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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
 William RIGBY
 b.         
 d.         
 James HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1854 Preston, Lancs
 d.1909 Preston, Lancs
 Joseph HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1893 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Sarah Ann HOWARD
 b.1857 Macclesfield, Cheshire
 d.1895 Accrington, Lancs
 Auriel HAWTHORNTHWAIT
 b. Private
 d.         
 Ellen Ann KING
 b.1898 Skipton, Yorks
 d.1942 Amounderness, Lancs