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1920
US government turns most of its citizens into criminals overnight
as alcohol is made illegal. Al Capone laughs all the way to the bank.
"Copperhead
Road" - Steve Earle
1923-1980
Bert Kaempfert makes records for prolificity in record making
"One
Week" - Bare Naked Ladies
1933 - 1945
Adolf Hitler's World Domination Tour visits hundreds of cities across
Europe
"The Hitler Rap" - Mel Brooks
1934
Elgar dies
"Decomposing
Composers" - Monty Python
1941
Akira Kurosawa's film-making career begins
"One
Week" - Bare Naked Ladies
1942 - 1944
The projected Japanese invasion of Australia fails
"Tojo"
- Hoodoo Gurus
1943
Rachmaninov dies
"Decomposing
Composers" - Monty Python
1945
Harry S. Truman gets a promotion he wants in a way he doesn't.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1945
The Bombing of Dresden.
"The
Hero's Return" - Pink Floyd
1945
Hiroshima gets sneak preview of World War Three
"Blossom
and Blood" - Midnight Oil
"Short
Memory" - Midnight Oil
1945
World War Two ends, and everyone goes home.
"Southhampton
Dock" - Pink Floyd
"The
Hero's Return" - Pink Floyd
1945
The "Communist Bloc" forms in Eastern Europe.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1948
Doris Day begins her demonstration that what will be, will be. Unfortunately,
what will be turns out to be the Fifties
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1949
Overnight, nearly a billion people stop being our valiant allies
against the Japanese and become evil conspirators bent on destroying our
way of life, as politics makes strange redfellows in China.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1949
The South Pacific comes to Broadway.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
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