Personal Details

Born	June 11th, 1887
Birthplace	Buffalo, North Dakota, USA
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Parents

Father	[949]	Frank Blish 8
Mother	[949sa]	Alberta (Waldorf) Blish 8

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Immediate Family Tree

Gen. 9	Gen. 8	Gen. 7	Gen. 6	Gen. 5
Helen Verna Blish	Frank Blish	Daniel Blish	David Blish	Deacon David Blish
				Lucy (Wilcox) Blish
			Mary "Polly" (Whitney) Blish	Samuel Whitney
				Mary (?) Whitney
		Julia Ann (Gilbert) Blish	William B. Gilbert	No Entry
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			Cynthia (Sammons) Gilbert	? Sammons
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	Alberta (Waldorf) Blish	Jacob Waldorf	No Entry	No Entry
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		Amelia (Beaded) Waldorf	? Beaded	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1887 to 1987

1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 14 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 9 1885-1888: Grover Cleveland president of US from before birth until age 1 1887: X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 0 1888: Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 1 1888: 70...77 rpm musical records at age 1 1889: Holerith invents the punch card at age 2 1889: South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 2 1889: Montana enters the union - 41st at age 2 1889: North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 2 1889: Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 2 1889-1892: Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 2 to age 5 1890: Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 3 1890: Battle of Wounded Knee at age 3 1890: Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 3 1890: Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 3 1891: Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 4 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from age 6 to age 10 1893: New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 6 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from age 6 to age 9 1893: Movies at age 6 1893: Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 6 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 7 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 7 to age 8 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 9 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 9 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 10 to age 14 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 11 1899-1902: Boer war from age 12 to age 15 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 12 to age 36 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 13 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 13 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 13 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 14 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 14 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 14 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 14 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 14 1901: First British submarine launched at age 14 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 14 to age 23 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 14 to age 21 1903: Airplane at age 16 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 16 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 17 to age 18 1904: Radar at age 17 1907: Plastic at age 20 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 20 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 21 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 22 to age 25 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 22 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 22 1910: Halley's Comet at age 23 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 23 to age 49 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 23 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 24 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 25 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 25 1912: Titanic sinks at age 25 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 25 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 26 to age 33 1914: The Bra at age 27 1914-1919: World War I from age 27 to age 32 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 28 1916: Sonar at age 29 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 29 1917: Russian revolution at age 30 1917: US enters WWI at age 30 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 31 to age 33 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 31 to age 46 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 32 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 32 1920: Palestine established at age 33 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 33 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 33 to age 42 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 34 to age 37 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 35 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 38 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 38 to age 41 1926: Sound in Movies at age 39 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 40 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 40 1928: Geiger Counter at age 41 1928: Television at age 41 1928: Video Recordings at age 41 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 41 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 42 to age 52 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 42 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 42 to age 45 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 43 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 44 to age 46 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 46 to age 58 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 46 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 46 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 46 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 47 1935: Dustbowl at age 48 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 48 to age 49 1936: Helicopter at age 49 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 49 to age 65 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 49 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 49 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 50 to age 58 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 50 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 51 1939-1945: World War II from age 52 to age 58 1939: Digital Computer at age 52 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 52 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 53 1940: Color Television at age 53 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 54 to age 58 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 55 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 55 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 58 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 58 to age 65 1945: United Nations formed at age 58 1945: Hypertext at age 58 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 59 until after line end 1946: The Bikini at age 59 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 60 1947: Transistor at age 60 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 60 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 61 1948: NATO formed at age 61 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 61 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 61 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 62 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 62 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 62 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 63 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 63 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 63 to age 67 1950-1953: Korean War from age 63 to age 66 1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 64 1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 65 until after line end 1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 65 1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 66 to age 73 1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 67 1955: Invention of Velcro at age 68 1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 68 1955: Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 68 1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 68 1956: Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 69 1957: Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 70 1958: FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 71 1958: US space agency (NASA) established at age 71 1958: Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 71 1958: Integrated Circuit at age 71 1959: Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 72 1959: Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 72 1959: 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 72 1960: Laser at age 73 1960: World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 73 1960: Pantyhose at age 73 1960: 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 73 1961: First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 74 1961-1970: 7th Cholera pandemic from age 74 to age 83 1961: 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 74 1961-1963: John F Kennedy president of US from age 74 to age 76 1962: Cuban missile crisis at age 75 1962-1965: Vatican II from age 75 to age 78 1963: Compact Cassette Recordings at age 76 1963: 1st artificial heart at age 76 1963-1968: Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 76 to age 81 1963: Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 76 1964: US civil rights bill at age 77 1964-1975: Vietnam War from age 77 to age 88 1965: Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 78 1965: 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 78 1966: 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 79 1966: 8-track tape players at age 79 1967-1970: Nigerian civil war from age 80 to age 83 1967: Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 80 1967: Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 80 1967: Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 80 1967: 1st human heart transplant at age 80 1968: Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 81 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated at age 81 1969: Woodstock Music Festival at age 82 1969-1974: Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 82 to age 87 1969: Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 82 1970: Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 83 1970: Microprocessor at age 83 1971: Pakistani civil war at age 84 1971: Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 84 1973: The Internet at age 86 1973: October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 86 1974: Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 87 1974-1976: Gerald Ford president of US from age 87 to age 89 1975: Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 88 1975: The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 88 1975: Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 88 1976: VHS Video Recordings at age 89 1976: American Bicentennial at age 89 1976: Television begins satellite delivery at age 89 1976: Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 89 1977: Neutron bomb at age 90 1977-1980: James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 90 to age 93 1978: Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 91 1978: Laserdisc video recordings at age 91 1978: 1st test-tube baby at age 91 1979: Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 92 1979: Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 92 1980: Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 93 1981-1988: Ronald Reagan president of US from age 94 until after line end 1981: 1st female supreme court justice at age 94 1981: IBM PC ships at age 94 1981: 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 94 1982: 1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 95 1983: Bluford 1st black in space at age 96 1983: Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 96 1983: Compact Disks at age 96 1984: HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 97 1984: Apple Macintosh Ships at age 97 1985: Amiga Computer Ships at age 98 1986: Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 99 1986: Halley's Comet at age 99 1986: Mir space station deployed at age 99 1986: Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 99 1987: 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 100

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