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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
 Peter TAYLOR
 b.         
 d.          Y/
 Samuel HAYTHORNWHITE
 b.1844 Rossendale, Lancs
 d.1900 Burnley, Lancs
 Jacob HAYTHORNWHITE
 b.1873 Burnley, Lancs
 d.1936 Burnley, Lancs
 Sarah WILSON
 b.1852 Barrowford, Lancs
 d.1888 Burnley, Lancs
 Minnie HAYTHORNWHITE
 b.1908 Burnley, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 Martha Alice MARTIN
 b.1877 Burnley, Lancs
 d.1934 Burnley, Lancs