| Crime/Disasters |
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Lightning kills two during a storm in and around Newark, New Jersey |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Sam Houston of Texas withdraws his name from consideration in the presidential contest |
| US/the World |
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Garibaldi and his main force cross from Sicily to invade the Italian mainland |
| US/the World |
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In Damascus, Turkish officials execute scores implicated in the recent massacres of Christians |
| Personal |
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Future French president Raymond Poincaré born in Bar-le-Duc in Lorraine |
| US/the World |
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In China, British and French troops capture the Taku Forts and open an advance on Beijing |
| US/the World |
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Now fighting on the Italian mainland, Garibaldi and his men capture Reggio |
| US/the World |
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In Honduras, the British Royal Navy orders American filibuster William Walker to leave Trujillo |
| Education/Culture |
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In Boston, the American Institute of Instruction holds its 31st annual meeting |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Heavy rains cause transportation chaos in eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey |
| US/the World |
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Garibaldi and his men capture thousands of royal troops at Villa San Giovanni |
| Education/Culture |
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In Brooklyn baseball, the Excelsior vs. Atlantic game is abandoned as a draw due to crowd trouble |
| US/the World |
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King Ferdinand of Naples urged to give up sovereignty as Garibaldi advances |
| US/the World |
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In Calabria, the town of Catanzaro defies its Bourbon garrison to declare for Garibaldi |
| Education/Culture |
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In baseball, the new Alpine Club of New York plays its first game, and wins |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Governor Banks of Massachusetts declines re-nomination for a second term |
| US/the World |
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The Prince of Wales visits Canada's largest and richest city of Montreal |
| Education/Culture |
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Teenage son of a famous newspaper magnate brawls with African-American hotel staff in Niagara Falls |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In London, fire destroys the large and popular St. Martin's Hall in Covent Garden |
| Business/Industry |
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The S.S. Great Eastern arrives back in Britain after her first trans-Atlantic voyage |
| US/the World |
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In southern Italy, Garibaldi takes the Calabrian town of Monteleone without a fight |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Fire destroys large section of the Turkish port city of Smyna |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Stephen Douglas continues his campaign swing through Virginia at Petersburg |
| Science/Technology |
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Telegraph lines reach the Nebraska Territory and the first telegraph office opens in Brownville |
| Education/Culture |
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In cricket, the visiting United States team defeats Canada in Montreal |
| Business/Industry |
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In Texas, Oliver Loving sets out on the first cattle drive into the Colorado Territory |
| US/the World |
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In Calabria, Garibaldi and his men capture more of the increasingly dispirited Bourbon army |
| US/the World |
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In southern Italy, Garibaldi and his men reach Cosenza, capital of Upper Calabria |
| US/the World |
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The Prince of Wales visits Canada's future capital of Ottawa |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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In Augusta, former Georgia congressman Andrew Stephens speaks at a rally for Stephen Douglas |
