The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
René Emile Belloq dies. (The Tabernacle, Geheimhaven - Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Ray Robinson (later Charles) starts to lose his sight from glaucoma after seeing his brother drown in the washtub. (Greenville, Florida - Ray)
A young officer named John Truscott arrives in Sarawak to govern the local people. While there, he falls in love with his 'sleeping dictionary', a local girl named Selima. (Sarawak - The Sleeping Dictionary)
Project Armageddon Test Footage: Chronos Sapphire discovered to be the only known element able to stop the Armageddon device. (Spy Kids: All the Time in the World)
Johnny Hooker goes to top con-artist Henry Gondorff to help him 'sting' mob boss Doyle Lonnegan. (Joliet, Illinois - The Sting)
Dewey Randolph Cox born. (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)
Monday 20th January: Hannibal Lecter is born. (Lithuania - Hannibal Rising)
Monday 20th January: King George V dies. His son Edward accedes to the throne, becoming King Edward VIII. (London, England - The King's Speech)
Saturday 18th July: There is a military uprising led by the Fascist General Francisco Franco against the democratically elected government of Spain. (Spain - Land and Freedom)
Wednesday 5th August: Alvin Karpis is sent to Alcatraz prison after pleading guilty to kidnapping. (The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover)
Monday 24th August: Daisy Clover makes a record of herself singing and sends it into a talent contest sponsored by Raymond Swan of Swan Studios. This 25 cent investment leads to a studio contract, fame and misfortune. (Angel Beach, CA - Inside Daisy Clover)
Monday 24th August: David Carr, an underemployed miner and a devote communist, hears an impassioned account of fascist atrocities in Spain and makes up his mind to head off to Barcelona to fight for the Republic. (Liverpool, England - Land and Freedom)
Monday 7th September: Buddy Holly is born. (Lubbock, Texas - The Buddy Holly Story)
Thursday 12th November: Daily Record headline: "MAESTRO RECOVERING. ASSAILENT STILL AT LARGE." (Scotland - Cloud Atlas)
Thursday 12th November: Daily Record headline: "MAESTRO RECOVERING. ASSAILENT STILL AT LARGE." (Scotland - Cloud Atlas)
Friday 11th December: King Edward VIII abdicates the throne after less than a year as king in order to marry American socialite Wallis Simpson. His brother Albert accedes to the throne, becoming King George VI. (London, England - The King's Speech)
Monday 28th December: Jacques Mesrine, the most famous criminal in modern French history is born. (Clichy-La-Garenne, France - Mesrine)
Detective Jake Gittes gets his nose slashed while investigating a case involving adultery, murder and water rights. (Los Angeles, California - Chinatown)
Joseph Yoshinobu Takagi, president of Nagatomi Corporation, born. (Japan - Die Hard)
Vivi Abbot and her friends form the Ya Ya Sisterhood. (Louisiana - Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood)
China and Japan begin a state of undeclared war. (Empire of the Sun)
1937 Chris Craft is made. (Friends with Benefits)
Francesca and Kathryn Corleone born; Johnny Fontaine released from contract to bandleader Les Halley. (The Godfather)
Hitler joins the Thule Society, a collection of German aristocrats obsessed with the occult. (Hellboy)
Anthony Perkins' father dies from a heart attack. (Hitchcock)
Rance Holloway is born. (The Incredible Burt Wonderstone)
Joe Peretti is born. (Mermaids)
Joe Peretti is born. (Mermaids)
Mr Henderson dies, leaving his wife a widow. (England - Mrs. Henderson Presents)
Amelia Earhart is lost at sea. (Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian)
The Soggy Bottom Boys band is formed by Ulysses Everett McGill, Delmar O'Donnell & Pete from an escaped chain-gang. (O Brother, Where Art Thou?)
Since the research into what can be done with marijuana is going nowhere, The United States government declares it illegal. (Pineapple Express)
Johnny Cash's father floats his family out from their home after a flood. (Arkansas - Walk the Line)
Warner Brothers creates Daffy Duck. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
Friday 5th February: "Modern Times" premieres in theatres. (Chaplin)
Saturday 20th March: Harry Vardon dies. (Totteridge, England - The Greatest Game Ever Played)
Friday 26th March: Biff Tannen born. (Back to the Future Part II)
Wednesday 31st March: Ann Chester weds James "Piccadilly Jim" Crocker at St Michael's Cathedral. (New York, New York - Piccadilly Jim)
Wednesday 12th May: King George VI is officially crowned (London, England - The King's Speech)
June: Tim Donahue, the youngest of the Vaudeville family The Five Donahues, graduates from college. The family starts working on a new act. (There's No Business Like Show Business)
Thursday 3rd June: Edward VIII, no longer king, marries Wallis Warfield, the American divorcee for whom he abdicated the British throne. (France - The Woman I Love)
Friday 11th June: Daisy gets into The School of American Ballet. (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
Friday 2nd July: Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick Noonan are reported missing. (near Howland Island, Pacific Ocean - The Aviator)
Sunday 18th July: Verna Carson is born. (Newt, Texas - Texas Chainsaw 3D)
Sunday 18th July: Verna Carson is born. (Newt, Texas - Texas Chainsaw 3D)
Friday 8th October: Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane. (Busman's Honeymoon)
Friday 5th November: High schooler Richard Samuels ditches school and hops a bus for New York City. There he impresses Orson Welles into casting him in the role of Lucius, Brutus' page, in his landmark modern-dress production of "Julius Caesar". (New York City, New York - Me & Orson Welles)
Thursday 11th November: On the morning before opening night of the legendary modern-dress production of "Julius Caesar", young actor Richard Samuels boldly confronts his boss, director and star Orson Welles, jealously accusing Welles of sleeping with his girlfriend, John Houseman's assisent Sonja Jones. Welles fires him on the spot. Later that day, Welles amiably negoitates with Samuels to return for the opening night performance. The production is a critical triumph. That night at the after-party, Samuels learns from Joseph Cotten that Welles has replaced him for the run of the show. (New York City, New York - Me & Orson Welles)
Sunday 14th November: 20 year-old Leonard Lowe becomes catatonic and is sent to Bainbridge Hospital in the Bronx. (New York - Awakenings)
Sunday 5th December: Large Marge is born. (Pee-wee's Big Adventure)
Lorraine Baines born. (Back to the Future Part II)
An alien takes on the form of a human and starts living on Earth under the name Mr. Wu. (The Day the Earth Stood Still)
John Kinsella marries. (Brooklyn, New York - Field of Dreams)
Idgie Threadgoode goes on trial for the murder of Frank Bennet. (Valdosta, GA - Fried Green Tomatoes)
Chauvet Cave in France is revealed to be an entrance to the Hollow Earth. Photos of the findings reveal Titan bones and a handprint from a member of Kong's species. (Chauvet Cave, France - Godzilla vs. Kong)
Hitler acquires the Spear of Longinus that pierced the side of Jesus, increasing his power greatly, as it gives its holder invincibility (apparently). (Hellboy)
Indiana Jones travels to Venice to find his father, kidnapped by Nazis while searching for the Holy Grail. (Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade)
The American-Arab Oil Company is set up. (The Kingdom)
Clive Candy shoots a Red Deer. (Cairngorms - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
A woman begins a career in social services. (Moonrise Kingdom)