The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1980
Ray Finkle graduates with honors from Stetson University holding 2 NCAA Div I kicking records, one for most points in a season & the other for distance. (Deland, Fl) (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective)
Air passengers are trapped after the pilot, co-pilot and navigator pass out due to poisoned food. (Airplane)
Ten year-old Alyssa Jones falls on a fence-post, breaking her hymen. (Chasing Amy)
USS Nimitz disappears through a temporal vortex, manifesting itself as a storm. (The Final Countdown)
Anthony Cortino marries Diane, and arranges a lot of deaths on the same day. (Jane Austen's Mafia!)
Cuban refugee Tony Montana arrives in the U.S. and is detained with thousands of others at Mariel Harbor. (Miami, Fl) (Scarface)
Richard Collier hypnotises himself in an attempt to travel back in time. (Somewhere In Time)
Playwright Richard Collier hypnotises himself back in time to 1912. (Somewhere In Time)
Superman throws a terrorist bomb from the Eiffel Tower into space, freeing General Zod from his glass prison. (Superman II)
The Thing assimilates Norwegian and American science teams. (The Thing)
Kira, a muse, insipres Sonny to transform an old Auditorium into a roller disco rink. (Xanadu)
Friday 15th February: Lillian Hellman files a lawsuit claming $2.2 million in damages against novelist Mary McCarthy for libel. (Dash and Lilly )
Friday 22nd February: US Men's Hockey team of amateur and collegiate players beats USSR no.1 team, is dubbed the 'Miracle On Ice' and goes on to win Olympic gold. (Miracle)
Sunday 18th May: Joy Division singer Ian Curtis found hanged from apparent suicide in his flat, aged 26. (Manchester, England) (24 Hour Party People)
Sunday 18th May: Mount St. Helens erupts, causing a massive avalanche and killing 57 people. (96 miles south of Seattle, Washington) (Mount St. Helens)
June: Llewelyn Moss steals 2 million dollars from drug smugglers who were killed when the deal went bad. (Texas) (No Country For Old Men)
Thursday 31st July: Harry Potter born. (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
Sunday 21st December: Wealthy socialite Sunny" von Bulow is found in a coma--the result of what appeared to be an insulin overdose. (Newport, Rhode Island) (Reversal of Fortune)