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Brooklyn celebrates the completion of its ambitious scheme to supply the city with running water |
| Education/Culture |
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Brooklyn Excelsiors leave on the first baseball tour |
| Science/Technology |
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Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge over the Tamar in the west of England is officially opened |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Buchanan's Secretary of the Interior arrives in North Carolina to lobby that state for secession |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury recommends secession to his home state of Georgia |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Burned out Buffalo grain elevator collapses and kills two clean-up workers |
| Legal/Political |
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Burning haystack panics Virginians anticipating an attempt to rescue John Brown |
| Education/Culture |
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Burns Night, the birthday of Scottish poet Robert Burns celebrated around the globe |
| Personal |
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Burton Chauncey Cook dies in Evanston, Illinois |
| Personal |
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Burton Chauncey Cook is born in Pittsford, New York |
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Burton Chauncey Cook serves in the United States House of Representatives |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Business district in Mariposa burns |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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By almost unanimous legislation, Vermont becomes the sixth state to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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California Breckinridge Democrats organize in San Francisco |
| Education/Culture |
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California enacts law to protect young dancing girls |
| Crime/Disasters |
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California Senator David Broderick dies of a wound received in a duel three days earlier over slavery in the state |
| US/the World |
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Cambodia becomes a protectorate of France, extending French influence in southeast Asia. |
| US/the World |
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Camillo, Count Cavour, Prime Minister and architect of the new Kingdom of Italy dies in Turin aged fifty |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Campaigning in Kansas, Senator Seward receives a hero's welcome at Lawrence |
| US/the World |
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Canada becomes a Dominion, its provinces united in a federal parliamentary structure under the British Crown. |
| Business/Industry |
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Canada's Grand Trunk Railway links Montreal with Detroit |
| US/the World |
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Canada's new Governor-General invites Sir John A. MacDonald to form a federal coalition government. |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Canadian mail steamship lost off Nova Scotia with all two hundred people aboard |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Canadian passenger ship wrecks on Nova Scotia coast after crossing Atlantic, all aboard saved |
| US/the World |
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Canadians meet in a convention at Toronto to discuss federation |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Captain Charles H. Davis replaces Commodore A.H. Foote as commander of the Union's Mississippi Flotilla |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Captain Charles Stone takes up his duties at the head of the District of Columbia Militia |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Captain of the giant steamship Great Eastern drowns in a boating accident |
| Legal/Political |
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Captured American slaveship arrives in Charleston Harbor with 318 slaves aboard |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Captured blockade runner arrives at Philadelphia Naval Yard - her cargo includes 400,000 Cuban cigars |
