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 |
Ian Staley b. d. Victoria | ||||||||
Henry Clarke Houston b.1841 Maybole, Scotland d.1936 Port Linc, South Australia | ||||||||
Alfred Spalding Houston b.1882 Port Linc, South Australia d. | Mary Ganning b.1840 Roscommon, Ireland d.1921 Port Linc, South Australia | |||||||
Meena Houston b. d. | William Purcell b. d. | |||||||
Phoebe Elizabeth Purcell b.1884 Western Australia d.1943 Adelaide, Sa | Ruth Browning b. d. | |||||||