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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
 Joseph Kendall
 b.         
 d.          Y/
 Thomas HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1845 Slaidburn, Yorks
 d.1935 Burnley, Lancs
 Walter HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1877 West Derby, Lancs
 d.1944 Fylde, Lancs
 Mary WHITAKER
 b.1846 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1927 Burnley, Lancs
 Ruth HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1908
 d.          Y/
 Mary Ann CALVERT
 b.1880
 d.1936 Morecambe