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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)
Thursday 12th December: Swan announces to the media that Leach's music will be performed by Beef. Leach is almost finished composing. (New York City - Phantom of the Paradise)
Friday 13th December: Swan has Winslow Leach sealedup, but he escapes and kills Beef so that Phoenix can sing his music. (New York City - Phantom of the Paradise)
Friday 20th December: John Grey and Nate Walker attend Ben Anderson's barbecue. Ben gets a phone call from Milton saying that the Apollo 18 mission was on. (Apollo 18)
Friday 20th December: John Grey and Nate Walker attend Ben Anderson's barbecue. Ben gets a phone call from Milton saying that the Apollo 18 mission was on. (Apollo 18)
Saturday 21st December: Apollo 18 mission is launched. (Apollo 18)
Wednesday 25th December: Grey remains in orbit aboard the Freedom Command module while Walker and Anderson land on the moon in the lunar module Liberty. While planting one of the detectors, the pair take moon rock samples. After returning to Liberty, the pair hear noises outside and a camera captures a small rock moving nearby. Houston claims the noises are interference from the ICBM detectors. Anderson finds a rock sample on the floor of Liberty despite having secured the samples. During further lunar exploration they discover footprints that lead them to a bloodstained, functioning Soviet LK lander, and a dead cosmonaut in a nearby crater. Walker queries Houston about the Soviet presence but is told only to continue with the mission. (Apollo 18)
Thursday 26th December: Walker is infected by aliens and becomes increasingly paranoid. The aliens breach his helmet, killing him. DoD refuses to rescue Anderson because he is infected. Grey attempts to rescue him, but rocks within Liberty reveal themselves to be aliens, which infect Anderson and cause him to crash Liberty into Freedom. (Apollo 18)
May starts making meatloaf for Ben Parker. (New York City - The Amazing Spider-Man)
Noah Levenstein marries. (East Great Falls, Michigan - American Pie Presents: The Book of Love)
The Amityville Horror. (The Amityville Horror)
The Lutzes move into 112 Ocean Ave. (Amityville, New York - The Amityville Horror)
Alvy Singer meets and begins a relationship with Annie Hall. (New York - Annie Hall)
Austin Powers arrives at Studio 69 from 2003 to rescue his father from Goldmember. (Los Angeles - Austin Powers in Goldmember)
Verona De Tessant is born. (Away We Go)
Jackson county's Henry leads counties association. (Glen Echo, Oregon - Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon)
Queen record A Night at the Opera on a farm. They leave EMI when the exec refuses to release Bohemian Rhapsody as a single. (Rockfield Farm - Bohemian Rhapsody)
Louie hands Noah McManus over to the police. He is given a prison sentence of twenty-five years to life. (New York City - The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day)
Carlito's Way. (Carlito's Way)
A total eclipse of the sun happens, and Dolores St George's husband Joe falls down a dry well and is killed. (Maine - Dolores Claiborne)
Ourumov finishes being posted to Army advanced Missile Test Range before being assigned to Space Division. (Goldeneye)
Nicholas Angel is born. (England - Hot Fuzz)
Maggie Feller is born. (In Her Shoes)
James Embree is born. (New York City, New York - Kick-Ass 2)
Hanzo makes the last sword he ever plans to make, until The Bride appears 28 years later. (Kill Bill: Volume 1)
Dith Pran goes missing and Sam Waterston begins his search for him. (Cambodia - The Killing Fields)
Will Graham captures Hannibal Lecter, and nearly dies in the process. (Manhunter)
Kevin Graham is born. (Manhunter)
Sophie Fisher, future lyricist, is born. (Music and Lyrics)
Frank Herrera serves tours. (Panama - Runaway Jury)
In a gymnasium, a Soviet Olympic westler named Sash Fyorodovich Chenkov meets for the first time the only female chess grand master at the time, Anja Nurekyova. Within a month, they are married. (Grozny, Russia - Salt)
Walt and his mom duck out of Julie Glynn's party to watch Robin Hood on TV. (New York City - The Squid and the Whale)
Starsky and Hutch team up to take down a drug dealer. (Starsky and Hutch)
Irish Boxing Pub is established. (The Town)
Charles Xavier appears before the U.S. House of Representatives in a private closed session, asking for mutant freedoms including integration and privacy. (Washington, D.C. - X-Men: Days of Future Past)
Thursday 2nd January: John Mitchell, John Ehrlichman and Bob Haldeman are found guilty on all counts. (All the President's Men)
Wednesday 29th January: Pamela Farris checks into Hotel Francis Duke. (Central City - Hotel for Dogs)
Friday 21st February: Rachael Anne is born. (Montreal, Canada - Unknown)
Thursday 27th February: Private Todd Blackburn is born. (USA - Black Hawk Down)
March: The Earth's population - except Dr Robert Neville - is killed or turned into mutants by biological warfare between Russia and China. (The Omega Man)
Monday 3rd March: Bob Wilton is born. (Ann Arbor, Michigan - The Men Who Stare at Goats)
Thursday 13th March: Maurice Stans admits guilt to charge of illegal fundraising. (All the President's Men)
Sunday 23rd March: Jackie Moon sings at a bar's 'Free Gerbil Night'. (Semi-Pro)
Saturday 29th March: Shondor Birns is killed by a car bomb. (Cleveland, OH - Kill The Irishman)
Thursday 10th April: Josephine Bakes dies of a cerebral hemorrhage. (Paris, France - The Josephine Baker Story)
Monday 14th April: Karen Johnson checks into Hotel Francis Duke. (Central City - Hotel for Dogs)
Thursday 17th April: Year Zero, as Khmer Rouge troops enter Phnom Penh. (Cambodia - The Killing Fields)
Thursday 17th April: Corry Tibbits is born. (Illinois - Source Code)
Monday 12th May: A bomb is thrown through the kitchen window of Danny Greene's home. The explosion destroys the building but Danny Greene and his girlfriend survive. (Cleveland, OH - Kill The Irishman)
Sunday 18th May: Danny Delanay is born. (Colombiana)
Sunday 1st June: Leslie Vernon is born on or around this date. (Glen Echo, Oregon - Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon)
Tuesday 3rd June: Ozzie Nelson dies of cancer. (Hollywood, California - Ricky Nelson: Original Teen Idol)
Monday 16th June: A nineteen-year-old is sacrificed. (Gatlin, Nebraska - Children of the Corn)
Saturday 21st June: A nineteen-year-old is sacrificed. (Gatlin, Nebraska - Children of the Corn)