Battles/Soldiers |
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Chartered steamship sails from New York City bound for Charleston and the resupply of Fort Sumter |
Personal |
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman born in Hartford, Connecticut |
Education/Culture |
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Charles W. Sanders publishes his "revised, improved, and newly illustrated" edition of school readers |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Charles Robinson elected governor of Kansas in first election held under the Wyandotte Constitution |
Personal |
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Charles Lush Wilson is born in Fairfield County, Connecticut |
Personal |
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Charles Lush Wilson dies in San Antonio, Texas |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Charles Jones Jenkins is inaugurated as the first post-Civil War elected governor of Georgia |
Education/Culture |
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Charles Gounod's opera "Faust" premieres in Paris to luke-warm critical acclaim |
Personal |
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Charles Goodyear dies a poor man in New York City |
Education/Culture |
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Charles Dickens sails from Liverpool for his second visit to the United States. |
Education/Culture |
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Charles Dickens begins publication of his "The Tale of Two Cities" |
Education/Culture |
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Charles Dickens begins his live reading tour of the United States at the Steinway Hall in Boston. |
Science/Technology |
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Charles Darwin's great work on evolution is published in London |
Science/Technology |
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Charles Darwin, busy in the preparation of his great work on the origin of species, celebrates his fiftieth birthday |
Science/Technology |
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Charles Darwin finishes editing his great work on evolution and sends it to the printers |
Science/Technology |
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Charles Darwin begins the final editing of his great work on evolution |
Personal |
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Charles Curtis born in Topeka, Kansas |
Commercial |
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Chain-stitch sewing machine patented in Virginia |
Science/Technology |
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Central Pennsylvania has fifteen hours of daylight today and a Full Moon |
Cultural |
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Centenary of Schiller's birth celebrated in Europe and North America |
Education/Culture |
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Celebrations for the 300th birthday of William Shakespeare are held around the world, but not in Paris |
Education/Culture |
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Celebrated historian William H. Prescott dies of a stroke at his home in Boston |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Celebrated extradition case of escaped Missouri slave John Anderson in Canada ends with his release |
Personal |
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Cave Johnson, former Postmaster General of the United States, dies at his home in Tennessee. |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia lies in state in his Cathedral |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia dies on the street of a stroke aged forty-eight |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia buried in St. Peter's Church in the city |
Crime/Disasters |
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Catholic Bishop accosted and wounded by highwaymen near Cincinnati, Ohio |
Slavery/Abolition |
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Cassius Clay speaks for more than three hours from the Capitol steps in Frankfort, Kentucky |