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Violent storm strikes Albany, New York |
Crime/Disasters |
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Violent gales cause heavy damage in New York City and Philadelphia |
Crime/Disasters |
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Violent earthquake strikes Carson City, Nevada causing damage but no deaths |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Violence continues on the streets of St. Louis as pro-Union militia battle with pro-Confederate mobs |
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Vigilance Committee forms in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana |
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Vigilance agent follows Gorsuch posse |
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Victor Emmanuel of Piedmont becomes King of the Two Sicilies essentially completing the unification of modern Italy |
US/the World |
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Victor Emmanuel II signs the declaration of the new united kingdom of Italy |
US/the World |
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Victor Emmanuel II receives a hero's welcome in Florence, the capital of his new province of Tuscany |
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Victor Emanuel II annexes Naples, Sicily, and Umbria and the unification of Italy is almost complete |
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Vice-President Millard Fillmore takes the oath of office after President Zachary Taylor dies at the White House |
Personal |
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Vice-President King dies in Alabama |
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Vice-President Andrew Johnson takes the oath as seventeenth President of the United States |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Veterans from across the country meet in Philadelphia at the Colored Soldiers' and Sailors' Convention. |
Education/Culture |
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Verses of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" published anonymously in the Atlantic Monthly |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Vermont Republicans meet in Montpelier to nominate candidates for the fall elections. |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Vermont Republican Convention meets in Rutland and nominates Erastus Fairbanks for governor |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Vermont repeals its Personal Liberty Law |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Vermont passes a new Personal Liberty Law |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Vermont Democrats meet to nominate candidates for the fall elections. |
Cultural |
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Verdi's opera Rigoletto premieres in New York City |
Education/Culture |
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Verdi's opera "Nabucco" has its United States premiere in New York City |
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Utah Territorial Governor proclaims a blanket pardon to end the Mormon War |
Personal |
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Usher Ferguson Linder is born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky |
Personal |
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Usher Ferguson Linder dies in Chicago, Illinois |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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United States signs extradition treaty with Sweden and Norway |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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United States signs a commercial treaty with Belgium in Washington, D.C. |
US/the World |
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United States signs a commercial and friendship treaty with Bolivia in La Paz |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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United States Senate confirms Robert Grier's appointment to the Supreme Court |
Battles/Soldiers |
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United States Navy raiding party crosses the Potomac and destroys a Confederate schooner in Dumfries Creek |