1929 - October 29 - Black Tuesday - Stock market crash - The Great Depression Begins - It lasted until 1941 (WW2)
1930 Putnam, Windham, Connecticut
Name: Florence Collette
event: Census
Event Date: 1930
Event Place: Putnam, Windham, Connecticut
Gender: Female
Age: 6
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
birthPlace: Connecticut
estimated Birth Year: 1924
Immigration Year:
Relationship to Head of Household: Daughter
father's birthPlace: Massachusetts
mother's birthPlace: Connecticut
enumeration district number: 0018
family number: 49
Sheet Number and Letter: 3A
Line Number: 14
nara publication: T626, roll 285
Film Number: 2340020
Digital Folder Number: 4531889
Image Number: 00109
Household Gender Age Birthplace
head Hector Collette M 31 Massachusetts
wife Dora Collette F 27 Connecticut
daughter Rosilda Collette F 8 Connecticut
daughter Florence Collette F 6 Connecticut
son Alfred Collette M 2 Connecticut
son Raymond Collette M 1 Connecticut
daughter Jeannette Collette F 0 Connecticut
head Cordelie Dupri F 63 Connecticut
daughter Angelina Dupri F 35 Connecticut
1934 - The metal beverage can is invented (American Can Co., United States)
1940 Putnam, Windham, Connecticut
Name: Florence Collette
titles & terms:
event: Census
Event Year: 1940
Event Place: Ward 3, Putnam, Putnam Town, Windham, Connecticut, United States
Gender: Female
Age: 15
Marital Status: Single
Race (Original):
race (standardized): White
Relationship to Head of Household (Original):
relationship to head of household (standardized): Daughter
birthPlace: Connecticut
estimated Birth Year: 1925
residence in 1935: Same Place
enumeration district number: 8-28
family number: 165
Sheet Number and Letter: 7B
Line Number: 68
nara publication number: T627
nara roll number: 528
Digital Folder Number: 005461417
Image Number: 00841
Household Gender Age Birthplace
head Hector Collette M 41 Massachusetts
wife Dora Collette F 37 Connecticut
daughter Florence Collette F 15 Connecticut
son Alfred Collette M 12 Connecticut
son Raymond Collette M 11 Connecticut
daughter Jeannette Collette F 10 Connecticut
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)
1984 Death of Spouse/PartnerJoseph Roland HOULE died 3 September 1984, Putnam, Connecticut, USA (Aspinock)
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)
Obituary
Telegram & Gazette [Worcester, Mass] 04 Nov 2000
PUTNAM -- Florence C. (Collette) Houle, 76, of 43 South Prospect St., a devoted volunteer in her community, died Thursday, Nov. 2, in St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, after an illness.
Her husband, Joseph R. Houle, died in 1984. She leaves two sons, Gerard L. Houle of Woodstock Valley and Robert P. Houle of Hartford; a sister, Jeannette Korch of Putnam; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Two brothers, Alfred and Raymond Collette, and a sister, Rosilda Bazinet, predeceased her. She was born in Putnam, daughter of Hector and Dora (Bonosconi) Collette. She graduated from St. Mary's School and from Putnam High School, and was the first person to graduate from Quinebaug Valley Community College in Danielson, Conn, earning an associate's degree.
Mrs. Houle was a homemaker. Many years ago, she worked at the former Putnam Furniture Store.
She was a lifelong member of St. Mary's Church of the
Death — 20002 November 2000
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
She died at the age of 76.
Birth — 1924
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