The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Wednesday 19th June: A newspaper article contains the headline "Beatle in Birthday Bash Punch Up". (In His Life: The John Lennon Story)
Sunday 23rd June: Marin Luther King gives the first version of his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the The Great March On Detroit at Cobo Hall Detroit, Michigan. (This is the version heard in the film, not the version from the March on Washington two months later) (Detroit, Michigan - Dreamgirls)
July: Frances "Baby" Houseman holidays with her family, and falls for dance instructor Johnny Castle. (Catskill Mountains of New York - Dirty Dancing)
Sunday 25th August: The 'Jackal' attempts to assassinate Charles De Gaulle (Paris - The Day of the Jackal)
Monday 26th August: Hideo Hayakawa, Yoshio Yamamori's ally, attacks the family of his former boss Noboru Uchimoto, now an ally of yakuza boss Tatsuo Akashi. The Hiroshima Battle begins. (Hiroshima, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 3: Proxy War)
Wednesday 28th August: Martin Luther King delivers his 'I Have A Dream' speech. (Lincoln Memorial - Dreamgirls)
Tuesday 10th September: After a brief argument with members of the Makihara family, Hirono family member Kiyoshi Kawanishi drew his gun and pulled the trigger three times, misfiring each time. He was then shot dead in the street, sparking a new wave of violence between powerful yakuza families in Hiroshima and Kobe. (Kure, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 4: Police Tactics)
Friday 11th October: Tomoji Okajima, chairman of Gisei Group, is gunned down in his garden. (Kure, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 4: Police Tactics)
Thursday 17th October: The Gun Battle of Shintenchi: 2 dead, 3 critically wounded. After the wild public brawl turned deadly and directly threatened ordinary citizens, anti-gang sentiment boiled over. Pressured from all sides, the District Attorney orders the round-up of all yakuza family leaders. (Shintenchi, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 4: Police Tactics)
Sunday 20th October: Boss Tatsuo Akashi's residence is bombed; in retaliation, the Shinwa Group offices are attacked, and gun-battles also erupt in Hiroshima between Akira Takeda loyalists and Shinichi Iwai's men at Takeda's offices. (Kure, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 4: Police Tactics)
Friday 25th October: Shoichi Fujita, underboss of the Gisei Group, is shot dead by Hiroshi Yakuzi with the same gun Yakuzi received as a gift from Fujita; Yakuzi is apprehended that night. (Kure, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 4: Police Tactics)
November: Ennis Del Mar marries Alma Beers. (Riverton, Wyoming - Brokeback Mountain)
November: John F Kennedy killed by Lee Harvey Oswald (according to Crash Davis in 1988; although elsewhere in the movieverse, a lookalike of Crash Davis - Jim Garrison - thought it was a conspiracy) (Dallas, TX - Bull Durham)
Friday 1st November: A newspaper article details the event in which Michael Myers killed his sister the previous night. (Haddonfield, Illinois - Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers)
Friday 1st November: Phillip Perry is abducted from his house by escaped convicts Butch Haynes & Terry Pugh. (Texas - A Perfect World)
Friday 22nd November: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. (Dallas, Texas - JFK)
Friday 22nd November: After hearing of President Kennedy's assassination, Charlotte Flax kisses Joe Peretti in the belltower of the local convent. (Massachusetts - Mermaids)
Sunday 24th November: Lee Harvey Oswald, the suspected assassin of president Kennedy, is assassinated by nighclub owner Jack Ruby. (Dallas, Texas - JFK)
December: Tommy, Jimmy and Henry move Billy Batts' body when mob boss Paul Vario tells them they're building condos up there. (Upstate New York - Goodfellas)
Friday 6th December: Jerry Fernandez is born. (Puerto Rico - Runaway Jury)
Saturday 7th December: The Beatles perform at Odeon. (Liverpool, England - In His Life: The John Lennon Story)
Tuesday 31st December: At a costume party, Lou Landsky asks Rachel Flax to move in with him. (Massachusetts - Mermaids)
John Milner killed by a drunk driver. (American Graffiti)
Donald "Boon" Schoenstein and his girlfriend Katy marry. (Animal House)
Goldfinger released in the cinema. (Catch Me If You Can)
Linda Barrett is born. (Ridgemont, CA - Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Godzilla, Rodan and Mothra fights King Ghidorah (Japan - Ghidorah the Three Headed Monster)
Godzilla kills Mothra and Mothra's kids defeat Godzilla (Japan - Godzilla vs. Mothra)
