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1979

Saturday 11th August: Donna Sheridan spends the night with Harry Bright on the island of Kalokairi, potentially conceiving her daughter, Sophie. (Kalokairi - Mamma Mia!)

Monday 27th August: Lord Louis Mountbatten killed in IRA bombing. (Mullaghmore, Ireland - Gandhi)

September: News anchor Mack Tannen retires. Veronica Corningstone becomes the first nightly female news anchor, and her husband Ron Burgundy is fired. The two of them separate. (New York City, New York - Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues)

Wednesday 19th September: Forrest Gump stops running after 3 years, 2 months, 14 days and 16 hours, and decides to go home. (Monument Valley, Utah - Forrest Gump)

Tuesday 9th October: Dith Pran and Sydney Schanberg reunite at a Red Cross camp (Cambodia/Thailand border - The Killing Fields)

Wednesday 17th October: Herman Mendoza born. (Lazer Team)

November: After meeting Darby Crash at a nightclub engagement of the joke band Vox Pop, documentarian Penelope Spheeris rents the Cherrywood Studios soundstage to film a performance of The Germs for her chronicle of the L.A. Punk Scene, The Decline of Western Civilization. Crash gets high on heroin before the performance and collapses unconscious before he's finished. The image of the near-lifeless Crash became the seminal image of the film and the era. (Los Angeles, California - What We Do Is Secret)

Friday 2nd November: Jacques Mesrine is shot dead by the police. (Paris, France - Mesrine)

Sunday 4th November: The United States Embassy is taken by siege and 52 Americans are held hostage for 444 days. Six U.S. foreign service members escape and take refuge in the Canadian Embassy. The C.I.A. uses a fake film and disquise the foreign service members as a film crew from Canada in order to escape Iran. (Tehran, Iran - Argo)

Thursday 15th November: FINANCIAL TIMES contains article titled "Building an Empire: Corleone Proposal for New Immobiliare". (The Godfather: Part III)

Wednesday 28th November: Carson Wells sees Anton Chigurh. (No Country For Old Men)

Thursday 29th November: H.I. McDunnough first meets his future wife, the little desert flower Ed -- short for Edwinna -- at the county lock-up in Tempe, Arizona. (Maricopa County Maximum Security Correctional Facility for Men, - Raising Arizona)

Friday 30th November: A Pink Floyd album called The Wall is released. (The Squid and the Whale)

December: Kal-El is born on Krypton. He is sent to Earth as Krypton is destroyed. (Man of Steel)

Monday 3rd December: Sean Parker is born. (The Social Network)

Thursday 6th December: Joe Morelli is born. (Trenton, New Jersey - One for the Money)

Monday 17th December: Kramer vs. Kramer is released. It is this film that makes George Madison's mother want to leave his father Charles. (How Do You Know)

Monday 31st December: At Jack Horner's party, cameraman Scotty J makes a failed pass at porn-star Dirk Diggler; Little Bill kills his wife and her lover. (Boogie Nights)

1980

Ray Finkle graduates with honors from Stetson University holding 2 NCAA Div I kicking records, one for most points in a season & the other for distance. (Deland, Fl - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective)

Air passengers are trapped after the pilot, co-pilot and navigator pass out due to poisoned food. (Airplane)

Lillian Hobson becomes Arthur Bach's nanny around this time. (Arthur)

Camden Brady writes a story called Rainbow Land. (The Campaign)

Cal Tjader wins a Grammy. (The Campaign)

Ten year-old Alyssa Jones falls on a fence-post, breaking her hymen. (Chasing Amy)

During summer, Mark Ratner buys $40 worth of film from a girl at the photo mech and never talks to her again. (Ridgemont, CA - Fast Times at Ridgemont High)

USS Nimitz disappears through a temporal vortex, manifesting itself as a storm. (The Final Countdown)

Tommy Cavanaugh moves from Texas and beats up Lenny Feder. (Connecticut - Grown Ups 2)

