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A remarkable display of the Northern Lights is seen in Europe and North America |
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A Reform Association is constituted in Baltimore to attempt to bring order to the city |
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A referendum in Kansas confirms the legislature's call for a constitutional convention |
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A powerful Union naval bombardment fails to silence the defenses of Port Hudson, Louisiana |
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A powerful tornado strikes central Illinois killing at least one and injuring dozens more |
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A powerful storm strikes Philadelphia and causes heavy damage, including the bringing down of a church steeple |
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A powerful hurricane strikes the coast of Louisiana. |
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A powerful hurricane devastates the island of Puerto Rico, killing hundreds. |
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A powerful earthquake destroys much of the town of Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos, killing hundreds. |
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A Police and Fire Alarm System goes into operation in Baltimore, Maryland |
| US/the World |
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A Peace Conference aimed at ending the German-Danish war convenes in London |
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A passenger steamship runs aground on a New Jersey beach and seven people are drowned. |
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A passenger ship is sunk in a hurricane off the Carolina coast with very heavy loss of life. |
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A party of Californians under Daniel Showalter make for Confederate Arizona with Union cavalry in pursuit |
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A partial eclipse of the Sun is visible in northwestern North America |
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A New York City brewery employee commits suicide by jumping into a vat of boiling beer |
| Education/Culture |
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A new statue of former Chief Justice John Marshall is installed at the Washington Monument in Richmond, Virginia. |
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A New Hampshire monument is dedicated at the new Winchester National Cemetery in Virginia, |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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A new Article of War forbids the military to return escaped slaves to their former owners |
| Religion/Philosophy |
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A National Day of Fasting and Prayer is held across the North |
| Business/Industry |
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A national convention of workingmen meets in Philadelphia |
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A morning fire in downtown Providence, Rhode Island causes heavy damage |
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A mix of regular and irregular American forces occupy Bagdad, Mexico |
| Crime/Disasters |
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A Mississippi steamboat burns to the waterline at its dock in New Orleans, Louisiana |
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A Military Commission tries Clement Vallandigham in Cincinnati for "disloyal sentiments and opinions" |
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A Mexican firing squad executes French adventurer Gaston Raousset in Guaymas, Sonora |
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A meteor shower falls to earth over Muskingum County, Ohio |
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A massive pre-dawn fire destroys a large section of Gloucester, Massachusetts |
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A massive oil fire destroys wells and installations neat Pithole City in Venango County, Pennsylvania |
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A massive hailstorm shatters glass windows throughout the city of Philadelphia. |
