Today in History for May 1835
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Historical Events
Events 1 - 6 of 6
5th - King Leopold opens Brussels-Mechelen railway
6th - James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald (price 1 cent).
12th - Charles Darwin visits copper mines in North Chile
13th - 1st foreign embassy in Hawaii forms
14th - Charles Darwin reaches Coquimbo in Northern Chile
20th - Otto is named the first modern king of Greece.
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 9 of 9
1st - Alfred Napoleon Alexander "Natti" Duffie, Brig Gen (Union volunteers)
4th - Edmund Hart Turpin, composer
5th - Leopold II, Belgian crown prince, baptized
11th - Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (d. 1905)
21st - Newton Martin Curtis, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
21st - František Chvostek, Moravian physician (d. 1884)
26th - Edward Porter Alexander, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
30th - Alfred Austin, Leeds England, poet laureate of England (Garden)
31st - Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese military leader (d. 1869)
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 2 of 2
13th - John Nash, British town planner/architect (Regent's Park), dies
16th - Felicia Dorothea Hemans, poet/hymn writer, dies
