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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
 Jack ROUSSEL
 b.         
 d.         
 John James HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1854 Preston, Lancs
 d.1948 Amounderness, Lancs
 Henry HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1891 Preston, Lancs
 d.1961 Ealing, Greater London
 Mary Dawson BILSBOROUGH
 b.1862 Preston, Lancs
 d.1940 Amounderness, Lancs
 Vera HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b. Private
 d.         
 Nellie ADDISON
 b.1894 Preston, Lancs
 d.1984 Bournemouth, Dorset