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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
 Arthur Louis SMITH
 b.         
 d.         
 Richard HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1859 Town Head, Yorks
 d.1920 Kendal, Cumbria
 William HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1882 Overton, Lancs
 d.1966 Westmorland S, Cumbria
 Elizabeth A ANON
 b.1859 Overton, Lancs
 d.1935 Kendal, Cumbria
 Dorothy HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1914 Kendal, Cumbria
 d.1993 Lancaster, Lancs
 Sarah Jane PITT-PLADDY
 b.1882
 d.1959 Westmorland S, Cumbria