| Business/Industry |
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In Chicago, the Union Stockyard's giant livestock market opens |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Forty passengers and crew drown when a steamer wrecks off the coast of North Carolina |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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After thirty-five years of anti-slavery efforts under William Lloyd Garrison, the Liberator ceases publication |
| US/the World |
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In Santiago, Chile ratifies its alliance with Peru against Spain, assuring full-scale war over the Chincha Islands |
| Crime/Disasters |
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A storm dumps snow over wide areas of the East, from Washington, DC to Boston |
| Crime/Disasters |
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A morning fire in downtown Providence, Rhode Island causes heavy damage |
| Crime/Disasters |
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London's new Metropolitan Fire Brigade has its first test in a massive fire on the city's docks |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In New Orleans, two French-language newspaper editors, about to duel with swords, are arrested |
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The Radical Republican former Congressman Henry Winter Davis is buried in Baltimore, Maryland |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Philadelphia, a large early-morning fire destroys several buildings on Chestnut Street |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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New Hampshire Republicans meet in convention at Concord to nominate candidates for state offices. |
| Crime/Disasters |
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A small steamer explodes its boiler in New York Bay and two men are drowned |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Richmond newspaper editors reportedly exchange pistol shots in the halls of the Virginia State Capitol |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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In Washington, Senator Trumbull introduces measures to extend the authority of the Freedmen's Bureau |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Galion, Ohio, the Bellefontaine and Indianapolis Railroad suffers massive losses in a pre-dawn fire. |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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A mix of regular and irregular American forces occupy Bagdad, Mexico |
| US/the World |
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As Chile and Peru face Spain, a large public meeting is held in New York in support of the Monroe Doctrine |
| Legal/Political |
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The first session of the 39th Congress returns from a two-week holiday recess |
| US/the World |
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Queen Victoria emerges from mourning to open the British Parliament, her first public function since 1861. |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Thieves rob a New Haven Railway train express car as it rolls through the night to Boston |
| Legal/Political |
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The first session of the 39th Congress is sitting in Washington DC from early January to late July, 1866 |
| Science/Technology |
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Clear but very cold weather grips most of the north-eastern United States |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Severe winter gales pound the coasts of the British Isles for three days |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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In Columbus, former Union General Jacob D. Cox is inaugurated as the twenty-eighth governor of Ohio |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Nashville, Tennessee, a massive fire in the public square destroys businesses and kills one proprietor |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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The War Department gives the remaining strength of the U.S. Army as just over 150,000 men. |
| Education/Culture |
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The school that is soon to become Fisk University opens for its first class in Nashville, Tennessee |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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In the U.S. Senate, Henry Wilson of Massachusetts proposes the size of the peacetime Army |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Wisconson, an juvenile inmate reportedly burns down his state's reform school |
| Education/Culture |
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On Long Island, a well attended "fox-chase" on an enclosed trotting course kills six foxes |
