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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
 Thomas LANG
 b.         
 d.          Y/
 John HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1846 Preston, Lancs
 d.1879 Preston, Lancs
 Thomas HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1878 Preston, Lancs
 d.1913 Salford, Lancs
 Agnes DIXON
 b.1841 Preston, Lancs
 d.1900 Preston, Lancs
 Elizabeth HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1900 Preston, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Elizabeth CARR
 b.1877 Preston, Lancs
 d.          Y/