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1964 - 1973 Vietnam War
1969 Armstrong first person on the moon
1973 US launches Skylab space station
1981 Columbia is first space shuttle
1991 Persian Gulf War
1914 - 1918 World War I
1929 The Great Depression begins
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
1950 Korean War begins
1879 Edison invents phono/light bulb
1898 Spanish-American War
1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
1908 Ford produces Model T
1913 Edison invents movies w/sound
 Benjamin Franklin Heckert
 b.1872 Upper Paxton Township, 
 d.1950
 John F. Heckert
 b.1898
 d.1936 Lower Mahanoy Townshi
 Clara E. Yeager
 b.1875
 d.1937
 Robert Mark Heckert
 b.1925 Jackson Township, 
 d.         
 Leah Charlotte Witmer
 b.1900 Lower Mahanoy Townshi
 d.2000 Mansion Nursing Home, 
 Philina Townley
 b.1932
 d.