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| Asa Rhodes Blish (***)
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| Generation: | 9 |
| Born: | June 8th, 1893 |
| Died: | June 23rd, 1948, aged about 55 years |
| Father: | James Knox Blish, (***) |
| Mother: | Amy Mason (Rhodes) Blish |
| Occupation(s): | Financial Statistician, Economist, advertising salesman |
| Marriages: | • Katharine (Hosking) Blish At New York City, NY, USA • Dorothea (Schneewind) Blish At Chicago, Illinois, USA, By Rev. Dr. Fortescue Gairdner, Episcopalian |
| Children: | James Benjamin Blish, B.Sc., Ed. (***) |
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1837-1901 Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) 1881-1896 5th Cholera pandemic 1893 New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote 1893-1896 Grover Cleveland president of US 1893-1897 US Financial panic, depression 1893 Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) 1893 Movies 1894-1895 Chinese-Japanese war (1) 1894 Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die 1896 Utah enters the union - 45th 1896 Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation 1897-1901 William McKinley president of US 1898 Spanish American 1-year war 1899-1902 Boer war 1899-1923 6th Cholera pandemic 1900 Boxer rebellion in China 1900 Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed 1900 Hawaii organized as a territory 1901 First British submarine launched 1901-1910 Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) 1901 Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) 1901 Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation 1901-1908 Theodore Roosevelt president of US 1901 US President William McKinley assassinated 1901 Commonwealth of Australia founded 1901 Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts 1903 Nikola Tesla patents logic gates 1903 Airplane 1904 Radar 1904-1905 Russian-Japanese war 1907 Plastic 1907 Oklahoma enters the union - 46th 1908 Tunguska atmospheric object explosion 1909 Union of South Africa formed 1909-1912 William Howard Taft president of US 1909 North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Pearys exp. 1910-1936 Reign of King George V (Windsor) 1910 Japan annexes Korea 1910 Halleys Comet 1911 South pole reached by Roald Amundsen 1912 New Mexico enters the union - 47th 1912 Titanic sinks 1912 Arizona enters the union - 48th 1912 Alaska organized as a territory 1913-1920 Woodrow Wilson president of US 1914 The Bra 1914-1918 World War I 1915 Einstein's Theory of Relativity 1916 Sonar 1916 Irish Easter Rebellion 1917 Russian revolution 1917 US enters WWI 1918-1933 Prohibition 1918-1920 Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die 1919 League of Nations instantiated 1919 Shortwave Radio 1920 Palestine established 1920-1929 Roaring 20s 1920 Women receive right to vote (US Suffrage) 1921-1924 Warren G Harding president of US 1922 Insulin made available to diabetics 1925 Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory 1925-1928 Calvin Coolidge president of US 1926 Sound in Movies 1927 Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) 1927 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh 1928 Television 1928 Geiger Counter 1928 Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming 1928 Video Recordings 1929 Stock Market Crash 1929-1939 Great Depression 1929-1932 Herbert Hoover president of US 1930 Pluto Discovered 1931-1933 Chinese-Japanese war (2) 1933-1945 Franklin D Roosevelt president of US 1933 Armstrong invents FM modulation 1933 Soviet communist party purge 1933 Radio Astronomy 1934 Longshoremans strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days 1935 Dustbowl 1935-1936 Abyssinian war 1936 Spanish Civil War 1936 Helicopter 1936-1952 Reign of King George VI (Windsor) 1936 Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) 1937-1945 Chinese-Japanese war (3) 1937 Nylon (by DuPont) 1938 Germany annexes Austria 1939-1945 World War II 1939 Digital Computer 1939 Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) 1940 Color Television 1940 1st black general in US army 1941-1945 Manhattan Project 1942 Nuclear Reactor 1942 Magnetic Recording Tape 1945 Hypertext 1945 United Nations formed 1945 US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945-1952 Harry S Truman president of US 1946 The Bikini 1946-1989 The Cold War 1947 Transistor 1947 India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India 1947 UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections 1948 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings 1948 NATO formed 1948 Israel inaugurated as state 1948 Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated 1948-1955 Multiple polio epidemics in the USA |