The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1963
For some unknown reason, birds begin a series of attacks on people. (Bodega Bay, California) (The Birds)
Cowboys Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar meet and fall in love. (Brokeback Mountain)
Frank Abangale Sr. is made a lifetime member of the Rotary Club. (New Rochelle, NY) (Catch Me If You Can)
Dirty Dancing. (Dirty Dancing)
Gen Jack D Ripper orders four B-52s to bomb a secret nuclear site beneath the Arctic peaks of the Zhokhov Islands. (Dr. Strangelove)
A cargo aircraft crashes after running into a sand storm, the crew rebuilds the aircraft and flies to safety. (Sahara dessert) (Flight of the Phoenix)
Integration of the University of Alabama. (Forrest Gump)
The Tax The Churches League is sent to prison for the attempted kidnapping of Billy Graham. (Foul Play)
Full Metal Jacket. (Full Metal Jacket)
Michael Myers murders his sister Judith and is committed to a mental asylum. (Halloween)
JFK assassinated by... someone. (JFK)
Tuff Ryan get taught to drive by her father. (Defiance, OH) (The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio)
Frank Castle, aka: the Punisher, is born. (The Punisher)
Charlie Babbit born. (Rain Man)
John Mason escapes Alcatraz prison. (San Francisco, CA) (The Rock)
JFK starts an embargo against Cuba, putting an end to Cuban-made sansabelt slacks. The move sets him up to be assassinated by male models. (Zoolander)
Thursday 21st March: Alcatraz Prison closes down and transfers its last prisoners. (San Francisco Bay) (Escape from Alcatraz)
May: Gordon Cooper made the last and longest of the Mercury flights. (Cape Canaveral, Fla) (The Right Stuff)
June: Henry Hill helps bury mob captain Billy Batts, killed by Tommy Desimone and Jimmy Burke. (Upstate New York) (Goodfellas)
Wednesday 5th June: British Secretary of War John Profumo resigns his post following revelations that he had lied to the House of Commons about his sexual affair with Christine Keeler, an alleged prostitute. (Scandal)
Wednesday 12th June: Medgar Evers assassinated. (Jackson, Mississippi) (For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story )
Sunday 23rd June: Marin Luther King gives the first version of his famous "I Have a Dream" speech during the The Great March On Detroit at Cobo Hall Detroit, Michigan. (This is the version heard in the film, not the version from the March on Washington two months later) (Detroit, Michigan) (Dreamgirls)
July: Frances "Baby" Houseman holidays with her family, and falls for dance instructor Johnny Castle. (Catskill Mountains of New York) (Dirty Dancing)
Sunday 25th August: The 'Jackal' attempts to assassinate Charles De Gaulle (Paris) (The Day of the Jackal)
Monday 26th August: Hideo Hayakawa, Yoshio Yamamori's ally, attacks the family of his former boss Noboru Uchimoto, now an ally of yakuza boss Tatsuo Akashi. The Hiroshima Battle begins. (Hiroshima, Japan) (The Yakuza Papers 3: Proxy War)
Wednesday 28th August: Martin Luther King delivers his 'I Have A Dream' speech. (Lincoln Memorial) (Dreamgirls)
Tuesday 10th September: After a brief argument with members of the Makihara family, Hirono family member Kiyoshi Kawanishi drew his gun and pulled the trigger three times, misfiring each time. He was then shot dead in the street, sparking a new wave of violence between powerful yakuza families in Hiroshima and Kobe. (Kure, Japan) (The Yakuza Papers 4: Police Tactics)
Friday 11th October: Tomoji Okajima, chairman of Gisei Group, is gunned down in his garden. (Kure, Japan) (The Yakuza Papers 4: Police Tactics)
Thursday 17th October: The Gun Battle of Shintenchi: 2 dead, 3 critically wounded. After the wild public brawl turned deadly and directly threatened ordinary citizens, anti-gang sentiment boiled over. Pressured from all sides, the District Attorney orders the round-up of all yakuza family leaders. (Shintenchi, Japan) (The Yakuza Papers 4: Police Tactics)
Sunday 20th October: Boss Tatsuo Akashi's residence is bombed; in retaliation, the Shinwa Group offices are attacked, and gun-battles also erupt in Hiroshima between Akira Takeda loyalists and Shinichi Iwai's men at Takeda's offices. (Kure, Japan) (The Yakuza Papers 4: Police Tactics)
Friday 25th October: Shoichi Fujita, underboss of the Gisei Group, is shot dead by Hiroshi Yakuzi with the same gun Yakuzi received as a gift from Fujita; Yakuzi is apprehended that night. (Kure, Japan) (The Yakuza Papers 4: Police Tactics)
November: Ennis Del Mar marries Alma Beers. (Riverton, Wyoming) (Brokeback Mountain)
Friday 1st November: Phillip Perry is abducted from his house by escaped convicts Butch Haynes & Terry Pugh. (Texas) (A Perfect World)
Friday 22nd November: U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated. (Dallas, Texas) (JFK)
December: Tommy, Jimmy and Henry move Billy Batts' body when mob boss Paul Vario tells them they're building condos up there. (Upstate New York) (Goodfellas)