The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1935
13 year-old Briony Tallis writes her first work - The Trials of Arrabella. (Atonement)
Rick runs guns to Ethiopia. (Casablanca)
John Kinsella moves to Brooklyn. (Field of Dreams)
Ed Morrow debuts on CBS. (Good Night, and Good Luck)
John Coffey is executed on Death Row for a crime he didn't commit. (The Green Mile)
Indiana Jones escapes Chinese gangsters in Shanghai before falling into the Thuggee cult's plot in India. (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
Pet store owner Johnny Kelly recalls his life as a criminal to a boy who tried to steal from him. (Johnny Dangerously)
Clive Candy shoots a Moufflon. (Corsica) (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
There is a murder, on the Orient Express. (Murder on the Orient Express)
Brian Jackson's father is born. (Starter for Ten)
Thursday 30th May: Babe Ruth plays final professional baseball game. (The Babe)
Thursday 6th June: Theodor Kretschmar-Schuldorff arrives in England. (England) (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Tuesday 11th June: Gene Wilder (born Jerome Silberman) is born. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) (Gilda Radner: It's Always Something )
Thursday 13th June: The Great Depression; boxer James Braddock beats Max Baer in 15 rounds to become World Heavyweight Champion, and the title 'Cinderella Man'. (Cinderella Man)
Saturday 6th July: 14th Dalai Lama, leader of Tibet and bestselling author, is born. (Takster Tibet) (Kundun)
Thursday 15th August: Will Rogers killed in plane crash. (Alaska) (Story of Will Rogers, The )
Wednesday 21st August: Benny Goodman performs at the Palomar Theater. (Los Angeles, California) (The Benny Goodman Story)
Friday 13th September: Howard Hughes sets world speed record for flying at 352mph. (The Aviator)