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1969 Armstrong first person on moon
1986 Nuclear disaster at Chernobyl
1989 Berlin wall falls
1991 Persian Gulf War
1991 Break-up of the Soviet Union
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
 Robert Whittle
 b.          Rigby Street Preston
 d.1959 Rochdale Lancs
 Richard Whittle
 b.1895 26 Trower Street Preston
 d.1972 Syke Rochdale
 Mary Coward
 b.          Trower Street Preston
 d.         
 Jack Whittle
 b.1923 Colne Lancs
 d.2014 Chadderton, England
 John Andrew Whittle
 b.         
 d.         
 Alice Masheter
 b.          20 Dewhurst Street Colne
 d.1927 Hartley Hospital Colne
 Kathryn Elizabeth Whittle
 b.         
 d.         
 Alice Holt
 b. Private
 d.