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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
 William Holt PARKER
 b.         
 d.          Y/
 Mary PARKER
 b.         
 d.          Y/
 William Ellis COOKE
 b.1868
 d.1952 Liverpool, Lancs
 Hannah COOKE
 b.1889
 d.          Y/
 Richard HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1842 Blackburn, Lancs
 d.1911 Burnley, Lancs
 Mary Ann HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1866 Higham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1954 St Annes-on-Sea, Lancs
 Martha BRINNAND
 b.1843 Higham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1909 Burnley, Lancs