"We Didn't Start the Fire"

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"We Didn't Start the Fire"

By Billy Joel

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1949

Harry Truman   Doris Day   Red China   Johnny Ray   South Pacific   Walter Winchell   Joe DiMaggio

1950

Joe McCarthy   Richard Nixon   Studebaker   Television   Marilyn Monroe   Korean War

1951

Rosenbergs   H-Bomb   Sugar Ray   Panmunjom   Brando   "The King and I"   The Catcher in the Rye

1952

Eisenhower   Vaccine   England's Got a New Queen   Marciano   Liberace   Santayana Goodbye

1953

Josef Stalin   Malenkov  Nasser  Prokofiev  Rockefeller  Campanella  Communist Bloc

1954

Roy Cohn   Juan Peron  Toscanini   Dacron  Dien Bien Phu  "Rock Around the Clock"

1955

Einstein   James Dean   Brooklyn's Got a Winning Team  Davy Crockett  "Peter Pan"  Elvis Presley   Disneyland

1956

Bardot   Budapest   Alabama   Khrushchev   Princess Grace  "Peyton Place"   Trouble in the Suez

1957

Little Rock  Pasternak   Mickey Mantle  Kerouac   Sputnik  Chou En-Lai  "Bridge on the River Kwai"

1958

Lebanon  Charles de Gaulle  California Baseball  Starkweather Homicide  Children of Thalidomide

1959

Buddy Holly   "Ben-Hur"  Space Monkey  Mafia   Hula Hoops   Castro   Edsel

1960

U2   Syngman Rhee  Payola  Kennedy  Chubby Checker  "Psycho"  Belgians in the Congo

1961

Hemingway   Eichmann  "Stranger in a Strange Land"  Dylan  Berlin  Bay of Pigs Invasion

1962

"Lawrence of Arabia"  British Beatlemania  Ole Miss  John Glenn  Liston Beats Patterson

1963

Pope Paul   Malcolm X   British Politician Sex   JFK

1964 to 1989

Birth Control  Ho Chi Minh   Richard Nixon  Moonshot  Woodstock  Watergate  Punk Rock  Begin  Reagan  Palestine  Terror on the Airline  Ayatollahs in Iran  Russians in Afghanistan

"Wheel of Fortune"   Sally Ride  Heavy Metal  Suicide  Foreign Debts  Homeless Vets  AIDS  Crack  Bernie Goetz  Hypodermics on the Shore  China's Under Martial Law  Rock and Roll Cola Wars

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