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Maragaret Lawrence Mercer 10 [f]
10th Generation

Personal Details
Born January 6th, 1894 No Image On File
Birthplace Gosport, England
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Parents
Father [1164sa]Captain D. Mercer, Rotal Marines 9 No Image On File
Mother [1164]Katharine Frances (Lawrence) Mercer 9 No Image On File

Spouses, Mates & Children none known

Immediate Family Tree
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Maragaret Lawrence MercerCaptain D. Mercer, Rotal MarinesDavid Dixon MercerNo EntryNo Entry
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Margaret (Trigg) Mercer? TriggNo Entry
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Katharine Frances (Lawrence) MercerWilliam F. LawrenceFrancis LawrenceNo Entry
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Hannah (Wood) Lawrence? Wood
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Temperance Shaw (Blish) LawrenceGeorge BlishMajor Joseph Blish, Jr.
Temperance (Shaw) Blish
Rebecca P. (Fish) BlishNo 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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