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1960
Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, forced from office for corruption.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1960
An American U2 spy plane is shot down over Russia.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1960
The Payola scandal shows bribery is business as usual in the music
biz.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1960
JFK becomes the American President.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1960
Chubby Checker drives America around the Twist.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1960
Hitchcock releases "Psycho".
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1960
The Congo wins its independence from Belgium.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1961
Ernest Hemingway dies.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1961
Adolf Eichmann is tried and convicted of war crimes as a member of
the Nazi regime.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1961
Bob Dylan's career takes off.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1961
The IUD birth control device first becomes available.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1961
JFK announces lunar mission
"Tomorrow
Wendy" - Andy Prieboy
1961
"Stranger in a Strange Land" by Robert Heinlein first published.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1961
The Berlin Wall is built.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1961
The Bay of Pigs Invasion is a miserable failure.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1962
"Lawrence of Arabia" sweeps the Academy Awards.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1962
The Beatles begin making a name for themselves.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1962
Mississippi University becomes the first university in the U.S. to
allow negroes to attend.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1962
John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1962
Marilyn Monroe dies
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
"Candle
in the Wind" - Elton John
1962
Sonny LIston defeats Floyd Patterson, becoming World Heavyweight
Boxing Champion.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1963
Pope Paul I is becomes pontiff.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1963
JFK is assassinated, possibly even by Lee Harvey Oswald. LBJ becomes
President, and helps young American men to empathise with JFK by sending
lots of them to Vietnam to be shot at too
"Life
in a Northern Town" - The Dream Academy
"In
Praise of Sha Na Na" - The Dead Milkmen
"Purple
Toupee" - They Might Be Giants
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
"Tomorrow
Wendy" - Andy Prieboy
"Civil
War" - Guns N Roses
1963
Malcolm X stirs up controversy with inflammatory comments about JFK.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1963
British Minister Stephen Ward is brought low by a sex scandal.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1963
Patsy Cline falls from the skies, but not the charts
"Air
Crash Museum" - The Dead Milkmen
1963 - 1975
'Nam
"Beach
Party Vietnam" - The Dead Milkmen
"I Was Only Nineteen" - Redgum
"Goodnight
Saigon" - Billy Joel
"19"
- Paul Hardcastle
1964
The Gulf of Tonkin incident makes Ho Chi Minh a household name in
the US.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1964
Richard Nixon declines the Republican Presidential nomination, but
fools no one.
"The
Fletcher Memorial Home" - Pink Floyd
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1964 - 2001
Mary Whitehouse tries to save the morals and manners of Britain.
"Pigs
(Three Different Ones)" - Pink Floyd
1966 - 1967
The arrests, trials and conviction of Rubin Carter, for somethin'
that he never done
"Hurricane"
- Bob Dylan
1966 - 1967
The white man leaves the Congo, except for the ones who like to get
paid to kill the natives
"Roland
the Headless Thompson Gunner" - Warren Zevon
1968 - 1975
Richard Milhous Nixon fails utterly to live up to his nickname
"The
Fletcher Memorial Home" - Pink Floyd
"Sweet
Home Alabama" - Lynyrd Skynyrd
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
"Ego
is Not a Dirty Word" - Skyhooks
"Young
Americans" - David Bowie
1969
Buzz Aldrin becomes the most famous also-ran since Scott of the Antarctic
"(He'll
Never Be An) Old Man River" - This Is Serious Mum
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
"Man
on the Moon" - REM
1969
Several thousand hippies take bad acid and roll around in mud at
Woodstock. Oh, and some bands play.
"My
Generation (Part Two)" - Todd Snider
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1969 - 1975
As National Security Advisor to the President, Henry Kissinger contributes
notably to the insecurity of several nations, not least his own.
"Henry
Kissinger" - Monty Python
1969
Roy Campanella is inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
"We
Didn't Start The Fire" - Billy Joel
1969 -1970
The Weathermen are A1 credibility wise in the US political activism
scene, although most of them appear to have been unable to find their
asses with both hands
"Subterranean
Homesick Blues" - Bob Dylan
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