The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Movie history events from 1962
Dean Vernon Wormer attempts to close down the Delta House Fraternity at Faber College. (Tennessee) (Animal House)
Cuban Missile Crisis; a family goes into hiding. (Blast from the Past)
'To Kill A Mockingbird' released in cinemas. (Capote)
Down With Love. (Down With Love)
Hairspray. (Hairspray)
'How Important Can It Be?' recorded by Wanda Jackson. (LA Confidential)
Matinee. (Matinee)
John Mason is imprisoned in Alcatraz prison. (san francisco) (The Rock)
Scotty Smalls, Ben Rodriguez, and friends try to get an autographed baseball back from Mr.Myrtle's dog, Hercules. (Sawyer Valley, California) (The Sandlot)
Ben & Violet Devereaux buy a large house from the Thorpe family. (New Orleans) (The Skeleton Key)
Cuban Missile Crisis. (Thirteen Days)
900 B.C The Three Stooges useing a time machine and "Calm-Down Pills" help King Odius defeat good King Ullyllius in battle (Ithaca, Greece) (The Three Stooges Meet Hercules)
Thursday 22nd February: Astronaunt John Glenn makes his first orbital flight. (Cape Canaveral) (The Right Stuff)
Tuesday 13th March: Don, future zombie and father to Andy and Tammy, is born. (28 Weeks Later)
Saturday 28th April: Oskar Schindler awarded the honour of righteous Gentile. (Schindler's List)
May: The Corny Collins Show becomes racially integrated. The entire movie takes place within the week or so after we see the newspaper at the beginning. The date on the newspaper is May 3, 1962. I don't know if the 1988 version has the same date, but it is in May, 1962. (Baltimore, MD) (Hairspray (2007))
Saturday 12th May: Neil Daniels is born. (The Bourne Ultimatum)
Monday 11th June: John and Clarence Anglin and Frank Lee Morris escape from Alcatraz federal prison. (San Francisco Bay) (Escape from Alcatraz)
Tuesday 12th June: George Lucas survives a nearly fatal wreck after racing his car at top speed just two days before his high school graduation. (Fall of a Saga )
Thursday 14th June: Evan Baxter, newscaster, congressman, and ark builder, is born. (Evan Almighty)
Friday 15th June: Future news-anchor, congressman and ark-builder Evan Baxter is born. (Evan Almighty)
Thursday 28th June: Mickey Cochrane dies. (Lake Forest, Illinois) (Cobb)
August: The giant ape King Kong is kidnapped and transported to Japan to fight Godzilla. (Tokoyo, Japan) (King Kong vs Godzilla)
August: The Muraoka Family in Hiroshima and the Yamamori Family in Kure join forces. Yamamori becomes the yakuza boss of the newly combined family with 200 members. (Kure, Japan) (The Yakuza Papers 3: Proxy War)
Sunday 5th August: Marilyn Monroe dies from an overdose of barbiturates(?). (Los Angeles, California) (Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn)
September: Bob Falfa loses a race to John Milner by wrecking his car; Steve and his teenage friends go their separate ways. (Modesto, CA) (American Graffiti)
Sunday 14th October: The Cuban Missile Crisis begins. (Thirteen Days)
Saturday 20th October: The White House press corps is told that President John F. Kennedy has a cold; in reality, he is holding secret meetings with advisors on the eve of ordering a blockade of Cuba. (Thirteen Days)
Monday 22nd October: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces that the Soviet Union has placed nuclear weapons in Cuba and, in response, the United States will establish a blockade around the island to prevent any other offensive weapons from entering Castro's state. (Thirteen Days)
Wednesday 7th November: Eleanor Roosevelt dies of bone marrow tuberculosis. (Manhattan, New York) (Eleanor, First Lady of the World)
Friday 9th November: Bridget Jones born. (Bridget Jones's Diary)