The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
1973 World Series takes place. (Moneyball)
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)
Monday 19th March: Yusef K. Hawkins is born. (Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn New York - Jungle Fever)
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 )
August: Students are seen outside of a university. (Beirut, Lebanon - Black Sunday)
Friday 17th August: Jeb Stuart Magruder pleads guilty to helping plan Watergate break-in. (All the President's Men)
Saturday 18th August: 5 people are terrorized after a woman kills herself in their van; they travel to the nearest town only to find a crazed man wielding a chainsaw. (Texas - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003))
Saturday 18th August: Five kids fallprey to a cannibalistic family. (TExas - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
Sunday 19th August: Sheriff Hooper arrives at the Sawyer house and asks Drayton Sawyer to bring Leatherface out. Burt Hartman leads townsfolk in burning down the Sawyer house with Bear Sawyer, Boss Sawyer, Drayton Sawyer, Grandpa Sawyer, and Loretta Sawyer inside. That night, Arlene and Gavin Miller find and keep Loretta's baby Edith Rose Sawyer. A picture of the arsonists is taken for the Newt Times newspaper. (Newt, Texas - Texas Chainsaw 3D)
Sunday 19th August: Sally Hardesty survives the Texas Chain Saw Massacre. (Texas - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
Monday 20th August: Police are dispatched to a remote farmhouse in Travis County where they find the butchered remains of 33 victims, killed by Leatherface. (Travis County, Texas - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003))
Wednesday 29th August: Bryan Spilner is born. (2 Fast 2 Furious)
Friday 5th October: The Mother and the Whore is released. (The Squid and the Whale)
Saturday 6th October: Yom Kippur War begins. (Ayam El-Sadat)
Saturday 20th October: Solicitor General Robert Bork dismisses Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox; Attorney General Richardson and Deputy Attorney General Ruckelshaus resign in protest. (Nixon)
Thursday 25th October: President Nixon vetoes the War Powers Resolution, which would limit presidential power to commit armed forces abroad without Congressional approval. (Nixon)
Monday 5th November: Donald Segretti is sentenced to six months in prison. (All the President's Men)
Friday 16th November: Richard Nixon declares that America’s energy requirements have outpaced its production capacity and urges Congress to pass Senate Bill 1081, which would authorize the construction of a pipeline to access oil from the North Slope of Alaska. (Nixon)
Saturday 17th November: Richard Nixon tells a group of newspaper editors that he is "not a crook." (Orlando, Florida - Nixon)
Sunday 25th November: Richard M. Nixon calls for a Sunday ban on the sale of gasoline to consumers. (Nixon)
Sunday 25th November: Richard M. Nixon calls for a Sunday ban on the sale of gasoline to consumers. (Nixon)
Thursday 6th December: Susie Salmon is murdered by her neighbour George Harvey. (Norristown, Pennsylvania - The Lovely Bones)
David Norris is born. (Brooklyn, New York - The Adjustment Bureau)
Greg Marmalard is raped in prison. (Animal House)
Jack Nicholson 1974. (United States - Billy Madison)
1974 Dodge Sedan is made. (The Blues Brothers)
Billy Brown poses for aphoto with his dog Bingo. (Buffalo 66 - Buffalo '66)
Robert Berman is born. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
A boy who later goes by the nickname "Windows" is born. (Fanboys)
Ray Kinsella marries Annie. (Field of Dreams)
Lieutenant Dan hashes it out with God, perched atop the mast of the shrimping boat "Jenny" during Hurricane Carmen. (Bayou Le Batre, Louisiana - Forrest Gump)
Lenore Case is born. (Los Angeles, California - The Green Hornet)
Anna Marks' mother meets Tim Buckley in a coffee shop. (He's Just Not That Into You)
A woman makes a wax sculpture in the kitchen while her son eats breakfast in his highchair. Her husband enters with another son who is shouting and kicking. The boy is forced into a highchair and strapped in place by his father. After being strapped and taped to his chair by his mother, he scratches her hand. She then slaps her child across the face. (Ambrose, Louisiana - House of Wax)
David Egan is born. (Southport, North Carolina - I Know What You Did Last Summer)
Howard Stark holds what would be the last Stark Expo for 34 years. (Queens, New York City, New York - Iron Man 2)
O-ren Ishii is born. (Kill Bill: Volume 1)
Darlene C. is born. (Santa Carla, California - The Lost Boys)
Suicidal folkist Mitch Cohen releases his first solo album, 'A Cry For Help'. (A Mighty Wind)
The imprisonment sentences of Frank Bailey, Clinton Pell, and Clayton Townley end. (Jessup County, Mississippi - Mississippi Burning)