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Tyler kills the bank bill; Whigs riot outside the White House

The angriest crowd ever to gather on the executive mansion's grounds came from the president's own party.

Four months into his presidency, John Tyler had already broken with the party that put him in office. On August 16, 1841, he vetoed a bill to re-establish the Second Bank of the United States, a centerpiece of the Whig legislative program. That night, Whig supporters gathered outside the White House and rioted, the most violent demonstration ever recorded on the grounds. Tyler stayed inside, watching a mob from his own party surround the building…

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Militia flee in the dark; Cornwallis shatters Gates's army near Camden

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In Washington, the U.S. and Britain sign a treaty to save the birds crossing their shared border

Great Britain signs for Canada, binding two nations to one set of hunting rules for birds that recognize neither.
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Some 2,200 American troops lay down arms to a British force half their size.
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Harriet Tubman slips away from a Maryland plantation, bound for Pennsylvania

Her brothers Ben and Henry start north with her, then turn back; she keeps walking alone.
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Congress orders every escaped slave returned; the North must help catch them

Habeas corpus does not apply, and commissioners are paid double to rule against the accused.
1846

Taylor's army beats a Mexican force north of the Rio Grande; a war is now underway

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Minnesota enters the Union as the 32nd state; the Dakota name, the French motto, the New England soul

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