A true gentleman
Pita Te Kuatau Moana
February 11, 1954 – March 18, 2021
Lived 67 years
Rangitukia, East Coast, New Zealand
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1954
Born February 11
1957
Pita was 3 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik
1962
Pita was 8 when the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war
1975
Pita was 21 when Saigon fell, ending the Vietnam War
1987
Pita was 33 when Reagan told Gorbachev, "Tear down this wall"
1991
Pita was 37 when the Soviet Union dissolved
2000
Pita was 46 when the world entered 2000 with few Y2K computer problems
2019
Pita was 65 when scientists released the first image of a black hole
2021
Passed away March 18, age 67
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