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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
 Matthew HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1853 Taylor Hill, Yorks
 d.1934 Lockwood, Yorks
 Thomas HAWTHORNTHWAI
 b.1877 Huddersfield, Yorks
 d.1925 Wharfedale, Yorks
 Ethiana Bilsborough RICHARDSON
 b.1857 Selby, Yorks
 d.1900 Huddersfield, Yorks
 Douglas HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1913 Huddersfield, Yorks
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 Hannah ASKEY
 b.1880 Newsome, Yorks
 d.1961 Claro, Yorks
 Evelyn Alfreda WEST
 b.1916
 d.1994 Claro, Yorks