President Lincoln signed an Act that made slavery illegal in US territories.
Slavery also became illegal in the States on January 1, 1863.
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Drug lord Pablo Escobar handed himself into the police.
Kuwait declared its independence from the UK.
Louis IV was crowned king of West Francia.
In Atlanta, Georgia, legislation passed that made pinball machines illegal in the city.
The USS Kearsarge sank the CSS Alabama off the coast of Cherbourg, France.
