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1235
Laurence Gilman Jones 9 [m]
9th Generation

Personal Details
Born February 7th, 1892 No Image On File
Birthplace Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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Parents
Father [945]Gilman Mack Jones 8
Mother [945sa]Nellie Morton (McKay) Jones 8 No Image On File

Spouses, Mates & Children none known

Immediate Family Tree
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Laurence Gilman JonesGilman Mack JonesPierpoint Edward JonesNathan JonesNo Entry
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Beulah (Blish) JonesColonel Daniel BlishDeacon David Blish
Lucy (Wilcox) Blish
Beulah (Wilcox) BlishEleazur Wilcox
Mary (Mack) Wilcox
Nellie Morton (McKay) JonesThomas McKayNo EntryNo Entry
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Elizabeth (Valentine) McKay? ValentineNo Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1892 to 1992
1837-1901:
Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 9
1881-1896:
5th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 4
1889-1892:
Benjamin Harrison president of US from before birth until age 0
1893:
Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 1
1893:
New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 1
1893-1896:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 1 to age 4
1893:
Movies at age 1
1893-1897:
US Financial panic, depression from age 1 to age 5
1894-1895:
Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 2 to age 3
1894:
Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 2
1896:
Utah enters the union - 45th at age 4
1896:
Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 4
1897-1901:
William McKinley president of US from age 5 to age 9
1898:
Spanish American 1-year war at age 6
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from age 7 to age 31
1899-1902:
Boer war from age 7 to age 10
1900:
Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 8
1900:
Hawaii organized as a territory at age 8
1900:
Boxer rebellion in China at age 8
1901:
First British submarine launched at age 9
1901:
US President William McKinley assassinated at age 9
1901:
Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 9
1901:
Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 9
1901:
Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 9
1901-1910:
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 9 to age 18
1901-1908:
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 9 to age 16
1901:
Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 9
1903:
Airplane at age 11
1903:
Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 11
1904-1905:
Russian-Japanese war from age 12 to age 13
1904:
Radar at age 12
1907:
Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 15
1907:
Plastic at age 15
1908:
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 16
1909-1912:
William Howard Taft president of US from age 17 to age 20
1909:
Union of South Africa formed at age 17
1909:
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 17
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 18 to age 44
1910:
Halley's Comet at age 18
1910:
Japan annexes Korea at age 18
1911:
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 19
1912:
Titanic sinks at age 20
1912:
Alaska organized as a territory at age 20
1912:
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 20
1912:
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 20
1913-1920:
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 21 to age 28
1914:
The Bra at age 22
1914-1919:
World War I from age 22 to age 27
1915:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 23
1916:
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 24
1916:
Sonar at age 24
1917:
Russian revolution at age 25
1917:
US enters WWI at age 25
1918-1933:
Prohibition from age 26 to age 41
1918-1920:
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 26 to age 28
1919:
League of Nations instantiated at age 27
1919:
Shortwave Radio at age 27
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from age 28 to age 37
1920:
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 28
1920:
Palestine established at age 28
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 29 to age 32
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 30
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 33 to age 36
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 33
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 34
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 35
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 35
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 36
1928:
Video Recordings at age 36
1928:
Television at age 36
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 36
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 37 to age 40
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 37
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 37 to age 47
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 38
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 39 to age 41
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 41
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 41
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 41
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 41 to age 53
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 42
1935:
Dustbowl at age 43
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 43 to age 44
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 44
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 44 to age 60
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 44
1936:
Helicopter at age 44
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 45 to age 53
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 45
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 46
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 47
1939:
Digital Computer at age 47
1939-1945:
World War II from age 47 to age 53
1940:
Color Television at age 48
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 48
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 49 to age 53
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 50
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 50
1945:
United Nations formed at age 53
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 53 to age 60
1945:
Hypertext at age 53
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 53
1946:
The Bikini at age 54
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 54 to age 97
1947:
Transistor at age 55
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 55
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 55
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 56
1948:
NATO formed at age 56
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 56
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 56
1949:
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 57
1949:
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 57
1949:
45 rpm musical recordings at age 57
1950-1953:
Korean War from age 58 to age 61
1950:
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 58
1950:
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 58
1950-1954:
McCarthyism from age 58 to age 62
1951:
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 59
1952-2050:
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 60 until after line end
1952:
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 60
1953-1960:
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 61 to age 68
1954:
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 62
1955:
Invention of Velcro at age 63
1955:
Warsaw pact formed at age 63
1955:
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 63
1955:
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 63
1956:
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 64
1957:
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 65
1958:
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 66
1958:
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 66
1958:
Integrated Circuit at age 66
1958:
US space agency (NASA) established at age 66
1959:
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 67
1959:
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 67
1959:
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 67
1960:
Pantyhose at age 68
1960:
Laser at age 68
1960:
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 68
1960:
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 68
1961-1963:
John F Kennedy president of US from age 69 to age 71
1961:
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 69
1961:
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 69
1961-1970:
7th Cholera pandemic from age 69 to age 78
1962:
Cuban missile crisis at age 70
1962-1965:
Vatican II from age 70 to age 73
1963-1968:
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 71 to age 76
1963:
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 71
1963:
1st artificial heart at age 71
1963:
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 71
1964:
US civil rights bill at age 72
1964-1975:
Vietnam War from age 72 to age 83
1965:
1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 73
1965:
Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 73
1966:
1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 74
1966:
8-track tape players at age 74
1967-1970:
Nigerian civil war from age 75 to age 78
1967:
Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 75
1967:
Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 75
1967:
Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 75
1967:
1st human heart transplant at age 75
1968:
Martin Luther King assassinated at age 76
1968:
Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 76
1969:
Woodstock Music Festival at age 77
1969:
Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 77
1969-1974:
Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 77 to age 82
1970:
Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 78
1970:
Microprocessor at age 78
1971:
Pakistani civil war at age 79
1971:
Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 79
1973:
The Internet at age 81
1973:
October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 81
1974:
Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 82
1974-1976:
Gerald Ford president of US from age 82 to age 84
1975:
The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 83
1975:
Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 83
1975:
Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 83
1976:
Television begins satellite delivery at age 84
1976:
American Bicentennial at age 84
1976:
Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 84
1976:
VHS Video Recordings at age 84
1977:
Neutron bomb at age 85
1977-1980:
James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 85 to age 88
1978:
Laserdisc video recordings at age 86
1978:
1st test-tube baby at age 86
1978:
Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 86
1979:
Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 87
1979:
Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 87
1980:
Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 88
1981-1988:
Ronald Reagan president of US from age 89 to age 96
1981:
1st female supreme court justice at age 89
1981:
IBM PC ships at age 89
1981:
1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 89
1982:
1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 90
1983:
Bluford 1st black in space at age 91
1983:
Compact Disks at age 91
1983:
Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 91
1984:
HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 92
1984:
Apple Macintosh Ships at age 92
1985:
Amiga Computer Ships at age 93
1986:
Halley's Comet at age 94
1986:
Mir space station deployed at age 94
1986:
Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 94
1986:
Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 94
1987:
2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 95
1988:
Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 96
1989:
Fall of Berlin Wall at age 97
1989:
Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 97
1989:
US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 97
1989:
Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 97
1989:
Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 97
1989-1992:
George Bush president of US from age 97 to age 100
1990:
Hubble space telescope deployed at age 98
1990:
World Wide Web at age 98
1991:
Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 99
1991-2003:
8th Cholera pandemic from age 99 until after line end
1992:
Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 100

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