1929 - October 29 - Black Tuesday - Stock market crash - The Great Depression Begins - It lasted until 1941 (WW2)
1930 - Southbridge, Massachusetts
Name: Ernest C Collette
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1930
Event Place: Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Gender: Male
Age: 14
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Race (Original): White
Relationship to Head of Household: Son
Relationship to Head of Household (Original): Son
Birth Year (Estimated): 1916
BirthPlace: Massachusetts
Father's BirthPlace: Massachusetts
Mother's BirthPlace: Massachusetts
Sheet Letter: A
Sheet Number: 2
Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
Freeman Collette Head Male 34 Massachusetts
Ida Collette Wife Female 34 Massachusetts
Ernest C Collette Son Male 14 Massachusetts
David F Merrigan Boarder Male 64 Massachusetts
James Mclaughlin Boarder Male 65 Irish Free State
James D Robinson Boarder Male 67 England
John Conlin Boarder Male 70 Massachusetts
Phillip Mcgrath Boarder Male 52 Massachusetts
Wilfred Veltheim Boarder Male 27 Massachusetts
1934 - The metal beverage can is invented (American Can Co., United States)
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)
Obituary
WEBSTER - Ernest Z. Collette, 77, of Union Point Road, formerly of Southbridge, died yesterday in his home after an illness.
He leaves his wife, Josephine {Swana} Vajcovec Collette; two sons, Richard Collette of Naples, Fla., and Donald Collette of Port Charlotte, Fla.; four stepsons, Paul Vajcovec of Palo Alto, Calif., Andrew Vajcovec of Webster, David Vajcovec of Duxbury, and Robert Vajcovec of Taunton; and 12 grandchildren. He was born in Southbridge, son of Freeman and Ida {Renaud} Collette, and lived here 16 years.
He was a foreman at the former American Steel & Wire Division, U.S. Steel Corp., Worcester. He worked there for 37 years until it closed in 1971. He then worked at American Optical Corp. in Southbridge for seven years before he retired.
He was a Navy veteran of World War II.
Mr. Collette was a member of St. Louis Church here; Leonide J. Lemire Post 655, Veterans of Foreign Wars, in Southbridge; and Southbridge Post, American Legion.
The funeral will
Death — 19929 August 1992
Webster, Massachusetts, USA
He died at the age of 77.
Birth — 1914
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