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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
 Richard HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1842 Blackburn, Lancs
 d.1911 Burnley, Lancs
 Edwin Jame HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1863 Higham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1952 Willesden, London
 Martha BRINNAND
 b.1843 Higham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1909 Burnley, Lancs
 William Art HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1906 Hendon, Middx
 d.1997 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
 Martha Anne HIGGIN
 b.1864
 d.1950 London
 Muriel Frances HORLICK
 b.1907
 d.1997 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk