The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
Dan Thompkins is born. (Jeff, Who Lives at Home)
'When Worlds Collide' premieres. (LA Confidential)
A blacklisted Hollywood writer moves to a small town. (The Majestic)
Jonathan Kent is born. (Smallville, Kansas - Man of Steel)
John and Julia are photographed. (Liverpool, England - Nowhere Boy)
Kal-El arrives from Krypton. (Smallville, Kansas - Superman)
Superman's rocket lands on Earth (Kansas - Superman)
A group of Air Force personnel fight and defeat an alien found frozen in ice. (The North Pole - The Thing From Another World)
Tommy witnesses his father's murder and becomes blind, deaf and dumb from the trauma. (England - Tommy)
Marie Ellen Dodge is born. (Dallas, Texas - X-Men: Days of Future Past)
Wednesday 14th February: Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Jake LaMotta for the middleweight boxing championship after LaMotta refuses to fall; finally, in the 13th round, the referee stops the contest - Robinson wins. (Chicago Stadium, IL - Raging Bull)
Tuesday 6th March: The Rosenberg trial begins. (New York - Citizen Cohn)
Thursday 8th March: Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck are executed by the electric chair for multiple murder. (Sing Sing Prison - The Honeymoon Killers)
Thursday 8th March: Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, the Lonely Hearts Killers, are executed in the electric chair for the murder of Janet Fay. (Sing Sing prison - Lonely Hearts)
Sunday 25th March: Eddie Collins dies. (Boston, Massachusetts - Eight Men Out)
April: Andy does tax returns for all of the guards and the warden. (The Shawshank Redemption)
Wednesday 11th April: US President Harry S Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of command of the US forces in Korea. (MacArthur)
Tuesday 29th May: Fanny Brice dies of a cerebral hemorrhage. (Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California - Funny Girl)
Thursday 14th June: Benjamin L. Willard marries Janet Anderson. (Seoul, Korea - Apocalypse Now)
Wednesday 18th July: Klaatu arrives on Earth with Gort and a cautionary message to halt experiments with violence, atomic energy, and space travel. (Washington DC - The Day the Earth Stood Still)
Thursday 6th September: Maverick is in a picture with his dad (Top Gun)
Wednesday 3rd October: When Sonny approaches the toll booth on the causeway, Russ Hodges is heard, albeit very briefly, broadcasting Bobby Thomson's at bat in the 9th inning of game 3 of the three-game playoff between Brooklyn and NY. broadcast on October 3, 1951. (New York, NY - The Godfather)
Wednesday 5th December: "Shoeless" Joe Jackson dies. (Greenville, South Carolina - Eight Men Out)
Howard Hunt is connected to the Eisenhower campaign. (All the President's Men)
Billy Weber gets sick after drinking. (American Graffiti)
Gloria is born. (Away We Go)
The Hudon Hornet has a record breaking 27 wins and also wins the Piston Cup. (Cars)
Ray Kinsella born. (New York - Field of Dreams)
Ray Kinsella born. (Field of Dreams)
Michael Corleone assumes control of family business interests. (The Godfather)
Walt Kowalski fights in the Korean War. (Gran Torino)
Hannibal escapes from Lecter Castle, converted into an orphanage, and makes his way to France where he begins his quest for revenge. (Lithuania - Hannibal Rising)
Hickory Huskers shock Muncie to win Indiana High School basketball title. (Indiana - Hoosiers)
Hickory Huskers shock South Bend Central to win Indiana High School basketball title. (Butler Fieldhouse - Indianapolis - Hoosiers)
Ella Hirsch wears a particular pair of shoes, presumably as she gets married to husband Ira. (In Her Shoes)
The new LAPD facility begins construction at the Parker Center. (Los Angeles, CA - LA Confidential)
Jedidiah Sawyer receives a chainsaw for his birthday but is unable to kill a thief in front of his family. Grandpa Sawyer kills the man instead with a hammer. (Newt, Texas - Leatherface)
Emma Friehl is born. (A Lot Like Love)
A medical breakthrough means that human lifespan now typically exceeds 100 years. (Never Let Me Go)
The Tablet of Ashkmenrah arrives at the Museum of Natural History, causing everything in the museum to come to life. (New York - Night at the Museum)
Tovar & Sons Receiving is established. (Night of the Living Dead 3D)
People start performing a ritual called the virgin sacrifice. (Del Mar, California - Psycho Beach Party)
The Quiet American. (Saigon - The Quiet American)
Ray Charles records Mess-Around. (Ray)
Lillian Crabtree dies. (Louisville, Kentucky - The Return of the Living Dead)
The deadly VX nerve gas accidentally discovered. (The Rock)
Cry The Beloved Country is released. (Six Degrees of Separation)
Undercover FBI agent Freeman Heller is shot & killed by mafioso Primo Sparazza. Sparazza then undergoes a series of plastic surgeries. (Las Vegas, Nv - Smokin' Aces)
Dom Perignon champagne is produced. (The Spy Who Loved Me)
Johnny Cash posted in the military. (Landsberg, Germany - Walk the Line)
Senator Joseph McCarthy continues his witch-hunts. (Walk the Line)
Friday 4th January: Ernesto Guevara de la Serna finishes his medical exams. (Argentina - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Sunday 27th January: Amid celebration of the Chinese New Year, the body of a young American is found face down in the muddy banks of the Saigon River along with that of his dog. His murderers are unknown. (Saigon, Vietnam - The Quiet American)
Tuesday 29th January: 1809km in to their cross-continent motorcycle journey, Ernesto Guevara and Alberto Granado continue their journey after seeing Ernesto's lady-friend Chichina. (Piedra del Aguila, Argentina - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Saturday 2nd February: 2270km into their motorcycle journey, Ernesto and Alberto catch a duck. (Estacion de Tren de Bariloche, Argentina - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Friday 15th February: 2306km into their motorcycle journey, Ernesto and Alberto cross into Chile. (Lago Frias, Argentina - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Monday 18th February: Ernesto and Alberto are 2772km into their motorcycle journey. (Temugo, Chile - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Thursday 21st February: Mary Ann Boyd is born. (Halifax, Nova Scotia - Argo)
Sunday 24th February: John Donaghy, father of Amelia Donaghy, born. (Brooklyn, NY - The Bone Collector)
Tuesday 11th March: Ernesto and Alberto lose their motorcycle at the desert, 4960km into their trek across South America. (The Atagama Desert, Chile - The Motorcycle Diaries)