January 13
858 Ethelwulf, king of Wessex, died. (b. 795)
1691 George Fox, English founder of Quakerism, died.(b. 1624)
1885 Alfred Fuller, Canadian businessman, The "Fuller Brush Man", was born.
1910 The first public radio broadcast took place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana was sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, New York.
1964 Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, was appointed archbishop of Kraków, Poland.
1968 Johnny Cash performed live at Folsom State Prison
2012 The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sank off the coast of Italy.
January 14
1741 Benedict Arnold, American patriot/traitor, was born.
1742 Edmond Halley, English scientist, died. (b. 1656)
1784 The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.
1875 Albert Schweitzer, the Alsatian-German doctor who received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize , was born.
1999 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Mayor Mel Lastman becomes the first mayor in Canada to call in the Army to help with emergency medical evacuations and snow removal after more than one meter of snow paralyzes the city. [We were on a VIA train that passed very slowly through Toronto and Eastern Ontario that day.]
Ottawa Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS) is responsible for Carleton, Lanark, Renfrew, Prescott and Russell Counties. Our mission is “To encourage, assist and bring together all those interested in the pursuit of family history.” If you want to discover more about your family origins, or how and where to locate information about your ancestors, our members will be there to help you.
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