The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
January: Elizabeth and Nick meet for the first time (The Parent Trap)
January: Rocky and his family become bankrupt. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Rocky V)
Saturday 4th January: Charlyne Yi is born. (Los Angeles, California - Paper Heart)
Wednesday 8th January: Mary Mattock is evaluated. (Kings Park Psychiatric Center, Kings Park, NY - Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet)
Wednesday 8th January: Elizabeth and Nick get married. (The Parent Trap)
Friday 24th January: Vincente Minnelli dies. (Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows)
April: Rocky's license plate expires. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Rocky IV)
April: Joan and Bernard Berkman separate. They take joint custody of their sons Walt and Frank. (Brooklyn, New York - The Squid and the Whale)
Saturday 5th April: Police call off search for missing hiker Lois Einhorn; coincidentally former Dolphins kicker Ray Finkle escapes Shady Oaks Mental Institution about the same time. (Tampa, Fl - Ace Ventura: Pet Detective)
Monday 14th April: Donald Jacobi's 12th birthday. (Birmingham, Alabama - Manhunter)
Tuesday 15th April: International Creative Management, Inc. sends a letter to Bernard Berkman. (Brooklyn, New York - The Squid and the Whale)
Wednesday 23rd April: Otto Preminger dies from lung cancer and Alzheimer's disease. (New York - Introducing Dorothy Dandridge)
Saturday 26th April: Chernobyl disaster. Hybra Tech gets on the front lines of the effects. (Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis)
Saturday 26th April: The Chernobyl nuclear power plant melts down, causing a spike in premature mutant expressions for generations. (Chernobyl, Ukraine - X-Men: Days of Future Past)
May: Walt plays "Hey You" at the school talent show. (Brooklyn, New York - The Squid and the Whale)
Thursday 8th May: A newspaper which says that Mary McGarricle has been sentenced to 30 years in prison has the date Saturday May 8th, 1986. (That's My Boy)
Friday 9th May: Short Circuit is released. (United States - The Squid and the Whale)
Saturday 24th May: Martin Asher kills a man. (Canada - Taking Lives)
Saturday 24th May: Martin Asher kills Andrew Lapierre and takes his identity. (Taking Lives)
Monday 26th May: Jenna Rink turns 12. (13 Going On 30)
Wednesday 28th May: Michael Jerome Williams, Jr. is born. (Memphis, Tennessee - The Blind Side)
Monday 2nd June: Chris McCandless graduates from W.T. Woodson High School. (Fairfax, Virginia - Into the Wild)
Tuesday 10th June: Chris McCandless sets out on a cross-country journey. (Into the Wild)
Tuesday 10th June: Liz Kline is born in 1986 Detroit michigan (Detroit - RoboCop)
Wednesday 11th June: Carrie Bradshaw first steps foot in New York City. (New York City, New York - Sex and the City 2)
Thursday 12th June: Emily stops traveling with Chris on tour. (Rock Star)
Friday 13th June: Bishop Desmond Tutu meets with South African President P.W. Botha to discuss the nationwide state of emergency declared by Botha in response to the anti-apartheid protests. (Mandela and de Klerk)
Friday 13th June: Benny Goodman dies. (New York, New York - Sinatra)
Monday 16th June: A news article says "JUNIOR HIGH STUD BECOMES OVERNIGHT SENSATION." (That's My Boy)
Thursday 19th June: Queen at Santa Carla Country Club. (Santa Carla, California - The Lost Boys)
Monday 23rd June: Nicky Santoro and his brother are found dead having been beaten with baseball bats and buried alive for ruining mob boss profits in Vegas. (An Indiana Corn Field - Casino)
Tuesday 24th June: Donny Berger appears on the cover of US magazine. (That's My Boy)
Thursday 3rd July: Rudy Vallee dies. (Hollywood, California - Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees)
