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Matthew Berryman Blish 10 [m]
10th Generation

Personal Details
Born August 1st, 1904 No Image On File
Birthplace Effingham, Illinois, USA
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Parents
Father [1327]Dwight Morril Blish 9 No Image On File
Mother [1327sa]Callie Theodora (Johnson) Blish 9 No Image On File

Spouses, Mates & Children none known

Immediate Family Tree
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Matthew Berryman BlishDwight Morril BlishMatthew Bonar BlishCharles Cheney Blish, (***)Colonel Sylvester Blish, (***)
Rhoda (Cheney) Blish
Elizabeth Potter (Bonar) BlishMatthew Bonar
Catharine (Cosner) Bonar
Martha Florence (Morrill) BlishDaniel Webster MorrillNo Entry
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Elizabeth Almira (Wedge) Morrill? Wedge
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Callie Theodora (Johnson) BlishArthur Berryman JohnsonNo EntryNo Entry
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Josephine Rebeccah (Glosener) Johnson? GlosenerNo Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1904 to 2004
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 19
1901-1910:
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from before birth until age 6
1901-1908:
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from before birth until age 4
1904-1905:
Russian-Japanese war from age 0 to age 1
1904:
Radar at age 0
1907:
Plastic at age 3
1907:
Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 3
1908:
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 4
1909-1912:
William Howard Taft president of US from age 5 to age 8
1909:
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 5
1909:
Union of South Africa formed at age 5
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 6 to age 32
1910:
Japan annexes Korea at age 6
1910:
Halley's Comet at age 6
1911:
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 7
1912:
Titanic sinks at age 8
1912:
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 8
1912:
Alaska organized as a territory at age 8
1912:
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 8
1913-1920:
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 9 to age 16
1914:
The Bra at age 10
1914-1919:
World War I from age 10 to age 15
1915:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 11
1916:
Sonar at age 12
1916:
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 12
1917:
US enters WWI at age 13
1917:
Russian revolution at age 13
1918-1933:
Prohibition from age 14 to age 29
1918-1920:
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 14 to age 16
1919:
Shortwave Radio at age 15
1919:
League of Nations instantiated at age 15
1920:
Palestine established at age 16
1920:
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 16
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from age 16 to age 25
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 17 to age 20
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 18
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 21 to age 24
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 21
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 22
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 23
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 23
1928:
Television at age 24
1928:
Video Recordings at age 24
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 24
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 24
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 25 to age 35
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 25 to age 28
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 25
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 26
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 27 to age 29
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 29
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 29
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 29 to age 41
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 29
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 30
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 31 to age 32
1935:
Dustbowl at age 31
1936:
Helicopter at age 32
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 32
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 32
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 32 to age 48
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 33
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 33 to age 41
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 34
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 35
1939:
Digital Computer at age 35
1939-1945:
World War II from age 35 to age 41
1940:
Color Television at age 36
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 36
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 37 to age 41
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 38
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 38
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 41 to age 48
1945:
Hypertext at age 41
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 41
1945:
United Nations formed at age 41
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 42 to age 85
1946:
The Bikini at age 42
1947:
Transistor at age 43
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 43
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 43
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 44
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 44
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 44
1948:
NATO formed at age 44
1949:
45 rpm musical recordings at age 45
1949:
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 45
1949:
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 45
1950-1953:
Korean War from age 46 to age 49
1950:
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 46
1950:
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 46
1950-1954:
McCarthyism from age 46 to age 50
1951:
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 47
1952:
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 48
1952-2050:
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 48 until after line end
1953-1960:
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 49 to age 56
1954:
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 50
1955:
Warsaw pact formed at age 51
1955:
Invention of Velcro at age 51
1955:
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 51
1955:
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 51
1956:
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 52
1957:
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 53
1958:
US space agency (NASA) established at age 54
1958:
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 54
