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Corpus Christi celebrated |
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Fireworks factory blows up in Brooklyn and several lives are lost |
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Deadly tornado touches down in the middle of the night in eastern Kansas |
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First Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States visits Baltimore and Philadelphia |
| Education/Culture |
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Erasmus Beadle launches the era of inexpensive popular reading with his first "dime novel" |
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At Donaldsonville, Louisiana's "New Line" Democrats endorse Stephen Douglas for president |
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In Italy, reinforcements sailing under the U.S. flag leave Genoa for Garibaldi's campaign in Sicily |
| Science/Technology |
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Doctors of the visiting Japanese Embassy observe an operation using ether in Philadelphia |
| Business/Industry |
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In Philadelphia, the visiting Japanese Embassy tours manufacturing establishments |
| Business/Industry |
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American bark sails from Buenos Aires to New York in thirty-six days, fastest on record |
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Serious train wreck near Belleville, Illinois injures dozens |
| Education/Culture |
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America's best trotting horses meet for a second time at the Union Course on Long Island |
| US/the World |
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Three shiploads of reinforcements for Garibaldi's campaign in Sicily reach Sardinia |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Illinois State Democratic Convention meets in Springfield |
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Fire burns a cotton press and two thousand bales of cotton in New Orleans |
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Fourth national convention of the National Quarantine and Sanitation Association held in Boston |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Alabama lighter capsizes in Mobile Bay during a squall and two men drown |
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At Baden in Germany, Emperor Napoleon III meets with the leaders of several German states |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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After more than three months, the U.S. Senate releases Thaddeus Hyatt from the Washington Jail |
| US/the World |
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Mexican liberals gain control of Guadalajara |
| Business/Industry |
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The New York World begins publication in New York City |
| US/the World |
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Britain's Grenadier Guards Regiment celebrates its two hundredth anniversary |
| US/the World |
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Carlist pretender Don Carlos, Count Montemolin retracts his renunciation of Spanish throne |
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First Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States lavishly entertained in New York City |
| Business/Industry |
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The largest ship in the world sails for New York on its first trans Atlantic voyage |
| US/the World |
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Sailing under the American flag, three shiploads of reinforcements for Garibaldi's campaign reach Sicily |
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Violent storm strikes Albany, New York |
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A large new comet, visible to the naked eye, is observed all over the northern hemisphere |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Democratic National Convention reconvenes in Baltimore |
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Druse militants massacre hundreds of Maronite Christians in Lebanon |