The Movie Timeline - be obsessive, be very obsessive
Sunday 1st March: Lucien Carr is born. (New York City, New York - Kill Your Darlings)
Saturday 4th July: Edward Wilson's father commits suicide. (The Good Shepherd)
Saturday 4th July: The first regatta on the island happens. (Amity Island - Jaws)
Tuesday 7th July: Harriet Jupp dies. (Darkman II: The Return of Durant)
Monday 10th August: Arthur Nixon dies of tuberculosis. (Nixon)
Wednesday 7th October: Christy Mathewson dies. (Saranac Lake, New York - The Pride of the Yankees)
Monday 26th October: R.J. Mitchell's controversial new aircraft, Supermarine S.4, crashes into Chesapeake Bay at the Schneider International Seaplane Race when its pilot Geoffrey Crisp loses consciousness after maxing out at 230 mph. American flyer, Jimmy Doolittle, wins the race in his Curtis bi-plane at a top speed of 210 mph. (Baltimore, Maryland - The First of the Few)
Saturday 31st October: Prince Albert, the Duke of York, stammers through a speech at the close of the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium. (London, England - The King's Speech)
Friday 20th November: Robert F Kennedy born. (Bobby)
Walter E. Kurtz is born. (Apocalypse Now)
A soldier gets a flag off the top of a pole. (Captain America: The First Avenger)
James E Davis becomes Chief of Police (LA - Changeling)
On a tour of England, Harry Houdini meets scam psychic Msry McGarvie and her daughter Benji. Mary and Harry have an affair. (England - Death Defying Acts)
Westmore Middle School is established. (Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules)
An entrance to the hollow earth is discovered in Antarctica; an expedition is sent into the entrance but never returns (Antarctica - Godzilla vs. Kong)
Cyrus Rooney dies in the alternate universe. A sentient creature appears and carries on Rooney's work. (Shit Narnia - John Dies at the End)
William Beebe gives the sloth's sense of taste, touch, sight, and hearing a rating of 2, and its sense of smell a rating of 3. (Life of Pi)
Evy saves Rick O'Connell from the gallows to lead an expedition to Hamunaptra, where they inadvertently resurrect High Priest Imhotep. (Cairo, Egypt - The Mummy)
Scout Finch born. (Maycomb, Alabama - To Kill A Mockingbird)
Al Capone files his last income tax return. (Chicago, Ill - The Untouchables)
3140 Carlyle St is built. (Los Angeles, California - We Bought a Zoo)
Sunday 14th February: Brigadier and Mrs Clive Candy attend a ball at Myrtle Bank Hotel, hosted by Lady Bembridge. (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Tuesday 18th May: Popular evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappears. (Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California - Aimee Semple McPherson)
Thursday 3rd June: Irwen Allen Ginsberg is born. (Newark, New Jersey - Kill Your Darlings)
Thursday 12th August: Clive Candy places an ad thanking all those who have sent sympathies to him on his irreparable loss. (The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp)
Monday 23rd August: Rudoph Valentino dies after surgery for a perforated ulcer. (New York City - Good Night Valentino)
Thursday 2nd December: Alfred Hitchcock marries Alma Reville. (South Kensington, London, England - Hitchcock)
Thursday 9th December: Benny Goodman records his first solo, 16 bars of a song called "He's the Last Word." (The Benny Goodman Story)
Friday 31st December: Tom Marvolo Riddle, aka Voldemort, is born. (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets)
Peter Pevensie is born. (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
Don Vito returns to avenge his father's murder; Constanzia 'Connie' Corleone born. (Sicily - The Godfather: Part II)
Walker's is established. (Iron Man 3)
Okinawa is much quieter. (Okinawa, Japan - The Karate Kid Part II)
Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness released in cinemas. (King Kong)
Ellis "Red" Redding arrives at Shawshank prison. (The Shawshank Redemption)
The Warner Brothers release the first talking picture "The Jazz Singer"; industry execs predict the new technology will not catch on. (Singin' in the Rain)
H.W. Plainview marries Mary Sunday. (Little Boston, California - There Will Be Blood)
459 W 104th St is built. (Los Angeles, California - We Bought a Zoo)
Thursday 24th February: Sidney Poitier is born. (Miami, Florida - Six Degrees of Separation)
Thursday 24th March: Silent film icon Don Lockwood and his friends Kathy Selden and Cosmo Brown concoct a plan to save his new sound picture "The Dueling Cavelier" after a disasterous preview. They celebrate by singing "Good Morning". When Don walks home, he's caught on a rain storm, which calls for more dancing and singing...in the rain. (Hollywood, California - Singin' in the Rain)
Tuesday 19th April: Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity. (Mae West)
Sunday 1st May: Doris Florence Binns is born. (New York City, New York - Kick-Ass 2)
Saturday 21st May: Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo flight across the Atlantic. (Meet Me in St. Louis)
Tuesday 27th September: Despite Il Duce's predictions of an Italian victory, the R.J. Mitchell-designed Supermarine S.5 piloted by RAF Lieutenant Geoffrey Crisp wins the Schneider Trophy for England with a top speed of 281 mph. (Venice, Italy - The First of the Few)
Friday 30th September: Babe Ruth sets single season record by hitting 60th home run. (New York City. - The Babe)
The Abominable Dr Phibes. (The Abominable Dr. Phibes)
Eastern Gas and Electric buys Niagra Steam Generation, the company which manufactured the crucial iron bolt found at the crime scene of Mr. Alan Ruben by Amelia Donaghy. (New York - The Bone Collector)
Susan Pevensie is born. (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)
An alien gets a genetic sample from a mountaineer. (Korakoram Mountains, India - The Day the Earth Stood Still)
John Hancock watched the film Frankenstein, then was attacked in an alley and lost his memory. (Miami - Hancock)
Peter Bailey dies from a stroke. (Bedford Falls, New York - It's a Wonderful Life)
Emma C., wife of William Holmes, dies. (Night of the Living Dead)
Mouton Rothschild wine is made. (The Shadow)
An interstellar teleportation device is discovered in Giza, Egypt, as well as what appear to be fossils in the stone underneath it. (Stargate)
The mother of Jem and Scout and husband of Atticus Finch dies. (To Kill A Mockingbird)
Mickey Mouse is created by Walt Disney. (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
Friday 9th March: Walter Collins gets into a fight at school. (LA - Changeling)
Saturday 10th March: Christine Collins returns home from an extra shift at the telephone company to discover her adolescent son, Walter, is missing. (Los Angeles, California - Changeling)
Saturday 10th March: Walter Collins goes missing. (LA - Changeling)
Monday 12th March: Poor weather downs R.J. Mitchell's Supermarine Napier seaplane during speed trials in an attempt to break Supermarine's own speed record. Flight-Lieutenant S.M. Kinkead is killed instantly. (Strait of Solent, England - The First of the Few)