Years |
Forrest's
age |
Lerabeth's
age |
Event |
1899-1923 |
|
|
6th Cholera pandemic |
|
1910-1936 |
|
|
Reign of King George V
(Windsor) |
|
1913-1920 |
|
|
Woodrow Wilson president of
US |
|
1914-1919 |
|
|
World War I |
| 1915 |
|
|
Bedford Forrest Covin marries Jessie
Lee Lawler |
| 1916 |
|
|
Irish Easter Rebellion |
| 1916 |
|
|
Sonar |
| 1917 |
|
|
Forrest Lee Covin born,
Longview, TX |
| 1917 |
|
|
Russian revolution |
| 1917 |
|
|
US enters WWI |
|
1918-1920 |
1-3 |
|
Flu epidemic - 25 million
plus die |
|
1918-1933 |
1-16 |
|
Prohibition |
| 1919 |
2 |
|
Shortwave Radio |
| 1919 |
2 |
|
League of Nations
instantiated |
|
1920-1929 |
3-12 |
|
Roaring 20's |
| 1920 |
3 |
|
Palestine established |
| 1920 |
3 |
|
Women receive right to vote in USA |
| 1921 |
4 |
|
Lerabeth Rice born.
Ferris TX |
|
1921-1924 |
4-7 |
1-3 |
Warren G Harding president
of US |
| 1922 |
5 |
1 |
Insulin made available to
diabetics |
| 1925 |
8 |
4 |
Scopes trial on Evolutionary
Theory |
|
1925-1928 |
8-11 |
4-7 |
Calvin Coolidge president of
US |
| 1926 |
9 |
5 |
Sound in Movies |
| 1927 |
10 |
6 |
1st transAtlantic solo
flight - Lindbergh |
| 1927 |
10 |
6 |
Holland Tunnel opens (New
York City) |
| 1928 |
11 |
7 |
Television |
| 1928 |
11 |
7 |
Penicillin discovered by Sir
Alexander Fleming |
| 1928 |
11 |
7 |
Video Recordings |
| 1928 |
11 |
7 |
Geiger Counter |
|
1929-1932 |
12-15 |
8-11 |
Herbert Hoover president of
US |
|
1929-1939 |
12-22 |
8-18 |
Great Depression |
| 1929 |
12 |
8 |
Stock Market Crash |
| 1930 |
13 |
9 |
Pluto Discovered |
| 1930 |
13 |
9 |
Birth of Richard Duane
Runyan (future son-in-law) |
|
1931-1933 |
14-16 |
10-12 |
Chinese-Japanese war |
| 1933 |
15 |
11 |
Armstrong invents FM
modulation |
| 1933 |
15 |
11 |
Soviet communist party purge |
|
1933-1945 |
15-28 |
11-24 |
Franklin D Roosevelt president of US from |
| 1933 |
15 |
12 |
Radio Astronomy |
| 1935 |
18 |
14 |
Dustbowl |
|
1935-1936 |
18-19 |
14-15 |
Abyssinian war |
| 1936 |
19 |
15 |
Helicopter |
|
1936-1952 |
19-35 |
15-31 |
Reign of King George VI
(Windsor) |
| 1936 |
19 |
15 |
Spanish Civil War |
| 1936 |
19 |
15 |
Reign of King Edward VIII
(Windsor) |
|
1937-1945 |
20-28 |
16-24 |
Chinese-Japanese war (3) |
| 1937 |
20 |
16 |
Nylon (by DuPont) |
| 1938 |
21 |
17 |
Germany annexes Austria |
| 1939 |
22 |
18 |
Digital Computer |
|
1939-1945 |
22-28 |
18-24 |
World War II |
| 1939 |
22 |
18 |
Aircraft Jet Engine invented (by Ohain) |
| 1940 |
23 |
19 |
Color Television |
| 1940 |
23 |
19 |
1st black general in US army |
|
1941-1945 |
24-28 |
20-24 |
Manhattan Project from |
| 1942 |
25 |
21 |
Forrest and Lerabeth
Married at ages 25 & 21 |
| 1942 |
25 |
21 |
Nuclear Reactor |
| 1942 |
25 |
21 |
Magnetic Recording Tape |
| 1943 |
26 |
22 |
