Birthdays
John Penn Brock
Turns 43 on this date
Adele Cutts Douglas
Turns 31 on this date
Hinton Rowan Helper
Turns 37 on this date
C. C. Vaughn
Turns 20 on this date
Thomas Rees Vickroy
Turns 33 on this date
Events
| Crime/Disasters | Heavy snow and high winds pound upstate New York. |
12/27/1866 to 12/28/1866 |
| Crime/Disasters | Mississippi steamboat catches fire in the middle of the night and forty-three people are drowned. | 12/27/1866 |
| Legal/Political | The second session of the 39th Congress is in a two-week holiday recess until January 4, 1867 |
12/20/1866 to 01/02/1867 |
| Crime/Disasters | The steamer "Commodore" is wrecked in Long Island Sound but all aboard are saved. | 12/27/1866 |