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John Benjamin Blish 8 [m]
8th Generation

Personal Details
Born August 10th, 1870 No Image On File
Birthplace Red Kill, New York, USA
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Father [296_c2]James Blish 7 No Image On File
Mother [296_c2sa]Eliza (Waite) Blish 7 No Image On File

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Immediate Family Tree
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John Benjamin BlishJames BlishNicholas BlishSilas BlishSylvanus Blish
Esther (Way) Blish
Hannah Eliza (Phelps) BlishNo Entry
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Charlotte "Charity" (Ferguson) BlishNo EntryNo Entry
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Personalized History Timeline, 1870 to 1970
1837-1901:
Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 31
1863-1879:
4th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 9
1868-1878:
War between Cuba and Spain from before birth until age 8
1869-1876:
Ulysses S Grant president of US from before birth until age 6
1870-1871:
Franco-Prussian war from age 0 to age 1
1870:
1st black US senator (Hiram Revels) at age 0
1870:
US black men can vote at age 0
1871:
Great Fire destroys Chicago at age 1
1873-1878:
Depression, banks fail from age 3 to age 8
1873:
Color Photographs at age 3
1876:
Colorado enters the union - 38th at age 6
1876:
Little Big Horn - Battle at age 6
1876:
Telephone (Bell, Latimer) at age 6
1876:
American Centennial at age 6
1877-1880:
Ruthorford B Hayes president of US from age 7 to age 10
1877:
Wax Cylinder Musical Recordings at age 7
1878:
1st commercial telephone exchange in US at age 8
1879:
Zulu war at age 9
1879:
Electric Light Bulb (Edison) at age 9
1881:
James A Garfield president of US at age 11
1881-1885:
Chester Arthur president of US from age 11 to age 15
1881:
President Garfield assassinated (dies of med. care) at age 11
1881-1896:
5th Cholera pandemic from age 11 to age 26
1884:
1st subway at age 14
1884:
Motorcycle at age 14
1885-1888:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 15 to age 18
1885:
Automobile at age 15
1886:
Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 16
1887:
X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 17
1888:
70...77 rpm musical records at age 18
1888:
Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400+ deaths at age 18
1889:
North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 19
1889:
South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 19
1889:
Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 19
1889-1892:
Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 19 to age 22
1889:
Holerith invents the punch card at age 19
1889:
Montana enters the union - 41st at age 19
1890:
Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 20
1890:
Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 20
1890:
Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 20
1890:
Battle of Wounded Knee at age 20
1891:
Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 21
1893:
New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 23
1893-1897:
US Financial panic, depression from age 23 to age 27
1893:
Movies at age 23
1893-1896:
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 23 to age 26
1893:
Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 23
1894-1895:
Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 24 to age 25
1894:
Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 24
1896:
Utah enters the union - 45th at age 26
1896:
Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 26
1897-1901:
William McKinley president of US from age 27 to age 31
1898:
Spanish American 1-year war at age 28
1899-1902:
Boer war from age 29 to age 32
1899-1923:
6th Cholera pandemic from age 29 to age 53
1900:
Boxer rebellion in China at age 30
1900:
Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 30
1900:
Hawaii organized as a territory at age 30
1901:
First British submarine launched at age 31
1901-1910:
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 31 to age 40
1901:
Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 31
1901:
Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 31
1901:
US President William McKinley assassinated at age 31
1901-1908:
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 31 to age 38
1901:
Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 31
1901:
Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 31
1903:
Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 33
1903:
Airplane at age 33
1904:
Radar at age 34
1904-1905:
Russian-Japanese war from age 34 to age 35
1907:
Plastic at age 37
1907:
Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 37
1908:
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 38
1909:
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 39
1909-1912:
William Howard Taft president of US from age 39 to age 42
1909:
Union of South Africa formed at age 39
1910:
Halley's Comet at age 40
1910-1936:
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 40 to age 66
1910:
Japan annexes Korea at age 40
1911:
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 41
1912:
Alaska organized as a territory at age 42
1912:
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 42
1912:
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 42
1912:
Titanic sinks at age 42
1913-1920:
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 43 to age 50
1914:
The Bra at age 44
1914-1919:
World War I from age 44 to age 49
1915:
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 45
1916:
Sonar at age 46
1916:
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 46
1917:
US enters WWI at age 47
1917:
Russian revolution at age 47
1918-1920:
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 48 to age 50
1918-1933:
Prohibition from age 48 to age 63
1919:
League of Nations instantiated at age 49
1919:
Shortwave Radio at age 49
1920:
