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Norma Louise (Zerwas) Blish 10 [f]
10th Generation

Personal Details
Born August 25th, 1921 No Image On File
Birthplace Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Died June 5th, 1986, aged about 65 years
Died at... Idaho, USA
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Parents
Father [1196w_c3_sa_f]? Zerwas 9 No Image On File
Mother [1196w_c3_sa_m]? (?) Zerwas 9 No Image On File

Spouses, Mates & Children
Husband #1
[1196w_c3] - Clyde Gayland 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 No Image On File
II [1196w_c3_c2]+ Douglas Edward Blish 11 b. September 12th, 1946 c. December No Image On File
III [1196w_c3_c3]+ Carl David Blish 11 b. October 24th, 1948 c. January No Image On File
IV [1196w_c3_c4]+ Gary Marshall Blish 11 b. September 20th, 1950 c. December No Image On File
V [1196w_c3_c5] Clydene Annette Blish 11 b. December 5th, 1952 c. March No Image On File
VI [1196w_c3_c6] Dann Patrick Blish 11 b. March 26th, 1957 c. June No Image On File
VII [1196w_c3_c7] Matthew Norman Blish 11 b. July 28th, 1959 c. October No Image On File
VIII [1196w_c3_c8]+ Valerie Jeanne Blish 11 b. January 23rd, 1961 c. April No Image On File
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Personalized History Timeline, 1921 to 1986
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 2
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from before birth until age 15
1918-1933:
Prohibition from before birth until age 12
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from before birth until age 8
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 0 to age 3
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 1
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 4
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 4 to age 7
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 5
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 6
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 6
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 7
1928:
Television at age 7
1928:
Video Recordings at age 7
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 7
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 8 to age 18
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 8
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 8 to age 11
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 9
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 10 to age 12
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 12
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 12
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 12
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 12 to age 24
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 13
1935:
Dustbowl at age 14
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 14 to age 15
1936:
Helicopter at age 15
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 15 to age 31
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 15
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 15
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 16 to age 24
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 16
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 17
1939-1945:
World War II from age 18 to age 24
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 18
1939:
Digital Computer at age 18
1940:
Color Television at age 19
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 19
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 20 to age 24
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 21
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 21
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 24 to age 31
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 24
1945:
Hypertext at age 24
1945:
United Nations formed at age 24
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 25 until after line end
1946:
The Bikini at age 25
1947:
Transistor at age 26
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 26
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 26
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 27
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 27
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 27
1948:
NATO formed at age 27
1949:
45 rpm musical recordings at age 28
1949:
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 28
1949:
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 28
1950-1953:
Korean War from age 29 to age 32
1950:
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 29
1950-1954:
McCarthyism from age 29 to age 33
1950:
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 29
1951:
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 30
1952:
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 31
1952-2050:
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 31 until after line end
1953-1960:
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 32 to age 39
1954:
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 33
1955:
Warsaw pact formed at age 34
1955:
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 34
1955:
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 34
1955:
Invention of Velcro at age 34
1956:
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 35
1957:
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 36
1958:
Integrated Circuit at age 37
1958:
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 37
1958:
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 37
1958:
US space agency (NASA) established at age 37
1959:
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 38
1959:
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 38
1959:
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 38
1960:
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 39
1960:
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 39
1960:
Laser at age 39
1960:
Pantyhose at age 39
1961:
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 40
1961:
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 40
1961-1970:
7th Cholera pandemic from age 40 to age 49
1961-1963:
John F Kennedy president of US from age 40 to age 42
1962:
Cuban missile crisis at age 41
1962-1965:
Vatican II from age 41 to age 44
1963:
1st artificial heart at age 42
1963:
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 42
1963-1968:
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 42 to age 47
1963:
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 42
1964:
US civil rights bill at age 43
1964-1975:
Vietnam War from age 43 to age 54
1965:
Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 44
1965:
1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 44
1966:
8-track tape players at age 45
1966:
1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 45
1967:
1st human heart transplant at age 46
1967-1970:
Nigerian civil war from age 46 to age 49
1967:
Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 46
1967:
Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 46
1967:
Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 46
1968:
Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 47
1968:
Martin Luther King assassinated at age 47
1969:
Woodstock Music Festival at age 48
1969-1974:
Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 48 to age 53
1969:
Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 48
1970:
Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 49
1970:
Microprocessor at age 49
1971:
Pakistani civil war at age 50
1971:
Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 50
1973:
The Internet at age 52
1973:
October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 52
1974:
Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 53
1974-1976:
Gerald Ford president of US from age 53 to age 55
1975:
The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 54
1975:
Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 54
1975:
Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 54
1976:
VHS Video Recordings at age 55
1976:
Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 55
1976:
American Bicentennial at age 55
1976:
Television begins satellite delivery at age 55
1977-1980:
James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 56 to age 59
1977:
Neutron bomb at age 56
1978:
Laserdisc video recordings at age 57
1978:
1st test-tube baby at age 57
1978:
Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 57
1979:
Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 58
1979:
Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 58
1980:
Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 59
1981:
1st female supreme court justice at age 60
1981-1988:
Ronald Reagan president of US from age 60 until after line end
1981:
1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 60
1981:
IBM PC ships at age 60
1982:
1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 61
1983:
Compact Disks at age 62
1983:
Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 62
1983:
Bluford 1st black in space at age 62
1984:
HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 63
1984:
Apple Macintosh Ships at age 63
1985:
Amiga Computer Ships at age 64
1986:
Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 65
1986:
Halley's Comet at age 65
1986:
Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 65
1986:
Mir space station deployed at age 65

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