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Slavery/Abolition Alleged fugitive slave arrested in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and sent that evening to Philadelphia
Battles/Soldiers Almost 40,000 Missourians are now in Union uniform, according to state reports
Crime/Disasters Almost fifty people are killed in an horrific train wreck near Angola, New York.
Crime/Disasters Almost three hundred drown on Lake Michigan in an excursion steamer collision
Science/Technology Almost three years in the building, the U.S.S. Dunderburg is finally launched into New York's East River
Science/Technology Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist, is born in Bavaria
Education/Culture Along the Monongahela River, large crowds turn out to watch a five-mile sculling race for $2000.
Crime/Disasters Altercation on board U.S. Navy prize leads to four sailors arrested for mutiny
Education/Culture America's best trotting horses meet for a second time at the Union Course on Long Island
Education/Culture America's best trotting horses race in a three heat series at the Union Course on Long Island
Battles/Soldiers American adventurer Henry A. Crabb leads an expeditionary force across the Mexican border into Sonora
Business/Industry American bark sails from Buenos Aires to New York in thirty-six days, fastest on record
Religion/Philosophy - American Bible Union holds its 10th Annual Conference in New York City
Education/Culture American child prodigy pianist Willie Pape plays his first public concert in London
Lawmaking/Litigating American Colonization Society charter ship transporting rescued Africans to Liberia sails from Key West, Florida
Cultural American Colonization Society holds its forty-third annual meeting in Washington D.C.
Military/Violent American filibuster William Walker departs San Francisco for Central America
Business/Industry American filibuster William Walker is executed in Honduras
Military/Violent American filibuster William Walker proclaims himself president of an independent "Republic of Lower California"
Education/Culture American Medical Association founded in Philadelphia
Science/Technology American merchant captain discovers the Midway Islands
Personal American naturalist and Boy Scout pioneer Ernest Thompson Seton born in northern England
Personal American novelist and essayist Edith Wharton is born into a wealthy family in New York City
Campaigns/Elections American Party nominates Millard Fillmore for president
Education/Culture American playwright Charles Hale Hoyt is born in Concord, New Hampshire
Crime/Disasters American sailing ship sinks in North Atlantic and fifty-three passengers and crew drown
Crime/Disasters American sailing vessel capsizes during a gale and fifteen passengers and crew are lost
US/the World American sailors on shore leave riot at the port of Colón in Panama
Science/Technology American Scientific Association closes its fourteenth annual meeting in Newport, Rhode Island
Crime/Disasters American ship bound for New Orleans founders off the coast of Ireland