Birthdays
Robert Houstoun Anderson
Turns 31 on this date
William LeRoy Broun
Turns 39 on this date
Adoniram Judson Clark
Turns 28 on this date
James E. Clawson
Turns 38 on this date
Francis Marion Cockrell
Turns 32 on this date
Alfred G. Coover
Turns 28 on this date
William Hicks Jackson
Turns 31 on this date
Francis Henry Jordan
Turns 45 on this date
Events
| Crime/Disasters | A deadly hurricane hits the Caribbean, first the Turks and Caicos and then Nassau in the Bahamas. |
09/30/1866 to 10/02/1866 |
| Battles/Soldiers | An eight month U.S. Army effort to search for late Civil War deserters yields more than a thousand arrests. | 10/01/1866 |
| Education/Culture | Crowding and spectator disturbances at the Philadelphia Athletics end with the game being called. | 10/01/1866 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The Freedmen's Bureau halts the free issue of rations to refugees and freedmen across the South. | 10/01/1866 |