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American ship burns at Liverpool hours before leaving for New York |
Crime/Disasters |
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American ship founders in the Bay of Biscay and is abandoned without loss of life |
Crime/Disasters |
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American ship sinks in mid-Atlantic and forty-eight are set adrift thousands of miles from land |
Military/Violent |
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American soldier of fortune William Walker is recaptured by the U.S. Navy |
Battles/Soldiers |
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American warships bombard Chinese forts in Canton Province |
Business/Industry |
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American-built clipper ship sails from London to Sydney in sixty-seven days |
Cultural |
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Amherst beats Williams in the first ever intercollegiate baseball game by a score of 73-22 |
Education/Culture |
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Amid great ceremony, the cornerstone is laid for the National Monument at Plymouth Rock |
Crime/Disasters |
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Ammunition dump explodes in Cuba, killing dozens and destroying a large area of Havana |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Amphibious Union force raids Bluffton, South Carolina and burns it to the ground |
Crime/Disasters |
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An afternoon fire in New York City destroys businesses but no lives are lost |
Crime/Disasters |
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An altercation between locals and Union regulars garrisoning Brenham, Texas results in a massive fire. |
Crime/Disasters |
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An American clipper-ship burns in the Pacific leaving her crew in boats thousands of miles from land. |
Crime/Disasters |
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An American emigrant ship is wrecked on the Irish coast with almost 400 lives lost |
Science/Technology |
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An annular eclipse of the Sun is visible over Europe and much of Asia and Africa. |
Crime/Disasters |
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An early thaw causes heavy ice damage and severe flooding along the riverbanks of New England |
Crime/Disasters |
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An earthquake and accompanying tsunami causes massive damage throughout the Virgin Islands. |
Battles/Soldiers |
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An eight month U.S. Army effort to search for late Civil War deserters yields more than a thousand arrests. |
Science/Technology |
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An exceptionally large and bright meteor streaks across the northern areas of the United States |
Battles/Soldiers |
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An exchange of wounded prisoners takes place off Fort Wagner in Charleston Harbor under a flag of truce |
Battles/Soldiers |
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An experimental Confederate submarine sinks in Charleston Harbor during a training accident, killing five |
Battles/Soldiers |
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An experimental Confederate submarine sinks in Charleston Harbor during a training accident, killing five |
Science/Technology |
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An experimental survival raft arrives in Southampton Water after a forty-three Atlantic crossing from New York. |
Crime/Disasters |
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An explosion of sulphur gas kills seven in a coal mine in central England |
Crime/Disasters |
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An unprecedented late spring frost causes massive crop damage across the northern United States |
Foreign |
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Andrew Bonar Law, future British Prime Minister, is born in Canada |
Personal |
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Andrew Gregg Curtin dies in Bellefonte, Pennslyvania |
Personal |
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Andrew Gregg Curtin is born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania |
Personal |
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Andrew Gregg Curtin marries Catherine Irvine Wilson |
Legal/Political |
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Andrew Gregg Curtin serves as Governor of Pennslyvania |