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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
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 b.1857 Thornhill, Middsx, Eng.
 d.1926 Te Kopuru, NZ.
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 b.1882
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 b.1859 Kaipara, NZ
 d.1931 Auckland, NZ.
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 b.1884
 d.1971
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