Birthdays

Luke Pryor Blackburn
Turns 51 on this date

Marcus Lafayette Gordon
Turns 30 on this date

Eli Long
Turns 30 on this date

Wesley Merritt
Turns 33 on this date

Robert Franklin Thompson
Turns 36 on this date

Israel Washburn Jr.
Turns 54 on this date
Events
Battles/Soldiers | Hostile Cheyenne attack settlers in Kansas, killing one. | 06/16/1867 |
Hostile Kiowa warriors attack a wagon train at Cimarron Crossing, Kansas, killing three. | 06/16/1867 | |
Education/Culture | In France, the Paris Industrial Exhibition is open with items from forty-two countries on show. |
04/02/1867 to 11/02/1867 |
Crime/Disasters | In Plymouth, North Carolina, ten men from a white mob who viciously beat Phillis Ruffin go on military trial. | 06/16/1867 |
Religion/Philosophy | In the English city of Birmingham, Catholic rioters protest an anti-Catholic meeting | 06/16/1867 |
Crime/Disasters | Near the Arctic port of Archangel in Russia, floating pack ice traps and destroys dozens of merchant ships. | 06/16/1867 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The Fortieth Congress is in recess from its first session in Washington DC |
03/31/1867 to 07/02/1867 |