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William H. Bissell serves in the US House of Representatives |
Legal/Political |
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William H. Bissell serves as Governor of Illinois |
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William H. Bissell is born in Hartwick, New York |
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William H. Bissell denounces seccessionism in speech to US House of Representatives |
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William H. Bissell becomes the first Illinois governor to die in office |
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William Guerrier of the Ward and Guerrier Company dies in an explosion in Wyoming |
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William Graham, former U.S. Congressman, dies at his farm near Vallonia, Indiana |
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William Fitzhugh Gordon, former Congressman from Virginia, dies in Albemarle County, Virginia |
Personal |
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William Elisha Stoker is born in Chambers County, Alabama |
Personal |
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William Danenhower marries Elizabeth Uber |
Personal |
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William Danenhower is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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William Danenhower dies in Washington, DC |
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William and Mary College loses its main building to fire |
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Wilhelm Grimm, of Grimm's Fairytales, dies in Berlin |
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Wilbur Wright, one of the two brothers who revolutionized human flight, is born in Indiana. |
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Wife of Henry Ward Beecher has narrow escape in carriage accident |
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Widespread violence in Baltimore as the state elections are held |
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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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Whig National Convention opens in Baltimore |
Campaigns/Elections |
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Whig Frederick Walker Lincoln, Jr. re-elected Mayor of Boston |
Business/Industry |
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Western Union absorbs US Telegraph and takes control of virtually all the American telegraph industry |
Crime/Disasters |
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West Washington Market in New York City suffers severe damage in a midnight fire |
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Wendell Phillips speaks against mobs in Boston and almost causes a riot |
Crime/Disasters |
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Weeks of heavy rainfall bring serious flooding to the upper Mississippi |
Crime/Disasters |
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Weeks of dangerously high temperatures prevail in central California |
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Watched by the U.S.S. Tuscarora, the Confederate warship Nashville sails from Southampton |