The Movie Timeline - it's like a timeline, but of movies
Movie events on the 8th July
Commodore Perry sails into Tokyo Bay. (Japan) (The Bushido Blade)
Soapy Smith killed. (Skagway, Alaska) (Klondike Fever)
Gwendolyn B. Bennett is born. (Giddings, Texas) (The Great Debaters)
Ernest Hemingway is severely wounded while carrying a companion to safety on the Austro-Italian front during World War I. (In Love and War)
General Douglas MacArthur is appointed head of the United Nations Command in Korea by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. (MacArthur)
Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest premiers. (Chicago, Illinois) (Hitchcock)
Mickey Mantle hits his 491st career home run. (Born on the Fourth of July)
James Bond is falsely murdered in the early hours. Later on the same day an article about it was published in the newspaper. (Hong Kong) (You Only Live Twice)
Quint dies and the shark is blown up. (Near Amity Island) (Jaws)
Hannibal Lecter savages a nurse during a medical examination. (Red Dragon)
A nurse tends to Hannibal Lecter, and he attacks her, causing her to need a reset jaw and eye. (The Silence of the Lambs)
The events of Friday the 13th Part 2 begin. (Friday the 13th Part 2)
A barbecue doesn't take place. (Louisville, Kentucky) (The Return of the Living Dead)
Pia Lange, an eleven year old girl, is stalked and attacked while riding her bicycle on a rural road near a small provincial German town. She is raped and murdered in a field by Danish national Peer Sommer while his student, Timo Friedrich, watches paralyzed from Sommer's car. Sommer then packs Pia's body into his trunk to later dispose of her body, tossing her bicycle into the high grass. (Germany) (The Silence)
Pia Lange, an eleven year old girl, is stalked and attacked while riding her bicycle on a rural road near a small provincial German town. She is raped and murdered in a field by Danish national Peer Sommer while his student, Timo Friedrich, watches paralyzed from Sommer's car. Sommer then packs Pia's body into his trunk to later dispose of her body, tossing her bicycle into the high grass. (Germany) (The Silence)
Dre Parker is born. (Detroit, MI) (The Karate Kid)
Skyfleet prototype aircraft takes it's maiden flight after a terrorist bombing attempt is foiled at Miami Int'l Airport. (Miami, Fl) (Casino Royale)
Dre Parker's height is measured on his 9th Birthday. (Detroit, MI) (The Karate Kid)
Rachel refuses to answer Dex's calls. Darcy ends up thinking Rachel had sex with Ethan and spends the night at her house. (New York City) (Something Borrowed)
Nick Dunne holds a press conference concerning the disappearance of his wife Anne. (Gone Girl)
Andie Fitzgerald leaves after having sex with Nick, whose sister Margo confronts him about the affair. That night, a vigil and press conference are held. (Missouri) (Gone Girl)