We Didn't Start The Fire

By ZakKnorr

  • Richard Nixon

    Richard Nixon
    First elected to the United States Senate.

  • Television

    Television
    Is becoming widespread (in black and white format) and becomes the most popular means of advertising.

  • H-Bomb

    H-Bomb
    In the middle of its development as a nuclear weapon, announced in early 1950 and first tested in late 1952.

  • Sugar Ray

    Sugar Ray
    A champion welterweight boxer.

  • Davy Crockett

    Davy Crockett
    Disney television series about the legendary frontiersman of the same name. The show was a huge hit with young boys and inspired a short-lived "coonskin cap" craze.

  • Einstein

    Einstein
    Dies on April 18 at the age of 76.

  • Fidel Castro

    Fidel Castro
    comes to power after a revolution in Cuba and visits the United States later that year on an unofficial twelve-day tour.

  • U-2

    U-2
    An American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union, causing the U-2 Crisis of 1960.

  • Bay of Pigs Invasion

    Bay of Pigs Invasion
    Failed attempt by United States-trained Cuban exiles to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro.

  • Crack

    Crack
    cocaine use surged in the mid-to-late 1980s.