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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 Robert HINDLE
 b.1922 Blackburn, Lancs
 d.1978 Blackburn, Lancs
 James HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1857 Cherrytree, Lancs
 d.1938 Cherrytree, Lancs
 Frank HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1893 Blackburn, Lancs
 d.1976 Blackburn, Lancs
 Nancy CROOK
 b.1865 Hoghton, Preston, Lancs
 d.1939 Cherrytree, Lancs
 Nancy HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1927 Blackburn, Lancs
 d.1983
 Sarah SHARPLES
 b.1899
 d.1990 Ribble Valley, Lancs