Timeline: Charles Kenneth Weir: Forney & Clark Genealogy Pages

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Charles Kenneth Weir

1915 - 2001 (86 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1915	1915: Edgar Lee Masters writes Spoon River Anthology.
2	1918	1918: Willa Cather writes My Antonia.
3	1919	1919: Sherwood Anderson writes Winesburg, Ohio.
4	1920	1920: Edith Wharton writes The Age of Innocence.
5	1921	1921: James Joyce writes Ulysses.
6	1921-1923	1921-1923: Warren Gamaliel Harding, serves as twenty-ninth president of the United States of America.
7	1923	1923: First vaccine for diphtheria 1923: “Queen of the Blues” Bessie Smith records her first song, “Down Hearted Blues.”
8	1923-1929	1923-1929: Calvin Coolidge serves as thirtieth president of the United States of America.
9	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.
10	1926	1926: First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)
11	1927	1927: First vaccine for tuberculosis 1927: First vaccine for tetanus
12	1928	1928: Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
13	1929-1933	1929-1933: Herbert Clark Hoover serves as thirty-first president of the United States of America.
14	1932	1932: Jazz composer Duke Ellington writes “It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing."
15	1933-1945	1933-1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt serves as thirty-second president of the United States of America.
16	1935	1935: First vaccine for yellow fever
17	1936	1936: Electric guitars debut.
18	1937	1937: First vaccine for typhus
19	1939-1945	1939-1945: World War II
20	1941	7 Dec 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
21	1943	1943: Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin
22	1945	1945: First vaccine for influenza
23	1945-1953	1945-1953: Harry S. Truman serves as thirty-third president of the United States of America.
24	1948	1948: Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 LP (“long playing”) record.
25	1949	1949: 45 rpm records are sold in the U.S.
26	1950-1953	1950-1953: Korean War
27	1953-1961	1953-1961: Dwight David Eisenhower serves as thirty-fourth president of the United States.
28	1955	1955: Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
29	1956	1956: Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world's first rock stars.
30	1960	1960: John Coltrane forms his own quartet and becomes the voice of jazz's New Wave movement.
31	1961-1963	1961-1963: John Fitzgerald Kennedy serves as thirty-fifth president of the United States.
32	1963-1969	1963-1969: Lyndon Baines Johnson serves as thirty-sixth president of the United States.
33	1964	1964: First vaccine for measles
34	1965-1975	1965-1975: Vietnam War
35	1967	1967: First vaccine for mumps 1967: The Beatles release their break-through concept album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
36	1969-1974	1969-1974: Richard Milhous Nixon serves as thirty-seventh president of the United States.
37	1973	1973: Reggae music gains popularity in the United States.
38	1974	1974: First vaccine for chicken pox
39	1974-1977	1974-1977: Gerald Rudolph Ford serves as thirty-eighth president of the United States.
40	1977	1977: First vaccine for pneumonia
41	1977-1981	1977-1981: James Earl Carter, Jr., serves as thirty-nineth president of the United States.
42	1978	1978: First vaccine for meningitis
43	1981	1981: MTV goes on the air running around the clock music videos.
44	1981-1989	1981-1989: Ronald Wilson Reagan serves as fortieth president of the United States.
45	1988	1988: CDs outsell vinyl records for the first time.
46	1989-1993	1989-1993: George Herbert Walker Bush serves as forty-first president of the United States.
47	1990-1991	1990-1991: Persian Gulf War
48	1993-2001	1993-2001: William Jefferson Clinton serves as forty-second president of the United States.

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