| Charles Lemuel Kidd Sr. |
| Generation: | 9 |
| Born: | March ?, 1888 |
| Died: | --- |
| Father: | ? Kidd |
| Mother: | ? (?) Kidd |
| Occupation(s): | Journeyman printer, worked for the Bureau of printing and Engraving, at Washington DC |
| Marriages: | • Zetta Daisy (Whorley) Kidd At Roanoke, Virginia, USA |
| Children: | Margaret (Kidd) Moore Charles Lemuel Kidd, Jr. Mildred Virginia (Kidd) Blish |
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1837-1901 Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) 1881-1896 5th Cholera pandemic 1885-1888 Grover Cleveland president of US 1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths 1888 70...77 rpm musical records 1889 Holerith invents the punch card 1889 Washington enters the union - 42nd 1889-1892 Benjamin Harrison president of US 1889 Montana enters the union - 41st 1889 South Dakota enters the union - 40th 1889 North Dakota enters the union - 39th 1890 Idaho enters the union - 43rd 1890 Wyoming enters the union - 44th 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee 1890 Oklahoma organized as a territory 1891 Mormon prophesy of coming of lord by 1891 unfulfilled 1893 New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote 1893-1896 Grover Cleveland president of US 1893-1897 US Financial panic, depression 1893 Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) 1893 Movies 1894-1895 Chinese-Japanese war (1) 1894 Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die 1896 Utah enters the union - 45th 1896 Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation 1897-1901 William McKinley president of US 1898 Spanish American 1-year war 1899-1902 Boer war 1899-1923 6th Cholera pandemic 1900 Boxer rebellion in China 1900 Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed 1900 Hawaii organized as a territory 1901 First British submarine launched 1901-1910 Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) 1901 Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) 1901 Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation 1901-1908 Theodore Roosevelt president of US 1901 US President William McKinley assassinated 1901 Commonwealth of Australia founded 1901 Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts 1903 Nikola Tesla patents logic gates 1903 Airplane 1904 Radar 1904-1905 Russian-Japanese war 1907 Plastic 1907 Oklahoma enters the union - 46th 1908 Tunguska atmospheric object explosion 1909 Union of South Africa formed 1909-1912 William Howard Taft president of US 1909 North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Pearys exp. 1910-1936 Reign of King George V (Windsor) 1910 Japan annexes Korea 1910 Halleys Comet 1911 South pole reached by Roald Amundsen 1912 New Mexico enters the union - 47th 1912 Titanic sinks 1912 Arizona enters the union - 48th 1912 Alaska organized as a territory 1913-1920 Woodrow Wilson president of US 1914 The Bra 1914-1918 World War I 1915 Einstein's Theory of Relativity 1916 Sonar 1916 Irish Easter Rebellion 1917 Russian revolution 1917 US enters WWI 1918-1933 Prohibition 1918-1920 Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die 1919 League of Nations instantiated 1919 Shortwave Radio 1920 Palestine established 1920-1929 Roaring 20s 1920 Women receive right to vote (US Suffrage) 1921-1924 Warren G Harding president of US 1922 Insulin made available to diabetics 1925 Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory 1925-1928 Calvin Coolidge president of US 1926 Sound in Movies 1927 Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) 1927 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh 1928 Television 1928 Geiger Counter 1928 Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming 1928 Video Recordings 1929 Stock Market Crash 1929-1939 Great Depression 1929-1932 Herbert Hoover president of US 1930 Pluto Discovered 1931-1933 Chinese-Japanese war (2) 1933-1945 Franklin D Roosevelt president of US 1933 Armstrong invents FM modulation 1933 Soviet communist party purge 1933 Radio Astronomy 1934 Longshoremans strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days 1935 Dustbowl 1935-1936 Abyssinian war 1936 Spanish Civil War 1936 Helicopter 1936-1952 Reign of King George VI (Windsor) 1936 Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) 1937-1945 Chinese-Japanese war (3) 1937 Nylon (by DuPont) 1938 Germany annexes Austria 1939-1945 World War II 1939 Digital Computer 1939 Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) 1940 Color Television 1940 1st black general in US army 1941-1945 Manhattan Project 1942 Nuclear Reactor 1942 Magnetic Recording Tape 1945 Hypertext 1945 United Nations formed 1945 US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945-1952 Harry S Truman president of US 1946 The Bikini 1946-1989 The Cold War 1947 Transistor 1947 India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India 1947 UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections 1948 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings 1948 NATO formed 1948 Israel