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 | ||||||||