The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Thursday 29th November: H.I. McDunnough first meets his future wife, the little desert flower Ed -- short for Edwinna -- at the county lock-up in Tempe, Arizona. (Maricopa County Maximum Security Correctional Facility for Men, - Raising Arizona)
Friday 30th November: A Pink Floyd album called The Wall is released. (The Squid and the Whale)
Monday 3rd December: Sean Parker is born. (The Social Network)
Monday 31st December: At Jack Horner's party, cameraman Scotty J makes a failed pass at porn-star Dirk Diggler; Little Bill kills his wife and her lover. (Boogie Nights)
Ray Finkle graduates with honors from Stetson University holding 2 NCAA Div I kicking records, one for most points in a season & the other for distance. (Deland, Fl - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective)
Air passengers are trapped after the pilot, co-pilot and navigator pass out due to poisoned food. (Airplane)
Lillian Hobson becomes Arthur Bach's nanny around this time. (Arthur)
Ten year-old Alyssa Jones falls on a fence-post, breaking her hymen. (Chasing Amy)
During summer, Mark Ratner buys $40 worth of film from a girl at the photo mech and never talks to her again. (Ridgemont, CA - Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
USS Nimitz disappears through a temporal vortex, manifesting itself as a storm. (The Final Countdown)
Michael Myers is born. (Haddonfield, Illinois - Halloween (2007))
Uncle Derek, a sergeant from Met, gives his nephew Nicholas Angel a police pedal car. (England - Hot Fuzz)
Facing financial troubles, Jane, Elaine, and Louise steal money from the Valley River Center shopping mall. (Oregon - How to Beat the High Co$t of Living)
Anthony Cortino marries Diane, and arranges a lot of deaths on the same day. (Jane Austen's Mafia!)
A future simulation is based on what Crystal Lake was like during this year. (Jason X)
Bill Django gives the New Earth Army Presentation. (Fort Bragg, North Carolina - The Men Who Stare at Goats)
Don Emerson meets his future wife Sally. They go out on their first date. (Houston, Texas - Paper Heart)
Special Agent Will Graham arrests Hannibal Lector for killing people to eat their body parts. (Baltimore, MD - Red Dragon)
Apollo Creed an announcer. (Rocky IV)
An accountant pays the Balboas' income taxes. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Rocky V)
Cuban refugee Tony Montana arrives in the U.S. and is detained with thousands of others at Mariel Harbor. (Miami, Fl - Scarface)
Nobody goes inside "Your-Self Storage" unit 31 after it is leased for 10 years under the name Hester Mofet. (Baltimore, MD - The Silence of the Lambs)
Richard Collier hypnotises himself in an attempt to travel back in time. (Somewhere In Time)
Playwright Richard Collier hypnotises himself back in time to 1912. (Somewhere In Time)
Superman throws a terrorist bomb from the Eiffel Tower into space, freeing General Zod from his glass prison. (Superman II)
The Thing assimilates Norwegian and American science teams. (The Thing)
Rick Masters starts going to the gym 3-4 times a week. (Los Angeles, California - To Live and Die in LA)
Kira, a muse, insipres Sonny to transform an old Auditorium into a roller disco rink. (Xanadu)
Tuesday 1st January: Alan Abel dies of a heart attack on a ski trip. He gets better. (Sundance, Utah - Abel Raises Cain)
Tuesday 1st January: At Molly's parents' house, Molly's dad shows Molly and Will's son Josh how to carve a chicken. (Red Dragon)
Friday 15th February: Lillian Hellman files a lawsuit claming $2.2 million in damages against novelist Mary McCarthy for libel. (Dash and Lilly )
Friday 22nd February: US Men's Hockey team of amateur and collegiate players beats USSR no.1 team, is dubbed the 'Miracle On Ice' and goes on to win Olympic gold. (Miracle)
April: Benjamin Raspail refers Dr. Lecter to Jame Gumb around this time. (Baltimore, MD - The Silence of the Lambs)
