1.
Harry Truman- took presidency in 1941.
Truman ended World War II by dropping the atomic bomb.
He is also responsible for the United Stated starting war with Korea.
2.
Doris Day- was a famous star that acted and sung who was born in 1924.
In 1940 she began singing with the Les Brown Band.
She is also an Animal rights Activist.
She stopped dancing and begun singing after breaking her leg in her early ages.
3.
Red China- communism had taken over China before World War II.
Zhou Enlai led this and created a Chinese Socialist republic.
This government consisted of four social classes.
The workers, peasants, petite bourgeoisie, and national- capitalists, in this were 45 million people.
4.
Johnnie Ray- was a somewhat deaf singer who had hit with the song "Cry".
Other popular songs he had were "Walking in the Rain" and "The Little White Cloud that Cried".
Press agents actually once said that he was part of the Blackfoot Indians.
His Indian name was "Little White Cloud." On the radio, he was thought to be a black blues singer.
5.
South Pacific- was Broadway show as well as a hit movie.
The musical/movie is about a Frenchman and a young nurse fall in love on an island in the South Pacific.
This show actually makes grown men cry.
6.
Walter Winchell- was a reporter who had received all the gossip at the time.
His columns and articles could make or break a celebrity.
He was also a significant figure on the radio.
He had perfected slang usage.
7.
Joe Dimaggio- is a famous New York Yankees player.
He set a Major League record for hitting safely 56 straight games.
At one pointed in his life he married Marilyn Monroe, but it lasted less than a year.
He had made commercials for a coffee company after retiring and was referred to as "Mr.
Coffee." 8.
Joe MacCarthy- was the senator of Wisconsin.
He is known for his intense interrogations and for investigating and taking down communists in our government.
He investigated everyone from White House to the U.S.
Army.
These interrogations were put on national television and soon people realized it was wrong.
9.
Richard Nixon- first start of in the House of Representative for California then rose to senate; then Vice- President, to later become President.
He had gotten involved and the Alger Hiss case about Hiss being a communist and a spy.
Later Nixon proved him guilty.
This helped him rank in government.
10.
Studebaker- a car made in the 1950 which had became popular.
It has a torpedo ornament in the front and looked like it drove backwards.
Unfortunately the company who manufactured these cars went out of business in 1966.
First thing created by Studebaker Brothers Motor Company were wagons.
11.
Television- in 1951 came out with the first color TVs.
Before television was modernizing there was only one channel.
TVs then had 10 inch screens and were black and white.
When color for TVs came out, then it became secular.
12.
North Korea/ South Korea- After World War II, Korea split into North and South.
North Korea turned into Communism under a dictator and South Korea is a republic.
At one point North Korea attacked South Korea, which started the Korean War.
U.N and the U.S.
supported the South; all ended in a stalemate though.
13.
Marilyn Monroe- is a movie star but is just as known as a "sex symbol".
She married Joe Dimaggio and Arthur Miller.
Monroe is said to have had relationships with J.
F.
Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, as well as mafia boss Joe Gianconna.
Her death is yet a mystery.
14.
Rosenbergs- were a married couple who had sold the secret of the Atomic bomb to the Soviet Union.
They were executed and the case had frightened all because government killed a man and a woman with no substantial evidence of treason.
They actually did give Russians information but were put to death in the electric chair.
15.
H-Bomb- this bomb was more powerful than the actual atom bomb.
The United States had detonated our hydrogen bomb and afterwards the Soviets had detonated theirs in comparison.
Hydrogen bomb is the joining or fusion of isotopes, unlike the atomic bomb which is the splitting of uranium and plutonium.
It is also called the thermonuclear bomb.
16.
Sugar Ray- was the middle-weight boxing champion of the world.
He was first boxer to make 100 million dollars.
Ray was the "Boxer of the Decade." Sugar Ray fought 40 fights and 36 were wins, 25 were knockouts.
17.
Panmunjom- Panmunjom is in Korea which is where United Nations negotiated to end the Korean War.
