Events

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Crime/Disasters 09/28/1859 Bridge over a canal collapses in Albion, New York and eighteen citizens perish
Battles/Soldiers 10/03/1864 Brevet Major John R. Meigs, son of General Meigs, is killed by guerillas in Virginia
Education/Culture 04/29/1860 Bret Harte publishes his first short story in San Francisco, California
Campaigns/Elections 07/14/1860 Breckinridge supporters meet in Indianapolis, Indiana
Slavery/Abolition 07/18/1860 Breckinridge supporter John Brown Gordon tells college students slavery is "the hand-maid of civil liberty"
Campaigns/Elections 06/23/1860 Breakaway delegates in Baltimore nominate John C. Breckinridge, splitting the Democratic Party
Foreign 09/04/1850 Brazil outlaws the slave trade, without freeing existing slaves
Education/Culture 03/28/1859 Brahms' First Serenade for Orchestra premieres at Hamburg in northern Germany
Education/Culture 01/22/1859 Brahms' First Piano Concerto premieres at Hanover in northern Germany
Cultural 04/17/1860 Boxer John C. Heenan, "the Benicia Boy," and British champion Tom Sayers fight for a "world championship"
Business/Industry 07/19/1858 Boston-built steam yacht delivered to the Viceroy of Egypt
Cultural 04/28/1855 Boston Veterinary Institute founded
Crime/Disasters 01/28/1861 Boston registered cargo ship bound for Liverpool wrecked on Irish coast and eighteen drown
Campaigns/Elections 12/10/1860 Boston elects its first ever Democratic Party mayor
Business/Industry 01/08/1856 Borax is discovered in Northern California
Slavery/Abolition 04/05/1860 Book-burning takes place in South Carolina during trial of man for circulating anti-slavery literature
Crime/Disasters 10/19/1861 Boiler explosion kills two workers in Philadelphia
US/the World 03/31/1861 Body of Napoleon Bonaparte reinterred under the great dome of Les Invalides in Paris
Battles/Soldiers 05/01/1861 Bodies of 6th Massachusetts soldiers killed in Baltimore return to Boston
Education/Culture 06/30/1859 Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope for the first time