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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
 Douglas BANCROFT
 b.         
 d.          Y/
 James HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1852 Cockley Bank, Yorks
 d.1880 Preston, Lancs
 Joseph HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1877 Accrington, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Emma WADE
 b.1854
 d.          Y/
 Edna HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1906 Accrington, Lancs
 d.1996 Ulverston, Cumbria
 John JACKSON
 b.         
 d.          Y/
 Margaret JACKSON
 b.1879
 d.          Y/