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We Didn't Start the Fire
'''We Didn't Start the Fire''' is a [[song]] by [[Billy Joel]] that lists major events in his lifetime, from 1949 to 1989.

==Lyrics==
The full lyrics are copyrighted, but here are the people, places and events listed in the song, in order of mention.

[[1949]]: [[Harry Truman]], [[Doris Day]], [[People's Republic of China]], [[Johnnie Ray]], ''[[South Pacific]]'', [[Walter Winchell]], [[Joe DiMaggio]]

(contracted; show full)

[[1960]]: [[U-2 Crisis of 1960]], [[Syngman Rhee]], [[payola]], [[John F. Kennedy]], [[Chubby Checker]], ''[[Psycho]]'', [[Belgian Congo]]

[[1961]]: [[Ernest Hemingway]], [[Adolf Eichmann]], ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'', [[Bob Dylan]], [[Berlin Wall]], [[Bay of Pigs Invasion]]

[[1962]]: ''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]'', [[The Beatles]], [[
University of MississippiOle Miss]], [[John Glenn]], [[Sonny Liston]], [[Floyd Patterson]]

[[1963]]: [[Pope Paul VI]], [[Malcolm X]], [[Profumo Affair]], [[John F. Kennedy assassination]]

[[1964]]-[[1989]]: [[Birth control]], [[Ho Chi Minh]], [[U.S. presidential election, 1968]], [[Apollo 11]], [[Woodstock]], [[Watergate]], [[punk rock]], 
[[Menachem Begin]], [[Ronald Reagan]], [[Palestine]], [[aircraft hijacking]], 
[[Ruhollah Khomeini]], [[Democratic Republic of Afghanistan#The_Soviet_invasion,_December_1979]], ''[[Wheel of Fortune]]'', [[Sally Ride]], [[heavy metal music]], [[suicide]], [[Foreign debt]]s, [[Vietnam veteran]], [[AIDS]], [[cocaine]], [[Bernhard Goetz]], [[Syringe]], [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989]], [[Rock and Roll]], [[Coca-Cola#History]]