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A passenger steamship runs aground on a New Jersey beach and seven people are drowned. |
Education/Culture |
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On the Monongahela and Ohio rivers at Pittsburgh, Walter Brown wins the American Single Sculls title. |
Crime/Disasters |
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On Lake Ontario, a steamboat burns and twenty-three lives are lost. |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Queen Victoria proclaims that a Federal Canada will achieve Dominion status on July 1, 1867. |
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At Epsom in England, the 100-1 colt "Hermit" wins the 88th running of the Derby. |
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Thomas Bulfinch, the Boston banker who wrote "Bulfinch's Mythology" in his spare time, dies at his home in Massachusetts. |
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Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery sponsors a day to decorate the graves of thousands of C.S.A. veterans buried there. |
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Young veteran colonel who had fought through the Civil War, is murdered in a Philadelphia bar-room. |
Campaigns/Elections |
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With African-Americans voting in large numbers, Republican make sweeping gains in the Washington D.C. municipal elections. |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Fifth District military governor General Phil Sheridan removes from office the sitting Louisiana governor. |
Crime/Disasters |
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In Albany, Civil War general murders well-known lawyer and member of the New York Constitutional Convention. |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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The 1867 New York State Constitutional Convention opens in Albany, New York. |
Education/Culture |
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In Paterson, New Jersey, the annual racing meeting continues with the running of the famous steeplechase. |
Crime/Disasters |
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In Paris, a young Polish exile makes a futile assassination attempt on Russian Tsar Alexander II. |
Crime/Disasters |
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In Pennsylvania, a massive boiler explosion in Philadelphia kills and injures dozens of saw mill workers. |
Battles/Soldiers |
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On campaign in western Kansas, the Seventh Cavalry's second in command commits suicide. |
Education/Culture |
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The "Quaker City" sails from New York on a five-month tour of Europe and the Holy Land, with Mark Twain as one of the tourists. |
Personal |
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Frank Lloyd Wright, often called the greatest American architect ever, is born in Wisconsin. |
Crime/Disasters |
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Accused Lincoln conspirator John H. Surratt goes on trial in Washington DC for murder. |
US/the World |
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At Querétaro, the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico goes on trial before a Liberal military tribunal.. |
Crime/Disasters |
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In Plymouth, North Carolina, ten men from a white mob who viciously beat Phillis Ruffin go on military trial. |
Religion/Philosophy |
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In the English city of Birmingham, Catholic rioters protest an anti-Catholic meeting |
Crime/Disasters |
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Near the Arctic port of Archangel in Russia, floating pack ice traps and destroys dozens of merchant ships. |
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Hostile Kiowa warriors attack a wagon train at Cimarron Crossing, Kansas, killing three. |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Hostile Cheyenne attack settlers in Kansas, killing one. |
Battles/Soldiers |
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A strong U.S. naval landing on southern Taiwan to punish Paiwan aboriginals is driven off. |
Personal |
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Isaac Newton, the first commissioner of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, dies in office. |
Crime/Disasters |
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In Philadelphia, the New American Theater is destroyed by fire, killing ten people. |
US/the World |
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Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico is executed by the victorious Liberal Government of Benito Juarez. |
Business/Industry |
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Newspaper magnate George Childs opens his new Public Ledger Building on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. |