Personal |
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Zachary Taylor marries Margaret Mackall Smith in Lexington, Kentucky |
Personal |
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Zachary Taylor is born in Orange County, Virginia |
Cultural |
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Yung Wing graduates from Yale, first Chinese graduate in the United States |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Young volunteer officer killed in clash with Sioux Indian raiders in central Minnesota |
Crime/Disasters |
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Young veteran colonel who had fought through the Civil War, is murdered in a Philadelphia bar-room. |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Young Men's Christian Association in America founded in Boston |
Crime/Disasters |
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Young female Chicagoan fined $25 for attending the opera disguised as a man |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Yom Kippur - the Jewish Day of Atonement |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Yom Kippur |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Yom Kippur |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Yom Kippur |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Yom Kippur |
Cultural |
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Yiddish popular writer Shalom Aleichem born in the Ukraine |
Crime/Disasters |
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Yellow Fever epidemic declared in Mobile, Alabama |
Crime/Disasters |
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Yale students and local volunteer firemen battle in New Haven and a young fireman is fatally shot |
Crime/Disasters |
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Wreckage of missing Prussian warship found along the Dutch coast |
Cultural |
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World's first women's hospital organized in New York City |
Cultural |
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Worcester, Massachusetts purchases park land for public use |
Cultural |
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Women's Hospital of New York City opens |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Without authority, Union General David Hunter declares all slaves in three states "forever free" |
Business/Industry |
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With war in the United States underway, the Bank of England raises its discount rate again |
Foreign |
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With Vietnamese resistance continuing, the French commander in Indo-China asks to be relieved |
US/the World |
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With the Treaty of Caracas, Brazil and Venezuela agree on their Amazonian border |