| 1969 Armstrong first person on moon 1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl 1989 Berlin wall falls 1991 Persian Gulf War 1991 Break-up of the Soviet Union  | 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  | 
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|  Patrick Bowes-Lyon b.1884 15th. Earl of Strathmore d.1949  | ![]()  | |||||||
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