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Major-General Ambrose Everett Burnside is inaugurated as the thirtieth governor of Rhode Island. |
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In Saratoga, New York, the Congress Hall Hotel burns to the ground the day before its annual opening |
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Legendary American soldier General Winfield Scott dies in his lodgings at West Point, New York |
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In Boston, the Massachusetts State House adjourns after a five month session. |
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In Prague, Bedřich Smetana's opera "The Bartered Bride" has its first performance |
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The Church of God holds its eighth triennial conference in Decatur, Illinois. |
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General Winfield Scott is laid to rest at the Military Academy Cemetery at West Point |
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Irish nationalists launch a Fenian invasion across the Niagara River into Canada from American soil |
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Stringent Sunday "blue laws" come into effect across the state of Maryland. |
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Minnesota estimates its current population at around 310,000 people. |
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In southern Ontario, Fenian invaders push back Canadian militia at the Battle of Ridgway |
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On the Niagara River, U.S. naval units arrest Fenian invaders as they retreat back into the United States |
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In a hotly contested state and federal election, Oregon Republicans win narrow victories. |
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The Reformed Dutch Church holds its annual synod in New York City. |
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In Ireland, firefighters fail to save six people trapped in a Dublin housefire. |
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Anton Probst, murderer of an entire family in the "Deering Massacre," is executed in Philadelphia |
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In a unique accident near London, three English freight trains collide inside a tunnel and burn. |
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The House of Representatives passes a non-binding resolution that Jefferson Davis be tried for treason |
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Moses Odell, influential New York Democrat and friend of Abraham Lincoln, dies of cancer in Brooklyn. |
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In northern England, a mining disaster kills thirty-seven coal miners. |
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Survivors from a burned clipper-ship reach Hawaii after forty-three days on the Pacific in an open boat. |
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Prussia declares war on the German states of Hanover, Saxony, and Hesse. |
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New York U.S. Congressman James Humphrey dies suddenly at his home in Brooklyn. |
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In Detroit, Michigan, Democratic Party giant Lewis Cass dies at the age of eighty-three. |
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The Primitive Methodist Church of the United States meets in Wisconsin at its annual conference. |
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The United States Army begins its incursion into Native-American territory along the Bozeman Trail. |
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Austrian troops cross into eastern Prussia setting off full war between Prussia and Austria. |
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Vermont Republicans meet in Montpelier to nominate candidates for the fall elections. |
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Italy, allied to Prussia, declares war on the Austrian Empire. |
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In Madrid, a mutiny of artillerymen led by their sergeants rocks Spain before being suppressed. |
