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In Columbia, the South Carolina legislature overwhelmingly rejects the Fourteenth Amendment. |
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Sioux and Cheyenne warriors wipe out 81 U.S. Army soldiers near Fort Phil Kearny in Wyoming. |
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Lieutenant Henry Wilson, only son of U.S. Senator Henry Wilson, dies at his station in Austin, Texas. |
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A Mississippi steamboat burns to the waterline at its dock in New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Education/Culture |
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The first Great Ocean Yacht Race across the Atlantic ends at the Isle of Wight in the English Channel. |
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Christmas Day |
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Former Iowa congressman and Union general Samuel Curtis dies in Council Bluffs. |
| Education/Culture |
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In southern England, the Royal Yacht Club fetes the three Great Atlantic Yacht Race participants. |
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Heavy snow and high winds pound upstate New York. |
| Crime/Disasters |
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The steamer "Commodore" is wrecked in Long Island Sound but all aboard are saved. |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Mississippi steamboat catches fire in the middle of the night and forty-three people are drowned. |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In England, the famous Crystal Palace suffers heavy fire damage in its rebuilt location in south London. |
| Science/Technology |
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The new record-breaking suspension bridge across the Ohio between Cincinnati and Covington officially opens. |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The Ohio Senate takes up and passes on a party-line vote the bill to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment. |
| Legal/Political |
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The second session of the 39th Congress returns from a two-week holiday recess |
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The second session of the 39th Congress is sitting in Washington DC from early January to early March. |
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In England, south of London, an overnight fire guts the ancient medieval church in Croydon. |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Kentish lifeboatmen rescue the crew of a Danish vessel foundering in an English Channel storm. |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The House of Representatives requests its Judiciary Committee to investigate impeachment of President Johnson |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Britain, heavy snow and violent winds cause winter disruption in northern Wales. |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Veterans from across the country meet in Philadelphia at the Colored Soldiers' and Sailors' Convention. |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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The National Convention of Colored Men meets for three days in Washington, D.C. |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Tennessee State Senator Almon Case is murdered in cold blood in Obion County, Tennessee. |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Alabama, a New Orleans bound steamboat is destroyed by fire and at least four people die. |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Janesville, Wisconsin, the city's centerpiece Hyatt House building is destroyed by fire. |
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the leading Neoclassical painter of his day, dies in at his home in France. |
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In London, more than forty skaters drown in Regent's Park when the lake's ice gives way. |
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The embalmed body of former Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico arrives home at the Austrian port of Trieste. |
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A huge winter storms blankets New England. |
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In Alabama, a steamboat burns on the Black Warrior River and several passengers lose their lives. |
