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===1920s===
===1920s===
*'''c. 1926''' - Barbara's parents, Joseph Otto Weston and Carrie Edna Wynn, marry.<ref name=Carrie>https://web.archive.org/web/20170825073641/http://www.harveypowers.com/wynn/wynn/d141.html</ref>
*'''5 February 1927''' - Barbara's parents, Joseph Otto Weston and Carrie Edna Wynn, marry.<ref name=Carrie>https://web.archive.org/web/20170825073641/http://www.harveypowers.com/wynn/wynn/d141.html</ref>
*'''4 September 1927''' - Birth of [[Bob Chandler]].<ref name=HarveyPowers/>
*'''4 September 1927''' - Birth of [[Bob Chandler]].<ref name=HarveyPowers/>
*'''22 July 1928''' - Birth of [[Jimmy Hill]].
*'''22 July 1928''' - Birth of [[Jimmy Hill]].

Revision as of 09:26, 20 February 2023

This page covers events in the CWChronology occurring before 1980.

Timeline

Ancient history

Early modern period

1900s

  • 8 February 1906 - Birth of Robert Franklin Chandler Sr., Bob's father.
  • 28 March 1906 - Birth of Jean Holloman, Bob's mother.
  • 29 February 1908 - James Madison University is established.

1910s

  • 15 December 1911 - Barbara's mother, Carrie Edna Wynn, is born.[11]
  • 18 July 1913 - Birth of Red Skelton.
  • 28 July 1914 - 11 November 1918 - World War I

1920s

  • 5 February 1927 - Barbara's parents, Joseph Otto Weston and Carrie Edna Wynn, marry.[11]
  • 4 September 1927 - Birth of Bob Chandler.[12]
  • 22 July 1928 - Birth of Jimmy Hill.

1930s

1940s

  • 1 October 1941 - Birth of Barbara Chandler.[12]
  • 28 October 1942 - Birth of Thomas Eugene Ashby, husband of Barbara's sister, Harriett Ashby.
  • 20 November 1942 - Birth of Joe Biden
  • 1943 - Leo Kanner releases a report on a group of children with similar behavior which Kanner calls early infantile autism, thus giving Autism its modern sense in English.
  • Spring 1945 - Bob graduates from Sylacauga High School in Sylacauga, Alabama.
  • 10 May 1945 - Death of Jean Holloman, Bob's mother.
  • Fall 1945 - Spring 1946 - Bob attends his freshman year at Auburn University according to the Auburn University 1946 yearbook. He majors in Aeronautical Engineering.
  • 14 June 1946 - Birth of Donald Trump.
  • 6 July 1946 - Birth of George W. Bush.
  • 18 July 1946 - Bob is drafted into the U.S. Army and is stationed in Korea with the Signal Corps.[13][14]
  • 24 November 1946 - Birth of Ted Bundy.[15]
  • 9 January 1947 - Harriett Ashby, Barb's sister, is born.[16]
  • April 1948 - Bob is discharged from the Army after a 21-month tour of duty.
  • Fall 1948 - Bob enters Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Alabama in order to study Pre-Engineering.
  • 1949 - The Lego Group first begins manufacturing its titular brand of building blocks.

1950s

  • c. 1956-1960 - Barbara loses her virginity while in high school.[17]
  • Fall 1950 - Bob returns to Auburn University in order to study Electrical Engineering.
  • Spring 1952 - Bob graduates from Auburn University with a BEE degree in Electrical Engineering.
  • 16 November 1952 - Birth of Shigeru Miyamoto
  • 1954/1955 - Bob loses his virginity at the age of 27.[17]
  • 25 March 1955 - Bob and John H. Judd Jr. file a patent for an electrical terminal block.
  • 8 April 1955 - Barb's father, Joseph Otto Weston, is killed while hauling wood along a rural road near Red Oak, Virginia. He fell off his horse drawn wagon, was run over by one of its rear wheels, and died of a broken neck. His body was discovered after his horse and wagon arrived without their driver at a service station.
  • 1956 - Birth of Michael Snyder.[18]
  • September 25 1956 - Bob marries his first wife Patricia Harley in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
  • Spring 1957 - Ran graduated from Park View High School, in South Hill, Virginia.
  • Fall 1957 - Ran enters Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
  • 1957 - Birth of Matthew Devoria, father of Kacey.[19]
  • 20 July 1958 - Birth of BILLY MAYS.
  • 28 April 1959 - Bob and John's patent for an electrical terminal block is published.