inaugurated as state 1948 Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated 1948-1955 Multiple polio epidemics in the USA 1949 Apartheid policy in South Africa 1949 Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb 1949 45 rpm musical recordings 1950-1954 McCarthyism 1950-1953 Korean War 1950 World pop. est. at 2.4 billion 1950 Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize 1951 Electricity from Atomic Power 1952 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated 1952-2022 Reign of Queen Elizabeth II of England 1953-1960 Dwight D Eisenhower president of US 1954 Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional 1954 Womans right to vote (UN Suffrage) 1955 Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine 1955 Warsaw pact formed 1955 Invention of Velcro 1955 Fiber Optics (by Kapany) 1956 Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks 1957 Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite 1958 Stereo LP recordings come into usage 1958 FM Stereo Broadcasts 1958 Integrated Circuit 1958 US space agency (NASA) established 1958 Neural Network invented 1959 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah 1959 Alaska enters the union - 49th 1959 Hawaii enters the union - 50th 1960 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) 1960 Laser 1960 World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton 1960 Pantyhose 1961 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard 1961 First human in space - Yuri Gagarin 1961-1963 John F Kennedy president of US 1961-1989 Berlin Wall 1961-1991 7th Cholera Pandemic 1962-1965 Vatican II 1962 Cuban missile crisis 1963 Compact Cassette Recordings 1963 Pres. Kennedy Assassinated 1963 1st artificial heart 1963-1968 Lyndon B Johnson president of US 1963 Valentina Tereshkova is 1st woman in space 1964-1975 Vietnam War 1964 US civil rights bill 1965 Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles 1965 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) 1966 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) 1966 8-track tape players 1967-1970 Nigerian civil war 1967 Six day war: Israel-Arabs 1967 Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole 1967 Marshall 1st black supreme court justice 1967 1st human heart transplant 1968 Martin Luther King assassinated 1968 Robert Kennedy assassinated 1969 Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin 1969-1974 Richard M. Nixon president of US 1969 Woodstock Music Festival 1969 ARPANET begins (Internet's precursor) 1970 Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State 1971 Pakistani civil war 1971 Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 1972 North Atlantic trash patch discovered 1972 8008 Microprocessor ships (Intel) 1973 The Internet begins 1973 October war (Israel-Arabic nations) 1973 Invention of the cellphone 1974 Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace 1974-1976 Gerald Ford president of US 1974 8080 Microprocessor ships (Intel) 1974 6800 Microprocessor ships (Motorola) 1974 CP/M operating system released 1975 Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September 1975 Altair 8800a - the 1st home computer 1975 SWTPC 6800 computer 1975 IMSAI 8080 computer 1975 Ebola virus appears - 90% lethal 1975 6502 Microprocessor ships (MOS Technology) 1976 US Bicentennial 1976 Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa 1976 VHS Video Recordings 1976 Television begins satellite delivery 1976 Z80 Microprocessor ships (Zilog) 1976 Apple releases first computer 1976 FLEX operating system released 1977-1980 James Earl Carter Jr president of US 1977 Neutron bomb 1977 Kilobaud Magazine, issue #1 - January 1978 Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die 1978 1st test-tube baby 1978 Laserdisc video recordings 1978 6809 Microprocessor ships (Motorola) 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear event 1979 Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK 1979 OS-9 operating system released 1980 Mount St. Helens Erupts 1981 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia 1981 1st female supreme court justice 1981-1988 Ronald Reagan president of US 1981 IBM PC ships 1981 Anwar Sadat, Pres. of Egypt, assasinated 1982 1st genetically engineered product - insulin 1983 Compact Disks 1983 Bluford 1st black in space 1983 Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system 1983-1985 Famine in Ethiopia, 1.2m dead 1983 Cellphones come into use 1984 Apple Macintosh Ships 1984 HIV determined to be cause of AIDs 1985 Amiga Computer Ships 1985-2050 Era of effective Machine Learning 1985 Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Columbia, 23,000+ die 1986 Mir space station deployed 1986 Shuttle Challenger explodes 1986 Chernobyl power plant melts down 1986 Halleys Comet 1987 2000th satellite launched: USSRs Cosmos 1988 Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax 1988 Pacific trash patch discovered |
No death date, so the timeline is showing 100 years or until current year by default.