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Crime/Disasters	Tue, January 31, 1860	American ship burns at Liverpool hours before leaving for New York
Crime/Disasters	Sun, May 27, 1860	American ship founders in the Bay of Biscay and is abandoned without loss of life
Crime/Disasters	Sat, January 5, 1861	American ship sinks in mid-Atlantic and forty-eight are set adrift thousands of miles from land
Military/Violent	Tue, December 8, 1857	American soldier of fortune William Walker is recaptured by the U.S. Navy
Battles/Soldiers	Sun, November 16, 1856	American warships bombard Chinese forts in Canton Province
Business/Industry	Mon, January 23, 1860	American-built clipper ship sails from London to Sydney in sixty-seven days
Cultural	Fri, July 1, 1859	Amherst beats Williams in the first ever intercollegiate baseball game by a score of 73-22
Education/Culture	Wed, August 3, 1859	Amid great ceremony, the cornerstone is laid for the National Monument at Plymouth Rock
Crime/Disasters	Wed, September 29, 1858	Ammunition dump explodes in Cuba, killing dozens and destroying a large area of Havana
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, June 4, 1863	Amphibious Union force raids Bluffton, South Carolina and burns it to the ground
Crime/Disasters	Sat, April 28, 1860	An afternoon fire in New York City destroys businesses but no lives are lost
Crime/Disasters	Fri, September 7, 1866 - Sat, September 8, 1866	An altercation between locals and Union regulars garrisoning Brenham, Texas results in a massive fire.
Crime/Disasters	Thu, May 3, 1866	An American clipper-ship burns in the Pacific leaving her crew in boats thousands of miles from land.
Crime/Disasters	Thu, April 28, 1859	An American emigrant ship is wrecked on the Irish coast with almost 400 lives lost
Science/Technology	Wed, March 6, 1867	An annular eclipse of the Sun is visible over Europe and much of Asia and Africa.
Crime/Disasters	Wed, February 13, 1861	An early thaw causes heavy ice damage and severe flooding along the riverbanks of New England
Crime/Disasters	Mon, November 18, 1867	An earthquake and accompanying tsunami causes massive damage throughout the Virgin Islands.
Battles/Soldiers	Mon, October 1, 1866	An eight month U.S. Army effort to search for late Civil War deserters yields more than a thousand arrests.
Science/Technology	Fri, July 20, 1860	An exceptionally large and bright meteor streaks across the northern areas of the United States
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, July 24, 1863	An exchange of wounded prisoners takes place off Fort Wagner in Charleston Harbor under a flag of truce
Battles/Soldiers	Sat, August 29, 1863	An experimental Confederate submarine sinks in Charleston Harbor during a training accident, killing five
Battles/Soldiers	Sat, August 29, 1863	An experimental Confederate submarine sinks in Charleston Harbor during a training accident, killing five
Science/Technology	Thu, July 25, 1867	An experimental survival raft arrives in Southampton Water after a forty-three Atlantic crossing from New York.
Crime/Disasters	Sun, January 6, 1861	An explosion of sulphur gas kills seven in a coal mine in central England
Crime/Disasters	Sat, June 4, 1859 - Sun, June 5, 1859	An unprecedented late spring frost causes massive crop damage across the northern United States
Foreign	Thu, September 16, 1858	Andrew Bonar Law, future British Prime Minister, is born in Canada
Personal	Sun, October 7, 1894	Andrew Gregg Curtin dies in Bellefonte, Pennslyvania
Personal	Sat, April 22, 1815	Andrew Gregg Curtin is born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
Personal	Thu, May 30, 1844	Andrew Gregg Curtin marries Catherine Irvine Wilson
Legal/Political	Tue, January 15, 1861 - Tue, January 15, 1867	Andrew Gregg Curtin serves as Governor of Pennslyvania