Personal Details

Born	November 28th, 1897
Birthplace	Hartford, CT, USA
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Spouses, Mates & Children

Husband #1 [1323] - Matthew Rhodes Blish, M.S., E.E. 9 Married by: No Entry Married at: West Hartford, CT, USA Children by this spouse: I [1380G]+ Matthew (Rhodes) Blish, Jr. 10 b. June 6th, 1920 c. September II [1380H]+ Jane (Blish) Teaze 10 b. February 1st, 1923 c. May

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Personalized History Timeline, 1897 to 1997

1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 4 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from before birth until age 0 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 0 to age 4 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 1 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 2 to age 26 1899-1902: Boer war from age 2 to age 5 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 3 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 3 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 3 1901: First British submarine launched at age 4 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 4 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 4 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 4 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 4 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 4 to age 11 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 4 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 4 to age 13 1903: Airplane at age 6 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 6 1904: Radar at age 7 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 7 to age 8 1907: Plastic at age 10 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 10 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 11 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 12 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 12 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 12 to age 15 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 13 to age 39 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 13 1910: Halley's Comet at age 13 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 14 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 15 1912: Titanic sinks at age 15 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 15 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 15 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 16 to age 23 1914: The Bra at age 17 1914-1919: World War I from age 17 to age 22 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 18 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 19 1916: Sonar at age 19 1917: Russian revolution at age 20 1917: US enters WWI at age 20 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 21 to age 23 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 21 to age 36 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 22 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 22 1920: Palestine established at age 23 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 23 to age 32 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 23 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 24 to age 27 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 25 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 28 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 28 to age 31 1926: Sound in Movies at age 29 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 30 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 30 1928: Television at age 31 1928: Video Recordings at age 31 1928: Geiger Counter at age 31 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 31 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 32 to age 42 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 32 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 32 to age 35 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 33 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 34 to age 36 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 36 to age 48 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 36 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 36 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 36 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 37 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 38 to age 39 1935: Dustbowl at age 38 1936: Helicopter at age 39 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 39 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 39 to age 55 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 39 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 40 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 40 to age 48 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 41 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 42 1939: Digital Computer at age 42 1939-1945: World War II from age 42 to age 48 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 43 1940: Color Television at age 43 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 44 to age 48 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 45 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 45 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 48 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 48 to age 55 1945: United Nations formed at age 48 1945: Hypertext at age 48 1946: The Bikini at age 49 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 49 to age 92 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 50 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 50 1947: Transistor at age 50 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 51 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 51 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 51 1948: NATO formed at age 51 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 52 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 52 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 52 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 53 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 53 1950-1953: Korean War from age 53 to age 56 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 53 to age 57 1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 54 1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 55 until after line end 1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 55 1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 56 to age 63 1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 57 1955: Invention of Velcro at age 58 1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 58 1955: Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 58 1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 58 1956: Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 59 1957: Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 60 1958: US space agency (NASA) established at age 61 1958: FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 61 1958: Integrated Circuit at age 61 1958: Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 61 1959: Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 62 1959: Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 62 1959: 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 62 1960: 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 63 1960: Pantyhose at age 63 1960: Laser at age 63 1960: World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 63 1961-1970: 7th Cholera pandemic from age 64 to age 73 1961: First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 64 1961-1963: John F Kennedy president of US from age 64 to age 66 1961: 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 64 1962: Cuban missile crisis at age 65 1962-1965: Vatican II from age 65 to age 68 1963: Compact Cassette Recordings at age 66 1963: Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 66 1963: 1st artificial heart at age 66 1963-1968: Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 66 to age 71 1964-1975: Vietnam War from age 67 to age 78 1964: US civil rights bill at age 67 1965: 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 68 1965: Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 68 1966: 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 69 1966: 8-track tape players at age 69 1967: Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 70 1967: Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 70 1967: 1st human heart transplant at age 70 1967-1970: Nigerian civil war from age 70 to age 73 1967: Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 70 1968: Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 71 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated at age 71 1969-1974: Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 72 to age 77 1969: Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 72 1969: Woodstock Music Festival at age 72 1970: Microprocessor at age 73 1970: Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 73 1971: Pakistani civil war at age 74 1971: Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 74 1973: October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 76 1973: The Internet at age 76 1974-1976: Gerald Ford president of US from age 77 to age 79 1974: Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 77 1975: The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 78 1975: Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 78 1975: Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 78 1976: Television begins satellite delivery at age 79 1976: Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 79 1976: VHS Video Recordings at age 79 1976: American Bicentennial at age 79 1977-1980: James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 80 to age 83 1977: Neutron bomb at age 80 1978: Laserdisc video recordings at age 81 1978: Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 81 1978: 1st test-tube baby at age 81 1979: Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 82 1979: Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 82 1980: Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 83 1981: 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 84 1981: 1st female supreme court justice at age 84 1981: IBM PC ships at age 84 1981-1988: Ronald Reagan president of US from age 84 to age 91 1982: 1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 85 1983: Compact Disks at age 86 1983: Bluford 1st black in space at age 86 1983: Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 86 1984: HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 87 1984: Apple Macintosh Ships at age 87 1985: Amiga Computer Ships at age 88 1986: Halley's Comet at age 89 1986: Mir space station deployed at age 89 1986: Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 89 1986: Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 89 1987: 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 90 1988: Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 91 1989: Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 92 1989: Fall of Berlin Wall at age 92 1989: US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 92 1989: Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 92 1989: Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 92 1989-1992: George Bush president of US from age 92 to age 95 1990: Hubble space telescope deployed at age 93 1990: World Wide Web at age 93 1991: Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 94 1991-2003: 8th Cholera pandemic from age 94 until after line end 1992: Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 95 1993-2000: William Clinton president of US from age 96 until after line end 1993: Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 96 1993: Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 96 1994: South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 97 1995: American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 98 1996: DVD video recordings at age 99 1997: Mars pathfinder lands at age 100 1997: Cloning living beings at age 100

Additional Information

Mildred (Daniels) Blish attended grammer and high schools at Hartford, Conn. and Rogers Hall, Lowell, Mass. She is a member of the Eunice Burr Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Fairfield, Conn. and is active in her church (Congregational) and in such welfare agencies as Girl Scouts and Red Cross. For four years she served as president of the Fairfield Branch of the Needlework Guild of America.