| 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 |
![]() | Edward John(Ted) Powlesland b.1917 d.2004 Exeter, Devon, England | |||||||
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![]() | ![]() | Samuel Cann b.1854 Sandford, Devon, England d. | ||||||
![]() | ![]() | William Cann b.1885 Sandford, Devon, England d. | Mary Garnsworthy b.1859 Stoodleigh - Wa, England d. | |||||
![]() | Gwendoline Doris Ethel Cann b.1920 Crediton , Devon, England d.1995 Exeter, Devon, England | ![]() | Samuel John Haydon b.1870 Crediton , Devon, England d. | |||||
![]() | ![]() | Ethel Haydon b.1894 Crediton , Devon, England d. | Edith Mary Heard b.1874 Crediton , Devon, England d. | |||||
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