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1950 Korean War begins
1964 - 1973 Vietnam War
1969 Armstrong first person on moon
1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl
1989 Berlin wall falls
1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
1914 - 1918 World War I
1922 USSR formed by Soviet states
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
1869 Opening of Suez Canal
1871 Franco - Prussian War
1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
1899 Boer War begins
1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
 John Thom HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1864 Higham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1947 Burnley, Lancs
 Walter HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1891 Burnley, Lancs
 d.1949 Burnley, Lancs
 Mary Ellen DYSON
 b.1865
 d.1923 Burnley, Lancs
 Edwin HAYTHORNTHWAITE
 b.1913 Burnley, Lancs
 d.1987 Worthing, Sussex
 Edith Alice WILLAN
 b.1891
 d.1972 Burnley, Lancs
 Gertrude Teresa GITTINS
 b.1903
 d.1975 Worthing, Sussex