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 |
Mr. Nixon b. d. | ||||||||
Robert James Pocklington b.1848 Moulton Spalding, Eng d.1915 Oakleigh, Aust | ||||||||
Cecil Thoroton Pocklington b.1874 Moulton Lincoln UK d.1939 Queanbeyan, NSW, Aus | Annie Marie Teesdale b.1851 Wykeham, Lincoln, Eng d.1930 Oakley, Victoria, Aus | |||||||
Irene Pocklington b.1902 Vic, Aus d. | John Brierley b. d. | |||||||
Elizabeth Matilda Brierley b.1870 d.1943 Young, NSW, Aus | Mary Elizabeth b. d. | |||||||