Today in History for May 1855
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Months in 1855: January February March April June July August September October November December
Historical Events
Results 1 - 2 of 2
3rd - Antwerp-Rotterdam railway opens
5th - NYC regains Castle Clinton, to be used for immigration
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 8 of 8
2nd - Theodore Moses Tobani, composer
9th - Julius Rontgen, composer
10th - Anatoli Liadov, St Petersburg, Russia, composer (Enchanted Lake) [NS]
11th - Anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov, Russian composer (Bewitched Lake)
15th - Eduard earl of Keyserling, German writer (Dritte Stiege)
15th - Graf Keyserling, writer
21st - Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes)
24th - Arthur Wing Pinero, British playwright
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 5 of 5
4th - Camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder/composer, dies at 66
5th - Sir Robert Inglis, Bt, English politician (b. 1786)
15th - Jan Mazereeuw, Frisian farmer/sect leader, dies at 75
23rd - Charles Robert Malden, English explorer (b. 1797)
27th - Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russ writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies
