In southeast England, for the second time in nine months, a blast at a Kent gunpowder factory kills workers.

For the second time during 1867, the English town of Faversham suffered a fatal explosion at the local gunpowder works.  This event was even more serious than that of the previous April that killed four workers.  This time a massive explosion obliterated works buildings, caused heavy damage to the town itself, broke windows in Canterbury ten miles away, and killed eleven men. The explosion was touched off at eleven in the morning and completely destroyed three buildings at the works, killing everyone working in them.  The cause of the blast was never discovered.  (By John Osborne)