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Personal data Dwight William Olson Ridgley 

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Household of Dwight William Olson Ridgley

He is married to Maxine Ridgley.

They got married on August 28, 1936 at Decatur, Macon, Illinois, USA, he was 22 years old.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Dwight William Olson Ridgley

John Grant Ridgely
1864-1932
Hannah Francis Spear
1868-1932
Ola Olson
1847-1913
Anna Reynolds
1859-1942

Dwight William Olson Ridgley
1914-1978

1936

Maxine Ridgley
1916-1992


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    2. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com

    Historical events

    Birthday May 5, 1914

    • The temperature on May 5, 1914 was between 9.4 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1914: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.2 million citizens.
      • April 20 » Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miners' strike.
      • June 12 » Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.
      • August 5 » World War I: The German minelayer SSKönigin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles (64km) off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMSAmphion.
      • August 6 » World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
      • August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
      • September 26 » The United States Federal Trade Commission is established by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

    Day of marriage August 28, 1936

    • The temperature on August 28, 1936 was between 9.8 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from July 31, 1935 to June 24, 1937 the cabinet Colijn III, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1936: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 8.5 million citizens.
      • April 15 » First day of the Arab revolt in Mandatory Palestine.
      • May 21 » Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
      • August 14 » Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
      • December 7 » Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
      • December 23 » Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
      • December 23 » Spanish Civil War: The Spanish Republic legalizes the Regional Defence Council of Aragon.

    Day of death February 14, 1978

    • The temperature on February 14, 1978 was between -2.8 °C and 1.3 °C and averaged -0.1 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1978: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 13.9 million citizens.
      • February 24 » The Yuba County Five disappear in California. Four of their bodies are found four months later.
      • April 17 » Mir Akbar Khyber is assassinated, provoking a communist coup d'état in Afghanistan.
      • September 17 » The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
      • September 25 » PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing 144 people.
      • October 3 » A Finnish Air Force DC-3 crashes, killing all 15 people on board.
      • November 27 » The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) is founded in the city of Riha (Urfa) in Turkey.
    

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