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)
Peyton Westlake is born. (Darkman)
Dr. Freund is a Cornell college professor. (Ithaca, New York) (Drag Me To Hell)
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)
A type of MJ-12 is made. (Race to Witch Mountain)
John Kramer is born. (Saw IV)
Hank is born. (Saw VI)
The Military fights giant mutated ants. (New Mexico) (Them!)
Dewey Cox' professional debut as a singer. He is immediately signed to a record deal by nice Jewish businessmen. (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)
Friday 5th March: Creature from the Black Lagoon is released. (American Pie: Beta House)
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)
Saturday 8th May: Millie Dupree is born. (New Orleans, Louisianna) (Runaway Jury)
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)
Tuesday 22nd June: Juliet Hulme and Pauline (Rieper) Parker bludgeon Pauline's mother with a half-brick to death in Victoria Park, Christchurch, New Zealand. (Christchurch, New Zealand) (Heavenly Creatures)
Monday 5th July: Elvis records "That's All Right, Mama". (Walk the Line)
Friday 24th September: Daisy is run over, ending her ballet career. (Paris) (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
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!)
Thursday 4th November: Lonnie Shaver is born. (United States) (Runaway Jury)
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 )
Tuesday 30th November: Lawrence Summers is born. (New Haven, Connecticut) (The Social Network)
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)