History of Arthur Hillory Sargent's Life Time

For Arthur Hillory Sargent
1908 to 1974
1899-1923 :
6th Cholera pandemic from before birth until age 15

1901-1910 :
Reign of King Edward VII (Saxe-Coburg) from before birth until age 2

1901-1908 :
Theodore Roosevelt president of US from before birth until age 0

1908 :
Tunguska atmospheric object explosion at age 0

1909 :
North pole reached by Matthew Henson of Robert Peary's exp. at age 1

1909 :
Union of South Africa formed at age 1

1909-1912 :
William Howard Taft president of US from age 1 to 4

1910 :
Japan annexes Korea at age 2

1910 :
Halley's Comet at age 2

1910-1936 :
Reign of King George V (Windsor) from age 2 to 28

1911 :
South pole reached by Roald Amundsen at age 3

1912 :
Arizona enters the union - 48th at age 4

1912 :
Titanic sinks at age 4

1912 :
New Mexico enters the union - 47th at age 4

1912 :
Alaska organized as a territory at age 4

1913-1920 :
Woodrow Wilson president of US from age 5 to 12

1914 :
The Bra at age 6

1914-1919 :
World War I from age 6 to 11

1915 :
Einstein's Theory of Relativity at age 7

1916 :
Sonar at age 8

1916 :
Irish Easter Rebellion at age 8

1917 :
Russian revolution at age 9

1917 :
US enters WWI at age 9

1918-1933 :
Prohibition from age 10 to 25

1918-1920 :
Flu epidemic - 25 million plus die from age 10 to 12

1919 :
League of Nations instantiated at age 11

1919 :
Shortwave Radio at age 11

1920-1929 :
Roaring 20's from age 12 to 21

1920 :
Women receive right to vote in USA at age 12

1920 :
Palestine established at age 12

1921-1924 :
Warren G Harding president of US from age 13 to 16

1922 :
Insulin made available to diabetics at age 14

1925 :
Scopes trial on Evolutionary Theory at age 17

1925-1928 :
Calvin Coolidge president of US from age 17 to 20

1926 :
Sound in Movies at age 18

1927 :
Holland Tunnel opens (New York City) at age 19

1927 :
1st transAtlantic solo flight - Lindbergh at age 19

1928 :
Television at age 20

1928 :
Penicillin discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming at age 20

1928 :
Video Recordings at age 20

1928 :
Geiger Counter at age 20

1929-1939 :
Great Depression from age 21 to 31

1929-1932 :
Herbert Hoover president of US from age 21 to 24

1929 :
Stock Market Crash at age 21

1930 :
Pluto Discovered at age 22

1931-1933 :
Chinese-Japanese war (2) from age 23 to 25

1933 :
Radio Astronomy at age 25

1933 :
Armstrong invents FM modulation at age 25

1933 :
Soviet communist party purge at age 25

1933-1945 :
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from age 25 to 37

