Personal Details

Born	June 2nd, 1921	VK's epitaph: Ad Astra
Birthplace	Germantown or Philadelphia, PA, USA
Baptized	No Entry
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Occupation(s)	Literary agent, editor, reader, poet, SF author
Died	January 11th, 2003, aged about 82 years
Died at...	Milford, county of Pike, PA, USA
Cause of Death	old age
Burial Place	Milford Cemetary, Milford, county of Pike, Pennsylvania, USA
Disposition	Cremation

Parents

Father	[1380I_sa_f]	Charles Lemuel Kidd, Sr. 9
Mother	[1380I_sa_m]	Zetta Daisy (Whorley) Kidd 9

Spouses, Mates & Children

Husband #1 [1380I_sa_sa] - Major Jacob "Jack" Bernard Emden 10 Married by: No Entry Married at: No Entry Children by this spouse: I [8000]+ Karen Anne Emden 11 b. August 6th, 1944 c. November
Husband #2 [1380I] - James Benjamin Blish, B.Sc., Ed. (***) 10 Married by: No Entry Married at: No Entry Children by this spouse: I [1402A] Asa Benjamin Blish 11 b. December 10th, 1947 c. March II [1403]+ Dorothea Elisabeth (Blish) Genly, CNM, B.A. Lit., M.S. Nursing 11 b. Living - Suppressed Living - Suppressed III [1402B] Charles Benjamin Blish 11 b. Living - Suppressed Living - Suppressed

Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 10	Gen. 9	Gen. 8	Gen. 7	Gen. 6
Mildred "VK" Virginia (Kidd) Blish	Charles Lemuel Kidd, Sr.	? Kidd	No Entry	No Entry
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		? (?) Kidd	No Entry	No Entry
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	Zetta Daisy (Whorley) Kidd	Eugene Alexander Whorley	Franklin "Frank" W. Whorley	Thomas Whorley
				Rodah (Payne) Whorley
			Mary E. (Compton) Whorley	John Compton
				Lydia (?) Compton
		Anna "Daisy" D. (Board) Whorley	Captain James Garland Board	Francis "Frank" H. Board
				Maria (Preston) Board
			Ann "Little Grandma" Mahala (Bond) Board	Pleasant Bond
				Elizabeth Hardy (Jeter) Bond

