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Slavery Ends in Neth Indies
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Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture.
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Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.
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Temperature hits 115°F in Ft Scott & 112°F in Topeka Kansas!
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1st railroad reaches Kansas.
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Telegraph line between LA & SF opens.
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British & French troops capture Beijing.
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In 1861 at age 26, Clemens decided he wanted to be a steamboat pilot.
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1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of West fired on, Sumter, SC.
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Flush toilet patented by Mr Thomas Crapper.
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1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale.
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Pres-elect Lincoln arrives secretly in Wash DC to take office.
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An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
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Battle of Mill Springs, KY (Fishing Creek, Logan's Crossroads).
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Lincoln signs National Currency Act.
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Became a member of the Free Masons.
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Haley's Comet was visible in the sky on the night that Mark Twain was both born and passed away.
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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County was first put on press on this date, one of Mark Twains best work.
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In 1867 Twain developed a serious enjoyment of billiards. He enjoyed the game for the rest of his life.
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Twain suffered from color blindness.
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In 1868 Twain met Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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Twain gave Anne Sullivan the label “miracle worker” for her work with Helen Keller in 1869.
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Mark Twain married his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens on this date.
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Twain also greatly admired the poet Robert Browning he later met in 1870
