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1922 USSR formed by Soviet states
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
1950 Korean War begins
1964 - 1973 Vietnam War
1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
1899 Boer War begins
1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
1914 - 1918 World War I
1830 French Revolution
1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne
1854 Crimean War with Russia
1869 Opening of Suez Canal
1871 Franco - Prussian War
 Jack Thomson
 b.         
 d.         
 Richard Woolfitt
 b.1824 Harmston, England
 d.1907 Beverley, England
 John William Woolfitt
 b.1860 Lockington, England
 d.         
 Mary Holiday
 b.1830 Beverley, England
 d.1868 Beverley, England
 Annie Woolfitt
 b.1902 Driffield, England
 d.         
 Rachel Richardson
 b.1862 Driffield, England
 d.1917 Driffield, England