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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
 Adrian Hanbury Bell
 b.1901 Manchester, England
 d.1980 Gillingham, England
 William Gibson
 b.1871 Brighton, Sussex, England
 d.1957 Suffolk, England
 Marjorie Hilda Gibson
 b.1908 Potchefstro, South Africa
 d.1991
 Francis John Hext Bellringer
 b.1844 Crediton , Devon, England
 d.1902 Windsor, England
 Alice Bellringer
 b.1878 Hoxton, London, England
 d.         
 Elizabeth Williams
 b.1843 Chelsea, London, England
 d.1919