JFK blown away: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated on November 22 while riding in an open convertible through Dallas.
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Red China
Red China as the Communist Party of China wins the Chinese Civil War, establishing the People's Republic of China. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn't_Start_the_Fire -
Joe McCarthy
Joe McCarthy, the US Senator, gains national attention and begins his anti-communist crusade with his Lincoln Day speech. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn't_Start_the_Fire -
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe soars in popularity with five new movies, including The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve, and attempts suicide after the death of friend Johnny Hyde who asked to marry her several times, but she refused respectfully. Monroe would later (1954) be married for a brief time to Joe DiMaggio (mentioned in the previous verse). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn't_Start_the_Fire -
North and South Korea
North Korea and South Korea declare war after Northern forces stream south on June 25. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn't_Start_the_Fire -
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein dies on April 18 at the age of 76. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn't_Start_the_Fire -
space monkey
Space Monkey: Able and Miss Baker return to Earth from space aboard the flight Jupiter AM-18. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn't_Start_the_Fire -
The Mafia
The Mafia are the center of attention for the FBI and public attention builds to this organized crime society with a historically Sicilian-American origin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn't_Start_the_Fire -
MalcomeX
Malcolm X makes his infamous statement "The chickens have come home to roost" about the Kennedy assassination, thus causing the Nation of Islam to censor him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn't_Start_the_Fire -
JFK
JFK blown away: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated on November 22 while riding in an open convertible through Dallas. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn't_Start_the_Fire -
woodstock
Woodstock: Famous rock and roll festival of 1969 that came to be the epitome of the counterculture movement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn't_Start_the_Fire
