Personal Details

Born	October 31st, 1888
Birthplace	Janesville, Wisconsin, USA
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Parents

Father	[973]	Albert Elijah Blish 8
Mother	[973sa]	Annie (Tifft) Blish 8

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Immediate Family Tree

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Harry Benjamin Blish	Albert Elijah Blish	Elijah Hedding Blish	John Blish	Deacon David Blish
				Lucy (Wilcox) Blish
			Merab Ann (Wales) Blish	Stephen Wales
				Mary (?) Wales
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	Annie (Tifft) Blish	Abraham Tifft	No Entry	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1888 to 1988

1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 13 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 8 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from before birth until age 0 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 0 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 0 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 1 to age 4 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 1 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 1 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 1 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 1 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 1 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 2 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 2 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 2 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 2 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 3 1893: Movies at age 5 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 5 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 5 to age 9 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 5 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 5 to age 8 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 6 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 6 to age 7 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 8 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 8 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 9 to age 13 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 10 1899-1902: Boer war from age 11 to age 14 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 11 to age 35 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 12 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 12 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 12 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 13 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 13 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 13 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 13 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 13 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 13 to age 22 1901: First British submarine launched at age 13 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 13 to age 20 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 15 1903: Airplane at age 15 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 16 to age 17 1904: Radar at age 16 1907: Plastic at age 19 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 19 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 20 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 21 to age 24 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 21 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 21 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 22 to age 48 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 22 1910: Halley's Comet at age 22 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 23 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 24 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 24 1912: Titanic sinks at age 24 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 24 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 25 to age 32 1914: The Bra at age 26 1914-1919: World War I from age 26 to age 31 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 27 1916: Sonar at age 28 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 28 1917: Russian revolution at age 29 1917: US enters WWI at age 29 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 30 to age 45 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 30 to age 32 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 31 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 31 1920: Palestine established at age 32 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 32 to age 41 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 32 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 33 to age 36 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 34 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 37 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 37 to age 40 1926: Sound in Movies at age 38 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 39 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 39 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 40 1928: Geiger Counter at age 40 1928: Video Recordings at age 40 1928: Television at age 40 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 41 to age 51 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 41 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 41 to age 44 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 42 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 43 to age 45 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 45 to age 57 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 45 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 45 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 45 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 46 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 47 to age 48 1935: Dustbowl at age 47 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 48 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 48 to age 64 1936: Helicopter at age 48 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 48 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 49 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 49 to age 57 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 50 1939-1945: World War II from age 51 to age 57 1939: Digital Computer at age 51 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 51 1940: Color Television at age 52 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 52 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 53 to age 57 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 54 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 54 1945: United Nations formed at age 57 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 57 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 57 to age 64 1945: Hypertext at age 57 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 58 until after line end 1946: The Bikini at age 58 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 59 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 59 1947: Transistor at age 59 1948: NATO formed at age 60 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 60 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 60 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 60 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 61 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 61 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 61 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 62 to age 66 1950-1953: Korean War from age 62 to age 65 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 62 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 62 1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 63 1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 64 until after line end 1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 64 1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 65 to age 72 1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 66 1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 67 1955: Invention of Velcro at age 67 1955: Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 67 1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 67 1956: Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 68 1957: Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 69 1958: Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 70 1958: Integrated Circuit at age 70 1958: US space agency (NASA) established at age 70 1958: FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 70 1959: Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 71 1959: Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 71 1959: 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 71 1960: World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 72 1960: Pantyhose at age 72 1960: Laser at age 72 1960: 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 72 1961-1963: John F Kennedy president of US from age 73 to age 75 1961: First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 73 1961-1970: 7th Cholera pandemic from age 73 to age 82 1961: 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 73 1962-1965: Vatican II from age 74 to age 77 1962: Cuban missile crisis at age 74 1963: Compact Cassette Recordings at age 75 1963-1968: Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 75 to age 80 1963: Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 75 1963: 1st artificial heart at age 75 1964-1975: Vietnam War from age 76 to age 87 1964: US civil rights bill at age 76 1965: 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 77 1965: Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 77 1966: 8-track tape players at age 78 1966: 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 78 1967: Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 79 1967: Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 79 1967-1970: Nigerian civil war from age 79 to age 82 1967: Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 79 1967: 1st human heart transplant at age 79 1968: Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 80 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated at age 80 1969: Woodstock Music Festival at age 81 1969: Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 81 1969-1974: Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 81 to age 86 1970: Microprocessor at age 82 1970: Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 82 1971: Pakistani civil war at age 83 1971: Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 83 1973: October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 85 1973: The Internet at age 85 1974-1976: Gerald Ford president of US from age 86 to age 88 1974: Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 86 1975: Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 87 1975: Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 87 1975: The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 87 1976: Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 88 1976: VHS Video Recordings at age 88 1976: American Bicentennial at age 88 1976: Television begins satellite delivery at age 88 1977: Neutron bomb at age 89 1977-1980: James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 89 to age 92 1978: Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 90 1978: 1st test-tube baby at age 90 1978: Laserdisc video recordings at age 90 1979: Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 91 1979: Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 91 1980: Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 92 1981: 1st female supreme court justice at age 93 1981: IBM PC ships at age 93 1981: 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 93 1981-1988: Ronald Reagan president of US from age 93 to age 100 1982: 1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 94 1983: Bluford 1st black in space at age 95 1983: Compact Disks at age 95 1983: Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 95 1984: HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 96 1984: Apple Macintosh Ships at age 96 1985: Amiga Computer Ships at age 97 1986: Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 98 1986: Mir space station deployed at age 98 1986: Halley's Comet at age 98 1986: Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 98 1987: 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 99 1988: Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 100

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