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Crime/Disasters A passenger steamship runs aground on a New Jersey beach and seven people are drowned.
Education/Culture On the Monongahela and Ohio rivers at Pittsburgh, Walter Brown wins the American Single Sculls title.
Crime/Disasters On Lake Ontario, a steamboat burns and twenty-three lives are lost.
Lawmaking/Litigating Queen Victoria proclaims that a Federal Canada will achieve Dominion status on July 1, 1867.
Education/Culture At Epsom in England, the 100-1 colt "Hermit" wins the 88th running of the Derby.
Personal Thomas Bulfinch, the Boston banker who wrote "Bulfinch's Mythology" in his spare time, dies at his home in Massachusetts.
Battles/Soldiers Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery sponsors a day to decorate the graves of thousands of C.S.A. veterans buried there.
Crime/Disasters Young veteran colonel who had fought through the Civil War, is murdered in a Philadelphia bar-room.
Campaigns/Elections With African-Americans voting in large numbers, Republican make sweeping gains in the Washington D.C. municipal elections.
Lawmaking/Litigating Fifth District military governor General Phil Sheridan removes from office the sitting Louisiana governor.
Crime/Disasters In Albany, Civil War general murders well-known lawyer and member of the New York Constitutional Convention.
Lawmaking/Litigating The 1867 New York State Constitutional Convention opens in Albany, New York.
Education/Culture In Paterson, New Jersey, the annual racing meeting continues with the running of the famous steeplechase.
Crime/Disasters In Paris, a young Polish exile makes a futile assassination attempt on Russian Tsar Alexander II.
Crime/Disasters In Pennsylvania, a massive boiler explosion in Philadelphia kills and injures dozens of saw mill workers.
Battles/Soldiers On campaign in western Kansas, the Seventh Cavalry's second in command commits suicide.
Education/Culture The "Quaker City" sails from New York on a five-month tour of Europe and the Holy Land, with Mark Twain as one of the tourists.
Personal Frank Lloyd Wright, often called the greatest American architect ever, is born in Wisconsin.
Crime/Disasters Accused Lincoln conspirator John H. Surratt goes on trial in Washington DC for murder.
US/the World - At Querétaro, the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico goes on trial before a Liberal military tribunal..
Crime/Disasters In Plymouth, North Carolina, ten men from a white mob who viciously beat Phillis Ruffin go on military trial.
Religion/Philosophy In the English city of Birmingham, Catholic rioters protest an anti-Catholic meeting
Crime/Disasters Near the Arctic port of Archangel in Russia, floating pack ice traps and destroys dozens of merchant ships.
Hostile Kiowa warriors attack a wagon train at Cimarron Crossing, Kansas, killing three.
Battles/Soldiers Hostile Cheyenne attack settlers in Kansas, killing one.
Battles/Soldiers A strong U.S. naval landing on southern Taiwan to punish Paiwan aboriginals is driven off.
Personal Isaac Newton, the first commissioner of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, dies in office.
Crime/Disasters In Philadelphia, the New American Theater is destroyed by fire, killing ten people.
US/the World Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico is executed by the victorious Liberal Government of Benito Juarez.
Business/Industry Newspaper magnate George Childs opens his new Public Ledger Building on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia.