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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
 Gordon Merchant
 b.         
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 Gordon Merchant
 b.         
 d.         
 Heidee Merchant
 b.         
 d.         
 John Tapper
 b.1854 Frema, Western Australia
 d.1882 Drown, Western Australia
 Harold Tapper
 b.1877 Frema, Western Australia
 d.1963 Coburg, Victoria
 Maria Tonkin
 b.1855 Frema, Western Australia
 d.1950 Mount Hawthor, Australia
 Audrey Kathleene Tapper
 b. Private
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 Mary Lily Chaytor
 b.1879 North Bulli, Nsw
 d.1966 Coburg, Vic