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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
 Thomas BROUGHTON
 b.1845 Accrington, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Susan Ann BROUGHTON
 b.1871 Accrington, Lancs
 d.1949 Kendal, Cumbria
 Joseph W BROUGHTON
 b.1875 Accrington, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Fanny F BROUGHTON
 b.1879 Accrington, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Sarah J ANON
 b.1845 Accrington, Lancs
 d.          Y/