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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
 Vincent Lorimer Shearer
 b.1904 Stent, Tuolumne Co., CA
 d.1989 Knight's Ferry, CA
 L. A. Shearer
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 J. T. Shearer
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 Alfred Seymour Ormsby
 b.1871 Petaluma, CA
 d.1925 Martinez, CA
 Alice Marion Ormsby
 b.1906 Martinez, CA
 d.2003 Jamestown, CA
 Cornelius Waite
 b.1841 Leicester, England
 d.1928 Walnut Creek, CA
 Alice Amelia Waite
 b.1873 Hannibal, Marion Co., MO
 d.1966 Oakdale, CA
 Mary Ann Johnson
 b.1839 Lincolnshire, England
 d.1924 Walnut Creek, CA