Personal Details

Born	August 10th, 1870
Birthplace	Red Kill, New York, USA
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Father	[296_c2]	James Blish 7
Mother	[296_c2sa]	Eliza (Waite) Blish 7

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Immediate Family Tree

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John Benjamin Blish	James Blish	Nicholas Blish	Silas Blish	Sylvanus Blish
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Personalized History Timeline, 1870 to 1970

1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 31 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 9 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from before birth until age 8 1869-1876: Ulysses S Grant president of US from before birth until age 6 1870-1871: Franco-Prussian war from age 0 to age 1 1870: 1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 0 1870: US black men can vote at age 0 1871: Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 1 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from age 3 to age 8 1873: Color Photographs at age 3 1876: Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 6 1876: Little Big Horn - Battle at age 6 1876: Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 6 1876: American Centennial at age 6 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 7 to age 10 1877: Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 7 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 8 1879: Zulu war at age 9 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 9 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 11 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 11 to age 15 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 11 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 11 to age 26 1884: 1st subway at age 14 1884: Motorcycle at age 14 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 15 to age 18 1885: Automobile at age 15 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 16 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 17 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 18 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 18 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 19 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 19 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 19 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 19 to age 22 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 19 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 19 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 20 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 20 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 20 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 20 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 21 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 23 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 23 to age 27 1893: Movies at age 23 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 23 to age 26 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 23 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 24 to age 25 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 24 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 26 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 26 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 27 to age 31 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 28 1899-1902: Boer war from age 29 to age 32 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 29 to age 53 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 30 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 30 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 30 1901: First British submarine launched at age 31 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 31 to age 40 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 31 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 31 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 31 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 31 to age 38 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 31 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 31 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 33 1903: Airplane at age 33 1904: Radar at age 34 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 34 to age 35 1907: Plastic at age 37 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 37 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 38 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 39 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 39 to age 42 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 39 1910: Halley's Comet at age 40 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 40 to age 66 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 40 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 41 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 42 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 42 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 42 1912: Titanic sinks at age 42 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 43 to age 50 1914: The Bra at age 44 1914-1919: World War I from age 44 to age 49 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 45 1916: Sonar at age 46 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 46 1917: US enters WWI at age 47 1917: Russian revolution at age 47 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 48 to age 50 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 48 to age 63 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 49 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 49 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 50 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 50 to age 59 1920: Palestine established at age 50 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 51 to age 54 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 52 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 55 to age 58 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 55 1926: Sound in Movies at age 56 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 57 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 57 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 58 1928: Video Recordings at age 58 1928: Television at age 58 1928: Geiger Counter at age 58 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 59 to age 69 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 59 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 59 to age 62 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 60 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 61 to age 63 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 63 to age 75 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 63 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 63 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 63 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 64 1935: Dustbowl at age 65 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 65 to age 66 1936: Helicopter at age 66 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 66 to age 82 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 66 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 66 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 67 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 67 to age 75 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 68 1939: Digital Computer at age 69 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 69 1939-1945: World War II from age 69 to age 75 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 70 1940: Color Television at age 70 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 71 to age 75 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 72 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 72 1945: Hypertext at age 75 1945: United Nations formed at age 75 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 75 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 75 to age 82 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 76 until after line end 1946: The Bikini at age 76 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 77 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 77 1947: Transistor at age 77 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 78 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 78 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 78 1948: NATO formed at age 78 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 79 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 79 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 79 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 80 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 80 to age 84 1950-1953: Korean War from age 80 to age 83 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 80 1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 81 1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 82 until after line end 1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 82 1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 83 to age 90 1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 84 1955: Invention of Velcro at age 85 1955: Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 85 1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 85 1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 85 1956: Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 86 1957: Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 87 1958: Integrated Circuit at age 88 1958: US space agency (NASA) established at age 88 1958: Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 88 1958: FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 88 1959: 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 89 1959: Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 89 1959: Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 89 1960: World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 90 1960: 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 90 1960: Pantyhose at age 90 1960: Laser at age 90 1961: 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 91 1961: First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 91 1961-1963: John F Kennedy president of US from age 91 to age 93 1961-1970: 7th Cholera pandemic from age 91 to age 100 1962-1965: Vatican II from age 92 to age 95 1962: Cuban missile crisis at age 92 1963: Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 93 1963: Compact Cassette Recordings at age 93 1963-1968: Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 93 to age 98 1963: 1st artificial heart at age 93 1964-1975: Vietnam War from age 94 until after line end 1964: US civil rights bill at age 94 1965: Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 95 1965: 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 95 1966: 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 96 1966: 8-track tape players at age 96 1967: Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 97 1967-1970: Nigerian civil war from age 97 to age 100 1967: Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 97 1967: Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 97 1967: 1st human heart transplant at age 97 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated at age 98 1968: Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 98 1969: Woodstock Music Festival at age 99 1969-1974: Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 99 until after line end 1969: Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 99 1970: Microprocessor at age 100 1970: Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 100

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