Personal Details

Born	June 6th, 1920
Birthplace	Christiana (now Oslo), Norway
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Parents

Father	[1323]	Matthew Rhodes Blish, M.S., E.E. 9
Mother	[1323_sa]	Mildred (Daniels) Blish 9

Spouses, Mates & Children

Wife #1 [1380G_sa] - Carolyn Gloria (Roehl) Blish 10 Married by: No Entry Married at: Pelham, NY, USA Children by this spouse: I [1400] Peter Blish 11 b. April 18th, 1946 c. July II [1401] Matthew Rhodes Blish, 3rd 11 b. November 26th, 1947 c. February III [1402] Deborah Judson Blish 11 b. January 23rd, 1950 c. April

Immediate Family Tree

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Matthew (Rhodes) Blish, Jr.	Matthew Rhodes Blish, M.S., E.E.	James Knox Blish, (***)	Charles Cheney Blish, (***)	Colonel Sylvester Blish, (***)
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			Elizabeth Potter (Bonar) Blish	Matthew Bonar
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		Amy Mason (Rhodes) Blish	Albert Rhodes	? Rhodes
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			Ann Elizabeth (Read) Rhodes	? Read
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	Mildred (Daniels) Blish	No Entry	No Entry	No Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1920 to 2010

1899-1923: 6th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 3 1910-1936: Reign of King George V (Windsor) from before birth until age 16 1913-1920: Woodrow Wilson president of US from before birth until age 0 1918-1920: Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from before birth until age 0 1918-1933: Prohibition from before birth until age 13 1920: Palestine established at age 0 1920: Women receive right to vote in USA at age 0 1920-1929: Roaring 20's from age 0 to age 9 1921-1924: Warren G Harding president of US from age 1 to age 4 1922: Insulin made available to diabetics at age 2 1925: Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 5 1925-1928: Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 5 to age 8 1926: Sound in Movies at age 6 1927: 1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 7 1927: Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 7 1928: Television at age 8 1928: Geiger Counter at age 8 1928: Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 8 1928: Video Recordings at age 8 1929-1939: Great Depression from age 9 to age 19 1929-1932: Herbert Hoover president of US from age 9 to age 12 1929: Stock Market Crash at age 9 1930: Pluto Discovered at age 10 1931-1933: Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 11 to age 13 1933-1945: Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 13 to age 25 1933: Radio Astronomy at age 13 1933: Soviet communist party purge at age 13 1933: Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 13 1934: Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 14 1935-1936: Abyssinian war from age 15 to age 16 1935: Dustbowl at age 15 1936: Spanish Civil War at age 16 1936-1952: Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 16 to age 32 1936: Helicopter at age 16 1936: Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 16 1937-1945: Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 17 to age 25 1937: Nylon (by DuPont) at age 17 1938: Germany annexes Austria at age 18 1939-1945: World War II from age 19 to age 25 1939: Digital Computer at age 19 1939: Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 19 1940: 1st black general in US army at age 20 1940: Color Television at age 20 1941-1945: Manhattan Project from age 21 to age 25 1942: Nuclear Reactor at age 22 1942: Magnetic Recording Tape at age 22 1945: US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 25 1945: Hypertext at age 25 1945-1952: Harry S Truman president of US from age 25 to age 32 1945: United Nations formed at age 25 1946-1989: The Cold War from age 26 to age 69 1946: The Bikini at age 26 1947: India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 27 1947: Transistor at age 27 1947: UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 27 1948: Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 28 1948: Israel inaugurated as state at age 28 1948: NATO formed at age 28 1948: 33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 28 1949: 45 rpm musical recordings at age 29 1949: Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 29 1949: Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 29 1950: Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 30 1950-1953: Korean War from age 30 to age 33 1950-1954: McCarthyism from age 30 to age 34 1950: World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 30 1951: Electricity from Atomic Power at age 31 1952: 1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 32 1952-2050: Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 32 until after line end 1953-1960: Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 33 to age 40 1954: Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 34 1955: Invention of Velcro at age 35 1955: Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 35 1955: Warsaw pact formed at age 35 1955: Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 35 1956: Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 36 1957: Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 37 1958: FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 38 1958: Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 38 1958: Integrated Circuit at age 38 1958: US space agency (NASA) established at age 38 1959: Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 39 1959: 1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 39 1959: Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 39 1960: World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 40 1960: Laser at age 40 1960: Pantyhose at age 40 1960: 1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 40 1961: First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 41 1961: 1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 41 1961-1970: 7th Cholera pandemic from age 41 to age 50 1961-1963: John F Kennedy president of US from age 41 to age 43 1962-1965: Vatican II from age 42 to age 45 1962: Cuban missile crisis at age 42 1963: Compact Cassette Recordings at age 43 1963: Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 43 1963: 1st artificial heart at age 43 1963-1968: Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 43 to age 48 1964: US civil rights bill at age 44 1964-1975: Vietnam War from age 44 to age 55 1965: 1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 45 1965: Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 45 1966: 8-track tape players at age 46 1966: 1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 46 1967: Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 47 1967: Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 47 1967-1970: Nigerian civil war from age 47 to age 50 1967: Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 