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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
 William WATERWORTH
 b.1849 Slaidburn, Yorks
 d.          Y/
 George WATERWORTH
 b.1889 Slaidburn, Yorks
 d.          Y/
 Ellen HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1858 Woodhouse, Yorks
 d.          Y/
 James W WATERWORTH
 b. Private
 d.         
 William HAYTHORNTHWAIT
 b.1867 Clitheroe, Lancs
 d.1937 Nelson, Lancs
 Eleanor HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1901 Slaidburn, Yorks
 d.          Y/
 Annie Elizabeth ALDEN
 b.1871
 d.1951 Nelson, Lancs
 Edna SIMPSON
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