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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
 Matthew Swain Parkes
 b.1905 Barnet
 d.1990
 S Parkes
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 James Holmes
 b.1856 Islington
 d.1937 New Barnet
 Phyllis Edith Holmes
 b.1907 New Barnet
 d.1979
 Hannah Taylor
 b.1865 27, Clift Street, Hoxton
 d.1956
 Barbara
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