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Legal/Political	Abolitionist lecture delivered successfully in Philadelphia as police and rioters battle outside the hall	12/15/1859
Foreign	Lazar Ludwik Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto, born in Poland	12/15/1859
Lawmaking/Litigating	The 36th U.S. Congress is in session in Washington, D.C.	12/06/1859 to 06/24/1860
Lawmaking/Litigating	The Legislature of the unorganized territory of Nevada meets for the first and last time in Genoa	12/15/1859

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12/15/1859