The Movie Timeline - of all the movie timelines on all the net, you walked into this one
A fanatical religious cult attempts to burn Alessa Gillespie to death, and their failure results in a massive fire that destroys the town as well as the creation of a hellish alternate dimension in which they are trapped. (Silent Hill, West Virginia - Silent Hill)
Englishman Alec Stewart finishes second in the Albanian Grand Prix. (Albania - Speed Zone!)
Frank Berkman is born. (Brooklyn, New York - The Squid and the Whale)
FCMA has findings that will provide grounds to create the Homeland Mutant Response Division. (X-Men: Days of Future Past)
The Homeland Mutant Response Division is established. (X-Men: Days of Future Past)
January: Students are seen outside of a university. (Beirut, Lebanon - Black Sunday)
Wednesday 2nd January: Richard Nixon signs the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act, setting a new national maximum speed limit. (Nixon)
Friday 11th January: Large Marge dies in a car accident. (Pee-wee's Big Adventure)
February: In mid-February, auditors advise federal and state officials whether their recommendations will be accepted. (Texas - Texas Chainsaw 3D)
Friday 1st February: Lynda Ann Healy disappears from her apartment and is killed by Ted Bundy. (Ted Bundy)
Monday 4th February: The Symbionese Liberation Army abducts Patty Hearst. (Berkeley, California - Citizen Tania)
Tuesday 5th February: Brian Slade fakes his assassination at the Lyceum Theatre. (London, England - Velvet Goldmine)
Saturday 9th February: Leigh Crosby is born. (Black Christmas)
Saturday 9th February: Madison Elizabeth Frank born. (Vermont - What Lies Beneath)
Friday 22nd February: The Assassination of Richard Nixon. (The Assassination of Richard Nixon)
Tuesday 26th February: Herbert Kalmbach pleads guilty to illegal White House fundraising. (All the President's Men)
Sunday 24th March: Dave Lockwood is born. (Atlanta, Georgia - The Change-Up)
April: Stealer's Wheel reach no.5 with 'Stuck In The Middle With You'. (Reservoir Dogs)
Tuesday 2nd April: Ed Dalton is born. (Daybreakers)
Saturday 6th April: Dwight Chapin guilty of lying to Grand Jury. (All the President's Men)
Friday 12th April: Herbert Porter gets 30 days for lying to the FBI. (All the President's Men)
Sunday 14th April: Donald Jacobi is born. (Birmingham, Alabama - Manhunter)
Thursday 25th April: Pamela Courson dies from a heroin overdose. (Paris, France - The Doors)
Monday 29th April: President Nixon announces release of White House Watergate tapes. (Nixon)
Friday 17th May: Richard Kleindienst enters guilty plea. (All the President's Men)
Saturday 18th May: Congress passes Homeland Security Act, deploying Sentinels to the most densely populated cities in the U.S. (X-Men: Days of Future Past)
Friday 24th May: Duke Ellington dies. (New York, New York - The Cotton Club)
Sunday 26th May: Jenna Rink is born. (13 Going On 30)
June: Producer Swan steals Winslow Leach and has his minions beat him up and frame him for drug dealing. (New York City - Phantom of the Paradise)
Tuesday 4th June: Charles Colson pleads guilty to felony obstruction. (All the President's Men)
Tuesday 9th July: The Glass Tower dedication ceremony as the tallest building in the world goes up in flames, literally. (San Francisco, CA - The Towering Inferno)
Sunday 14th July: Carl Spaatz dies. (Washington, D.C. - The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell)
Saturday 27th July: U.S. President Nixon charged with first of three articles of impeachment. (Nixon)
Monday 29th July: Christopher Boyce signs a security agreement to not transmit classified information to any unauthorized person or agency. (The Falcon and the Snowman)
Monday 5th August: Elena Benanidio checks into Hotel Francis Duke. (Central City - Hotel for Dogs)
Tuesday 6th August: Tapes show Richard Nixon approved Watergate cover-up. (All the President's Men)
Thursday 8th August: Brad Majors' car breaks down and he and Janet Weiss encounter alien beings in a large mansion. (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
Friday 9th August: Richard Nixon resigns; Gerald Ford sworn in. (All the President's Men)
Monday 26th August: Charles Lindbergh dies. (Maui, Hawaii - The Spirit of St. Louis)
Sunday 8th September: President Gerald Ford, who assumed office on the heels of President Richard M. Nixon (Nixon)
Saturday 21st September: Los Angeles Times headline: "Beatle John Lennon Slain Shot Down Outside New York Apartment." (Los Angeles, California - We Bought a Zoo)
Sunday 22nd September: Molly Vernon is raped at her home in the evening. (Glen Echo, Oregon - Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon)
Tuesday 24th September: Mark Daniel Curtis is questioned by police about the brutal rape of Molly Vernon. (Glen Echo, Oregon - Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon)
Saturday 28th September: The Glen Echo Press newspaper contains an article titled, "Drifter questioned and released in rape of Glen Echo woman." It is about Mark Daniel Curtis. (Glen Echo, Oregon - Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon)
October: Kate Reilly is a Playmate. (Tremors 2)
Saturday 5th October: A bomb destroys a pub killing 5 and seriously injuring 75 people. (Guildford, England - In the Name of the Father)
Wednesday 9th October: Oskar Shindler dies, and is taken for burial at the Latin Cemetery on Mount Zion, Jerusalem. (Frankfurt Germany - Schindler's List)
Friday 8th November: Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes being abducted by serial killer Ted Bundy. (Salt Lake City, Utah - Ted Bundy)
Sunday 10th November: Theodore Arroway dies of myocardial infarction, leaving his daughter Ellie an orphan. (Contact)
Sunday 10th November: Nyah Nordoff-Hall born. (Mission: Impossible 2)
Wednesday 13th November: Ronald DeFeo Jr massacres his parents, two brothers and two sisters - in his defense, the house told him to do it. (Amityville, New York - The Amityville Horror)
Wednesday 13th November: A mother, father and four of their children murdered... No apparent motive. (Amityville, Long Island - The Amityville Horror)
Wednesday 13th November: Karen Silkwood is discovered dead in a single car accident. (Crescent, Oklahoma - Silkwood)
Thursday 14th November: An article about the DeFeo murders appears in the newspaper. (Amityville, Long Island - The Amityville Horror)
Tuesday 3rd December: Winslow Leach assaults a guard and escapes from Sing Sing. After vandalizing Death Records, Leach is shot by a security guard. Fleeing police he leaps into the East River. His body is not recovered. (New York City - Phantom of the Paradise)
Wednesday 4th December: Variety headline: "PARADISE GATES OPEN." (Phantom of the Paradise)
Thursday 5th December: Debbie is not born on this date. (Los Angeles, California - This Is 40)
Monday 9th December: Winslow Leach composes music for Swan. (New York City - Phantom of the Paradise)
Wednesday 11th December: Drake Myers checks into Hotel Francis Duke. (Central City - Hotel for Dogs)
Wednesday 11th December: Winslow continues composing music. (New York City - Phantom of the Paradise)