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Personal data Helen Lena Laabs 

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Household of Helen Lena Laabs

She is married to Earl Magnus Bigelow.

They got married on September 28, 1940 at Winona, Winona County, Minnesota, USA, she was 18 years old.


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    Sources

    1. Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree
      http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=104242613&pid=1221
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    2. 1940 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1940; Census Place: Winona, Winona, Minnesota; Roll: T627_1969; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 85-43 / Ancestry.com
    3. U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
    4. Minnesota, Births and Christenings Index, 1840-1980, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
    5. U.S., Cemetery and Funeral Home Collection, 1847-2015, Ancestry.com, Publication: Heritage Funeral Home; Publication Place: West Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA; URL: http://www.heritagefuneral.com/obituaries/Helen-Bigelow/#!/Obituary / Ancestry.com
    6. 1930 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1930; Census Place: Winona, Winona, Minnesota; Roll: 1135; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 0040; FHL microfilm: 2340870 / Ancestry.com

    Historical events

    Birthday November 16, 1921

    • The temperature on November 16, 1921 was between -2.1 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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 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 year 1921: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 6.9 million citizens.
      • January 9 » Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
      • April 2 » The Autonomous Government of Khorasan, a military government encompassing the modern state of Iran, is established.
      • April 11 » Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
      • July 11 » A truce in the Irish War of Independence comes into effect.
      • July 11 » Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
      • October 29 » The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25-game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.

    Day of marriage September 28, 1940

    • The temperature on September 28, 1940 was between 7.7 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
      • May 5 » World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
      • May 6 » John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
      • May 15 » World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation.
      • May 24 » Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
      • July 5 » World War II: Foreign relations of Vichy France are severed with the United Kingdom.
      • October 21 » The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.

    Day of death February 16, 2016

    • The temperature on February 16, 2016 was between -5 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged -0.3 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (86%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
    • In the year 2016: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 17.0 million citizens.
      • January 3 » Following the fallout caused by the execution of Nimr al-Nimr, Iran ends its diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.
      • January 15 » The Kenyan Army suffers its worst defeat ever in a battle with Al-Shabaab Islamic insurgents in El-Adde, Somalia. An estimated 150 Kenyan soldiers are killed in the battle.
      • March 19 » Flydubai Flight 981 crashes while attempting to land at Rostov-on-Don international airport, killing all 62 on board.
      • October 13 » The Maldives announces its decision to withdraw from the Commonwealth of Nations.
      • December 19 » Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated while at an art exhibition in Ankara. The assassin, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, is shot and killed by a Turkish guard.
      • December 22 » A study finds the VSV-EBOV vaccine against the Ebola virus between 70-100% effective, and thus making it the first proven vaccine against the disease.
    

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    • 1916 » Harold Baigent, New Zealand actor and director († 1996)
    • 1922 » Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist, physicist, and engineer († 2015)
    • 1922 » José Saramago, Portuguese novelist († 2010)
    • 1924 » Mel Patton, American sprinter and coach († 2014)
    • 1924 » Sam Farber, American businessman († 2013)

    Source: Wikipedia


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