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The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.
The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men.
The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
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