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Barbara (?) Blish, originally [Brookfield] 10 [f] [adopted]
10th Generation

Personal Details
Born June 18th, 1924 No Image On File
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Parents
Father [1322_sa]Arthur Dutton Brookfield 9 No Image On File
Mother [1322]Elizabeth (Blish) Brookfield 9

Spouses, Mates & Children none known

Immediate Family Tree
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Barbara (?) Blish, originally [Brookfield]Arthur Dutton BrookfieldEdwin T. BrookfieldNo EntryNo Entry
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Caroline (Winslow) BrookfieldNo EntryNo Entry
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Elizabeth (Blish) BrookfieldJames Knox Blish, (***)Charles Cheney Blish, (***)Colonel Sylvester Blish, (***)
Rhoda (Cheney) Blish
Elizabeth Potter (Bonar) BlishMatthew Bonar
Catharine (Cosner) Bonar
Amy Mason (Rhodes) BlishAlbert Rhodes? Rhodes
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Ann Elizabeth (Read) Rhodes? Read
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Personalized History Timeline, 1924 to 2010
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from before birth until age 12
1918-1933:
Prohibition from before birth until age 9
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from before birth until age 5
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from before birth until age 0
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 1 to age 4
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 1
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 2
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 3
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 3
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 4
1928:
Television at age 4
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 4
1928:
Video Recordings at age 4
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 5
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 5 to age 15
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 5 to age 8
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 6
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 7 to age 9
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 9
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 9
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 9 to age 21
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 9
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 10
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 11 to age 12
1935:
Dustbowl at age 11
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 12
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 12
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 12 to age 28
1936:
Helicopter at age 12
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 13 to age 21
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 13
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 14
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 15
1939-1945:
World War II from age 15 to age 21
1939:
Digital Computer at age 15
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 16
1940:
Color Television at age 16
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 17 to age 21
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 18
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 18
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 21
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 21 to age 28
1945:
United Nations formed at age 21
1945:
Hypertext at age 21
1946:
The Bikini at age 22
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 22 to age 65
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 23
1947:
Transistor at age 23
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 23
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 24
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 24
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 24
1948:
NATO formed at age 24
1949:
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 25
1949:
45 rpm musical recordings at age 25
1949:
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 25
1950:
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 26
1950-1954:
McCarthyism from age 26 to age 30
1950:
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 26
1950-1953:
Korean War from age 26 to age 29
1951:
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 27
1952-2050:
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 28 until after line end
1952:
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 28
1953-1960:
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 29 to age 36
1954:
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 30
1955:
Warsaw pact formed at age 31
1955:
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 31
1955:
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 31
1955:
Invention of Velcro at age 31
1956:
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 32
1957:
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 33
1958:
Integrated Circuit at age 34
1958:
US space agency (NASA) established at age 34
1958:
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 34
1958:
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 34
1959:
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 35
1959:
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 35
1959:
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 35
1960:
Pantyhose at age 36
1960:
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 36
1960:
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 36
1960:
Laser at age 36
1961-1963:
John F Kennedy president of US from age 37 to age 39
1961-1970:
7th Cholera pandemic from age 37 to age 46
1961:
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 37
1961:
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 37
1962-1965:
Vatican II from age 38 to age 41
1962:
Cuban missile crisis at age 38
1963:
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 39
1963:
1st artificial heart at age 39
1963:
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 39
1963-1968:
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 39 to age 44
1964-1975:
Vietnam War from age 40 to age 51
1964:
US civil rights bill at age 40
1965:
Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 41