Birth of Carol Joyce Covin (daughter) |
| 1945 |
28 |
24 |
Birth of John Forrest Covin (son) |
| 1945 |
28 |
24 |
US drops the bomb on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| 1945 |
28 |
24 |
Hypertext |
| 1945 |
28 |
24 |
United Nations formed |
|
1945-1952 |
28-35 |
24-31 |
Harry S Truman president of
US |
|
1946-1989 |
29-72 |
25-68 |
The Cold War from |
| 1946 |
29 |
25 |
The Bikini |
| 1947 |
30 |
26 |
Transistor |
| 1947 |
30 |
26 |
UN partitions Palestine to
Jewish and Arab sections |
| 1948 |
31 |
27 |
NATO formed |
| 1948 |
31 |
27 |
Israel inaugurated as state |
| 1948 |
31 |
27 |
Arabs attack Israel on the
day it is inaugurated |
| 1948 |
31 |
27 |
33 1/3 rpm musical
recordings |
| 1949 |
32 |
28 |
Soviets detonate first
nuclear bomb |
| 1949 |
32 |
28 |
Apartheid policy in South
Africa |
| 1949 |
32 |
28 |
45 rpm musical recordings |
| 1950 |
33 |
29 |
Birth of Huby Keith Covin (son) |
| 1950 |
33 |
29 |
World pop. est. at 2.4
billion |
|
1950-1953 |
33-36 |
29-32 |
Korean War |
|
1950-1954 |
33-37 |
29 |
McCarthyism |
| 1950 |
33 |
29 |
Bunche 1st black to win
Nobel Peace Prize |
| 1951 |
34 |
30 |
Birth of Donna Harden
(Smith) Covin (future daughter in-law) |
| 1951 |
34 |
30 |
Electricity from Atomic
Power |
| 1952 |
35 |
31 |
1st Thermonuclear Device
Detonated |
| 1952- |
35- |
31- |
Reign of Queen Elizabeth II
(Windsor) |
|
1953-1960 |
36-43 |
32-39 |
Dwight D Eisenhower
president of US |
| 1954 |
37 |
33 |
Racial segregation in
schools ruled unconstitutional |
| 1955 |
38 |
34 |
Fiber Optics (by Kapany) |
| 1955 |
38 |
34 |
Warsaw pact formed |
| 1955 |
38 |
34 |
Introduction of Salk Polio Vaccine at age 39 |
| 1956 |
39 |
35 |
Ocean liner Andrea Doria
collides with the Stockholm, sinks |
| 1957 |
40 |
36 |
Sputnik Launched - 1st
(artificial) satellite |
| 1958 |
41 |
37 |
Stereo LP recordings come
into usage |
| 1958 |
41 |
37 |
US space agency (NASA)
established |
| 1958 |
41 |
37 |
FM Stereo Broadcasts |
| 1958 |
41 |
37 |
Integrated Circuit |
| 1959 |
42 |
38 |
Hawaii enters the union -
50th |
| 1959 |
42 |
38 |
Alaska enters the union -
49th |
| 1959 |
42 |
38 |
1st nuclear powered merchant
vessel, Savannah |
| 1960 |
43 |
39 |
Birth of Antonia Lynn
Sedorvitch Covin (future daughter in-law) |
| 1960 |
43 |
39 |
World subsurface
circumnavigation by US sub Triton |
| 1960 |
43 |
39 |
Pantyhose |
| 1960 |
43 |
39 |
Laser at age 44 |
| 1960 |
43 |
39 |
1st weather satellite (Tiros
I) |
|
1961-1970 |
44-53 |
40-49 |
7th Cholera pandemic from |
| 1961 |
44 |
40 |
1st US manned spaceflight - Alan Shephard |
|
1961-1963 |
44-46 |
40-42 |
John F Kennedy president of
US |
| 1961 |
44 |
40 |
First human in space - Yuri Gagarin |
| 1962 |
45 |
41 |
Cuban missile crisis |
|
1962-1965 |
