The Movie Timeline - of all the movie timelines on all the net, you walked into this one
Faith is again given the name of her soulmate, Damon Bradley, by a fortune-teller, again fixed. (Pittsburgh, PA - Only You)
Marjane Satrapi is born. (Persepolis)
Precious is born. (Harlem, New York - Precious)
After T.C. Williams High School Titans' perfect season, the team and the city become closer than ever. (Alexandria, Virginia - Remember the Titans)
Jim Court's income doesn't change substantially over the next 17 years. (Seattle, Washington - Say Anything...)
Dwight "Dewey" Riley is born. (Woodsboro, CA - Scream)
Dr Gerald Finney stays in an old hotel and hypnotises himself back to 1571. (Venice - Somewhere In Time)
Dan Freeman resigns his post at the CIA and begins recruiting and training gang members to a black nationalist army. (New York - The Spook Who Sat by the Door)
Donny Berger is born. (That's My Boy)
Coach Bud Kilmer "hammers" a football player. (West Caanan, Texas - Varsity Blues)
George W Bush is challenged by his father as to what career he should pursue. (W.)
Carvin Wiggins wants a bugzapper. (Georgia - Wanderlust)
Trask Industries B3-VXC Archival Footage is filmed. (X-Men: Days of Future Past)
Trask Industries is commissioned to design and construct a unique holding cell using industrial-grade polymers and concrete that could effectively contain Lehnsherr. (X-Men: Days of Future Past)
Tuesday 2nd February: Major General Idi Amin declares himself President of Uganda and Chief of the Armed Forces. (The Last King of Scotland)
Thursday 18th February: Private healthcare is introduced to the US by President Richard Nixon. (Sicko)
Sunday 7th March: A movie starts playing at a theater. (Detroit, Michigan - Baadasssss!)
Saturday 13th March: A movie stops playing at a theater. (Detroit, Michigan - Baadasssss!)
Sunday 14th March: A movie starts playing at a theater. (Detroit, Michigan - Baadasssss!)
Friday 26th March: A movie stops playing at a theater. (Detroit, Michigan - Baadasssss!)
Saturday 27th March: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song premeirs at a theater. (Detroit, Michigan - Baadasssss!)
April: Raoul Duke and Dr Gonzo go on a drug-fuelled trip. (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
Thursday 15th April: David Webb - later to become spy Jason Bourne - is born. (Missouri - The Bourne Supremacy)
Friday 16th April: Anthony Curtis and other members of the 1st Marine Recon Battalion have to retreat from a firefight with North Vietnamese troops and wait for airstrike in order to complete there mission. (Quang Tri Province, Vietnam - Dead Presidents)
Saturday 15th May: After graduating from college, five friends take one last road trip to Mexico before saying goodbye. (Austin, Tezas - Fandango)
Wednesday 16th June: Amelia Donaghy born. (The Bone Collector)
Saturday 3rd July: Jim Morrison dies of heart failure, likely caused by a drug overdose. (Paris, France - The Doors)
Saturday 3rd July: Jim Morrison dies. (Paris, France - Rock 'n' Roll Frankenstein)
Tuesday 13th July: Benjamin Mee is born. (California - We Bought a Zoo)
Monday 26th July: Inspector William Armstrong traces the Zodiac Killer back to the school they suspect he worked at. (Zodiac)
Monday 26th July: Inspector William Armstrong traces the Zodiac killer back to a school janitor. (Zodiac)
Monday 2nd August: The Nixon administration officially acknowledges that the CIA is maintaining a force of 30,000 'irregulars' fighting the Communist Pathet Lao in Laos. (Nixon)
Wednesday 4th August: The police visit Arthur Leigh Allen in connection with the Zodiac killings. (Zodiac)
Sunday 15th August: Richard Nixon turns his attention away from the war in Vietnam and announces a sweeping series of economic initiatives, including a ninety-day freeze on wages and rents, as well as the end of America's twenty-five-year-old policy of converting foreign money into gold. (Nixon)
Friday 3rd September: Life magazine headline: "AMERICAN OUTDOORS: THE ENDLESS WEEKEND." Bike riders are on the cover. (New York City, New York - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
Saturday 4th September: First day of school. (Alexandria, Virginia - Remember the Titans)
Monday 13th September: Thomas Anderson/Neo is born. (Capital City, USA - The Matrix)
October: Caretaker Willie Loomis believed that this was the time when he met Barnabas Collins while he was drunk. (Collinsport, Maine - Dark Shadows)
Wednesday 6th October: Jacob Singer and 1st Air Calvary Division are attacked while on patrol (Mekong Delta, Vietnam - Jacob's Ladder)
Friday 12th November: Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972, as the deadline for the withdrawal of an additional 45,000 U.S. troops. (Nixon)
Wednesday 24th November: DB Cooper hijacks a plane and parachutes to his escape. Never to be seen or heard from again. (Washington State - The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper)
Friday 26th November: Danny Greene kills Mike Frato in "self-defense". (Cleveland, OH - Kill The Irishman)
December: The Indo-Pakistani War. (Life of Pi)
Thursday 23rd December: Jimmy Hoffa released from prison on the condition he not participate in union activities for 10 years. (Hoffa)
Friday 24th December: Frank Cross dumps Claire Phillips to pursue his career. (Scrooged)
A Uruguayan college rugby team's chartered airplane crashes deep in the icy mountains. (Andes - Alive)
Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover Watergate. (Washington DC - All the President's Men)
A year on a gravestone. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Martin Sylvester Huggins is born. (Pine Crest, North Carolina - The Campaign)
Zola receives a terminal diagnosis. (Captain America: The Winter Soldier)
Malachi starts leading the biggest boys. (Gatlin, Nebraska - Children of the Corn)
Young Frankie Maguire witnesses the murder of his father. (Belfast, Ireland - The Devil's Own)
President Nixon hires Betsy Jobs and Arlene Lorenzo as dog walkers for Checkers. (The White House - Dick)
Deena Jones and The Dreams have another No 1 hit record. (Dreamgirls)
3 talking apes from the future travel back in time and land off the coast of California. (Los Angles, Ca. - Escape from the Planet of the Apes)
M.K.Silvery-Marmoset is Whack Bat Most Valuable Player of the Fox-Year of '72. (Fantastic Mr. Fox)
Jeff Spicoli starts getting stoned. (Ridgemont, CA - Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Moonlight Graham dies. (Field of Dreams)
Lts. Jake Grafton, and Virgil Cole, make an illegal bombing run over Hanoi. (Hanoi, North Vietnam - Flight of the Intruder)
Walt Kowalski gets his Gran Torino car. (Gran Torino)