What was a big news story when you were growing up that young people today wouldn't have heard of?
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Churchill 's funeral
Aberfan.
Torrey Canyon.
Cod wars.
Aberfan.
Torrey Canyon.
Cod wars.
last 3 i remember aberfan was 60 somthing i was at school torry cannion perhaps 68 cod wars perhaps 74??
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Summer of 76.
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US president (JFK) getting shot. Can we prepare for another one?
Cuban missile crisis.
Monkey in space.
Yuri Gagarin. I wanted to know how he stayed up.
I wanted to know where the water in the bird bath went when it dried up and why the sky was blue if it was just air.
Cuban missile crisis.
Monkey in space.
Yuri Gagarin. I wanted to know how he stayed up.
I wanted to know where the water in the bird bath went when it dried up and why the sky was blue if it was just air.
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Everything mentioned in Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire"!
The Turkish invasion of Cyprus was a big deal in 1974. I remember the news story showing the sky full of paratroopers and thinking it looked like a WWII movie.
Challenger and Chernobyl.
Quite a list.
Harry Truman, Doris Day
Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific
Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon
Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea
Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-Bomb
Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I,
And The Catcher In The Rye
Eisenhower, Vaccine
England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace
Santayana goodbye
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov
Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella
Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron
Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, "Rock Around the Clock"
Einstein, James Dean
Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan
Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place
Trouble in the Suez
Little Rock, Pasternak
Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Zhou En-lai
Bridge On The River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle
California baseball
Starkweather Homicide
Children of Thalidomide
Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur
Space Monkey, Mafia
Hula Hoops, Castro
Edsel is a no-go
U-2, Syngman Rhee
Payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, Psycho
Belgians in the Congo
Hemingway, Eichmann
Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin
Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia
British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn
Liston beats Patterson
Pope Paul, Malcolm X
British Politician sex
J.F.K. blown away
What else do I have to say?
This monster hit of a song was created in 1989, when Joel turned 40. The idea spawned from a conversation he had with a friend of Sean Lennon. The friend just turned 21 and was complaining about how crazy it was to be living in his era, therefore undermining any other time before his. This encouraged Joel to write a song that would prove that any time is filled with extremes.
Starting from 1949 (the year in which he was born), he chronicled the major events that occurred during that time in a rapid fire delivery of names, places, and cultural works.
These are his words on the subject:
The song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a radio mainstay.
Starting from 1949 (the year in which he was born), he chronicled the major events that occurred during that time in a rapid fire delivery of names, places, and cultural works.
These are his words on the subject:
Passage taken from the book, In Their Own Words by Bill DeMain (Chapter 14) where he interviewed Joel about his thoughts on the song.
The song reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became a radio mainstay.
Ronan Point collapse. I lived in the house circled.
Brooklyn doesn't even have a baseball team since the Dodgers moved to LA, in the early 50s, i think.
BJ is right about the melody. It blows chunks.
BJ is right about the melody. It blows chunks.
I remember an economic experiment, from the first Thatcher government, where they set targets for the "money supply". They believed doing this was the key to reducing inflation and controlling the public debt. So for several years, when we got monthly updates on the news, about the economy, as well as unemployment and inflation and borrowing, there was a report on the increase in the money supply. Eventually it was dropped, presumably when it was accepted it was nonsense.
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