1934 :
Longshoreman's strike - 35,000 on strike for 83 days at age 26

1935 :
Dustbowl at age 27

1935-1936 :
Abyssinian war from age 27 to 28

1936 :
Reign of King Edward VIII (Windsor) at age 28

1936 :
Helicopter at age 28

1936 :
Spanish Civil War at age 28

1936-1952 :
Reign of King George VI (Windsor) from age 28 to 44

1937 :
Nylon (by DuPont) at age 29

1937-1945 :
Chinese-Japanese war (3) from age 29 to 37

1938 :
Germany annexes Austria at age 30

1939 :
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) at age 31

1939 :
Digital Computer at age 31

1939-1945 :
World War II from age 31 to 37

1940 :
1st black general in US army at age 32

1940 :
Color Television at age 32

1941-1945 :
Manhattan Project from age 33 to 37

1942 :
Nuclear Reactor at age 34

1942 :
Magnetic Recording Tape at age 34

1945 :
Hypertext at age 37

1945 :
US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at age 37

1945-1952 :
Harry S Truman president of US from age 37 to 44

1945 :
United Nations formed at age 37

1946 :
The Bikini at age 38

1946-1989 :
The Cold War from age 38 until after timeline

1947 :
India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India at age 39

1947 :
UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections at age 39

1947 :
Transistor at age 39

1948 :
33 1/3 rpm musical recordings at age 40

1948 :
Arabs attack Israel on the day it is inaugurated at age 40

1948 :
NATO formed at age 40

1948 :
Israel inaugurated as state at age 40

1949 :
45 rpm musical recordings at age 41

1949 :
Soviets detonate first nuclear bomb at age 41

1949 :
Apartheid policy in South Africa at age 41

1950 :
World pop. est. at 2.4 billion at age 42

1950-1954 :
McCarthyism from age 42 to 46

1950 :
Bunche 1st black to win Nobel Peace Prize at age 42

1950-1953 :
Korean War from age 42 to 45

1951 :
Electricity from Atomic Power at age 43

1952 :
1st Thermonuclear Device Detonated at age 44

1952-2050 :
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) from age 44 until after timeline

1953-1960 :
Dwight D Eisenhower president of US from age 45 to 52

1954 :
Racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional at age 46

1955 :
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) at age 47

1955 :
Invention of Velcro at age 47

1955 :
Warsaw pact formed at age 47

1955 :
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 47

1956 :
Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, sinks at age 48

1957 :
Sputnik Launched - 1st (artificial) satellite at age 49

1958 :
Integrated Circuit at age 50

1958 :
Stereo LP recordings come into usage at age 50

1958 :
US space agency (NASA) established at age 50

1958 :
FM Stereo Broadcasts at age 50

1959 :
Hawaii enters the union - 50th at age 51

1959 :
Alaska enters the union - 49th at age 51

1959 :
1st nuclear powered merchant vessel, Savannah at age 51

1960 :
World subsurface circumnavigation by US sub Triton at age 52

1960 :
Pantyhose at age 52

1960 :
1st weather satellite (Tiros I) at age 52

1960 :
Laser at age 52

1961-1970 :
7th Cholera pandemic from age 53 to 62

1961 :
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin at age 53

1961-1963 :
John F Kennedy president of US from age 53 to 55

1961 :
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard at age 53

1962 :
Cuban missile crisis at age 54

1962-1965 :
Vatican II from age 54 to 57

1963-1968 :
Lyndon B Johnson president of US from age 55 to 60

1963 :
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated at age 55

1963 :
Compact Cassette Recordings at age 55

1963 :
1st artificial heart at age 55

1964-1975 :
Vietnam War from age 56 until after timeline

1964 :
US civil rights bill at age 56

1965 :
Blacks riot in Watts neighborhood, Los Angeles at age 57

1965 :
1st spacewalks (US, USSR) at age 57

1966 :
8-track tape players at age 58

1966 :
1st soft landings on moon (US, USSR) at age 58

1967-1970 :
Nigerian civil war from age 59 to 62

1967 :
Marshall 1st black supreme court justice at age 59

1967 :
Six day war: Israel-Arabs at age 59

1967 :
Physicist John Wheeler coins the term Black Hole at age 59

1967 :
1st human heart transplant at age 59

1968 :
Robert Kennedy assassinated at age 60

1968 :
Martin Luther King assassinated at age 60

1969 :
Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin at age 61

1969-1974 :
Richard M. Nixon president of US from age 61 to 66

1969 :
Woodstock Music Festival at age 61

1970 :
Microprocessor at age 62

1970 :
Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State at age 62

1971 :
Pakistani civil war at age 63

1971 :
Intel ships 1st uProcessor: the 4004 at age 63

1973 :
October war (Israel-Arabic nations) at age 65

1973 :
The Internet at age 65

1974-1976 :
Gerald Ford president of US from age 66 until after timeline

1974 :
Pres. Nixon resigns in disgrace at age 66