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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
 Bernard VAUX
 b.1919 Leeds, Yorks
 d.1997 Diss, Norfolk
 Brian Michael VAUX
 b. Private
 d.         
 Pauline Elizabeth VAUX
 b. Private
 d.         
 William Henry CROSSLAND
 b.1859 Salford, Lancs
 d.1898 Falmouth, Cornwall.
 Tom Arthur CROSSLAND
 b.1893 Higher Broughton, Lancs
 d.1974 Sheffield, Yorks
 Clara HART
 b.1862 Manchester, Lancs
 d.1897 Salford, Lancs
 Joyce Hart CROSSLAND
 b. Private
 d.         
 Annie Sykes TAYLOR
 b.1897 Golcar, Yorks
 d.1973 Chesterfield, Derbys