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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 HITCHON
 b.1847 Read, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1922 Burnley, Lancs
 Barnabus HITCHON
 b.1881 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1939 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 Sarah Jane ROSEVERE
 b.1856 Widnes, Lancs
 d.1910 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 Charles Edward HITCHON
 b.1902 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1996 Darwen, Lancs
 Wilfred HITCHON
 b.1924 Burnley, Lancs
 d.1985 Preston & South Ri, Lancs
 Bertha Elizabeth SMITH
 b.1884
 d.1929 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 Edward HITCHON
 b. Private
 d.         
 Doris ECCLES
 b.          Burnley, Lancs
 d.1972 Croston, Preston, Lancs