Crime/Disasters |
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Warriors of the Southern Ute tribe ambush mail coach in Utah, kill two |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Washington D.C. suspends the draft in the riot-stricken city of New York |
Personal |
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Washington Irving dies at his home in Tarrytown, New York |
Lawmaking/Litigating |
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Washington pays Governor Pickens what he is owed, from the newly seized Charleston Sub-Treasury |
Cultural |
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Washington society hosts a ball in honor of Lord Napier, the retiring British Ambassador |
Cultural |
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Washington's Birthday celebrated around the country and in London and Paris |
US/the World |
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Watched by the U.S.S. Tuscarora, the Confederate warship Nashville sails from Southampton |
Crime/Disasters |
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Weeks of dangerously high temperatures prevail in central California |
Crime/Disasters |
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Weeks of heavy rainfall bring serious flooding to the upper Mississippi |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Wendell Phillips speaks against mobs in Boston and almost causes a riot |
Crime/Disasters |
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West Washington Market in New York City suffers severe damage in a midnight fire |
Business/Industry |
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Western Union absorbs US Telegraph and takes control of virtually all the American telegraph industry |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Whig Frederick Walker Lincoln, Jr. re-elected Mayor of Boston |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Whig National Convention opens in Baltimore |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Whitsunday or Pentecost |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Whitsunday or Pentecost |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Whitsunday or Pentecost |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Whitsunday or Pentecost |
Religion/Philosophy |
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Whitsunday or Pentecost |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Widespread violence in Baltimore as the state elections are held |
Personal |
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Wife of Henry Ward Beecher has narrow escape in carriage accident |
Personal |
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Wilbur Wright, one of the two brothers who revolutionized human flight, is born in Indiana. |
Education/Culture |
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Wilhelm Grimm, of Grimm's Fairytales, dies in Berlin |
Crime/Disasters |
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William and Mary College loses its main building to fire |
Personal |
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William Danenhower dies in Washington, DC |
Personal |
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William Danenhower is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
Personal |
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William Danenhower marries Elizabeth Uber |
Personal |
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William Elisha Stoker is born in Chambers County, Alabama |
Personal |
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William Fitzhugh Gordon, former Congressman from Virginia, dies in Albemarle County, Virginia |
Personal |
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William Graham, former U.S. Congressman, dies at his farm near Vallonia, Indiana |