The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Movie history events from 1954
Mathematician John Nash is attacked while delivering Top Secret newspaper clippings to an abandoned mansion, and stumbles home in a schizophrenic stupor. (Cambridge, MA) (A Beautiful Mind)
The Hudson Hornet crashes during an attempt to qualify for the Piston Cup; afterward he retires from racing. (Cars)
Messrs Peacock, Scarlet, White, Plum, Mustard & Green may have murdered My Boddy, a cook, a maid, a policeman, a chauffeur & a singing telegram. (New England) (Clue)
A group of researchers find a prehistoric "gillman" in the Amazon River. (Amazon River, South America) (Creature from the Black Lagoon)
Don Vito Corleone dies while playing with his granddaughter; Carlo Rizzi dies and his son Michael Francis Rizzi is born. (The Godfather)
Godzilla destroys Tokyo for the first tme before being destroyed by the oxygen destroyer. (Gojira)
John Kramer is born. (Saw IV)
The Military fights giant mutated ants. (New Mexico) (Them!)
Tuesday 9th March: Edward Murrow broadcasts report condemning Senator McCarthy's methods. (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Tuesday 6th April: Senator McCarthy broadcasts his reply to Edward Murrow, accusing him of Communist leanings. (Good Night, and Good Luck)
Thursday 6th May: Roger Bannister runs the first four-minute mile. (Oxford) (Four Minutes)
June: Nigel Tufnel and David St Hubbins first meet, going on to form legendary rock band Spinal Tap. (Squatney, London) (This is Spinal Tap)
Wednesday 9th June: Joseph Welch lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether communism has infiltrated the U.S. armed forces. (Citizen Cohn)
Tuesday 22nd June: Teens Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme murder Pauline's mother Honora. (Christchurch, New Zealand) (Heavenly Creatures)
Monday 5th July: Elvis records "That's All Right, Mama". (Walk the Line)
Thursday 28th October: Yamamori Family Underboss, Shihichi Yamagata, is murdered in a gangland hit by a Shinkai faction drug dealer, sparking off a prolonged and deadly power struggle within the ranks of the once-powerful yakuza family. (Hiroshima, Japan) (The Yakuza Papers)
November: Godzilla destroys Tokyo. (Tokyo) (Godzilla, King of The Monsters!)
Wednesday 24th November: Linda Porter dies, leaving Cole a widower who would rarely write again. (De-lovely)
Sunday 28th November: Enrice Fermi dies. (Chicago, Illinois) (Fat Man and Little Boy )
Thursday 2nd December: The U.S. Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Senator Joseph R. McCarthy for conduct unbecoming of a senator. (Washington, D.C.) (Citizen Cohn)
Saturday 11th December: Uichi Shinkai is killed by yakuza disguised as police, thus eliminating Tetsuya Sakai's last rival for control of the Yamamori Family. (Hiroshima, Japan) (The Yakuza Papers)