Happy Birthday, Grandma Taylor! by Susan Ethel Kinsella

Happy 133rd Birthday, Grandma Nancy Ethel Baker Taylor! 

I’m glad to share the “Ethel Club” with you! 

We miss you and think of  you often with warm, sweet memories.

Here are some of the events that Grandma Taylor lived through during her lifetime (thank you, Wikipedia and Pat Herdeg's Family Tree on Ancestry.com): 

1887

• July 30 - Nancy Ethel Baker, beloved Mother, Aunt, Grandmother, born in Center Lisle, NY
• The US Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as a naval base
• In Punxsutawney, PA, the first Groundhog Day is observed
• The Grand Hotel opens in Mackinac, Michigan

1888

• National Geographic Society founded
• Washington Monument completed
• Kodak introduces its Kodak #1 camera, a simple box camera pre-loaded with a 100-exposure roll of film 

1889

• Oklahoma Land Rush
• North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington became states
• Benjamin Harrison becomes the first US president in history to have a voice recording of a speech he gave
• Brother Adin Leonard Baker born

1890

• Yosemite National Park created
• Idaho and Wyoming become states

1891

• James Naismith invents basketball
• Sister Ruth Inez Baker born

1892

• General Electric Company founded
• Sister Lillian Rosena Baker born

1896

• Gold discovered in the Yukon’s Klondike
• Utah becomes a state

1897 - Boston subway completed

1900 - US population exceeds 75 million

1903

• Great Train Robbery movie opens
• First baseball World Series
• The Wright Brothers make their first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina

1904

• Ruth Inez Baker dies at 13 in 17-year-old Ethel’s arms on December 29th

1905 - Albert Einstein publishes his Theory of Relativity

1906 - San Francisco Earthquake

1908

• Ford Model T appears on market
• FBI founded

1909 - US penny is changed to the Abraham Lincoln design

1912

• The Titanic tragically sinks
• New Mexico and Arizona become states

1914 - Mother’s Day established as a national holiday

1915

• Ethel marries William Lloyd Taylor in Center Lisle, NY, September 30th

1916 - Jeannette Rankin is first woman elected to US Congress

1917

• US enters WWI
• National Hockey League formed
• Alice Paul and the National Women’s Party hold a vigil outside the White House in favor of women’s suffrage, and continue it for nearly two and a half years

1918

• Daughter Ruth Emma Taylor born in Basom, NY
• WWI ends
• Spanish flu pandemic begins

1919 - Son Arnon Lloyd Taylor born in Oakfield, NY

1920

• 19th Amendment grants women the right to vote
• First radio broadcasts, by stations in Pittsburgh and Detroit
• National Football League is formed

1921 - Daughter Esther Mildred Taylor born in Oakfield, NY

1924 - Daughter Doris Ethel Taylor born in Batavia, NY

1925 - Ethel's father, Byron Howard Baker, dies in Center Lisle, NY

1927

• Daughter Lucille Kate Taylor born in Elba, NY
• Charles Lindbergh makes first trans-Atlantic flight
• The Jazz Singer, first motion picture with sound, is released

1928

• First animated Mickey Mouse cartoon
• Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean

1929

• Wall Street Crash of 1929, Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 68 points over two days
•  The Great Depression begins

1930

• Son Harold Baker Taylor born in South Byron, NY
• Frozen vegetables packaged by Clarence Birdseye become the first frozen food to go on sale

1931 - Empire State Building opens in New York

1932 - Franklin Roosevelt elected president, promises a “new deal”

1933 - 21st Amendment ends Prohibition

1934 - Dust Bowl begins in the Great Plains

1935 - Social Security Act established

1937

• Look magazine publishes first issue, after Life magazine debut the year before
• Hindenburg disaster
• Golden Gate Bridge completed in San Francisco

1938

• Superman debuts in Action Comics #1
• Orson Welles’ The War of the Worlds broadcast

1939

• WWII begins
• The Taylor Family attends the World’s Fair in New York City
• Franklin Roosevelt becomes the first US president to give a speech broadcast on television

1940 - Bugs Bunny, Tom and Jerry, and Woody Woodpecker make their cartoon debuts

1941

• Regular commercial television broadcasting begins, CBS and NBC stations launched (NBC had been founded in 1926)
• Attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, US enters WWII

1942

• Japanese-American internment begins
• Automobile production for private US consumers halted until 1945
• Casablanca released

1944

• GI Bill
• D-Day
• Battle of the Bulge

1945

• Germany surrenders, US drops first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, WWII ends
• United Nations established

1947

• UFO crashes at Roswell, New Mexico
• The Marshall Plan for European recovery after WWII
• Polaroid camera invented
• Jackie Robinson breaks color barrier in baseball
• The World Series is broadcast live on television for the first time

1950

• Korean War begins
• Charles M. Schulz first publishes the comic strip Peanuts

1951

• Susan Ethel Kinsella, Grandma's favorite grandchild (amidst more than 30 additional favorites), born in Syracuse, NY
• I Love Lucy premieres on CBS

1954

• The Tournament of Roses Parade becomes the first event nationally televised in color
• St. Lawrence Seaway Act permits construction of locks, canals and channels, allowing ocean-going ships to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes

1955

• Ethel's mother, Kate Permelia Youngs, dies in Center Lisle, NY
• Ray Kroc opens the first McDonald’s 
• Rosa Parks remains seated on a bus
• Disneyland opens at Anaheim, CA
• Jonas Salk develops polio vaccine
• Rock and roll music enters the mainstream with Rock Around the Clock, by Bill Haley and his Comets

1956

• President Eisenhower secures passage of the Interstate Highway Act, leading to construction of 41,000 miles of the Interstate Highway System
• Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show

1957

• Civil Rights Act of 1957 becomes the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress since Reconstruction
• Soviets launch Sputnik, “space race” begins

1958

• NASA formed
• Jack Kilby invents the integrated circuit

1959

• Bonanza becomes the first drama broadcast in color
• Alaska and Hawaii become states

1960

• To Kill A Mockingbird published
• John Fitzgerald Kennedy elected president

1961

• Alan Shepard becomes first American in space
• US-Vietnam War officially begins

1962

• John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Spider Man debuts in Marvel Comics 

1963

• March on Washington, with Martin Luther King, Jr’s I Have A Dream speech
• Betty Friedan publishes The Feminine Mystique, sparking the women’s liberation movement
• President John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas

1964

• Ethel's beloved brother, Adin Leonard Baker, dies in Center Lisle, NY
• The Beatles arrive in the US, perform on the Ed Sullivan Show

1965 - Medicaid and Medicare enacted

1967

• The First Super Bowl is played
• Counterculture “Summer of Love”

1968

• Martin Luther King, Jr is assassinated
• NY Senator Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated 
• Apollo 8 astronauts orbit the moon, take Earthrise photograph

1969

• Ethel's husband, William Lloyd Taylor, dies in Waterloo, NY, age 76
• Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the Moon on Apollo 11 mission
• Woodstock Festival
• Sesame Street premieres

1970

• The first Earth Day is observed
• Public Broadcasting System (PBS) begins operating
• July 24, Nancy Ethel Baker Taylor dies in Waterloo, NY, just before her 83rd birthday
• She is buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, where her grandchildren still tend her grave