The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1979
Biff Tannen successfully lobbies to legalise gambling, in one timeline. (Back to the Future Part II)
Danny Archer is sent to South Africa from Zimbabwe. (Blood Diamond)
Carrie White is covered in pigs' blood at her prom and subsequently murders everyone. (Chamberlain, New England) (Carrie)
Journalist Philip Train is awarded the Pulitzer Prize (Chances Are)
Dr Kevin Harrison tries to blow up Concorde to stop TV reporter Maggie Whelan exposing his illegal weapons deal. (The Concorde: Airport '79)
14 year-old Alf constructs his first car bomb, blowing off his eyebrows. (Afghanistan) (Domino)
Newborn baby Christine York is patronised by Satanists as the devil's future bride. (End of Days)
Galaxt Quest TV series premieres. (USA) (Galaxy Quest)
Michael Corleone forges financial links with the Vatican; his daughter Mary is murdered leaving the Palermo Opera House. (The Godfather: Part III)
Philadelphia Eagles special teamer Vince Papale retires after 3 seasons. (Philadelphia, Pa.) (Invincible)
Roy Munson wins State Amateur Championship. (Ocelot,Iowa) (Kingpin)
A rigged horse-race fails when the would-be winner collapses. (Aqueduct Racetrack, New York) (Lucky Number Slevin)
Manhattan. (Manhattan )
Father of IRA terrorist Sean Miller is shot dead by the RUC. (Belfast, Ireland) (Patriot Games)
Royal Mail Steamer Titanic raised from the bottom of the Atlantic by Dirk Pitt and NUMA. (North Atlantic) (Raise the Titanic)
Rocky Balboa loses the heavyweight title to Clubber Lang, only to win it back in a hasty rematch; his son Rocky Jr somehow ages twice as fast as he should. (Rocky III)
Jack The Ripper is let loose on San Franciscan women. (Time After Time)
Tuesday 2nd January: The trial opens for ex-Sex Pistol Sid Vicious, accused of murdering his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen in October 1978. (Sid and Nancy)
Thursday 4th January: Morrie Kessler is killed. (Goodfellas)
Sunday 14th January: Tommy DeSimone is killed for killing Billy Batts. (Queens, New York) (Goodfellas)
Wednesday 7th February: Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi doctor who performed medical experiments at the Auschwitz death camps, dies of a stroke while swimming. (Brazil) (Schindler's List)
Wednesday 28th March: Future CIA operative Nicky Parsons is born. (The Bourne Ultimatum)
Wednesday 11th April: President Idi Amin is overthrown. (Uganda) (The Last King of Scotland)
Wednesday 16th May: Robert "Frenchy" McMahon is killed. (Brooklyn, New York) (Goodfellas)
Wednesday 16th May: Joe "Joe Buddha" Manri is killed. (Brooklyn, New York) (Goodfellas)
Tuesday 29th May: Mary Pickford dies of a cerebral hemorrhage. (Santa Monica, California) (Chaplin)
July: Nicholas Angel decides he wants more than anything to be Kermit the Frog. (Hot Fuzz)
Wednesday 4th July: A local street gang eludes rival gangs and police after they are wrongfully accused of murder. (New York, New York) (The Warriors)
Tuesday 10th July: David Berkowitz's throat slashed in Attica prison and survives with 56 stitches. (Summer of Sam)
Friday 13th July: Gang conclave in Van Cortlandt park goes bad; Cyrus is killed, the Warriors are implicated; Fox and Cleon die, Ajax is arrested, Luther is killed by Gramercy Riffs. (New York) (The Warriors)
Thursday 9th August: Jake and Elwood Blues successfully pay the tax bill for the St Helen of the Blessed Shroud Orphanage. (Chicago, IL) (The Blues Brothers)
Monday 27th August: Lord Louis Mountbatten killed in IRA bombing. (Mullaghmore, Ireland) (Gandhi)
Thursday 29th November: H.I. McDunnough first meets his future wife, the little desert flower Ed -- short for Edwinna -- at the county lock-up in Tempe, Arizona. (Maricopa County Maximum Security Correctional Facility for Men,) (Raising Arizona)
Monday 31st December: At Jack Horner's party, cameraman Scotty J makes a failed pass at porn-star Dirk Diggler; Little Bill kills his wife and her lover. (Boogie Nights)