The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie history events from 1981
Movie producer Fanny Nash is stabbed by her personal trainer and then develops agoraphobia. (The Last Shot)
The events of the original A Nightmare on Elm Street take place. (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
Lew Hayward dies of a heart attack while playing golf. (Scrooged)
The Thing reaches civilisation and begins systematic assimilation of all animal life. (The Thing)
Carl Peterson meets Randy Dupree. (You, Me and Dupree)
Sunday 25th January: The Superdome: Philadelphia head coach Dick Vermeil leads the Eagles to their first Super Bowl appearance. (New Orleans, La) (Invincible)
Sunday 1st March: Ron Weasley is born. (Hogwarts) (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
Tuesday 24th March: An alignment of the stars in the Casseopeia region heralds the Second Coming of Christ. (England) (Omen III: The Final Conflict)
Wednesday 13th May: Pope John Paul II is shot and wounded by Turkish terrorist Mehmet Ali Agca. (Rome, Italy) (Pope John Paul II)
Wednesday 3rd June: McLovin is born. (Superbad)
July: Wet Hot American Summer. (Wet Hot American Summer)
July: The Laurel Canyon Murders or the Wonderland Murders happened. (Hollywood, Ca.) (Wonderland)
Wednesday 8th July: A nurse tends to Hannibal Lecter, and he attacks her, causing her to need a reset jaw and eye. (The Silence of the Lambs)
Tuesday 14th July: Chris Gardner completes a sale of his medical device for the first time in months. (The Pursuit of Happyness)
Wednesday 2nd September: Chris Gardner receives a severe tax demand. (San Francisco) (The Pursuit of Happyness)
Friday 25th September: Chris Gardner's bank account is drained by the government for his tax bill. (San Francisco) (The Pursuit of Happyness)
Saturday 31st October: Voldemort tries to kill Harry Potter after murdering his parents & resultantly loses physical form. Hagrid rescues baby Harry from Godric's Hollow. (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
Saturday 31st October: An attack on Harry Potter destroys Lord Voldemort's powers; Harry survives, with a lightning bolt shaped scar on his forehead, and Voldemort's spectral being flees to Albania. (Godric's Hollow, England) (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone)
Tuesday 3rd November: Maggie Feller asks for a puppy, and for a day she her sister Rose get one, till their father removes it from them. (In Her Shoes)
Thursday 5th November: Caroline Feller commits suicide by driving into a tree, leaving two daughters - Rose and Maggie - in the care of her husband. (In Her Shoes)
Saturday 5th December: Thomas Marcano and John Reilly kill Sean Nokes. (New York City) (Sleepers)
Friday 25th December: Jim Williams' lavish Christmas Party, where he murders his hotheaded ex-lover Billy. (Savannah, GA) (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil)
Friday 25th December: Rocky Balboa defeats Ivan Drago, who was already killed Apollo Creed, in an exhibition boxing match. (Soviet Union) (Rocky IV)