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1989 Berlin wall falls
1991 Persian Gulf War
1991 Break-up of the Soviet Union
1994 Channel tunnel opens to traffic
1997 Scotland Scientists clone a sheep
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
 Theodorus Bernardus Kleynhans
 b.1904
 d.1974 Cambridge, South Africa
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 b.         
 d.         
 Winifred Keys
 b.1908 Barkly East, South Africa
 d.1964 , South Africa




1922 USSR formed by Soviet states
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
1950 Korean War begins
1964 - 1973 Vietnam War
1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
1899 Boer War begins
1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
1914 - 1918 World War I
1830 French Revolution
1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne
1854 Crimean War with Russia
1869 Opening of Suez Canal
1871 Franco - Prussian War
 William Holcombe
 b.1830 Crediton , Devon, England
 d.1894
 Walter Wilfred Holcombe
 b.1862 Crediton , Devon, England
 d.1942 Yeoford - Credit, England
 Jane Dimmett Ash
 b.1833 Colebrooke, England
 d.1902
 William Holcombe
 b.1899 Crediton , Devon, England
 d.1987 Slough, England
 John Bird
 b.1822 Attleborough, England
 d.         
 Alice Mary Bird
 b.1865 Colebrooke, England
 d.1940
 Ellen Daw
 b.1845 Colebrooke, England
 d.1881
 Frances Ellen Barlow
 b.1898
 d.1987




1922 USSR formed by Soviet states
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
1950 Korean War begins
1964 - 1973 Vietnam War
1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
1899 Boer War begins
1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
1914 - 1918 World War I
1830 French Revolution
1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne
1854 Crimean War with Russia
1869 Opening of Suez Canal
1871 Franco - Prussian War
 Private 
 b.         
 d.         
 William Holcombe
 b.1830 Crediton , Devon, England
 d.1894
 Walter Wilfred Holcombe
 b.1862 Crediton , Devon, England
 d.1942 Yeoford - Credit, England
 Jane Dimmett Ash
 b.1833 Colebrooke, England
 d.1902
 Lilian Holcombe
 b.1903 Yeoford - Credit, England
 d.1951
 John Bird
 b.1822 Attleborough, England
 d.         
 Alice Mary Bird
 b.1865 Colebrooke, England
 d.1940
 Ellen Daw
 b.1845 Colebrooke, England
 d.1881