Today in History for November 1855
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Historical Events
Events 1 - 1 of 1
17th - David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 10 of 10
1st - Guido Adler, Austria, musicologist (Still in the Music)
5th - Eugene V Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
5th - Leon P Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (stratosphere)
6th - Eduard Yosif Kotek, composer
6th - Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942)
7th - Edwin H Hall, US physicist (Hall effect)
10th - Josiah Royce, US, philosopher (conception of God)
13th - Daniel F Scheurleer, Dutch musicologist/banker
19th - Billy Bates, cricketer (England all-rounder 1882-87, hat-trick 1883)
30th - Marie WF Treub, Dutch economist/minister of Agriculture/Finance
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 2 of 2
11th - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
26th - Adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), dies at 56
