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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 HAWTHORNTHWAIT
 b.1866 Broughton, Salford, Lancs
 d.1949 Heckmondwike, Yorks
 Richard HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1897 Ambergate, Derbys
 d.1969 Bradford, Yorks
 Clara SHAKESPEARE
 b.1869 Lower Broughton, Lancs
 d.1953 Spen Valley, Yorks
 John HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b. Private
 d.         
 Jane Mary HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b. Private
 d.         
 Sarah LONGWORTH
 b.1906 Blackburn, Lancs
 d.1972 Bradford, Yorks
 Richard HAWTHORNTHWAIT
 b. Private
 d.         
 Mary Josephine BURCH
 b. Private
 d.