We Didn't Start the Fire By xvxlyn14 Period: 1905 to 1960 Belgians in the Congo Jan 9, 1913 Richard Nixon 1944 Communist Bloc Apr 11, 1945 Harry Truman Apr 20, 1945 Berlin Sep 2, 1945 Ho Chi Minh 1948 Palestine (Israel became its own state) Jun 4, 1949 Space Monkey Nov 1, 1951 H-Bomb Sep 26, 1952 Santayana's Goodbye Jan 20, 1953 Eisenhower 1955 rock around the clock (beginning of rock) 1955 Brooklyn's got a winning team (Dodgers) Oct 29, 1955 Trouble in the Suez 1957 U-2 1960 Birth Control 1960 Polio Vaccine Jan 20, 1961 JFK Apr 17, 1961 Bay of Pigs Jul 22, 1963 liston beats patterson Nov 10, 1963 malcom x Nov 22, 1963 JFK Murder Jun 17, 1972 watergate 1974 Begining on Punk Rock 1975 Rock and Roller Cola Wars Jan 6, 1975 wheel of fortune Dec 24, 1979 Russians in Afghanistan 1986 AIDS (LGBTQ+) 1989 China's under material Law Sep 11, 2001 terror on the airline