Crime/Disasters |
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A powerful storm strikes Philadelphia and causes heavy damage, including the bringing down of a church steeple |
Crime/Disasters |
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A powerful tornado strikes central Illinois killing at least one and injuring dozens more |
Battles/Soldiers |
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A powerful Union naval bombardment fails to silence the defenses of Port Hudson, Louisiana |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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A referendum in Kansas confirms the legislature's call for a constitutional convention |
Legal/Political |
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A Reform Association is constituted in Baltimore to attempt to bring order to the city |
Science/Technology |
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A remarkable display of the Northern Lights is seen in Europe and North America |
Crime/Disasters |
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A Royal Navy attempt to search on southern Taiwan for American survivors of a massacre is driven off. |
US/the World |
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A royal proclamation from London declares Britain neutral in the American war |
Campaigns/Elections |
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A secessionist flag flies near the Frankford Arsenal in north-east Philadelphia |
Crime/Disasters |
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A series of storms causes heavy damage to crops, farms, and railroads in northern Iowa |
Crime/Disasters |
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A serious earthquake rocks most of the eastern Mediterranean |
Crime/Disasters |
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A serious fire in Pennsylvania's oil fields destroys nine wells along Bennehof Run in Venango County |
Crime/Disasters |
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A serious railroad accident in Indiana kills dozens when floods wash away tracks |
Crime/Disasters |
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A severe derailment near Auburn, New York destroys three railroad cars but remarkably kills no-one |
Science/Technology |
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A significant lunar eclipse of the Sun is visible in the morning over much of the eastern United States |
Crime/Disasters |
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A small steamer explodes its boiler in New York Bay and two men are drowned |
Campaigns/Elections |
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A Southern Soldier's Convention of Confederate veterans is meeting in Memphis. |
Crime/Disasters |
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A steamboat burns to the waterline on the Mississippi but all aboard have a lucky escape. |
Crime/Disasters |
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A steamship is caught in an hurricane on Lake Pontchartrain and all ten people aboard are lost. |
Crime/Disasters |
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A stern-wheeler steamboat explodes and burns on the Arkansas River, killing around 130 people |
Crime/Disasters |
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A storm dumps snow over wide areas of the East, from Washington, DC to Boston |
Battles/Soldiers |
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A strong U.S. naval landing on southern Taiwan to punish Paiwan aboriginals is driven off. |
Personal |
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A supporter of the women's suffrage movement, Tubman speaks at the 1896 Rochester Convention |
Battles/Soldiers |
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A thousand Navajo launch an attack on Fort Defiance in New Mexico |
Crime/Disasters |
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A tornado strikes the city and port of New Orleans |
Science/Technology |
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A total eclipse of the Moon late in the evening is visible across much of the United States |
Crime/Disasters |
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A transport ship sinks shortly after leaving port in North Carolina, drowning seventeen soldiers |
Crime/Disasters |
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A tugboat race in New York's East River ends in tragedy when one vessels bursts its boilers, killing four |
US/the World |
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A U.S. warship intercepts and boards a British mail ship off Cuba to arrest Confederate diplomats |
Foreign |
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A unified Swiss Confederation is formed |