Dates in history

12. Bob’s children (Malden, MA, 1962, 1964, 1965 & 1973 -)

• January 20, 1969 Richard Nixon elected president
• Following commercialization and introduction of privately run Internet Service Providers in the 1980s, and its expansion into popular use in the 1990s, the Internet has had a drastic impact on culture and commerce. This includes the rise of near instant communication by e-mail, text based discussion forums, the World Wide Web.
• A new viral disease, AIDS, arose in Africa and subsequently killed millions of people throughout the world. AIDS treatments remained inaccessible to people living with AIDS in developing countries, but even with the best available treatment, most patients eventually died from complications of the disease.
• The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11) were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by al-Qaeda upon the United States. On that morning, terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners.[1][2] The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the World Trade Center in New York City, resulting in the collapse of both buildings soon afterward and extensive damage to nearby buildings. The hijackers crashed a third airliner into the Pentagon. The fourth plane crashed into a field near Shanksville in rural Somerset County, Pennsylvania after passengers and members of the flight crew on the fourth aircraft attempted to retake control of their plane. Excluding the hijackers, 2,974 people died as an immediate result of the attacks with another 24 missing and presumed dead.
• 2003, Invasion of Iraq, United States and Coalition Forces vs. Iraq
• Massachusetts had an estimated 2006 population of 6,437,193.
• In 1987, Massachusetts received federal funding for the $14.6 billion Central Artery/Tunnel Project. Known colloquially as the “the Big Dig,” it was at the time the biggest federal highway project ever approved. As of 2008, the highway is open but landscaping is still underway.

 

 

11. Robert Hall (Malden, MA, 1935-1993)

• January 20, 1961 John F. Kennedy elected president
• 1960-1975, Vietnam War, United States and South Vietnam vs. North Vietnam
• 1961, Bay of Pigs Invasion, United States vs. Cuba
• The Apollo 11 mission was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. It was the fifth human spaceflight of the Apollo program and the third human voyage to the Moon. Launched on July 16, 1969, it carried Commander Neil Alden Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Eugene ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, Jr. On July 20, Armstrong and Aldrin became the first humans to land on the Moon, while Collins orbited above.
• During its campaign for FCC approval, CBS gave the first demonstrations of color television to the American general public, showing an hour of color programs daily Mondays through Saturdays, beginning January 12, 1950.
• This cellular phone concept was devised by a team of researchers at Bell Labs in 1947, but there were no computers available to do the switching. As small inexpensive computers were developed, cell phones could be produced. Motorola holds the US patents for the cell phone..

 

 

10. Dr Charles George Hall (Malden, MA, 1904-1976)

• September 14, 1901 Theodore Roosevelt elected president
• 1939-1945, World War II, Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan vs. Major Allied Powers: United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia
• The Japanese Launch Their Attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941
• April 30, 1941 – In the United States the FCC approves the NTSC standards of 525 lines and 30 frames per second, and authorizes commercial TV to begin on July 1. The first official commercial on that day was for Bulova Watches, seen just before the start of a Brooklyn Dodgers telecast. Telecasts were curtailed in the early years of the war, then expanded as NBC began to prepare for full service upon the war’s end. On V-E Day, May 8, 1945, WNBT broadcast hours of news coverage, and remotes from around New York City. The early 1950s brought success for NBC in the new medium. Television’s first big star, Milton Berle, drew large audiences to NBC with his antics on the The Texaco Star Theater. The network launched Today and The Tonight Show, which would bookend the broadcast day for over fifty years, and which still lead their competitors.
• On October 8, 1945 Raytheon filed a U.S. patent for Spencer’s microwave cooking process and an oven that heated food using microwave energy was placed in a Boston restaurant for testing. In 1947 the first microwave in the World was almost 6 feet tall, weighed 750 pounds and cost about US$5000 each. In the 1960s, Litton developed a new configuration of the microwave, the short, wide shape that is now common. Sales volume of 40,000 units for the US industry in 1970 grew to one million by 1975.
• The Holocaust: The Nazi Party under Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany on January 30, 1933, and the persecution and exodus of Germany’s 525,000 Jews began almost immediately.
• 1905 Einstein’s theory of special relativity
• 1914 Panama Canal is built by the United States
• Early 1900’s the Photostat machine begins modern era of document imaging
• The Boston Molasses Disaster, also known as the Great Molasses Flood and the Great Boston Molasses Tragedy, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. A large molasses tank burst and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph killing 21 and injuring 150.

 

 

9. Charles Milton Hall (Malden, MA, 1881-1942)

• 1914-1918, World War I, Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary vs. Triple Entente: Britain, France, and Russia. The United States joined on the side of the Triple Entente in 1917.
• On January 16th, 1920 the prohibition of the sale and consumption of alcohol became law, with fines of up to $1,000 or a six month jail term. This lasted until February of 1933 when Congress passed the 21st amendment.
• The Wright brothers, were two Americans who are generally credited with inventing and building the world’s first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight on 17 December 1903.
• The large-scale, production-line manufacturing of affordable automobiles was debuted by Ransom Olds at his Oldsmobile factory in 1902. This concept was then greatly expanded by Henry Ford, beginning in 1914.
• On Christmas Eve, 1906, Reginald Fessenden used a synchronous rotary-spark transmitter for the first radio program broadcast, from Ocean Bluff-Brant Rock, Massachusetts. Ships at sea heard a broadcast that included Fessenden playing O Holy Night on the violin and reading a passage from the Bible. The first radio news program was broadcast August 31, 1920 by station 8MK in Detroit, Michigan.
• The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912
• The Great Depression was a dramatic, worldwide economic downturn beginning in some countries as early as 1928. The beginning of the Great Depression in the United States is associated with the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday and the end is associated with the onset of the war economy of World War II, beginning around 1939.

