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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
 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