The discussed about the separation line which was the 38th Parallel.
During this negotiation, the exchanged prisoners.
18.
Brando- Marlon Brando was a movie actor.
He once won Academy Award for a role he played in the movie "On the Waterfront".
He was such a good actor and popular that he played in the movie "Godfather".
Marlon Brando was also a political activist.
19.
The King and I- this was a well known Broadway show.
Because of its popularity it had become a movie.
The movie starred Yul Brunner and Deborah Kerr.
This was originally a plot from the story written by Margaret Landon.
Filmed in 1956.
20.
The Catcher in the Rye- was a very popular book for teens.
This novel has been translated into almost all the languages in the world.
Holden Caulfield is a teenage rebellion hero figure who is the main character in the book.
It made the top 100 best English-language novels on "Times" in 2005.
21.
Eisenhower- was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces during the war with the Nazis in World War II.
Dwight after became an icon and president of the United States.
His motto during his presidency was "I like Ike." Ike being his nickname back in the day.
This man was originally a five-star general in the United States Army.
He was a Republican.
22.
Vaccine- the disease polio had a vaccine at last.
This polio vaccine was discovered by Jonas Salk.
Later on Albert Sabin developed the vaccine that could be taken orally.
This vaccines stopped that large number of cases; in 1988 350,000 cases of polio by 2007 it went down to nearly1,652 cases!
23.
England's got a new Queen- Queen Elizabeth II took the throne after her father's death.
Her coronation didn't take place until June 2, 1953.
This was a great event, not only in Britain but in all the countries of the British Commonwealth.
It was also big news in the United States and many other countries as well.
24.
Marciano- was the heavyweight boxing champion of the world.
He retired undefeated.
He defended his title six times.
At age 1, Rocco almost died of pneumonia.
Marciano was a high school dropout and went to the Army for a two year term.
Forty-three of his forty-nine fights were knockouts.
25.
Liberace- Liberace was a popular pianist and entertainer, who had his own TV show in the 1950s.
He was known for wearing sequined tuxedos and having a candelabrum on his piano.
He is credited with advising singer Elvis Presley to also wear "fancy clothes" during his performances.
His sweet smile and hair got him all the women.
26.
Santayana good- bye- was a philosopher who died in 1952.
Besides being a philosopher he was an essayist, poet, and a novelist.
He is best known for his quote "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Jorge wanted to be buried in the Spanish Pantheon.
Another quote is "only the dead have seen the end of was." 27.
Joseph Stalin- Joseph Stalin was the dictator of the Soviet Union.
He was a harsh leader who had millions of his people executed or sent to labor camps in Siberia.
On his way to political power, he changed his name to Stalin, which means "steel" in Russian.
He was with Hitler.
28.
Malenkov- Georgy Malenkov was a Soviet politician and Communist Party leader, and a close collaborator of Joseph Stalin.
He briefly became leader of the USSR from March 1953 to February 1955 after Stalin's death.
He was one of Soviet's most powerful politicians at one point.
29.
Nasser- Gamal Abdel Nasser was the second President of Egypt after Muhammad Naguib.
He was considered one of the more influential Arab leaders in history.
Gamal started a new socialist reform in Egypt together with a profound advancement of pan-Arab nationalism.
30.
Prokofiev- Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev was a famous Ukrainian composer who died in 1953.
Prokofiev also composed five piano concertos, nine completed piano sonatas and seven symphonies.
The Nazi invasion of the USSR spurred him to compose his most ambitious work, an operatic version of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.
31.
Rockefeller- Winthrop Rockefeller, who was known as a playboy and hard drinker; moved from Florida and New York to Arkansas.
Winthrop became Governor of Arkansas in 1966 and was said to be a great influence on future Arkansas Governor and U.S.
President Bill Clinton.
Winthrop was probably the Rockefeller that Billy Joel was referring to, since his playboy antics were more in the news.
32.
Campanella- Roy Campanella was the all-star catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team.
