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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
 Walter CHAPMAN
 b.         
 d.         
 William HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1840 Liverpool, Lancs
 d.1889 Bentham, Yorks
 Thomas HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1866 Liverpool, Lancs
 d.1942 Leeds, Yorks
 Sarah Ann SANDHAM
 b.1842 Pilling, Lancs
 d.1892 Bentham, Yorks
 Rose Hann HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1896 Bentham, Yorks
 d.          Y/
 Mary Ann JOWETT
 b.1869 Halifax, Yorks
 d.1945 Leeds, Yorks