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This year in history
In the year 1835

	February 20th	The Chilean city of Concepcion was almost entirely destroyed by a powerful earthquake.
	August 30th	The city of Melbourne, Australia was founded by British colonists. The area was already inhabited by the indigenous Kulin people.
	September 15th	Charles Darwin reached the Galapagos Islands aboard the HMS Beagle.
	November 30th	American writer, Samuel Clemens, was born in Missouri. He is most known by his pen name, Mark Twain. He is one of the most celebrated writers in American history and one of the few writers of his era that enjoyed enormous popularity while he was alive. He wrote such classics as, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
	December 1st	Hans Christian Andersen published his first book of fairy tales.

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