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Thursday 17th May: Brian Spilner's driver's license is issued. (2 Fast 2 Furious)
Friday 25th May: Chris McCandless donates $24,000, his entire savings, to Oxfam. (Into the Wild)
Monday 28th May: The Memorial Day Massacre. A woman is raped and impregnated by the murderer. She survives. (Appalachian Mountains, West Virginia - Tucker & Dale Vs Evil)
June: Heather Jones and Rene Mosier graduate from North High School, while T.S. Quint, Brodie Bruce, Brandi Svenning, and Gwen Turner graduate from Henry Hudson High School. (Chasing Amy)
June: Chris McCandless’ car is caught in a flash flood. He abandons the car and adopts the name Alexander Supertramp. (Lake Mead, Arizona - Into the Wild)
Friday 22nd June: Gary "The King" King, Andrew "Andy" Knightley, Steven "Steve" Price, Oliver "Ollie/O-Man" Chamberlain, and Peter "Pete" Page have their last day of school and then drink at eleven pubs. They do not reach The World's End. (Newton Haven, UK - The World's End)
Saturday 23rd June: Clarice Starling speaks to Hannibal Lecter for help. (Baltimore, MD - The Silence of the Lambs)
Monday 25th June: Clarice Starling gets more help from Hannibal Lecter. (Baltimore, MD - The Silence of the Lambs)
Wednesday 27th June: A cassette tape labeled "Chilton" is recorded. (Baltimore, MD - Hannibal)
July: Paige is born. (Providence, Rhode Island - Hall Pass)
July: Donny Berger appears in the news. (That's My Boy)
Saturday 14th July: The Memorial Day Murderer is found. (Appalachian Mountains, West Virginia - Tucker & Dale Vs Evil)
Sunday 15th July: West Virginia Journal headline: MEMORIAL DAY MURDERER FOUND (West Virginia - Tucker & Dale Vs Evil)
Friday 20th July: Harleen Quinzel, who will later be known as Harley Quinn, is born. (Gotham, New Jersey - Suicide Squad)
August: Chris “Alex” McCandless meets Jan and Rainey, two tramps in a Winnebago. (Pacific Crest Trail, Northern California - Into the Wild)
Wednesday 1st August: Chris McCandless arranged for the post office to hold his letters until this date to buy him time. (Into the Wild)
Wednesday 22nd August: Kate Fitzgerald born. (My Sister's Keeper)
September: Nicole Young dies. (New York City, New York - Kick-Ass 2)
Monday 10th September: Chris “Alex” McCandless takes a job under as a contract harvester under Wayne Westerberg. (Carthage, South Dakota - Into the Wild)
Saturday 15th September: Martin Asher kills someone. (Taking Lives)
October: Chucky tracks down Andy Barclay, who has been put in a foster home, and is defeated again. (Illinois - Child's Play 2)
October: A license plate expires. (Virginia - Die Hard 2)
October: After struggling with complacency, turmoil in the front office & the return of Rachel Phelps as owner, the Cleveland Indians repeat as A.L. East Champs defeat the White Sox in the A.L.C.S. for a World Series berth. (Cleveland, Oh - Major League II)
Monday 1st October: Peter Weyland is born in Mumbai, India to an Oxford-educated Professor of Comparative Mythology and a self-taught engineer. (Mumbai, India - Prometheus)
Saturday 6th October: Damian Ramsey goes missing. (West Virginia - Wrong Turn)
Wednesday 31st October: Michael Myers kills a bully named Wesley, his own sister Judith, her boyfriend Steve, and his mother's boyfriend Ronnie. (Haddonfield, Illinois - Halloween)
Wednesday 31st October: Angel's memorial service - Angel's friends sing the reprise of I'll Cover You. (Los Angeles - Rent)
Wednesday 31st October: 5 very dumb men from Mars land in Big Bean, Illinois. (Big Bean, Ill. - Spaced Invaders)
December: Class of 1991 attends Winter Wonderland. (13 Going On 30)
December: Mark Cohen finishes his film, and Roger Davis finishes his song. (Rent)
Sunday 2nd December: By this point, Chris “Alex” McCandless has kayaked his way into Mexico. (Sea of Cortez - Into the Wild)
Monday 10th December: Dr. Armand Hammer dies of bone marrow cancer. (Chernobyl: The Final Warning)
Sunday 23rd December: The McAllister family accidentaly leave 8 year-old Kevin home alone while they leave for France. (Chicago - Home Alone)
Monday 24th December: John McLane foils a terrorist attack at Dulles International Airport. (Washington, DC - Die Hard 2)
Monday 24th December: Kevin McAllister stops two burglers from robbing his house by setting up loads of traps around his home. (Chicago - Home Alone)
Monday 24th December: Mimi nearly dies. (Los Angeles - Rent)
Tuesday 25th December: Kevin McAllister's mother returns home to her son, who has been left home alone for two days. (Chicago - Home Alone)
Becky is born. (New York City - 13 Going On 30)
The US government release the Newcomers from quarantine, and the aliens begin living among the Human population. Detective Sergeant Matthew Sykes, with Samuel "George" Francisco--LA's first Newcomer detective--stop another Newcomer, William Harcourt, from selling a powerful and highly-addictive drug to the other Newcomers. (Los Angeles, California - Alien Nation)
Frank Lucas is released from prison. (New York City - American Gangster)
The dude is framed for having not paid money to some people and they pee on his rug for revenge. He then goes on a journey to fix the problem. (The Big Lebowski)
Bill & Ted are killed by evil robot versions of themselves. (Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey)
Post-Perestroika Soviet Secret Police apparatus stops carrying out its own interpretation of the original Marxist-Leninist doctrine. (Blues Brothers 2000)
Mitch Robbins, Phil Berquist, and Ed Furillo go on a cattle drive as a vacation. (City Slickers)
Revolution between humans and enslaved apes. (California - Conquest of the Planet of the Apes)
Wikus Van De Mewre and Anton Gobler become friends. (Johannesburg, South Africa - District 9)
The Complex Corporation purchases Mooby, The Golden Calf, and goes into production on The Mooby Fun-Time Hou; the former Angel of Death, Loki, starts to plot the death of the executives of the corporation as they are idolaters. (Dogma)
Alex Furlong dies in a car crash... or not. (New York City - Freejack)
Joseph Waller is killed by gunfire. (Green Lantern)
Future paedophile-torturer Hayley Stark is born. (Hard Candy)
House of Sand and Fog. (House of Sand and Fog)
Chan Wing Yan is expelled from police cadet school and becomes an undercover cop for the Hong Kong Police. (China - Infernal Affairs)
Jack Starks suffers a near-fatal head injury while serving in The Gulf. (Iraq - The Jacket)
Oskar Rozario is born. (New York City, New York - Kick-Ass 2)
Gil James actually dies in this year. (New York City, New York - Kick-Ass 2)
Leatherface and some other relatives terrorize more people. (Texas - Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III)
Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler buys a copy of Georg Dreyman's book Sonata for a Good Man, dedicated to him. (The Lives of Others)
Sheriff Buddy Deeds dies. (Lone Star)
Brodie Bruce starts to lose all ambition in life and retreats into a world of comics and Sega; this begins to affect his relationship with his girlfriend, Rene Mosier. (Mallrats)
Cady and her parents go to Africa. (Africa - Mean Girls)