The Movie Timeline - of all the movie timelines on all the net, you walked into this one
Thursday 15th January: A date in Marion Crane's bankbook. (Phoenix, Arizona - Psycho)
Tuesday 20th January: A date in Marion's bankbook. (Phoenix, Arizona - Psycho)
Tuesday 3rd February: "The Day the Music Died" - plane crash takes the life of Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and J.D.Richardson. (Clear Lake, Iowa - Bamba, La)
April: Dennis LaChance, older brother of Gordon, dies in a jeep accident. (Castle Rock, OR - Stand By Me)
Tuesday 28th April: Frank Herrera is born. (New Orleans, Louisianna - Runaway Jury)
Monday 11th May: Peter Callahan is born. (While You Were Sleeping)
Tuesday 12th May: John is introduced to Janey when she buys him a beer. The first time a woman has done this for him. (New York, New York - Watchmen)
Sunday 24th May: John Foster Dulles dies of cancer. (Bethesda, Maryland - Eleanor, First Lady of the World)
Sunday 7th June: Paramount agrees to pay Jerry Lewis $10 million to appear in 14 films. (Martin and Lewis)
Tuesday 16th June: George Reeves commits suicide. (Los Angeles, CA - Hollywoodland)
July: 'Plan 9 from Outer Space' premieres. (Ed Wood)
July: Danny Zucko has fun with Sandy, down in the sand. (Grease)
Wednesday 8th July: Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest premiers. (Chicago, Illinois - Hitchcock)
Friday 17th July: Billie Holiday dies of cardiac failure. (New York City - Lady Sings the Blues)
August: Danny Zuko has to replace his best friend Kenickie after he knocks him out by mistake at an illegal race at thunder road against The Scorpions leader Leo. (thunder road near Rydell High School California - Grease)
August: Teddy Duchamp, Vern Tessio, Gordie Lachance and Chris Chambers see a dead body for the first time, and come back changed from boys into men. (just off the railway, outside Castle Rock, Maine - Stand By Me)
Friday 7th August: The New York Times contains A.H. Weiler's negative review of North by Northwest. (Hitchcock)
September: After a summer fling, Fran Kubelik and Jeff Sheldrake break off their relationship. (New York City - The Apartment)
Wednesday 9th September: Michael Clayton is born. (Michael Clayton)
Sunday 13th September: The Castle Rock Women's Auxiliary Club Quilting Bee. (Castle Rock, Maine - Stand By Me)
October: Lee Harvey Oswald emigrates to Russia. (Russia - Salt)
Saturday 31st October: Mr. Eichelberger of the Mortgage and Loan Department at Consolidated Life of New York holds a Halloween party at the swank apartment of bachelor employee C.C. Baxter. (New York City - The Apartment)
Saturday 31st October: Lee Harvey Oswald goes to the US embassy stating that he wishes to renounce his US citizenship. (Moscow, Russia - Killing Kennedy)
Saturday 31st October: Lee Harvey Oswald defects to the Soviet Union. (Moscow, Russia - X-Men: Days of Future Past)
Sunday 1st November: The population of New York City is 8,042,783, according to C.C. Baxter of Consolidated Life of New York. His swank apartment being in use by his boss to entertain guests, Baxter sleeps outside. (New York City - The Apartment)
Monday 2nd November: C.C. Baxter arranges a date with Fran Kubelik to see a Broadway show that night. She stands him up. (New York City - The Apartment)
Wednesday 4th November: Claude "Lefty" Williams is born. (Laguna Beach, California - Eight Men Out)
Sunday 15th November: The Clutter family are murdered by burglars Richard 'Dick' Hickock and Perry Smith. (Holcomb, Kansas - Capote)
December: Oswald Cobblepot, aka: The Penguin, is born. (Gotham City, USA - Batman Returns)
December: Richard 'Dick' Hickock and Perry Smith are arrested for the murder of the Clutter family. (Capote)
Friday 11th December: In need of money to help her divorced boyfriend Sam Loomis, secretary Marion Crane steals $40,000 from one of her employer's clients and flees in her car. (Phoenix, Arizona - Psycho)
Saturday 12th December: Marion checks into the Bates Motel and meets Norman Bates, who tells her about his mother. She is stabbed to death in a shower. Norman puts her body, the money, and her car in the swamp. (Kern County, California - Psycho)
Friday 18th December: It has been one week since Marion Crane went missing. (Psycho)
Saturday 19th December: Private detective Milton Arbogast questions Norman. When he investigates the motel, he is stabbed to death and falls down the stairs. Sam Loomis and Marion's sister Lila worry about him. (Kern County, California - Psycho)
Sunday 20th December: Norman Bates is arrested when it is discovered that he had his mother's corpse and emulated her personality. His mother's personality seems to have completely taken over him. (Kern County, California - Psycho)
Thursday 24th December: Consolidated Life of New York holds a Christmas party. (New York City - The Apartment)
Friday 25th December: C.C. Baxter has a guest at Christmas. (New York City - The Apartment)
Friday 25th December: Dawn Davenport runs away from home after not receiving cha-cha heel shoes for Christmas and is impregnated by Earl Peterson. (Baltimore, Maryland - Female Trouble)
Saturday 26th December: Karl Matuschka looks into his sister-in-law's disappearance. (New York City - The Apartment)
Sunday 27th December: C.C. Baxter gets a promotion. (New York City - The Apartment)
Thursday 31st December: C.C. Baxter becomes a mensch. (New York City - The Apartment)
The world picks itself up after the ravaging of World War III, spawning the rise of Big Brother. (1984)
Patrick Bateman is born. (Manhattan, New York - American Psycho)
Cassius Clay becomes a professional boxer. (Louisville, Kentucky - Balls of Fury)
President-elect John F Kennedy, the first president from the north since the War of Northern Aggression, looks to ban slavery, while fighting the Cold War in Canada. (CSA - C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America)
Che Guevara meets Alberto Granado for the first time since their epic trek across South America eight years beforehand. (Cuba - The Motorcycle Diaries)
Peggy Sue relives her high-school youth. (Peggy Sue Got Married)
The growing ranks of Brigade 2506 train in southern Florida and at a CIA-run training base near Retalhuleu, Guatamala. (Race to Witch Mountain)
Around this time, additions are built without any permits on the original structure of the building that becomes Five Point Trinity Church. (Dallas, Texas - Red State)
Estelle reads Edgar Paddington's mind when he tries to ask her out. (Los Angeles, California - Valentine's Day)
Thirteen-year-old Curt Wild is forced to undergo electroshock therapy after he is discovered performing a sexual act on his older brother. (Michigan - Velvet Goldmine)
The nuclear powered submarine USOS Seaview under goes her sea trials, which include a trip under the North Pole. (Santa Barbra, Ca. - Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea)
Friday 1st January: C.C. Baxter and Fran Kubelik finish their gin game. (New York City - The Apartment)
Saturday 2nd January: John F. Kennedy announces that he is a presidential candidate. (Washington D.C. - Killing Kennedy)
Saturday 9th January: Severus Snape born. (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
Saturday 30th January: Lily Potter born. (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2)
Wednesday 16th March: A bout de souffle is released. (France - The Squid and the Whale)
Thursday 28th April: Konga kills Dean Foster in his study at Essex University. (London - Konga)
Sunday 1st May: American U-2 spy plane shot down. (Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident)
Saturday 7th May: Leonid Brezhnev becomes President of the USSR. (Brezhnev)