[Fiji Hill]

Here are 30 bad things that happened before Sir Gaffe-Alot was even beyond his teenage years:

1. World War II

2. The Detroit race riot (1943)

3. The Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe (1945-1948)

4. The first Vietnam War (1945-1954)

5. The Texas City explosion (1947)

6. The Indo-Pakistani war of 1948

7. The Burmese civil war (1948-2019)

8. The Bogotazo revolt in Colombia (1948)

9. The Communist conquest of China (1949)

10. The Korean War

11. Hurricane Charlie (1951)

12. The Cairo riots (1952)

13. The Geneva conference (1954)

14. Hurricane Edna (1954)

15. The Algerian war for independence (1954-1962)

16. The Suez Canal War (1956)

17. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956

18. Hurricane Audrey (1957)

19. The coup d'etat that overthrew Iraq's pro-Western government (1958)

20. The Lebanese civil war (1958)

21. The Battle of the Taiwan Strait (1958)

22. Red China's Great Leap Forward disaster (1958-1961)

23. Castro's conquest of Cuba (1959)

24. Congo-Léopoldville's descent into anarchy following its independence (1960)

25. Hurricane Donna (1960)

26. The Bay of Pigs invasion (1961)

27. Hurricane Carla (1961)

28. The revolt of the Secret Army Organization in Algiers (1962)

29. The Sino-Indian War (1962)

30. The Columbus Day Storm in Oregon and Washington (1962)

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Birth of B. Hussein Obambi (1961)