The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Movie history events from 1966
United Underworld, The Joker, The Penguin, The Riddler, and Catwoman plot to take over the world, but are stopped by Batman and Robin. (Gotham City) (Batman (1966))
Jenny Del Mar, the second daughter and final child of Ennis and Alma Del Mar, is born. (Riverton, Wyoming.) (Brokeback Mountain)
Bethany Sloane allows neighbour Bryan Johnson to urinate on her hand. (Dogma)
A medical team is shrunk down and injected into a dying man, to save his life. (L.A., Ca.) (Fantastic Voyage)
Freddy is arrested for the murders of 20 children; Kathryn Krueger is put into foster care, then later adoption. (Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare)
Mitch & Mickey perform 'A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow' on TV's 'Lee Aikman's Folk Hour'. (A Mighty Wind)
Lars Olfen, aged 16, meets country music mogul Irving Steinbloom outside a Folksmen concert, and is given a free ticket. (A Mighty Wind)
Andy Dufresne escapes Shawshank Prison. (The Shawshank Redemption)
Most of the Earth's population wiped out by a plague, after three decades of global warfare. (Things To Come)
Marti DiBergi attends his first Spinal Tap concert at the Electric Banana. (Greenwich Village, New York) (This is Spinal Tap)
Nuclear war between USA and Cuba; a time machine arrives to witness an air-raid. (The Time Machine (1960))
Johnny Cash tries to quit drugs and alcohol. (Nashville) (Walk the Line)
Monday 23rd May: Sakichi Sugita, associate of the powerful Tensei Coalition, is murdered in the streets of the Takeya District by two armed recruits under orders from yakuza family head Terukichi Ichioka. (Hiroshima, Japan) (The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode)
June: His term of office expired, 2nd Chairman of the Tensei Coalition Akira Takeda is taken into custody on charges of smuggling and illegal possession of handguns only hours after passing the chairmanship to his handpicked successor, Managing Director Tamotsu Matsumura. (Hiroshima, Japan) (The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode)
Monday 6th June: Jojo Floss gets drunk for the last time, until her daughter is killed. (Moonlight Mile)
Monday 6th June: Damien Thorn, son of Satan, is born at 6:00am. (The Omen)
Monday 6th June: Andy/Adrian, son of Rosemary Woodhouse and Satan, is born, prompting one prominent Satanist to declare: "God is dead! Satan lives! The year is One!" (Possible alternate year for this event: 0001) . (New York City) (Rosemary's Baby)
Tuesday 7th June: Ronald Reagan is elected Governor of California. (The Reagans)
Thursday 14th July: Eight student nurses are brutally murdered by Richard Speck at their group residence. (Chicago, Illinois) (Speck)
Tuesday 19th July: Frank Sinatra marries Mia Farrow. (Sinatra)
Saturday 30th July: England beat West Germany in the FIFA World Cup Final. (Wembley Stadium, London) (Sixty Six)
Thursday 18th August: Atomic satellite attack, George stops his time machine and speaks with David Filby's son James. (London) (The Time Machine (1960))
Sunday 30th October: The Zodiac Killer takes his first victim. (Zodiac)
Sunday 30th October: The Zodiac Killer takes his first victim. (Zodiac)
Saturday 31st December: Deena Jones and The Dreams perform a special New Year's show at a Vegas hotel. (Dreamgirls)