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1969 Armstrong first person on moon
1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl
1989 Berlin wall falls
1991 Persian Gulf War
1991 Break-up of the Soviet Union
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
 Walter HAWTHORNTHWAITES
 b.1895 Darwen, Lancs
 d.1976 Blackburn, Lancs
 Robert HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1919 Darwen, Lancs
 d.         
 Annie NORRIS
 b.1899 Blackburn, Lancs
 d.1961 Blackburn, Lancs
 Jack HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b. Private
 d.         
 Edna GUY
 b.1919 Weardale, Dut
 d.1999 Blackburn with Dar, Lancs
 Frances FURNESS
 b.         
 d.