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^{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 Thomas Oates}^{b.1869 South Australia d.1953 South Australia}

		^{Edwin Thomas Oates}^{b.1903 South Australia d.1966 South Australia}	^{Bebe Bertha Saint}^{b.1874 d.1934 South Australia}

^Oates^{b. d.}	^Oates^{b. d.}		^{William John Donlon}^{b.1881 South Australia d.1960 Gawler}

^Oates^{b. d.}		^{Jean Philomena Donlon}^{b. Private d.}	^{Edith Summerton}^{b.1878 Barunga, South Australia d.1948 Gawler, South Australia}

^Oates^{b. d.}

^Oates^{b. d.}

	^{Jeanette Margaret Walpole}^{b.1935 d.1997}