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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 Gibson METCALFE
 b.1890
 d.1968
 Gordon METCALFE
 b.         
 d.         
 Thomas Ski HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1851 Roeburndale, Lancs
 d.1931 Burrow with Burro, Lancs
 John HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1877 Roeburndale, Lancs
 d.1951 Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria
 Isabella MAUDSLEY
 b.1855 Rathmell, Settle, Yorks
 d.1935 Lunesdale, Lancs
 Doris May HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1901 Keighly, Yorks
 d.1977
 Elizabeth Eleanor NELSON
 b.1872
 d.1951 Westmorland S, Cumbria