In loving memory
Alex James Galvin
August 21, 1943 – August 19, 2013
Lived 69 years
broken Hill, New South Wales
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1943
Born August 21
1945
Alex was 2 when the war in Europe ended on V-E Day
1950
Alex was 7 when the Korean War began
1962
Alex was 19 when the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war
1973
Alex was 30 when the Sydney Opera House opened
1989
Alex was 46 when the Berlin Wall fell
1991
Alex was 48 when the Soviet Union dissolved
2000
Alex was 57 when the Summer Olympics opened in Sydney
2010
Alex was 67 when 33 trapped Chilean miners were rescued
2013
Passed away August 19, age 69
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