Joe DiMaggio was important because he turned the attention away from WW2. He was in the war and then after picked up his game again and sign a $100,000 contract with the Yankees. He suffered injuries and was released to the press and retired in 1952.
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Joe DiMaggio played on nine World Series winning New York Yankee teams (36-39, 41, 47, 49-51). The Yankees lost to St. Louis in the 1942 World Series, the only DiMaggio team to lose a World Series. DiMaggio's World Series stats weren't quite up to his regular season performances. He hit only .273 in 51 World Series games with 8 HRs and 30 RBIs. But Since the question asks how many rings Joe DiMaggio has, the answer gets a bit complicated, eight of his nine rings were stolen in the 1960's from his Lexington Hotel room, the only remaining ring was his 1936 rookie year World Series ring. However, at Mr. DiMaggio's final appearance (September 1998) at Yankee Stadium, George Steinbrenner presented Joltin' Joe with 8 exact replicas of his missing rings.
The Cold War was going on, and there was a presidential election that year as well
Stalin, Khrushchev, Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford.
The cast of How We Stopped the War - 1969 includes: Bruce Barthol as Himself (Country Joe and the Fish) Chicken Hirsh as Himself (Country Joe and the Fish) Country Joe McDonald as Himself (Country Joe and the Fish) Barry Melton as Himself (Country Joe and the Fish)
new technologies like the car, radio, tv, internet add more conectivness to society. Major wars seem to end with World War II as the Cold War was just a showing of strength between the USSR and the NATO countries. the late sixites brought a revolution in cultural ideals and politics. The increasing wealth of the top one percent of Americans since 1980. Just delve deeper into the Cold War and you will find a lot of significant events in our history, seeing as it was the most prominent event of the 20th century