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 50
1920-1929:
Roaring 20's from age 50 to age 59
1920:
Palestine established at age 50
1921-1924:
Warren G Harding president of US from age 51 to age 54
1922:
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 52
1925-1928:
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 55 to age 58
1925:
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 55
1926:
Sound in Movies at age 56
1927:
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 57
1927:
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 57
1928:
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 58
1928:
Video Recordings at age 58
1928:
Television at age 58
1928:
Geiger Counter at age 58
1929-1939:
Great Depression from age 59 to age 69
1929:
Stock Market Crash at age 59
1929-1932:
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 59 to age 62
1930:
Pluto Discovered at age 60
1931-1933:
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 61 to age 63
1933-1945:
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 63 to age 75
1933:
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 63
1933:
Soviet communist party purge at age 63
1933:
Radio Astronomy at age 63
1934:
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 64
1935:
Dustbowl at age 65
1935-1936:
Abyssinian war from age 65 to age 66
1936:
Helicopter at age 66
1936-1952:
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 66 to age 82
1936:
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 66
1936:
Spanish Civil War at age 66
1937:
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 67
1937-1945:
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 67 to age 75
1938:
Germany annexes Austria at age 68
1939:
Digital Computer at age 69
1939:
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 69
1939-1945:
World War II from age 69 to age 75
1940:
1st black general in US army at age 70
1940:
Color Television at age 70
1941-1945:
Manhattan Project from age 71 to age 75
1942:
Nuclear Reactor at age 72
1942:
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 72
1945:
Hypertext at age 75
1945:
United Nations formed at age 75
1945:
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 75
1945-1952:
Harry S Truman president of US from age 75 to age 82
1946-1989:
The Cold War from age 76 until after line end
1946:
The Bikini at age 76
1947:
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 77
1947:
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 77
1947:
Transistor at age 77
1948:
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 78
1948:
Israel inaugurated as state at age 78
1948:
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 78
1948:
NATO formed at age 78
1949:
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 79
1949:
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 79
1949:
45 rpm musical recordings at age 79
1950:
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 80
1950-1954:
McCarthyism from age 80 to age 84
1950-1953:
Korean War from age 80 to age 83
1950:
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 80
1951:
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 81
1952-2050:
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 82 until after line end
1952:
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 82
1953-1960:
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 83 to age 90
1954:
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 84
1955:
Invention of Velcro at age 85
1955:
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 85
1955:
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 85
1955:
Warsaw pact formed at age 85
1956:
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 86
1957:
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 87
1958:
Integrated Circuit at age 88
1958:
US space agency (NASA) established at age 88
1958:
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 88
1958:
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 88
1959:
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 89
1959:
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 89
1959:
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 89
1960:
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 90
1960:
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 90
1960:
Pantyhose at age 90
1960:
Laser at age 90
1961:
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 91
1961:
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 91
1961-1963:
John F Kennedy president of US from age 91 to age 93
1961-1970:
7th Cholera pandemic from age 91 to age 100
1962-1965:
Vatican II from age 92 to age 95
1962:
Cuban missile crisis at age 92
1963:
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 93
1963:
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 93
1963-1968:
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 93 to age 98
1963:
1st artificial heart at age 93
1964-1975:
Vietnam War from age 94 until after line end
1964:
US civil rights bill at age 94
1965:
Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 95
1965:
1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 95
1966:
1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 96
1966:
8-track tape players at age 96
1967:
Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 97
1967-1970:
Nigerian civil war from age 97 to age 100
1967:
Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 97
1967:
Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 97
1967:
1st human heart transplant at age 97
1968:
Martin Luther King assassinated at age 98
1968:
Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 98
1969:
Woodstock Music Festival at age 99
1969-1974:
Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 99 until after line end
1969:
Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 99
1970:
Microprocessor at age 100
1970:
Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 100

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