45-48 |
41-44 |
Vatican II |
| 1963 |
46 |
42 |
Bedford Forrest Covin Dies |
| 1963 |
46 |
42 |
1st artificial heart |
| 1963 |
46 |
42 |
Pres. Kennedy Assassinated |
| 1963 |
46 |
42 |
Compact Cassette Recordings |
|
1963-1968 |
46-51 |
42-47 |
Lyndon B Johnson president
of US |
| 1964 |
47 |
44 |
US civil rights bill |
|
1964-1975 |
47-60 |
43-56 |
Vietnam War |
| 1965 |
48 |
44 |
John Simon Rice Dies |
| 1965 |
48 |
44 |
Blacks riot in Watts
neighborhood, Los Angeles |
| 1965 |
48 |
44 |
1st spacewalks (US, USSR) |
| 1966 |
49 |
45 |
1st soft landings on moon
(US, USSR) |
| 1966 |
49 |
45 |
8-track tape players |
| 1967 |
50 |
46 |
Six day war: Israel-Arabs |
| 1967 |
50 |
46 |
1st human heart transplant |
|
1967-1970 |
50-53 |
46-49 |
Nigerian civil war |
| 1967 |
50 |
46 |
Marshall 1st black supreme
court justice |
| 1967 |
50 |
46 |
Physicist John Wheeler coins
the term Black Hole |
| 1968 |
51 |
47 |
Robert Kennedy assassinated |
| 1968 |
51 |
47 |
Martin Luther King
assassinated |
|
1969-1974 |
52-57 |
48-53 |
Richard M. Nixon president
of US |
| 1969 |
52 |
48 |
Woodstock Music Festival |
| 1969 |
52 |
48 |
Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin |
| 1970 |
53 |
49 |
Forrest Lee Covin Dies at
age 53 |
| 1970 |
53 |
49 |
Nat. Guard murders 4 students at Kent State |
| 1970 |
53 |
49 |
Microprocessor |
| 1971 |
54 |
50 |
Intel ships 1st uProcessor:
the 4004 |
| 1971 |
54 |
50 |
Pakistani civil war |
| 1972 |
55 |
51 |
Joyce Covin marries
Richard Runyan |
| 1973 |
56 |
52 |
October war (Israel-Arabic nations) |
| 1973 |
56 |
52 |
The Internet |
| 1974 |
57 |
53 |
John F Covin marries
Donna Harden Smith |
| 1974 |
57 |
53 |
Pres. Nixon resigns in
disgrace |
|
1974-1976 |
57-60 |
53-56 |
Gerald Ford president of US |
| 1975 |
58 |
54 |
Byte Magazine, issue #1 -
September |
| 1975 |
59 |
55 |
Ebola virus appears - 90
percent lethal |
| 1975 |
59 |
55 |
The 1st home computer: The Altair
8800a |
| 1976 |
59 |
55 |
Birth of Ryan David
Runyan (first grandchild) |
| 1976 |
59 |
55 |
VHS Video Recordings |
| 1976 |
59 |
55 |
Television begins satellite
delivery |
| 1976 |
59 |
55 |
Whites accept principle of
black majority rule in S. Africa |
| 1976 |
59 |
55 |
American Bicentennial |
|
1977-1980 |
60-63 |
56-59 |
James Earl Carter Jr
president of US from |
| 1977 |
60 |
56 |
Birth of Sarah Kathryn
Covin (grandchild) |
| 1977 |
60 |
56 |
Neutron bomb |
| 1978 |
61 |
57 |
Jonestown religious group
mass suicide - 913 people die |
| 1978 |
61 |
57 |
Laserdisc video recordings |
| 1978 |
61 |
57 |
1st test-tube baby |
| 1979 |
62 |
58 |
Margaret Thatcher 1st Woman
Prime Minister in UK |
| 1979 |
62 |
58 |
Three Mile Island nuclear
event |
| 1980 |
63 |
59 |
Birth of John David Covin |
| 1980 |
63 |
