May 13
1787 Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia.
1880 In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1917 Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
1940 Winston Churchill told the British House of Commons in his first speech as prime minister, "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
1940 Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the Nazi invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety.
May 14
1607 An English colony was settled at Jamestown in present-day Virginia.
1796 English physician Edward Jenner administered the first vaccination against smallpox.
1804 The Lewis and Clark expedition left St. Louis to explore the Louisiana Territory.
1948 The independent state of Israel was proclaimed as British rule in Palestine came to an end.
May 15
1859 Pierre Curie, French physicist, was born. He won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1903.
1919 The Winnipeg General Strike began. By 11:00 am, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg, Manitoba had walked off the job.
1940 McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
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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