Hector Dacosta Macdonald Small Obituary and Memorial

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Born August 8

1687

Hector was 1679 when Isaac Newton published the Principia, explaining gravity

1742

Hector was 1734 when Handel's Messiah premiered in Dublin

1914

Hector was 1906 when World War I began in Europe

1928

Hector was 1920 when Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin

1939

Hector was 1931 when World War II began in Europe

1948

Hector was 1940 when the National Health Service was founded

1957

Hector was 1949 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik

1962

Hector was 1954 when the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war

1989

Hector was 1981 when the Berlin Wall fell

1991

Hector was 1983 when the Soviet Union dissolved

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