The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1949
Howard Hunt begins working for the CIA. (All the President's Men)
Future army conscript William Avery and future Bobby Kennedy presidential campaign volunteers Wade, Dwayne, Jimmy and Cooper are born. (Bobby)
Mr Merrin is approached at a coffee shop in Cairo to head an archaeological dig in Kenya where there is a buried church. (Cairo, Egypt) (Exorcist: The Beginning)
Victor Rizzi born, Don Vito's grandchild. (The Godfather)
Ray Robinson (later Charles) first earns money playing jazz. (Ray)
The roof of the licence-plate factory is re-tarred at Shawshank prison. (The Shawshank Redemption)
Eric Lensher immigrates to America, sees the Statue of Liberty for the first time. (New York) (X-Men)
Thursday 20th January: Truman announces Point Four program. (Truman)
Tuesday 8th February: Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty is convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment by the Communist People's Court. (Hungary) (Guilty of Treason )
Thursday 12th May: Berlin Blockade lifted. (Berlin) (The Big Lift)
Monday 6th June: George Orwell's "1984" is published. (The Road to 1984)
Wednesday 8th June: FBI report names Hollywood figures as Communists. (Hoover)
Wednesday 3rd August: Diane Huber born. (Bobby)
Wednesday 10th August: Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Bill, which establishes the Department of Defense. (Truman)
Sunday 16th October: In an act of loyalty to the Yamamori Family, Shozo Hiirono guns down Yakuza boss Kiyoshi Doi in the streets of Hiroshima; abandoned by everything and everyone, his only path is to go back to prison. (Hiroshima, Japan) (The Yakuza Papers)
Monday 17th October: Barbara Hummel, wife of General Francis Hummel, born. (The Rock)
Wednesday 26th October: Harry Allen tries to mercifully murder his wife, Pat, by mixing the darkroom developing chemical altrapeine into her antacid medication, later discovering his mistress, Kay, is dumping him after being carefully seduced by his best friend, Richard Langley. (USA) (Married Life)
Saturday 17th December: Hiroshi Wakasugi, Doi Family Captain, kills Seiichi Kanbara gangland-style for betraying his bloodbrother, Shozo Hirono; Wakasugi is killed in a gun battle with police later that night. (Japan) (The Yakuza Papers)