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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
 Joseph H. Birky
 b.1850 Livingstone Co., Illinois
 d.1927 Beemer, Nebraska
 Jake Birky
 b.1889 Oberlin, Kansas
 d.1985 West Point, Nebraska
 Catherine Zimmer
 b.1855 Zurich, Ontario, Canada
 d.1941 Bancroft, Nebraska
 
 
 
 Julius Nitzsche
 b.1862 Cook Co., Illinois
 d.1930 Wisner, Nebraska
 
 
 
 Emma Nitzsche
 b.1892 Fulda, Minnesota
 d.1954 Corry Pennsylvania hospi
 
 
 
 Barbara Oswald
 b.1874 New Orleans, Louisiana
 d.1947 West Point, Nebraska