Slavery/Abolition |
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Alleged fugitive slave arrested in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and sent that evening to Philadelphia |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Almost 40,000 Missourians are now in Union uniform, according to state reports |
Crime/Disasters |
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Almost fifty people are killed in an horrific train wreck near Angola, New York. |
Crime/Disasters |
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Almost three hundred drown on Lake Michigan in an excursion steamer collision |
Science/Technology |
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Almost three years in the building, the U.S.S. Dunderburg is finally launched into New York's East River |
Science/Technology |
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Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist, is born in Bavaria |
Education/Culture |
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Along the Monongahela River, large crowds turn out to watch a five-mile sculling race for $2000. |
Crime/Disasters |
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Altercation on board U.S. Navy prize leads to four sailors arrested for mutiny |
Education/Culture |
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America's best trotting horses meet for a second time at the Union Course on Long Island |
Education/Culture |
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America's best trotting horses race in a three heat series at the Union Course on Long Island |
Battles/Soldiers |
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American adventurer Henry A. Crabb leads an expeditionary force across the Mexican border into Sonora |
Business/Industry |
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American bark sails from Buenos Aires to New York in thirty-six days, fastest on record |
Religion/Philosophy |
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American Bible Union holds its 10th Annual Conference in New York City |
Education/Culture |
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American child prodigy pianist Willie Pape plays his first public concert in London |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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American Colonization Society charter ship transporting rescued Africans to Liberia sails from Key West, Florida |
Cultural |
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American Colonization Society holds its forty-third annual meeting in Washington D.C. |
Military/Violent |
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American filibuster William Walker departs San Francisco for Central America |
Business/Industry |
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American filibuster William Walker is executed in Honduras |
Military/Violent |
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American filibuster William Walker proclaims himself president of an independent "Republic of Lower California" |
Education/Culture |
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American Medical Association founded in Philadelphia |
Science/Technology |
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American merchant captain discovers the Midway Islands |
Personal |
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American naturalist and Boy Scout pioneer Ernest Thompson Seton born in northern England |
Personal |
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American novelist and essayist Edith Wharton is born into a wealthy family in New York City |
Campaigns/Elections |
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American Party nominates Millard Fillmore for president |
Education/Culture |
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American playwright Charles Hale Hoyt is born in Concord, New Hampshire |
Crime/Disasters |
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American sailing ship sinks in North Atlantic and fifty-three passengers and crew drown |
Crime/Disasters |
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American sailing vessel capsizes during a gale and fifteen passengers and crew are lost |
US/the World |
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American sailors on shore leave riot at the port of Colón in Panama |
Science/Technology |
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American Scientific Association closes its fourteenth annual meeting in Newport, Rhode Island |
Crime/Disasters |
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American ship bound for New Orleans founders off the coast of Ireland |