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Stanley Frye Blish
Generation:9
Born:October 21st, 1900
BirthplaceSouth Portland, Maine, USA
Died:March 19th, 1945, at about age 45
Cause of death:Rheumatic Fever, heart failure
Died at:Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Father:Gregory Emerson Blish
Mother:Vaneshia Virginia (Worthen) Blish
Occupation(s): ---
Marriages: Margaret (Payson) Blish
At Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Children:Stanley Gutterson Blish

Stanley Frye Blish
   Gregory Emerson BlishVaneshia Virginia (Worthen) Blish   
 John BlishRowena B. (Clark) Blish  Henry Russell WorthenCornelia Julia (Hazen) Worthen 
John BlishSarah (Farnsworth) Blish------------? Hazen? (?) Hazen

Stanley Frye Blish

1900 through 1945

1837-1901 Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover)
1897-1901 William McKinley president of US
1899-1902 Boer war
1899-1923 6th Cholera pandemic
  1900   Boxer rebellion in China
  1900   Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed
  1900   Hawaii organized as a territory
  1901   First British submarine launched
1901-1910 Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg)
  1901   Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst)
  1901   Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation
1901-1908 Theodore Roosevelt president of US
  1901   US President William McKinley assassinated
  1901   Commonwealth of Australia founded
  1901   Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts
  1903   Nikola Tesla patents logic gates
  1903   Airplane
  1904   Radar
1904-1905 Russian-Japanese war
  1907   Plastic
  1907   Oklahoma enters the union - 46th
  1908   Tunguska atmospheric object explosion
  1909   Union of South Africa formed
1909-1912 William Howard Taft president of US
  1909   North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Pearys exp.
1910-1936 Reign of King George V (Windsor)
  1910   Japan annexes Korea
  1910   Halleys Comet
  1911   South pole reached by Roald Amundsen
  1912   New Mexico enters the union - 47th
  1912   Titanic sinks
  1912   Arizona enters the union - 48th
  1912   Alaska organized as a territory
1913-1920 Woodrow Wilson president of US
  1914   The Bra
1914-1918 World War I
  1915   Einstein's Theory of Relativity
  1916   Sonar
  1916   Irish Easter Rebellion
  1917   Russian revolution
  1917   US enters WWI
1918-1933 Prohibition
1918-1920 Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die
  1919   League of Nations instantiated
  1919   Shortwave Radio
  1920   Palestine established
1920-1929 Roaring 20s
  1920   Women receive right to vote (US Suffrage)
1921-1924 Warren G Harding president of US
  1922   Insulin made available to diabetics
  1925   Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory
1925-1928 Calvin Coolidge president of US
  1926   Sound in Movies
  1927   Holland Tunnel opens (New York City)
  1927   1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh
  1928   Television
  1928   Geiger Counter
  1928   Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming
  1928   Video Recordings
  1929   Stock Market Crash
1929-1939 Great Depression
1929-1932 Herbert Hoover president of US
  1930   Pluto Discovered
1931-1933 Chinese-Japanese war (2)
1933-1945 Franklin D Roosevelt president of US
  1933   Armstrong invents FM modulation
  1933   Soviet communist party purge
  1933   Radio Astronomy
  1934   Longshoremans strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days
  1935   Dustbowl
1935-1936 Abyssinian war
  1936   Spanish Civil War
  1936   Helicopter
1936-1952 Reign of King George VI (Windsor)
  1936   Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor)
1937-1945 Chinese-Japanese war (3)
  1937   Nylon (by DuPont)
  1938   Germany annexes Austria
1939-1945 World War II
  1939   Digital Computer
  1939   Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain)
  1940   Color Television
  1940   1st black general in US army
1941-1945 Manhattan Project
  1942   Nuclear Reactor
  1942   Magnetic Recording Tape
  1945   Hypertext
  1945   United Nations formed
  1945   US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
1945-1952 Harry S Truman president of US