Personal Details

Born	April 20th, 1917
Birthplace	Chicagi, IL, USA
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Parents

Father	[1322_sa]	Arthur Dutton Brookfield 9
Mother	[1322]	Elizabeth (Blish) Brookfield 9

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Immediate Family Tree

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Knox Blish, originally [Brookfield]	Arthur Dutton Brookfield	Edwin T. Brookfield	No Entry	No Entry
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		Caroline (Winslow) Brookfield	No Entry	No Entry
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	Elizabeth (Blish) Brookfield	James Knox Blish, (***)	Charles Cheney Blish, (***)	Colonel Sylvester Blish, (***)
				Rhoda (Cheney) Blish
			Elizabeth Potter (Bonar) Blish	Matthew Bonar
				Catharine (Cosner) Bonar
		Amy Mason (Rhodes) Blish	Albert Rhodes	? Rhodes
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			Ann Elizabeth (Read) Rhodes	? Read
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Personalized History Timeline, 1917 to 2010

1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 6 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from before birth until age 19 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from before birth until age 3 1914-1919: World War I from before birth until age 2 1917: US enters WWI at age 0 1917: Russian revolution at age 0 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 1 to age 3 1918-1933: Prohibition from age 1 to age 16 1919: League of Nations instantiated at age 2 1919: Shortwave Radio at age 2 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 3 to age 12 1920: Palestine established at age 3 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 3 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 4 to age 7 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 5 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 8 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 8 to age 11 1926: Sound in Movies at age 9 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 10 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 10 1928: Video Recordings at age 11 1928: Television at age 11 1928: Geiger Counter at age 11 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 11 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 12 to age 22 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 12 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 12 to age 15 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 13 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 14 to age 16 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 16 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 16 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 16 to age 28 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 16 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 17 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 18 to age 19 1935: Dustbowl at age 18 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 19 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 19 1936: Helicopter at age 19 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 19 to age 35 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 20 to age 28 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 20 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 21 1939: Digital Computer at age 22 1939-1945: World War II from age 22 to age 28 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 22 1940: Color Television at age 23 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 23 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 24 to age 28 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 25 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 25 1945: Hypertext at age 28 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 28 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 28 to age 35 1945: United Nations formed at age 28 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 29 to age 72 1946: The Bikini at age 29 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 30 1947: Transistor at age 30 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 30 1948: NATO formed at age 31 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 31 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 31 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 31 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 32 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 32 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 32 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 33 1950-1953: Korean War from age 33 to age 36 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 33 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 33 to age 37 1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 34 1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 35 1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 35 until after line end 1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 36 to age 43 1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 37 1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 38 1955: Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 38 1955: Invention of Velcro at age 38 1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 38 1956: Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 39 1957: Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 40 1958: Integrated Circuit at age 41 1958: US space agency (NASA) established at age 41 1958: Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 41 1958: FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 41 1959: Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 42 1959: Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 42 1959: 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 42 1960: World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 43 1960: Laser at age 43 1960: 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 43 1960: Pantyhose at age 43 1961-1963: John F Kennedy president of US from age 44 to age 46 1961: 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 44 1961: First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 44 1961-1970: 7th Cholera pandemic from age 44 to age 53 1962: Cuban missile crisis at age 45 1962-1965: Vatican II from age 45 to age 48 1963: Compact Cassette Recordings at age 46 1963: 1st artificial heart at age 46 1963-1968: Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 46 to age 51 