Today in History for May 1839

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Historical Events

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4th - The Cunard Steamship Company Ltd forms San Bonifacio

Famous Birthdays

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1st - Chardonnet, inventor (rayon)
8th - Francis W Warre-Cornish, English vice-provost of Eton/writer
8th - Adolphe-Basile Routhier, French Canadian lyricist (O Canada) (d. 1920)
19th - Alice Mary Smith, composer
25th - John Eliot, English meteorologist
27th - Luigi Capuana, Sicilian author/critic (Roccaverdina)
29th - Ned Gregory, cricketer (bro of Dave, father of Syd Played 1st Test)

Famous Deaths

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3rd - Ferdinando Paer, composer, dies at 67
13th - Israel Ashkenazi of Shklov, found Ashkenazic community (1815), dies
13th - Joseph Fesch, French cardinal/war commission/earl/senator, dies
17th - Archibald Alison, Scottish author (b. 1757)
18th - Carolina [Maria A] Bonaparte (countess Lipona), dies at 57


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