We didn't Start the Fire Timeline By bdbo 1949 Harry S. Truman 1949 Doris Day 1949 Red China 1949 Johnnie Ray 1949 South Pacific 1949 Walter Winchell Period: 1949 to 1950 Televison 1950 Joe McCarthy 1950 Richard Nixon 1950 Studebaker 1950 North Korea / South Korea 1950 Marilyn Monroe 1951 Rosenbergs 1951 H-bomb 1951 Sugar Ray 1951 Panmunjom 1951 Brando 1951 The King and I 1951 The Catcher in the Rye 1952 Joe DiMaggio 1952 Eisenhower 1952 Vaccine 1952 Marciano 1952 Liberace 1952 Santayana good-bye 1952 Nasser 1953 England's got a new Queen 1953 Campanella 1953 Joseph Stalin 1953 Prokofiev 1953 Rockefeller 1953 Communist bloc 1954 Roy Cohn 1954 Toscanini 1954 Dacron 1954 Dien Bien Phu falls 1954 Rock Around the Clock 1955 Malenkov 1955 Juan Perón 1955 Einstein 1955 James Dean 1955 Brooklyn's got a winning team 1955 Davy Crockett 1955 Peter Pan 1955 Elvis Presley 1955 Disneyland 1956 Bardot 1956 Budapest 1956 Alabama 1956 Khrushchev 1956 Princess Grace 1956 Peyton Place 1956 Trouble in the Suez 1957 Little Rock 1957 Pasternak 1957 Mickey Mantle 1957 Kerouac 1957 Sputnik 1957 Chou En-Lai 1957 Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 Bridge on the River Kwai 1958 Lebanon 1958 Charles de Gaulle 1958 California baseball 1958 Starkweather homicide 1958 Children of Thalidomide 1959 Buddy Holly 1959 Ben Hur 1959 Space Monkey 1959 Mafia 1959 Hula Hoops 1959 Castro 1959 Edsel is a no-go 1960 U-2 1960 Syngman Rhee 1960 Payola 1960 Kennedy 1960 Chubby Checker 1960 Psycho 1960 Belgians in the Congo 1961 Hemingway 1961 Eichmann 1961 Stranger in a Strange Land 1961 Dylan 1961 Berlin 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion 1962 Lawrence of Arabia 1962 John Glenn 1962 British Beatle-mania 1962 Ole Miss 1962 Liston beats Patterson 1963 Pope Paul 1963 Malcolm X 1963 British politician sex 1963 JFK blown away Period: 1964 to 1989 Birth control, Ho Chi-Minh, Richard Nixon back again, Moon shot, Woodstock, Watergate, Punk Rock, Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airlines, Period: 1964 to 1989 Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan, Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, Heavy metal, suicide, Foreign debts Period: 1964 to 1989 Homeless Vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz, Hypodermics on the shore, China's Under Martial Law, Rock and Roller Cola Wars