Birthdays

James Barton
Turns 31 on this date

Frederick P. Beidler
Turns 43 on this date

James Alexander Brandt
Turns 32 on this date

Levi Coffin
Turns 78 on this date

Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
Turns 25 on this date

Isaac Dillon
Turns 44 on this date

Dudley McIver Dubose
Turns 33 on this date

Theodore Stanford Garnett
Turns 23 on this date
Events
Crime/Disasters | A late season hurricane smashes islands in the Lesser Antilles and then kills hundreds in Puerto Rico. |
10/28/1867 to 10/29/1867 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | At Medicine Lodge River in Kansas, a third peace treaty is signed, this with the Cheyenne and Arapaho. | 10/28/1867 |
Education/Culture | Edward Payson Weston sets out to walk from Portland, Maine to Chicago in thirty days. | 10/28/1867 |
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 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The Fortieth Congress is in recess from its first session in Washington DC |
07/21/1867 to 11/20/1867 |