1963: Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 46 1964-1975: Vietnam War from age 47 to age 58 1964: US civil rights bill at age 47 1965: Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 48 1965: 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 48 1966: 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 49 1966: 8-track tape players at age 49 1967: Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 50 1967: 1st human heart transplant at age 50 1967: Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 50 1967: Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 50 1967-1970: Nigerian civil war from age 50 to age 53 1968: Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 51 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated at age 51 1969: Woodstock Music Festival at age 52 1969: Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 52 1969-1974: Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 52 to age 57 1970: Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 53 1970: Microprocessor at age 53 1971: Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 54 1971: Pakistani civil war at age 54 1973: The Internet at age 56 1973: October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 56 1974: Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 57 1974-1976: Gerald Ford president of US from age 57 to age 59 1975: Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 58 1975: Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 58 1975: The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 58 1976: VHS Video Recordings at age 59 1976: Television begins satellite delivery at age 59 1976: American Bicentennial at age 59 1976: Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 59 1977-1980: James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 60 to age 63 1977: Neutron bomb at age 60 1978: 1st test-tube baby at age 61 1978: Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 61 1978: Laserdisc video recordings at age 61 1979: Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 62 1979: Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 62 1980: Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 63 1981: 1st female supreme court justice at age 64 1981: IBM PC ships at age 64 1981-1988: Ronald Reagan president of US from age 64 to age 71 1981: 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 64 1982: 1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 65 1983: Bluford 1st black in space at age 66 1983: Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 66 1983: Compact Disks at age 66 1984: Apple Macintosh Ships at age 67 1984: HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 67 1985: Amiga Computer Ships at age 68 1986: Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 69 1986: Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 69 1986: Mir space station deployed at age 69 1986: Halley's Comet at age 69 1987: 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 70 1988: Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 71 1989: Fall of Berlin Wall at age 72 1989: Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 72 1989: Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 72 1989-1992: George Bush president of US from age 72 to age 75 1989: Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 72 1989: US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 72 1990: World Wide Web at age 73 1990: Hubble space telescope deployed at age 73 1991: Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 74 1991-2003: 8th Cholera pandemic from age 74 to age 86 1992: Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 75 1993: Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 76 1993: Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 76 1993-2000: William Clinton president of US from age 76 to age 83 1994: South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 77 1995: American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 78 1996: DVD video recordings at age 79 1997: Cloning living beings at age 80 1997: Mars pathfinder lands at age 80 1998: Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th. at age 81 1998: 1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU at age 81 1998: US attacks Iraq, again at age 81 1999: US attacks Bosnia at age 82 2000: Playstation II ships - most powerful video system to date at age 83 2000: '2nd Coming' Prophesied 2nd time; Prophesy remains unfulfilled at age 83 2000: North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August at age 83 2000: Working draft of human genome completed at age 83 2001: Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers begin at age 84 2001: US attacks Afghanistan, October 7th at age 84 2001: Muslim terrorists destroy World Trade Center Sep 11th at age 84 2001-2009: George W. Bush president of US from age 84 to age 92 2001: Earthquaqe at Gujarat, India - 20,000+ deaths at age 84 2001: Probe NEAR-Shoemaker makes 1st touchdown on asteroid at age 84 2001: X-Box console released at age 84 2001: Wikipedia goes online at age 84 2002: Euro currency introduced at age 85 2002: 10th solar planet(oid) discovered: Quaoar at age 85 2002: Terrorist bomb kills 170, injures 250 in Bali at age 85 2003: 28,000 die in Iran earthquake at age 86 2003: Shuttle Columbia destroyed during re-entry (feb 1st) at age 86 2004: Huge trans-Neptunian object, Sedna, discovered at age 87 2004: Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami kills 290,000+ - dec 26 at age 87 2004: Water verified present on Mars by Odyssey lander at age 87 2004: 10 terrorist bombs kill 200, injure 1240 in Spain at age 87 2004: Non-government Spaceship One achieves spaceflight at age 87 2005: Space Shuttle returns to flight July 26th…Aug 10th at age 88 2005: Muslim terrorists bomb London transit system July 7th at age 88 2005: Microsoft ships Xbox 360 at age 88 2005: Hurricanes Katrina, Rita devastate New Orleans - Aug, Sep at age 88 2005: NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft craters comet Temple 1 at age 88 2005: Huge trans-Plutonian object discovered at age 88 2006: Wii ships from Nintendo at age 89 2006: PS3 ships from Sony at age 89 2006: Americans lose habeas corpus at age 89 2006: Israel attacks Lebanon at age 89 2007: Comet McNaught swings by the sun - extremely bright at age 90 2009-2012: Obama president of USA from age 92 until after line end 2009: Comet Lulin, a green comet, swings past earth at age 92

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