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1991 Persian Gulf War
1991 Break-up of the Soviet Union
1994 Channel tunnel opens to traffic
1997 Scotland Scientists clone a sheep
1999 World population reaches 6 billion
1950 Korean War begins
1964 - 1973 Vietnam War
1969 Armstrong first person on moon
1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl
1989 Berlin wall falls
1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
1914 - 1918 World War I
1922 USSR formed by Soviet states
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
 B Þ Sveinbergsson
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 R S Birgisson
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 Sigurður Eiríksson Þórarinsson
 b.1915 Akureyri
 d.1941 the tanker E.S. Hekla
 G B Sigurðardóttir
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 Hulda Long Gunnarsdóttir
 b.1919 Norðfirði
 d.1980 Reykjavík
 B S Rúnarsson
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 K G Bjarnadóttir
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