The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies


Movie events on the 15th June

1215

Magna Carta is issued. (England) (Billy Madison)

1849

James K. Polk dies. (Nashville) (The Monroe Doctrine)

1877

Henry O. Flipper is 1st African-American to graduate from U.S. Military Academy. (West Point, New York) (The Trial of the Moke)

1886

Egged on by fellow tavern patrons, newsman Phineas Mitchell offhandedly suggests to Steve Brodie that jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge would be just the fasttrack to fame he's looking for. Brodie weighs the merits of the plan over a couple of beers, much to the chagrin of his fiancee, barmaid Jenny O'Rourke. (New York City, New York) (Park Row)

1904

Side-Wheeler "General Slocum" catches fire in New York's East River, and over a thousand passengers perish. (East River, New York City, New York) (Manhattan Melodrama)

1923

Lou Gehrig plays first professional baseball game for the New York Yankees. (The Pride of the Yankees)

1928

Eagle's Nest Gymnasium is founded. (Los Angeles, CA) (Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel)

1933

George "Machine Gun" Kelly's kidnaps millionaire oilman Charles Urschel, and collects a $200,000 ransom before his capture by the FBI. (Machine-Gun Kelly)

1945

Judy Garland marries Vincente Minnelli. (Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows)

1962

Future news-anchor, congressman and ark-builder Evan Baxter is born. (Evan Almighty)

1966

Carrie Bradshaw is born. (Sex and the City: The Movie)

1968

Eddie King is a no show for a performance and the rest of the group calls him on it the next day. (Uptown Theatre Philadelphia, PA) (The Five Heartbeats)

1980

Magician Lionel Shrike drowns. (New York City, New York) (Now You See Me)

1993

John Connally dies. (Houston, Texas) (The Commission)

1994

By this time Billy Madison has passed grades 1-12 and decides to go to college and become a teacher. Carl takes over the hotel chain. (Billy Madison)

Max videotapes Melissa trying to build a birdhouse. (Washington DC) (Timecop)

8000

no (california) (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest)

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