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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
 Alfred BOWKER
 b.1854 Radcliffe, Bury, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Alfred James BOWKER
 b.1877 Bury, Lancs
 d.1955 Blackpool, Lancs
 Teresa WALKDEN
 b.1856 Bury, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Reginald James BOWKER
 b.1908 Blackpool, Lancs
 d.1986 Eastbourne, Sussex
 William Giles PONTER
 b.         
 d.1945
 Gladys Thorpe PONTER
 b.1885
 d.1969 Brixham, Devon
 Emily CROSSLAND
 b.         
 d.          Y/
 Robert James BOWKER
 b. Private
 d.         
 Mary Dorothy EVERIST
 b. Private
 d.