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