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 |
Jack SANDERSON b. d. Y/ | ||||||||
John HITCHON b.1847 Read, Burnley, Lancs d.1922 Burnley, Lancs | ||||||||
Barnabus HITCHON b.1881 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs d.1939 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs | Sarah Jane ROSEVERE b.1856 Widnes, Lancs d.1910 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs | |||||||
Phyllis HITCHON b. Private d. | ||||||||
Bertha Elizabeth SMITH b.1884 d.1929 Padiham, Burnley, Lancs | ||||||||