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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
 James Selwyn DUXBURY
 b.1914
 d.1971 Wilpshire, Lancs
 Walter Selwyn DUXBURY
 b. Private
 d.         
 William James DUXBURY
 b. Private
 d.         
 Richard HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1844 Blackburn, Lancs
 d.1884 Vasa, FINLAND
 Robert DUXBURY
 b. Private
 d.         
 Charles HAYTHORNTHWAIT
 b.1884 Vasa, FINLAND
 d.1935 Wilpshire, Lancs
 Olga Sofia CARLSTRO¨M
 b.1853 Helsingfors, FINLAND
 d.1892 Vasa, FINLAND
 Elizabeth HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1916 Wilpshire, Lancs
 d.2005 Blackburn, Lancs
 George HINDLE
 b.1858
 d.1929 Billington, Lancs
 Alice Gertrude HINDLE
 b.1888 Blackburn, Lancs
 d.1948 Wilpshire, Lancs
 Elizabeth HAWORTH
 b.1857 Blackburn, Lancs
 d.          Y/