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A disturbance aboard a ship docked in New York City ends with a crewman dead of a gunshot wound |
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A dispute over a British vessel sailing in Chinese waters leads to the second Anglo-Chinese War |
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A devastating fire destroys a third of Charleston, South Carolina destroying hundreds of historic buildings |
| Crime/Disasters |
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A destructive fire in a Jersey City shipyard threatens naval construction there |
| Crime/Disasters |
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A derailment in Pennsylvania tosses two carriages down an embankment where they burn |
| Crime/Disasters |
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A deadly tornado kills four people in Montgomery County, Indiana |
| Crime/Disasters |
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A deadly letter bomb sent to Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field at the Capitol is defused safely |
| Crime/Disasters |
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A deadly hurricane hits the Caribbean, first the Turks and Caicos and then Nassau in the Bahamas. |
| Legal/Political |
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A convention assembles in Wyandotte, Kansas to create a Kansas State Constitution |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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A congressional committee reports that Senator Benjamin Stark of Oregon is a southern sympathizer |
| US/the World |
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A commission of western powers meets in Beirut, Lebanon over recent massacres of Christians |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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A commercial convention focusing on the slave trade opens in Vicksburg, Mississippi |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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A commercial convention focusing on the slave trade is meeting in Vicksburg, Mississippi |
| Crime/Disasters |
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A coal mining explosion in the Rhondda Valley of South Wales kills fourteen and injures others |
| Crime/Disasters |
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A California legislator shot and stabbed by a lobbyist on the floor of the Assembly dies of his wounds |
| Crime/Disasters |
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A brand-new British blockade runner sinks in a storm the day she sails from Liverpool, drowning forty-seven people |
| Crime/Disasters |
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A brand new Hudson River tug explodes its boiler on its first trip upriver, killing seven |
| Crime/Disasters |
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A bakery explosion in New York City kills two and injures four others |
| US/the World |
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A 6000-man rebel army captures the city of Santiago in Spanish-ruled Santo Domingo |
| Crime/Disasters |
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"The Great Tornado of the Northwest" strikes Iowa and Illinois killing and injuring hundreds |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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"Stonewall" Jackson's flanking movement seizes the initiative in the Battle of Chancellorsville |
| Religion/Philosophy |
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"Slave auction" at Rev. Henry Ward Beecher's Brooklyn church frees nine-year old slave girl |
| Science/Technology |
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"Peep Show" machine patented in Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Education/Culture |
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"Notre-Dame of Paris," final opera of William Henry Fry, debuts in his home city in aid of soldiers' charity |
| Personal |
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"Miss Leslie," America's most popular cooking writer, dies in New Jersey |
| Personal |
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"Grizzly" Adams dies at his home in Neponset, Massachusetts |
| Personal |
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"Friendly fire" strikes and wounds General T.J. Jackson and several members of his staff on the Chancellorsville battlefield |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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"Copperhead" Democrat Daniel Voorhees of Indiana is removed from his congressional seat |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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"Conservative Republicans" of Iowa meet in convention in Des Moines. |
| Education/Culture |
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"Burns Nights," celebrating the birth of Scottish poet Robbie Burns, are held across the United States |
