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Charles Cheney Blish 8 [m]
8th Generation

Personal Details
Born April 15th, 1887 No Image On File
Birthplace Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Parents
Father [671]George Cheney Blish 7
Mother [671sa]Marie Therese (Nievergelder) Blish 7 No Image On File

Spouses, Mates & Children none known

Immediate Family Tree
Gen. 8 Gen. 7 Gen. 6 Gen. 5 Gen. 4
Charles Cheney BlishGeorge Cheney BlishColonel Sylvester Blish, (***)Deacon Thomas Blish, (***)David Blish, (***)
Zeruiah (Skinner) Blish
Prudence (Hubbard) BlishElizur Hubbard
Abigail (Hollister) Hubbard
Rhoda (Cheney) BlishTimothy Cheney? Cheney
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Rhoda (Skinner) Cheney? Skinner
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Marie Therese (Nievergelder) BlishLouis NievergelderNo EntryNo Entry
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Ernestine (Schmitt) Nievergelder? SchmittNo Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1887 to 1987
1837-1901:
Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 14
1881-1896:
5th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 9
1885-1888:
Grover Cleveland president of US from before birth until age 1
1887:
X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 0
1888:
Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 1
1888:
70...77 rpm musical records at age 1
1889:
Holerith invents the punch card at age 2
1889:
South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 2
1889:
Montana enters the union - 41st at age 2
1889:
North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 2
1889:
Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 2
1889-1892:
Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 2 to age 5
1890:
Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 3
1890:
Battle of Wounded Knee at age 3
1890:
Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 3
1890:
Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 3
1891:
Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 4
1893-1897:
US Financial panic, depression from age 6 to age 10
1893:
New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 6
1893-1896:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 6 to age 9
1893:
Movies at age 6
1893:
Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 6
1894:
Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 7
1894-1895:
Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 7 to age 8
1896:
Utah enters the union - 45th at age 9
1896:
Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 9
1897-1901:
William McKinley president of US from age 10 to age 14
1898:
Spanish American 1-year war at age 11
1899-1902:
Boer war from age 12 to age 15
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from age 12 to age 36
1900:
Hawaii organized as a territory at age 13
1900:
Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 13
1900:
Boxer rebellion in China at age 13
1901:
Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 14
1901:
Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 14
1901:
Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 14
1901:
Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 14
1901:
US President William McKinley assassinated at age 14
1901:
First British submarine launched at age 14
1901-1910:
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 14 to age 23
1901-1908:
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 14 to age 21
1903:
Airplane at age 16
1903:
Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 16
1904-1905:
Russian-Japanese war from age 17 to age 18
1904:
Radar at age 17
1907:
Plastic at age 20
1907:
Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 20
1908:
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 21
1909-1912:
William Howard Taft president of US from age 22 to age 25
1909:
Union of South Africa formed at age 22
1909:
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 22
1910:
Halley's Comet at age 23
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 23 to age 49
1910:
Japan annexes Korea at age 23
1911:
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 24
1912:
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 25
1912:
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 25
1912:
Titanic sinks at age 25
1912:
Alaska organized as a territory at age 25
1913-1920:
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 26 to age 33
1914:
The Bra at age 27
1914-1919:
World War I from age 27 to age 32
1915:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 28
1916:
Sonar at age 29
1916:
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 29
1917:
Russian revolution at age 30
1917:
US enters WWI at age 30
1918-1920:
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 31 to age 33
1918-1933:
Prohibition from age 31 to age 46
1919:
Shortwave Radio at age 32
1919:
League of Nations instantiated at age 32
1920:
Palestine established at age 33
1920:
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 33
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from age 33 to age 42
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 34 to age 37
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 35
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 38
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 38 to age 41
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 39
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 40
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 40
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 41
1928:
Television at age 41
1928:
Video Recordings at age 41
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 41
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 42 to age 52
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 42
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 42 to age 45
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 43
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 44 to age 46
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 46 to age 58
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 46
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 46
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 46
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 47
1935:
Dustbowl at age 48
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 48 to age 49
1936:
Helicopter at age 49
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 49 to age 65
