The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Movie history events from 1974
Ray Kinsella marries Annie. (Field of Dreams)
Lieutenant Dan hashes it out with God, perched atop the mast of the shrimping boat "Jenny" during Hurricane Carmen. (Bayou Le Batre, Louisiana) (Forrest Gump)
O-ren Ishii is born. (Kill Bill: Volume 1)
Suicidal folkist Mitch Cohen releases his first solo album, 'A Cry For Help'. (A Mighty Wind)
My Girl 2. (My Girl 2)
The Chesapeake Ripper terrorises locals. (Baltimore) (Red Dragon)
Englishman Alec Stewart finishes second in the Albanian Grand Prix. (Albania) (Speed Zone!)
Wednesday 2nd January: Richard Nixon signs the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act, setting a new national maximum speed limit. (Nixon)
Friday 1st February: Lynda Ann Healy disappears from her apartment and is killed by Ted Bundy. (Ted Bundy)
Monday 4th February: The Symbionese Liberation Army abducts Patty Hearst. (Berkeley, California) (Citizen Tania)
Friday 22nd February: The Assassination of Richard Nixon. (The Assassination of Richard Nixon)
Tuesday 26th February: Herbert Kalmbach pleads guilty to illegal White House fundraising. (All the President's Men)
April: Stealer's Wheel reach no.5 with 'Stuck In The Middle With You'. (Reservoir Dogs)
Saturday 6th April: Dwight Chapin guilty of lying to Grand Jury. (All the President's Men)
Friday 12th April: Herbert Porter gets 30 days for lying to the FBI. (All the President's Men)
Monday 29th April: President Nixon announces release of White House Watergate tapes. (Nixon)
Friday 17th May: Richard Kleindienst enters guilty plea. (All the President's Men)
Friday 24th May: Duke Ellington dies. (New York, New York) (Cotton Club, The )
Tuesday 4th June: Charles Colson pleads guilty to felony obstruction. (All the President's Men)
Sunday 14th July: Carl Spaatz dies. (Washington, D.C.) (Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, The )
Saturday 27th July: U.S. President Nixon charged with first of three articles of impeachment. (Nixon)
Tuesday 6th August: Tapes show Richard Nixon approved Watergate cover-up. (All the President's Men)
Thursday 8th August: Brad Majors' car breaks down and he and Janet Weiss encounter alien beings in a large mansion. (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
Friday 9th August: Richard Nixon resigns; Gerald Ford sworn in. (All the President's Men)
Monday 26th August: Charles Lindbergh dies. (Maui, Hawaii) (The Spirit of St. Louis)
Sunday 8th September: President Gerald Ford, who assumed office on the heels of President Richard M. Nixon’s resignation, pardons his predecessor for his involvement in the Watergate scandal. (Nixon)
October: Kate Reilly is a Playmate. (Tremors 2)
Wednesday 9th October: Oskar Shindler dies, and is taken for burial at the Latin Cemetery on Mount Zion, Jerusalem. (Frankfurt Germany) (Schindler's List)
Friday 8th November: Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes being abducted by serial killer Ted Bundy. (Salt Lake City, Utah) (Ted Bundy)
Wednesday 13th November: Ronald DeFeo Jr massacres his parents, two brothers and two sisters - in his defense, the house told him to do it. (Amityville, New York) (The Amityville Horror (2005))
Wednesday 13th November: Karen Silkwood is discovered dead in a single car accident. (Crescent, Oklahoma) (Silkwood)