History of James Hillary Sargent

For James Hillary Sargent
1886 to 1963
1837-1901 :
Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) from before birth until age 15

1881-1896 :
5th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 10

1885-1888 :
Grover Cleveland president of US from before birth until age 2

1886 :
Induction Telegraph (Grandville T. Woods) at age 0

1887 :
X-Rays (Tesla, not Rontgen!) at age 1

1888 :
70...77 rpm musical records at age 2

1888 :
Great Blizzard of 1888 - 400 deaths at age 2

1889 :
North Dakota enters the union - 39th at age 3

1889 :
South Dakota enters the union - 40th at age 3

1889 :
Montana enters the union - 41st at age 3

1889 :
Washington enters the union - 42nd at age 3

1889-1892 :
Benjamin Harrison president of US from age 3 to 6

1889 :
Holerith invents the punch card at age 3

1890 :
Wyoming enters the union - 44th at age 4

1890 :
Idaho enters the union - 43rd at age 4

1890 :
Battle of Wounded Knee at age 4

1890 :
Oklahoma organized as a territory at age 4

1891 :
Mormon prophesy of 'coming of lord' by 1891 unfulfilled at age 5

1893 :
Movies at age 7

1893 :
Nikola Tesla invents Radio (not Marconi!) at age 7

1893 :
New Zealand is 1st to grant women right to vote at age 7

1893-1896 :
Grover Cleveland president of US from age 7 to 10

1893-1897 :
US Financial panic, depression from age 7 to 11

1894-1895 :
Chinese-Japanese war (1) from age 8 to 9

1894 :
Plague in Hong Kong and China - 1 million die at age 8

1896 :
Utah enters the union - 45th at age 10

1896 :
Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation at age 10

1897-1901 :
William McKinley president of US from age 11 to 15

1898 :
Spanish American 1-year war at age 12

1899-1923 :
6th Cholera pandemic from age 13 to 37

1899-1902 :
Boer war from age 13 to 16

1900 :
Galveston Hurricane - 8,000 killed at age 14

1900 :
Boxer rebellion in China at age 14

1900 :
Hawaii organized as a territory at age 14

1901 :
Commonwealth of Australia founded at age 15

1901-1910 :
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from age 15 to 24

1901 :
Oil discovered in Texas in significant amounts at age 15

1901 :
First British submarine launched at age 15

1901-1908 :
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from age 15 to 22

1901 :
US President William McKinley assassinated at age 15

1901 :
Max Planck formulates the Laws of Radiation at age 15

1901 :
Third law of thermodynamics postulated (W. H. Nernst) at age 15

1903 :
Nikola Tesla patents logic gates at age 17

1903 :
Airplane at age 17

1904 :
Radar at age 18

1904-1905 :
Russian-Japanese war from age 18 to 19

1907 :
Plastic at age 21

1907 :
Oklahoma enters the union - 46th at age 21

1908 :
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 22

1909 :
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 23

1909 :
Union of South Africa formed at age 23

1909-1912 :
William Howard Taft president of US from age 23 to 26

1910 :
Japan annexes Korea at age 24

1910 :
Halley's Comet at age 24

1910-1936 :
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 24 to 50

1911 :
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 25

1912 :
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 26

1912 :
Titanic sinks at age 26

1912 :
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 26

1912 :
Alaska organized as a territory at age 26

1913-1920 :
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 27 to 34

1914 :
The Bra at age 28

1914-1919 :
World War I from age 28 to 33

1915 :
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 29

1916 :
Sonar at age 30

1916 :
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 30

1917 :
Russian revolution at age 31

1917 :
US enters WWI at age 31

1918-1933 :
Prohibition from age 32 to 47

1918-1920 :
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 32 to 34

1919 :
League of Nations instantiated at age 33

1919 :
Shortwave Radio at age 33

1920-1929 :
Roaring 20's from age 34 to 43

1920 :
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 34

1920 :
Palestine established at age 34

1921-1924 :
Warren G Harding president of US from age 35 to 38

1922 :
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 36

1925 :
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 39

1925-1928 :
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 39 to 42

1926 :
Sound in Movies at age 40

1927 :
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 41

1927 :
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 41

1928 :
Television at age 42

1928 :
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 42

1928 :
Video Recordings at age 42

1928 :
Geiger Counter at age 42

1929-1939 :
Great Depression from age 43 to 53

1929-1932 :
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 43 to 46

1929 :
Stock Market Crash at age 43

1930 :
Pluto Discovered at age 44

1931-1933 :
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 45 to 47

1933 :
Radio Astronomy at age 47

1933 :
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 47

1933 :
Soviet communist party purge at age 47

1933-1945 :
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 47 to 59

1934 :
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 48

1935 :
Dustbowl at age 49

1935-1936 :
Abyssinian war from age 49 to 50

1936 :
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 50

1936 :
Helicopter at age 50

1936 :
Spanish Civil War at age 50

1936-1952 :
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 50 to 66

1937 :
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 51

1937-1945 :
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 51 to 59

1938 :
Germany annexes Austria at age 52

1939 :
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 53

1939 :
Digital Computer at age 53

1939-1945 :
World War II from age 53 to 59

1940 :
1st black general in US army at age 54

1940 :
Color Television at age 54

1941-1945 :
Manhattan Project from age 55 to 59

1942 :
Nuclear Reactor at age 56

1942 :
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 56

1945 :
Hypertext at age 59

1945 :
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 59

1945-1952 :
Harry S Truman president of US from age 59 to 66

1945 :
United Nations formed at age 59

1946 :
The Bikini at age 60

1946-1989 :
The Cold War from age 60 until after timeline

1947 :
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 61

1947 :
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 61

1947 :
Transistor at age 61

1948 :
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 62

1948 :
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 62

1948 :
NATO formed at age 62

1948 :
Israel inaugurated as state at age 62

1949 :
45 rpm musical recordings at age 63

1949 :
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 63

1949 :
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 63

1950 :
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 64

1950-1954 :
McCarthyism from age 64 to 68

1950 :
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 64

1950-1953 :
Korean War from age 64 to 67

1951 :
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 65

1952 :
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 66

1952-2050 :
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 66 until after timeline

1953-1960 :
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 67 to 74

1954 :
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 68

1955 :
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 69

1955 :
Invention of Velcro at age 69

1955 :
Warsaw pact formed at age 69

1955 :
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 69

1956 :
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 70

1957 :
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 71

1958 :
Integrated Circuit at age 72

1958 :
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 72

1958 :
US space agency (NASA) established at age 72

1958 :
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 72

1959 :
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 73

1959 :
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 73

1959 :
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 73

1960 :
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 74

1960 :
Pantyhose at age 74

1960 :
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 74

1960 :
Laser at age 74

1961-1970 :
7th Cholera pandemic from age 75 until after timeline

1961 :
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 75

1961-1963 :
John F Kennedy president of US from age 75 to 77

1961 :
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 75

1962 :
Cuban missile crisis at age 76

1962-1965 :
Vatican II from age 76 until after timeline

1963-1968 :
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 77 until after timeline

1963 :
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 77

1963 :
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 77

1963 :
1st artificial heart at age 77