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Verne Floyd Merrill

Verne Floyd Merrill

Male 1919 - 1963  (43 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1 1919 
  • 1919: Sherwood Anderson writes Winesburg, Ohio.
2 1920 
  • 1920: Edith Wharton writes The Age of Innocence.
3 1921 
  • 1921: James Joyce writes Ulysses.
4 1921-1923 
  • 1921-1923: Warren Gamaliel Harding, serves as twenty-ninth president of the United States of America.
5 1923 
  • 1923: First vaccine for diphtheria
  • 1923: “Queen of the Blues” Bessie Smith records her first song, “Down Hearted Blues.”
6 1923-1929 
  • 1923-1929: Calvin Coolidge serves as thirtieth president of the United States of America.
7 1924 
  • 1924: The Juilliard School opens in New York. Maurice Ravel's Bolero opens in Paris. George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue premieres in New York.
8 1926 
  • 1926: First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)
9 1927 
  • 1927: First vaccine for tuberculosis
  • 1927: First vaccine for tetanus
10 1928 
  • 1928: Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
11 1929-1933 
  • 1929-1933: Herbert Clark Hoover serves as thirty-first president of the United States of America.
12 1932 
  • 1932: Jazz composer Duke Ellington writes “It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing."
13 1933-1945 
  • 1933-1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt serves as thirty-second president of the United States of America.
14 1935 
  • 1935: First vaccine for yellow fever
15 1936 
  • 1936: Electric guitars debut.
16 1937 
  • 1937: First vaccine for typhus
17 1939-1945 
  • 1939-1945: World War II
18 1941 
  • 7 Dec 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
19 1943 
  • 1943: Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin
20 1945 
  • 1945: First vaccine for influenza
21 1945-1953 
  • 1945-1953: Harry S. Truman serves as thirty-third president of the United States of America.
22 1948 
  • 1948: Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 LP (“long playing”) record.
23 1949 
  • 1949: 45 rpm records are sold in the U.S.
24 1950-1953 
  • 1950-1953: Korean War
25 1953-1961 
  • 1953-1961: Dwight David Eisenhower serves as thirty-fourth president of the United States.
26 1955 
  • 1955: Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
27 1956 
  • 1956: Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world's first rock stars.
28 1960 
  • 1960: John Coltrane forms his own quartet and becomes the voice of jazz's New Wave movement.
29 1961-1963 
  • 1961-1963: John Fitzgerald Kennedy serves as thirty-fifth president of the United States.

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