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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
 Ernest George Pretyman
 b.1859
 d.         
 Herbert Ernest Pretyman
 b.1900 Lt-Cmdr, Berks
 d.         
 George Cecil Orlando Bridgeman
 b.1845 4th. Earl of Bradford
 d.1915
 Lady-Beatrice A Bridgeman
 b.1870 Staffs
 d.1931
 Lady-Ida Anabella F Lumley
 b.1848 Tickhill Castle, Yorks
 d.1936
 (Mary) Karen Agar
 b.1901
 d.