59 |
Jessie Lawler Covin Dies |
| 1980 |
63 |
59 |
Mount St. Helens Erupts at age 64 |
|
1981-1988 |
64-71 |
60-67 |
Ronald Reagan president of
US |
| 1981 |
64 |
60 |
IBM PC ships |
| 1981 |
64 |
60 |
1st space shuttle flight - Columbia |
| 1981 |
64 |
60 |
1st female supreme court
justice |
| 1982 |
65 |
61 |
1st genetically engineered
product - insulin |
| 1983 |
66 |
62 |
Birth of Forrest Keith
Covin (grandchild) |
| 1983 |
66 |
62 |
Compact Disks |
| 1983 |
66 |
62 |
Bluford 1st black in space |
| 1983 |
66 |
62 |
Pioneer 10 leaves the solar
system |
| 1984 |
67 |
63 |
Apple Macintosh Ships |
| 1984 |
67 |
63 |
HIV determined to be cause of AIDs |
| 1985 |
68 |
64 |
Amiga Computer Ships |
| 1986 |
69 |
65 |
Mattie Mae Rice Dies |
| 1986 |
69 |
65 |
Halley's Comet |
| 1986 |
69 |
65 |
Shuttle Challenger explodes |
| 1986 |
69 |
65 |
Mir space station deployed |
| 1986 |
69 |
65 |
Chernobyl power plant melts down |
| 1987 |
70 |
66 |
2000th satellite launched:
USSR's Cosmos |
| 1988 |
71 |
67 |
Turin shroud precisely
carbon dated to 1330 AD - shroud is a hoax |
|
1989-1992 |
72-75 |
68-71 |
George Bush president of US |
| 1989 |
72 |
68 |
Powell is 1st black chairmain
joint US chiefs of staff |
| 1989 |
72 |
68 |
Pons and Fleischmann claim cold fusion |
| 1989 |
72 |
68 |
US Invades Panama, topples Noriega |
| 1989 |
72 |
68 |
Breakup of the Soviet Union |
| 1989 |
72 |
68 |
Fall of Berlin Wall |
| 1990 |
73 |
69 |
Hubble space telescope
deployed |
| 1990 |
73 |
69 |
World Wide Web |
|
1991-2003 |
74-86 |
70-82 |
8th Cholera pandemic |
| 1991 |
74 |
70 |
Iraq attacks Kuwait, US Attacks Iraq |
| 1992 |
75 |
71 |
Blacks riot in South Central
neighborhood, Los Angeles |
| 1993 |
76 |
72 |
Catholic Church apologizes for its treatment of Galileo
in the 1600's |
| 1993 |
76 |
72 |
Terrorist bombing of World
Trade Center |
|
1993-2000 |
76-83 |
72-79 |
William Clinton president of
US |
| 1994 |
77 |
73 |
South Africa moves to 1
person, 1 vote system |
| 1995 |
78 |
74 |
Terrorist bombing in Oklahoma City |
| 1996 |
79 |
75 |
DVD video recordings |
| 1997 |
80 |
76 |
John and Donna Covin
separate |
| 1997 |
80 |
76 |
Lerabeth Rice Covin dies
at age 76 |
| 1997 |
80 |
76 |
Sister Teresa dies |
| 1997 |
80 |
76 |
Princess Diana dies |
| 1997 |
80 |
76 |
Mars pathfinder lands |
| 1997 |
80 |
76 |
Cloning living beings |
| 2000 |
83 |
79 |
Sarah Kathryn Covin
graduates Carleton College, Northfield, MN |
| 2000 |
83 |
79 |
John Covin marries Antonia (Sedorvitch)
Tierra, New Hope, PA (Dec 5, 2002) |
| 2001 |
84 |
80 |
Forrest Keith Covin
graduates Hopewell Valley H.S., Pennington, NJ |
| 2003 |
85 |
81 |
John David Covin graduates
The Lewis School, Princeton, NJ |
|
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