The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Movie history events from 1973
William Miller and Penny Lane go on tour with Stillwater. (New York) (Almost Famous)
Sam "Ace" Rothstein begins running a casino. (Las Vegas) (Casino)
Dante Hicks poos his pants because the seat to his potty is down and he refuses to lift it. (Clerks)
Caesar's ape parents are killed by humans, and the caretaker hides him in a circus. (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)
Deena Jones and The Dreams have another No 1 hit record, called 'In Touch'. (Dreamgirls)
Terence Mann gives his last interview, saying that his one regret was that he would have loved to have played with the Chicago White Sox. (Field of Dreams)
Gloria Mundy is unknowningly given information about an upcoming assassination attempt on Pope Pius XIII. (San Francisco, CA) (Foul Play)
Future suspected paedophile Jeff Kohlver is born. (Hard Candy)
The Ice Storm. (The Ice Storm)
The Saudi Arabian oil embargo begins. (The Kingdom)
Astronauts travel 3000 years into the future and bring back talking apes, who are killed by the police and the investigation files sealed. (Planet of the Apes (1968))
Dan Freeman launches black nationalist guerrilla war in Chicago using tactics learned in CIA training. (Chicago) (The Spook Who Sat by the Door)
Princess Daisy is hatched and raised at St Teresa's. (Brooklyn, New York) (Super Mario Bros.)
Monday 1st January: 12:01am - The Poseidon, a luxury liner on its last voyage from Athens to New York, is struck by a 90ft tidal wave and capsizes. (The Poseidon Adventure)
Saturday 6th January: A Mercedes-Benz 770K sedan, supposedly Adolf Hitler's parade car, was sold at auction for $153,000.00, the most money ever paid for a car at auction at that time. (The Boys from Brazil)
Thursday 11th January: Howard Hunt pleads guilty to three counts of conspiracy. (All the President's Men)
Monday 15th January: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon suspends military action in North Vietnam giving peace talks between his secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, and North Vietnamese leader Le Duc Tho a chance to succeed. (Nixon)
Tuesday 23rd January: President Nixon announces that Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho have initialled a peace agreement in Paris "to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam and Southeast Asia." (Nixon)
Thursday 15th March: George McFly wins a writing award, or is killed, depending on the timeline. (Hill Valley, CA) (Back to the Future Part II)
Thursday 15th March: President Nixon hints that the United States might intervene again in Vietnam to prevent communist violations of the truce. (Nixon)
May: Travis Bickle receives an honorable discharge from the Marines. (Taxi Driver)
June: Mossad debriefs a killer it may or may not have hired. (Munich)
Wednesday 13th June: Kissinger and Le Duc Tho sign new peace agreement. (Kissinger and Nixon )
Monday 23rd July: Eddie Rickenbacker dies. (Zurich, Switzerland) (Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, The )
Friday 17th August: Jeb Stuart Magruder pleads guilty to helping plan Watergate break-in. (All the President's Men)
Saturday 18th August: 5 people are terrorized after a woman kills herself in their van; they travel to the nearest town only to find a crazed man wielding a chainsaw. (Texas) (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003))
Saturday 18th August: Five kids fallprey to a cannibalistic family. (TExas) (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
Monday 20th August: Police are dispatched to a remote farmhouse in Travis County where they find the butchered remains of 33 victims, killed by Leatherface. (Travis County, Texas) (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003))
Saturday 6th October: Yom Kippur War begins. (Ayam El-Sadat)
Saturday 20th October: Solicitor General Robert Bork dismisses Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox; Attorney General Richardson and Deputy Attorney General Ruckelshaus resign in protest. (Nixon)
Thursday 25th October: President Nixon vetoes the War Powers Resolution, which would limit presidential power to commit armed forces abroad without Congressional approval. (Nixon)
Monday 5th November: Donald Segretti is sentenced to six months in prison. (All the President's Men)
Friday 16th November: Richard Nixon declares that America’s energy requirements have outpaced its production capacity and urges Congress to pass Senate Bill 1081, which would authorize the construction of a pipeline to access oil from the North Slope of Alaska. (Nixon)
Saturday 17th November: Richard Nixon tells a group of newspaper editors that he is "not a crook." (Orlando, Florida) (Nixon)
Sunday 25th November: Richard M. Nixon calls for a Sunday ban on the sale of gasoline to consumers. (Nixon)
Sunday 25th November: Richard M. Nixon calls for a Sunday ban on the sale of gasoline to consumers. (Nixon)