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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 HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1841 Higher Wood Ho, Yorks
 d.1912 Burnley, Lancs
 James HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1870 Higham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1951 Nelson, Lancs
 Ellen HARTLEY
 b.1850 Higham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1910 Burnley, Lancs
 John HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1910 Burnley, Lancs
 d.1982
 Roger HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b. Private
 d.         
 Ellen ASHTON
 b.1873 Brierfield, Lancs
 d.1954 Nelson, Lancs
 Linda HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b. Private
 d.         
 Rose M MOORE
 b.         
 d.