The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Sunday 7th April: Zombie apocalypse begins as living dead begin to rise and devour the flesh of the living. . (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Night of the Living Dead)
Saturday 13th April: Kate Mosley is born. (Picture Perfect)
Tuesday 16th April: Edna Ferber dies. (New York City - Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle)
Saturday 1st June: Helen Keller dies. (Westport, Connecticut - The Miracle Worker)
Sunday 2nd June: Lorenzo Carcaterra released from the Wilkinson Home for Boys. (Sleepers)
Monday 3rd June: Andy Warhol shot by Valeria Solanas. (Bobby)
Monday 3rd June: Le Duc Tho, a member of the North Vietnam Communist Party's Politburo, joins the North Vietnamese negotiating team as a special counsellor. (Paris, France - Kissinger and Nixon )
Tuesday 4th June: Presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy awaits primary results; Diane Huber marries William Avery to prevent him going to Vietnam; Paul Ebbers sacks Timmons and has his affair with Angela discovered by wife Miriam. (Ambassador Hotel, LA - Bobby)
Wednesday 5th June: Robert F Kennedy wins the California Presidential Primary, and is shot after delivering his victory speech. (Bobby)
Wednesday 5th June: Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, after winning the California presidential primary. (Los Angeles, California - Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War)
Thursday 6th June: Presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy dies in hospital. (Los Angeles - Bobby)
Saturday 8th June: Robert F. Kennedy is buried. (Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia - Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis )
Saturday 15th June: Eddie King is a no show for a performance and the rest of the group calls him on it the next day. (Uptown Theatre Philadelphia, PA - The Five Heartbeats)
July: Virginia Fallon plays a series of shows. (Las Vegas - Bobby)
Sunday 7th July: Llewelyn Moss goes on 2nd tour to Vietnam. (No Country For Old Men)
Saturday 13th July: Governor Nelson Rockefeller of New York reveals a four-stage peace plan that, he argues, could end the war in six months if North Vietnam assented to it. (Nixon)
Tuesday 23rd July: Nicholas Easter is born. (United States - Runaway Jury)
Wednesday 24th July: Gertrude Steiney is born. (Jersey Girl)
Thursday 5th September: Dr. Robert Morgan looks for a new mirror to keep vampires away. (The Last Man on Earth)
Friday 6th September: Vampires follow Dr. Morgan from the church to his house and they damage his car at night. (The Last Man on Earth)
Saturday 7th September: Dr. Morgan sees a dog and chases after it. (The Last Man on Earth)
Tuesday 5th November: Richard Nixon elected U.S. President. (Nixon)
Sunday 10th November: Death of James Lister in the Bailey scandal, pushing Noodles out of retirement towards murder. (Once Upon a Time in America)
Thursday 28th November: Thanksgiving: Young Eddie Murphy stuns his gathered family with a joke about a monkey that tells a lion he can change the weather. (Eddie Murphy Raw)
December: The Doors record "Touch Me". (Los Angeles, California - The Doors)
Tuesday 24th December: Frank Cross meets Claire Phillips for the first time. (Scrooged)
Wednesday 25th December: Clyde Northcutt doesn't receive a Superman cape from Santa for Christmas. (Fred Claus)
Ted Kennedy suffers an accident. (Chappaquiddick - All the President's Men)
Young William Miller's sister leaves, and William goes on the road with rock band, Still Water. (Almost Famous)
In summer, Noah Levenstein and his friends go on a trip to meet women who are willing to have sex for Jimi Hendrix LPs, meeting a hooker who tells them about a book that shows sex techniques. Noah writes a Book of Love that he calls The Bible. (American Pie Presents: The Book of Love)
Donald "Boon" Schoenstein and his girlfriend Katy divorce. (Animal House)
Dr Evil steals Austin Powers' mojo and tries to destroy Washington with a laser on the moon, before going to 2003. (Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me)
Maddy Bowen's father returns from the Vietnam War. (Blood Diamond)
Fighter pilot T. J. Kong destroys entire world in vast nuclear annihilation. (Laputa, Russia - Dr. Strangelove)
Dr. Freund becomes a professor of another medical subject. (Drag Me To Hell)
An unseen force pulls a boy to hell. (Pasadena, California - Drag Me To Hell)
Deena Jones and The Dreams have a No 1 hit record. (Dreamgirls)
Two bikers take a cross country odyssey from Califirona to Mardi Gras. (America - Easy Rider)
F.F.Fox is Whack Bat Most Valuable Player of the Fox-Years of '69 and '69 1/2. (Fantastic Mr. Fox)
James Bond marries Tracy di Vicenzo, though Tracy is killed by Blofeld almost immediately. (For Your Eyes Only)
Smoking is aloud on air flights. (The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard)
A group of special forces slip over the border from South Vietnam into North Vietnam and kidnap a top Vietnamese general. (North Vietnam - Green Berets)
Gryffindor Quiditch team player R.J.H. King wins an award. (Hogwarts - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
Alex M. Kintner is born. (Amity Island - Jaws)
Jim Garrison prosecutes Clay Shaw for conspiracy in the JFK assassination; Shaw is found not guilty. (New Orleans, Louisiana - JFK)
Alan Parrish digs up the 'Jumanji' board-game; begins playing with Sarah Whittle but mysteriously disappears. (nr Brantford, New Hampshire - Jumanji)
Pope Paul VI eliminates the feast day of St. Nicholas, making it an optional celebration instead. (Miracle on 34th Street)
Nancy Parker is born. (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4)
Man lands on the Moon. World Population - 3.6 Billion. (Pandorum)
This year is written on a football. (Alexandria, Virginia - Remember the Titans)
A chemical spill at the VA hospital brings corpses to life. (nr Pittsburgh - The Return of the Living Dead)
Rocky gets a locker at the gym. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Rocky)
Wendy Savage is born. (The Savages)
Lloyd Dobler is born. (Seattle, Washington - Say Anything...)
Brennan Huff is born. (Sacramento, CA - Step Brothers)
The story of Tropic Thunder takes place in winter. (South East Vietnam - Tropic Thunder)
Withnail and his friend, two resting actors, leave for a break in the country. (London - Withnail & I)
Monday 20th January: Richard M. Nixon inaugurated as 37th President of the United States. (Washington, DC - Nixon)
February: Joan and Bernard Berkman see A bout de souffle at the Thalia Theatre with the Dicksteins. (New York City - The Squid and the Whale)
Monday 3rd March: The United States Navy establishes an elite school for the top one percent of pilots. (Top Gun)