John Bellingham was sentenced to death for assassinating Spencer Perceval, the British Prime Minister.
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India had their first successful nuclear bomb test.
The Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for president at the 1860 Republican National Convention.
The US Congress passed Selective Service Act.
Northern Somalia declared its independence, becoming the unrecognized de facto Republic of Somaliland.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Tennessee Valley Act to build dams.
