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Thomas Jefferson Rusk, U.S. Senator from Texas, commits suicide at his home in Nacogdoches

Thomas Jefferson Rusk, who had been the first Secretary of War of the Texas Republic and is now the sitting senator from the state, shoots himself with a rifle at his home in Nacogdoches, Texas. He has been despondent over the death of his wife from tuberculosis. He is fifty-four years old. (By John Osborne)
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Elisha Kent Kane, famous Arctic explorer and naval medical officer, dies in Havana

Elisha Kent Kane, a U.S. Navy medical officer and the famous Arctic explorer who led the second expedition in 1855 to rescue or recover the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin, died in Havana, Cuba aged thirty-four, his health having been shattered by the efforts of his explorations. He will be laid to rest in his native Philadelphia with great ceremony. His brother Thomas will have a distinguished Civil War career. (By John Osborne)
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