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1969 Armstrong first person on moon
1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl
1989 Berlin wall falls
1991 Persian Gulf War
1991 Break-up of the Soviet Union
1922 USSR formed by Soviet states
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
1950 Korean War begins
1964 - 1973 Vietnam War
1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
1899 Boer War begins
1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
1914 - 1918 World War I
 John Pordum JACQUES
 b.1949 Durham North Weste, Dur
 d.1999 Durham Central, Dur
 Miles Cart HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1890 Lancaster, Lancs
 d.1960 Durham North Weste, Dur
 Alwyn HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1921 Lanchester, Dur
 d.2006
 Sarah Margaret I GRAINGER
 b.1896 Lanchester, Dur
 d.          Y/
 Eleanor HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b. Private
 d.         
 Iris WALTON
 b.1926 Newcastle upon , Northld
 d.2003 Durham Central, Dur