| Campaigns/Elections |
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Controversial nominee for District Attorney of California confirmed in the U.S. Senate on party lines |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Garibaldi and his thousand volunteers win their first victory on Sicily at Calatafimi |
| Crime/Disasters |
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In London, chief cashier of Union Bank sentenced to twenty years for million dollar embezzlement |
| US/the World |
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Historic Japanese Mission meets in Washington, D.C. with the U.S. Secretary of State |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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In Buffalo, NY, the Methodist Annual Conference hears from its Committee on Slavery |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Republican National Convention meets in Chicago, Illinois |
| US/the World |
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First Japanese Embassy to the United States received officially at the White House |
| Cultural |
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TSV Munchen athletics club founded in Munich, Bavaria |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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In Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln receives the news by telegraph of his nomination for President |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Heavy hail storm destroys crops in north-western Virginia |
| Crime/Disasters |
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On Lake Seneca in New York, a steamboat bursts one of its boilers and three crewmen die |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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In Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is formally offered the Republican Party nomination for President |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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President Buchanan asks Congress for funding to transport rescued African slaves to Liberia |
| Personal |
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Eduard Buchner, chemist and Nobel laureate, born in Munich, Germany |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Tornadoes in the Ohio Valley cause massive damage and kill more than one hundred and fifty |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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In Charleston, South Carolina, Charles Lamar and others are fined $250 for obstructing federal justice |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Purser of slave ship Wanderer goes on trial in Charleston, South Carolina for piracy |
| Personal |
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Former South Carolina senator and state's rights advocate William Campbell Preston dies in Columbia |
| Crime/Disasters |
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British ship sinks in a Ceylon harbor during a squall |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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In Springfield, Illinois, Abraham Lincoln formally accepts the Republican nomination for President |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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U.S. Navy captures unregistered slave ship off the north coast of Cuba |
| Business/Industry |
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Second annual meeting of the American Life Underwriter's Convention meets in New York City |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Alabama Constitutional Union Convention in Selma applauds nominations of Bell and Everett |
| US/the World |
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Visiting Japanese diplomats tour the Washington Naval Yard |
| Slavery/Abolition |
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U.S. Government contracts with American Colonization Society to transport rescued African slaves to Liberia |
| US/the World |
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President Buchanan hosts the visiting Japanese diplomats at an official dinner |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Pennsylvania Republicans meet in Harrisburg and Philadelphia to ratify the recent nominations in Chicago |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Heavy storm floods parts of Oswego, New York causing a train derailment |
| Religion/Philosophy |
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Whitsunday or Pentecost |
| Crime/Disasters |
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American ship founders in the Bay of Biscay and is abandoned without loss of life |
