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Legal/Political Albert Hazlett convicted of murder in Charlestown, Virginia
Crime/Disasters Albert Hicks, facing execution as the United States' last pirate, confesses to a spectacular life of crime
Crime/Disasters - Albert Hicks, the United States' last pirate, goes on trial for his life in New York city
Crime/Disasters Albert Hicks, the United States' last pirate, is hanged on Bedloe's Island in New York Bay
Battles/Soldiers Albert Pike is commissioned as a Confederate brigadier general and given command of the Indian Territory
Personal Albert Sidney Johnston becomes the war's highest ranking casualty when he bleeds to death at Shiloh
Cultural Aleksandr Ostrovsky's play "Groza," or "The Storm," premieres in Moscow.
Religion/Philosophy Alexander Campbell, founder of the Disciples of Christ and Bethany College, dies in western Virginia
Foreign Alexander II is crowned as Emperor of the Russian Empire
Personal Alexander McClure dies in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Personal Alexander McClure is born in Sherman’s Valley, Pennsylvania
Lawmaking/Litigating Alexander Stephens addresses the Georgia Legislature and urges acceptance and a new South
Foreign Alexander von Humboldt dies in Berlin
Foreign Alexander, ruler of Serbia, is forced to abdicate
Education/Culture Alexis de Tocqueville dies at Cannes in France
Personal Alexis Soyer, the most famous chef in Europe, dies in London
Foreign Alfred Dreyfus, future French artillery officer and Devil's Island prisoner, is born in Alsace
Science/Technology Alfred Nobel takes out his first patent for nitro-glycerine in Sweden
Legal/Political All defendants in the Columbus Jones kidnapping case acquitted in Massachusetts
US/the World All remaining Neapolitan troops sail from Palermo and withdraw from Sicily
Religion/Philosophy All Saints Day
Religion/Philosophy All Saints Day
Religion/Philosophy All Saints Day
Religion/Philosophy All Saints Day
Religion/Philosophy All Saints Day
Religion/Philosophy All Souls' Day - The Day of the Dead in the Christian calendar
Crime/Disasters - All twenty-four passengers aboard a Boston bound ship drown when she hits rocks outside the harbor
Education/Culture All-England Cricket team continues its tour with a match in Philadelphia
Education/Culture All-England Cricket team wind up their United States tour with a victory in Rochester, New York
Crime/Disasters Alleged embezzlers, accused of defrauding the Phoenix Bank of up to $300,000 face a New York City Court