Mary Whitlock

About

Mary (nee Adams) was a wartime nurse and a gifted pianist.

Family

Timeline

1. Born - 1931-06-21
   Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
2. Married George Whitlock - 12 June 1952
   Boston, Massachusetts, USA
3. Birth of a child
4. Birth of a child
5. Died - 2015-02-03
   Boston, Massachusetts, USA

The world in their lifetime

1. 1939Second World War begins
2. 1945Second World War ends
3. 1947India and Pakistan gain independence
4. 1949People's Republic of China founded
5. 1953DNA structure discovered; Everest summited
6. 1957Space age begins (Sputnik)
7. 1960Year of Africa: seventeen nations gain independence
8. 1963US President Kennedy assassinated
9. 1969First humans land on the Moon
10. 1973Global oil crisis
11. 1979Iranian Revolution
12. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
13. 1991World Wide Web opens to the public
14. 1994Apartheid ends; Mandela elected in South Africa
15. 2001September 11 attacks
16. 2004Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
17. 2007First iPhone launched
18. 2008Global financial crisis
19. 2011Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan