The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie events on the 2nd April
Prof. E.A. Johnston left a note to be found in the future by his students, so they would come back in time to help him. (Castlegard, France) (Timeline)
Hans Christian Andersen is born. (Odensk, Denmark) (Hans Christian Andersen)
The Confederates are loading Confederate $20 gold coins aboard the ironclad CSS Texas, which has a gun battle down river until disappearing into a fog bank, to be found 140 years later by Dirk Pitt of NUMA in the Sahara desert. (The James River, Vingina) (Sahara)
President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to send U.S. troops into battle against Germany in World War I. (Wilson)
German Lieutenant General Erwin Rommel resumes his advance into Cyrenaica signaling the beginning of what nine days later will become the recapture of Libya by the Axis forces. (Libya) (The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel)
Alberto and Ernesto emark on the Inca Trail. (Cuzco, Peru) (The Motorcycle Diaries)
Alberto pretends it's his 30th birthday. (The Motorcycle Diaries)
Diarmuid Russell convinces Pamela "P.L." Travers to meet with Walt Disney about a film adaptation of her literary character, Mary Poppins. (London, England) (Saving Mr. Banks)
Ed Dalton is born. (Daybreakers)
Nina von Stauffenberg, wife of the would-be Hitler assassin Claus von Stauffenberg, dies. (Valkyrie)
$210 deposited in the Stone Security Bank account of Katherine and Benjamin Mee. (Los Angeles, California) (We Bought a Zoo)
A date in Richard Phillips' email inbox. (Captain Phillips)
Catelaya's boyfriend Danny Delanay takes a picture of her while she is asleep before she leaves to meet with her uncle, who tells her that his friend was murdered in Miami. (Chicago, Illinois) (Colombiana)
Joe Morelli is arrested. (Trenton, New Jersey) (One for the Money)
48 children are found in an abandoned bus; kidnapping suspect is at large. (Elysium)