1960s

  • 1960 - Barb graduates from Randolph-Henry High School in Charlotte Court House, Virginia.
  • 2 March 1960 - Birth of Kenneth Erwin Engelhardt.
  • 17 November 1960 - Birth of Takashi Tezuka.
  • 1961 - Ran Coleman Yeatts, Cole's suspected biological father, graduates from Wake Forest University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
  • 25 March 1961 - Birth of Reggie Fils-Aimé.
  • 16 June 1961 - Barbara marries Ran Coleman Yeatts at a Baptist church in Wylliesburg, Virginia; The same day, Barbara moved to Richmond to live with Yeatts.
  • 4 August 1961 - Birth of Barack Obama.
  • 28 November 1961 - Birth of David Alan Chandler.[20]
  • 28 April 1962 - Ran Coleman Yeatts deserts Barbara (according to the date given on her divorce certificate).
  • 15 May 1963 - Barbara is granted a divorce.
  • 10 June 1963 - The Equal Pay Act is signed into law
  • 24 July 1963 - Birth of Cole Smithey.
  • 22 November 1963 - Assassination of John F. Kennedy
  • 1964 - Jack Dale Smithey, the man who Barbara said was Cole's father, disappears after living in Richmond for at least a year.
  • 16 April 1964 - Birth of Michael Hirtes.
  • 29 May 1964 - Harriet Victoria Weston, Chris's aunt, marries Thomas Eugene Ashby.[16]
  • 7 July 1964 - Birth of Carol Chandler.
  • 27 August 1964 - Walt Disney Pictures releases Mary Poppins.
  • 1966 - Jerry Harmon becomes Cole's stepfather.[21]
  • 1 December 1966 - Bob files a patent for a vehicle logging system.
  • 23 August 1967 - Carrie Edna Wynn, Barbara's mother, dies.
  • November-December 1967 - Operation Snowball goes on tour for the first time. For two weeks, Jerry, Barb and four-year-old Cole travel around Virginia on a Cessna twin-engine airplane, performing magic tricks for inmates at mental hospitals. The family would do this every Christmas season for the next ten years.[22] [23]
  • June 18 1968 - Barbara marries Jerry Harmon in Washington DC.
  • 4 December 1969 - Birth of Jay Z.
  • 23 December 1969 - Bob's patent for a vehicle logging system is published.

1970s

  • c. 1971-1974 - Barbara nearly kills Cole while trying to frighten off a burglar.
  • 1972 - Piedmont Virginia Community College is chartered.
  • 26 December 1973 - Bob files a patent for a "Shot volume and cushion point control for injection molding apparatus."
  • 1975 - Bob moves to Richmond.
  • 17 June 1975 - Bob's patent for a "Shot volume and cushion point control for injection molding apparatus" is published.
  • 28 June 1976 - Bob and Patricia are legally separated.
  • 4 July 1976 - Birth of Clyde Cash.[24]
  • November-December 1976 (approx.) - Operation Snowball goes on tour for the last time.
  • Late 1970s - Bob volunteers as sing-along leader at Matt's British Pub in the Shockoe Slip neighborhood of Richmond.
  • 1977 - 14 Branchland Court is built.
  • 27 December 1977 - Death of Robert Franklin Chandler Sr., Bob's father.
  • August 25 1978 - Barbara and Jerry are legally separated.
  • 1979 - Bob and Barbara meet at "Maddy's Pub" (probably Chris's mangling of Matt's British Pub).[25] Barbara hears Bob sing and is smitten by him.[26]
  • 14 December 1979 - Birth of Joseph Herring.

References