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1950 Korean War begins
1964 - 1973 Vietnam War
1969 Armstrong first person on moon
1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl
1989 Berlin wall falls
1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
1914 - 1918 World War I
1922 USSR formed by Soviet states
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
1869 Opening of Suez Canal
1871 Franco - Prussian War
1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
1899 Boer War begins
1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
 Kenneth METCALFE
 b.         
 d.         
 William HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1873 Preston, Lancs
 d.1928 Burnley, Lancs
 John HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1899 Darwen, Lancs
 d.1976 Blackburn, Lancs
 Mary Hannah ANON
 b.1869 Blackburn, Lancs
 d.1963 Nelson, Lancs
 Annie HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b. Private
 d.         
 Ann WALING
 b.1897
 d.1978 Burnley, Lancs