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 |
John Wright b.1858 Stokeinteignhea, England d. | ||||||||
William George Sanders Wright b.1880 Combeinteignhe, England d.1951 Combeinteignhe, England | Clara Sanders b.1857 Stokeinteignhea, England d. | |||||||
Walter John Bishop Wright b.1921 Combeinteignhe, England d.1985 Bickington-Newton Abbo | John Rice b.1845 Combeinteignhe, England d. | |||||||
Elizabeth Ellen Rice b.1882 Combeinteignhe, England d.1955 Newton Abbot, England | Mary Harris Cooksley b.1849 Churston Ferrers, England d. | |||||||
Sylvia Ada Johnson b.1931 Newton Abbot, England d.2007 Torquay, Devon, England | ||||||||