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1950 Korean War begins
1964 - 1973 Vietnam War
1969 Armstrong first person on moon
1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl
1989 Berlin wall falls
1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
1914 - 1918 World War I
1922 USSR formed by Soviet states
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
1869 Opening of Suez Canal
1871 Franco - Prussian War
1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
1899 Boer War begins
1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
 Arthur Kir HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1866 Lancaster, Lancs
 d.1918 Lancaster, Lancs
 Arthur Jem HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1888 Macclesfield, Cheshire
 d.1964 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
 Mary Alice GARDNER
 b.1867 Ellel, Lancaster, Lancs
 d.1935 Lancaster, Lancs
 Arthur HAWTHORNTHWAIT
 b.1915 Holbeck, Leeds, Yorks
 d.1977 Leeds, Yorks
 Dorothy THOMPSON
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 Sylvia Marion GOODLIFFE
 b.1915 Camberwell, London
 d.1985 Claro, Yorks