1929 - October 29 - Black Tuesday - Stock market crash - The Great Depression Begins - It lasted until 1941 (WW2)
1934 - The metal beverage can is invented (American Can Co., United States)
1940 - Southbridge, Massachusetts
Name: Estelle Petoquin
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1940
Event Place: Southbridge Town, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Sex: Female
Age: 13
Marital Status: Single
Race (Original): White
Race: White
Birth Year (Estimated): 1927
Last Place of Residence: , ,
Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
Narcisse Petoquin Head Male 50 Massachusetts
Odile Petoquin Wife Female 54
Narcisse Petoquin Son Male 18
Constance Petoquin Daughter Female 16
Estelle Petoquin Female 13
1940 - April - 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
The microwave oven was invented accidentally in 1945 by Percy Spencer, a Raytheon engineer. While testing a magnetron, he noticed microwaves melted a candy bar in his pocket. Experimenting further, he discovered microwaves could cook food quickly. Raytheon patented the process, and by 1947, they built the first commercial microwave oven, called the 'Radarange.' Initially used in commercial settings, microwaves becomes affordable for home use by the 1960s and 1970s, revolutionizing cooking.
1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis was a tense 13-day standoff in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from the U.S. coast. The crisis is considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war. It began when American spy planes discovered the missiles, leading to a U.S. naval blockade of Cuba and intense negotiations. The crisis ended when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba and secretly agreeing to remove American missiles from Turkey.
1963 - I Have a Dream Speech - Martin Luther King's Address at March on Washington August 28, 1963.
June 17, 1972 – August 9, 1974 - Watergate Scandal began with the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., in 1972. Members of President Richard Nixon's administration attempted to cover up their involvement. The scandal led to the discovery of multiple abuses of power by the Nixon administration, the resignation of President Nixon in 1974, and the indictment of several administration officials.
1973 - January 22 - Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 and Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179: The U.S. Supreme Court declares that the Constitution protects women’s right to terminate an early pregnancy, thus making abortion legal in the U.S.
1973 - March 29 - The last United States soldier leaves Vietnam
The cell phone was invented by Martin Cooper of Motorola. On April 3, 1973, he made the first handheld mobile phone call with the Motorola DynaTAC. This device weighed 2.5 pounds and was 10 inches long, offering 30 minutes of talk time and requiring 10 hours to charge. The first commercial cell phone was released in 1983, revolutionizing communication and leading to the modern smartphones we use today.
1981 - June 5 - First reported case of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)
1986 - January 28 - Space Shuttle Challenger accident - The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when the shuttle broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members.
1989 - The World Wide Web is invented at CERN (Tim Berners-Lee, UK)
1996 Death of Spouse/PartnerRomeo Renald MANDEVILLE died 29 August 1996, Southbridge, Massachusetts, USA (Globe) (Lensdale) (Saundersdale) (Shuttleville)
2001 - September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Coordinated terrorist attacks by the extremist group al-Qaeda on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, leading to significant changes in U.S. domestic and foreign policy, including the War on Terror.
Obituary
Mesa, Arizona/ Southbridge... Estelle B. (Peloquin) Mandeville, 89, a former longtime resident of Southbridge, passed away at her home in Mesa on Wednesday, April 20, 2016. Her husband of 50 years was the late Romeo R. Mandeville who died August 29, 1996.
She is survived by her 3 daughters Carol and her husband Harry Dupre of Sun Lake, AZ, Diane and her husband Steven Fournier of Paradise Valley, AZ, and Nancy and her husband Marc Renaud of Sturbridge, 8 grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her son Ronald Mandeville who died in 1981.
Mrs. Mandeville was born in Southbridge, daughter of Narcisse and Odile (Lamothe) Peloquin and lived in Southbridge before moving to Arizona three years ago. She was a member of Notre Dame Church, and was a graduate of the former Mary E. Wells High School Class of 1945. She retired from the American Optical Company where she worked for over 30 years as an office clerk. She previously worked at Russell Harrington
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Birth — 1927
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