1958:
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 54
1958:
Integrated Circuit at age 54
1959:
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 55
1959:
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 55
1959:
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 55
1960:
Pantyhose at age 56
1960:
Laser at age 56
1960:
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 56
1960:
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 56
1961:
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 57
1961:
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 57
1961-1970:
7th Cholera pandemic from age 57 to age 66
1961-1963:
John F Kennedy president of US from age 57 to age 59
1962-1965:
Vatican II from age 58 to age 61
1962:
Cuban missile crisis at age 58
1963:
1st artificial heart at age 59
1963-1968:
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 59 to age 64
1963:
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 59
1963:
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 59
1964:
US civil rights bill at age 60
1964-1975:
Vietnam War from age 60 to age 71
1965:
Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 61
1965:
1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 61
1966:
8-track tape players at age 62
1966:
1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 62
1967:
Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 63
1967-1970:
Nigerian civil war from age 63 to age 66
1967:
1st human heart transplant at age 63
1967:
Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 63
1967:
Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 63
1968:
Martin Luther King assassinated at age 64
1968:
Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 64
1969:
Woodstock Music Festival at age 65
1969:
Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 65
1969-1974:
Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 65 to age 70
1970:
Microprocessor at age 66
1970:
Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 66
1971:
Pakistani civil war at age 67
1971:
Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 67
1973:
October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 69
1973:
The Internet at age 69
1974-1976:
Gerald Ford president of US from age 70 to age 72
1974:
Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 70
1975:
Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 71
1975:
Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 71
1975:
The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 71
1976:
American Bicentennial at age 72
1976:
Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 72
1976:
VHS Video Recordings at age 72
1976:
Television begins satellite delivery at age 72
1977-1980:
James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 73 to age 76
1977:
Neutron bomb at age 73
1978:
Laserdisc video recordings at age 74
1978:
1st test-tube baby at age 74
1978:
Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 74
1979:
Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 75
1979:
Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 75
1980:
Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 76
1981-1988:
Ronald Reagan president of US from age 77 to age 84
1981:
1st female supreme court justice at age 77
1981:
1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 77
1981:
IBM PC ships at age 77
1982:
1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 78
1983:
Compact Disks at age 79
1983:
Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 79
1983:
Bluford 1st black in space at age 79
1984:
HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 80
1984:
Apple Macintosh Ships at age 80
1985:
Amiga Computer Ships at age 81
1986:
Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 82
1986:
Halley's Comet at age 82
1986:
Mir space station deployed at age 82
1986:
Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 82
1987:
2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 83
1988:
Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 84
1989:
Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 85
1989-1992:
George Bush president of US from age 85 to age 88
1989:
Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 85
1989:
Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 85
1989:
US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 85
1989:
Fall of Berlin Wall at age 85
1990:
World Wide Web at age 86
1990:
Hubble space telescope deployed at age 86
1991-2003:
8th Cholera pandemic from age 87 to age 99
1991:
Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 87
1992:
Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 88
1993:
Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 89
1993:
Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 89
1993-2000:
William Clinton president of US from age 89 to age 96
1994:
South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 90
1995:
American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 91
1996:
DVD video recordings at age 92
1997:
Cloning living beings at age 93
1997:
Mars pathfinder lands at age 93
1998:
Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th. at age 94
1998:
US attacks Iraq, again at age 94
1998:
1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU at age 94
1999:
US attacks Bosnia at age 95
2000:
'2nd Coming' Prophesied 2nd time; Prophesy remains unfulfilled at age 96
2000:
Working draft of human genome completed at age 96
2000:
Playstation II ships - most powerful video system to date at age 96
2000:
North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August at age 96
2001:
Muslim terrorists destroy World Trade Center Sep 11th at age 97
2001-2009:
George W. Bush president of US from age 97 until after line end
2001:
Wikipedia goes online at age 97
2001:
US attacks Afghanistan, October 7th at age 97
2001:
Earthquaqe at Gujarat, India - 20,000+ deaths at age 97
2001:
Probe NEAR-Shoemaker makes 1st touchdown on asteroid at age 97
2001:
X-Box console released at age 97
2001:
Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers begin at age 97
2002:
Euro currency introduced at age 98
2002:
Terrorist bomb kills 170, injures 250 in Bali at age 98
2002:
10th solar planet(oid) discovered: Quaoar at age 98
2003:
28,000 die in Iran earthquake at age 99
2003:
Shuttle Columbia destroyed during re-entry (feb 1st) at age 99
2004:
Non-government Spaceship One achieves spaceflight at age 100
2004:
10 terrorist bombs kill 200, injure 1240 in Spain at age 100
2004:
Huge trans-Neptunian object, Sedna, discovered at age 100
2004:
Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami kills 290,000+ - dec 26 at age 100
2004:
Water verified present on mars by Odyssey lander at age 100

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