 | 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 |
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|  | Antje Willempje Buitelaar b.1899 Rotterdam, Netherlands d.1968 Rotterdam, Netherlands | |  | Jan van Vliet b.1842 Sluipwijk, Netherlands d.1918 Gouda, Netherlands |  | ||
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| |  | Grietje van Vliet b.1868 Sluipwijk, Netherlands d.1927 Rotterdam, Netherlands | | Antje van Dijk b.1849 Sluipwijk, Netherlands d.1921 Gouda, Netherlands | | ||
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