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Marilyn Monroe
Click here for more informationsoars 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). -
Disneyland
click here for more infoDisneyland Park is a theme park located in Anaheim, California, owned and operated by the Walt Disney Parks and Resorts division of the Walt Disney Company. Known as Disneyland when it opened on July 17, 1955 -
Space monkey
click here for more infoSpace monkey: Able and Miss Baker return to Earth from space aboard the flight Jupiter AM-18.1959 -
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Chubby Checker
click here for more infoChubby Checker: popularizes the dance The Twist with his song of the same name.1960 -
Malcolm X
click here for more infomakes his infamous statement "The chickens have come home to roost" about the Kennedy assassination, thus causing the Nation of Islam to censor him.1963 -
Birth Control
click here for more infoIn the early 1960s, oral contraceptives, popularly known as "the pill", first go on the market and are extremely popular. Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965 challenged a Connecticut law prohibiting contraceptives. In 1968, Pope Paul VI released a papal encyclical entitled Humanae Vitae which declared artificial birth control a sin.1965 -
AIDS
click here for more infoA collection of symptoms and infections in humans resulting from the specific damage to the immune system caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). It is first detected and recognized in the 1980s, and was on its way to becoming a pandemic.1983 -
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Wheel of Fortune
click here for more info A hit television game show which has been TV's highest-rated syndicated program since 1983
