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History Lesson From Billy Joel

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  1. Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron, Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock

    1954

  2. Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio

    1949

  3. Hypodermics on the shore

    1988

  4. Birth Control, Ho Chi Minh

    1965

  5. Moon shot, Woodstock

    1969

  6. Begin, Reagan

    1977

  7. Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California Baseball, Starkweather homicide, Children of Thalidomide

    1958

  8. Palestine, Terror on the Airline

    1976

  9. Lawrence of Arabia, British Beetlemania, Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson

    1962

  10. Bernie Goetz

    1984

  11. Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac, Sputnik, Chou Enlai, Bridge on the River Kwai

    1957

  12. Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land, Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion

    1961

  13. Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new Queen, Marciano, Liberace, Santayana good-bye

    1952

  14. Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Profokiev, Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc

    1953

  15. Ayatollahs in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

    1979

  16. Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev, Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

    1956

  17. Watergate, Punk rock

    1974

  18. Rosebergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjeom, Brando, The King and I, The Catcher in the Rye

    1951

  19. U-2, Syngman Rhee, Payola and Kennedy, Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

    1960

  20. China's under martial law, Rock and roller cola wars

    1989

  21. Richard Nixon back again

    1968

  22. Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team, Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland

    1955

  23. Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, Heavy metal suicide, Foreign debts, Homeless vets, AIDS, Crack

    1983

  24. Joe McCarthney, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television, North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe

    1950

  25. Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkeys, Mafia, Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go

    1959

  26. Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician Sex, JFK blown away

    1963