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All defendants in the Columbus Jones kidnapping case acquitted in Massachusetts |
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Freight train derails on a bridge in Indiana and goes into the river killing two crewmen |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Leading Chicago newspaper strongly endorses Abraham Lincoln for President |
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Winter gale causes havoc to shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway in Canada |
| Business/Industry |
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Henry Pope leases his farm in western Pennsylvania for oil exploration |
| Education/Culture |
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Large parade held in New York City in memory of the late Senator Broderick of California |
| Personal |
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Henry McCarty, alias William Bonney, alias "Billy the Kid," is born in New York City |
| Crime/Disasters |
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British passenger ship hits the Nova Scotia coast and is lost along with twenty-seven lives |
| Business/Industry |
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Canada's Grand Trunk Railway links Montreal with Detroit |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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New governor of Mississippi is inaugurated in Jackson and calls for a convention of southern states |
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United States Army reports its strength as 17,036 officers and men in nineteen regiments |
| Cultural |
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Henrik Ibsen founds the Norwegian Society aimed at the cultural independence of Norway's arts |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Mount Baker in Washington Territory begins to erupt |
| Science/Technology |
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James J. Mapes patents the first artificial fertilizer, a super-phosphate of lime |
| Legal/Political |
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Kentucky man sends Governor Wise the rope with which to hang John Brown |
| Legal/Political |
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Juan Cortina publishes his second proclamation on Mexican-American rights in Brownsville, Texas |
| Science/Technology |
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The French Navy launches the world's first ironclad ocean-going warship |
| Science/Technology |
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Charles Darwin's great work on evolution is published in London |
| Business/Industry |
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The first railway train crosses the new Victoria Bridge across the Saint Lawrence in Quebec |
| Legal/Political |
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Governor of Virginia warns Governor of Pennsylvania over possible John Brown rescue attempts |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Forces of Juan Cortina defeat Texas Rangers and drive them back to Brownsville |
| Education/Culture |
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Final installment of Charles Dickens' "The Tale of Two Cities" published in London |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Mount Baker in Washington Territory showing clear signs of volcanic activity |
| Religion/Philosophy |
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The Board of Delegates of American Israelites meets for the first time in New York City |
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John Brown writes a letter of farewell to his sisters from his cell in Charlestown, Virginia |
| Religion/Philosophy |
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New Anglican Cathedral in Montreal holds its first service |
| US/the World |
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British sign treaty with Honduras concerning the Mosquito Coast |
| Legal/Political |
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President Buchanan rejects Virginia's call for federal forces to police neighboring states |
| Personal |
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Washington Irving dies at his home in Tarrytown, New York |
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Colonel Robert E. Lee leads federal troops back to Harpers Ferry to support Virginia's execution of John Brown |
