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  • Birth of Billy Joel

    Birth of Billy Joel
    Facts on Billy JoelBilly Joel was born on May 9 1949 of that year
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    Events from 1949-1989

    Events That happend between his birth and when his song was released
  • Suagar Ray Robinson

    Suagar Ray Robinson
    Robinson held the world welterweight title from 1946 to 1951, and won the world middleweight title in the latter year. He retired in 1952, only to come back two and a half years later and regain the middleweight title in 1955. He then became the first boxer in history to win a divisional world championship five times, a feat he accomplished by defeating Carmen Basilio in 1958 to regain the middleweight championship.
  • Peter Pan

    Peter Pan
    Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A mischievous boy who can fly and who never ages, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang the Lost Boys, interacting with mermaids, Native Americans, fairies, pirates, and occasionally ordinary children from the world outside of Neverland.
  • Disney land

    Disney land
    One day Walt Disney had a vision. It was a vision of a place where children and parents could have fun together. The more Walt dreamed of a "magical park," the more imaginative and elaborate it became.
  • The Hula Hoop

    The Hula Hoop
    The hula hoop was invented in 1957 by Richad Knerr and Aruthur Melin
  • MLK

    MLK
    I Have a Dream" is a 17-minute public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered on August 28, 1963, in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination.
  • JFK

    JFK
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, November 22, 1963,
  • Apollo 1

    Apollo 1
    On January 27, 1967, tragedy struck the Apollo program when a flash fire occurred in command module 012 during a launch pad test of the Apollo/Saturn space vehicle being prepared for the first piloted flight, the AS-204 mission.
  • PacMan

    PacMan
    Pac man was created in 1980, by Tohru Iwatani. When marketed in the United States they changed the original name of the main character from Puckman to Pacman.
  • Crack Cocaine

    Crack Cocaine
    Crack Cocaine was made in the 1984 - 1985 range in Miami