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Vaneshia Virginia (Worthen) Blish 8 [f]
8th Generation

Personal Details
Born 1868 No Image On File
Birthplace Potsdam, New York, USA
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Parents
Father [856saf]Henry Russell Worthen 7 No Image On File
Mother [856sam]Cornelia Julia (Hazen) Worthen 7 No Image On File

Spouses, Mates & Children
Husband #1
[856] - Gregory Emerson Blish 8

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Married at: South Portland, Maine, USA

Children by this spouse:
I [1182a] Stanley Frye Blish 9 b. October 21st, 1900 c. January No Image On File
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Personalized History Timeline, 1868 to 1968
1837-1901:
Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 33
1863-1879:
4th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 11
1866-1868:
Andrew Johnson president of US from before birth until age 0
1868-1878:
War between Cuba and Spain from age 0 to age 10
1869:
Trans-continental railroad completed at age 1
1869-1876:
Ulysses S Grant president of US from age 1 to age 8
1869:
Suez canal opened at age 1
1869:
Financial black friday caused by attempt to corner gold at age 1
1869:
Cutty Sark built at age 1
1870-1871:
Franco-Prussian war from age 2 to age 3
1870:
1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 2
1870:
US black men can vote at age 2
1871:
Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 3
1873-1878:
Depression, banks fail from age 5 to age 10
1873:
Color Photographs at age 5
1876:
Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 8
1876:
Little Big Horn - Battle at age 8
1876:
Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 8
1876:
American Centennial at age 8
1877:
Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 9
1877-1880:
Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 9 to age 12
1878:
1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 10
1879:
Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 11
1879:
Zulu war at age 11
1881:
James A Garfield president of US at age 13
1881-1885:
Chester Arthur president of US from age 13 to age 17
1881-1896:
5th Cholera pandemic from age 13 to age 28
1881:
President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 13
1884:
Motorcycle at age 16
1884:
1st subway at age 16
1885-1888:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 17 to age 20
1885:
Automobile at age 17
1886:
Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 18
1887:
X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 19
1888:
Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 20
1888:
70...77 rpm musical records at age 20
1889:
Holerith invents the punch card at age 21
1889:
North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 21
1889:
South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 21
1889-1892:
Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 21 to age 24
1889:
Montana enters the union - 41st at age 21
1889:
Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 21
1890:
Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 22
1890:
Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 22
1890:
Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 22
1890:
Battle of Wounded Knee at age 22
1891:
Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 23
1893:
New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 25
1893:
Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 25
1893-1897:
US Financial panic, depression from age 25 to age 29
1893:
Movies at age 25
1893-1896:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 25 to age 28
1894-1895:
Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 26 to age 27
1894:
Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 26
1896:
Utah enters the union - 45th at age 28
1896:
Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 28
1897-1901:
William McKinley president of US from age 29 to age 33
1898:
Spanish American 1-year war at age 30
1899-1902:
Boer war from age 31 to age 34
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from age 31 to age 55
1900:
Boxer rebellion in China at age 32
1900:
Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 32
1900:
Hawaii organized as a territory at age 32
1901:
Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 33
1901-1910:
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 33 to age 42
1901-1908:
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 33 to age 40
1901:
Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 33
1901:
Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 33
1901:
US President William McKinley assassinated at age 33
1901:
First British submarine launched at age 33
1901:
Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 33
1903:
Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 35
1903:
Airplane at age 35
1904-1905:
Russian-Japanese war from age 36 to age 37
1904:
Radar at age 36
1907:
Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 39
1907:
Plastic at age 39
1908:
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 40
1909-1912:
William Howard Taft president of US from age 41 to age 44
1909:
Union of South Africa formed at age 41
1909:
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 41
1910:
Japan annexes Korea at age 42
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 42 to age 68
1910:
Halley's Comet at age 42
1911:
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 43
1912:
Alaska organized as a territory at age 44
1912:
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 44
1912:
Titanic sinks at age 44
1912:
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 44
1913-1920:
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 45 to age 52
1914:
The Bra at age 46
1914-1919:
World War I from age 46 to age 51
1915:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 47
1916:
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 48
1916:
Sonar at age 48
1917:
US enters WWI at age 49
1917:
Russian revolution at age 49
1918-1920:
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 50 to age 52
1918-1933:
Prohibition from age 50 to age 65
1919:
League of Nations instantiated at age 51
1919:
Shortwave Radio at age 51
1920:
Palestine established at age 52
1920:
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 52
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from age 52 to age 61
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 53 to age 56
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 54
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 57 to age 60
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 57
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 58
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 59
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 59
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 60
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 60
1928:
Video Recordings at age 60
1928:
Television at age 60
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 61 to age 64
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 61 to age 71
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 61
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 62
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 63 to age 65
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 65
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 65
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 65
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 65 to age 77
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 66
1935:
Dustbowl at age 67
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 67 to age 68
1936:
Helicopter at age 68
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 68 to age 84
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 68
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 68
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 69
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 69 to age 77
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 70
1939:
Digital Computer at age 71
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 71
1939-1945:
World War II from age 71 to age 77
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 72
1940:
Color Television at age 72
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 73 to age 77
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 74
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 74
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 77
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 77 to age 84
1945:
United Nations formed at age 77
1945:
Hypertext at age 77
1946:
The Bikini at age 78
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 78 until after line end
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 79
1947:
Transistor at age 79
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 79
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 80
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 80
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 80
1948:
NATO formed at age 80
1949:
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 81
1949:
45 rpm musical recordings at age 81
1949:
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 81
1950-1953:
Korean War from age 82 to age 85
1950:
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 82
1950:
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 82
1950-1954:
McCarthyism from age 82 to age 86
1951:
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 83
1952-2050:
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 84 until after line end
1952:
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 84
1953-1960:
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 85 to age 92
1954:
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 86
1955:
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 87
1955:
Invention of Velcro at age 87
1955:
Warsaw pact formed at age 87
1955:
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 87
1956:
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 88
1957:
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 89
1958:
Integrated Circuit at age 90
1958:
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 90
1958:
US space agency (NASA) established at age 90
1958:
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 90
1959:
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 91
1959:
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 91
1959:
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 91
1960:
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 92
1960:
Pantyhose at age 92
1960:
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 92
1960:
Laser at age 92
1961-1970:
7th Cholera pandemic from age 93 until after line end
1961:
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 93
1961:
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 93
1961-1963:
John F Kennedy president of US from age 93 to age 95
1962:
Cuban missile crisis at age 94
1962-1965:
Vatican II from age 94 to age 97
1963:
1st artificial heart at age 95
1963:
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 95
1963-1968:
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 95 to age 100
1963:
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 95
1964-1975:
Vietnam War from age 96 until after line end
1964:
US civil rights bill at age 96
1965:
1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 97
1965:
Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 97
1966:
8-track tape players at age 98
1966:
1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 98
1967:
1st human heart transplant at age 99
1967:
Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 99
1967:
Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 99
1967-1970:
Nigerian civil war from age 99 until after line end
1967:
Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 99
1968:
Martin Luther King assassinated at age 100
1968:
Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 100

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