November 18
1493 Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico.
1787 Louis-Jacques Daguerre, French inventor of the daguerreotype, was born.
1883 The United States and Canada adopted a system of standard time zones.
1901 George Gallup, American statistician and pioneering opinion researcher, was born.
1923 Astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr., the first American in space, was born in East Derry, N.H. Died July 21, 1998.
1978 More than 900 people died in Jonestown, Guyana, after Peoples Temple cult leader Jim Jones urged them to kill themselves by drinking cyanide-laced grape punch.
November 19
1600 Charles I, English King 1625-49, was born.
1794 The United States and Britain signed the Jay Treaty, which resolved some issues left over from the Revolutionary War.
1863 President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
1919 The US Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles.
1969 Apollo 12 astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad and Alan Bean made man's second landing on the moon.
2007 Amazon.com Inc. introduced the Kindle, an electronic book-reading device.
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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