1929 - October 29 - Black Tuesday - Stock market crash - The Great Depression Begins - It lasted until 1941 (WW2)
1930 - Southborough, Massachusetts
Name: William N Davis
event: Census
Event Date: 1930
Event Place: Southborough, Worcester, Massachusetts
Gender: Male
Age: 49
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
birthPlace: Maine
estimated Birth Year: 1881
Immigration Year:
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
father's birthPlace: Maine
mother's birthPlace: Maine
enumeration district number: 0265
family number: 172
Sheet Number and Letter: 7B
Line Number: 85
nara publication: T626, roll 965
Film Number: 2340700
Digital Folder Number: 4607701
Image Number: 00758
Household Gender Age Birthplace
head William N Davis M 49 Maine
wife Eva B Davis F 42 Massachusetts (Eva Belle Landry)
daughter Vesta L Davis F 16 Massachusetts
daughter Delia N Davis F 15 Massachusetts
daughter Mary L Davis F 14 Massachusetts
son John A Davis M 13 Massachusetts
son William N Davis M 11 Massachusetts
son Charles H Davis M 8 Massachusetts
son Walter Davis M 7 Massachusetts
sister Vesta L Davis F 51 Maine
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)
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.
Death
Name: Delia North Davis
[Delia N Davis]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Date: 28 Aug 1914
Birth Place: Southborough, Massachusetts
Father Name: William N Davis
Mother Name: Eva B Landry
Death Date: 27 Jun 2006
Type of Claim: Original SSN.
Notes: Dec 1950: Name listed as DELIA NORTH DAVIS; 13 Jul 2006: Name listed as DELIA N DAVIS
Name: Delia N. Davis
Last Residence:
01752 Marlborough, Middlesex, Massachusetts
BORN: 28 Aug 1914
Died: 27 Jun 2006
State (Year) SSN issued: Massachusetts (1951)
Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2011.
Obituary
Delia North Davis, June 27, 2006
Delia North Davis was surrounded by Bates: four of her brothers, a nephew, and a cousin also attended the College. These connections, she said, gave her strong ties to Bates. After retiring from teaching in Massachusetts and Connecticut, she threw open her big, old house in Southborough, Mass., to her 12 nieces and nephews and 16 great-nieces and great-nephews, delighted it could accommodate young and old. She considered herself a watchdog of local government, and deplored the loss of “good, thoughtful, wise leadership on local, state, and national levels.” She was a past president and member of the Southborough Women’s Club and a member of the Southborough Historical Society. Her brother, Charles Davis ’44, predeceased her. Among her survivors are her other brothers, John A. Davis ’40, Walter M. Davis ’44, and William N. Davis Jr. ’41; nephew William N. Davis III ’66; and cousin Ellen Landry-Rooney ’85. Two sisters also predeceased
Birth — 1914
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