Personal Details

Born	December 7th, 1896
Birthplace	Willimantic, Connecticut, USA
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Parents

Father	[1194]	Frank Dwight Blish 9
Mother	[1194sa]	Mary Grace (Bill) Blish 9

Spouses, Mates & Children none known

Immediate Family Tree

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Lester Henry Blish	Frank Dwight Blish	Dwight Frank Blish	Henry "Frank H." Francis Blish	Robert Stiles Blish
				Dorothy "Dolly" (McCall) Blish
			Sarah (Freeman) Blish	Charles Freeman
				Betsey (Tisdale) Freeman
		Wilhelmine (Graff) Blish	Philip Graff	No Entry
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			Philopena (Adams) Graff	? Adams
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	Mary Grace (Bill) Blish	Amos William Bill	No Entry	No Entry
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		Ora Angeline (Latham) Bill	? Latham	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1896 to 1996

1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 5 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 0 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from before birth until age 0 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from before birth until age 1 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 0 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 0 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 1 to age 5 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 2 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 3 to age 27 1899-1902: Boer war from age 3 to age 6 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 4 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 4 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 4 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 5 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 5 to age 14 1901: First British submarine launched at age 5 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 5 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 5 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 5 to age 12 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 5 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 5 1903: Airplane at age 7 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 7 1904: Radar at age 8 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 8 to age 9 1907: Plastic at age 11 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 11 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 12 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 13 to age 16 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 13 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 13 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 14 to age 40 1910: Halley's Comet at age 14 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 14 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 15 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 16 1912: Titanic sinks at age 16 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 16 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 16 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 17 to age 24 1914-1919: World War I from age 18 to age 23 1914: The Bra at age 18 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 19 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 20 1916: Sonar at age 20 1917: US enters WWI at age 21 1917: Russian revolution at age 21 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 22 to age 24 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 22 to age 37 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 23 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 23 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 24 to age 33 1920: Palestine established at age 24 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 24 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 25 to age 28 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 26 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 29 to age 32 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 29 1926: Sound in Movies at age 30 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 31 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 31 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 32 1928: Geiger Counter at age 32 1928: Video Recordings at age 32 1928: Television at age 32 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 33 to age 36 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 33 to age 43 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 33 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 34 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 35 to age 37 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 37 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 37 to age 49 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 37 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 37 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 38 1935: Dustbowl at age 39 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 39 to age 40 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 40 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 40 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 40 to age 56 1936: Helicopter at age 40 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 41 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 41 to age 49 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 42 1939-1945: World War II from age 43 to age 49 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 43 1939: Digital Computer at age 43 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 44 1940: Color Television at age 44 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 45 to age 49 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 46 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 46 1945: United Nations formed at age 49 1945: Hypertext at age 49 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 49 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 49 to age 56 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 50 to age 93 1946: The Bikini at age 50 1947: Transistor at age 51 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 51 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 51 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 52 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 52 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 52 1948: NATO formed at age 52 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 53 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 53 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 53 1950-1953: Korean War from age 54 to age 57 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 54 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 54 to age 58 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 54 1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 55 1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 56 until after line end 1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 56 1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 57 to age 64 1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 58 1955: Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 59 1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 59 1955: Invention of Velcro at age 59 1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 59 1956: Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 60 1957: Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 61 1958: Integrated Circuit at age 62 1958: Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 62 1958: US space agency (NASA) established at age 62 1958: FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 62 1959: Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 63 1959: Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 63 1959: 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 63 1960: Pantyhose at age 64 1960: Laser at age 64 1960: World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 64 1960: 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 64 1961: 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 65 1961-1970: 7th Cholera pandemic from age 65 to age 74 1961: First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 65 1961-1963: John F Kennedy president of US from age 65 to age 67 1962: Cuban missile crisis at age 66 1962-1965: Vatican II from age 66 to age 69 1963: Compact Cassette Recordings at age 67 1963: Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 67 1963: 1st artificial heart at age 67 1963-1968: Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 67 to age 72 1964: US civil rights bill at age 68 1964-1975: Vietnam War from age 68 to age 79 1965: Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 69 1965: 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 69 1966: 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 70 1966: 8-track tape players at age 70 1967: Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 71 1967-1970: Nigerian civil war from age 71 to age 74 1967: 1st human heart transplant at age 71 1967: Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 71 1967: Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 71 1968: Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 72 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated at age 72 1969-1974: Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 73 to age 78 1969: Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 73 1969: Woodstock Music Festival at age 73 1970: Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 74 1970: Microprocessor at age 74 1971: Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 75 1971: Pakistani civil war at age 75 1973: October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 77 1973: The Internet at age 77 1974-1976: Gerald Ford president of US from age 78 to age 80 1974: Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 78 1975: Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 79 1975: The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 79 1975: Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 79 1976: Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 80 1976: Television begins satellite delivery at age 80 1976: American Bicentennial at age 80 1976: VHS Video Recordings at age 80 1977: Neutron bomb at age 81 1977-1980: James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 81 to age 84 1978: Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 82 1978: Laserdisc video recordings at age 82 1978: 1st test-tube baby at age 82 1979: Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 83 1979: Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 83 1980: Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 84 1981: IBM PC ships at age 85 1981: 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 85 1981-1988: Ronald Reagan president of US from age 85 to age 92 1981: 1st female supreme court justice at age 85 1982: 1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 86 1983: Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 87 1983: Bluford 1st black in space at age 87 1983: Compact Disks at age 87 1984: Apple Macintosh Ships at age 88 1984: HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 88 1985: Amiga Computer Ships at age 89 1986: Halley's Comet at age 90 1986: Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 90 1986: Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 90 1986: Mir space station deployed at age 90 1987: 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 91 1988: Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 92 1989: Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 93 1989-1992: George Bush president of US from age 93 to age 96 1989: Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 93 1989: Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 93 1989: Fall of Berlin Wall at age 93 1989: US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 93 1990: Hubble space telescope deployed at age 94 1990: World Wide Web at age 94 1991: Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 95 1991-2003: 8th Cholera pandemic from age 95 until after line end 1992: Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 96 1993-2000: William Clinton president of US from age 97 until after line end 1993: Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 97 1993: Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 97 1994: South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 98 1995: American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 99 1996: DVD video recordings at age 100

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