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We Didnt Start the Fire

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    We Didnt Start the Fire

  • Doris Day

    Doris Day
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    She 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
    Learn moreelected to the United States Senate.
  • Sugar Ray Robinson

    Sugar Ray Robinson
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower

    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    Click here to learn more first elected as U.S. president, winning by a landslide margin of 442 to 89 electoral votes.
  • Joseph Stalin

    Joseph Stalin
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    Dies on March 5, yielding his position as leader of the Soviet Union
  • Space Monkey

    Space Monkey
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    Able and Miss Baker return to Earth from space aboard the flight Jupiter AM-18.
  • John F. Kennedy

    John F. Kennedy
    Click here to learn more Beats Richard Nixon in the November 8 general election
  • Pope Paul IV

    Pope Paul IV
    Click here to learn more Cardinal Giovanni Montini is elected to the papacy and takes the regnal name of Paul VI.
  • Russians in Afghanistan

    Russians in Afghanistan
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    Following their move into Afghanistan, Soviet forces fight a ten-year war, from 1979 to 1989.
  • Bernie Goetz

    Bernie Goetz
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    On December 22, Mr. Goetz shot four young men who he said were threatening him on a New York City subway. Goetz was charged with attempted murder but was acquitted of the charges, though convicted of carrying an unlicensed gun.