Battles/Soldiers |
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Three new federal army departments are formed |
Crime/Disasters |
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Three fatal railway accidents occur around England on the same day |
Crime/Disasters |
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Thousands see American emigrant ship founder off French coast |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Thousands of Union wounded from the Battle of the Wilderness begin to arrive in Philadelphia hospitals |
Business/Industry |
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Thousands of shoemakers go on strike for higher wages in Lynn, Massachusetts |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Thousands of Confederate prisoners arrive in Philadelphia on a single railroad train |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Thousands of cavalrymen clash at Brandy Station, Virginia, in the largest cavalry battle of the war |
Slavery/Abolition |
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Thousands of African-American citizens in Washington D.C. celebrate the anniversary of their emancipation |
Personal |
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Thomas Wildey, founder of the Order of Odd Fellows in the United States, dies at his home in Baltimore |
Legal/Political |
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Thomas Langrell Harris serves in the United States House of Representatives |
Personal |
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Thomas Langrell Harris is born in Norwich, Connecticut |
Personal |
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Thomas Jefferson Rusk, U.S. Senator from Texas, commits suicide at his home in Nacogdoches |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Thomas H. Ford elected as Printer of the House of Representatives in the eighteenth ballot |
Personal |
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Thomas De Quincey, the English author and opium eater, dies in Edinburgh |
Personal |
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Thomas Bulfinch, the Boston banker who wrote "Bulfinch's Mythology" in his spare time, dies at his home in Massachusetts. |
Personal |
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, British statesman and historian, dies in London |
Personal |
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Thomas B. Cuming, twice governor of Nebraska Territory, dies in office aged thirty. |
Personal |
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Thirty-three year old war artist W.T. Crane dies in Washington D.C. of a disease of the throat |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Thirty-ninth ballot in the election for Speaker sees John Sherman fall behind for the first time |
Crime/Disasters |
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Thirty-five people drown when Canadian mail steamer strikes ice and sinks off the coast of Labrador |
Crime/Disasters |
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Thirty-eight passengers and crew drown when their ship runs aground in an Irish gale. |
Crime/Disasters |
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Thirteen prisoners escape from the Monroe County Jail in Rochester, New York |
Crime/Disasters |
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Thirteen men die in collapse during demolition of a Catholic church in Cincinnati |
Legal/Political |
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Third National Women's Rights Convention held in Syracuse |
Crime/Disasters |
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Thieves rob a New Haven Railway train express car as it rolls through the night to Boston |
Personal |
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Theophilus Lyle Dickey marries Juliet Evans |
Personal |
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Theophilus Lyle Dickey dies in Atlantic City, New Jersey |
Personal |
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Theophilus Lyle Dickey born in Bourbon County, Kentucky |
Personal |
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Theodore Roosevelt is born in New York City |
Personal |
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Theodore Parker, famous abolitionist and member of the "Secret Six," dies in Florence, Italy |