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A massive afternoon summer thunderstorm hits Hartford, Connecticut |
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A massive boiler explosion at a saw-mill kills several New Yorkers. |
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A massive evening fire in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince destroys much of the business district |
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A massive fire destroys much of Portland, Maine, leaving 10,000 homeless but killing only two. |
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A massive fire in Cincinnati, Ohio destroys the famous 1859 Pike's Opera House and other buildings |
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A massive geomagnetic storm disrupts navigation and telegraphy around the globe |
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A massive hailstorm shatters glass windows throughout the city of Philadelphia. |
Crime/Disasters |
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A massive oil fire destroys wells and installations neat Pithole City in Venango County, Pennsylvania |
Crime/Disasters |
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A massive pre-dawn fire destroys a large section of Gloucester, Massachusetts |
Science/Technology |
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A meteor shower falls to earth over Muskingum County, Ohio |
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A Mexican firing squad executes French adventurer Gaston Raousset in Guaymas, Sonora |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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A Military Commission tries Clement Vallandigham in Cincinnati for "disloyal sentiments and opinions" |
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A Mississippi steamboat burns to the waterline at its dock in New Orleans, Louisiana |
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A mix of regular and irregular American forces occupy Bagdad, Mexico |
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A morning fire in downtown Providence, Rhode Island causes heavy damage |
Business/Industry |
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A national convention of workingmen meets in Philadelphia |
Religion/Philosophy |
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A National Day of Fasting and Prayer is held across the North |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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A new Article of War forbids the military to return escaped slaves to their former owners |
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A New Hampshire monument is dedicated at the new Winchester National Cemetery in Virginia, |
Education/Culture |
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A new statue of former Chief Justice John Marshall is installed at the Washington Monument in Richmond, Virginia. |
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A New York City brewery employee commits suicide by jumping into a vat of boiling beer |
Science/Technology |
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A partial eclipse of the Sun is visible in northwestern North America |
Battles/Soldiers |
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A party of Californians under Daniel Showalter make for Confederate Arizona with Union cavalry in pursuit |
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A passenger ship is sunk in a hurricane off the Carolina coast with very heavy loss of life. |
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A passenger steamship runs aground on a New Jersey beach and seven people are drowned. |
US/the World |
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A Peace Conference aimed at ending the German-Danish war convenes in London |
Science/Technology |
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A Police and Fire Alarm System goes into operation in Baltimore, Maryland |
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A powerful earthquake destroys much of the town of Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos, killing hundreds. |
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A powerful hurricane devastates the island of Puerto Rico, killing hundreds. |
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A powerful hurricane strikes the coast of Louisiana. |