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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)
[[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]], [[Co
ca-Cola#Historyla Wars]]