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Lillian W. Davis

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	Henry Bolyn Davis 2/7/1831 - 1910

About Lillian W. Davis

Lillian W. Davis
1874 - 1960
(Shown at age 21)

Lillian W. Davis was born about 1874 somewhere in Alabama and died about 1960 in an unknown place. Dates for birth and death are estimated. She lived to be about 86 years old.

She married a Mr. Woods.

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Age	Date	Event
3	1877	Edison invents the phonograph permitting music and voices to be recorded and replayed.
5	1879	Edison invents the electric light bulb.
15	1889	The first calculating machine is invented and uses punch cards
21	1895	Wireless telegraph and the "antenna" are invented but it covers a very short distance.
23	1897	First ship to shore message is sent using an improved form of wireless telegraph
26	1900	Freud publishes his book "The Interpretation of Dreams"
26	1900	The cause of yellow fever is discovered. It is proven that the fever is spread by mosquitoes. This rallies an effort to provide better mosquito control.
27	1901	First transatlantic wireless telegraph is sent.
28	1902	The first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil is discovered.
29	1903	Wright Brothers complete the first successful flight with an airplane at Kitty Hawk
30	1904	The first vacuum tube diode is invented by Fleming
32	1906	The triode vacuum tube is invented
32	1906	Kellogg sells the first box of Corn Flakes
32	1906	Electrons are discovered by Thomson
38	1912	The unsinkable Titanic sinks on its first trip to New York drowning 1,513 people.
39	1913	Ford builds the first assembly line into his automobile production plant
40	1914	The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed
49	1923	Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes
49	1923	Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id"
50	1924	Insecticides are used for the first time on crops
52	1926	Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket
53	1927	The first television transmission was announced in England
54	1928	Big bang theory was introduced
62	1936	The first regular television broadcast happens in England
64	1938	Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission
72	1946	The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes
73	1947	Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor
77	1951	The first color television is introduced in the U.S.
78	1952	The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen.
83	1957	Sputnik is launched by the Soviets and becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. It marks the beginning of the great "space race" between the Soviet Union and the U.S.
86	1960	The ruby laser was created by Maiman

Age	Date	Event
8	1882	NEWS HEADLINES: Edison creates the first large power station in New York City, making it the first place in America to have electricity.
11	1885	NEWS HEADLINES: Eastman invents the box camera. For the first time photography becomes affordable for the average citizen.
34	1908	NEWS HEADLINES: Henry Ford produces the first Model T automobile
38	1912	White residents of Forsyth County, GA, drive the black population out.
39	1913	NEWS HEADLINES: Edison invents motion pictures
43	1917	NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism.
45	1919	NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty.
64	1938	NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic.
65	1939	NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States
67	1941	NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers.
76	1950	NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later.
81	1955	NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL.
86	1960	NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public

Age	Date	Event
1	1875	Tennessee enacts Jim Crow law.
2	1876	The National League of Baseball is founded
35	1909	The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP)
36	1910	Boy Scout and Girl Scout Organizations are introduced in America and the concept of a "week end" meaning time off from regular work begins to take root. The British Empire covers 1/5th of the world land area.
53	1927	Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.
55	1929	Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October
56	1930	Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.
58	1932	Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered.
59	1933	Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone!
60	1934	Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.
60	1934	Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains.
61	1935	Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.
65	1939	Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color.
69	1943	Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit.
70	1944	On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day")
71	1945	President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.
80	1954	The nationally televised McCarthy hearings lead to Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall; Segregation by race in schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; Congress adds the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American currency.

Age	Date	Event
35	1909	The "Piltdown Man" hoax -- a fake archeological discovery announced by dishonest scientists who wanted to "prove" that human beings had evolved in Europe
40	1914	World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days.
43	1917	Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes.
45	1919	The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I.
46	1920	Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made.
64	1938	Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia.
65	1939	Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun.
71	1945	World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

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