His career was cut short by a paralyzing car accident.
Widely considered to have been one of the greatest catchers in the history of the game, Campanella played for the Brooklyn Dodgers during the 1940s and 1950s.
33.
Communist Bloc- USSR and their satellite countries formed what was called the Communist bloc.
The terms Communist Bloc and Soviet Bloc were also used to denote groupings of states aligned with the Soviet Union, although these terms might include states outside Central and Eastern Europe.
34.
Roy Cohn- Roy Cohn was the advisor to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the McCarthy Hearings on Communists in the movie industry and government.
He was an American attorney who became famous during Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigations into Communist activity in the United States during the Second Red Scare.
35.
Juan Peron- Juan Perón was a popular leader in Argentina, elected first in 1946 and then again in 1952.
Perón pursued social policies aimed at empowering the working class.
His wife Evita was known for helping the poor.
He was strongly anti-American and anti-British, confiscating much of the British and American-owed assets in Argentina.
In 1955, he was overthrown by a military coup.
36.
Toscanini- Arturo Toscanini was a world-famous conductor, considered to have been one of the greatest classical conductors of all time.
On April 4, 1954, while conducting a radio broadcast of the NBC Symphony at Carnegie Hall in New York, Toscanini suffered a memory lapse during the performance.
That was the last time he conducted live in public.
He died at the age of 89 in 1957.
37.
Dacron- A new wonder-material Dacron hit the market.
Is trademark for a polyester fiber.
Dacron is a condensation polymer obtained from ethylene glycol and terephthalic acid.
Dacron has a website called Dacron.com.
This is a nylon making industry.
Fiberfills for beds so people can sleep properly are what they work on as well.
38.
Dien Bien Phu Falls- The French lose control over Indo-China-now known as Vietnam-with the fall of the city Dien Bien Phu.
Its purpose was to cut off Viet Minh supply lines into the neighboring Kingdom of Laos, a French ally, and tactically draw the Viet Minh into a major confrontation that would cripple them.
The war ended shortly after the battle with the 1954 Geneva Accords, under which France agreed to withdraw from its former Indochinese colonies.
39.
Rock Around the Clock- Bill Haley and the Comets came out with what was considered the first rock-and-roll hit song, Rock Around the Clock.
It was the theme music for the popular movie Blackboard Jungle.
The best-known and most successful rendition was recorded by Bill Haley and His Comets in 1954.
It was a number one single on both the US and UK charts and also re-entered the UK Singles Chart in the 1960s and 1970s.
40.
Einstein- Albert Einstein developed the Theory of Relativity in 1903 & was considered one the world's smartest scientists.
He became a popular figure in the later years of his life.
He died in 1955.
In 1905 he obtained his doctor's.
In 1911 Professor of Theoretical Physics at Prague, returning to Zurich in the following year to fill a similar post.
41.
James Dean- James Dean was a movie star who became a symbol for the young for his role in the movie Rebel Without a Cause.
After his next movie Giant, Dean decided to drive his new 1955 Porsche Spyder to Salinas, California to enter in a sports car race there.
His mechanic rode with him.
On the way there, Dean's car was struck by another vehicle which crossed the centerline.
Dean was the only one killed.
42.
Brooklyn's Got a Winning Team- The Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team finally won the World Series over the New York Yankees.
They later moved to Los Angeles.
The Yankees are one of the best franchises in the history of baseball.
But the Brooklyn Dodgers had their revenge after being beaten five previous times by the Yankees in the World Series.
Against all odds, the Dodgers finally had the chemistry to win against overpowering odds.
43.
Davy Crockett- In the late 1950s, the U.S.
military created what they called the M-29 Davy Crockett weapons system.
Actor Fess Parker starred in the highly popular TV series Davy Crockett.
The novelty song The Ballad of Davy Crockett became the number-one song in 1955.
Coonskin caps-like Davy crockett wore-also became popular among young boys.
44.
