| 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  | 
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|  S M Billington b. d.  | ![]()  | ![]()  |  Richard John Grice Luesby b.1855 America d.1914 Barnet  | |||||
|  A C Billington b. d.  | ![]()  |  Thomas George Luesby b.1898 Upp, London [Islington] d.1956 Whittington Ho, Islington.  |  Elizabeth Ryan b.1865 d.1944 Islington  | |||||
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