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1888

19th January: Arnold "Chick" Gandil is born. (St. Paul, Minnesota - Eight Men Out)

4th March: Knute Rockne is born. (Voss, Norway - Knute Rockne All American)

4th April: Tris Speaker is born. (Hubbard, Texas - The Babe)

22nd November: Lord Greystoke born, and adopted by Kala the ape. (Tarzan)

23rd December: Vincent van Gogh, suffering from severe depression, cuts off the lower part of his left ear with a razor. (Arles, France - Lust for Life)

1889

Gotham City celebrates it's centennial. (Gotham City, USA - Batman)

"Dirt Dragons" (known in future generations as "Graboids") plague a small desert community; they are killed and the community swears never to mention them again. (Rejection Valley, Nevada - Tremors 4: The Legend Begins)

3rd February: The outlaw Belle Starr is killed when an unknown assailant fatally wounds the famous "Bandit Queen" with two shotgun blasts from behind. (Oklahoma - Belle Starr)

31st March: The Eiffel Tower is opened. (Paris, France - Transformers: Age of Extinction)

16th April: Charlie Chaplin is born. (Walworth, London, England - Chaplin)

20th April: Adolf Hitler is born. (Braunau am Inn, Austria - Hitler: The Rise of Evil)

16th July: "Shoeless" Joe Jackson is born. (Pickens County, South Carolina - Eight Men Out)

24th August: Nicholas Lundy born. (The Royal Tenenbaums)

18th October: Nathaniel Drablow dries in the marshes outside of Eels Marsh House on Nine Lives Causeway. This is what causes his birth mother, Jennet, to hang herself and become The Woman in Black who leads children to their deaths. (Crythin Gifford, England - The Woman in Black)

7th November: Gunfight between George Kelby and Vinnie Harold to determine the fastest gun alive (The Fastest Gun Alive)

5th December: Lewis D. Bell is born. (Night of the Living Dead 3D)

1890

Cody Zamora, Anita Crown, Eileen Spenser and Lilly Laronette are forced to leave their brothel when Cody kills an abusive client hurting Anita. (Bad Girls)

The Hound of the Baskervilles. (The Hound of the Baskervilles)

Sir Robert Chiltern turns to Lord Arthur Goring when blackmailed by Mrs Laura Cheveley. (An Ideal Husband)

Beatrix Potter has her final suitor brought to her by her mother - she rejects him just as she has with so many others. (Miss Potter)

11th April: John Merrick, the Elephant Man, dies. (London - The Elephant Man)

16th June: Stan Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson) is born. (Ulverston, England - Chaplin)

17th June: Daniel Nicholson alleged to have been born - later proved to be a lie. (Philadelphia, PA - The Village)

3rd August: A prisoner is executed. (House of Wax)

18th August: George "Buck" Weaver is born. (Pottstown, Pennsylvania - Eight Men Out)

15th September: Agatha Christie is born. (Torquay, Devon, England. - Agatha)

14th October: Dwight D. Eisenhower is born. (near Abilene, Texas - The Right Stuff)

1891

Dorian Gray has his portrait painted, as he makes a devilish pact. (Dorian Gray)

Future prison guard Paul Edgecomb is born. (The Green Mile)

William "Willy" Putname dies peacefully. (Louisville, Kentucky - The Return of the Living Dead)

Sherlock Holmes stops Lord Blackwood from killing the entire parliament (London, England - Sherlock Holmes)

April: John Watson starts taking notes on his and Holmes' exploits for the next seven months. (London, England - Sherlock Holmes)

June: Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson speak to each other. (London, England - The Seven-Per-Cent Solution)

July: First Sherlock Holmes short story published by Arthur Conan Doyle. (London - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)

22nd August: Oscar "Happy" Felsch is born. (Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Eight Men Out)

24th October: Professor Moriarty seeks out Dr. Watson in hopes of enlisting his aid in stopping Sherlock Holmes' incessant persecution. (London, England - The Seven Percent Solution)

24th October: Watson sees that Sherlock Holmes believes that Professor Moriarty is a criminal mastermind and is obsessed with stopping him. (London, England - The Seven-Per-Cent Solution)

25th October: Mycroft Holmes and Watson tell Moriarty that he should leave for three days. (London, England - The Seven-Per-Cent Solution)

26th October: Watson brings the dog Tobe and meets with Holmes. (Hammersmith, London, England - The Seven-Per-Cent Solution)

27th October: Holmes and Watson meet Sigmund Freud. (Vienna, Austria - The Seven-Per-Cent Solution)

28th October: Holmes plays tennis. (Vienna, Austria - The Seven-Per-Cent Solution)

12th November: Sherlock Holmes and John Watson capture Lord Blackwood. (London, England - Sherlock Holmes)

13th November: A newspaper says "Lord Blackwood Hangs Tomorrow." (London, England - Sherlock Holmes)

14th November: Lord Blackwood fakes his death during his hanging. (London, England - Sherlock Holmes)

20th November: It is discovered that Lord Blackwood is not in his grave. Police Gazette headline: "London Terror." (London, England - Sherlock Holmes)

21st November: Irene drugs Holmes and handcuffs him naked to a bed. Lord Chief Justice Sir Thomas Rotheram dies in his bathtub thanks to Lord Blackwood. (London, England - Sherlock Holmes)

22nd November: Rotheram is found dead in his bathtub. Lord Blackwood kills U.S. Ambassador Standish. (London, England - Sherlock Holmes)

23rd November: Holmes and Watson find Irene in a warehouse and find out that Home Secretary Lord Coward is secretly working with Lord Blackwood. Holmes goes into hiding to study Blackwood's rituals. (London, England - Sherlock Holmes)

24th November: Holmes and Watson save Parliament from Blackwood's chemical weapon. Coward is captured. Holmes persues Irene Adler on the Tower Bridge, where Blackwood is hanged. (London, England - Sherlock Holmes)

25th November: A police officer is found dead. Holmes believes that he was killed by Professor Moriarty, who took a component from the chemical weapon the previous day. (London, England - Sherlock Holmes)

1892

Amylu Kern is born. (Bodega Bay, California - Puppet Master II)

29th April: Vito Andolini (to become Don Corleone) born, according to his tombstone. (corleone sicily - The Godfather)

12th August: Ray Schalk is born. (Harvel, Illinois - Eight Men Out)

17th August: Mae West is born. (Brooklyn, New York - Marlene)

7th December: Vito Andolini (to become Don Corleone) born, according to his children's conversation. (The Godfather: Part II)

1893

A Vatican researcher found a letter mentioning the buried church in Kenya. A team came to excavate it. Everyone disappeared. (Vatican City - Exorcist: The Beginning)

An exposition takes place. (Chicago, Illinois - House of Wax)

Villagers defeat members of British cantonment at cricket in bid to avoid paying unfair agrarian taxes known as 'Lagaan'. (Champaner, a village in India - Lagaan: Once Upon A Time In India)

Fitzpatrick dies. (Phantasm)

9th March: Claude "Lefty" Williams is born. (Aurora, Missouri - Eight Men Out)

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