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 49
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 49
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 50 to age 58
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 50
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 51
1939-1945:
World War II from age 52 to age 58
1939:
Digital Computer at age 52
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 52
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 53
1940:
Color Television at age 53
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 54 to age 58
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 55
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 55
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 58
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 58 to age 65
1945:
United Nations formed at age 58
1945:
Hypertext at age 58
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 59 until after line end
1946:
The Bikini at age 59
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 60
1947:
Transistor at age 60
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 60
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 61
1948:
NATO formed at age 61
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 61
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 61
1949:
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 62
1949:
45 rpm musical recordings at age 62
1949:
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 62
1950:
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 63
1950:
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 63
1950-1954:
McCarthyism from age 63 to age 67
1950-1953:
Korean War from age 63 to age 66
1951:
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 64
1952-2050:
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 65 until after line end
1952:
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 65
1953-1960:
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 66 to age 73
1954:
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 67
1955:
Invention of Velcro at age 68
1955:
Warsaw pact formed at age 68
1955:
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 68
1955:
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 68
1956:
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 69
1957:
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 70
1958:
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 71
1958:
US space agency (NASA) established at age 71
1958:
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 71
1958:
Integrated Circuit at age 71
1959:
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 72
1959:
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 72
1959:
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 72
1960:
Laser at age 73
1960:
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 73
1960:
Pantyhose at age 73
1960:
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 73
1961:
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 74
1961-1970:
7th Cholera pandemic from age 74 to age 83
1961:
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 74
1961-1963:
John F Kennedy president of US from age 74 to age 76
1962:
Cuban missile crisis at age 75
1962-1965:
Vatican II from age 75 to age 78
1963:
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 76
1963:
1st artificial heart at age 76
1963-1968:
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 76 to age 81
1963:
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 76
1964:
US civil rights bill at age 77
1964-1975:
Vietnam War from age 77 to age 88
1965:
Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 78
1965:
1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 78
1966:
1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 79
1966:
8-track tape players at age 79
1967-1970:
Nigerian civil war from age 80 to age 83
1967:
Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 80
1967:
Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 80
1967:
Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 80
1967:
1st human heart transplant at age 80
1968:
Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 81
1968:
Martin Luther King assassinated at age 81
1969:
Woodstock Music Festival at age 82
1969-1974:
Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 82 to age 87
1969:
Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 82
1970:
Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 83
1970:
Microprocessor at age 83
1971:
Pakistani civil war at age 84
1971:
Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 84
1973:
The Internet at age 86
1973:
October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 86
1974:
Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 87
1974-1976:
Gerald Ford president of US from age 87 to age 89
1975:
Byte Magazine, issue #1 - September at age 88
1975:
The 1st home computer: The Altair 8800a at age 88
1975:
Ebola virus appears - 90 percent lethal at age 88
1976:
VHS Video Recordings at age 89
1976:
American Bicentennial at age 89
1976:
Television begins satellite delivery at age 89
1976:
Whites accept principle of black majority rule in S. Africa at age 89
1977:
Neutron bomb at age 90
1977-1980:
James Earl Carter Jr president of US from age 90 to age 93
1978:
Jonestown religious group mass suicide - 913 people die at age 91
1978:
Laserdisc video recordings at age 91
1978:
1st test-tube baby at age 91
1979:
Three Mile Island nuclear event at age 92
1979:
Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman Prime Minister in UK at age 92
1980:
Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 93
1981-1988:
Ronald Reagan president of US from age 94 until after line end
1981:
1st female supreme court justice at age 94
1981:
IBM PC ships at age 94
1981:
1st space shuttle flight - Columbia at age 94
1982:
1st genetically engineered product - insulin at age 95
1983:
Bluford 1st black in space at age 96
1983:
Pioneer 10 leaves the solar system at age 96
1983:
Compact Disks at age 96
1984:
HIV determined to be cause of AIDs at age 97
1984:
Apple Macintosh Ships at age 97
1985:
Amiga Computer Ships at age 98
1986:
Chernobyl power plant melts down at age 99
1986:
Halley's Comet at age 99
1986:
Mir space station deployed at age 99
1986:
Shuttle Challenger explodes at age 99
1987:
2000th satellite launched: USSR's Cosmos at age 100

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