowmaker)
At the American Association of Forensic Science awards dinner, Dr Donald Harper relates the tale of Sidney Barringer's suicide/murder in 1958. (Magnolia)
Howard W. Campbell, Jr., while awaiting execution in Israel, recounts his life as an American Spy posing as a Nazis propagandist, before committing suicide. (Haifa, Israel - Mother Night)
Mothra rampages through Tokyoto get two small girls. (Tokyo - Mothra)
Project Mercury begins. (Cape Canaveral, Fla - The Right Stuff)
A Raisin in the Sun is released. (Six Degrees of Separation)
Elijah Prince, aka Mr Glass, born in a department store. (Philadelphia, PA - Unbreakable)
Tuesday 10th January: Dashiell Hammett dies. (New York, New York - Julia)
Tuesday 24th January: Marilyn Monroe divorces Arthur Miller. (The Rat Pack)
Thursday 2nd March: 7 MIB agents, an astronomer and a dumb kid who went down the wrong back road encounter aliens outside New York. (Men in Black)
Wednesday 12th April: First Manned Space Flight, Yuri Gagarin. (Soviet Union - The Right Stuff)
Thursday 20th April: Mickey Mantle hits 2 Home Runs. (New York City, New York - 61*)
Tuesday 30th May: Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris each hit 2 Home Runs. (Boston, Massachuestts - 61*)
Saturday 3rd June: Clarence Gideon is arrested and charged with breaking into a poolroom. (Florida - Gideon's Trumpet)
Monday 17th July: Ty Cobb dies. (Atlanta, Georgia - Cobb)
Wednesday 16th August: Roger Maris hits 2 Home Runs. (New York City, New York - 61*)
Saturday 2nd December: Fidel Castro openly declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist. (Che!)
Dean Vernon Wormer attempts to close down the Delta House Fraternity at Faber College. (Tennessee - Animal House)
Cuban Missile Crisis; a family goes into hiding. (Blast from the Past)
'To Kill A Mockingbird' released in cinemas. (Capote)
Down With Love. (Down With Love)
Secret agent 007 investigates the source of radio signals that are toppling American rockets. Here, he encounters the nefarious Dr. No and the criminal organization, SPECTRE. (Crab Key, off Jamaican coast - Dr. No)
Clyde Northcutt is born. (Fred Claus)
Hairspray. (Hairspray)
The United States carries out its 331st and last atmospheric nuclear test. (USA - The Hills Have Eyes (1977))
'How Important Can It Be?' recorded by Wanda Jackson. (LA Confidential)
Matinee. (Matinee)
M.I. Pollard is born. (The Other Guys)
John Mason is imprisoned in Alcatraz prison. (san francisco - The Rock)
Scotty Smalls, Ben Rodriguez, and friends try to get an autographed baseball back from Mr.Myrtle's dog, Hercules. (Sawyer Valley, California - The Sandlot)
Ben & Violet Devereaux buy a large house from the Thorpe family. (New Orleans - The Skeleton Key)
Cuban Missile Crisis. (Thirteen Days)
900 B.C The Three Stooges useing a time machine and "Calm-Down Pills" help King Odius defeat good King Ullyllius in battle (Ithaca, Greece - The Three Stooges Meet Hercules)
Thursday 4th January: Mersey Beat newspaper contains the headline "Beatles Top Poll!". (In His Life: The John Lennon Story)
February: A year on K. Gotti's package full of underwear. (The Bounty Hunter)
Thursday 22nd February: Astronaunt John Glenn makes his first orbital flight. (Cape Canaveral - The Right Stuff)