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 |
Arthur Louis SMITH b. d. | ||||||||
Richard HAYTHORNTHWAITE b.1859 Town Head, Yorks d.1920 Kendal, Cumbria | ||||||||
William HAYTHORNTHWAITE b.1882 Overton, Lancs d.1966 Westmorland S, Cumbria | Elizabeth A ANON b.1859 Overton, Lancs d.1935 Kendal, Cumbria | |||||||
Dorothy HAYTHORNTHWAITE b.1914 Kendal, Cumbria d.1993 Lancaster, Lancs | ||||||||
Sarah Jane PITT-PLADDY b.1882 d.1959 Westmorland S, Cumbria | ||||||||