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1991 Persian Gulf War
1992 Trade Pact, US, Canada, Mexico
1999 Panama Canal turned over to Panama
2001 Terrorists destroy WTC towers
1950 Korean War begins
1964 - 1973 Vietnam War
1969 Armstrong first person on the moon
1973 US launches Skylab space station
1981 Columbia is first space shuttle
1913 Edison invents movies w/sound
1914 - 1918 World War I
1929 The Great Depression begins
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
 B F Block
 b.1912 WICHITA FALL, TEXAS
 d.1944 Dumas, Texas
 Wanda Merle Block
 b. Private
 d.         
 Lela Merle Strickland
 b.1914 YUKON, OKLAHOMA
 d.1999 LUFKIN, TEXAS