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Battles/Soldiers Sioux and Cheyenne warriors attack a railroad camp in western Kansas, killing one.
Education/Culture In England, the famous Rugby School celebrates the three hundredth anniversary of its founding.
Battles/Soldiers The Seventh Cavalry fight a heavy skirmish near Fort Wallace, Kansas with Cheyenne and Sioux warriors.
Battles/Soldiers George Armstrong Custer has his first encounter with Plains Indians in eastern Nebraska.
Education/Culture President Johnson visits Boston to help dedicate the new Masonic Temple in the city.
Crime/Disasters The ill-fated miniature schooner "John T. Ford" sails from Baltimore for the Paris Exhibition.
Business/Industry Newspaper magnate George Childs opens his new Public Ledger Building on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia.
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.
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 Near the Arctic port of Archangel in Russia, floating pack ice traps and destroys dozens of merchant ships.
Battles/Soldiers Hostile Cheyenne attack settlers in Kansas, killing one.
Religion/Philosophy In the English city of Birmingham, Catholic rioters protest an anti-Catholic meeting
Hostile Kiowa warriors attack a wagon train at Cimarron Crossing, Kansas, killing three.
Crime/Disasters In Plymouth, North Carolina, ten men from a white mob who viciously beat Phillis Ruffin go on military trial.
US/the World - At Querétaro, the Emperor Maximilian of Mexico goes on trial before a Liberal military tribunal..
Crime/Disasters Accused Lincoln conspirator John H. Surratt goes on trial in Washington DC for murder.
Personal Frank Lloyd Wright, often called the greatest American architect ever, is born in Wisconsin.
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.
Battles/Soldiers On campaign in western Kansas, the Seventh Cavalry's second in command commits suicide.
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.
Education/Culture In Paterson, New Jersey, the annual racing meeting continues with the running of the famous steeplechase.
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.
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 Young veteran colonel who had fought through the Civil War, is murdered in a Philadelphia bar-room.
Battles/Soldiers Richmond's Hollywood Cemetery sponsors a day to decorate the graves of thousands of C.S.A. veterans buried there.