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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
 Robert Scott Clapperton
 b.1900 Lambeth
 d.         
 J R S Clapperton
 b.         
 d.         
 James Holmes
 b.1856 Islington
 d.1937 New Barnet
 Dorothy Mary Holmes
 b.1903 New Barnet
 d.1958
 Charles Cozens Taylor
 b.1841 Church Street, Mile End
 d.1902 Folly Lodge, New Barnet
 Hannah Taylor
 b.1865 27, Clift Street, Hoxton
 d.1956
 Hannah Wood
 b.1842 5, Somers Town
 d.1891 9, Finsbury Park