The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Friday 25th July: Life magazine headline: "LEAVING FOR THE MOON." (New York City, New York - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
Wednesday 30th July: U.S. President Nixon visits South Vietnam. (Nixon)
August: James Bond foils Blofeld's plot. He marries Tracy di Vicenzo, who is then shot to death by Blofeld and Bunt. (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
Sunday 3rd August: Gebruder Gumbold writes a letter to Blofeld. (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)
Monday 4th August: Deke DaSilva is drafted into the army and volunteers for airborne school. (New York City, New York - Nighthawks)
Monday 18th August: Jimi Hendrix headlines the Woodstock Festival. His rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" earns critical praise. (Bethel, New York - Woodstock)
Thursday 21st August: Jason Bourne is born. (USA - The Bourne Identity)
Wednesday 3rd September: Walt Berkman is born. (Brooklyn, New York - The Squid and the Whale)
Monday 15th September: Terukichi Ichioka, head of the Ichioka family, learns of the Matsumura-Makihara alliance and returns to Hiroshima to stir up trouble and regain the initiative. He is gunned down by Matsumura henchmen after a brief chase and gun battle. (Hiroshima, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode)
Tuesday 16th September: Former Tensei Vice Chairman, Katsutoshi Otomo, is arrested when he walks out of his headquarters recklessly brandishing two pistols and heads straight into a mob of police officers; he is sentenced to six years. (Kure, Japan - The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode)
Saturday 27th September: Another couple fall victim to the Zodiac killer. (Zodiac)
Wednesday 1st October: Ethan Tremblay is born. (Due Date)
Thursday 2nd October: With "91 days to the end of the decade," Withnail gets high with Danny and Presuming Ed. Withnail's friend secures a lead role in a play. (London, England - Withnail & I)
Friday 10th October: Aurora Borealis causes Frank Sullivan to talk to his son John in 1999 via a ham radio. (Frequency)
Saturday 11th October: A taxi driver is shot and killed, supposedly by the Zodiac killer. (San Francisco - Zodiac)
Monday 13th October: A blood-stained shirt is sent to The San Francisco Chronicle. (Zodiac)
Friday 31st October: Sally Shine, Caroline Crossin, Gilbert Lundin, Emmaline Partridge, and Duey Todd, the 5 innocent humans on the 8.00pm Elevator travelling to the Hollywood Tower Hotel's TIP TOP CLUB, die after elvator malfunctions and a lightning strike. (Hollywood Tower Hotel - Tower of Terror)
November: The Zodiac Killer vows to never give advance notice when he kills again. (Zodiac)
Monday 3rd November: Richard Nixon goes on television and radio to call for national solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to gather support for his policies. (Nixon)
Thursday 6th November: Noah brings The Bible to the East Great Falls High School library so that other hapless virgins may read it. (East Great Falls, Michigan - American Pie Presents: The Book of Love)
Sunday 23rd November: Todd Howard is born. (Teen Wolf Too)
Thursday 4th December: A man is born. (The Bourne Identity)
Monday 8th December: Richard Nixon says that the Vietnam War is coming to a "conclusion as a result of the plan that we have instituted." (Nixon)
Monday 15th December: Simmon Arroti returns the book. (East Great Falls, Michigan - American Pie Presents: The Book of Love)
Monday 15th December: President Richard Nixon announces that 50,000 additional U.S. troops will be pulled out of South Vietnam by April 15, 1970. (Nixon)
Wednesday 24th December: Carl Hanratty comes to Marseilles to begin extradition of Frank Abangale Jr. (Marseilles, France - Catch Me If You Can)
Wednesday 31st December: Brian Slade steals Oscar Wilde's pin from Jack Fairy at the Sombrero Club; Brian and Mandy meet for the first time. (London, England - Velvet Goldmine)
Howard Hunt ends work for the CIA. (All the President's Men)
Scoop VII returns to Earth after being struck with a mircometeorite, bringing the Andromeda strain with it, which kills all but two people in the town. (Pedmount. Arizona - The Andromeda Strain)
Apollo Missions 18, 19, and 20 were canceled due to budgetary concerns. (Apollo 18)
Dr Malcolm Sayer comes to Bainbridge Hospital and begins prescribing L-Dopa therapy, causing brief "awakenings" for post-encephalitic patients. (New York - Awakenings)
An agent of Michael X gets compromising (and embarrassing) photos of Princess Margeret. (The Caribbean - The Bank Job)
Billy Edward Lenz is born with a rare medical condition that gives him yellow skin. (Black Christmas)
Dahlia is sent to Geneva. (Geneva, Switzerland - Black Sunday)
Farrokh Bulsara (later to be called Freddie Mercury), a baggage handler at Heathrow Airport, sees then joins the band Smile. (London, England - Bohemian Rhapsody)
Ronny Valentine is born. (Chicago, Illinois - The Dilemma)
Jim Morrison goes to court with the charges of simulated masturbation, public drunkedness, profanity, and public exposure. (Dade County Courthouse - The Doors)
Deena Jones and The Dreams have another No 1 hit record. (Dreamgirls)
F.F.Fox is Whack Bat Most Valuable Player of the Fox-Years '70 and '70 1/2. (Fantastic Mr. Fox)
Ourumov graduates from School of Applied Military Science and is then posted to Army advanced Missile Test Range. (Goldeneye)
Joel Millner meets Denise at the commune where she is staying, and convinces her to return to the music business. (Idyllwild - Grace of My Heart)
Alex, future game tester and creater of Demonik, is born. (Grandma's Boy)
Maggie is born. (Hall Pass)
Dr. Sam Loomis starts trying to get Michael Myers locked up. (Haddonfield, Illinois - Halloween)
Missy Egan is born. (Southport, North Carolina - I Know What You Did Last Summer)
Dr Nicholas Garrigan arrives from Scotland to help a Ugandan village - he becomes personal physician and main advisor to Idi Amin. (Uganda - The Last King of Scotland)
Tsimtsum is refitted. (Life of Pi)
Maggie Murdock is born. (Love and Other Drugs)
Mike Pomeroy starts working as a TV news journalist around this time. (Morning Glory)
Jimi Hendrix builds Electric Lady Studios. (New York City, New York - Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist)
Future teacher and pupil-seducer Sheba Hart is born. (Notes on a Scandal)
Tanks full of re-animated corpses are transported to Uneeda Medical Supply. (Louisville, Kentucky - The Return of the Living Dead)
Diane Court is born. (Seattle, Washington - Say Anything...)
Jackie Moon's song "Love Me Sexy" is a big hit. (Semi-Pro)
The fourth date of Celeste Talbert and Jeffrey Anderson, which results in Celeste getting pregnant and Jeffrey being written off the soap opera they both starred in. (Soapdish)
Edward Lionheart snubbed for the Critics' Circle Award, so attempts suicide. (London - Theatre of Blood)
Hans Glaub drops out of sight after making steroids for Russians for several years. (A View to a Kill)
Johnny Cash and June Carter have a son, John. (Walk the Line)
Carvin Wiggins gets a deed. (Georgia - Wanderlust)
Randolph Dupree and Carl Peterson born. (You, Me and Dupree)