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Crime/Disasters	Sat, July 1, 1865	A powerful storm strikes Philadelphia and causes heavy damage, including the bringing down of a church steeple
Crime/Disasters	Tue, March 20, 1866	A powerful tornado strikes central Illinois killing at least one and injuring dozens more
Battles/Soldiers	Thu, May 14, 1863 - Fri, May 15, 1863	A powerful Union naval bombardment fails to silence the defenses of Port Hudson, Louisiana
Lawmaking/Litigating	Mon, March 28, 1859	A referendum in Kansas confirms the legislature's call for a constitutional convention
Legal/Political	Mon, November 1, 1858	A Reform Association is constituted in Baltimore to attempt to bring order to the city
Science/Technology	Sun, August 28, 1859 - Mon, August 29, 1859	A remarkable display of the Northern Lights is seen in Europe and North America
Crime/Disasters	Tue, March 26, 1867	A Royal Navy attempt to search on southern Taiwan for American survivors of a massacre is driven off.
US/the World	Mon, May 13, 1861	A royal proclamation from London declares Britain neutral in the American war
Campaigns/Elections	Tue, March 26, 1861	A secessionist flag flies near the Frankford Arsenal in north-east Philadelphia
Crime/Disasters	Fri, June 30, 1865	A series of storms causes heavy damage to crops, farms, and railroads in northern Iowa
Crime/Disasters	Sun, October 12, 1856	A serious earthquake rocks most of the eastern Mediterranean
Crime/Disasters	Fri, February 2, 1866	A serious fire in Pennsylvania's oil fields destroys nine wells along Bennehof Run in Venango County
Crime/Disasters	Mon, June 27, 1859	A serious railroad accident in Indiana kills dozens when floods wash away tracks
Crime/Disasters	Sat, September 30, 1865	A severe derailment near Auburn, New York destroys three railroad cars but remarkably kills no-one
Science/Technology	Thu, October 19, 1865	A significant lunar eclipse of the Sun is visible in the morning over much of the eastern United States
Crime/Disasters	Wed, January 3, 1866	A small steamer explodes its boiler in New York Bay and two men are drowned
Campaigns/Elections	Tue, September 18, 1866 - Wed, September 19, 1866	A Southern Soldier's Convention of Confederate veterans is meeting in Memphis.
Crime/Disasters	Mon, April 1, 1867	A steamboat burns to the waterline on the Mississippi but all aboard have a lucky escape.
Crime/Disasters	Sat, May 4, 1867	A steamship is caught in an hurricane on Lake Pontchartrain and all ten people aboard are lost.
Crime/Disasters	Sun, January 28, 1866	A stern-wheeler steamboat explodes and burns on the Arkansas River, killing around 130 people
Crime/Disasters	Sat, December 30, 1865	A storm dumps snow over wide areas of the East, from Washington, DC to Boston
Battles/Soldiers	Wed, June 19, 1867	A strong U.S. naval landing on southern Taiwan to punish Paiwan aboriginals is driven off.
Personal		A supporter of the women's suffrage movement, Tubman speaks at the 1896 Rochester Convention
Battles/Soldiers	Mon, April 30, 1860	A thousand Navajo launch an attack on Fort Defiance in New Mexico
Crime/Disasters	Sat, January 16, 1858	A tornado strikes the city and port of New Orleans
Science/Technology	Wed, June 11, 1862 - Thu, June 12, 1862	A total eclipse of the Moon late in the evening is visible across much of the United States
Crime/Disasters	Thu, July 20, 1865	A transport ship sinks shortly after leaving port in North Carolina, drowning seventeen soldiers
Crime/Disasters	Fri, September 16, 1864	A tugboat race in New York's East River ends in tragedy when one vessels bursts its boilers, killing four
US/the World	Fri, November 8, 1861	A U.S. warship intercepts and boards a British mail ship off Cuba to arrest Confederate diplomats
Foreign	Tue, September 12, 1848	A unified Swiss Confederation is formed