The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Movie history events from 1961
Kathryn Krueger is born (Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare)
Grease 2. (Grease 2)
K-19 The Widowmaker. (K-19: The Widowmaker)
At the American Association of Forensic Science awards dinner, Dr Donald Harper relates the tale of Sidney Barringer's suicide/murder in 1958. (Magnolia)
Project Mercury begins. (Cape Canaveral, Fla) (The Right Stuff)
Elijah Prince, aka Mr Glass, born in a department store. (Philadelphia, PA) (Unbreakable)
Tuesday 10th January: Dashiell Hammett dies. (New York, New York) (Julia)
Tuesday 24th January: Marilyn Monroe divorces Arthur Miller. (The Rat Pack)
Thursday 2nd March: 7 MIB agents, an astronomer and a dumb kid who went down the wrong back road encounter aliens outside New York. (Men in Black)
Wednesday 12th April: First Manned Space Flight, Yuri Gagarin. (Soviet Union) (The Right Stuff)
Saturday 3rd June: Clarence Gideon is arrested and charged with breaking into a poolroom. (Florida) (Gideon's Trumpet)
Monday 17th July: Ty Cobb dies. (Atlanta, Georgia) (Cobb)
Saturday 2nd December: Fidel Castro openly declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist. (Che!)