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Type	Date Span	Title
Crime/Disasters	Fri, September 14, 1866	In Johnstown, Pennsylvania, disaster strikes for hundreds when a viewing platform collapses.
Campaigns/Elections	Mon, September 17, 1866 - Wed, September 19, 1866	In Cleveland, Ohio, the Democratic-aligned Soldiers and Sailors Union, holds its first annual convention.
Religion/Philosophy	Tue, September 18, 1866	In Galesburg, Illinois, the annual general meeting of Universalists condemns President Johnson.
Campaigns/Elections	Tue, September 18, 1866 - Wed, September 19, 1866	A Southern Soldier's Convention of Confederate veterans is meeting in Memphis.
Lawmaking/Litigating	Wed, September 19, 1866	In Salem, Oregon, a divided state legislature narrowly ratifies the Fourteenth Amendment.
Religion/Philosophy	Thu, September 20, 1866 - Fri, September 21, 1866	The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church meets in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in a special session.
Crime/Disasters	Fri, September 21, 1866	A very early frost disrupts the grain harvest in much of the eastern United States.
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, September 21, 1866	Two more African-American regiments, the soon to be famous Ninth and Tenth Cavalry, come into being
Battles/Soldiers	Fri, September 21, 1866	In Kansas, a new U.S. cavalry regiment, the Seventh, begins its formation at Fort Riley.
Crime/Disasters	Sat, September 22, 1866	Off the coast near Hong Kong, Chinese pirates terrorize an American schooner and kill its captain
Battles/Soldiers	Sat, September 22, 1866	In the Paraguayan War, an Allied attempt to storm a Paraguayan fortress meets with disaster.
Personal	Mon, September 24, 1866	Former New York Congressman and current candidate John Steele dies in a carriage accident.
Personal	Tue, September 25, 1866	Former Maryland congressman Henry May, imprisoned at the start of the Civil War, dies in Baltimore.
Education/Culture	Tue, September 25, 1866	On the edge of the Bronx, the new Jerome Park Race Course opens with its first race meeting.
Campaigns/Elections	Wed, September 26, 1866	In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, veterans supporting Republican policies meet in convention.
Campaigns/Elections	Sat, September 29, 1866	In a Cleveland, Ohio speech, Benjamin Butler threatens President Johnson with impeachment.
Crime/Disasters	Sun, September 30, 1866 - Tue, October 2, 1866	A deadly hurricane hits the Caribbean, first the Turks and Caicos and then Nassau in the Bahamas.
US/the World	Sun, September 30, 1866	Prussia annexes Frankfurt am Main, one of the four German free cities.
Lawmaking/Litigating	Sun, September 30, 1866	President Johnson's Secretary of the Interior, James Harlan of Iowa, resigns.
Crime/Disasters	Sun, September 30, 1866	On this date, New York held a total of 2,788 people in its state prisons.
Education/Culture	Mon, October 1, 1866	Crowding and spectator disturbances at the Philadelphia Athletics end with the game being called.
Lawmaking/Litigating	Mon, October 1, 1866	The Freedmen's Bureau halts the free issue of rations to refugees and freedmen across the South.
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.
Campaigns/Elections	Tue, October 2, 1866 - Fri, October 5, 1866	North Carolina Freedmen hold a four-day convention in Raleigh
Lawmaking/Litigating	Wed, October 3, 1866	The Treaty of Prague ends the Italian-Austrian War and cedes Venetia for transfer to Italy.
Crime/Disasters	Wed, October 3, 1866	A passenger ship is sunk in a hurricane off the Carolina coast with very heavy loss of life.
Crime/Disasters	Wed, October 3, 1866	In an Atlantic hurricane, a passing ship rescues all the passengers and crew of a foundering vessel.
Campaigns/Elections	Wed, October 3, 1866	Conservative Republicans and Democrats of Massachusetts meet in Boston to nominate candidates.
Personal	Thu, October 4, 1866	The younger brother of Charles Dickens, living in Chicago, dies of tuberculosis.
Crime/Disasters	Thu, October 4, 1866	For the second time in two days, a steamship rescues the crew of a sinking vessel off South Carolina.