1. We didn’t start the fire
By Daniel Altemus

2. President, Harry Truman-1849

3. Doris Day

4. Red China

5. Johnnie Ray

6. South Pacific

7. Walter Winchell

8. Joe DiMaggio

9. Joe McCarthy
1950

10. Richard Nixon

11. Studebaker

12. Television

13. North Korea

14. South Korea

15. Marilyn Monroe

16. Rosenbergs
1951

17. H-Bomb

18. Sugar Ray

19. Panmunjom

20. Barndo

21. “the king and I”

22. “the catcher in the rye”

23. Eisenhower
1952

24. Vaccine

25. England’s got a new queen

26. Marciano

27. Liberace

28. Santayana goodbye

29. Josef Stalin
1952

30. Malenkov

31. Nasser

32. Prokofiev

33. Rockefeller

34. Campanella

35. Communist Bloc

36. Roy Cohn
1954

37. Juan Peron

38. Toscanini

39. Dacron

40. Dien Bien Phu

41. “Rock Around the Clock”

42. Einstein
1955

43. James Dean

44. Brooklyn’s got a winning team

45. Davy Crockett

46. “Peter Pan”

47. Elvis Presley

48. Disneyland

49. Bardot
1956

50. Budapest

51. Alabama

52. Khrushchev

53. Princess Grace

54. “Peyton Place”

55. Trouble in the Suez

56. Little Rock
1957

57. Pasternak

58. Mickey Mantle

59. Kerouac

60. Sputnik

61. Chou En-Lai

62. “Bridge on the River Kwai”

63. Lebanon
1958

64. Charles de Gualle

65. California baseball

66. Starkweather homicide

67. Children of thalidomide

68. Buddy Holly
1959

69. “Ben-Hur”

70. Space monkey

71. Mafia

72. Hula hoops

73. Castro

74. Edsel is a no go

75. U2
1960

76. Syngman Rhee

77. Payola

78. Kennedy

79. Chubby Checker

80. “Psycho”

81. Belgians in the Congo

82. Hemingway
1961

83. Eichmann

84. “Stranger in a Strange Land”

85. Dylan

86. Berlin

87. Bay of Pigs Invasion

88. “Lawrence of Arabia”
1962

89. British Beatlemania

90. Ole Miss

91. John Glenn

92. Liston beats Patterson

93. Pope Paul
1963

94. Malcolm X

95. British politician sex

96. JFK, blown away

97. Birth control

98. Ho Chi Minh

99. Richard Nixon

100. Moonshot

101. Woodstock

102. Watergate

103. Punk rock

104. Begin

105. Reagan

106. Palestine

107. Terror on the airline

108. Ayatollolah’s in Iran

109. Russians in Afghanistans

110. “Wheel of Fortune”

111. Sally Ride

112. Heavy metal suicide

113. Foreign debts

114. Homeless vets

115. AIDS

116. Crack

117. Bernie Goetz

118. Hypodermics on the shore

119. Chinas under martial law

120. Rock and roller Cola Wars