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Crime/Disasters In Johnstown, Pennsylvania, disaster strikes for hundreds when a viewing platform collapses.
Campaigns/Elections - In Cleveland, Ohio, the Democratic-aligned Soldiers and Sailors Union, holds its first annual convention.
Religion/Philosophy In Galesburg, Illinois, the annual general meeting of Universalists condemns President Johnson.
Campaigns/Elections - A Southern Soldier's Convention of Confederate veterans is meeting in Memphis.
Lawmaking/Litigating In Salem, Oregon, a divided state legislature narrowly ratifies the Fourteenth Amendment.
Religion/Philosophy - The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church meets in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in a special session.
Crime/Disasters A very early frost disrupts the grain harvest in much of the eastern United States.
Battles/Soldiers Two more African-American regiments, the soon to be famous Ninth and Tenth Cavalry, come into being
Battles/Soldiers In Kansas, a new U.S. cavalry regiment, the Seventh, begins its formation at Fort Riley.
Crime/Disasters Off the coast near Hong Kong, Chinese pirates terrorize an American schooner and kill its captain
Battles/Soldiers In the Paraguayan War, an Allied attempt to storm a Paraguayan fortress meets with disaster.
Personal Former New York Congressman and current candidate John Steele dies in a carriage accident.
Personal Former Maryland congressman Henry May, imprisoned at the start of the Civil War, dies in Baltimore.
Education/Culture On the edge of the Bronx, the new Jerome Park Race Course opens with its first race meeting.
Campaigns/Elections In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, veterans supporting Republican policies meet in convention.
Campaigns/Elections In a Cleveland, Ohio speech, Benjamin Butler threatens President Johnson with impeachment.
Crime/Disasters - A deadly hurricane hits the Caribbean, first the Turks and Caicos and then Nassau in the Bahamas.
US/the World Prussia annexes Frankfurt am Main, one of the four German free cities.
Lawmaking/Litigating President Johnson's Secretary of the Interior, James Harlan of Iowa, resigns.
Crime/Disasters On this date, New York held a total of 2,788 people in its state prisons.
Education/Culture Crowding and spectator disturbances at the Philadelphia Athletics end with the game being called.
Lawmaking/Litigating The Freedmen's Bureau halts the free issue of rations to refugees and freedmen across the South.
Battles/Soldiers An eight month U.S. Army effort to search for late Civil War deserters yields more than a thousand arrests.
Campaigns/Elections - North Carolina Freedmen hold a four-day convention in Raleigh
Lawmaking/Litigating The Treaty of Prague ends the Italian-Austrian War and cedes Venetia for transfer to Italy.
Crime/Disasters A passenger ship is sunk in a hurricane off the Carolina coast with very heavy loss of life.
Crime/Disasters In an Atlantic hurricane, a passing ship rescues all the passengers and crew of a foundering vessel.
Campaigns/Elections Conservative Republicans and Democrats of Massachusetts meet in Boston to nominate candidates.
Personal The younger brother of Charles Dickens, living in Chicago, dies of tuberculosis.
Crime/Disasters For the second time in two days, a steamship rescues the crew of a sinking vessel off South Carolina.