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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
 James Ferguson
 b.1871 Glasgow, Scotland
 d.1961 Glasgow, Scotland
 Walter Gillies Ferguson
 b.1914 Glasgow, Scotland
 d.1972 Glasgow, Scotland
 John Andrew
 b.1852 Eastwood-Thor, Scotland
 d.         
 Margaret Sproull Andrew
 b.1876 Pollockshaws, Scotland
 d.1957 Pollockshaws, Scotland
 Janet Chapman McLean
 b.1853 Mearns, Scotland
 d.1916
 Elizaberth Knox
 b.1917
 d.1998