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Argument in Tennessee law school leads to a fatal shooting |
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Twenty-five people drown during an outing at Boykin's Mill, South Carolina |
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New York registered ship loaded with cotton burns in Apalachicola Bay, Florida |
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Oldest living former United States Senator dies in Norfolk, Virginia |
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Two South Carolina slaves stow away aboard Boston bound steamer; one escapes, one does not |
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The oldest surviving athletic club in the United States is founded in San Francisco |
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Heavy damage caused in storm that strikes Bucks County, Pennsylvania |
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Garibaldi and his volunteers organize on the Tuscan coast for their invasion of Sicily |
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In Nevada, the Paiute War begins with the wiping out of the Pony Express stop at Williams Station |
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Illinois Republicans hold their state convention in Decatur and nominate Richard Yates for governor |
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The Constitutional Union Party meets in its national convention in Baltimore, Maryland |
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U.S. Navy captures Baltimore owned slave ship off Cuban coast with five hundred slaves aboard |
| Education/Culture |
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J.M. Barrie, author of "Peter Pan," born in Scotland |
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Garibaldi and his thousand volunteers embark from the Tuscan coast for Sicily |
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S.G. Goodrich, the famous "Peter Parley," author of hundreds of books for young adults dies in New York City |
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The U.S. Senate passes its version of the Homestead Bill |
| Personal |
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Theodore Parker, famous abolitionist and member of the "Secret Six," dies in Florence, Italy |
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Tenth National Women's Rights Convention held in New York City |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Meeting in Baltimore, the Constitutional Union Party nominates John Bell for president |
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Garibaldi and his thousand volunteers land at the Sicilian port town of Marsala |
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In Pennsylvania, thousands of logs travel down the Susquehanna on a flood when a log boom breaks |
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Steamer burns on the Ohio River and five lives are lost |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Female correspondent covers the Chicago Convention of the Republican Party |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In Nevada, Paiute Indians wipe out a poorly organized white militia at the Battle of Big Bend |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Fire destroys the north side of the town of Presque Isle, Maine |
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Albert Hicks, the United States' last pirate, goes on trial for his life in New York city |
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First Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States arrives in Washington D.C. |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Warrant issued for arrest of the New York City Postmaster after a $155,500 embezzlement discovered |
| Education/Culture |
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In London, Adelina Patti makes her European operatic debut at Covent Garden aged nineteen |
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Giuseppe Garibaldi declares himself "Dictator of Sicily" |