Peter Pan- Peter Pan was a top Broadway play starring Mary Martin, who flew through the air as Peter Pan.
He 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, Indians, fairies, pirates, and occasionally ordinary children from the world outside of Neverland.
45.
Elvis Presley- Singer Elvis Presley became a national phenomenon with such number-one hit songs as Heartbreak Hotel, Don't Be Cruel and Hound Dog.
He was called "Elvis the Pelvis" because of the way he shook his hips while dancing.
Many religious leaders and school officials banned his songs, which only made them more popular.
He later went on to be nicknamed "The King" as the most popular singer ever.
46.
Disneyworld- Disneyland opened in 1955 in Anaheim, California.
It was a theme park, developed by Walt Disney and based around his cartoon characters.
It was designated as a place for family entertainment.
At first, Disney envisioned an 8-acre park which would be located near his Burbank studios and be called, "Mickey Mouse Park." However, as Disney began to plan themed areas, he quickly realized that 8-acres would be way too small for his vision.
47.
Bardot- Brigitte Bardot was a popular French "sex-kitten" movie star.
She is a former French fashion model, actress, singer and animal rights activist.
She started her acting career in 1952 and, after appearing in 16 films, became world-famous due to her role in her then-husband Roger Vadim's controversial film And God Created Woman.
48.
Budapest- Anti-communist riots took part in Budapest, Hungary.
Soviet troops put down the revolt and arrested many Hungarians, especially students.
The revolt began as a student demonstration which attracted thousands as it marched through central Budapest to the Parliament building.
49.
Alabama- In 1955, African-American Rosa Parks sat in a Montgomery, Alabama bus seat designated "for whites only".
She was then arrested for her act of defiance.
That arrest resulted in demonstrations and a boycott of Montgomery buses by African-Americans that lasted until December 1956.
This event was also a starting point for the Civil Rights movement of Martin Luther King and others.
50.
Khrushchev- Nikita Khrushchev emerged as a leader in the Soviet Union after the death of Dictator Josef Stalin.
In 1956, he advocated reform and indirectly criticized Stalin and his methods.
He became the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1974.
He is said to have been a schizophrenic.
He served as First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964, and as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, or Premier, from 1958 to 1964.
s51.
Princess Grace- Actress Grace Kelly left Hollywood to marry Prince Ranier of Monaco.
She then attained the title of Princess Grace.
was an American actress who, in April 1956, married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, to become Princess consort of Monaco, styled as Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, and commonly referred to as Princess Grace.
52.
Peyton Place- The book Peyton Place became the number-1 best-seller.
Teens often marked the "good parts" in the book, as they passed it among each other.
It is a 1956 novel by Grace Metalious.
It sold 60,000 copies within the first ten days of its release and remained on the New York Times best seller list for 59 weeks.
It was adapted as both a 1957 film and a 1964-69 television series.
53.
Trouble in the Suez- After Britain and the USA withdrew their financial support for the Egyptian Aswan dam project, General Nasser nationalized the important Suez Canal.
Egypt was then invaded by British, French and Israeli forces.
Under pressure from the United States the invaders left Egypt and a UN emergency force was sent to Egypt.
54.
Little Rock- Nine African-American students enrolled at Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Governor Faubus ordered the Arkansas National Guard to surround Central High School to keep the nine students from entering the school, because he believed black and whites should be segregated, despite Federal laws on integration.
President Dwight D.
Eisenhower ordered the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock to insure the safety of the students.
The crisis gained world-wide attention.
55.
Pasternak- Boris Pasternak was a Russian poet and writer.
He is best known in the West for his monumental novel on Soviet Russia, Doctor Zhivago.
The book was also made into an award-winning movie.
Although he was celebrated in Russia as a great poet, his book was banned in the Soviet Union for many years.
Under the influence of the composer Scriabin, Pasternak took up the study of musical composition for six years from 1904 to 1910.
56.
Mickey Mantle- Mickey Mantle was a great baseball player for the New York Yankee team.
