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Leetha Gertrude Childress

Leetha Gertrude Childress

Female 1909 - 1961  (52 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1 1909 
  • 1909: Gertrude Stein writes Three Lives.
2 1909-1913 
  • 1909-1913: William Howard Taft serves as twenty-seventh president of the United States of America.
3 1911 
  • 1911: Edith Wharton writes Ethan Frome.
4 1912 
  • 1912: Zane Grey writes Riders of the Purple Sage.
5 1913 
  • 1913: Billboard magazine publishes a list of the most popular vaudeville songs.
  • 1913: Willa Cather writes O Pioneers!
  • 1913: T. S. Eliot writes "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
6 1913-1921 
  • 1913-1921: Woodrow Wilson serves as twenty-eighth president of the United States of America.
7 1914-1918 
  • 1914-1918: World War I
8 1914 
  • 1914: Carl Sandburg writes Chicago.
9 1915 
  • 1915: Edgar Lee Masters writes Spoon River Anthology.
10 1918 
  • 1918: Willa Cather writes My Antonia.
11 1919 
  • 1919: Sherwood Anderson writes Winesburg, Ohio.
12 1920 
  • 1920: Edith Wharton writes The Age of Innocence.
13 1921 
  • 1921: James Joyce writes Ulysses.
14 1921-1923 
  • 1921-1923: Warren Gamaliel Harding, serves as twenty-ninth president of the United States of America.
15 1923 
  • 1923: First vaccine for diphtheria
  • 1923: “Queen of the Blues” Bessie Smith records her first song, “Down Hearted Blues.”
16 1923-1929 
  • 1923-1929: Calvin Coolidge serves as thirtieth president of the United States of America.
17 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.
18 1926 
  • 1926: First vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)
19 1927 
  • 1927: First vaccine for tuberculosis
  • 1927: First vaccine for tetanus
20 1928 
  • 1928: Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin.
21 1929-1933 
  • 1929-1933: Herbert Clark Hoover serves as thirty-first president of the United States of America.
22 1932 
  • 1932: Jazz composer Duke Ellington writes “It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing."
23 1933-1945 
  • 1933-1945: Franklin Delano Roosevelt serves as thirty-second president of the United States of America.
24 1935 
  • 1935: First vaccine for yellow fever
25 1936 
  • 1936: Electric guitars debut.
26 1937 
  • 1937: First vaccine for typhus
27 1939-1945 
  • 1939-1945: World War II
28 1941 
  • 7 Dec 1941: Japanese attack Pearl Harbor
29 1943 
  • 1943: Selman A. Waksman discovers the antibiotic streptomycin
30 1945 
  • 1945: First vaccine for influenza
31 1945-1953 
  • 1945-1953: Harry S. Truman serves as thirty-third president of the United States of America.
32 1948 
  • 1948: Columbia Records introduces the 33 1/3 LP (“long playing”) record.
33 1949 
  • 1949: 45 rpm records are sold in the U.S.
34 1950-1953 
  • 1950-1953: Korean War
35 1953-1961 
  • 1953-1961: Dwight David Eisenhower serves as thirty-fourth president of the United States.
36 1955 
  • 1955: Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
37 1956 
  • 1956: Elvis Presley emerges as one of the world's first rock stars.
38 1960 
  • 1960: John Coltrane forms his own quartet and becomes the voice of jazz's New Wave movement.

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