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In Charleston, South Carolina, all charges in the Wanderer slave ship case are dropped |
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In Nebraska Territory, a boiler at a steam saw mill explodes, killing one and injuring several |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Golden become the capital of the unsanctioned "Territory of Jefferson" |
| US/the World |
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Russia obtains the Maritime Province, including the city of Vladivostok, from China. |
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U.S. naval units secure the forts of the Florida Keys against secessionist takeover |
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In England, the Edinburgh night mail train collides with a goods train and ten men are killed |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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In Alabama, a Montgomery meeting nominates William Yancey and Thomas Watts for the secession convention |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Kentuckian Major Robert Anderson assigned to take command of Fort Moultrie in South Carolina |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Louisville to New Orleans steamboat burns near Uniontown, Kentucky and eight die |
| Education/Culture |
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Piano virtuoso and future Prime Minister of Poland Ignaz Jan Paderewski born in Imperial Russia |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Sensational Chicago elite divorce case opens in Naperville, Illinois |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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In Naperville, Illinois, the first testimony is heard in sensational Chicago elite divorce case |
| Crime/Disasters |
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Fire devastates the small New Hampshire town of Laconia |
| US/the World |
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The French Empress relaxes in England and Scotland on a private visit |
| Business/Industry |
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Financial disruption verges on panic and Virginia banks suspend specie payments |
| Business/Industry |
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As specie flows South, New York banks agree to work in concert to stabilize markets |
| Business/Industry |
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Philadelphia banks suspend specie payments |
| Crime/Disasters |
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On Lake Michigan, another steamer is wrecked in a storm but no lives are lost |
| Personal |
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William T. Sherman writes to his wife from Louisiana that she stay in Ohio |
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The coldest night of the year does not cool secessionist fervor in the South Carolina state capital |
| Personal |
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Priscilla Stoker is born in Upshur County, Texas |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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In Louisville, Kentucky, a large Unionist meeting resolves to support the Constitution and seek compromise |
| Campaigns/Elections |
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Governor John J. Pettus of Mississippi calls for a state convention to consider secession |
| Education/Culture |
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In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the Dickinson College faculty discipline a student for "hissing in the Chapel" |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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In Columbia, the Governor of South Carolina delivers his annual message to the state legislature |
| Education/Culture |
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New York's Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men holds its eighteenth annual meeting |
| Battles/Soldiers |
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Commander of federal forces in Charleston, South Carolina asks again for area forts to be manned |
| Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Texas Governor Sam Houston calls for all Southern governors to meet in conference at Austin |
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Thanksgiving Day is celebrated across the country |
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In Pennsylvania coal country, five drown when a rail passenger car falls into the Lehigh River |
