Today in History for November 1859
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 5 of 5
1st - The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
12th - Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name
16th - Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Groza," premieres in Moscow
24th - Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"
26th - Last weekly installment of Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published in literary periodical All the Year Round
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 10 of 10
1st - Charles Brantley Aycock, (Gov-NC)
1st - William Henry Grattan Flood, composer
4th - Stanislaw Niewiadomski, composer
15th - Christopher Hornsrud, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1960)
17th - Gerhard Rusenkrone Schjelderup, composer
19th - Mikhail Mikhayl Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russia, musician (Armenian Rhapsody)
23rd - Billy the Kid, [William H Bonney], NYC, criminal
23rd - Billy The Kid, American outlaw (d. 1881)
24th - Cass Gilbert, American architect (d. 1934)
30th - Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 3 of 3
7th - Carl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer, dies at 61
22nd - Ludwig "Louis" Spohr, German violinist/composer (Faust), dies at 75
28th - Washington Irving, US author (Geoffrey Crayon, gent), dies
