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Born
September 22nd, 1903
Birthplace
Hammon, Oklahoma, USA
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Parents
Father
[1024] Reverend William Henry Blish, Jr. 8
Mother
[1024sa] Jean Mary (Street) Blish 8
Spouses, Mates & Children
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Immediate Family Tree
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George Herbert Blish Reverend William Henry Blish, Jr. William Henry Blish Colonel Sylvester Blish, (***) Deacon Thomas Blish, (***) Prudence (Hubbard) Blish Rhoda (Cheney) Blish Timothy Cheney Rhoda (Skinner) Cheney Hannah (Gage) Blish No Entry No Entry No Entry No Entry No Entry No Entry Jean Mary (Street) Blish George Street No Entry No Entry No Entry No Entry No Entry No Entry Eliza Esther (Heather) Street ? Heather No Entry No Entry ? (?) Heather No Entry No Entry
Personalized History Timeline, 1903 to 2003
1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 20
1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from before birth until age 5
1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from before birth until age 7
1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 0
1903: Airplane at age 0
1904: Radar at age 1
1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 1 to age 2
1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 4
1907: Plastic at age 4
1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 5
1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 6
1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 6 to age 9
1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 6
1910: Halley's Comet at age 7
1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 7
1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 7 to age 33
1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 8
1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 9
1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 9
1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 9
1912: Titanic sinks at age 9
1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 10 to age 17
1914-1919: World War I from age 11 to age 16
1914: The Bra at age 11
1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 12
1916: Sonar at age 13
1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 13
1917: Russian revolution at age 14
1917: US enters WWI at age 14
1918-1933: Prohibition from age 15 to age 30
1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 15 to age 17
1919: Shortwave Radio at age 16
1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 16
1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 17
1920: Palestine established at age 17
1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 17 to age 26
1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 18 to age 21
1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 19
1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 22
1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 22 to age 25
1926: Sound in Movies at age 23
1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 24
1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 24
1928: Television at age 25
1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 25
1928: Video Recordings at age 25
1928: Geiger Counter at age 25
1929-1939: Great Depression from age 26 to age 36
1929: Stock Market Crash at age 26
1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 26 to age 29
1930: Pluto Discovered at age 27
1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 28 to age 30
1933: Radio Astronomy at age 30
1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 30
1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 30
1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 30 to age 42
1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 31
1935: Dustbowl at age 32
1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 32 to age 33
1936: Spanish Civil War at age 33
1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 33 to age 49
1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 33
1936: Helicopter at age 33
1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 34 to age 42
1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 34
1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 35
1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 36
1939: Digital Computer at age 36
1939-1945: World War II from age 36 to age 42
1940: Color Television at age 37
1940: 1st black general in US army at age 37
1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 38 to age 42
1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 39
1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 39
1945: Hypertext at age 42
1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 42
1945: United Nations formed at age 42
1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 42 to age 49
1946-1989: The Cold War from age 43 to age 86
1946: The Bikini at age 43
1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 44
1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 44
1947: Transistor at age 44
1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 45
1948: NATO formed at age 45
1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 45
1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 45
1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 46
1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 46
1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 46
1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 47
1950-1953: Korean War from age 47 to age 50
1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 47
1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 47 to age 51
1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 48
1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 49
1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 49 until after line end
1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 50 to age 57
1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 51
1955: Invention of Velcro at age 52
1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 52
1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 52
1955: Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 52
1956: Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 53
1957: Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 54
1958: Integrated Circuit at age 55
