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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
 John CAUGHEY
 b.         
 d.          Y/
 John HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1850 Fylde, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Thomas HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1877 Preston, Lancs
 d.1958 Haslingden, Lancs
 Mary HUDSON
 b.1852 Fylde, Lancs
 d.1880 Preston, Lancs
 Gertrude HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1903 Blackburn, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Clara CLARK
 b.1879 Blackburn, Lancs
 d.1958 Burnley, Lancs