The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Movie events on the 23rd February
Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of Europe's most prominent banking empire is born. (Frankfurt, Germany) (Rothschilds, Die)
Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie head a stand-off between Texans and Tejanos. (The Alamo)
FBI investigator Ed Renard orders the German steamship Bismarck detained from leaving New York Harbor. He arrests suspected spy Hilda Kleinhauer and, after presenting her with coded messages found in her belongings, convinces her to cooperate by identifying her accomplices in the United States. (New York, New York) (Confessions of a Nazi Spy)
Woody Guthrie writes "This Land is Your Land." (Bound for Glory)
Scott Hayward, future inventor and speedboat champion, is born into an oil dynasty. (Texas, USA) (Clambake)
U.S. Marines raise the American flag atop Mt. Suribachi, the highest point on the island and a key strategic point. (Iwo Jima) (Flags of Our Fathers)
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. (Iwo Jima, Japan) (X-Men: Days of Future Past)
Scott Hayward receives a vast oil field on his 18th birthday from his oil baron father, Duster Hayward. (Texas, USA) (Clambake)
Special Agent Dana Katherine Scully born. (The X-Files Movie)
Dana Scully is born. (The X-Files Movie)
Stan Laurel dies. (Santa Monica, California) (Chaplin)
Mary Ann Boyd's passport is issued. (Argo)
Timothy Harris' passport is issued. (Argo)
Mary Ann Boyd's passport expires. (Argo)
Timothy Harris' passport expires. (Argo)
The body of homecoming queen Laura Palmer is discovered. (Twin Peaks) (Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me)
Scientists clone a sheep named Dolly. (The 6th Day)
The date that Jim Jacks would have promoted Christine Brown to assistant manager. (Los Angeles, California) (Drag Me To Hell)
Elsa cleans Dodge's apartment. (New York, New York) (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World)