April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
July 4 » William Howard Taft becomes American governor of the Philippines.
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
Day of marriage December 5, 1922
The temperature on December 5, 1922 was between 6.2 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
March 10 » Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
June 28 » The Irish Civil War begins with the shelling of the Four Courts in Dublin by Free State forces.
July 11 » The Hollywood Bowl opens.
October 29 » King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy appoints Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister.
December 16 » President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw.
December 30 » The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.
Day of death September 11, 1960
The temperature on September 11, 1960 was between 11.2 °C and 23.1 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (80%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 29 » The 5.7Mw Agadir earthquake shakes coastal Morocco with a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme), destroying Agadir, and leaving 12,000 dead and another 12,000 injured.
July 1 » Ghana becomes a republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II ceases to be its head of state.
July 28 » The German Volkswagen Act came into force.
August 16 » Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
September 8 » In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
September 26 » In Chicago, the first televised debate takes place between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Donald Staley, "Staley ancestry", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/staley-ancestry/P31.php : accessed February 18, 2026), "William Leslie Swetnam (1901-1960)".
Copy warning
Genealogical publications are copyright protected. Although data is often retrieved from public archives, the searching, interpreting, collecting, selecting and sorting of the data results in a unique product. Copyright protected work may not simply be copied or republished.
Please stick to the following rules
Request permission to copy data or at least inform the author, chances are that the author gives permission, often the contact also leads to more exchange of data.
Do not use this data until you have checked it, preferably at the source (the archives).
State from whom you have copied the data and ideally also his/her original source.