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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
1830 French Revolution
1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne
1854 Crimean War with Russia
1869 Opening of Suez Canal
1871 Franco - Prussian War
 Andrew Fischer
 b.1887
 d.1972
 John Helmuth
 b.1833
 d.1899
 Joseph Helmuth
 b.1862 Bloomfield, Iowa
 d.1943 Roanoke Illinois
 Catherine Oesch
 b.1844 Ontario, Canada
 d.1921 Missouri
 Mabel Edna Helmuth
 b.1893
 d.1982
 Peter Zimmerman
 b.1842 Ohio
 d.1931 Garden City, Missouri
 Lydia Zimmerman
 b.1869 Chenoa, Illinois
 d.1937 Roanoke Illinois
 Magdalena Slagle
 b.1846 Tazewell Co., Illinois
 d.1921 Roanoke,  Illinois