Personal Details

Born	January 6th, 1894
Birthplace	Gosport, England
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Parents

Father	[1164sa]	Captain D. Mercer, Rotal Marines 9
Mother	[1164]	Katharine Frances (Lawrence) Mercer 9

Spouses, Mates & Children none known

Immediate Family Tree

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Maragaret Lawrence Mercer	Captain D. Mercer, Rotal Marines	David Dixon Mercer	No Entry	No Entry
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		Margaret (Trigg) Mercer	? Trigg	No Entry
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	Katharine Frances (Lawrence) Mercer	William F. Lawrence	Francis Lawrence	No Entry
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			Hannah (Wood) Lawrence	? Wood
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		Temperance Shaw (Blish) Lawrence	George Blish	Major Joseph Blish, Jr.
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			Rebecca P. (Fish) Blish	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1894 to 1994

1837-1901: Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 7 1881-1896: 5th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 2 1893-1896: Grover Cleveland president of US from before birth until age 2 1893-1897: US Financial panic, depression from before birth until age 3 1894: Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 0 1894-1895: Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 0 to age 1 1896: Utah enters the union - 45th at age 2 1896: Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 2 1897-1901: William McKinley president of US from age 3 to age 7 1898: Spanish American 1-year war at age 4 1899-1902: Boer war from age 5 to age 8 1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from age 5 to age 29 1900: Boxer rebellion in China at age 6 1900: Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 6 1900: Hawaii organized as a territory at age 6 1901: First British submarine launched at age 7 1901: Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 7 1901: US President William McKinley assassinated at age 7 1901-1910: Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 7 to age 16 1901: Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 7 1901: Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 7 1901-1908: Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 7 to age 14 1901: Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 7 1903: Airplane at age 9 1903: Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 9 1904: Radar at age 10 1904-1905: Russian-Japanese war from age 10 to age 11 1907: Plastic at age 13 1907: Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 13 1908: Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 14 1909: Union of South Africa formed at age 15 1909-1912: William Howard Taft president of US from age 15 to age 18 1909: North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 15 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 16 to age 42 1910: Halley's Comet at age 16 1910: Japan annexes Korea at age 16 1911: South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 17 1912: Alaska organized as a territory at age 18 1912: New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 18 1912: Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 18 1912: Titanic sinks at age 18 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 19 to age 26 1914: The Bra at age 20 1914-1919: World War I from age 20 to age 25 1915: Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 21 1916: Irish Easter Rebellion at age 22 1916: Sonar at age 22 1917: US enters WWI at age 23 1917: Russian revolution at age 23 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 24 to age 26 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 24 to age 39 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 25 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 25 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 26 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 26 to age 35 1920: Palestine established at age 26 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 27 to age 30 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 28 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 31 to age 34 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 31 1926: Sound in Movies at age 32 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 33 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 33 1928: Video Recordings at age 34 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 34 1928: Geiger Counter at age 34 1928: Television at age 34 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 35 to age 38 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 35 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 35 to age 45 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 36 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 37 to age 39 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 39 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 39 to age 51 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 39 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 39 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 40 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 41 to age 42 1935: Dustbowl at age 41 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 42 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 42 to age 58 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 42 1936: Helicopter at age 42 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 43 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 43 to age 51 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 44 1939-1945: World War II from age 45 to age 51 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 45 1939: Digital Computer at age 45 1940: Color Television at age 46 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 46 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 47 to age 51 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 48 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 48 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 51 to age 58 1945: Hypertext at age 51 1945: United Nations formed at age 51 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 51 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 52 to age 95 1946: The Bikini at age 52 1947: Transistor at age 53 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 53 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 53 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 54 1948: NATO formed at age 54 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 54 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 54 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 55 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 55 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 55 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 56 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 56 to age 60 1950-1953: Korean War from age 56 to age 59 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 56 1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 57 1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 58 until after line end 1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 58 1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 59 to age 66 1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 60 1955: Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 61 1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 61 1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 61 1955: Invention of Velcro at age 61 1956: Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 62 1957: Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 63 1958: Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 64 1958: US space agency (NASA) established at age 64 1958: FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 64 1958: Integrated Circuit at age 64 1959: Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 65 1959: 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 65 1959: Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 65 1960: Laser at age 66 1960: Pantyhose at age 66 1960: 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 66 1960: World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 66 1961-1970: 7th Cholera pandemic from age 67 to age 76 1961: 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 67 1961: First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 67 1961-1963: John F Kennedy president of US from age 67 to age 69 1962-1965: Vatican II from age 68 to age 71 1962: Cuban missile crisis at age 68 1963: Compact Cassette Recordings at age 69 1963: Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 69 1963: 1st artificial heart at age 69 1963-1968: Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 69 to age 74 1964: US civil rights bill at age 70 1964-1975: Vietnam War from age 70 to age 81 1965: 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 71 1965: Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 71 1966: 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 72 1966: 8-track tape players at age 72 1967: 1st human heart transplant at age 73 1967: Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 73 1967-1970: Nigerian civil war from age 73 to age 76 1967: Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 73 1967: Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 73 1968: Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 74 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated at age 74 1969-1974: Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 75 to age 80 1969: Woodstock Music Festival at age 75 1969: Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 75 1970: Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 76 1970: Microprocessor at age 76 1971: Pakistani civil war at age 77 1971: Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 77 1973: October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 79 1973: The Internet at age 79 1974: Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 80 1974-1976: Gerald Ford president of US from age 80 to age 82 1975: Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 81 1975: The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 81 1975: Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 81 1976: Television begins satellite delivery at age 82 1976: American Bicentennial at age 82 1976: Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 82 1976: VHS Video Recordings at age 82 1977-1980: James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 83 to age 86 1977: Neutron bomb at age 83 1978: 1st test-tube baby at age 84 1978: Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 84 1978: Laserdisc video recordings at age 84 1979: Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 85 1979: Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 85 1980: Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 86 1981: IBM PC ships at age 87 1981: 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 87 1981: 1st female supreme court justice at age 87 1981-1988: Ronald Reagan president of US from age 87 to age 94 1982: 1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 88 1983: Compact Disks at age 89 1983: Bluford 1st black in space at age 89 1983: Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 89 1984: Apple Macintosh Ships at age 90 1984: HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 90 1985: Amiga Computer Ships at age 91 1986: Mir space station deployed at age 92 1986: Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 92 1986: Halley's Comet at age 92 1986: Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 92 1987: 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 93 1988: Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 94 1989: US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 95 1989: Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 95 1989-1992: George Bush president of US from age 95 to age 98 1989: Fall of Berlin Wall at age 95 1989: Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 95 1989: Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 95 1990: Hubble space telescope deployed at age 96 1990: World Wide Web at age 96 1991: Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 97 1991-2003: 8th Cholera pandemic from age 97 until after line end 1992: Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 98 1993-2000: William Clinton president of US from age 99 until after line end 1993: Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 99 1993: Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 99 1994: South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 100

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