| Science/Technology |
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The world's first weather forecast is transmitted from the Meteorological Office in London |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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The Wyandotte Constitution is put to a popular vote in Kansas |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The Wyandotte Convention completes and signs the new Kansas State Constitution |
| Personal |
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The younger brother of Charles Dickens, living in Chicago, dies of tuberculosis. |
| US/the World |
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The younger brother of the King of Belgium is offered the throne of Romania but turns it down. |
| Education/Culture |
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The Zoological Society of Philadelphia plans the nation's first zoo |
| Personal |
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Theodore Parker, famous abolitionist and member of the "Secret Six," dies in Florence, Italy |
| Personal |
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Theodore Roosevelt is born in New York City |
| Personal |
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Theophilus Lyle Dickey born in Bourbon County, Kentucky |
| Personal |
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Theophilus Lyle Dickey dies in Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| Personal |
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Theophilus Lyle Dickey marries Juliet Evans |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Thieves rob a New Haven Railway train express car as it rolls through the night to Boston |
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Third National Women's Rights Convention held in Syracuse |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Thirteen men die in collapse during demolition of a Catholic church in Cincinnati |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Thirteen prisoners escape from the Monroe County Jail in Rochester, New York |
| 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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Thirty-five people drown when Canadian mail steamer strikes ice and sinks off the coast of Labrador |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Thirty-ninth ballot in the election for Speaker sees John Sherman fall behind for the first time |
| 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 |
| Personal |
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Thomas B. Cuming, twice governor of Nebraska Territory, dies in office aged thirty. |
| Personal |
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, British statesman and historian, dies in London |
| 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 De Quincey, the English author and opium eater, dies in Edinburgh |
| 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 Jefferson Rusk, U.S. Senator from Texas, commits suicide at his home in Nacogdoches |
| Personal |
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Thomas Langrell Harris is born in Norwich, Connecticut |
| Legal/Political |
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Thomas Langrell Harris serves in the United States House of Representatives |
| Personal |
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Thomas Wildey, founder of the Order of Odd Fellows in the United States, dies at his home in Baltimore |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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Thousands of African-American citizens in Washington D.C. celebrate the anniversary of their emancipation |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Thousands of cavalrymen clash at Brandy Station, Virginia, in the largest cavalry battle of the war |
