Personal Details

Born	April 16th, 1893
Birthplace	Kewanee, Illinois, USA
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Parents

Father	[1326]	Charles Bonar Blish 9
Mother	[1326sa]	Sarah Ann (Jones) Blish 9

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Immediate Family Tree

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Florence Ethel Blish	Charles Bonar Blish	Matthew Bonar Blish	Charles Cheney Blish, (***)	Colonel Sylvester Blish, (***)
				Rhoda (Cheney) Blish
			Elizabeth Potter (Bonar) Blish	Matthew Bonar
				Catharine (Cosner) Bonar
		Martha Florence (Morrill) Blish	Daniel Webster Morrill	No Entry
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			Elizabeth Almira (Wedge) Morrill	? Wedge
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	Sarah Ann (Jones) Blish	Thomas Jones	No Entry	No Entry
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		Alice Agnes (Morrill) Jones	? Morrill	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1893 to 1993

1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 8 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 3 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 0 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 0 to age 3 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 0 1893: Movies at age 0 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 0 to age 4 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 1 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 1 to age 2 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 3 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 3 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 4 to age 8 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 5 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 6 to age 30 1899-1902: Boer war from age 6 to age 9 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 7 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 7 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 7 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 8 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 8 to age 17 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 8 1901: First British submarine launched at age 8 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 8 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 8 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 8 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 8 to age 15 1903: Airplane at age 10 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 10 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 11 to age 12 1904: Radar at age 11 1907: Plastic at age 14 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 14 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 15 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 16 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 16 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 16 to age 19 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 17 to age 43 1910: Halley's Comet at age 17 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 17 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 18 1912: Titanic sinks at age 19 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 19 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 19 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 19 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 20 to age 27 1914-1919: World War I from age 21 to age 26 1914: The Bra at age 21 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 22 1916: Sonar at age 23 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 23 1917: US enters WWI at age 24 1917: Russian revolution at age 24 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 25 to age 40 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 25 to age 27 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 26 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 26 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 27 to age 36 1920: Palestine established at age 27 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 27 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 28 to age 31 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 29 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 32 to age 35 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 32 1926: Sound in Movies at age 33 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 34 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 34 1928: Video Recordings at age 35 1928: Geiger Counter at age 35 1928: Television at age 35 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 35 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 36 to age 46 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 36 to age 39 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 36 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 37 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 38 to age 40 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 40 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 40 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 40 to age 52 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 40 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 41 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 42 to age 43 1935: Dustbowl at age 42 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 43 to age 59 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 43 1936: Helicopter at age 43 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 43 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 44 to age 52 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 44 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 45 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 46 1939-1945: World War II from age 46 to age 52 1939: Digital Computer at age 46 1940: Color Television at age 47 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 47 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 48 to age 52 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 49 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 49 1945: Hypertext at age 52 1945: United Nations formed at age 52 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 52 to age 59 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 52 1946: The Bikini at age 53 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 53 to age 96 1947: Transistor at age 54 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 54 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 54 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 55 1948: NATO formed at age 55 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 55 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 55 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 56 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 56 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 56 1950-1953: Korean War from age 57 to age 60 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 57 to age 61 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 57 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 57 1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 58 1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 59 1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 59 until after line end 1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 60 to age 67 1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 61 1955: Invention of Velcro at age 62 1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 62 1955: Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 62 1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 62 1956: Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 63 1957: Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 64 1958: FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 65 1958: Integrated Circuit at age 65 1958: US space agency (NASA) established at age 65 1958: Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 65 1959: 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 66 1959: Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 66 1959: Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 66 1960: Pantyhose at age 67 1960: Laser at age 67 1960: World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 67 1960: 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 67 1961-1963: John F Kennedy president of US from age 68 to age 70 1961: 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 68 1961-1970: 7th Cholera pandemic from age 68 to age 77 1961: First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 68 1962: Cuban missile crisis at age 69 1962-1965: Vatican II from age 69 to age 72 1963-1968: Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 70 to age 75 1963: Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 70 1963: 1st artificial heart at age 70 1963: Compact Cassette Recordings at age 70 1964: US civil rights bill at age 71 1964-1975: Vietnam War from age 71 to age 82 1965: 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 72 1965: Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 72 1966: 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 73 1966: 8-track tape players at age 73 1967-1970: Nigerian civil war from age 74 to age 77 1967: Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 74 1967: Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 74 1967: 1st human heart transplant at age 74 1967: Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 74 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated at age 75 1968: Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 75 1969: Woodstock Music Festival at age 76 1969: Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 76 1969-1974: Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 76 to age 81 1970: Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 77 1970: Microprocessor at age 77 1971: Pakistani civil war at age 78 1971: Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 78 1973: The Internet at age 80 1973: October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 80 1974: Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 81 1974-1976: Gerald Ford president of US from age 81 to age 83 1975: The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 82 1975: Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 82 1975: Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 82 1976: Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 83 1976: American Bicentennial at age 83 1976: Television begins satellite delivery at age 83 1976: VHS Video Recordings at age 83 1977: Neutron bomb at age 84 1977-1980: James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 84 to age 87 1978: Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 85 1978: Laserdisc video recordings at age 85 1978: 1st test-tube baby at age 85 1979: Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 86 1979: Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 86 1980: Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 87 1981: 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 88 1981: IBM PC ships at age 88 1981: 1st female supreme court justice at age 88 1981-1988: Ronald Reagan president of US from age 88 to age 95 1982: 1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 89 1983: Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 90 1983: Bluford 1st black in space at age 90 1983: Compact Disks at age 90 1984: HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 91 1984: Apple Macintosh Ships at age 91 1985: Amiga Computer Ships at age 92 1986: Mir space station deployed at age 93 1986: Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 93 1986: Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 93 1986: Halley's Comet at age 93 1987: 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 94 1988: Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 95 1989: Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 96 1989: Fall of Berlin Wall at age 96 1989: US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 96 1989: Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 96 1989-1992: George Bush president of US from age 96 to age 99 1989: Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 96 1990: World Wide Web at age 97 1990: Hubble space telescope deployed at age 97 1991-2003: 8th Cholera pandemic from age 98 until after line end 1991: Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 98 1992: Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 99 1993: Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 100 1993-2000: William Clinton president of US from age 100 until after line end 1993: Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 100

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