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Richard C. Blish 10 [m]
10th Generation

Personal Details
Born July 14th, 1910 No Image On File
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, USA
Baptized No Entry
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Occupation(s) Contractor
Died April 9th, 1999, aged about 89 years
Died at... West Covina, California, USA
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Parents
Father [1216]Daniel William Blish 9 No Image On File
Mother [1216sa]Helen S. (Clark) Blish 9 No Image On File

Spouses, Mates & Children
Wife #1
[1216c3sa] - June (Frodin) Blish 10
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Children by this spouse:
I [1216c3c2] Richard Clark Blish, II 11 b. Living - Suppressed Living - Suppressed No Image On File
II [1216c3c1] Donald Benjamin Blish 11 b. Living - Suppressed Living - Suppressed No Image On File
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Immediate Family Tree
Gen. 10 Gen. 9 Gen. 8 Gen. 7 Gen. 6
Richard C. BlishDaniel William BlishDeacon David BlishDaniel Blish, Jr.Colonel Daniel Blish
Beulah (Wilcox) Blish
Mary Houghton (Bruce) BlishJoseph Bruce
Rebecca (Houghton) Bruce
Elizabeth (Hickok) BlishWilliam HickokNo Entry
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Mary Ann (Lewis) Hickok? Lewis
? (?) Lewis
Helen S. (Clark) BlishOzias Daniel ClarkNo EntryNo Entry
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Fidelia Mary (Richards) Clark? RichardsNo Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1910 to 1999
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 13
1901-1910:
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from before birth until age 0
1909-1912:
William Howard Taft president of US from before birth until age 2
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 0 to age 26
1910:
Halley's Comet at age 0
1910:
Japan annexes Korea at age 0
1911:
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 1
1912:
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 2
1912:
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 2
1912:
Alaska organized as a territory at age 2
1912:
Titanic sinks at age 2
1913-1920:
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 3 to age 10
1914:
The Bra at age 4
1914-1919:
World War I from age 4 to age 9
1915:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 5
1916:
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 6
1916:
Sonar at age 6
1917:
US enters WWI at age 7
1917:
Russian revolution at age 7
1918-1920:
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 8 to age 10
1918-1933:
Prohibition from age 8 to age 23
1919:
Shortwave Radio at age 9
1919:
League of Nations instantiated at age 9
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from age 10 to age 19
1920:
Palestine established at age 10
1920:
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 10
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 11 to age 14
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 12
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 15
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 15 to age 18
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 16
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 17
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 17
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 18
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 18
1928:
Television at age 18
1928:
Video Recordings at age 18
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 19 to age 22
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 19 to age 29
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 19
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 20
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 21 to age 23
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 23
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 23
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 23 to age 35
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 23
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 24
1935:
Dustbowl at age 25
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 25 to age 26
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 26 to age 42
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 26
1936:
Helicopter at age 26
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 26
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 27
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 27 to age 35
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 28
1939-1945:
World War II from age 29 to age 35
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 29
1939:
Digital Computer at age 29
1940:
Color Television at age 30
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 30
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 31 to age 35
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 32
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 32
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 35 to age 42
1945:
United Nations formed at age 35
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 35
1945:
Hypertext at age 35
1946:
The Bikini at age 36
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 36 to age 79
1947:
Transistor at age 37
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 37
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 37
1948:
NATO formed at age 38
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 38
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 38
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 38
1949:
45 rpm musical recordings at age 39
1949:
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 39
1949:
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 39
1950:
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 40
1950-1953:
Korean War from age 40 to age 43
1950-1954:
McCarthyism from age 40 to age 44
1950:
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 40
1951:
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 41
1952:
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 42
1952-2050:
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 42 until after line end
1953-1960:
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 43 to age 50
1954:
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 44
1955:
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 45
1955:
Invention of Velcro at age 45
1955:
Warsaw pact formed at age 45
1955:
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 45
1956:
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 46
1957:
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 47
1958:
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 48
1958:
US space agency (NASA) established at age 48
1958:
Integrated Circuit at age 48
1958:
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 48
1959:
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 49
1959:
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 49
1959:
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 49
1960:
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 50
1960:
Pantyhose at age 50
1960:
Laser at age 50
1960:
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 50
1961:
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 51
1961:
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 51
1961-1963:
John F Kennedy president of US from age 51 to age 53
1961-1970:
7th Cholera pandemic from age 51 to age 60
1962:
Cuban missile crisis at age 52
1962-1965:
Vatican II from age 52 to age 55
1963:
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 53
1963:
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 53
1963-1968:
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 53 to age 58
1963:
1st artificial heart at age 53
1964-1975:
Vietnam War from age 54 to age 65
1964:
US civil rights bill at age 54
1965:
Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 55
1965:
1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 55
1966:
8-track tape players at age 56
1966:
1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 56
1967:
1st human heart transplant at age 57
1967:
Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 57
1967:
Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 57
1967-1970:
Nigerian civil war from age 57 to age 60
1967:
Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 57
1968:
Martin Luther King assassinated at age 58
1968:
Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 58
1969-1974:
Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 59 to age 64
1969:
Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 59
1969:
Woodstock Music Festival at age 59
1970:
Microprocessor at age 60
1970:
Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 60
1971:
Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 61
1971:
Pakistani civil war at age 61
1973:
October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 63
1973:
The Internet at age 63
1974-1976:
Gerald Ford president of US from age 64 to age 66
1974:
Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 64
1975:
Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 65
1975:
The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 65
1975:
Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 65
1976:
Television begins satellite delivery at age 66
1976:
VHS Video Recordings at age 66
1976:
American Bicentennial at age 66
1976:
Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 66
1977-1980:
James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 67 to age 70
1977:
Neutron bomb at age 67
1978:
Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 68
1978:
Laserdisc video recordings at age 68
1978:
1st test-tube baby at age 68
1979:
Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 69
1979:
Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 69
1980:
Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 70
1981-1988:
Ronald Reagan president of US from age 71 to age 78
1981:
IBM PC ships at age 71
1981:
1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 71
1981:
1st female supreme court justice at age 71
1982:
1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 72
1983:
Compact Disks at age 73
1983:
Bluford 1st black in space at age 73
1983:
Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 73
1984:
HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 74
1984:
Apple Macintosh Ships at age 74
1985:
Amiga Computer Ships at age 75
1986:
Halley's Comet at age 76
1986:
Mir space station deployed at age 76
1986:
Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 76
1986:
Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 76
1987:
2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 77
1988:
Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 78
1989-1992:
George Bush president of US from age 79 to age 82
1989:
Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 79
1989:
Fall of Berlin Wall at age 79
1989:
Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 79
1989:
US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 79
1989:
Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 79
1990:
Hubble space telescope deployed at age 80
1990:
World Wide Web at age 80
1991-2003:
8th Cholera pandemic from age 81 until after line end
1991:
Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 81
1992:
Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 82
1993-2000:
William Clinton president of US from age 83 until after line end
1993:
Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 83
1993:
Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 83
1994:
South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 84
1995:
American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 85
1996:
DVD video recordings at age 86
1997:
Mars pathfinder lands at age 87
1997:
Cloning living beings at age 87
1998:
US attacks Iraq, again at age 88
1998:
Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th. at age 88
1998:
1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU at age 88
1999:
US attacks Bosnia at age 89

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