The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
George W Bush is challenged by his father as to what career he should pursue. (W.)
Wednesday 6th January: The U.S. Army drops charges of an alleged cover-up in the My Lai massacre against four officers. After the charges were dropped, a total of 11 people had been cleared of responsibility during the My Lai trials. (Pinkville)
Tuesday 2nd February: Major General Idi Amin declares himself President of Uganda and Chief of the Armed Forces. (The Last King of Scotland)
Thursday 18th February: Private healthcare is introduced to the US by President Richard Nixon. (Sicko)
April: Raoul Duke and Dr Gonzo go on a drug-fuelled trip. (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
Thursday 15th April: David Webb - later to become spy Jason Bourne - is born. (Missouri - The Bourne Supremacy)
Saturday 15th May: After graduating from college, five friends take one last road trip to Mexico before saying goodbye. (Austin, Tezas - Fandango)
Wednesday 16th June: Amelia Donaghy born. (The Bone Collector)
Saturday 3rd July: Jim Morrison dies of heart failure, likely caused by a drug overdose. (Paris, France - The Doors)
Monday 26th July: Inspector William Armstrong traces the Zodiac Killer back to the school they suspect he worked at. (Zodiac)
Monday 26th July: Inspector William Armstrong traces the Zodiac killer back to a school janitor. (Zodiac)
Monday 2nd August: The Nixon administration officially acknowledges that the CIA is maintaining a force of 30,000 'irregulars' fighting the Communist Pathet Lao in Laos. (Nixon)
Wednesday 4th August: The police visit Arthur Leigh Allen in connection with the Zodiac killings. (Zodiac)
Sunday 15th August: Richard Nixon turns his attention away from the war in Vietnam and announces a sweeping series of economic initiatives, including a ninety-day freeze on wages and rents, as well as the end of America's twenty-five-year-old policy of converting foreign money into gold. (Nixon)
Saturday 4th September: First day of school. (Alexandria, Virginia - Remember the Titans)
Friday 12th November: Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972, as the deadline for the withdrawal of an additional 45,000 U.S. troops. (Nixon)
Thursday 23rd December: Jimmy Hoffa released from prison on the condition he not participate in union activities for 10 years. (Hoffa)
Friday 24th December: Frank Cross dumps Claire Phillips to pursue his career. (Scrooged)
A Uruguayan college rugby team's chartered airplane crashes deep in the icy mountains. (Andes - Alive)
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover Watergate. (Washington DC - All the President's Men)
Young Frankie Maguire witnesses the murder of his father. (Belfast, Ireland - The Devil's Own)
President Nixon hires Betsy Jobs and Arlene Lorenzo as dog walkers for Checkers. (The White House - Dick)
Deena Jones and The Dreams have another No 1 hit record. (Dreamgirls)
3 talking apes from the future travel back in time and land off the coast of California. (Los Angles, Ca. - Escape from the Planet of the Apes)
M.K.Silvery-Marmoset is Whack Bat Most Valuable Player of the Fox-Year of '72. (Fantastic Mr. Fox)
Jeff Spicoli starts getting stoned. (Ridgemont, CA - Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Moonlight Graham dies. (Field of Dreams)
Lts. Jake Grafton, and Virgil Cole, make an illegal bombing run over Hanoi. (Hanoi, North Vietnam - Flight of the Intruder)
Walt Kowalski gets his Gran Torino car. (Gran Torino)
Eileen and Frank get married. (Tipperary, Ireland - Leap Year)
Bill Django is shot by an enemy. (Bihn Duong Province, Vietnam - The Men Who Stare at Goats)
Bill gets lost in the New Age movement. (United States - The Men Who Stare at Goats)
A colonel visits the north pole on an expedition. (North Pole - Miracle on 34th Street)
11 Israeli athletes are killed at the Olympics by terrorists; a group of Mossad agents track down the Black September group responsible. (Munich - Munich)
Richard Nixon makes a state visit. (China - Nixon)
Astronaut Landon graduates college, as 'the golden boy'. (Planet of the Apes (1968))
Brigadier General Francis X Hummel fights in the Vietnam War. (Vietnam - The Rock)
Johnny Smalls, David Durango, and friends try to get a model rocket back from Mr.Myrtle's dog, Goliath, son of Hercules. (Sawyer Valley, California - The Sandlot 2)
Nixon wins by a landslide. (Timecop)
George W Bush drink-drives. (W.)
Monday 10th January: Former Vice President Hubert Humphrey criticizes President Richard Nixon, saying that it was taking longer for President Nixon to withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam than it did to defeat Hitler. (Nixon)
Thursday 13th January: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon announces that 70,000 U.S. troops will leave South Vietnam over the next three months, (Nixon)
Friday 14th January: Astronauts Dodge, Landon, Stewart, and Taylor leave Cape Kennedy aboard Liberty 1 and go through a Hasslein Curve. (Planet of the Apes (1968))
Sunday 30th January: Thirteen civil rights protesters are killed by British paratroopers during a non-violent protest march. (Derry, Northern Ireland - Bloody Sunday)
Sunday 13th February: Earl Malcolm Spellman is born. (Chicago, Illinois - Wanted)
Monday 21st February: President Richard Nixon takes a dramatic first step toward normalizing relations with the communist People's Republic of China (PRC) by traveling to Beijing for a week of talks. (Nixon)
Wednesday 1st March: John Mitchell begins his job as Nixon's campaign manager. (All the President's Men)
Wednesday 15th March: Earliest phone call made to the GOP from Watergate burglars. (All the President's Men)
Wednesday 15th March: Actor Edward Lionheart comes out of retirement and murders critic George Maxwell. (London - Theatre of Blood)
Monday 10th April: Date of incriminating cashiers check written out to Kenneth H Dahlberg. (All the President's Men)
Monday 10th April: Charlie Chaplin accepts an honorary Academy Award for his "incalculable" contribution to the art of filmmaking. (Los Angeles, California - Chaplin)
Monday 10th April: The U.S. table tennis team begins a weeklong visit to the People's Republic of China at the invitation of China's communist government. (Forrest Gump)
May: Richard Collier is given an old pocket-watch by an old woman who whispers "Come back to me". (Somewhere In Time)
Tuesday 2nd May: J. Edgar Hoover dies at his home. (Washington, D.C. - J. Edgar)
Tuesday 2nd May: FBI Director J Edgar Hoover dies. (The Rock)
Friday 5th May: J Edgar Hoover dies. (Washington DC - Nixon)
Thursday 11th May: Forrest Gump appears on the Dick Cavett show with John Lennon. lennons appearance on the dick cavett show was originally with yoko ono. forrest appeared on the show instead of yoko in the movie. original footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IALrFZTS1yM (dick cavett show - Forrest Gump)
Monday 15th May: George Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer. (Laurel, Maryland - George Wallace)
Friday 19th May: 'Too Much Spring' by Richard Collier opens; Elise McKenna visits him and presents him with a watch, before dying that same night. (Somewhere In Time)
Monday 22nd May: Richard Nixon arrives in Moscow for a summit with Soviet leaders. (Moscow - Nixon)