Sunday 6th April: Congressman Charlie Wilson, while soaking in a hot tub with a bunch of strippers, sees a report about the war in Afghanistan on TV. (Las Vegas - Charlie Wilson's War)
Monday 7th April: Congressman Charlie Wilson doubles the Defense Subcommittee's budget for covert ops against the Communists in Afghanistan. (Washington, D.C. - Charlie Wilson's War)
Friday 11th April: Socialite Joanne Herring convinces congressman Charlie Wilson to help the Afghani people against the Soviets and meet with the Pakistani president. (Houston, Texas - Charlie Wilson's War)
Sunday 20th April: The Castro regime announces that all Cubans wishing to emigrate to the U.S. are free to board boats at the port of Mariel west of Havana, launching the Mariel Boatlift. The first of 125,000 Cuban refugees from Mariel reached Florida the next day. (Port of Mariel, Cuba - Scarface)
May: Benjamin Raspail refers Dr. Lecter to Jame Gumb around this time. (Baltimore, MD - The Silence of the Lambs)
Monday 5th May: J-21, RT-42 and Single-0 land on Mars. (Mars - Just Imagine)
Friday 9th May: J-21, RT-42 and Single-0 take off from Mars. (Mars - Just Imagine)
Sunday 18th May: Joy Division singer Ian Curtis found hanged from apparent suicide in his flat, aged 26. (Manchester, England - 24 Hour Party People)
Sunday 18th May: Mount St. Helens erupts, causing a massive avalanche and killing 57 people. (96 miles south of Seattle, Washington - Mount St. Helens)
June: Llewelyn Moss steals 2 million dollars from drug smugglers who were killed when the deal went bad. (Texas - No Country For Old Men)
Friday 6th June: Urban Cowboy, a movie starring John Travolta, is released. (The Wedding Singer)
Friday 13th June: Pamela Voorhees kills numerous people at Camp Crystal Lake, a summer camp for children, while it is being renovated. (Camp Crystal Lake, Crystal Lake - Friday The 13th)
Friday 13th June: Jason Voorhees witnesses his mother getting beheaded by a camp counselor. (Crystal Lake, New Jersey - Friday the 13th (2009))
Saturday 14th June: Mrs Voorhees is decapitated in the early hours by the only survivor of her murderous rampage. (Friday The 13th)
Thursday 31st July: Harry Potter born. (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
Monday 11th August: Cuban refugees of Cuba begin rioting in "Freedom Town" and Tony Montana earns his green card and a job by killing Rubenga. (Miami, Florida - Scarface)
September: Mark David Chapman imagines shooting people and reads The Catcher in the Rye. (Honolulu, Hawaii - The Killing of John Lennon)
Monday 1st September: Elwood Blues is caught hitch-hiking. (Interstate Highway - Blues Brothers 2000)
Monday 1st September: J-21, RT-42 and Single-0 arrive at the New York State Marriange Tribunal with a captive Martian as proof that they have been to Mars. (New York, NY - Just Imagine)
Monday 1st September: The New York State Marriage Tribunal decides in favor of J-21's intentiona of marriage to LN-18 over that of MT-3. (New York, NY - Just Imagine)
Monday 1st September: Single-0 reunites with his son. (New York, NY - Just Imagine)
October: Mark David Chapman goes to New York in search of John Lennon. (New York City, New York - The Killing of John Lennon)
Saturday 18th October: People write their names on a sign-in sheet at 444 Nahua. (Honolulu, Hawaii - The Killing of John Lennon)
Sunday 19th October: People write their names on a sign-in sheet at 444 Nahua. (Honolulu, Hawaii - The Killing of John Lennon)
Monday 20th October: Mark Chapman signs his name on a sign-in sheet at 444 Nahua. (Honolulu, Hawaii - The Killing of John Lennon)
Tuesday 21st October: Someone's name is written on a sign-in sheet at 444 Nahua. (Honolulu, Hawaii - The Killing of John Lennon)
Wednesday 22nd October: Someone's name is written on a sign-in sheet at 444 Nahua. (Honolulu, Hawaii - The Killing of John Lennon)