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1991 Persian Gulf War
1991 Break-up of the Soviet Union
1994 Channel tunnel opens to traffic
1997 Scotland Scientists clone a sheep
1999 World population reaches 6 billion
1950 Korean War begins
1964 - 1973 Vietnam War
1969 Armstrong first person on moon
1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl
1989 Berlin wall falls
1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
1914 - 1918 World War I
1922 USSR formed by Soviet states
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
 Albert Wilfred Charles Dixon
 b.1918
 d.1986
 Private 
 b.         
 d.         
 Myrtle Joan Brown
 b.1925
 d.1994




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
 Thomas William Heard
 b.1857 Sandford, Devon, England
 d.         
 William Heard
 b.1893 Sandford, Devon, England
 d.1970 Exeter, Devon, England
 Emily Warren
 b.1867 Crediton , Devon, England
 d.1925 Exeter, Devon, England
 William Heard
 b.1919 Broadclyst, England
 d.1999 London, England
 Jane Chappell
 b.1894 Barnsley, England
 d.1960
 Ethel Rogers
 b.1910 Exeter, Devon, England
 d.