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Democratic National Convention enters its second day in Baltimore |
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Druse militants massacre hundreds of Maronite Christians in Lebanon |
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All remaining Neapolitan troops sail from Palermo and withdraw from Sicily |
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Democratic National Convention continues in Baltimore locked in debate over credentials and slavery |
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First day of Summer |
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U.S. Coast Survey steamship sinks off New Jersey coast with heavy loss of life |
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William Walker sails from New Orleans for Honduras on his last filibustering expedition |
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President Buchanan vetoes the Homestead Bill of 1860 |
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Queen Victoria accepts President Buchanan's invitation for her son to visit the United States |
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Breakaway delegates in Baltimore nominate John C. Breckinridge, splitting the Democratic Party |
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In London, Queen Victoria reviews 21,000 men of the Volunteer Movement in Hyde Park |
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The depleted Democratic National Convention in Baltimore nominates Stephen Douglas for President |
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Florence Nightingale opens her school for female nurses at St. Thomas's Hospital in London |
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Scores die when a Mississippi steamboat explodes and burns near Cairo, Illinois |
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Enoch Bartlett, grower of the Bartlett Pear, dies at his home Roxbury, Massachusetts |
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Senator Benjamin Fitzpatrick of Alabama declines the Democratic nomination for vice president |
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The 36th Congress ends its first session in Washington, DC and adjourns until December |
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Steamship bursts a boiler on Lake Michigan, seven crewmen killed |
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The Senate of the United States is sitting in a three day special session in Washington, DC |
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Vermont Republican Convention meets in Rutland and nominates Erastus Fairbanks for governor |
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Williams College scientific expedition leaves Maine for Greenland |
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The largest ship in the world arrives in New York after its first trans Atlantic voyage |
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Joseph E. Johnston appointed Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army |
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In England, the son of the Duke of Leeds jailed for six months after defaulting on debts of £1000 |
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Stephen Douglas makes his formal acceptance of his nomination for President of the United States |
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British medical researcher Thomas Addison commits suicide at his home in Brighton |
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Storm in Boston area kills two and damages the Great Elm on Boston Common |
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High winds inflict heavy damage on the unfinished Brooklyn Academy of Music, injuring several workers |
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First Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States departs for home from New York City |
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State statistics number the 1886 enrolled students of the College of New Jersey at 238. |