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Education/Culture	Tue, August 7, 1860 - Wed, August 8, 1860	American Normal School Association meets in Buffalo, New York
Personal	Fri, April 1, 1859	John Brown speaks at the Concord Town Hall
Personal	Mon, September 1, 1856	John Brown's 1856 daguerreotype image captured in Kansas
Cultural	Sat, November 12, 1859	Jules Léotard performs the first high-flying trapeze act at the Cirque Napoléon in Paris
Legal/Political	Wed, November 2, 1859	The Commonwealth of Virginia sentences John Brown to death
Education/Culture	Wed, February 17, 1864	"Banjo" Patterson, Australian poet and author of "Waltzing Mathilda" is born in the New South Wales outback
Education/Culture	Thu, January 25, 1866	"Burns Nights," celebrating the birth of Scottish poet Robbie Burns, are held across the United States
Campaigns/Elections	Thu, June 28, 1866	"Conservative Republicans" of Iowa meet in convention in Des Moines.
Campaigns/Elections	Fri, February 23, 1866	"Copperhead" Democrat Daniel Voorhees of Indiana is removed from his congressional seat
Personal	Sat, May 2, 1863	"Friendly fire" strikes and wounds General T.J. Jackson and several members of his staff on the Chancellorsville battlefield
Personal	Thu, October 25, 1860	"Grizzly" Adams dies at his home in Neponset, Massachusetts
Personal	Fri, January 1, 1858	"Miss Leslie," America's most popular cooking writer, dies in New Jersey
Education/Culture	Wed, May 4, 1864	"Notre-Dame of Paris," final opera of William Henry Fry, debuts in his home city in aid of soldiers' charity
Science/Technology	Tue, February 5, 1861	"Peep Show" machine patented in Cincinnati, Ohio
Religion/Philosophy	Sun, February 5, 1860	"Slave auction" at Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Brooklyn church frees nine-year old slave girl
Battles/Soldiers	Sat, May 2, 1863	"Stonewall" Jackson's flanking movement seizes the initiative in the Battle of Chancellorsville
Crime/Disasters	Sun, June 3, 1860	"The Great Tornado of the Northwest" strikes Iowa and Illinois killing and injuring hundreds
US/the World	Sun, September 13, 1863	A 6000-man rebel army captures the city of Santiago in Spanish-ruled Santo Domingo
Crime/Disasters	Thu, May 28, 1863	A bakery explosion in New York City kills two and injures four others
Crime/Disasters	Sun, June 14, 1863	A brand new Hudson River tug explodes its boiler on its first trip upriver, killing seven
Crime/Disasters	Mon, January 16, 1865	A brand-new British blockade runner sinks in a storm the day she sails from Liverpool, drowning forty-seven people
Crime/Disasters	Sun, April 15, 1860	A California legislator shot and stabbed by a lobbyist on the floor of the Assembly dies of his wounds
Crime/Disasters	Fri, March 8, 1861	A coal mining explosion in the Rhondda Valley of South Wales kills fourteen and injures others
Slavery/Abolition	Tue, May 10, 1859 - Wed, May 18, 1859	A commercial convention focusing on the slave trade is meeting in Vicksburg, Mississippi
Slavery/Abolition	Mon, May 9, 1859	A commercial convention focusing on the slave trade opens in Vicksburg, Mississippi
US/the World	Fri, October 5, 1860	A commission of western powers meets in Beirut, Lebanon over recent massacres of Christians
Lawmaking/Litigating	Tue, April 22, 1862	A congressional committee reports that Senator Benjamin Stark of Oregon is a southern sympathizer
Legal/Political	Tue, July 5, 1859	A convention assembles in Wyandotte, Kansas to create a Kansas State Constitution
Crime/Disasters	Sun, September 30, 1866 - Tue, October 2, 1866	A deadly hurricane hits the Caribbean, first the Turks and Caicos and then Nassau in the Bahamas.
Crime/Disasters	Sat, January 13, 1866	A deadly letter bomb sent to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field at the Capitol is defused safely