John Thomas Thornton
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Parents
Ida May Shepherd
Ida May Shepherd
1865 - 1902
Spouse
Winnie Alice Shelton
Winnie Alice Shelton
1900 - 1993
Children
Siblings

1917


Jun 5
Age: 21y
1917 • WWI: Battle of Hareira and Sheria launched by the British XX Corps and Desert Mounted Corps against the central Ottoman defences protecting the Gaza to Beersheba road.

1922


Age: 26y

birth of child


Wesley Thornton
1922 Bronisław Malinowski's influential ethnological text Argonauts of the Western Pacific is published.

1926


Age: 30y
1926 • The Fazal Mosque, the first purpose-built in London and the first Ahmadiyya mosque in Britain, is completed.

1927


Age: 31y
1927 İsmet İnönü forms a new government in Turkey (The 5th government).

1987


Feb 19
Age: 91y
1987 South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian ocean off Mauritius, due to a fire in the cargo hold; the 159 passengers and crew perish.

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