The Movie Timeline - of all the movie timelines on all the net, you walked into this one
Movie history events from 1956
A radioactive Dinosaur awakens and destroys Tokyo. (Tokoyo) (Godzilla, King of The Monsters!)
Peter Appleton returns to Lawson as himself, rather than as Luke Trimble. (Lawson, California) (The Majestic)
Evelyn Ryan wins $5000 and a bike in a jingle-writing contest, enabling her family to get their own house. (Ohio) (The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio)
While on tour, Johnny Cash kisses June Carter for the first time. (Walk the Line)
Wednesday 4th January: John W. Creasy is born. (Man on Fire)
Tuesday 31st January: George "Buck" Weaver dies. (Chicago, Illinois) (Eight Men Out)
Sunday 19th February: Yakuza Captain, Tetsuya Sakai, is targeted and gunned down in public. (Hiroshima, Japan) (The Yakuza Papers)
Saturday 25th February: Sylvia Plath meets her future husband, Ted Hughes, at a party. (Cambridge, United Kingdom) (Sylvia)
April: Mathematician John Nash's wife threatens to leave him after he nearly drowns their son. (Princeton, NJ) (A Beautiful Mind)
June: Mathematician John Nash returns to Princeton University and requests permission to "hang around". (Princeton University) (A Beautiful Mind)
Tuesday 5th June: Elvis introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show. (Elvis)
Sunday 10th June: As a fulfillment of their "duty of resistence" to French colonialism, Mahmud and Fatiha are married in a secret ceremony under the authority of the FLN. (Algiers, Algeria) (The Battle of Algiers)
Wednesday 20th June: While on morning patrol, a French policeman is stabbed in the throat and robbed of his pistol. An hour later, a police station is ambushed by locals and two more officers are killed. By the afternoon, the streets are openly menaced by automatic weapon fire between rebel factions and the territorial guard. (Algiers, Algeria) (The Battle of Algiers)
Friday 20th July: A Muslim woman smuggles a pistol in her burka through a French Legionaire checkpoint so it may be used to murder a guardsman sitting at a street cafe. Later that day, two more patrolmen fall victim to meticulously planned and executed assassinations. (Algiers, Algeria) (The Battle of Algiers)
Thursday 16th August: Bela Lugosi's dead... from a heart attack. (Los Angeles, CA) (Ed Wood)
October: While holidaying, Ronnie and her Canadian husband bump into old colleague Rachel Stein - now a teacher on a kibbutz. (Israel) (Black Book)