The Movie Timeline - here's looking at movies, kid
Cheryl Melhoff is born. (New York City, New York - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
Dedication of Weather Vane. (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)
The Defiant Ones is released. (Six Degrees of Separation)
Smurfs are first documented by the Belgian Pierre Culliford, also known as Peyo. (The Smurfs)
An extraterrestrial crashes on Earth. (Super 8)
Future police officer Marty MacGuire is born. (Boston, Massachusetts - The Town)
Johnny Cash duets with June Carter for the first time. (Wheeling, WV - Walk the Line)
Thursday 2nd January: Maria Callas walks off after the first act of a gala performance of Bellini's "Norma" claiming illness. (Rome, Italy - Callas Forever)
Thursday 23rd January: Emilio Lopez, illegitimate son of Preston Blake and Consuela Lopez, is born. (New York City, New York - Mr. Deeds)
Tuesday 28th January: Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, kill a Nebraskan businessman, his wife and their maid, as part of a murderous crime spree that began a week earlier and would leave 10 people dead. (Starkweather)
Thursday 6th February: Paul McCartney introduces George Harrison to John Lennon. (Liverpool, England - In His Life: The John Lennon Story)
Sunday 23rd February: Scott Hayward receives a vast oil field on his 18th birthday from his oil baron father, Duster Hayward. (Texas, USA - Clambake)
March: People do a big year. (The Big Year)
March: George Harrison joins The Quarrymen. (Liverpool, England - In His Life: The John Lennon Story)
Friday 21st March: This is the birth date claimed by "journalist" Egor Korshunov. Considering he's really a terrorist, this might have been falsified. (Air Force One)
Sunday 23rd March: Sidney Barringer attempts suicide by jumping off his apartment, but is killed by a passing bullet fired by his mother 3 stories below. (Los Angeles - Magnolia)
Wednesday 26th March: In one timeline, Biff Tannen wins his first million on a horse race. (Back to the Future Part II)
April: People do a big year. (The Big Year)
Friday 4th April: Johnny Stompanato stabbed by Lana Turner's 14 year-old daughter on Academy Awards night, as Lana is nominated for Peyton Place. (Los Angeles - LA Confidential)
May: People do a big year. (The Big Year)
Tuesday 13th May: Richard Nixon's car is attacked by an angry crowd and nearly overturned. (Caracas, Venezuela - Nixon)
June: People do a big year. (The Big Year)
Friday 6th June: Roswell Daily Gazette contains the headline "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region". (Race to Witch Mountain)
Friday 13th June: Two Camp Crystal Lake counselors are mysteriously murdered. (Friday the 13th)
Monday 23rd June: Life magazine headline: "AT HOME WITH JANE MANSFIELD." (New York City, New York - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
July: People do a big year. (The Big Year)
July: People do a big year. (The Big Year)
July: A flesh eating mass from another world is stopped by a group of teenagers. (Phoenixville, Pa. - The Blob)
Monday 14th July: A drive-in screening The Ten Commandments (1956) is featured on the cover of Life magazine. (New York City, New York - The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)
Tuesday 15th July: John Lennon's mother is struck by a car and killed. (Liverpool, England - In His Life: The John Lennon Story)
Tuesday 15th July: John Lennon's mom gets hit by a car while he sings at Paul McCartney's house. (Liverpool, England - Nowhere Boy)
Sunday 20th July: Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts goes off the air. (Sweet Dreams)
August: People do a big year. (The Big Year)
September: People do a big year. (The Big Year)
Wednesday 3rd September: Alice is abducted from her home and chained up in a farmhouse. (The Ward)
Friday 26th September: Darby Crash, future founder and frontman for the punk rock band The Germs, is born Jan Paul Beahm in Los Angeles, California. (Los Angeles, California - What We Do Is Secret)
Wednesday 8th October: At last was on the radio when bud and the girl are going to the lake. Etta James didn't sing that until 1960 (Pleasantville)
Saturday 25th October: Radio-Television News Directors Association's Salute to Edward R Murrow. (Good Night, and Good Luck)
November: Thunderhead's cape snags on a missile. (The Incredibles)
November: Alice escapes and burns the farmhouse to the ground. She is traumatized and starts creating multiple personalities. (The Ward)
Monday 8th December: Tris Speaker dies. (Lake Whitney, Texas - The Babe)
Thursday 25th December: C.C. Baxter goes to the zoo, takes a walk, and comes back to his apartment to clean up after his boss, who had thrown an eggnog party there the night before. (New York City - The Apartment)
In one timeline, Biff Tannen named 'The Luckiest Man on Earth'. (Back to the Future Part II)
Truman Capote develops a close relationship with Perry Smith, a killer he's interviewing for his book In Cold Blood. (Capote)
Vianne Rocher and her daughter Anouk come to a small Franch town and open a chocolate shop, which shakes things up. (Chocolat)
A blonde woman with green eyes is born. (Texas - The Devil's Rejects)
Carmella Corleone and son Fredo die; Kay separates from Michael Corleone. (The Godfather: Part II)
Edna Buxton meets Joel Millner, who hires her as a songwriter for the Brill Building, and changes her name to Denise Waverly. (New York - Grace of My Heart)
Frederick Loren and his wife invite five strangers for a "party" at a haunted house-a party that invoves murder, mystery, money and supernatural beings. (House on Haunted Hill)
A time capsule containing students' drawings of their ideas of the future is buried at William Dawes Elementary School. Lucinda Embry contributes a page full of seemingly random digits, before running off to a closet to go mad hearing voices. (Lexington, Massachusetts - Knowing)
Kathy Morgan is born to Virginia and Robert Morgan. (The Last Man on Earth)
North By Northwest released seen by cinema-goers, including Shlomo and his father. (Lucky Number Slevin)
Dominick Salvatore Rizzo, father of Enrico Salvatore "Ratso" Rizzo, dies at age 73. (Midnight Cowboy)
Jamming with The Clapper Family, George Menschell suggests a neuftet with his own The Village Folk Ensemble - The Main Street Singers are born. (A Mighty Wind)
Red gives Andy a picture of a woman for his 10th anniversary of imprisonment. Andy receives more funds from the government for the library project. (The Shawshank Redemption)
Stand By Me. (Stand By Me)
Sarah Connor is born. (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines)
A guitar later used by Nigel Tufnel is made. (This is Spinal Tap)
A man who will one day become an oversized baggage agent is born. (Los Angeles, California - Valentine's Day)
Thursday 1st January: Mob boss Michael Corleone flees when Fidel Castro takes power. (Cuba - The Godfather: Part II)