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Carlist pretender Don Carlos, Count Montemolin gives up his claim to be rightful King of Spain |
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Democrats hold their National Convention in Charleston, South Carolina |
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In Vienna, disgraced former minister of finance Baron von Bruck commits suicide |
| Cultural |
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In New York, a clandestine prizefight on Ryker's Island ends in a sixty-one round draw |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Angry mob of gamblers in Pennsylvania ransack the offices of the Scranton morning newspaper |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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U.S. Navy captures American slave ship off the coast of Cuba with 507 African slaves aboard |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Maryland Republicans hold their state convention in Baltimore amidst hostile crowds |
| US/the World |
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First Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States arrives in Panama enroute to Washington, D.C. |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Steamboat burns on the Mississippi below St. Louis and sixteen people are killed |
| Science/Technology |
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Speke and Grant set out from England to explore the source of the Nile |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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Multi-racial crowd in Troy, New York rescue arrested fugitive slave |
| US/the World |
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Spain signs the punitive treaty imposed upon Morocco following the recent war |
| Crime/Disasters |
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An afternoon fire in New York City destroys businesses but no lives are lost |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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Leading a crowd in Troy, New York, Harriet Tubman rescues runaway Charles Nalle |
| US/the World |
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In Italy, the results of the recent plebiscite in Savoy confirms that the province will become part of France |
| Education/Culture |
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Bret Harte publishes his first short story in San Francisco, California |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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A thousand Navajo launch an attack on Fort Defiance in New Mexico |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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U.S. Navy delivers captured American slave ship with 507 African slaves aboard to Key West, Florida |
| Science/Technology |
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A meteor shower falls to earth over Muskingum County, Ohio |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Opposition Party holds on to power in the Philadelphia municipal elections |
| US/the World |
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Garibaldi and his thousand volunteers set out on their invasion of Bourbon Sicily |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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The Delaware Opposition Party Convention meets to select delegates for Chicago |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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In Charleston, South Carolina, sympathizers briefly rescue indicted slave ship officer from jail |
| US/the World |
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King Victor Emmanuel II and Prime Minister Cavour meet in Bologna about Garibaldi's planned move on Sicily |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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In New Haven, William A. Buckingham inaugurated for his third term as Governor of Connecticut |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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The Virginia Republican State Convention meets in Wheeling, Virginia |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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In Charleston, South Carolina, the Democratic National Convention votes to adjourn and meet in Baltimore |
| US/the World |
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Coronation in Stockholm of Charles XV as King of Sweden and Norway |
| Education/Culture |
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The National Medical Association holds it annual meeting in Washington D.C. |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The United States Supreme Court finishes its 1859-1860 session |
