The Republican Party nominated Abraham Lincoln for president at the 1860 Republican National Convention.
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The Chinese Theater opened in Hollywood, California, built in an Exotic Revival style architecture.
Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of treason led to an arrest warrant for Christopher Marlowe, who was his roommate.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Tennessee Valley Act to build dams.
India had their first successful nuclear bomb test.
John Bellingham was sentenced to death for assassinating Spencer Perceval, the British Prime Minister.
