30 July 1865

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The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of California, killing 225 passengers.

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"Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."
Rainer Maria Rilke
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