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1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
1950 Korean War begins
1964 - 1973 Vietnam War
1969 Armstrong first person on moon
1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl
1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
1914 - 1918 World War I
1922 USSR formed by Soviet states
1939 - 1945 World War II
1854 Crimean War with Russia
1869 Opening of Suez Canal
1871 Franco - Prussian War
1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
1899 Boer War begins
 William Henry Jackson
 b.1879
 d.1945 Launceston, Australia
 William Raymond Jackson
 b.1917 Launceston, Australia
 d.2005 Launceston, Australia
 Alfred Davis Crocker
 b.1845 Launceston, Australia
 d.1921
 Elsie May Crocker
 b.1880 Launceston, Australia
 d.1961 Launceston, Australia
 Sarah Richards
 b.1844 Launceston, Australia
 d.1922 Launceston, Australia