The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
May: Mr. Vargas takes his class on a field trip to a hospital. Spicoli sneaks on the trip. (Ridgemont, CA - Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Sunday 2nd May: Claire Spencer plays the cello at a concert in Carnegie Hall. (Carnagie Hall - What Lies Beneath)
Sunday 16th May: Young Playwrights Festival ends. (Child's Play)
Wednesday 26th May: Jenna Rink turns 8. (13 Going On 30)
Friday 28th May: When Rocky III comes out, Frank Stallone wonders who he is. (Fred Claus)
June: Mr. Hand goes to Spicoli's house to teach him history as payback for wasting 8 hours of class time over the school year. Damone apologizes to Ratner at the prom for having sex with Stacy. Brad stops a robber while working at Mi-T-Mart. (Ridgemont, CA - Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Tuesday 1st June: An alien ship stops above the city. (Johannesburg, South Africa - District 9)
Thursday 3rd June: Final exams take place at Ridgemont High. (Ridgemont, CA - Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Saturday 5th June: A nineteen-year-old is sacrificed. (Gatlin, Nebraska - Children of the Corn)
Sunday 6th June: Katherine Lowell - fake name of Lissa - would have been born, if her fake ID were correct. (Best Laid Plans)
Saturday 12th June: Brad Hamilton becomes manager of Mi-T-Mart. (Ridgemont, CA - Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Saturday 19th June: Septha "Robin" LaRue is sacrificed. (Gatlin, Nebraska - Children of the Corn)
July: Events seen in Chris's flashback from Friday the 13th Part 3 take place. (Friday the 13th Part 3: 3D)
Monday 5th July: Aliens are ferried from their mothership to the District 9 township. (Johannesburg, South Africa - District 9)
Saturday 24th July: Wesley Allan Gibson is born. (Chicago, Illinois - Wanted)
Saturday 31st July: Wesley Gibson's father leaves him. (Chicago, Illinois - Wanted)
Saturday 31st July: Mountain Herald headline: "Hiker Disappears." It is about Brett Schmidt. (West Virginia - Wrong Turn)
Friday 13th August: Fast Times at Ridgemont High is released in theaters. (Funny People)
Wednesday 25th August: Colonel Luis Toro military ID later used by James Bond is signed. (Octopussy)
Monday 30th August: Mary "Roberta" Wells is sacrificed. (Gatlin, Nebraska - Children of the Corn)
September: Linda Barrett attends college in Riverside and lives with her abnormal psych proffessor. (Riverside, CA - Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Thursday 2nd September: Officer Nancy Taylor is commended for her work on the case of the Common Wealth of Massachusetts vs. Kenneth Waters. (Ayer, Massachusetts - Conviction)
Thursday 16th September: The Sabra and Shatila massacre was a massacre of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians carried out between September 16 and 18, 1982 by the Lebanese Forces Christian militia group, following the assassination of Phalangist leader and president-elect Bachir Gemayel. (Palestinian Refugee Camp - Waltz With Bashir)
October: Norwegian scientists are stationed in Antarctica. (Antarctica - The Thing)
Saturday 16th October: Chris Vail is born. (Wickliffe, Ohio - Accepted)
Monday 18th October: Harry Grimbridge attends a merchant's council meeting. (Northern California - Halloween III: Season of the Witch)
Tuesday 19th October: Harry Grimbridge attends a football game. (Northern California - Halloween III: Season of the Witch)
Wednesday 20th October: Harry Grimbridge buys more Halloween masks. (Northern California - Halloween III: Season of the Witch)
Thursday 21st October: Harry Grimbridge has dinner with his daughter Ellie. (Northern California - Halloween III: Season of the Witch)
Saturday 23rd October: Men in business suits chase Harry Grimbridge. He says, "They're going to kill us all" and is killed that night. (Northern California - Halloween III: Season of the Witch)
Wednesday 27th October: Admiral Jim Sandecker helped CIA agent Carl in an unknown event. He would remind Carl of this when Sandecker asks Carl for a favor in helping get Dirk and Al out of Mali. (Sahara)
Friday 29th October: Ellie Grimbridge investigates her father's death with Dr. Daniel Challis. (Northern California - Halloween III: Season of the Witch)
Saturday 30th October: Ellie and Dan continue their investigation. (Santa Mira, California - Halloween III: Season of the Witch)
Sunday 31st October: Elliot takes his first ride across the moon; ET phones home. (Los Angeles, Ca - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
Sunday 31st October: Challis tries to stop the airing of a Silver Shamrock commercial that will make masks kill whoever wears them. (Santa Mira, California - Halloween III: Season of the Witch)
Monday 1st November: Federal agents storm Elliot's house as he and E.T. fall gravely ill. (Los Angeles, Ca - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
Tuesday 2nd November: E.T. goes home. (Los Angeles, Ca - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial)
Tuesday 9th November: Andy Barclay is born. (Child's Play)
December: Becky Barnett and Jerome marry. (California - Boogie Nights)
December: The Thing arrives at US science center and its cells imitate the people there. (Antarctica - The Thing)
December: Norwegians uncover a spaceship and try to survive against The Thing. (Antarctica - The Thing)
Monday 6th December: Indiana Jones has sex with a woman and leaves to go on adventures. The woman is pregnant with Will. (Disaster Movie)
Saturday 18th December: Catherine "Bastava" Cave is sacrificed. (Gatlin, Nebraska - Children of the Corn)
Friday 24th December: Billy is raped by his mother when her lover is impotent. (Black Christmas)
Oceania's coal output reaches 630 million tons. (1984)
Tommy Shaw pulls Sonny onstage at a Styx concert and lets him do the voice of Mr. Roboto... or not. (Manhattan - Big Daddy)
Jack Twist dies. (Brokeback Mountain)
Cateleya Restrepo is born. (Bogota, Colombia - Colombiana)
A space virus kills every dog and cat on Earth. (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)
Retired US Air Force Major Mitchell Gant slips into the Soviet Union to steal the most advanced stealth fighter built, the MiG 31, NATO codename Firefox. (Bilyarsk, Soviet Union - Firefox)
Dylan Harper is born. (Los Angeles, California - Friends with Benefits)
1st Annual Rally takes place. (Astoria, Oregon - The Goonies)
10 yr Jeff Kohlver is caught with naked 5 yr old cousin, who has innocently jumped out of the bath onto him; Jeff is reprimanded by being sat on a hot stove. (Hard Candy)
Ben Stone is born. (Vancouver, British Columbia - Knocked Up)
FBI agent Will Graham arrests Hannibal Lecktor for the killing of college girls. (Baltimore, Maryland - Manhunter)
General Hopgood attempts to walk through a wall. (Fort Bragg, North Carolina - The Men Who Stare at Goats)
Lyn Cassady crashes computers and starts training under Bill Django. ("Area 51" Groom Lake, Nevada - The Men Who Stare at Goats)
Marjane starts going to a French school in Vienna, Austria. (Vienna, Austria - Persepolis)
Shawn Doell is born. (RoboCop)
Diane Court chooses to be with her father when her parents divorce. (Seattle, Washington - Say Anything...)