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petter pan linkPeter Pan is broadcast on TV live and in color from the 1954 version of the stage musical starring Mary Martin on March 7. Disney released an animated version the previous year
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Elvis Presley signs with RCA Records on November 21, beginning his pop career
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disney landDisneyland opens on July 17 as Walt Disney's first theme park
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Budapest is the site of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
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Marilyn Monroe soars 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
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woodstockWoodstock: Famous rock and roll festival of 1969 that came to be the epitome of the counterculture movement
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apollo 11Moonshot: Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing, successfully lands on the moon
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Wheel of Fortune: A hit television game show which has been TV's highest-rated syndicated program since 1983
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Rock-and-roller cola wars: Soft drink giants Coke and Pepsi each run marketing campaigns using rock & roll and popular music stars to reach the young adult demographic
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cola_Wars