Auric Goldfinger initiates "Operation: Grand Slam," in which he plans to explode a nuclear device inside the gold depository. The bomb is disarmed by an MI-6 agent with 007 left on the clock. (Fort Knox, Kentucky - Goldfinger)
Denise Waverly meets and falls in love with Jay Phillips, who produces her song "God Give Me Strength". The song flops but Denise and Jay get married. (New York - Grace of My Heart)
FBI agents Alan Ward and Rupert Anderson investigate the murders of three civil rights workers. (Jessup County, Mississippi - Mississippi Burning)
Frank Bailey, Lester Cowans, Floyd Swilley, Clinton Pell, Wesley Cooke, and Clayton Townley are sentenced to years of imprisonment for violation of Civil Rights laws. Sherriff Ray Stuckey is acquitted. The mayor hangs himself. (Jessup County, Mississippi - Mississippi Burning)
The human race dies out, as the fall-out from a nuclear holocaust ultimately reaches Australia. (On the Beach)
A picture is taken of Brad Wilson. (Smallville - Superman III)
Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan exchange correspondence. (Walk the Line)
January: Almas Beers becomes pregnant by Ennis Del Mar. (Riverton, Wyoming. - Brokeback Mountain)
January: Shozo Hirono's parole is revoked and he's sentenced to seven years and four months. With Hirono, Akira Takeda, Shoichi Eda, Masakishi Makihara and Yoshio Yamamori all serving prison sentences, the Hiroshima/Kobe yakuza feud comes to its fruitless end after 17 deaths, 26 injuries and over 1500 arrests. Gangland violence soon disappears beneath an increasingly stable public order. (Hiroshima, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 4: Police Tactics)
Wednesday 1st January: Charlotte and Kate Flax get drunk on wine and go to a local convent. While Charlotte loses her virginity in the belltower, Kate almost drowns in a nearby river. (Massachusetts - Mermaids)
Friday 10th January: Introducing... The Beatles is released in the US. (United States - The Killing of John Lennon)
Wednesday 15th January: John Lennon is shown a newspaper with the headline "Beatle John Lennon Secretly Married". (Paris, France - In His Life: The John Lennon Story)
Sunday 9th February: The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. (I Wanna Hold Your Hand)
Sunday 9th February: Tony Smerko is almost struck by lightning when he attempts to sabotage the transmitter on top of the CBS auditorium. (New York - I Wanna Hold Your Hand)
Sunday 9th February: The Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show. (In His Life: The John Lennon Story)
Sunday 9th February: Comedian Buddy Young Jr unfortunately makes his Ed Sullivan Show debut following The Beatles. (Mr. Saturday Night)
Sunday 23rd February: Special Agent Dana Katherine Scully born. (The X Files)
Tuesday 25th February: Cassius Clay TKOs Sonny Liston to win the WBA Heavyweight boxing championship. (Miami, Florida - Ali)
Saturday 14th March: Jack Ruby sentenced to death. (Dallas, Texas - Ruby)
May: The Dreams feature on the cover of numerous music magazines, and even a duet with The Beatles is suggested. (Dreamgirls)
Monday 18th May: Corinne marries Louis Jeffries. (Chances Are)
June: Jack is refused a third summer working on Brokeback Mountain by Joe Aguirre. (Signal, Wyoming. - Brokeback Mountain)
June: Following an altercation between her nanny Rosaleen and racists, Lily Owens takes Rosaleen and runs away from home. (South Carolina - The Secret Life of Bees)
Sunday 14th June: Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan receives a letter of acceptance for a position at Harper Row Publishing. (Jackson, Mississippi - The Help)
Saturday 20th June: Gen. William Westmoreland succeeds Gen. Paul Harkins as head of U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV). (Path to War )
Monday 27th July: IRA Terrorist Frankie Maguire aka Frankie the Angel is born. (1964 - The Devil's Own)
August: The Wonders perform 'That Thing You Do!' on The Hollywood Television Showcase, and break up the next day. (Hollywood, CA - That Thing You Do)
Monday 17th August: Oscar "Happy" Felsch dies. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Eight Men Out)
September: Alma Junior Del Mar, the first child, a daughter, of Ennis and Alma Del Mar, is born. (Riverton, Wyoming. - Brokeback Mountain)
Wednesday 14th October: Nikita Khrushchev is ousted as both premier of the Soviet Union and chief of the Communist Party. (Enemy at the Gates)
Thursday 15th October: Cole Porter dies. (De-lovely)
December: Simon Birch saves a busload of kids when the bus goes into a river, but at the cost of his own life. (Maine - Simon Birch)