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On the Hudson River off Poughkeepsie, New York, a boat race for a purse of $6000 ends in controversy |
| Science/Technology |
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Co-founder of the Mayo Clinic, Charles Horace Mayo is born in Rochester, Minnesota |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Washington, Mary Harris is acquitted of murder by reason of temporary insanity after a sensational trial |
| Crime/Disasters |
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A transport ship sinks shortly after leaving port in North Carolina, drowning seventeen soldiers |
| Science/Technology |
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In London, the cornerstone is laid for the new Blackfriars Bridge across the Thames |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Springfield, Missouri, "Will Bill" Hickok duels with Davis Hutt in the town square, shooting him in the heart |
| Science/Technology |
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Almost three years in the building, the U.S.S. Dunderburg is finally launched into New York's East River |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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In Washington, the War Department purchases Ford's Theater and begins to convert it as an office building |
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In Wyoming, a thousand Cheyenne warriors attack the immigrant transport link at Platte Bridge |
| Crime/Disasters |
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A massive afternoon summer thunderstorm hits Hartford, Connecticut |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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In Virginia, several former Confederate officers and officers are elected as mayor and city councillors |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Tennessee, gunfire erupts on the streets of Nashville and a prominent citizen is killed |
| Personal |
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Ulysses S. Grant arrives at the resort in Saratoga, New York on the next stage of his victory tour |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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In Virginia, Union General Alfred Terry voids the recent Richmond city elections |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Washington, D.C., heavy rainfall damages the White House |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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General Ulysses S. Grant continues his victory tour of American cities, arriving in Boston, Massachusetts |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Off the Oregon coast, a loaded passenger ship sinks in a massive storm with heavy loss of life |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In New York, a brawl between two city inspectors turns deadly and one is shot to death |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Hundreds of passengers and crew have a lucky escape when their steamship burns in the Atlantic |
| Science/Technology |
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In the Atlantic, the latest effort to lay a transatlantic telegraph cable fails when the cable breaks and is lost |
| Education/Culture |
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In upstate New York, the annual six-day horse racing meeting opens at Saratoga |
| Education/Culture |
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On the Thames, in London, Harry Kelley regains his world sculling championship |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Two passenger steamers collide on Lake Huron and scores of passengers and crew are lost |
| Education/Culture |
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New Jersey farming families make for the beach on the day of the Grand Annual Farmer's Picnic |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Connecticut, a locomotive ploughs into the back of a passenger train, killing at least seven and injuring many more |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Alleged embezzlers, accused of defrauding the Phoenix Bank of up to $300,000 face a New York City Court |
| Science/Technology |
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The Suez Canal sees the first small vessel transit from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In Georgia, Clara Barton raises the Stars and Stripes over the new National Cemetery at Andersonville |
| Personal |
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In Illinois, General U.S. Grant returns to his hometown of Galena for the first time since the outbreak of the war |
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In Texas, the bodies of the German-American victims of the 1862 "Nueces Massacre" are buried together. |