 

 

8. Ephriam Augustus Hall (Malden, MA, 1852-1917)

• March 4, 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected president
• On December 18, 1865 the 13th Amendment is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution, ensuring that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude… shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
• 1861-1865, Civil War, Union vs. Confederacy
• An automobile powered by an Otto gasoline engine was built in Mannheim, Germany by Karl Benz in 1885 and granted a patent in January of the following year under the auspices of his major company, Benz & Cie. which was founded in 1883.

• 10 March 1876 — the first successful telephone transmission of clear speech using a liquid transmitter when Bell spoke into his device, “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.” and Watson heard each word distinctly.
• 1805 Refrigerator: The American inventor Oliver Evans designed the first refrigeration machine in 1805. In 1844, John Gorrie, an American doctor from Florida made a device based on Evans’ invention that would make ice in order to cool the air for yellow fever patients. The first electric refrigerator was invented in 1903 by Thomas Moore. The first commercial refrigerator designed to keep food cold was sold in 1911 (by the General Electric Company).
• 1867 Typewriter: The first commercially viable typewriter was invented in 1867 by the American printer and editor Christopher Latham Sholes.
• Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper in 1857.
• 1888 Camera: In Rochester, New York, George Eastman introduces a hand-held box camera for portable use. The camera is pre-loaded with 100 exposure film; after shooting the photographer returns the whole camera to the manufacturer for development and a reload.

 

 

7. Horatio Hall (b. Norton, MA; d. Malden, MA, 1802-1884)

• March 4, 1801 Thomas Jefferson elected president
• 1812-1815, War of 1812, United States vs. Great Britain
• Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph and a long lasting light bulb.
• The first written account of indoor plumbing is documented to the 1840’s. It remained pretty much a luxury for the next 20 years. There is one major element that keeps sanitary facilities outside: smell. By the 1870’s high end new home designs include “bath rooms” that contain a tub, sink and toilet, once the S-curve in the toilet pipe is developed to provide a barrier for sewer gases, indoor plumbing becomes popular. By 1900 almost all the new home designs are being offered with indoor plumbing. Many of the older homes still have not been retrofitted with plumbing, but almost all new construction will have indoor plumbing as an amenity.
• Alexander Graham Bell invented his telephone in Boston in 1876.

 

6. Major Brian Hall (b. Norton, MA; d. Prov. RI 1762-1833 )

• July 4, 1776 the Declaration of Independence is signed
• April 30, 1789 George Washington elected president
• March 4, 1797 John Adams elected president
• 1775-1783, American Revolution, English Colonists vs. Great Britain
• Richard Trevithick built and demonstrated his Puffing Devil road locomotive in 1801, the first truly successful steam-powered road vehicle.
• 1794 Eli Whitney patents his machine to comb and deseed bolls of cotton. His invention makes possible a revolution in the cotton industry and the rise of “King Cotton” as the main cash crop in the South, but will never make him rich. Instead of buying his machine, farmers built bogus versions of their own. Also lead to the increasing want/need for slave labor.
• April 19, 1775 the Battles of Lexington and Concord initiated the American Revolutionary War and were fought in the Massachusetts towns of Concord and Lexington.
• 1788 – Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution.

 

5. Brian Hall (Norton, MA, 1727-1788 )

• The Boston Massacre refers to an incident involving the deaths of five civilians at the hands of British troops on March 5, 1770.
• The Boston Tea Party – 1773
• 1764: The Spinning Jenny created by James Hargreaves brought on the Industrial Revolution

 

4. John Hall (b. Taunton, MA; d. Raynham, MA, 1693-1766)

• 1702-1713, Queen Anne’s War, The English Colonies vs. France
• 1709: The first piano was built by Bartolomeo Cristofori
• 1712: Steam Engine invented by Thomas Newcomen.
• 1755: The English Dictionary by Samuel Johnson

 

 

3. John Hall (Taunton, MA, 1672-1708 )

• 1689-1697, King William’s War, The English Colonies vs. France
• 1687: Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
• 1692: Salem witch trials in Massachusetts.
• 1663: The first reflecting telescope is built by James Gregory based on suggestions of Italian astronomer Niccolo Zucchi
• 1670: Monk Dom Perignon discovers Champagne in France

 

 

2. John Hall (Taunton, MA, 1639/40-1693/4)

• July 4, 1675 – August 12, 1676, King Philip’s War, New England Colonies vs. Wampanoag, Narragansett, and Nipmuck Indians

 

1. George Hall (b. Eng; d. Taunton, MA, abt. 1610 -1669)

• 1620: The Puritan Pilgrims arrive in the Mayflower at Plymouth Rock, Cape Cod.
• 1636: Harvard University is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts.