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Born	July 4th, 1877
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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Milfred James Blish	James Blish	Nicholas Blish	Silas Blish	Sylvanus Blish
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Personalized History Timeline, 1877 to 1977

1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 24 1863-1879: 4th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 2 1868-1878: War between Cuba and Spain from before birth until age 1 1873-1878: Depression, banks fail from before birth until age 1 1877-1880: Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 0 to age 3 1877: Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 0 1878: 1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 1 1879: Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 2 1879: Zulu war at age 2 1881: President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 4 1881-1885: Chester Arthur president of US from age 4 to age 8 1881: James A Garfield president of US at age 4 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from age 4 to age 19 1884: Motorcycle at age 7 1884: 1st subway at age 7 1885: Automobile at age 8 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 8 to age 11 1886: Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 9 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 10 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 11 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 11 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 12 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 12 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 12 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 12 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 12 to age 15 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 12 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 13 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 13 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 13 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 13 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 14 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 16 to age 19 1893: Movies at age 16 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 16 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 16 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 16 to age 20 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 17 to age 18 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 17 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 19 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 19 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 20 to age 24 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 21 1899-1902: Boer war from age 22 to age 25 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 22 to age 46 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 23 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 23 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 23 1901: First British submarine launched at age 24 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 24 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 24 to age 33 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 24 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 24 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 24 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 24 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 24 to age 31 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 26 1903: Airplane at age 26 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 27 to age 28 1904: Radar at age 27 1907: Plastic at age 30 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 30 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 31 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 32 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 32 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 32 to age 35 1910: Halley's Comet at age 33 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 33 to age 59 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 33 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 34 1912: Titanic sinks at age 35 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 35 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 35 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 35 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 36 to age 43 1914: The Bra at age 37 1914-1919: World War I from age 37 to age 42 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 38 1916: Sonar at age 39 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 39 1917: Russian revolution at age 40 1917: US enters WWI at age 40 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 41 to age 56 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 41 to age 43 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 42 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 42 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 43 to age 52 1920: Palestine established at age 43 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 43 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 44 to age 47 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 45 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 48 to age 51 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 48 1926: Sound in Movies at age 49 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 50 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 50 1928: Television at age 51 1928: Geiger Counter at age 51 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 51 1928: Video Recordings at age 51 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 52 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 52 to age 62 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 52 to age 55 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 53 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 54 to age 56 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 56 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 56 to age 68 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 56 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 56 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 57 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 58 to age 59 1935: Dustbowl at age 58 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 59 1936: Helicopter at age 59 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 59 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 59 to age 75 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 60 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 60 to age 68 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 61 1939: Digital Computer at age 62 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 62 1939-1945: World War II from age 62 to age 68 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 63 1940: Color Television at age 63 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 64 to age 68 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 65 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 65 1945: Hypertext at age 68 1945: United Nations formed at age 68 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 68 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 68 to age 75 1946: The Bikini at age 69 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 69 until after line end 1947: Transistor at age 70 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 70 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 70 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 71 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 71 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 71 1948: NATO formed at age 71 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 72 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 72 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 72 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 73 1950-1953: Korean War from age 73 to age 76 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 73 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 73 to age 77 1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 74 1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 75 until after line end 1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 75 1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 76 to age 83 1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 77 1955: Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 78 1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 78 1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 78 1955: Invention of Velcro at age 78 1956: Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 79 1957: Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 80 1958: Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 81 1958: Integrated Circuit at age 81 1958: US space agency (NASA) established at age 81 1958: FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 81 1959: Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 82 1959: 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 82 1959: Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 82 1960: World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 83 1960: Laser at age 83 1960: 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 83 1960: Pantyhose at age 83 1961: 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 84 1961-1970: 7th Cholera pandemic from age 84 to age 93 1961: First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 84 1961-1963: John F Kennedy president of US from age 84 to age 86 1962: Cuban missile crisis at age 85 1962-1965: Vatican II from age 85 to age 88 1963: 1st artificial heart at age 86 1963: Compact Cassette Recordings at age 86 1963: Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 86 1963-1968: Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 86 to age 91 1964-1975: Vietnam War from age 87 to age 98 1964: US civil rights bill at age 87 1965: Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 88 1965: 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 88 1966: 8-track tape players at age 89 1966: 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 89 1967: 1st human heart transplant at age 90 1967: Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 90 1967-1970: Nigerian civil war from age 90 to age 93 1967: Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 90 1967: Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 90 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated at age 91 1968: Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 91 1969-1974: Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 92 to age 97 1969: Woodstock Music Festival at age 92 1969: Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 92 1970: Microprocessor at age 93 1970: Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 93 1971: Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 94 1971: Pakistani civil war at age 94 1973: October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 96 1973: The Internet at age 96 1974-1976: Gerald Ford president of US from age 97 to age 99 1974: Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 97 1975: Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 98 1975: Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 98 1975: The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 98 1976: Television begins satellite delivery at age 99 1976: American Bicentennial at age 99 1976: Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 99 1976: VHS Video Recordings at age 99 1977: Neutron bomb at age 100 1977-1980: James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 100 until after line end

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