He batted both left- and right-handed, hit at a leading batting average, as well as led the league in home runs.
He was an American baseball center fielder who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball.
Mickey Mantle was a star from the start, parlaying a talent for the game and boyish good looks into iconic status.
57.
Kerouac- Jack Kerouac was the author of the best-selling book On the Road, which epitomized the Beat Generation of the late 1940s to early 1950s.
Upon achieving fame, Kerouac became a serious alcoholic and died at an early age.
He was both a novelist and a poet.
58.
Sputnik- Sputnik was the name of the first orbiting satellite sent into space by the USSR.
Turmoil over its launch in the United States initiated the race for supremacy in space.
It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957.
Sergei P.
Korolëv headed the design bureau that created the U.S.S.R.'s first intercontinental ballistic missile and Sputnik.
More than twice the size of a basketball, Sputnik was larger and heavier than Explorer.
59.
Chou En-Lai- was the Premier and Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (also called Red China by Western journalists).
He was a popular and practical administrator during the "Great Leap Forward" of 1958 and later pushed for modernization to undo damage caused by the "Cultural Revolution" of 1966 to 1976.
Zhou was largely responsible for the re-establishment of contacts with the West during the Nixon presidency.
60.
Bridge on the river of Kwai- was a 1957 Academy Award winning movie about a World War II Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.
The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway.
61.
Lebanon- U.S.
President Eisenhower ordered U.S.
Marines into Lebanon at the request of Lebanese President Chamoun to help stop riots that were occurring in the country.
Lebanon was threatened by a civil war between Maronite Christians and Muslims.
Tensions with Egypt had escalated earlier in 1956 when pro-western President Camille Chamoun, a Christian, did not break diplomatic relations with the Western powers that attacked Egypt during the Suez Crisis, angering Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
62.
Charles de Gaulle- was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II.
He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969.
U.S.
President Eisenhower ordered U.S.
Marines into Lebanon at the request of Lebanese President Chamoun to help stop riots that were occurring in the country.
63.
California Baseball- The Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team moved to Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Giants moved to San Francisco.
While both teams awaited the removal of various barriers necessary to pave the way for construction of new stadiums, the Dodgers performed in the Los Angeles, the Giants in Seals stadium.
64.
Starkweather homicide- Charles Starkweather was a serial killer who made the news 1958 because of his gruesome murders.
Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Fugate, went on a killing spree of 11 to 15 people over a span of a month and a half.
They were captured and he was executed in 1959.
65.
Children of Thalidomide- Thalidomide was a medication intended for pregnant women to combat morning sickness and as an aid to help them sleep.
Unfortunately, inadequate tests were performed to assess the drug's safety.
Between 1957 and 1962, children of women who took the drug thalidomide during pregnancy were born with severe deformities, including only stubs for arms.
Because of this tragedy, the drug was taken off the market in 1962.
Of the 10,000 children born with birth defects, only 5000 lived beyond childhood.
66.
Buddy Holly- Buddy Holly was a popular singer and leader of the Crickets rock group.
He was killed in a plane crash, along with singers The Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens.
In 1971, the hit song American Pie referred to his death in the line "...the day the music died." 67.
Ben Hur- was a spectacular movie starring Charlton Heston.
It was set around the time of Christ.
is a 1959 American epic film in Technicolor, directed by William Wyler and starring Charlton Heston, Stephen Boyd, Jack Hawkins, Hugh Griffith and Haya Harareet.
It won a record 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, an accomplishment that stood until Titanic tied with 11 Academy Awards in 1997.
68.
Space Monkey- Ham the space monkey was sent up in an American space satellite as a prelude to sending a man in space.
He was a mean little guy who would often try to bite the workers who put him in the space capsule.
Ham was not really a monkey, but a chimpanzee.
The actual year he went into space was 1961.
69.
Mafia- Mafia leaders met in upstate New York to get better organized.
The origins of the Mafia are somewhat vague, partially because it has never actually been a united organization.
