The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Movie history events from 1953
Mathematician John Nash deciphers a Soviet transmission. (The Pentagon) (A Beautiful Mind)
The Hudson Hornet wins the Piston Cup. (Cars)
Mary Corleone born. (The Godfather)
LAPD's 'Bloody Christmas'; 'My Funny Valentine' recorded by Chet Baker, and 'The Christmas Blues' by Dean Martin; 'Roman Holiday' in cinemas. (Los Angeles) (LA Confidential)
Victoria Lynn Riggs, future wife of Sgt Martin Riggs, is born. (Lethal Weapon)
Mona Lisa Smile. (Mona Lisa Smile)
A spaceship crashes carrying a strange visitor from another world. (nr Smallville, Kansas) (Superman)
Earth invaded by Martians. (War of the Worlds)
Wednesday 7th January: Harry S. Truman tells the world that that the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. (Washington, D.C.) (Truman)
Thursday 5th March: Stalin dies of a stroke. (Stalin)
Tuesday 21st April: Roy Cohn and David Schine return to the United States after a controversial investigation of United States Information Service (USIS) posts in Europe. (Citizen Cohn)
Friday 19th June: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executed. (Citizen Cohn)
Wednesday 14th October: Fred Friendly and Edward R Murrow begin to question Senator McCarthy's methods. (CBS Studios) (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Monday 19th October: Sig Mickelson convinced to run a story opposing Senator McCarthy's condemnation of Milo Radulovich. (CBS Studios) (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Tuesday 20th October: 10:30pm - Ed Murrow broadcasts news report claiming Milo Radulovich was wrongly accused of Communist tendencies. (CBS Studios) (Good Night, and Good Luck)
December: Peter Appleton has a car accident and loses his memory - he awakes being told he must be Luke Trimble, a lost solider from 9 years previous. (Lawson, California) (The Majestic)