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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 Eugene Irvin
 b.1919 Newnan, Georgia
 d.1983 Gwinnett, Georgia
 David Waugh
 b.1887 Westgate - Dur, England
 d.         
 Mary Catherine Waugh
 b.1920 Newton Abbot, England
 d.2005 Newton Abbot, England
 Frederick William Wensley
 b.1857 Worlington, England
 d.         
 Lily Grace Sharland
 b.1895 Newton Abbot Registratio
 d.1961 Newton Abbot, England
 Catherine Elizabeth Sparks
 b.1868 Foundry-Hayle, England
 d.