Crime/Disasters |
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Small earthquake strikes San Francisco Bay but with no damage or injuries |
Battles/Soldiers |
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John Brown and his surviving raiders are taken to Charlestown, Virginia under heavy guard |
Foreign |
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With Vietnamese resistance continuing, the French commander in Indo-China asks to be relieved |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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John Brown and his fellow prisoners are held at Charlestown, Virginia pending trial |
Cultural |
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John Dewey, American philosoper and reformer, born in Vermont |
Crime/Disasters |
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Explosion at the Du Pont Powder Mills in Delaware kills seven |
Foreign |
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The Spanish-Moroccan War begins in earnest |
Crime/Disasters |
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Fire destroys a large section of New Orleans' thriving Fourth District |
Science/Technology |
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Louis Agassiz donates his collections to the new Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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John Brown appears before a Virginia court for the first time |
Education/Culture |
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All-England Cricket team wind up their United States tour with a victory in Rochester, New York |
Crime/Disasters |
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Massive storms batter the western coast of the British Isles and cause hundreds of deaths |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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John Brown and his fellow prisoners are held at Charlestown pending trial before a Virginia court |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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John Brown stands trial in Charlestown, Virginia |
Slavery/Abolition |
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Mob destroys the office of Abolitionist newspaper in Newport, Kentucky |
Personal |
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John Young Mason buried in Richmond, Virginia |
Crime/Disasters |
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Train derailment in Wisconsin kills ten people and injures many more |
Religion/Philosophy |
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All Saints Day |
Personal |
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Francis Hall arrives in Yokohama, Japan |
Science/Technology |
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New Cape Lookout Lighthouse lit for the first time on North Carolina coast |
Legal/Political |
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At the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, Wendell Phillips praises John Brown in a speech |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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New Georgia legislature assembles in Milledgeville |
Legal/Political |
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The Commonwealth of Virginia sentences John Brown to death |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Widespread violence in Baltimore as the state elections are held |
US/the World |
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Abundant Canadian harvest celebrated with a day of thanksgiving across the country |
Crime/Disasters |
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Another large fire strikes New Orleans leaving five hundred homeless |
Crime/Disasters |
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Fire destroys large cotton mill in Concord, New Hampshire |
Business/Industry |
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Meeting in Kentucky protests the economic domination of the East Coast |
Legal/Political |
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John Copeland, African-American Harpers Ferry raider, convicted in Charlestown, Virginia |
Crime/Disasters |
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Fire destroys part of central Bath in upstate New York |