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Type	Date Span	Title
Campaigns/Elections	Tue, June 19, 1860	Democratic National Convention enters its second day in Baltimore
US/the World	Tue, June 19, 1860 - Wed, June 20, 1860	Druse militants massacre hundreds of Maronite Christians in Lebanon
US/the World	Tue, June 19, 1860	All remaining Neapolitan troops sail from Palermo and withdraw from Sicily
Campaigns/Elections	Wed, June 20, 1860 - Fri, June 22, 1860	Democratic National Convention continues in Baltimore locked in debate over credentials and slavery
Science/Technology	Thu, June 21, 1860	First day of Summer
Crime/Disasters	Thu, June 21, 1860	U.S. Coast Survey steamship sinks off New Jersey coast with heavy loss of life
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, June 21, 1860	William Walker sails from New Orleans for Honduras on his last filibustering expedition
Lawmaking/Litigating	Fri, June 22, 1860	President Buchanan vetoes the Homestead Bill of 1860
US/the World	Fri, June 22, 1860	Queen Victoria accepts President Buchanan's invitation for her son to visit the United States
Campaigns/Elections	Sat, June 23, 1860	Breakaway delegates in Baltimore nominate John C. Breckinridge, splitting the Democratic Party
US/the World	Sat, June 23, 1860	In London, Queen Victoria reviews 21,000 men of the Volunteer Movement in Hyde Park
Campaigns/Elections	Sat, June 23, 1860	The depleted Democratic National Convention in Baltimore nominates Stephen Douglas for President
US/the World	Sun, June 24, 1860	Florence Nightingale opens her school for female nurses at St. Thomas's Hospital in London
Crime/Disasters	Sun, June 24, 1860	Scores die when a Mississippi steamboat explodes and burns near Cairo, Illinois
Personal	Mon, June 25, 1860	Enoch Bartlett, grower of the Bartlett Pear, dies at his home Roxbury, Massachusetts
Campaigns/Elections	Mon, June 25, 1860	Senator Benjamin Fitzpatrick of Alabama declines the Democratic nomination for vice president
Lawmaking/Litigating	Mon, June 25, 1860	The 36th Congress ends its first session in Washington, DC and adjourns until December
Crime/Disasters	Tue, June 26, 1860	Steamship bursts a boiler on Lake Michigan, seven crewmen killed
Lawmaking/Litigating	Tue, June 26, 1860 - Thu, June 28, 1860	The Senate of the United States is sitting in a three day special session in Washington, DC
Campaigns/Elections	Wed, June 27, 1860	Vermont Republican Convention meets in Rutland and nominates Erastus Fairbanks for governor
Science/Technology	Wed, June 27, 1860	Williams College scientific expedition leaves Maine for Greenland
Business/Industry	Wed, June 27, 1860	The largest ship in the world arrives in New York after its first trans Atlantic voyage
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, June 28, 1860	Joseph E. Johnston appointed Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army
US/the World	Thu, June 28, 1860	In England, the son of the Duke of Leeds jailed for six months after defaulting on debts of £1000
Campaigns/Elections	Fri, June 29, 1860	Stephen Douglas makes his formal acceptance of his nomination for President of the United States
Science/Technology	Fri, June 29, 1860	British medical researcher Thomas Addison commits suicide at his home in Brighton
Crime/Disasters	Fri, June 29, 1860	Storm in Boston area kills two and damages the Great Elm on Boston Common
Crime/Disasters	Fri, June 29, 1860	High winds inflict heavy damage on the unfinished Brooklyn Academy of Music, injuring several workers
US/the World	Sat, June 30, 1860	First Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States departs for home from New York City
Education/Culture	Sat, June 30, 1860	State statistics number the 1886 enrolled students of the College of New Jersey at 238.