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| Born : | 02/21/1855 | Alice Freeman Palmer, educator (Hall of Fame) |
| Born : | 05/10/1855 | Anatol Liadov, St Petersburg, Russia, composer (Enchanted Lake) |
| Born : | 10/12/1855 | Arthur Nikisch, Szent-Mikl¢s Hungary, conductor (Berlin Philharmonic) |
| Born : | 05/24/1855 | Arthur Wing Pinero, British playwright |
| Born : | 10/16/1855 | Camille Looten, Belgian priest/literature historian |
| Born : | 10/26/1855 | Charles Post, who had a way with breakfast cereals |
| Born : | 04/23/1855 | Earnest L Wolzogen, German writer (stichtte cabaret šberbrettl) |
| Born : | 11/07/1855 | Edwin H Hall, US physicist (Hall effect) |
| Born : | 01/07/1855 | Eli‰zer Ben-Jehuda, [Perelmann], Latvia, writer (1st hebrew newspaper) |
| Born : | 05/21/1855 | Emile A G Verhaeren, Belgian poet/writer (Les Flammes Hautes) |
| Born : | 01/21/1855 | Ernest Chausson, Paris, composer (Pome for Violin & Orchestra) |
| Born : | 11/05/1855 | Eugene V Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate |
| Born : | 12/30/1855 | Heinrich Hart, German writer (Song of Menschheit) |
| Born : | 09/09/1855 | Houston S Chamberlain, British/German race theorist |
| Born : | 10/28/1855 | Ivan V Mitsjurin, Russian botanist (new types of fruit) |
| Born : | 10/12/1855 | Jac[obus] van Looy, writer/painter (Jaap) |
| Born : | 10/12/1855 | Jacobus of Looy, writer/painter (Death of My Poem) [or 9/12] |
| Born : | 07/30/1855 | James Edward Kelly, US, sculptor "Sculptor of American History" |
| Born : | 12/25/1855 | James Galvin, pitcher, shut-out every opposing team in 1884 |
| Born : | 01/21/1855 | John M Browning, US, weapons manufacturer |
| Born : | 11/10/1855 | Josiah Royce, US, philosopher (conception of God) |
| Born : | 12/28/1855 | Juan Zorrilla de San Martin, Uruguay's diplomat/songwriter (Tabar‚) |
| Born : | 01/05/1855 | King Camp Gillette, inventor (safety razor) |
| Born : | 11/05/1855 | L‚on P Teisserenc the Bort, French meteorologist (stratosphere) |
| Born : | 03/15/1855 | L£tzen Wagenaar, Fries writer/vicar (Tsjerk Ages) |
| Born : | 11/30/1855 | Marie WF Treub, economist/minister of Agriculture/Finance |
| Born : | 03/24/1855 | Olive Schreiner, S African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman) |
| Born : | 12/27/1855 | Paul Ehrenreich, German etnologist/mythologist |
| Born : | 03/13/1855 | Percival Lowell, predicted discovery of Pluto |
| Born : | 06/14/1855 | Robert Marion La Follette, Wisconsin, pres candidate (Progressive) |
| Born : | 07/30/1855 | Wilhelm von Siemens, German industrialist |
| Born : | 01/28/1855 | William Seward Burroughs, inventor (recording adding machine) |
| Died : | 05/04/1855 | Camille Pleyel, Austria piano builder, dies at 66 |
| Died : | 01/26/1855 | G‚rard de Nerval, [Labrunie], French poet/writer, dies |
| Died : | 04/18/1855 | Jean-Baptiste Isabey, painter, dies |
| Died : | 03/02/1855 | Nicholas Pavlovitsj, tsar of Russia (1825-55), dies |
| Died : | 05/27/1855 | Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russ writer/painter (Account of Holland), dies |
| Interest: | 12/15/1855 | [Christian] Commemoration of St Mary di Rosa |
| Interest: | 11/11/1855 | [Luth] Commemoration of Síren Kierkegaard, teacher |
| Special : | 03/08/1855 | 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls |
| Special : | 04/21/1855 | 1st train crosses Miss River's 1st bridge, Rock Is Ill-Davenport Ia |
| Special : | 07/20/1855 | 1st train from Rotterdam to Utrecht in Netherlands |
| Special : | 04/28/1855 | 1st veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston |
| Special : | 03/27/1855 | Abraham Gesner patents kerosene |
| Special : | 06/05/1855 | Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention |
| Special : | 08/09/1855 | Battle of Acapulco during Mexican Liberal uprising |
| Special : | 10/17/1855 | Bessemer steelmaking process patented |
| Special : | 01/09/1855 | Clipper Guiding Star disappears in the Atlantic, 480 dies |
| Special : | 06/20/1855 | Commissioners appointed to lay out SF streets west of Larkin |
| Special : | 09/08/1855 | Crimean war - assault of Malakoftoren under Mac-Mahon) |
| Special : | 10/05/1855 | H Goldschmidt discovers asteroid #36 Atalante |
| Special : | 04/06/1855 | J Chacornac discovers asteroid #34 Circe |
| Special : | 10/09/1855 | Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Mass patents 1st calliope |
| Special : | 03/15/1855 | Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine |
| Special : | 06/13/1855 | Opera "Les Vˆpres Sicilenne" is produced (Paris) |
| Special : | 04/19/1855 | R Luther discovers asteroid #35 Leukothea |
| Special : | 10/05/1855 | R Luther discovers asteroid #37 Fides |
| Special : | 03/03/1855 | Registration of letters authorized by Congress |
| Special : | 02/04/1855 | Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela |
| Special : | 02/24/1855 | US Court of Claims established for cases against govt |
| Special : | 06/01/1855 | US adventurer Wm Walker conquers Nicaragua, reestablishes slavery |
| Special : | 01/31/1855 | Western railroads blocked by snow |
| Special : | 02/03/1855 | Wisconsin Supreme Ct declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional |
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