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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
 Peter HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1853 Spotland, Lancs
 d.1919 Rochdale, Lancs
 Wilfred HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1884 Castleton, Lancs
 d.1917 1914/18 Wa, FRANCE
 Emma WHITWORTH
 b.1854 Rochdale, Lancs
 d.1934 Rochdale, Lancs
 Roy HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1915 Castleton, Lancs
 d.2005 North Warwks, Warwks
 Peter J HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b. Private
 d.         
 Ethel TAYLOR
 b.1886 Heywood, Lancs
 d.1967 Lytham St Annes, Lancs
 Gillian F HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b. Private
 d.         
 Mark HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b. Private
 d.         
 Dorothy Alcroft NICHOLAS
 b.1915 Blackpool, Lancs
 d.