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The Georgia State Convention votes to repeal the act of Secession passed in its legislature on January 19, 1861 |
| Education/Culture |
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Two of the country's best baseball clubs meet in Philadelphia with Brooklyn's "Atlantics" victorious |
| Personal |
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Fugitive Confederate States founder and General Robert Toombs sails for Cuba from New Orleans |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Heavy gales ravage cargo ships on Lake Ontario and several are lost |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In New York City, a late morning explosion shakes Greenwich Village |
| Education/Culture |
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In New York's East River, Blackwell Island Asylum celebrates new buildings with a ball for the patients |
| Business/Industry |
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New York's Musicians Protective Association meets to assess the progress of its current citywide strike |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Election Day across much of the United States |
| Science/Technology |
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In New York, newlyweds celebrate with a two hour balloon flight from Central Park to Mount Vernon |
| Personal |
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Famous British boxer, Tom Sayers, dies in London, aged thirty-nine |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Washington D.C., the National Police head Lafayette Baker is indicted for false imprisonment and extortion |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Henry Wirz, former commandant of the Andersonville prison camp, is executed in Washington, D.C. |
| Women/Families |
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In Washington, Mary E. Walker is awarded the Medal of Honor for her services as a Union wartime nurse |
| Personal |
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Former Senator Preston King, Collector of the Port of New York commits suicide in New York Harbor |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In New York City, St. George's Episcopal Church is completely gutted in an afternoon fire |
| Education/Culture |
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In New York City, General Grant spends the afternoon at the racetrack |
| US/the World |
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In Italy, King Victor Emmanuel II opens the new Italian parliament |
| Education/Culture |
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At a gala reception in New York City, thousands greet General Ulysses S. Grant and his family |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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In Charleston, the "Colored People's Convention of the State of South Carolina" is meeting |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Seventy-five people die in a steamboat collision near Helena, Arkansas |
| US/the World |
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After heated anti-Spanish demonstrations in Lima, Peruvian President Canseco is overthrown |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Off the coast of Chile, two Spanish and Chilean warships clash in the "Battle of Papudo." |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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Alabama's African-Americans hold their First Freedmen's Convention at Mobile |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Virginia, a midnight train wreck kills two soldiers and a brakeman |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Florida elects David Shelby Walker as its first post-Civil War elected governor along with a new legislature |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Factory explosion in a Philadelphia foundry kills one worker and injures others |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Volunteer Generals Butler and Dix end their Civil War military service |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Massachusetts, a would-be safe cracker is reportedly killed by his own explosion |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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North Carolina ratifies the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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President Johnson lifts the suspension of Habeas Corpus in all loyal states but retains it in the South |