1965:
1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 41
1966:
8-track tape players at age 42
1966:
1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 42
1967:
1st human heart transplant at age 43
1967:
Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 43
1967-1970:
Nigerian civil war from age 43 to age 46
1967:
Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 43
1967:
Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 43
1968:
Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 44
1968:
Martin Luther King assassinated at age 44
1969-1974:
Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 45 to age 50
1969:
Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 45
1969:
Woodstock Music Festival at age 45
1970:
Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 46
1970:
Microprocessor at age 46
1971:
Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 47
1971:
Pakistani civil war at age 47
1973:
October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 49
1973:
The Internet at age 49
1974:
Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 50
1974-1976:
Gerald Ford president of US from age 50 to age 52
1975:
Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 51
1975:
Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 51
1975:
The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 51
1976:
American Bicentennial at age 52
1976:
Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 52
1976:
Television begins satellite delivery at age 52
1976:
VHS Video Recordings at age 52
1977-1980:
James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 53 to age 56
1977:
Neutron bomb at age 53
1978:
1st test-tube baby at age 54
1978:
Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 54
1978:
Laserdisc video recordings at age 54
1979:
Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 55
1979:
Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 55
1980:
Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 56
1981:
1st female supreme court justice at age 57
1981-1988:
Ronald Reagan president of US from age 57 to age 64
1981:
1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 57
1981:
IBM PC ships at age 57
1982:
1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 58
1983:
Bluford 1st black in space at age 59
1983:
Compact Disks at age 59
1983:
Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 59
1984:
Apple Macintosh Ships at age 60
1984:
HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 60
1985:
Amiga Computer Ships at age 61
1986:
Mir space station deployed at age 62
1986:
Halley's Comet at age 62
1986:
Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 62
1986:
Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 62
1987:
2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 63
1988:
Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 64
1989:
US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 65
1989:
Fall of Berlin Wall at age 65
1989:
Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 65
1989-1992:
George Bush president of US from age 65 to age 68
1989:
Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 65
1989:
Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 65
1990:
Hubble space telescope deployed at age 66
1990:
World Wide Web at age 66
1991-2003:
8th Cholera pandemic from age 67 to age 79
1991:
Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 67
1992:
Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 68
1993-2000:
William Clinton president of US from age 69 to age 76
1993:
Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 69
1993:
Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 69
1994:
South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 70
1995:
American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 71
1996:
DVD video recordings at age 72
1997:
Mars pathfinder lands at age 73
1997:
Cloning living beings at age 73
1998:
1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU at age 74
1998:
Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th. at age 74
1998:
US attacks Iraq, again at age 74
1999:
US attacks Bosnia at age 75
2000:
'2nd Coming' Prophesied 2nd time; Prophesy remains unfulfilled at age 76
2000:
Working draft of human genome completed at age 76
2000:
North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August at age 76
2000:
Playstation II ships - most powerful video system to date at age 76
2001-2009:
George W. Bush president of US from age 77 to age 85
2001:
US attacks Afghanistan, October 7th at age 77
2001:
Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers begin at age 77
2001:
Muslim terrorists destroy World Trade Center Sep 11th at age 77
2001:
Wikipedia goes online at age 77
2001:
X-Box console released at age 77
2001:
Probe NEAR-Shoemaker makes 1st touchdown on asteroid at age 77
2001:
Earthquaqe at Gujarat, India - 20,000+ deaths at age 77
2002:
10th solar planet(oid) discovered: Quaoar at age 78
2002:
Euro currency introduced at age 78
2002:
Terrorist bomb kills 170, injures 250 in Bali at age 78
2003:
Shuttle Columbia destroyed during re-entry (feb 1st) at age 79
2003:
28,000 die in Iran earthquake at age 79
2004:
Water verified present on Mars by Odyssey lander at age 80
2004:
Huge trans-Neptunian object, Sedna, discovered at age 80
2004:
Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami kills 290,000+ - dec 26 at age 80
2004:
Non-government Spaceship One achieves spaceflight at age 80
2004:
10 terrorist bombs kill 200, injure 1240 in Spain at age 80
2005:
Space Shuttle returns to flight July 26th…Aug 10th at age 81
2005:
Hurricanes Katrina, Rita devastate New Orleans - Aug, Sep at age 81
2005:
Muslim terrorists bomb London transit system July 7th at age 81
2005:
NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft craters comet Temple 1 at age 81
2005:
Huge trans-Plutonian object discovered at age 81
2005:
Microsoft ships Xbox 360 at age 81
2006:
Wii ships from Nintendo at age 82
2006:
PS3 ships from Sony at age 82
2006:
Americans lose habeas corpus at age 82
2006:
Israel attacks Lebanon at age 82
2007:
Comet McNaught swings by the sun - extremely bright at age 83
2009:
Comet Lulin, a green comet, swings past earth at age 85
2009-2012:
Obama president of USA from age 85 until after line end

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