The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Monday 29th July: Christopher Boyce signs a security agreement to not transmit classified information to any unauthorized person or agency. (The Falcon and the Snowman)
Monday 5th August: Elena Benanidio checks into Hotel Francis Duke. (Central City - Hotel for Dogs)
Tuesday 6th August: Tapes show Richard Nixon approved Watergate cover-up. (All the President's Men)
Thursday 8th August: Brad Majors' car breaks down and he and Janet Weiss encounter alien beings in a large mansion. (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)
Friday 9th August: Richard Nixon resigns; Gerald Ford sworn in. (All the President's Men)
Monday 26th August: Charles Lindbergh dies. (Maui, Hawaii - The Spirit of St. Louis)
Sunday 8th September: President Gerald Ford, who assumed office on the heels of President Richard M. Nixon (Nixon)
Saturday 21st September: Los Angeles Times headline: "Beatle John Lennon Slain Shot Down Outside New York Apartment." (Los Angeles, California - We Bought a Zoo)
Sunday 22nd September: Molly Vernon is raped at her home in the evening. (Glen Echo, Oregon - Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon)
Tuesday 24th September: Mark Daniel Curtis is questioned by police about the brutal rape of Molly Vernon. (Glen Echo, Oregon - Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon)
Saturday 28th September: The Glen Echo Press newspaper contains an article titled, "Drifter questioned and released in rape of Glen Echo woman." It is about Mark Daniel Curtis. (Glen Echo, Oregon - Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon)
October: Kate Reilly is a Playmate. (Tremors 2)
Saturday 5th October: A bomb destroys a pub killing 5 and seriously injuring 75 people. (Guildford, England - In the Name of the Father)
Wednesday 9th October: Oskar Shindler dies, and is taken for burial at the Latin Cemetery on Mount Zion, Jerusalem. (Frankfurt Germany - Schindler's List)
Friday 8th November: Carol DaRonch narrowly escapes being abducted by serial killer Ted Bundy. (Salt Lake City, Utah - Ted Bundy)
Sunday 10th November: Theodore Arroway dies of myocardial infarction, leaving his daughter Ellie an orphan. (Contact)
Sunday 10th November: Nyah Nordoff-Hall born. (Mission: Impossible 2)
Wednesday 13th November: Ronald DeFeo Jr massacres his parents, two brothers and two sisters - in his defense, the house told him to do it. (Amityville, New York - The Amityville Horror)
Wednesday 13th November: A mother, father and four of their children murdered... No apparent motive. (Amityville, Long Island - The Amityville Horror)
Wednesday 13th November: Karen Silkwood is discovered dead in a single car accident. (Crescent, Oklahoma - Silkwood)
Thursday 14th November: An article about the DeFeo murders appears in the newspaper. (Amityville, Long Island - The Amityville Horror)
Tuesday 3rd December: Winslow Leach assaults a guard and escapes from Sing Sing. After vandalizing Death Records, Leach is shot by a security guard. Fleeing police he leaps into the East River. His body is not recovered. (New York City - Phantom of the Paradise)
Wednesday 4th December: Variety headline: "PARADISE GATES OPEN." (Phantom of the Paradise)
Thursday 5th December: Debbie is not born on this date. (Los Angeles, California - This Is 40)
Monday 9th December: Winslow Leach composes music for Swan. (New York City - Phantom of the Paradise)
Wednesday 11th December: Drake Myers checks into Hotel Francis Duke. (Central City - Hotel for Dogs)
Wednesday 11th December: Winslow continues composing music. (New York City - Phantom of the Paradise)
Thursday 12th December: Swan announces to the media that Leach's music will be performed by Beef. Leach is almost finished composing. (New York City - Phantom of the Paradise)
Friday 13th December: Swan has Winslow Leach sealedup, but he escapes and kills Beef so that Phoenix can sing his music. (New York City - Phantom of the Paradise)
Friday 20th December: John Grey and Nate Walker attend Ben Anderson's barbecue. Ben gets a phone call from Milton saying that the Apollo 18 mission was on. (Apollo 18)
Friday 20th December: John Grey and Nate Walker attend Ben Anderson's barbecue. Ben gets a phone call from Milton saying that the Apollo 18 mission was on. (Apollo 18)
Saturday 21st December: Apollo 18 mission is launched. (Apollo 18)
Wednesday 25th December: Grey remains in orbit aboard the Freedom Command module while Walker and Anderson land on the moon in the lunar module Liberty. While planting one of the detectors, the pair take moon rock samples. After returning to Liberty, the pair hear noises outside and a camera captures a small rock moving nearby. Houston claims the noises are interference from the ICBM detectors. Anderson finds a rock sample on the floor of Liberty despite having secured the samples. During further lunar exploration they discover footprints that lead them to a bloodstained, functioning Soviet LK lander, and a dead cosmonaut in a nearby crater. Walker queries Houston about the Soviet presence but is told only to continue with the mission. (Apollo 18)
Thursday 26th December: Walker is infected by aliens and becomes increasingly paranoid. The aliens breach his helmet, killing him. DoD refuses to rescue Anderson because he is infected. Grey attempts to rescue him, but rocks within Liberty reveal themselves to be aliens, which infect Anderson and cause him to crash Liberty into Freedom. (Apollo 18)
May starts making meatloaf for Ben Parker. (New York City - The Amazing Spider-Man)
Noah Levenstein marries. (East Great Falls, Michigan - American Pie Presents: The Book of Love)
The Amityville Horror. (The Amityville Horror)
The Lutzes move into 112 Ocean Ave. (Amityville, New York - The Amityville Horror)
Alvy Singer meets and begins a relationship with Annie Hall. (New York - Annie Hall)
Austin Powers arrives at Studio 69 from 2003 to rescue his father from Goldmember. (Los Angeles - Austin Powers in Goldmember)
Verona De Tessant is born. (Away We Go)
Jackson county's Henry leads counties association. (Glen Echo, Oregon - Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon)
Queen record A Night at the Opera on a farm. They leave EMI when the exec refuses to release Bohemian Rhapsody as a single. (Rockfield Farm - Bohemian Rhapsody)
Louie hands Noah McManus over to the police. He is given a prison sentence of twenty-five years to life. (New York City - The Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day)
Carlito's Way. (Carlito's Way)
A total eclipse of the sun happens, and Dolores St George's husband Joe falls down a dry well and is killed. (Maine - Dolores Claiborne)
Ourumov finishes being posted to Army advanced Missile Test Range before being assigned to Space Division. (Goldeneye)
Nicholas Angel is born. (England - Hot Fuzz)
Maggie Feller is born. (In Her Shoes)
James Embree is born. (New York City, New York - Kick-Ass 2)
Hanzo makes the last sword he ever plans to make, until The Bride appears 28 years later. (Kill Bill: Volume 1)
Dith Pran goes missing and Sam Waterston begins his search for him. (Cambodia - The Killing Fields)
Will Graham captures Hannibal Lecter, and nearly dies in the process. (Manhunter)
Kevin Graham is born. (Manhunter)
Sophie Fisher, future lyricist, is born. (Music and Lyrics)
Frank Herrera serves tours. (Panama - Runaway Jury)
In a gymnasium, a Soviet Olympic westler named Sash Fyorodovich Chenkov meets for the first time the only female chess grand master at the time, Anja Nurekyova. Within a month, they are married. (Grozny, Russia - Salt)
Walt and his mom duck out of Julie Glynn's party to watch Robin Hood on TV. (New York City - The Squid and the Whale)
Starsky and Hutch team up to take down a drug dealer. (Starsky and Hutch)
Irish Boxing Pub is established. (The Town)