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Steamboat explodes on the Delaware River in Pennsylvania and ten die |
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Louisiana Democratic Convention selects Senator John Slidell as preferred candidate for President |
Science/Technology |
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Christopher Spencer receives a patent for his magazine-fed, lever action rifle |
Education/Culture |
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Fanny Kemble gives her final stage reading in Boston |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Massachusetts Republicans make William H. Seward their first choice for President |
Crime/Disasters |
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New York packet wrecked in a snowstorm on the New Jersey shore but all aboard are saved |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Governor of Ohio refuses the extradition of two Harpers Ferry Raiders to Virginia |
Business/Industry |
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Undetered by heavy snow, women shoe worker strikers parade in Lynn, Massachusetts |
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British and French send ultimatum to the Chinese Govenment threatening war |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Abraham Lincoln rallies Connecticut Republicans in a strong evening speech at Norwich |
Crime/Disasters |
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Stagecoach burns in the middle of its run in central Pennsylvania |
Crime/Disasters |
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Much of downtown Houston, Texas again ravaged by fire |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Abraham Lincoln concludes his New England tour with a speech in Bridgeport, Connecticut |
Foreign |
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Italian provinces of Romagna, Emilia, and Tuscany begin voting on a plebiscite to decide their future |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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House of Representatives passes the Homestead Bill |
Legal/Political |
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The U.S. Senate imprisons Thaddeus Hyatt for failure to appear before Harpers Ferry Committee |
Crime/Disasters |
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Steamboat burns on Lake Pontchartrain and eighteen lives lost |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Nebraska Republicans dominate election for delegates to the territorial constitutional convention |
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Miramón forces besieging Vera Cruz subject the port to a sustained bombardment |
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Switzerland protest the pending French annexation of Savoy |
Crime/Disasters |
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Violent earthquake strikes Carson City, Nevada causing damage but no deaths |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Virginia executes Harpers Ferry raiders Albert Hazlett and Aaron Dwight Stevens |
Education/Culture |
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California enacts law to protect young dancing girls |
Foreign |
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Hostilities break out in New Zealand between British authorities and the native Maori |
Foreign |
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Italian provinces of Romagna, Emilia, and Tuscany vote for annexation by Piedmont-Sardinia |
Business/Industry |
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Pony Express plans to deliver mail from New York to San Francisco in nine days |
Legal/Political |
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Lincoln visits dying political ally |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Lincoln claims he cannot raise $10,000 for campaign even to save himself from "fate of John Brown" |
Battles/Soldiers |
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Sam Houston sends Texas Rangers after Comanche Indians |
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First Japanese warship arrives in San Francisco Bay |