The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1977
Danny Archer's father is decapitated in a civil war. (Blood Diamond)
Elvis Presley dies; Groucho Marx dies three days later. (The Devil's Rejects)
The East German Government stops counting suicides. (The Lives of Others)
Voyager 6 is launched from Earth and heads out into deep space. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
Harry Burns meets Sally Albright. (Chicago) (When Harry Met Sally)
Harry first meets Sally, as they drive across America on the way back from college. (When Harry Met Sally)
Sunday 30th January: David Berkowitz kills Christina Freund. (Summer of Sam)
Friday 11th February: Richard Harper is appointed the head of Taft Aerospace, replacing Charlie Blanchard, who resigned. (Fun with Dick and Jane)
Tuesday 8th March: David Berkowitz kills Virginia Voskerichian. (Summer of Sam)
Sunday 17th April: David Berkowitz kills Alexander Esau and Valentina Suriani. (Summer of Sam)
Tuesday 10th May: Joan Crawford dies. (New York, New York) (Mommie Dearest)
Monday 6th June: Lissa is born. (Best Laid Plans)
Thursday 16th June: Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party since 1964, is elected president of the Supreme Soviet, thereby becoming both head of party and head of state . (Brezhnev)
Sunday 26th June: David Berkowitz kills Sal Lupo and Judy Placido. (Summer of Sam)
July: Summer of Sam. (Summer of Sam)
Sunday 31st July: David Berkowitz attacks Stacy Moskowitz and Bobby Violante. Violante survives but Moskowitz dies in the hospital a day and a half later. Berkowitz parks in front of a fire hydrant and receives a parking ticket. (Summer of Sam)
Friday 5th August: On August 5, 1977 Dr Robert Neville discovers he is not “The Last Man On Earth” and there are other survivors from the biological war. (Los Angeles, California) (The Omega Man)
Wednesday 10th August: 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz is arrested and charged with being the "Son of Sam". (Summer of Sam)
Thursday 18th August: Groucho Marx dies of pneumonia. (Los Angeles, California) (Sinatra)
Friday 16th September: Maria Callas dies. (Paris, France) (Callas Forever)
Sunday 25th December: Charlie Chaplin dies. (Vevey, Switzerland) (Chaplin)