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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
 George HANDLEY
 b.1852 Church, Lancs
 d.1899 West Bromwich, Staffs
 Lydia HANDLEY
 b.1875 Church, Lancs
 d.1933 Burnley, Lancs
 Gertrude HANDLEY
 b.1882 Accrington, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Florence HANDLEY
 b.1884 Accrington, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Mary Ann GREENWOOD
 b.1852 Burnley, Lancs
 d.1927 Blackburn, Lancs