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 |
William Andrew Riley b.1862 Perth, Western Australia d.1914 Bruns, Western Australia | ||||||||
William Haxton Riley b.1899 North , Western Australia d.1969 Gracel, Western Australia | Evangeline Elizabeth Tonkin b.1875 Serpen, Western Australia d.1932 Perth, Western Australia | |||||||
Riley b. d. | ||||||||
Jean Lucy Victoria McDonald b.1912 Clunes Victoria d.2000 Subiac, Western Australia | ||||||||
Mercer b. d. | ||||||||