The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie events on the 10th August
Native American tribes allied with the French massacre British troops as they relocate to a new fort. (The Last of the Mohicans)
Herbert Hoover is born. (West Branch, Iowa) (The Day the Bubble Burst)
Virginia and Leonard Woolf marry. (London, England) (The Hours)
Arthur Nixon dies of tuberculosis. (Nixon)
Sgt. Pepper leaves his musical instruments. (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Bill, which establishes the Department of Defense. (Truman)
'Ocean's Eleven' opens in cinemas. (The Rat Pack)
24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz is arrested and charged with being the "Son of Sam". (Summer of Sam)
Marcy Franklin receives a prescription of Butesin for 2nd degree burns. (New York) (After Hours)
Dade Murphy crashes 1,507 computer systems in one day, including Wall Street trading systems,single handedly causing a seven point drop in the New York Stock Market. (Seattle, Washington) (Hackers)
A large group of aliens continue to hold out in the African Congo - the lone survivors of a crashed City Destroyer. The ESD repeatedly offers their support and assistance to the local government, but is met with aggressive refusal. (Congo) (Independence Day: Resurgence)
MNU Officer Wikus Van De Merwe is hospitalised after falling victim to a contaminating liquid from an alien canister. (Johannesburg, South Africa) (District 9)
Terraforming begins with plans for multiple settlements. (Luna) (Prometheus)