1950 Korean War begins 1964 - 1973 Vietnam War 1969 Armstrong first person on moon 1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl 1989 Berlin wall falls | 1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage 1914 - 1918 World War I 1922 USSR formed by Soviet states 1939 - 1945 World War II 1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima) | 1869 Opening of Suez Canal 1871 Franco - Prussian War 1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy 1899 Boer War begins 1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight |
John Pocklington b.1866 Abb, Yorks. (Tadcaster) d.1926 Sunderland. | ||||||||
Charles Pocklington b.1908 Bishop Auckland, Eng d.1980 | Margaret Jane Swift b. Bishop Auckland. d.1918 Bishop Auckland. | |||||||
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G. Pocklington b. d. | Margaret Jane Giles b.1911 Sunderland, Eng d.1996 | |||||||
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