The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
June: A fourteenth civil rights protester dies 4 1/2 months after thirteen others are killed by British paratroopers. (Derry, Northern Ireland - Bloody Sunday)
June: Class of 1972 graduates. (Boston, MA - Good Will Hunting)
Saturday 17th June: The break-in at the Democratic National Committee occurs. (All the President's Men)
Saturday 17th June: Forrest witnesses the Watergate break-in and facilitates the burglars' arrest. (Washington, D.C. - Forrest Gump)
Wednesday 28th June: U.S. President Nixon announces that no more draftees will be sent to Vietnam unless they volunteer for such duty. (Nixon)
July: Theatre Monthly prints an article entitled 'Elise McKenna: The Final Years'. (Somewhere In Time)
Monday 24th July: Story in the New York Times published about calls to the GOP offices linked to Watergate. (All the President's Men)
August: The Washington Post publishes the Dahlberg story. (All the President's Men)
Friday 4th August: Dictator Idi Amin gives Uganda's 50,000 Asians 90 days to leave the country thanks to a dream. (Uganda - The Last King of Scotland)
Tuesday 22nd August: A bank robbery to afford a transexual operation becomes a siege. (Dog Day Afternoon)
September: The Washington Post publishes the Mitchell story. (All the President's Men)
Monday 4th September: The Five Heartbeats perform with Flash as their new lead singer and Eddie King makes an impromptu visit after the show. (Beacon Theatre New York City - The Five Heartbeats)
Tuesday 5th September: Palestinian terrorists storm the Olympic Village apartment of the Israeli athletes killing two and taking nine others hostage. (Munich, West Germany - Munich)
October: The Washington Post learns Ken Clawson is alleged to have written the Canuck letter. (All the President's Men)
Thursday 5th October: Artist/Poet Chrsity Brown marries Mary Carr. (County Kerry, Ireland - My Left Foot)
Wednesday 25th October: The White House orders a suspension of bombing above the 20th parallel as a signal of U.S. approval of recent North Vietnamese concessions at the secret peace talks in Paris. (Nixon)
Friday 17th November: Wealthy socialite Barbara Baekeland is stabbed to death with a kitchen knife by her 25-year-old son, Antony, in her penthouse. (London, England - Savage Grace)
December: Derek Huff is born. (Sacramento, CA - Step Brothers)
Saturday 9th December: Louella Parsons dies of arteriosclerosis. (Santa Monica, California - The Cat's Meow )
Tuesday 12th December: Teena Brandon born. (Lincoln, Nebraska - Boys Don't Cry)
Tuesday 12th December: Teena Brandon born. (Lincoln, Nebraska - Boys Don't Cry)
Monday 18th December: Following the breakdown of peace talks with North Vietnam just a few days earlier, President Richard Nixon announces the beginning of a massive bombing campaign to break the stalemate. For nearly two weeks, American bombers pounded North Vietnam. (Nixon)
Tuesday 26th December: Former U.S. President Harry S. Truman dies. (Independence, Missouri - Truman)
Sunday 31st December: Forrest Gump celebrates New Year in New York. (New York - Forrest Gump)
William Miller and Penny Lane go on tour with Stillwater. (New York - Almost Famous)
Sam "Ace" Rothstein begins running a casino. (Las Vegas - Casino)
Dante Hicks poos his pants because the seat to his potty is down and he refuses to lift it. (Clerks)
Caesar's ape parents are killed by humans, and the caretaker hides him in a circus. (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)
Deena Jones and The Dreams have another No 1 hit record, called 'In Touch'. (Dreamgirls)
'73 Oldsmobile is made. (The Evil Dead)
Ashley J. Williams is born. (Michigan - The Evil Dead)
Terence Mann gives his last interview, saying that his one regret was that he would have loved to have played with the Chicago White Sox. (Field of Dreams)
Gloria Mundy is unknowningly given information about an upcoming assassination attempt on Pope Pius XIII. (San Francisco, CA - Foul Play)
The first commercial smokeless air flight. (The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard)
Future suspected paedophile Jeff Kohlver is born. (Hard Candy)
The Ice Storm. (The Ice Storm)
The Saudi Arabian oil embargo begins. (The Kingdom)
A road map is printed. (Texas - Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III)
Astronauts travel 3000 years into the future and bring back talking apes, who are killed by the police and the investigation files sealed. (Planet of the Apes (1968))
Danny Donahue is born. (Los Angeles, CA - Role Models)
Amanda Young is born. (Saw II)
Dan Freeman launches black nationalist guerrilla war in Chicago using tactics learned in CIA training. (Chicago - The Spook Who Sat by the Door)
Princess Daisy is hatched and raised at St Teresa's. (Brooklyn, New York - Super Mario Bros.)
Chop Top is in Vietnam. (Vietnam - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2)
Monday 1st January: 12:01am - The Poseidon, a luxury liner on its last voyage from Athens to New York, is struck by a 90ft tidal wave and capsizes. (The Poseidon Adventure)
Saturday 6th January: A Mercedes-Benz 770K sedan, supposedly Adolf Hitler's parade car, was sold at auction for $153,000.00, the most money ever paid for a car at auction at that time. (The Boys from Brazil)
Wednesday 10th January: Ottilio Panza us born. (The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day)
Thursday 11th January: Howard Hunt pleads guilty to three counts of conspiracy. (All the President's Men)
Monday 15th January: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon suspends military action in North Vietnam giving peace talks between his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, and North Vietnamese leader Le Duc Tho a chance to succeed. (Nixon)
Monday 22nd January: Samantha Blackwell is born. (The Reaping)
Tuesday 23rd January: President Nixon announces that Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho have initialled a peace agreement in Paris "to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam and Southeast Asia." (Nixon)
Tuesday 13th March: A German adaptation of The Scarlet Letter is broadcasted. (West Germany - Easy A)
Thursday 15th March: George McFly wins a writing award, or is killed, depending on the timeline. (Hill Valley, CA - Back to the Future Part II)
Thursday 15th March: President Nixon hints that the United States might intervene again in Vietnam to prevent communist violations of the truce. (Nixon)
May: Travis Bickle receives an honorable discharge from the Marines. (Taxi Driver)
June: Mossad debriefs a killer it may or may not have hired. (Munich)
Wednesday 13th June: Kissinger and Le Duc Tho sign new peace agreement. (Kissinger and Nixon )
Sunday 24th June: Eamon de Valera resigns as President of Ireland at the age of 90. (Ireland - Michael Collins)
Friday 20th July: Bruce Lee, the greatest martial artist ever, dies of a cerebral edema. (Hong Kong - Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story)
Monday 23rd July: Eddie Rickenbacker dies. (Zurich, Switzerland - Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, The )