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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
 Ralph CROMPTON
 b.1896
 d.          Y/
 James S HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1866 Preston, Lancs
 d.1940 Amounderness, Lancs
 Richard HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1890 Preston, Lancs
 d.1943 Preston, Lancs
 Mary HUGHES
 b.1862 Lancaster, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Mary Ellen HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1915 Preston, Lancs
 d.1980 Preston & South Ri, Lancs
 Mary E JOYCE
 b.1889
 d.1948 Preston, Lancs