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1950 Korean War begins
1964 - 1973 Vietnam War
1969 Armstrong first person on moon
1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl
1989 Berlin wall falls
1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
1914 - 1918 World War I
1922 USSR formed by Soviet states
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
1869 Opening of Suez Canal
1871 Franco - Prussian War
1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
1899 Boer War begins
1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
 William Ellis COOKE
 b.1868
 d.1952 Liverpool, Lancs
 Granville COOKE
 b.1891
 d.          Y/
 Mary Ann HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1866 Higham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1954 St Annes-on-Sea, Lancs
 Brian COOKE
 b. Private
 d.         
 Edwin Jame HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1863 Higham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1952 Willesden, London
 Susan COOKE
 b. Private
 d.         
 Jenny HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1897 Burnley, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Martha Anne HIGGIN
 b.1864
 d.1950 London
 David COOKE
 b. Private
 d.         
 Lilian TAYLOR
 b.1929
 d.2003 Simonstone Lancs