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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
 Matthew HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1853 Taylor Hill, Yorks
 d.1934 Lockwood, Yorks
 John Howr HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1902 Lockwood, Yorks
 d.1972 Huddersfield, Yorks
 Hannah Trueman HOWRAM
 b.1863 Pontefract, Yorks
 d.1945 Upper Agbrigg, Yorks
 John Anth HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b. Private
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 Violet Alberta HARGRAVE
 b.1909 Pontefract, Yorks
 d.2001 Dewsbury, Yorks
 Patricia Nancy DIXON
 b.         
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