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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
 Richard HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1842 Blackburn, Lancs
 d.1911 Burnley, Lancs
 Ephraim HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1873 Higham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1953 Burnley, Lancs
 Martha BRINNAND
 b.1843 Higham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1909 Burnley, Lancs
 George HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1902 Burnley, Lancs
 d.1990 Blackpool, Lancs
 George HANDLEY
 b.1852 Church, Lancs
 d.1899 West Bromwich, Staffs
 Sheila HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b. Private
 d.         
 Lydia HANDLEY
 b.1875 Church, Lancs
 d.1933 Burnley, Lancs
 Mary Ann GREENWOOD
 b.1852 Burnley, Lancs
 d.1927 Blackburn, Lancs
 Margaret HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b. Private
 d.         
 Elizabeth MYERS
 b.1900
 d.1972