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Harriet Lane, former President Buchanan's "First Lady," marries Baltimore banker Henry Elliot Johnson |
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In Iowa, Governor William Stone begins his second term and endorses African-American suffrage |
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British ship bound for Australia with 250 souls aboard sinks in the Bay of Biscay and all but 19 are lost |
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In London, British powered human flight enthusiasts found the world's oldest aeronautical society |
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Another steamer is sunk in the Bay of Biscay but this time all aboard are saved. |
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Shifting ice on the frozen Mississippi River again crushes river boats on the St. Louis, Missouri levee |
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In St. Louis, a second day of shifting ice on the Mississippi River crushes seven more river boats. |
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U.S. General Weitzel arrives in Bagdad, Mexico to restore order and declares martial law. |
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A deadly letter bomb sent to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field at the Capitol is defused safely |
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U.S. Secretary of State William Seward meets with the president of the Dominican Republic in Santo Domingo. |
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More than a hundred general officers of volunteers are mustered out of the Union Army |
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The American Colonization Society holds its forty-ninth annual meeting in Washington, D.C. |
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With Republicans taking power in New Jersey, the New York Times announces the state's "Reconstruction" |
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In Trenton, Republican stalwart Marcus Ward is inaugurated as the twenty-first governor of New Jersey |
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In Oregon and Idaho, winter weather is causing great disruption and suffering |
| Settlers/Immigrants |
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The 1866 shipment of "Mercer Girls" departs New York City for Washington Territory |
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A New York City brewery employee commits suicide by jumping into a vat of boiling beer |
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In Columbus, the Ohio legislature re-elects John Sherman as United States senator |
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In Pittsburgh, murderer Martha Grinder becomes the third female executed in Pennsylvania history. |
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Months of sometimes violent volcanic activity are striking the Greek Island of Santorini |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In upstate New York, the Niagara River is reported as frozen over for three miles above Niagara Falls |
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In New Jersey, the state legislature finally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment |
| Crime/Disasters |
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A disturbance aboard a ship docked in New York City ends with a crewman dead of a gunshot wound |
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In Dunkirk, New York, a fire destroy most of a city block and kills four people |
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Mexican Imperial troops re-occupy Bagdad, Mexico after American forces withdraw. |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Washington D.C., the trial of former National Police head Lafayette Baker for false imprisonment begins |
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Maryland Democrats meet in Baltimore to protest the state's restrictive voter registration law |
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In Boston, the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society rejects a proposal to disband since its work is done |
| Education/Culture |
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"Burns Nights," celebrating the birth of Scottish poet Robbie Burns, are held across the United States |
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In Washington, the Senate passes measures to extend the authority of the Freedmen's Bureau |
