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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
 George Thomas BARNES
 b.         
 d.          Y/
 Harold BARNES
 b.1897 Oswaldtwistle, Lancs
 d.1968 Accrington, Lancs
 Richard HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1847 Cockley Bank, Yorks
 d.1891 Ormskirk, Lancs
 Isabella HAYTHORNTHWAIT
 b.1874 Bury, Lancs
 d.1950 Darwen, Lancs
 Isabella WALKER
 b.1851
 d.1874 Bury, Lancs
 Donald Tom BARNES
 b. Private
 d.         
 Eva Mary Fletcher BRIDGE
 b.1899 Oswaldtwistle, Lancs
 d.1998 Ribble Valley, Lancs