The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Movie events on the 15th August
At the Battle of Lumphanan, King Macbeth of Scotland is slain by Malcolm Canmore, whose father, King Duncan I, was murdered by Macbeth 17 years earlier. (Macbeth)
Edna Ferber is born. (Kalamazoo, Michigan) (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle)
Mattie Ross arrives at the Wild West Show and discovers that Rooster had died 3 days earlier. (True Grit)
Will Rogers killed in plane crash. (Alaska) (The Story of Will Rogers)
Police Chief Wolf-Heinrich von Helldorfq executed for his part in the assassination attempt on Hitler. (Germany) (Valkyrie)
Emperor Hirohito broadcasts the news of Japan's surrender to the Japanese people. (MacArthur)
The Partition of India. (India) (Life of Pi)
Nicholas Lundy, veteran of two wars, father of nine children, drowns. (Caspian Sea) (The Royal Tenenbaums)
Richard Nixon turns his attention away from the war in Vietnam and announces a sweeping series of economic initiatives, including a ninety-day freeze on wages and rents, as well as the end of America's twenty-five-year-old policy of converting foreign money into gold. (Nixon)
Rocky loses a boxing match against Clubber Lang. Mickey Goldmill dies after having a heart attack. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) (Rocky III)
Mei Ying invites Dre to the Qixi Festival. (Beijing, China) (The Karate Kid)
The RDA destroys Hometree. (Pandora) (Avatar)