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The Georgia Legislature chooses its presidential electors |
| Business/Industry |
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Philadelphia textile manufacturers put their factories on half-time production |
| Education/Culture |
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In London, Charles Dickens' new novel begins serialized publication |
| US/the World |
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Mining disaster in Wales kills 142 men |
| Religion/Philosophy |
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First Sunday in Advent |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The second session of the 36th Congress opens in Washington, DC |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Abolitionist meeting to commemorate John Brown broken up in Boston |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Conductor killed in railroad accident in eastern Pennsylvania |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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In Washington, the U.S. House creates its "Committee of Thirty-Three" on the sectional crisis |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The second session of the 36th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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In Naperville, Illinois, summing up begins in sensational Chicago elite divorce case |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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President Buchanan's annual message to Congress is delivered to Capital Hill |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In Albany, a fire in a library at the New York State Capitol causes moderate damage but no injuries |
| Crime/Disasters |
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One man killed and others hurt in an explosion aboard a Spanish naval vessel in the Brooklyn Navy Yard |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Clandestine prize-fight fought in New Jersey for a purse of $300 |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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South Carolina voters elect delegates to its Secession Convention |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Buchanan's Secretary of the Treasury recommends secession to his home state of Georgia |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In New York, a water main break cuts off much of the city's water supply for two days |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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In Washington DC, President Buchanan meets with the South Carolina congressional delegation |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Abraham Lincoln writes to offer William Henry Seward the post of Secretary of State in his new cabinet |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Secretary of the Treasury Howell Cobb resigns from the Buchanan Cabinet |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Statistics indicate deaths from steamboat boiler explosions down for the year 1860 |
| Personal |
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Congressman John Sherman urges his brother William to return to Ohio from Louisiana |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Boston elects its first ever Democratic Party mayor |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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In Naperville, Illinois, courtroom applauds as wife found innocent in sensational Chicago divorce case |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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In Charleston, Major Anderson is ordered not to provoke but also to resist attack |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Midshipman William Barker Cushing writes of "the huge weight of the crisis" on the U.S. Naval Academy |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Philip Francis Thomas of Maryland becomes Secretary of the Treasury, replacing Howell Cobb |
| Crime/Disasters |
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River sloop overturns on the Hudson River and crew spend night in frozen waters |
| US/the World |
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The French Empress returns to France from Britain after her relaxed three week private visit |