Personalized History Timeline, 1921 to 2003

1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 2 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from before birth until age 15 1918-1933: Prohibition from before birth until age 12 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from before birth until age 8 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 0 to age 3 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 1 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 4 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 4 to age 7 1926: Sound in Movies at age 5 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 6 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 6 1928: Video Recordings at age 7 1928: Geiger Counter at age 7 1928: Television at age 7 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 7 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 8 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 8 to age 11 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 8 to age 18 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 9 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 10 to age 12 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 12 to age 24 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 12 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 12 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 12 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 13 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 14 to age 15 1935: Dustbowl at age 14 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 15 to age 31 1936: Helicopter at age 15 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 15 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 15 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 16 to age 24 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 16 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 17 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 18 1939-1945: World War II from age 18 to age 24 1939: Digital Computer at age 18 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 19 1940: Color Television at age 19 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 20 to age 24 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 21 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 21 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 24 to age 31 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 24 1945: United Nations formed at age 24 1945: Hypertext at age 24 1946: The Bikini at age 25 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 25 to age 68 1946: Daughter Karen is born at age 25 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 26 1947-1964: Marriage to J. Blish from age 26 to age 43 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 26 1947: Transistor at age 26 1947: Son Asa is born at age 26 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 27 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 27 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 27 1948: NATO formed at age 27 1948: Son Asa dies at age 27 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 28 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 28 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 28 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 29 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 29 to age 33 1950-1953: Korean War from age 29 to age 32 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 29 1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 30 1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 31 1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 31 until after line end 1953: Moves to Arrowhead estate in Milford, PA at age 32 1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 32 to age 39 1954: Daughter Elizabeth is born at age 33 1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 33 1955: Pennsylvania Flood of August 1955 from Hurricane Dianne at age 34 1955: Invention of Velcro at age 34 1955: Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 34 1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 34 1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 34 1956: Son Charles Benjamin is born at age 35 1956: Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 35 1957: Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 36 1958: US space agency (NASA) established at age 37 1958: FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 37 1958: Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 37 1958: Integrated Circuit at age 37 1959: Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 38 1959: Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 38 1959: 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 38 1960: 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 39 1960: World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 39 1960: Laser at age 39 1960: Pantyhose at age 39 1961: First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 40 1961-1963: John F Kennedy president of US from age 40 to age 42 1961-1970: 7th Cholera pandemic from age 40 to age 49 1961: 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 40 1962: Cuban missile crisis at age 41 1962-1965: Vatican II from age 41 to age 44 1963: Compact Cassette Recordings at age 42 1963: Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 42 1963-1968: Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 42 to age 47 1963: 1st artificial heart at age 42 1964: Divorce from James Blish at age 43 1964-1975: Vietnam War from age 43 to age 54 1964: US civil rights bill at age 43 1965: 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 44 1965: Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 44 1966: 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 45 1966: 8-track tape players at age 45 1967: Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 46 1967-1970: Nigerian civil war from age 46 to age 49 1967: Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 46 1967: 1st human heart transplant at age 46 1967: Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 46 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated at age 47 1968: Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 47 1969: Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 48 1969: Woodstock Music Festival at age 48 1969-1974: Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 48 to age 53 1970: Microprocessor at age 49 1970: Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 49 1971: Pakistani civil war at age 50 1971: Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 50 1973: The Internet at age 52 1973: October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 52 1974: Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 53 1974-1976: Gerald Ford president of US from age 53 to age 55 1975: Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 54 1975: The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 54 1975: Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 54 1976: VHS Video Recordings at age 55 1976: American Bicentennial at age 55 1976: Television begins satellite delivery at age 55 1976: Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 55 1977: Neutron bomb at age 56 1977-1980: James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 56 to age 59 1978: Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 57 1978: Laserdisc video recordings at age 57 1978: 1st test-tube baby at age 57 1979: Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 58 1979: Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 58 1980: Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 59 1981-1988: Ronald Reagan president of US from age 60 to age 67 1981: 1st female supreme court justice at age 60 1981: 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 60 1981: IBM PC ships at age 60 1982: 1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 61 1983: Compact Disks at age 62 1983: Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 62 1983: Bluford 1st black in space at age 62 1984: HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 63 1984: Apple Macintosh Ships at age 63 1985: Daughter Karen dies at age 64 1985: Amiga Computer Ships at age 64 1986: Halley's Comet at age 65 1986: Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 65 1986: Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 65 1986: Mir space station deployed at age 65 1987: 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 66 1988: Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 67 1989: Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 68 1989: Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 68 1989: Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 68 1989: Fall of Berlin Wall at age 68 1989-1992: George Bush president of US from age 68 to age 71 1989: US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 68 1990: World Wide Web at age 69 1990: Hubble space telescope deployed at age 69 1991: Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 70 1991-2003: 8th Cholera pandemic from age 70 to age 82 1992: Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 71 1993: Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 72 1993-2000: William Clinton president of US from age 72 to age 79 1993: Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 72 1994: South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 73 1995: American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 74 1996: DVD video recordings at age 75 1997: Mars pathfinder lands at age 76 1997: Cloning living beings at age 76 1998: 1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU at age 77 1998: US attacks Iraq, again at age 77 1998: Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th. at age 77 1999: US attacks Bosnia at age 78 2000: North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August at age 79 2000: Working draft of human genome completed at age 79 2000: Playstation II ships - most powerful video system to date at age 79 2000: '2nd Coming' Prophesied 2nd time; Prophesy remains unfulfilled at age 79 2001: Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers begin at age 80 2001: Muslim terrorists destroy World Trade Center Sep 11th at age 80 2001-2009: George W. Bush president of US from age 80 until after line end 2001: X-Box console released at age 80 2001: Probe NEAR-Shoemaker makes 1st touchdown on asteroid at age 80 2001: US attacks Afghanistan, October 7th at age 80 2001: Wikipedia goes online at age 80 2001: Earthquaqe at Gujarat, India - 20,000+ deaths at age 80 2002: Terrorist bomb kills 170, injures 250 in Bali at age 81 2002: 10th solar planet(oid) discovered: Quaoar at age 81 2002: Euro currency introduced at age 81 2003: Shuttle Columbia destroyed during re-entry (feb 1st) at age 82 2003: 28,000 die in Iran earthquake at age 82

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