December 4
1585 John Cotton, American Puritan leader, was born.
1619 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembarked in Virginia and gave thanks to God.
1674 Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan.
1783 Gen. George Washington said farewell to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York.
1909 The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
1945 The US Senate approved U.S. participation in the United Nations.
December 5
771 Charlemagne becomes the sole King of the Franks,
1492 Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
1775 At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1782 Martin Van Buren, the eighth U.S. president 1837-41 and the first to be born after the country was formed, was born in Kinderhook, N.Y. [My 3rd cousin 6 times removed]
1791 Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna at age 35.
1839 George Armstrong Custer, American cavalry officer was born.
1901 Werner Heisenberg, German physicist, philosopher and nobel laureate, was born.
1901 US national Prohibition came to an end as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing the 18th Amendment.
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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