The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Sunday 12th September: Texas Stadium: Rookie Vince Papale gives a lackluster performace in his NFL debut, as the NFC Champion Dallas Cowboys crush the Eagles in the season opener. (Irving, Tx - Invincible)
Sunday 19th September: Veterans Stadium: Vince Papale shines in the home opener against New York, making the 1st tackle of the game & scoring the game-winning TD on a fumble he forced, as the Eagles defeat the Giants, 21-14. (Philadelphia, Pa. - Invincible)
Friday 24th September: A car belonging to Al Calabrese explodes. Calabrese is unharmed but his neighbor who was driving the car is killed. (Cleveland, OH - Kill The Irishman)
Tuesday 23rd November: FBI agent Griffin Dowd born. (Untraceable)
Thursday 25th November: Rocky Balboa knocks out Apollo Creed in the 15th round in their rematch. (Philadelphia, PA - Rocky II)
Friday 26th November: The Band perform their last concert together. (The Last Waltz)
Sunday 5th December: Debbie is not born on this date. (Los Angeles, California - This Is 40)
Saturday 11th December: An accident takes place at Lillian Steel Corporation. (Lillian, Ohio - Super 8)
Thursday 16th December: Norma and Arthur Lewis have a box dropped at their front door with a note from Arlington Steward; Mr Steward arrives later and offers an immoral proposal. (Richmond, Virginia - The Box)
A priest is murdered. (Amityville, New York - The Amityville Curse)
Danny Archer's father is decapitated in a civil war. (Blood Diamond)
Amelia's parents, John and Linda, divorce. (The Bone Collector)
Maggie and her husband divorce. (California - Boogie Nights)
Kenneth Kitsom, who will later become Aaron Cross, is born. (Reno, Nevada - The Bourne Legacy)
Brownstar Insurance starts serving the community. (Cedar Rapids)
Gust Avrakotos begins learning Finnish. (Langley, Virginia - Charlie Wilson's War)
Elvis Presley dies; Groucho Marx dies three days later. (The Devil's Rejects)
Linda Barrett has sex for the first time. (Ridgemont, CA - Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
Sean McGuire marries wife. (Good Will Hunting)
Penny falls in love with Lenny Feder in sixth grade. (Connecticut - Grown Ups 2)
The United States begin atmospheric nuclear tests. (USA - The Hills Have Eyes)
A family is attacked by a tribe of cannibals. (Nevada - The Hills Have Eyes)
Courtney Agnew, future wife of Nick Webber, is born. (Hot Tub Time Machine)
The year that Juno believes was the best time to rock. (Juno)
Sally Hardesty, sole survivor of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre, dies in a private health care facility. (Texas - Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III)
The East German Government stops counting suicides. (The Lives of Others)
Jody and Ann Pearson die. (Phantasm)
Diário Açu newspaper starts printing. (Brazil - Rio 2)
Addison Corday is born. (Saw II)
Sidney Poitier starts not making film but works as an author and director. (Six Degrees of Separation)
Victoria's Secret company is founded by Roy Raymond. (Stanford, California - The Social Network)
Voyager 6 is launched from Earth and heads out into deep space. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)
John Bennett is born. (Boston, Massachusetts - Ted)
Graham Parker is in his prime. (This Is 40)
Richard Chance and Jimmy Hart become best friends. (Los Angeles, California - To Live and Die in LA)
George W Bush meets future wife Laura, and runs for congress. (W.)
Harry Burns meets Sally Albright. (Chicago - When Harry Met Sally)
Harry first meets Sally, as they drive across America on the way back from college. (When Harry Met Sally)
Sanger, Gilbert and Maxam sequence DNA for the first time. (X-Men: Days of Future Past)
Carey Morrison starts hosting the conspiracy theory radio show What If...? (X-Men: Days of Future Past)
Athletics officials adopt a genetic testing policy in partnership with Trask Industries in which no athletes carrying the mutant X-gene can compete in professional sporting events. This occurs following the investigation of Pietro Maximoff, Quicksilver, who broke 8 world records in track and field events. (X-Men: Days of Future Past)
Monday 17th January: Gary Gilmore is put to death by firing squad. (Utah, State Prison - The Executioner's Song)
Sunday 30th January: David Berkowitz kills Christina Freund. (Summer of Sam)
Tuesday 1st February: A student at East Great Falls High School writes about the G-spot in The Bible. (East Great Falls, Michigan - American Pie Presents: The Book of Love)
Friday 11th February: Richard Harper is appointed the head of Taft Aerospace, replacing Charlie Blanchard, who resigned. (Fun with Dick and Jane)
Tuesday 8th March: David Berkowitz kills Virginia Voskerichian. (Summer of Sam)
Sunday 13th March: A blond with green eyes is last seen. (Texas - The Devil's Rejects)
Sunday 13th March: Claudia Marie is born. (Canada - Unknown)
Sunday 17th April: David Berkowitz kills Alexander Esau and Valentina Suriani. (Summer of Sam)
May: Julie Pierce is born. (Boston, MA - The Next Karate Kid)
Tuesday 10th May: Joan Crawford dies. (New York, New York - Mommie Dearest)
Tuesday 17th May: John Nardi is killed by a car bomb. (Cleveland, OH - Kill The Irishman)
Tuesday 17th May: John Nardi is killed by a car bomb. (Cleveland, OH - Kill The Irishman)
Wednesday 25th May: Star Wars opens in theaters. (5-25-77)
Monday 6th June: Lissa is born. (Best Laid Plans)
Thursday 16th June: Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party since 1964, is elected president of the Supreme Soviet, thereby becoming both head of party and head of state . (Brezhnev)
Tuesday 21st June: Pi and his family leave on the Tsimtsum to go to Canada. (Pondicherry, India - Life of Pi)
Tuesday 21st June: Robert Hillsborough dies from 15 stab wounds. The last words he hears are "Faggot! Faggot! Faggot!" (The Castro, San Francisco, California - Milk)
Sunday 26th June: David Berkowitz kills Sal Lupo and Judy Placido. (Summer of Sam)
Tuesday 28th June: The Tsimtsum passes. (Manila, Philippines - Life of Pi)