1958: US space agency (NASA) established at age 55
1958: FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 55
1958: Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 55
1959: 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 56
1959: Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 56
1959: Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 56
1960: Pantyhose at age 57
1960: Laser at age 57
1960: 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 57
1960: World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 57
1961: First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 58
1961: 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 58
1961-1970: 7th Cholera pandemic from age 58 to age 67
1961-1963: John F Kennedy president of US from age 58 to age 60
1962: Cuban missile crisis at age 59
1962-1965: Vatican II from age 59 to age 62
1963: 1st artificial heart at age 60
1963: Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 60
1963: Compact Cassette Recordings at age 60
1963-1968: Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 60 to age 65
1964-1975: Vietnam War from age 61 to age 72
1964: US civil rights bill at age 61
1965: 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 62
1965: Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 62
1966: 8-track tape players at age 63
1966: 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 63
1967-1970: Nigerian civil war from age 64 to age 67
1967: 1st human heart transplant at age 64
1967: Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 64
1967: Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 64
1967: Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 64
1968: Martin Luther King assassinated at age 65
1968: Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 65
1969: Woodstock Music Festival at age 66
1969: Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 66
1969-1974: Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 66 to age 71
1970: Microprocessor at age 67
1970: Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 67
1971: Pakistani civil war at age 68
1971: Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 68
1973: October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 70
1973: The Internet at age 70
1974: Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 71
1974-1976: Gerald Ford president of US from age 71 to age 73
1975: Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 72
1975: The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 72
1975: Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 72
1976: American Bicentennial at age 73
1976: VHS Video Recordings at age 73
1976: Television begins satellite delivery at age 73
1976: Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 73
1977: Neutron bomb at age 74
1977-1980: James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 74 to age 77
1978: Laserdisc video recordings at age 75
1978: Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 75
1978: 1st test-tube baby at age 75
1979: Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 76
1979: Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 76
1980: Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 77
1981: 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 78
1981: 1st female supreme court justice at age 78
1981: IBM PC ships at age 78
1981-1988: Ronald Reagan president of US from age 78 to age 85
1982: 1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 79
1983: Compact Disks at age 80
1983: Bluford 1st black in space at age 80
1983: Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 80
1984: HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 81
1984: Apple Macintosh Ships at age 81
1985: Amiga Computer Ships at age 82
1986: Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 83
1986: Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 83
1986: Mir space station deployed at age 83
1986: Halley's Comet at age 83
1987: 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 84
1988: Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 85
1989: US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 86
1989: Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 86
1989: Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 86
1989-1992: George Bush president of US from age 86 to age 89
1989: Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 86
1989: Fall of Berlin Wall at age 86
1990: Hubble space telescope deployed at age 87
1990: World Wide Web at age 87
1991-2003: 8th Cholera pandemic from age 88 to age 100
1991: Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 88
1992: Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 89
1993: Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 90
1993-2000: William Clinton president of US from age 90 to age 97
1993: Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 90
1994: South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 91
1995: American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 92
1996: DVD video recordings at age 93
1997: Cloning living beings at age 94
1997: Mars pathfinder lands at age 94
1998: Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th. at age 95
1998: 1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU at age 95
1998: US attacks Iraq, again at age 95
1999: US attacks Bosnia at age 96
2000: Working draft of human genome completed at age 97
2000: North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August at age 97
2000: '2nd Coming' Prophesied 2nd time; Prophesy remains unfulfilled at age 97
2000: Playstation II ships - most powerful video system to date at age 97
2001: Wikipedia goes online at age 98
2001: Earthquaqe at Gujarat, India - 20,000+ deaths at age 98
2001: US attacks Afghanistan, October 7th at age 98
2001: Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers begin at age 98
2001: Muslim terrorists destroy World Trade Center Sep 11th at age 98
2001-2009: George W. Bush president of US from age 98 until after line end
2001: X-Box console released at age 98
2001: Probe NEAR-Shoemaker makes 1st touchdown on asteroid at age 98
2002: Euro currency introduced at age 99
2002: Terrorist bomb kills 170, injures 250 in Bali at age 99
2002: 10th solar planet(oid) discovered: Quaoar at age 99
2003: 28,000 die in Iran earthquake at age 100
2003: Shuttle Columbia destroyed during re-entry (feb 1st) at age 100
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