Over the years various Mafia families took greater control over the Italian countryside, selling surplus raided food to other regions of Europe in exchange for other supplies.
70.
Hula hoops- Hula Hoops became a national fad.
Everywhere, you would see children and even adults trying to spin the large plastic hoop around their waist.
TV celebrities would also display their skills with the hoop.
The fad peaked and died out quickly.
Ancient artifact, 1950s craze and modern performance art.
The humble hula-hoop's been there, done all that.
71.
Castro- Fidel Castro had been a wealthy lawyer, advocating social justice and protesting the influence of the United States in Cuba.
He became involved in political activism and led the revolution to overthrow Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista in 1959.
He was then sworn in as the Prime Minister of Cuba.
Moving toward Communism, he alienated the United States.
72.
Edsel is a no-go- Ford Motor Company came out with a new car, the Edsel.
The car was named after Edsel Ford, who was Henry Ford's son.
The car was to fit in between the Ford and Mercury, but it was the wrong car at the wrong time and lasted only a few years until it was discontinued.
This meant that Ford was losing customers to other manufacturers when the time came to move up market, the very ones that they could ill afford to lose.
73.
U-2- The United States had been sending the secret U-2 high-flying spy plane over the Soviet Union to take pictures and gather information, when one was shot down by a Russian missile.
The pilot Francis Gary Powers was taken prisoner and later released in an exchange for a Soviet spy who had been arrested in the U.S.
An interesting note is that Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was stationed at the military base where Powers' U-2 took off for the flight.
No connection was ever made, but it did seem suspicious, 74.
Syngman Rhee- Syngman Rhee was the first President of South Korea, serving from 1948 to 1960.
His method of rule became unpopular, and he was forced to resign by a student-led democratic movement.
However, in 1904 he was released under an amnesty and went to America where he studied at Harvard and Princeton Universities.
75.
Payola- Many disk jockeys were exposed for taking bribes to pay certain songs on the radio, thus biasing the record sales.
Top national disk jockey Allen Freed was convicted of payola.
American Bandstand TV dance show host Dick Clark was accused of payola but found innocent.
76.
Kennedy- John F.
Kennedy was elected President of the United States in 1960.
He was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on 22 November 1963.
Kennedy was standing for Presidential election, winning the 'Great Debates' with his charisma, plans for a Peace Corps and grasp of the televisual issues affecting politics.
77.
Chubby Checker- Ernest Evans was born on 3 October, 1941 in Spring Gulley, South Carolina and later moved with his family to Philadelphia.
He was given the nickname 'Chubby' when working at a produce market but soon tired of this work and moved on to a chicken store which encouraged its employees to sing to entertain customers.
The owner of the store was friends with Kal Mann, a songwriter associated with a recording studio in the Philadelphia area.
78.
Psycho- One of the most important thrillers ever written and one of the scariest films of all time, Psycho was written and directed firmly tongue-in-cheek by Alfred Hitchcock.
It was released in 1960 with firm instructions that no audience member was to be admitted after the start of the film - a first for audiences used to strolling into movies whenever they felt like it.
79.
Belgians in the Congo- The country of Belgian Congo gained independence from Belgium in 1960 to become simply the Congo.
For the next several there was civil strife, resulting in 100,000 deaths, as Congolese political parties fought for power.
The last of many Independences in 1960, the Congolese was perhaps the most ill-prepared and least thought out.
Belgium, the previous Governors, attempted to intervene - with tragic results.
80.
Hemingway- Famous author Ernest Hemingway committed suicide.
1899 in Chicago, and the newborn seemed to sense something the others had forgotten.
His parents showed him violins and scripture.
Nothing if not self-willed, he chose the typewriter.
He joined the Kansas City Star, then he joined the war.
It was in the final weeks of the Italian campaign in 1918, driving that ambulance.
So nearly too late to be horribly wounded; to spend those painful weeks in the field hospital; to be changed.
81.
Eichmann- Between 2 April and 14 August, 1961 a trial was held in Jerusalem that attracted the attention of the entire world.
Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer formally entrusted with implementing the Nazi policy toward the Jews in Germany and all occupied territories, had been tracked down by Israeli secret agents on 2 May, 1960, living under the assumed name of Ricardo Klement in a suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
On 11 May he was abducted from a bus stop and brought to Israel to face charges in public for his involvement in the atrocities of Hitler's 'Final Solution'.
82.
Stranger in a Strange Land- was an award-winning fictional book by Robert A.
Heinlein about Valentine Michael Smith, who was born during the first manned mission to Mars and was the only survivor.
He is raised by Martians, and when he arrived on Earth he had no knowledge of anything about the planet or its cultures.
In fact, he had never even seen a woman.
But he was the legal heir to an enormous financial empire.
He then explored human morality and the meanings of love and founded his own church, preaching free love.
Many young rebels of the 1960s selected Stranger as their counterculture bible.
83.
Dylan- Singer Bob Dylan led the folk music craze.
Dylan was born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, was one of the 1960s' - nay, the century's - most influential musicians and songwriters.
Heavily influenced by country and folk standards, his early songs were peace anthems for the anti-Governmentalists but reverted to the mainstream without losing any of his panache.
84.
Berlin- The Soviets erected the Berlin Wall, dividing the city into the Russian-controlled part and the area controlled by the U.S., British and French.
After World War II, the Allied forces occupied Berlin.
The city was split into sectors: American, British and French on the western side and Soviet on the eastern side.
The city administration was a joint council made up of representatives of each of the four Allied powers.
The Soviets' aim was to make Germany a socialist state like the rest of eastern Europe.
The western Allies, of course, didn't want this and began developing their sectors of Berlin separate from the Soviet development of eastern Berlin.
85.
Bay of Pigs Invasion- In 1960, the Eisenhower Administration created a plan to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba.
In April of 1961, newly-elected President John F.
Kennedy allowed the attack on Cuba.
Armed Cuban exiles sailed from Florida and landed at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba.
Because of poor planning by Kennedy, as well as spies and U.S.
government leaks, Castro was ready for the attack.
The exiles were all either captured or killed.
President Kennedy was greatly criticized for the failure of the mission.
86.
Lawrence of Arabia- starring Peter O'Toole won the Academy Awards.
As a Communist country located just a few hundred miles off the coast of Florida, diplomatic relations in the second half of the 20th Century between Cuba and the United States were often rather tense.
The Bay of Pigs invasion exacerbated the decline in good relations between the two nations, and could be considered a key event that led to the much more dangerous Cuban Missile Crisis 18 months later.
87.
British Beatlemania- was something that the British music industry had never previously seen, nor has it seen since.
The Beatles set the standard for show business popularity that fan clubs of every singing sensation since have failed to reproduce.
Wherever you see limosuines pursued by girls throwing underwear; teenage girls screaming crazily until their bladders give way; radio promos; crass advertising; cash-in films and colourful album covers.
88.
Ole Miss- University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) admitted its first black or African-American student, James Meredith, with U.S.
Marshals enforcing the rules to integrate the school.
James Meredith was expecting trouble, for just days before submitting his application to the University of Mississippi he sent a letter to Thurgood Marshall of the Legal Defense and Education Fund requesting legal assistance should it be necessary.
89.
John Glenn- John Herschel Glenn, Jr.
was born 18 July, 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio and attended primary and secondary schools in New Concord, Ohio.
Showing a propensity for the sciences at an early age, he went on to study engineering at Muskingum College in New Concord graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in that subject.
90.
Liston Beats Patterson- Boxer Sonny Liston easily defeated Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson to gain the title.
Liston was a large, mean-looking boxer that struck fear in the hearts of his opponents.
He was finally defeated by Cassius Clay, who after the fight changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
91.
Pope Paul- Pope Paul VI was pope-or leader-of the Catholic Church from 1963 to 1978.
He followed Pope John and completed the implementation of of the goals of the Second Vatican Council.
