Personal Details

Born	September 29th, 1922
Birthplace	Solway, Minnesota, USA
Baptized	No Entry
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Died	January 10th, 1998, aged about 76 years
Died at...	Spokane, Washington, USA
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Parents

Father	[1196w]	Lloyd Edward Blish 9
Mother	[1196w_sa]	Fern Orial (Ross) Blish 9

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [1196w_c3_sa] - Norma Louise (Zerwas) Blish 10 Married by: No Entry Married at: Seattle, Washington, USA Children by this spouse: I [1196w_c3_c1] James Gayland Blish 11 b. June 8th, 1944 c. September II [1196w_c3_c2]+ Douglas Edward Blish 11 b. September 12th, 1946 c. December III [1196w_c3_c3]+ Carl David Blish 11 b. October 24th, 1948 c. January IV [1196w_c3_c4]+ Gary Marshall Blish 11 b. September 20th, 1950 c. December V [1196w_c3_c5] Clydene Annette Blish 11 b. December 5th, 1952 c. March VI [1196w_c3_c6] Dann Patrick Blish 11 b. March 26th, 1957 c. June VII [1196w_c3_c7] Matthew Norman Blish 11 b. July 28th, 1959 c. October VIII [1196w_c3_c8]+ Valerie Jeanne Blish 11 b. January 23rd, 1961 c. April

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 10	Gen. 9	Gen. 8	Gen. 7	Gen. 6
Clyde Gayland Blish	Lloyd Edward Blish	Theodore Blish	Alfred Day Blish	Harvey Blish
				Phoebe (Worden) Blish
			Amanda (Van Doozer) Blish	Horace, Van Doozer
				? (?), Van Doozer
		Bertha (Beuhler) Blish	? Beuhler	No Entry
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			? (?) Beuhler	No Entry
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	Fern Orial (Ross) Blish	? Ross	No Entry	No Entry
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		? (?) Ross	No Entry	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1922 to 1998

1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 1 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from before birth until age 14 1918-1933: Prohibition from before birth until age 11 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from before birth until age 7 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from before birth until age 2 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 0 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 3 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 3 to age 6 1926: Sound in Movies at age 4 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 5 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 5 1928: Television at age 6 1928: Geiger Counter at age 6 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 6 1928: Video Recordings at age 6 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 7 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 7 to age 10 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 7 to age 17 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 8 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 9 to age 11 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 11 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 11 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 11 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 11 to age 23 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 12 1935: Dustbowl at age 13 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 13 to age 14 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 14 to age 30 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 14 1936: Helicopter at age 14 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 14 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 15 to age 23 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 15 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 16 1939: Digital Computer at age 17 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 17 1939-1945: World War II from age 17 to age 23 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 18 1940: Color Television at age 18 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 19 to age 23 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 20 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 20 1945: Hypertext at age 23 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 23 to age 30 1945: United Nations formed at age 23 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 23 1946: The Bikini at age 24 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 24 to age 67 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 25 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 25 1947: Transistor at age 25 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 26 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 26 1948: NATO formed at age 26 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 26 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 27 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 27 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 27 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 28 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 28 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 28 to age 32 1950-1953: Korean War from age 28 to age 31 1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 29 1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 30 until after line end 1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 30 1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 31 to age 38 1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 32 1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 33 1955: Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 33 1955: Invention of Velcro at age 33 1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 33 1956: Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 34 1957: Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 35 1958: FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 36 1958: Integrated Circuit at age 36 1958: Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 36 1958: US space agency (NASA) established at age 36 1959: Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 37 1959: Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 37 1959: 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 37 1960: World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 38 1960: Laser at age 38 1960: Pantyhose at age 38 1960: 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 38 1961-1970: 7th Cholera pandemic from age 39 to age 48 1961: First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 39 1961-1963: John F Kennedy president of US from age 39 to age 41 1961: 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 39 1962-1965: Vatican II from age 40 to age 43 1962: Cuban missile crisis at age 40 1963-1968: Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 41 to age 46 1963: Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 41 1963: Compact Cassette Recordings at age 41 1963: 1st artificial heart at age 41 1964: US civil rights bill at age 42 1964-1975: Vietnam War from age 42 to age 53 1965: 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 43 1965: Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 43 1966: 8-track tape players at age 44 1966: 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 44 1967: 1st human heart transplant at age 45 1967: Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 45 1967: Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 45 1967-1970: Nigerian civil war from age 45 to age 48 1967: Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 45 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated at age 46 1968: Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 46 1969: Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 47 1969: Woodstock Music Festival at age 47 1969-1974: Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 47 to age 52 1970: Microprocessor at age 48 1970: Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 48 1971: Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 49 1971: Pakistani civil war at age 49 1973: October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 51 1973: The Internet at age 51 1974: Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 52 1974-1976: Gerald Ford president of US from age 52 to age 54 1975: Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 53 1975: Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 53 1975: The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 53 1976: Television begins satellite delivery at age 54 1976: American Bicentennial at age 54 1976: VHS Video Recordings at age 54 1976: Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 54 1977-1980: James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 55 to age 58 1977: Neutron bomb at age 55 1978: Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 56 1978: Laserdisc video recordings at age 56 1978: 1st test-tube baby at age 56 1979: Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 57 1979: Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 57 1980: Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 58 1981: 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 59 1981: 1st female supreme court justice at age 59 1981: IBM PC ships at age 59 1981-1988: Ronald Reagan president of US from age 59 to age 66 1982: 1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 60 1983: Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 61 1983: Compact Disks at age 61 1983: Bluford 1st black in space at age 61 1984: Apple Macintosh Ships at age 62 1984: HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 62 1985: Amiga Computer Ships at age 63 1986: Mir space station deployed at age 64 1986: Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 64 1986: Halley's Comet at age 64 1986: Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 64 1987: 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 65 1988: Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 66 1989: Fall of Berlin Wall at age 67 1989-1992: George Bush president of US from age 67 to age 70 1989: Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 67 1989: US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 67 1989: Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 67 1989: Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 67 1990: World Wide Web at age 68 1990: Hubble space telescope deployed at age 68 1991-2003: 8th Cholera pandemic from age 69 until after line end 1991: Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 69 1992: Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 70 1993: Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 71 1993-2000: William Clinton president of US from age 71 until after line end 1993: Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 71 1994: South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 72 1995: American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 73 1996: DVD video recordings at age 74 1997: Cloning living beings at age 75 1997: Mars pathfinder lands at age 75 1998: Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th. at age 76 1998: US attacks Iraq, again at age 76 1998: 1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU at age 76

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