The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
Movie history events from 1920
Emmett L Brown born. (Hill Valley, CA) (Back to the Future Part III)
Eric Liddell begins running seriously. (Scottish Highlands) (Chariots of Fire)
Charles Foster Kane runs for governor but loses after being caught in sex-scandal with a young starlet. (Citizen Kane)
Traudl Junge - future secretary to Adolf Hitler - is born. (Germany) (Downfall)
The 'City of Albany' central train derails killing hundreds of people, later to become a ghost train. (New York) (Ghostbusters)
Michael Corleone born; Theresa, Tom Hagen's future wife, born. (The Godfather)
At a dinner in his honour, Rasputin is poisoned, shot, stabbed, clubbed, castrated and drowned - he survives them all. (Hellboy)
Irving Steinbloom (future country music mogul) born. (A Mighty Wind)
Max Schrek, the last remaining vampire, cast as Nosferatu, a movie vampire based on Bram Stoker's creature; vampires saved from extinction and unleashed on modern society. (Romania) (Shadow of the Vampire)
Saturday 3rd January: Babe Ruth purchased by the New York Yankees from the Boston Red Sox. (The Babe)
Saturday 3rd January: Clive Candy is appointed commanding officer of troops in North China and relinquishes the temporary rank of Brigadier-General. (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Sunday 28th March: Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford marry. (Chaplin)
Wednesday 30th June: Dwight D Eisenhower and George S Patton demoted to Captain because of peacetime. (Patton)
Friday 23rd July: Future nightclub owner Victor Demond opens his first hamburger stand. He commemorates the occassion by stuffing and mounting his first burger. (Lambert Technical University, USA) (Sweetheart of the Campus)
Friday 20th August: Papa Justify records the voodoo spell Conjure of Sacrifice onto an LP. (New Orleans) (The Skeleton Key)
October: T.E. Lawrence starts to help Arabs to fight a guerilla war against the Ottoman Empire. (The Hitaz Region, Arabia) (Lawrence of Arabia)
Sunday 28th November: The Mask of Zorro opens, starring Douglas Fairbanks. (Chaplin)