1950 Korean War begins 1964 - 1973 Vietnam War 1969 Armstrong first person on moon 1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl 1989 Berlin wall falls | 1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage 1914 - 1918 World War I 1922 USSR formed by Soviet states 1939 - 1945 World War II 1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima) | 1869 Opening of Suez Canal 1871 Franco - Prussian War 1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy 1899 Boer War begins 1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight |
William Ellis COOKE b.1868 d.1952 Liverpool, Lancs | ||||||||
Granville COOKE b.1891 d. Y/ | Mary Ann HAYTHORNTHWAITE b.1866 Higham, Burnley, Lancs d.1954 St Annes-on-Sea, Lancs | |||||||
Alan COOKE b. Private d. | Edwin Jame HAYTHORNTHWAITE b.1863 Higham, Burnley, Lancs d.1952 Willesden, London | |||||||
Jenny HAYTHORNTHWAITE b.1897 Burnley, Lancs d. Y/ | Martha Anne HIGGIN b.1864 d.1950 London | |||||||
Eileen HARRISON b. d. | ||||||||