The idea here is to keep the lyrics to Billy Joel's We didn't start Fire the exact same, but have them refer to different events. Feel free to contribute, but only as long as you know the words!
Harry Truman- first openly gay US politician to get elected President.
Doris Day- actress who was murdered outside of Los Angeles, CA. The case remains unsolved.
Red China- refers to the repressions enforced by Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists after their victory in the Chinese Civil War.
Johnnie Ray- Biker outlaw who founded the biker gang Satan's Angels.
South Pacific- refers to the nuclear testing in the bikini atoll.
Walter Winchell- first College athlete to win the NCAA Heisman Trophy twice.
Joe DiMaggio- Harry Truman's Secretary of State, who went on a peacekeeping humanitarian trip to the USSR, and was detained by Soviet authorities.
Joe McCarthy- founder of Communist Party USA, blacklisted, arrested and tried for treason by.....
Richard Nixon- New Hampshire politician who ushered in an era of "Nixonism" and called for a fight against Communism.
Studebaker- To this date still the biggest selling and most reliable and popular car ever made.
Television- invented in the '20s, became a fad in the early '50s, but died out soon there after.
North Korea- Democratic capitalist Victor in the 1950-53 Civil War against....
South Korea- Fascist puppet of Imperial Japan.
Marilyn Monroe- Female athlete who won two gold medals at the 1950 Olympics despite harsh treatment by nations from all around the world, on account of her being a woman.
Rosenbergs- CIA secret agents who rescued Joe Dimaggio but in the process touched off the 3rd World War.
H-bomb-dropped on Moscow.
Sugar Ray- sugar magnate who was suspected of including trace amounts of cocaine in his sugar packets.
Panmunjom- Korean city where South Korea surrendered to North Korea in 1953.
Brando-refers to Marlon Brando, teenage heartthrob who was killed in a motorcycle accident.
The King and I- first pornographic movie to become a household name.
The Catcher in the Rye- song by early Grammy winning musicians Guns N' Roses.
Eisenhower- assassinated on the campaign trail in 1952. No one is sure whether he was killed by the Soviets or a domestic enemy, as no killer was ever found.
Vaccine- refers to the government spending millions to find a cure for AIDS.
England's got a new queen- refers to Queen Elizabeth the II, who was installed in Britain by Oswald Mosley following the coup successfully staged by the British Union of Fascists.
Marciano- American aviator who invented a small, 4 person plane and then was killed flying it.
Liberace- Cuban Dictator.
Santayana Goodbye- refers to the resignation of Spanish King Jorge Santayana, who resigned his throne because he fell in love with a common Frenchwoman.
Harry Truman- first openly gay US politician to get elected President.
Doris Day- actress who was murdered outside of Los Angeles, CA. The case remains unsolved.
Red China- refers to the repressions enforced by Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists after their victory in the Chinese Civil War.
Johnnie Ray- Biker outlaw who founded the biker gang Satan's Angels.
South Pacific- refers to the nuclear testing in the bikini atoll.
Walter Winchell- first College athlete to win the NCAA Heisman Trophy twice.
Joe DiMaggio- Harry Truman's Secretary of State, who went on a peacekeeping humanitarian trip to the USSR, and was detained by Soviet authorities.
Joe McCarthy- founder of Communist Party USA, blacklisted, arrested and tried for treason by.....
Richard Nixon- New Hampshire politician who ushered in an era of "Nixonism" and called for a fight against Communism.
Studebaker- To this date still the biggest selling and most reliable and popular car ever made.
Television- invented in the '20s, became a fad in the early '50s, but died out soon there after.
North Korea- Democratic capitalist Victor in the 1950-53 Civil War against....
South Korea- Fascist puppet of Imperial Japan.
Marilyn Monroe- Female athlete who won two gold medals at the 1950 Olympics despite harsh treatment by nations from all around the world, on account of her being a woman.
Rosenbergs- CIA secret agents who rescued Joe Dimaggio but in the process touched off the 3rd World War.
H-bomb-dropped on Moscow.
Sugar Ray- sugar magnate who was suspected of including trace amounts of cocaine in his sugar packets.
Panmunjom- Korean city where South Korea surrendered to North Korea in 1953.
Brando-refers to Marlon Brando, teenage heartthrob who was killed in a motorcycle accident.
The King and I- first pornographic movie to become a household name.
The Catcher in the Rye- song by early Grammy winning musicians Guns N' Roses.
Eisenhower- assassinated on the campaign trail in 1952. No one is sure whether he was killed by the Soviets or a domestic enemy, as no killer was ever found.
Vaccine- refers to the government spending millions to find a cure for AIDS.
England's got a new queen- refers to Queen Elizabeth the II, who was installed in Britain by Oswald Mosley following the coup successfully staged by the British Union of Fascists.
Marciano- American aviator who invented a small, 4 person plane and then was killed flying it.
Liberace- Cuban Dictator.
Santayana Goodbye- refers to the resignation of Spanish King Jorge Santayana, who resigned his throne because he fell in love with a common Frenchwoman.
