Personal |
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Andrew Johnson is born in Raleigh, North Carolina |
Personal |
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Andrew Ure, famous advocate of the factory system, dies in London |
Personal |
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Andrew Volstead, author of National Prohibition Act, born in Minnesota |
US/the World |
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Ang Duong, King of Cambodia, dies at age sixty-four after twelve years of rule |
US/the World |
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Angered at Washington's recognition of Juarez, the Conservative Government in Mexico expels all U.S. consular officers |
Crime/Disasters |
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Angry mob of gamblers in Pennsylvania ransack the offices of the Scranton morning newspaper |
Education/Culture |
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Anna Mary Robertson, the future artist "Grandma Moses," is born in Greenwich, New York |
Personal |
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Anne Sullivan, teacher and companion of Helen Keller, is born in Hampden County, Massachusetts |
Personal |
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Anne Taney, wife of Chief Justice Taney, dies |
Personal |
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Annie Oakley, sharpshooter, is born in Darke County, Ohio |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Annual "renting of the pews" at Rev. Beecher's Plymouth Church in Brooklyn brings record return |
Education/Culture |
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Annual New Jersey State Fair opens near Elizabethtown |
Crime/Disasters |
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Another armed gang in Kentucky derails a train and robs its passengers. |
Crime/Disasters |
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Another British mining disaster kills forty-nine, this time in South Wales |
Crime/Disasters |
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Another great warehouse fire breaks out on the London Docks |
Crime/Disasters |
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Another great warehouse fire on the London Docks |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Another huge Republican rally, this time in Jersey City, New Jersey |
Crime/Disasters |
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Another large fire strikes New Orleans leaving five hundred homeless |
Crime/Disasters |
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Another New York City tenement fire kills two women and eight children |
Crime/Disasters |
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Another steamer is sunk in the Bay of Biscay but this time all aboard are saved. |
Personal |
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Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide in Houston |
Personal |
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Anthony Burns begins his education at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio |
Personal |
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Anthony Burns dies in Canada |
Slavery/Abolition |
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Anthony Burns is arrested in Boston as a fugitive slave |
Personal |
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Anthony Burns is born in Stafford County, Virginia |
US/the World |
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Anti-British revolt breaks out in Montreal |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Anti-Liquor agitation heats up in Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Cultural |
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Anton Chekhov is born in southern Russia |
Crime/Disasters |
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Anton Probst, murderer of an entire family in the "Deering Massacre," is executed in Philadelphia |
Crime/Disasters |
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Anton Probst, murderer of his employer's entire family, is sentenced to death in Philadelphia |