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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
 Richard Read
 b.1836 Eng.
 d.1898 Eng.
 Charles Henry Read
 b.1860
 d.         
 Mary Henderson
 b.1836 Eng.
 d.1918
 Adelaide I Read
 b.         
 d.         
 Harriet Marks
 b.         
 d.