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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
 James HITCHON
 b.1844 Hey Head, Lancs
 d.1924 Burnley, Lancs
 Thomas HITCHON
 b.1886 Burnley, Lancs
 d.1980 Grange-over-San, Lancs
 
 
 
 John HITCHON
 b.1925 Kendal, Westm
 d.2002 Lutterworth, Leics.
 Edwin HITCHON
 b.1874 Barrowford, Lancs
 d.1966 Monmouth, WALES
 Dorothy HITCHON
 b.1897 Accrington, Lancs
 d.1991 Leicester, Leics
 Susan Ann BROUGHTON
 b.1871 Accrington, Lancs
 d.1949 Kendal, Cumbria
 Julia HITCHON
 b. Private
 d.         
 Jean BUTCHER
 b.1930 Stony Stratford, Bucks
 d.2011 Walcote, Leics