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harry truman
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Evnts in the 1900's
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Red China
Red China as the Communist Party of China wins the Chinese Civil War, establishing the People's Republic of China. -
Doris Day
Doris Day enters the public spotlight with the films My Dream Is Yours and It's a Great Feeling as well as popular songs like "It's Magic"; divorces her second husband. -
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon is first elected to the United States Senate -
Marilyn Monroe
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). -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower is first elected as U.S. president, winning by a landslide margin of 442 to 89 electoral votes -
Alabama
Alabama is the site of the Montgomery Bus Boycott which ultimately led to the removal of the last race laws in the USA. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr figure prominently -
Little Rock, Arkansas
Little Rock, Arkansas is the site of an anti-integration standoff, as Governor Orval Faubus stops the Little Rock Nine from attending Little Rock Central High School and President Dwight D. Eisenhower deploys the 101st Airborne Division to counteract him. -
Richard Nixon back again
Richard Nixon back again: Former Vice President Nixon is elected in the 1968 presidential election of the United States -
Punk rock
Punk rock: The Ramones form, with the Sex Pistols following in 1975, bringing in the punk era
