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Friday 9th August: Richard Nixon resigns; Gerald Ford sworn in. (All the President's Men)
Monday 26th August: Charles Lindbergh dies. (Maui, Hawaii - The Spirit of St. Louis)
Sunday 8th September: President Gerald Ford, who assumed office on the heels of President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation, pardons his predecessor for his involvement in the Watergate scandal. (Nixon)
October: Kate Reilly is a Playmate. (Tremors 2)
Saturday 5th October: A bomb destroys a pub killing 5 and seriously injuring 75 people. (Guildford, England - In the Name of the Father)
Wednesday 9th October: Oskar Shindler dies, and is taken for burial at the Latin Cemetery on Mount Zion, Jerusalem. (Frankfurt Germany - Schindler's List)
Friday 8th November: Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes being abducted by serial killer Ted Bundy. (Salt Lake City, Utah - Ted Bundy)
Sunday 10th November: Nyah Nordoff-Hall born. (Mission: Impossible 2)
Wednesday 13th November: Ronald DeFeo Jr massacres his parents, two brothers and two sisters - in his defense, the house told him to do it. (Amityville, New York - The Amityville Horror (2005))
Wednesday 13th November: A mother, father and four of their children murdered... No apparent motive. (Amityville, Long Island - The Amityville Horror)
Wednesday 13th November: Karen Silkwood is discovered dead in a single car accident. (Crescent, Oklahoma - Silkwood)
Thursday 14th November: An article about the DeFeo murders appears in the newspaper. (Amityville, Long Island - The Amityville Horror)
Wednesday 11th December: Drake Myers checks into Hotel Francis Duke. (Central City - Hotel for Dogs)
Noah Levenstein marries. (East Great Falls, Michigan - American Pie Presents: The Book of Love)
The Lutzes move into 112 Ocean Ave. (Amityville, New York - The Amityville Horror (2005))
The Amityville Horror. (The Amityville Horror)
Alvy Singer meets and begins a relationship with Annie Hall. (New York - Annie Hall)
Austin Powers arrives at Studio 69 from 2003 to rescue his father from Goldmember. (Los Angeles - Austin Powers in Goldmember)
Verona De Tessant is born. (Away We Go)
Louie hands Noah McManus over to the police. He is given a prison sentence of twenty-five years to life. (New York City - The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day)
Carlito's Way. (Carlito's Way)
A total eclipse of the sun happens, and Dolores St George's husband Joe falls down a dry well and is killed. (Maine - Dolores Claiborne)
Nicholas Angel is born. (England - Hot Fuzz)
Maggie Feller is born. (In Her Shoes)
Hanzo makes the last sword he ever plans to make, until The Bride appears 28 years later. (Kill Bill: Volume 1)
Dith Pran goes missing and Sam Waterston begins his search for him. (Cambodia - The Killing Fields)
Will Graham captures Hannibal Lecter, and nearly dies in the process. (Manhunter)
Kevin Graham is born. (Manhunter)
Sophie Fisher, future lyricist, is born. (Music and Lyrics)
Frank Herrera serves tours. (Panama - Runaway Jury)
Walt and his mom duck out of Julie Glynn's party to watch Robin Hood on TV. (New York City - The Squid and the Whale)
Starsky and Hutch team up to take down a drug dealer. (Starsky and Hutch)
Thursday 2nd January: John Mitchell, John Ehrlichman and Bob Haldeman are found guilty on all counts. (All the President's Men)
Wednesday 29th January: Pamela Farris checks into Hotel Francis Duke. (Central City - Hotel for Dogs)
Thursday 27th February: Private Todd Blackburn is born. (USA - Black Hawk Down)
March: The Earth's population - except Dr Robert Neville - is killed or turned into mutants by biological warfare between Russia and China. (The Omega Man)
Monday 3rd March: Bob Wilton is born. (Ann Arbor, Michigan - The Men Who Stare at Goats)
Thursday 13th March: Maurice Stans admits guilt to charge of illegal fundraising. (All the President's Men)
Sunday 23rd March: Jackie Moon sings at a bar's 'Free Gerbil Night'. (Semi-Pro)
Thursday 10th April: Josephine Bakes dies of a cerebral hemorrhage. (Paris, France - The Josephine Baker Story)
Monday 14th April: Karen Johnson checks into Hotel Francis Duke. (Central City - Hotel for Dogs)
Thursday 17th April: Year Zero, as Khmer Rouge troops enter Phnom Penh. (Cambodia - The Killing Fields)
Tuesday 3rd June: Ozzie Nelson dies of cancer. (Hollywood, California - Ricky Nelson: Original Teen Idol)
Saturday 28th June: Chrissie Watkins is killed by a shark while skinny-dipping. (Amity Island - Jaws)
Sunday 29th June: Alex M. Kintner is killed by a shark. (Amity Town Beach - Jaws)
Monday 30th June: A $3000 bounty is placed on the shark. (Amity Island - Jaws)
Tuesday 1st July: Michael Brody's birthday. (Amity Island - Jaws)
Wednesday 2nd July: A caught tiger shark is shown to the public but does not contain human remains. (Amity Island - Jaws)
Thursday 3rd July: Mayor Vaughn refuses to close the beach. (Amity Island - Jaws)
Friday 4th July: The 50th Annual Regatta is interrupted by a shark. (Amity Island - Jaws)
Saturday 5th July: Martin Brody and Matt Hooper sail with Quint in search of the shark. (Near Amity Island - Jaws)
Sunday 6th July: The search for the shark continues. (Near Amity Island - Jaws)
Monday 7th July: The shark damages the boat's hull. (Near Amity Island - Jaws)
Tuesday 8th July: Quint dies and the shark is blown up. (Near Amity Island - Jaws)
Thursday 17th July: The date on a picture of the Apollo-Soyuz U.S.-Soviet Space Link-up. (Black Christmas)
Wednesday 30th July: Jimmy Hoffa disappears. (Bloomfield Hills, MI - Hoffa)
August: Gloria gives birth to Burt Farlander in a bath tub surrounded by three firemen. (Away We Go)
Friday 22nd August: Marcus Wright is born. (Los Angeles, California - Terminator Salvation)
Friday 29th August: Eamon de Valera dies. (Dublin, Ireland - Michael Collins)
Tuesday 9th September: A student from East Great Falls has a sexual experience with Monique. (Canada - American Pie Presents: The Book of Love)