We didn’t start the fire By Daniel Altemus
President, Harry Truman-1849
Doris Day
Red China
Johnnie Ray
South Pacific
Walter Winchell
Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy 1950
Richard Nixon
Studebaker
Television
North Korea
South Korea
Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs 1951
H-Bomb
Sugar Ray
Panmunjom
Barndo
“the king and I”
“the catcher in the rye”
Eisenhower 1952
Vaccine
England’s got a new queen
Marciano
Liberace
Santayana goodbye
Josef Stalin 1952
Malenkov
Nasser
Prokofiev
Rockefeller
Campanella
Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn 1954
Juan Peron
Toscanini
Dacron
Dien Bien Phu
“Rock Around the Clock”
Einstein 1955
James Dean
Brooklyn’s got a winning team
Davy Crockett
“Peter Pan”
Elvis Presley
Disneyland
Bardot 1956
Budapest
Alabama
Khrushchev
Princess Grace
“Peyton Place”
Trouble in the Suez
Little Rock 1957
Pasternak
Mickey Mantle
Kerouac
Sputnik
Chou En-Lai
“Bridge on the River Kwai”
Lebanon 1958
Charles de Gualle
California baseball
Starkweather homicide
Children of thalidomide
Buddy Holly 1959
“Ben-Hur”
Space monkey
Mafia
Hula hoops
Castro
Edsel is a no go
U2 1960
Syngman Rhee
Payola
Kennedy
Chubby Checker
“Psycho”
Belgians in the Congo
Hemingway 1961
Eichmann
“Stranger in a Strange Land”
Dylan
Berlin
Bay of Pigs Invasion
“Lawrence of Arabia” 1962
British Beatlemania
Ole Miss
John Glenn
Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul 1963
Malcolm X
British politician sex
JFK, blown away
Birth control 1964-1989
Ho Chi Minh
Richard Nixon
Moonshot
Woodstock
Watergate
Punk rock
Begin
Reagan
Palestine
Terror on the airline
Ayatollolah’s in Iran
Russians in Afghanistans
“Wheel of Fortune”
Sally Ride
Heavy metal suicide
Foreign debts
Homeless vets
AIDS
Crack
Bernie Goetz
Hypodermics on the shore
Chinas under martial law
Rock and roller Cola Wars