12 Timelines

TIMELINE OF ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S LIFE 1899 Alfred Hitchcock born in London, England 1910 Hitchcock begins attending St. Ignatius College 1914 Hitchcock's father, William Hitchcock, dies 1915 Hitchcock goes to work for Henley Telegraph Company 1925 Hitchcock directs his first complete movie, The Pleasure Garden 1926 Hitchcock marries Alma Reville 1928 Patricia Hitchcock is born 1937 The Hitchcocks visit America for the first time 1939 The Hitchcocks move to Hollywood 1942 Hitch's mother, Emma, dies 1951 Patricia Hitchcock performs in her last Broadway play 1952 Patricia Hitchcock marries 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents debuts on television Hitchcock becomes an American citizen 1960 Psycho is released 1963 The Birds premieres 1968 Hitchcock awarded the Irving Thalberg Award 1976 Family Plot premieres 1979 Hitchcock receives lifetime achievement award from the

American Film Institute 1980 Hitchcock dies

TIMELINE OF THE WORLD 1888 Jack the Ripper terrorizes London 1894 First commercial exhibition of film at Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope peep-show parlor. 1899 Martha M. Place becomes the first woman executed in the electric chair in Sing Sing Prison 1914 World War I begins 1924 Murderers Leopold and Loeb, the inspiration for Rope, attempt to commit the perfect crime. 1927 The Jazz Singer, the first feature-length talking picture, is released 1936 King Edward VIII of England abdicates the throne to marry Wallis Simpson 1945 US drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan 1952 Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap premieres in London 1957 Ed Gein, the inspiration for Psycho's Norman Bates, is arrested for murder in Wisconsin 1958 NASA begins operations 1961 Flocks of birds mysteriously fall from the sky in Monterey, California 1973 Yom Kippur War begins in the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights 1975 The Edmund Fitzgerald sinks in Lake Superior with twenty

nine crew members 1976 Apple Computer founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne 1977 Studio 54 opens as a nightclub in New York City 1980 The Pac-Man arcade game is released in Japan