Tuesday 8th July: Pia Lange, an eleven year old girl, is stalked and attacked while riding her bicycle on a rural road near a small provincial German town. She is raped and murdered in a field by Danish national Peer Sommer while his student, Timo Friedrich, watches paralyzed from Sommer's car. Sommer then packs Pia's body into his trunk to later dispose of her body, tossing her bicycle into the high grass. (Germany - The Silence)
Tuesday 8th July: Pia Lange, an eleven year old girl, is stalked and attacked while riding her bicycle on a rural road near a small provincial German town. She is raped and murdered in a field by Danish national Peer Sommer while his student, Timo Friedrich, watches paralyzed from Sommer's car. Sommer then packs Pia's body into his trunk to later dispose of her body, tossing her bicycle into the high grass. (Germany - The Silence)
Monday 14th July: Donny Berger appears on the cover of National Enquirer magazine. (That's My Boy)
Thursday 24th July: Donny Berger appears on the cover of US magazine again. (That's My Boy)
Friday 25th July: UFO at Santa Carla Country Club. (Santa Carla, California - The Lost Boys)
Friday 1st August: By this time, the Jacobi's change their lock. (Birmingham, Alabama - Manhunter)
Tuesday 5th August: Martin Asher meets Andrew Lapierre and plans to kill him later that day so that he can take his identity. (St. Jovite, Canada - Taking Lives)
Monday 18th August: The headline "DONNY'S SO HOT" appears in a news article. (That's My Boy)
Tuesday 19th August: Francis Dollarhyde kills the Jacobi family. (Birmingham, Alabama - Manhunter)
September: 140 Filipinos die in a plane crash. (Philippines - Manhunter)
Monday 8th September: The headline "BERGER THRILLS" appears in a news article. (That's My Boy)
Thursday 11th September: Det. Axel Foley and Sgts Taggart and Rosewood foil the 'E' crime at Emperyan Fields horse track. Later, they thwart Maxwell Dent's escape with truckloads of illegal firearms. (Beverly Hills, Ca - Beverly Hills Cop II)
Thursday 18th September: Francis Dollarhyde kills the Leeds family. (Atlanta, Georgia - Manhunter)
Friday 19th September: The Leeds family is found dead. News of this appears on TV. (Atlanta, Georgia - Manhunter)
Friday 19th September: Blue Velvet is released. (United States - The Squid and the Whale)
Saturday 20th September: Jack Crawford asks retired Will Graham to help solve a case involving a ritual killer nicknamed "The Tooth Fairy". (Captiva, Florida - Manhunter)
Sunday 21st September: Will Graham examines the Leeds family's house. (Atlanta, Georgia - Manhunter)
Monday 22nd September: Jack Crawford writes a message to Will Graham about finding the Jacobi family's cat buried in the backyard. (Birmingham, Alabama - Manhunter)
Tuesday 30th September: A coded message Hannibal Lecktor wrote for the Tooth Fairy is discovered. (Chicago, Illinois - Manhunter)
October: Isabel Bigelow's mother fixes the World Series, presumably with magic. (Bewitched)
Wednesday 8th October: A church roof falls on 34 worshipers during a hymn. (Texas - Manhunter)
Wednesday 8th October: Will and his wife Molly reminisce about how they met. (Captiva, Florida - Manhunter)
Thursday 9th October: Francis Dollarhyde kidnaps reporter Freddy Lounds and brings him to his house to show him a slideshow. (Chester, Missouri - Manhunter)
Friday 10th October: A burning wheelchair containing Freddy Lounds' corpse is found. (Chester, Missouri - Manhunter)
Saturday 11th October: Will Graham tells his son Kevin about how he caught Hannibal Lecktor. (Manhunter)
Saturday 11th October: Identical twins Hallie and Annie are born to Nick Parker and Elizabeth James. (The Parent Trap)
Monday 13th October: Francis Dollarhyde brings a blind woman named Reba to his house. (Chester, Missouri - Manhunter)