He became the first pope to visit six continents, but he also known to be an indecisive leader.
His views were important to the world's Catholics.
As Pope, Paul reconsidered the Second Vatican Council, and continued the reforms of John XXIII.
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Malcolm X- Most people are familiar with the black civil rights campaigns in America led by Martin Luther King Jr.
However, at the same time, there was another black rights activist, the rather more extreme Malcolm X, so called because he considered his true surname, 'Little' to be a slave name, and adopted the surname 'X' to represent his lost tribe.
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British Politician Sex- A sex scandal rocked British Parliament.
Secretary of State for War John Profumo was highly respected and married, but after it was discovered that he had a several week affair with a showgirl named Christine Keeler, he was forced to resign.
Not only did he lie to the House of Commons about the affair, but is was also found out that Keeler had also had a relationship with a senior naval attaché at the Soviet Embassy in London.
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JFK Blown Away- President John F.
Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963.
Kennedy was riding in an open-top automobile in a presidential motorcade when Lee Harvey Oswald shot him through the head with a sniper rifle from a sixth floor window of a nearby building.
Oswald was arrested eighty minutes later after killing a Dallas police officer.
He was captured hiding in a movie theatre.
He claimed he was innocent of killing Kennedy and was being set up as a patsy.
Later, it was found that he confessed his guilt to his brother, who visited him in jail.
Oswald was killed two days later on the way to the Dallas Country Jail.
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Birth Control- When the birth control pill Enovid was granted FDA1 approval on 11 May, 1960, it had already been available on the market for two years as a treatment for gynaecological disorders.
The new FDA approval meant that Enovid could be prescribed by doctors specifically for the prevention of pregnancy, and it became the first drug to be prescribed to healthy patients and for social reasons.
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Ho Chi- Minh- Born in 1890, Ho Chi-Minh is the adopted name of Nguyen That Tan.
In 1930 Ho Chi Minh founded the Vietnamese Communist Party, which dedicated itself to securing independence and political power.
By 1941 he was heading the Communist Viet Minh, after being trained in Moscow shortly after the Russian Revolution.
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Richard Nixon back again- Billy Joel's regard for Richard Nixon is such that he gets mentioned twice in the song!
The 'back again' here refers to his return to politics in 1968 and his subsequent victory in the 1972 Presidential election over George McGovern.
The fact that the voting result was against both popular and press opinion left many people wondering who on Earth actually did vote for him.
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Moonshot- The Apollo moon landings are, like Watergate, another subject that has been written about so many times as to render any further comment superfluous.
For readers interested in a detailed history of Apollo, this set of entries can be highly recommended.
The United States landed the first man on the moon.
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Woodstock- A farmer in the Woodstock area of New York State donated his land for a rock concert.
Surprisingly, 600,000 rock fans showed up, making it the biggest rock concert ever held.
To this day, some of the details of exactly how the Woodstock festival came about are unclear, but the result has become legend.
For a city of half a million this was reasonable, but the figure of zero violent crime is unique!
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Watergate- Watergate takes its name from the Watergate Hotel in Washington where a burglary took place that started the whole ball rolling.
The 'Watergate Burglars' bored into offices of the Democratic Party's National Committee on 17, June 1972.
The actual motives for the break-in are, to say the least, not clear; had it not been for the quick thinking of a security guard, Frank Willis, the burglary might well have gone undetected.
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Punk Rock- 1977 was undoubtedly the year of the punk.
The Sex Pistols were banned from TV, Radio and virtually every other medium, and eventually set up camp in the middle of the River Thames, blasting their infamous 'God Save The Queen' castigation of the monarchy on Silver Jubilee day.
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Begin- Menachem Begin was born August 16, 1913, and fled his birthplace of Brest-Litovsk, Poland, with his poor Zionist family during World War I, to escape fighting between the German and Russian armies.
His early passion for Zionism led him to join first a scout organization, and then the Betar Czechoslovakian youth movement where, by 1936, he was in charge of the organization.
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