The Movie Timeline - of all the movie timelines on all the net, you walked into this one
Movie history events from 1941
German-commanded Japanese submarine tries to invade, successfully destroys ferris wheel and is thwarted by patriotic Americans. (Hollywood, CA) (1941)
The OSS, wartime predecessor to the CIA, is founded. (USA) (Charade)
Charles Foster Kane dies. (Citizen Kane)
'Colonel Mustard' begins stealing air force radio parts during World War II, and sells them on the black market. (Clue)
Empire of the Sun. (Empire of the Sun)
Virginia Woolf commits suicide by drowning herself in a river. (Sussex, England) (The Hours)
Monday 13th January: James Joyce dies. (Zurich, Switzerland) (Nora)
Thursday 20th March: Nazis allow Jews to enter Krakow for the last time. (Schindler's List)
Tuesday 1st April: John P. Merrick, the richest man in the world, begins work as a children's shoes salesman at Neeley's Department Store, which he owns, under the assumed name of Thomas E. Higgins, all in an effort to infiltrate and crush a movement to organize the work force. (New York, NY) (The Devil and Miss Jones)
Wednesday 2nd April: German Lieutenant General Erwin Rommel resumes his advance into Cyrenaica signaling the beginning of what nine days later will become the recapture of Libya by the Axis forces. (Libya) (Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel, The )
Friday 23rd May: Lord Mountbatten, cousin to a king, sunk by German dive-bombers. (Mediterranean Sea) (Dieppe)
Monday 2nd June: Lou Gehrig dies. (Riverdale, New York) (The Pride of the Yankees)
Wednesday 20th August: Irene, future mother of Raimunda and Sole, is born. (Volver)
Friday 21st November: Albert Speer asks for 30,000 Soviet prisoners of war to use as slave laborers to begin a massive Berlin building program. (Valkyrie)
Wednesday 26th November: Adm. Chuichi Nagumo leads the Japanese First Air Fleet toward Pearl Harbor, with the understanding that should "negotiations with the United States reach a successful conclusion, the task force will immediately put about and return to the homeland." (Pearl Harbor)
December: Sam's watch stops and Ilsa leaves Rick. (Casablanca) (Casablanca)
Friday 5th December: The U.S.S. Lexington makes its way across the Pacific in order to carry a squadron of dive bombers to defend Midway Island from an anticipated Japanese attack. (Tora! Tora! Tora!)
Saturday 6th December: USS Nimitz nuclear-power aircraft-carrier appears via a temporal vortex, till nearly Pearl Harbor time. (Pacific Ocean) (The Final Countdown)
Sunday 7th December: The Naval and Air Forces of the Empire of Japan attack the United States of America. (Pearl Harbor)
Sunday 7th December: During the Pearl Harbor attack Rafe and Danny are flying P-40's "Warhawks" and manage to shoot 5 Japanese aircraft down. (Pearl Harbor) (Tora! Tora! Tora!)
Saturday 13th December: 'Wild' Bill Kelso lands an American fighter plane. (Los Angeles, CA) (1941)
Tuesday 16th December: 150 rolls of toilet paper refused to USS Sea Tiger. (Operation Petticoat)