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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 HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.         
 d.          Y/
 Mary Jane HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1881 Kirkham, Lancs
 d.1971 Fylde, Lancs
 Margaret HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1882 Fall River, Ma
 d.1914 Fylde, Lancs
 Catherine HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1884 Fall River, Ma
 d.1919 Fylde, Lancs
 Alice CROSS
 b.1857 Treales, Preston, Lancs
 d.1935 Fylde, Lancs