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黃 氏, 1912–2006 (aged 94 years)

Name
/黃/ 氏
Surname
黃
Name suffix
氏
Birth
about 1912
28th President of the United States
Woodrow Wilson
March 4, 1913 (aged 1 year)
Global conflict
World War I
from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918 (aged 6 years)
Note: Source citation: World War One Wikipedia
29th President of the United States
Warren G Harding
March 4, 1921 (aged 9 years)
30th President of the United States
Calvin Coolidge
August 2, 1923 (aged 11 years)
31st President of the United States
Herbert Hoover
March 4, 1929 (aged 17 years)
Chinese American Events
Tong Wars
from 1800 to 1930 (aged 18 years)
Note: Source citation: Tong Wars Wikipedia
Note: These started as conflicts between clans and sensationalized by American media as gang and turf urban warfare.
Chinese Conflicts
Mukden Incident
from September 18, 1931 to February 18, 1932 (aged 20 years)
Note: Source citation: Mukden Incident Wikipedia
Note: Imperial Japan starts to subjugate Manchuria for natural resources and living space. Japan wanted a Great Britan like empire calling it the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. The Japan's defeat to the Soviet during the Battles of Khalkhin Gol set the stage for the Japan's Pearl Harbor attack and war with the United States.
Chinese American Events
Chinese Exclusion Act
from May 9, 1882 to 1943 (aged 31 years)
Note: An official act legalizing discrimination against Chinese in the United States. Poster: 'Chinese Must Go'.
Note: Source citation: Chinese Exclusion Act Wikipedia
Economic
1929 Great Depression
from 1929 to 1930 (aged 18 years)
Note: Source citation: Great Depression Wikipedia
Note: Worldwide economic downturn.
32nd President of the United States
Franklin D Roosevelt
March 4, 1933 (aged 21 years)
33rd President of the United States
Harry S Truman
April 12, 1945 (aged 33 years)
Chinese Conflicts
Second Sino-Japanese War
from July 7, 1937 to September 9, 1945 (aged 33 years)
Note: Some historians consider this the true start of World War Two. Japan's attempt to conquer China, after subjugating Manchukuo.
China Government/Dynasties
Republic of China
from 1912 to 1949 (aged 37 years)
Note: Source citation: Republic of China Wikipedia
World Conflict
Attack on Pearl Harbor
from December 7, 1941 (aged 29 years)
Note: Source citation: Attack on Pearl Harbor Wikipedia
Note: The date the United States enters WW2.
Global Conflict
World War II
from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 (aged 33 years)
Note: Source citation: World War Two Wikipedia
Note: Western world's time period for World War II.
Chinese American Events
Internment of Japanese Americans
from February 19, 1942 to March 20, 1946 (aged 34 years)
Note: Another example of anti-Asian sentiment in the United States.
Chinese Conflicts
Chinese Communist/Kuomintang Civil War
from August 10, 1945 to December 7, 1949 (aged 37 years)
Note: This represented the defeat and withdrawal of the Kuomintang to Taiwan by Mao Zedong
Death of a husband
周沃庆
about 1949 (aged 37 years)
China Government/Dynasties
People's Republic of China
1949 (aged 37 years)
Chinese American Events
McCarthyism
from 1940 to 1950 (aged 38 years)
Note: Source citation: McCarthyism Wikipedia
Note: An example of memes and slogans during this time was 'better dead than red' and the Domino theory
34th President of the United States
Dwight D Eisenhower
January 20, 1953 (aged 41 years)
Chinese American Conflicts
Korean War
from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953 (aged 41 years)
Note: Source citation: Korean War Wikipedia
35th President of the United States
John F Kennedy
January 20, 1961 (aged 49 years)
36th President of the United States
Lyndon B Johnson
November 22, 1963 (aged 51 years)
37th President of the United States
Richard Nixon
January 20, 1969 (aged 57 years)
38th President of the United States
Gerald Ford
August 9, 1974 (aged 62 years)
American Conflicts
Vietnam War
from November 1, 1955 to April 30, 1975 (aged 63 years)
Note: Source citation: Vietnam_War Wikipedia
Chinese Events
Cultural Revolution
from 1949 to 1976 (aged 64 years)
Note: The wanton distruction of Chinese clan genealogy documents along with cultural relics by the Red Guards made tracing Chinese Americans family heritage even harder. This represented Mao Zedong' s attempt to regain local control of China.
Note: Source citation: Cultural Revolution Wikipedia
American INS program
Chinese Confession Program
from 1956 to 1965 (aged 53 years)
Note: A program of the Immigration and Naturalization Service allowing reconciliation of the illegal entry status of paper sons. This caused much fear and distrust among the Chinese American population. The number of participants were less than initially predicted.
39th President of the United States
Jimmy Carter
January 20, 1977 (aged 65 years)
40th President of the United States
Ronald Reagan
January 20, 1981 (aged 69 years)
41st President of the United States
George H W Bush
January 20, 1989 (aged 77 years)
42nd President of the United States
Bill Clinton
January 20, 1993 (aged 81 years)
43rd President of the United States
George W Bush
January 20, 2001 (aged 89 years)
Death
about 2006 (aged 94 years)