47 1967: 1st human heart transplant at age 47 1968: Martin Luther King assassinated at age 48 1968: Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 48 1969-1974: Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 49 to age 54 1969: Woodstock Music Festival at age 49 1969: Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 49 1970: Microprocessor at age 50 1970: Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 50 1971: Pakistani civil war at age 51 1971: Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 51 1973: The Internet at age 53 1973: October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 53 1974: Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 54 1974-1976: Gerald Ford president of US from age 54 to age 56 1975: Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 55 1975: Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 55 1975: The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 55 1976: American Bicentennial at age 56 1976: VHS Video Recordings at age 56 1976: Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 56 1976: Television begins satellite delivery at age 56 1977-1980: James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 57 to age 60 1977: Neutron bomb at age 57 1978: Laserdisc video recordings at age 58 1978: Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 58 1978: 1st test-tube baby at age 58 1979: Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 59 1979: Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 59 1980: Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 60 1981: 1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 61 1981: 1st female supreme court justice at age 61 1981: IBM PC ships at age 61 1981-1988: Ronald Reagan president of US from age 61 to age 68 1982: 1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 62 1983: Compact Disks at age 63 1983: Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 63 1983: Bluford 1st black in space at age 63 1984: HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 64 1984: Apple Macintosh Ships at age 64 1985: Amiga Computer Ships at age 65 1986: Halley's Comet at age 66 1986: Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 66 1986: Mir space station deployed at age 66 1986: Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 66 1987: 2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 67 1988: Turin shroud precisely carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax at age 68 1989: Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion at age 69 1989: US Invades Panama, topples Noriega at age 69 1989: Breakup of the Soviet Union at age 69 1989-1992: George Bush president of US from age 69 to age 72 1989: Fall of Berlin Wall at age 69 1989: Powell is 1st black chairmain joint US chiefs of staff at age 69 1990: World Wide Web at age 70 1990: Hubble space telescope deployed at age 70 1991-2003: 8th Cholera pandemic from age 71 to age 83 1991: Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq at age 71 1992: Blacks riot in South Central neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 72 1993: Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo in the 1600's at age 73 1993: Muslim terrorists bomb World Trade Center at age 73 1993-2000: William Clinton president of US from age 73 to age 80 1994: South Africa moves to 1 person, 1 vote system at age 74 1995: American Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City at age 75 1996: DVD video recordings at age 76 1997: Cloning living beings at age 77 1997: Mars pathfinder lands at age 77 1998: Pres. Clinton Impeached December 19th. at age 78 1998: 1st 1 GHz microprocessor ships - The DEC Alpha CPU at age 78 1998: US attacks Iraq, again at age 78 1999: US attacks Bosnia at age 79 2000: North Pole ice melts - 1.5 km of open water in August at age 80 2000: Playstation II ships - most powerful video system to date at age 80 2000: Working draft of human genome completed at age 80 2000: '2nd Coming' Prophesied 2nd time; Prophesy remains unfulfilled at age 80 2001: Muslim terrorists destroy World Trade Center Sep 11th at age 81 2001: Satellite Radio broadcasts to consumers begin at age 81 2001: US attacks Afghanistan, October 7th at age 81 2001-2009: George W. Bush president of US from age 81 to age 89 2001: Wikipedia goes online at age 81 2001: Earthquaqe at Gujarat, India - 20,000+ deaths at age 81 2001: Probe NEAR-Shoemaker makes 1st touchdown on asteroid at age 81 2001: X-Box console released at age 81 2002: Euro currency introduced at age 82 2002: Terrorist bomb kills 170, injures 250 in Bali at age 82 2002: 10th solar planet(oid) discovered: Quaoar at age 82 2003: 28,000 die in Iran earthquake at age 83 2003: Shuttle Columbia destroyed during re-entry (feb 1st) at age 83 2004: Non-government Spaceship One achieves spaceflight at age 84 2004: Huge trans-Neptunian object, Sedna, discovered at age 84 2004: Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami kills 290,000+ - dec 26 at age 84 2004: Water verified present on Mars by Odyssey lander at age 84 2004: 10 terrorist bombs kill 200, injure 1240 in Spain at age 84 2005: Hurricanes Katrina, Rita devastate New Orleans - Aug, Sep at age 85 2005: Microsoft ships Xbox 360 at age 85 2005: Space Shuttle returns to flight July 26th…Aug 10th at age 85 2005: Huge trans-Plutonian object discovered at age 85 2005: Muslim terrorists bomb London transit system July 7th at age 85 2005: NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft craters comet Temple 1 at age 85 2006: Wii ships from Nintendo at age 86 2006: PS3 ships from Sony at age 86 2006: Americans lose habeas corpus at age 86 2006: Israel attacks Lebanon at age 86 2007: Comet McNaught swings by the sun - extremely bright at age 87 2009-2012: Obama president of USA from age 89 until after line end 2009: Comet Lulin, a green comet, swings past earth at age 89

Additional Information

Matthew Rhodes Blish, Jr. attended the grammar school and two years of high school at Fairfield, Connecticut. He then entered Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Massachusetts, from which he graduated in June of 1938. He spent one year at Williams College and two years at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York. He is a member of Sigma Phi fraternity. In March of 1942 he enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard as Seaman, 1st Class. Service in World War II included duty on the north Atlantic patrol and as Communications officer on LST 27 in the Normandy Invasion of June 1944. He was commissioned Ensign upon graduation from the Reserve Training School, US Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut in August of 1943. He was honorably discharged in November of 1945 with the rank of Lieutenant, J.G. He has since been in the employ of the Underwood Corporation and T.A.D. Jones & Company, Bridgeport, Connecticut. He resides in Fairfield, Connecticut.