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Owen Wister born in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Breckinridge supporters meet in Indianapolis, Indiana |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Sparse attendance at a Douglas meeting in Wilmington, Delaware |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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First American Colonization Society charter ship transporting rescued Africans to Liberia sails from Key West, Florida |
| Education/Culture |
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Robert E. Lee writes to his wife about one of his former cadets at West Point |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In the Nebraska Territory, a tornado strikes St. John's City |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Bell-Everett newspaper in Augusta, Georgia calls the Breckinridge-Lane candidacy the "Suicide Ticket" |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In Nevada, the Pyramid Lake War comes to an official end as regular troops withdraw |
| Science/Technology |
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In London, Prince Albert opens the Fourth International Statistical Congress |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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At a Lincoln rally in New York City, Horace Greeley woos former Whig and American Party voters |
| Business/Industry |
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In Pennsylvania, Bethlehem Rolling Mill and Iron Company break ground on their new factory |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Stephen Douglas visits Hartford, Connecticut telling the crowd only the "regular" Democrats can save the country |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In New York City, an East Side fire burns for six hours and destroys twenty-five buildings |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Arriving in Boston, Stephen Douglas continues his political tour |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Texas newspaper editor accuses abolitionists of planning to launch a slave revolt in the state |
| US/the World |
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Cornerstone for the new Queen's Hospital laid in Honolulu, Hawaii |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The Pacific republic movement spreads to Oregon with rumors printed in the Salem press |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In China, American adventurer Frederick Ward and his men capture fortress of Sung-Chiang from Taiping rebels |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Congressional Commission to examine the methods of training at West Point meets for the first time |
| Science/Technology |
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British astronomer Warren De La Rue captures photographic images of a solar eclipse |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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Breckinridge supporter John Brown Gordon tells college students slavery is "the hand-maid of civil liberty" |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Abraham Lincoln writes to introduce himself to his running mate Hannibal Hamlin |
| Education/Culture |
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Harvard College graduates its largest ever class, watched by Stephen Douglas and Charles Sumner |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In New York, an attempted jailbreak from Sing Sing Prison fails with one prisoner shot dead |
| Education/Culture |
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Cornelius Conway Felton inaugurated as new President of Harvard University |
| Education/Culture |
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Hamilton College in Clinton, New York graduates seventeen men of the class of 1860 |
| Personal |
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Lizzie Borden born in Fall River, Massachusetts |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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American Colonization Society charter ship transporting rescued Africans to Liberia sails from Key West, Florida |
| Religion/Philosophy |
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Under the Islamic Calender, Muharram begins the new year 1277 |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In Nevada, following the Pyramid Lake War, regular troops start a permanent fort on the Carson River |
