In the Irish city of Dublin, the funeral of the three Fenians executed ten days before in England for the September 1867 murder of a Manchester policeman took place in a massive demonstration of Irish nationalist emotion.  In a drizzling rain, the remains of the men, dubbed the "Manchester Martyrs," were carried to the cemetery at the head of a ninety minute procession with eleven bands and at least 16,000 people.  Similar parades were held at the same time in Limerick and other towns around Ireland.  (By John Osborne)   

A large Irish nationalist demonstration took place in the northern English industrial city of Manchester in honor of the three Fenians executed two days before for the September 1867 murder of a local policeman.  Police estimated several thousand marchers in the street.  Meanwhile, in Ireland on the same day, at Cork, a similar large parade took place mourning the three men.  The funeral of the men, dubbed the "Manchester Martyrs," took place in Dublin a week later with the largest crowds of all.  (By John Osborne)   

Built as a swift blockade runner during the American Civil War and recently purchased by the Greek government, the steamer Bubulina was fully loaded with coal, guns, and gunpowder was preparing to sail from the English port of Liverpool when it suffered a massive explosion.  The mid-section of the vessel was obliterated and the the bow and stern sections floated free on the River Mersey. Many of the seventy-three men aboard were rescued but those in the boiler-room, upwards to a dozen men, were never seen again.  (By John Osborne)

In Manchester in northern England, the three Irish nationalists convicted of the murder of a local police sergeant killed in the daring rescue of Fenian leaders in late September 1867 were executed in public on the walls of the New Bailey Prison.  Sergeant Charles Brett had been the first Manchester policeman ever killed in the line of duty.  The three men, William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O'Brien, went to the gallows together early in the morning after appeals that their crime was political were dismissed and went down in Irish nationalist folklore at the "Manchester Martyrs." (By John Osborne)

In the earlier afternoon at the Ferndale Colliery in the Rhondda Valley near Pont-y-Pridd, Wales, a massive explosion was felt from underground. A fire then spread almost instantly to a majority of the mine's galleries where 328 men and boys were working.  Desperate efforts at rescue over the next forty-eight hours discovered few survivors from the damaged areas and these all severely injured.  The galleries at the far southern end of the mine were untouched but in the rest of the pit 178 men and boys had lost their lives, including Ferndale's manager, inspecting below at the time.  (By John Osborne)

A late season Caribbean hurricane, an estimated Category 3 in modern terms, passed over the Virgin Islands and then smashed into Puerto Rico.  The impact was particularly heavy on October 28, 1867 in the harbor of Saint Thomas in the Dutch East Indies and on the British island of Tortola, places where buildings were flattened and hundreds of passengers and crew of ships caught in the storm were drowned.  The hurricane moved on the next day to eastern Puerto Rico and killed another estimated 200 people.  (By John Osborne)

In London, at the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lambeth Palace, seventy-six Anglican bishops from the British Isles, the British colonies, and the United States met behind closed doors in a Conference of the Anglican Bishops of the Anglican Communion.  Discussion and eventual resolutions emerged and later a series of public religious services were held at the nearby St. Lawrence Church.  The Bishop of Louisiana delivered the first sermon at this event.  (By John Osborne)

In northern England, two men "with Irish-American accents" had a week before been arrested for vagrancy in Manchester, found to be armed, and then identified as Thomas J. Kelly and Timothy Deasy, both Union Army veterans of the American Civil War and now leaders in the Irish Republican Brotherhood.  On this day, while being transported between the courthouse and prison in Manchester, armed men assaulted the unarmed police van carrying them, killing a police sergeant, wounding two constables, and freeing Kelly and Deasy who escaped.  Police and bystanders captured five of the attacking group, however, and three of these were later tried, convicted, and executed for murder.  (By John Osborne)

The Mont Cenis Pass Railway was to link the rail traffic across the Alps between France and Italy while the Fréjus Rail Tunnel was being built.  A British development led by John Barraclough Fell, whose innovative three rail design revolutionized mountain railway design, the railway was tested on a brilliant summer morning in the mountains.  The test was successful as the test run made the forty-eight miles from St Michel in France to Susa in Italy without a delay.  The railway would open for business the following year but would cease operation in 1871 when the tunnel made the rail connection across the Alps permanent.  (By John Osborne) 

Abdülaziz I, Sultan of Turkey, became the first Ottoman Emperor to visit western Europe when he journeyed to the Paris Industrial Exhibition and then on to the United Kingdom.  In the morning on this day he arrived with his entourage at Dover from Boulogne and was welcomed by the Prince of Wales. The Sultan then spent twelve days in London, staying at Buckingham Palace, where he was entertained with a full schedule of activities ranging from a full review of the Royal Navy's Home Fleet to a performance at the Royal Opera House and a visit to the National Rifle Association's annual encampment on Wimbledon Common.  (By John Osborne)