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1922 USSR formed by Soviet states
1939 - 1945 World War II
1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)
1950 Korean War begins
1964 - 1973 Vietnam War
1895 Marconi invents wireless telegraphy
1899 Boer War begins
1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight
1912 Titanic sinks on maiden voyage
1914 - 1918 World War I
1830 French Revolution
1837 Queen Victoria assumes throne
1854 Crimean War with Russia
1869 Opening of Suez Canal
1871 Franco - Prussian War
 Reuben LONGSTAFF
 b.1829 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.          Y/
 John Longstaff HITCHON
 b.1849 Simonstone, Lancs
 d.1935 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 Margaret HITCHON
 b.1827 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs
 d.1907 Bolton-le-Moors, Lancs
 George HITCHON
 b.1894 Bolton, Lancs
 d.1972 Burnley, Lancs
 Maria THORNLEY
 b.1858
 d.1948 Burnley, Lancs
 Hilda Alice BRADBURY
 b.1893
 d.1980 Burnley, Lancs