Michael Myers is born. (Haddonfield, Illinois - Halloween)

Uncle Derek, a sergeant from Met, gives his nephew Nicholas Angel a police pedal car. (England - Hot Fuzz)

Facing financial troubles, Jane, Elaine, and Louise steal money from the Valley River Center shopping mall. (Oregon - How to Beat the High Co$t of Living)

Sarah Willis dies. (I Still Know What You Did Last Summer)

The SHADO facility (Supreme Headquarters Alien Defense Organization) hidden beneath the Harrington/Straker film studios is officially completed. (Harrington/Straker Film Studio, England - Invasion: UFO)

Anthony Cortino marries Diane, and arranges a lot of deaths on the same day. (Jane Austen's Mafia!)

A future simulation is based on what Crystal Lake was like during this year. (Jason X)

Kal-El arrives on Earth to be raised by Jonathan and Martha Kent. They name him Clark Kent. (Smallville, Kansas - Man of Steel)

Bill Django gives the New Earth Army Presentation. (Fort Bragg, North Carolina - The Men Who Stare at Goats)

Tom no longer needs to stand on "tippy-toes" to reach the radio. (New York City - Mr. Popper's Penguins)

Don Emerson meets his future wife Sally. They go out on their first date. (Houston, Texas - Paper Heart)

Paul gives Steven Spielberg the idea for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial via radio. (Area 51, Nevada - Paul)

Dr. Edward Bailey is incarcerated. (London, England - Red 2)

Special Agent Will Graham arrests Hannibal Lector for killing people to eat their body parts. (Baltimore, MD - Red Dragon)

Apollo Creed an announcer. (Rocky IV)

An accountant pays the Balboas' income taxes. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Rocky V)

Cuban refugee Tony Montana arrives in the U.S. and is detained with thousands of others at Mariel Harbor. (Miami, Fl - Scarface)

Nobody goes inside "Your-Self Storage" unit 31 after it is leased for 10 years under the name Hester Mofet. (Baltimore, MD - The Silence of the Lambs)

Richard Collier hypnotises himself in an attempt to travel back in time. (Somewhere In Time)

Playwright Richard Collier hypnotises himself back in time to 1912. (Somewhere In Time)

Superman throws a terrorist bomb from the Eiffel Tower into space, freeing General Zod from his glass prison. (Superman II)

The Thing assimilates Norwegian and American science teams. (The Thing)

Rick Masters starts going to the gym 3-4 times a week. (Los Angeles, California - To Live and Die in LA)

Jonathon "Mox" Moxon and Billy Bob are born. (West Caanan, Texas - Varsity Blues)

Kira, a muse, insipres Sonny to transform an old Auditorium into a roller disco rink. (Xanadu)

Tuesday 1st January: Alan Abel dies of a heart attack on a ski trip. He gets better. (Sundance, Utah - Abel Raises Cain)

Tuesday 1st January: At Molly's parents' house, Molly's dad shows Molly and Will's son Josh how to carve a chicken. (Red Dragon)

Friday 15th February: Lillian Hellman files a lawsuit claming $2.2 million in damages against novelist Mary McCarthy for libel. (Dash and Lilly)

Thursday 21st February: Kenneth Waters comes home with scratches on his face and he is immediately arrested as a suspect in the death of Katherina Bow. (Ayer, Massachusetts - Conviction)

Friday 22nd February: US Men's Hockey team of amateur and collegiate players beats USSR no.1 team, is dubbed the 'Miracle On Ice' and goes on to win Olympic gold. (Miracle)

March: Ron Burgundy's team joins Global News Network. (New York City, New York - Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues)

Monday 3rd March: Champ Kind's mother dies. The last thing that she says is that she always loved Brian Fantana. (Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues)

Tuesday 4th March: Brick Tamland arrives at his gravestone, believing that he is dead. He is reunited with Ron Burgundy, Brian Fantana, and Champ Kind. (Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues)

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