The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive


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1969

Deena Jones and The Dreams have a No 1 hit record. (Dreamgirls)

Two bikers take a cross country odyssey from Califirona to Mardi Gras. (America - Easy Rider)

F.F.Fox is Whack Bat Most Valuable Player of the Fox-Years of '69 and '69 1/2. (Fantastic Mr. Fox)

James Bond marries Tracy di Vicenzo, though Tracy is killed by Blofeld almost immediately. (For Your Eyes Only)

Smoking is aloud on air flights. (The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard)

A group of special forces slip over the border from South Vietnam into North Vietnam and kidnap a top Vietnamese general. (North Vietnam - Green Berets)

Gryffindor Quiditch team player R.J.H. King wins an award. (Hogwarts - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)

Alex M. Kintner is born. (Amity Island - Jaws)

Jim Garrison prosecutes Clay Shaw for conspiracy in the JFK assassination; Shaw is found not guilty. (New Orleans, Louisiana - JFK)

Alan Parrish digs up the 'Jumanji' board-game; begins playing with Sarah Whittle but mysteriously disappears. (nr Brantford, New Hampshire - Jumanji)

Pope Paul VI eliminates the feast day of St. Nicholas, making it an optional celebration instead. (Miracle on 34th Street)

Bolinger wine is produced. (Moonraker)

Nancy Parker is born. (A Nightmare on Elm Street 4)

Jesse Hoover is born. (Offspring)

Man lands on the Moon. World Population - 3.6 Billion. (Pandorum)

Edward Bailey receives a pipe for a wedding anniversary either this year or the previous. (Red 2)

This year is written on a football. (Alexandria, Virginia - Remember the Titans)

A chemical spill at the VA hospital brings corpses to life. (nr Pittsburgh - The Return of the Living Dead)

Raymond Sellars is born. (Detroit, Michigan - RoboCop)

Erik Milbrandt is born. (RoboCop)

Rocky gets a locker at the gym. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Rocky)

Wendy Savage is born. (The Savages)

Lloyd Dobler is born. (Seattle, Washington - Say Anything...)

Walter Mitty's father dies on a Tuesday. He gets a haircut and a job on Thursday. (New York City, New York - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

Brennan Huff is born. (Sacramento, CA - Step Brothers)

Dreyton Sawyer is born. (Newt, Texas - Texas Chainsaw 3D)

The story of Tropic Thunder takes place in winter. (South East Vietnam - Tropic Thunder)

Withnail and his friend, two resting actors, leave for a break in the country. (London - Withnail & I)

Monday 20th January: Richard M. Nixon inaugurated as 37th President of the United States. (Washington, DC - Nixon)

February: Joan and Bernard Berkman see A bout de souffle at the Thalia Theatre with the Dicksteins. (New York City - The Squid and the Whale)

Monday 3rd March: The United States Navy establishes an elite school for the top one percent of pilots. (Top Gun)

Wednesday 5th March: Jim Morrison is charged with lewd behavior at a concert. (Miami, Florida - The Doors)

Friday 4th April: Ted and Joanna Kramer marry. (Kramer vs Kramer)

Monday 7th April: Ruth Wilson is wanted by the FBI for unlawful flight and manslaughter. (Lesburg, Florida - Ferris Bueller's Day Off)

Monday 5th May: Eddie Cicotte dies. (Detroit, Michigan - Eight Men Out)

Thursday 8th May: The date that a teenager one day claims to have been born in order to drink at a pub. (Sandford, Gloucestershire - Hot Fuzz)

Sunday 11th May: The 101 Airbourn, 187th infantry, and the B company, 3rd battalion fight the Vietnamese. (Ashau Valley, Vietnam - Hamburger Hill)

Tuesday 20th May: American troops leave Hamburger Hill with huge losses from Vietnamese bullet fire. (Ashau Valley, Vietnam - Hamburger Hill)

Friday 30th May: Nguyen Van Thieu vows never to agree to a coalition government. (Kissinger and Nixon)

June: Jo Harding's father is swept away by a 'F5' tornado. (Twister)

Sunday 8th June: Nixon and Thieu meet at Midway. (Midway Island - Nixon)

Monday 9th June: Gebruder Gumbold writes a letter to Hilary Bray. (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)

Wednesday 11th June: A film adaptation of True Grit is released. (United States - I Love You, Beth Cooper)

Thursday 12th June: Hilary Bray writes a letter replying to Gumbold. (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)

July: After the Lee Bros' meat-packing plant closes, Thomas "Leatherface" Hewitt commits the first of 33 murders. (Texas - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning)

Friday 4th July: A couple are killed, supposedly by the Zodiac killer. (Zodiac)

Sunday 13th July: Former Alabama Governor George Wallace criticises President Richard Nixon for his handling of the war and says he favors an all-out military victory if the Paris talks fail to produce peace soon. (Nixon)

Sunday 13th July: Blofeld writes a letter to Gumbold. (On Her Majesty's Secret Service)

Monday 14th July: Easy Rider is released. (United States - I Love You, Beth Cooper)

Wednesday 16th July: Agent J Travels back in time to assist the Agent K of the time, to deploy the Arc-Net Defense System. (Cape Canaveral - Men in Black)

Wednesday 16th July: Apollo 11 is launched. (Transformers: Dark of the Moon)

Sunday 20th July: Neil Armstrong walks on the Moon. (Apollo 13)

Sunday 20th July: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon in the Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle. (Mare Tranquillitatus, The Moon - Apollo 13)

Sunday 20th July: Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstron is the first man to walk on the Moon. (Apollo 18)

Sunday 20th July: Man lands on the Moon. (The Moon - The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard)

Sunday 20th July: The date on a plaque by a Sommerton Junction bell. (Sommerton, Arizona - The Last Stand)

Sunday 20th July: Apollo 11 lands on the Moon. The Ark is discovered. (The Moon - Transformers: Dark of the Moon)

Monday 21st July: Gru and Dru watch the first man on the moon. (Despicable Me 3)

Monday 21st July: Newspaper headline: "WALK ON MOON: 'That's One Small Step for Man... One Giant Leap for Mankind.'" (Los Angeles, California - We Bought a Zoo)

Friday 25th July: Life magazine headline: "LEAVING FOR THE MOON." (New York City, New York - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

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