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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
 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
 Victor Jose HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1920 Burnley, Lancs
 d.1977 Burnley, Lancs
 Michael HAWTHORNTHWAIT
 b.1951 Fulwood, Preston, Lancs
 d.2000 SPAIN
 Ellen Ann KING
 b.1898 Skipton, Yorks
 d.1942 Amounderness, Lancs
 Sylvia HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1955 Blackburn, Lancs
 d.1991 SPAIN
 John G HAWTHORNTHWAITE
 b. Private
 d.         
 Catherine McCLUSKY
 b.         
 d.1990 SPAIN