March 14
1794 Eli Whitney was granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1863 Casey Jones, American railroad engineer, was born.
1879 Albert Einstein, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and one of the great thinkers of the ages, was born.
1899 K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist, was born.
March 15
44 BC Roman dictator Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of nobles that included Brutus and Cassius.
1493 Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
1918 Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey coach and manager, was born.
1964 Actress Elizabeth Taylor and actor Richard Burton were married.
2003 The World Health Organization issued a worldwide health alert for the respiratory illness SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome).
March 16
1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines.
1750 Caroline Herschel, German born English astronomer, was born.
1926 Jerry Lewis, actor and comedian, was born.
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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