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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
 Ernest L SHANKLAND
 b.         
 d.         
 Rev. Edwar HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1850 Greenhead, Yorks
 d.1899 Gateshead, Dur
 Arnold T[h HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1881 Felling, Northld
 d.1947 Bognor Regis, Sussex
 Elizabeth Bell THOMPSON
 b.1852 Workington, Cumbria
 d.1925 Sunderland, Dur
 Joan M HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1915 Brentford, Essex
 d.1995
 Doris SPEDDING
 b.1895 Cockermouth, Cumbria
 d.1977 Bath, Wilts