The Wide Awakes were a uniformed political movement organized in clubs in many northern cities to support the Republican Party in the 1860 election.  The first chapter had been founded that spring in Hartford, Connecticut and their uniform of cape, cap, and torch was widely adopted.  The clubs from the Albany, New York area met in a typical mass evening parade with a reported four thousand men marching through the streets with lit torches and bearing their single eye banner.  (By John Osborne) 

Three days into Piedmont-Sardinia's invasion of the Papal States, its forces under General Fanti surrounded Perugia and forced its capitulation.  Perugia had been the site a year previously of massacres of insurgents by Papal troops that had shocked Europe.  With the fall of the city, and the earlier surrender of  Pesaro and Urbino, the Papal province of Umbria was well on the way to being incorporated into the new Italian state.  (By John Osborne)

On the forty-seventh anniversary of the Battle of Lake Erie, Cleveland, Ohio became the first American city to honor Commodore Oliver Ha, Perry with a statue. The marble statue was the work of William Walcutt, who performed the unveiling on a day of celebration in the city with governor and other officials in attendance. The orator and historian George Bancroft gave the dedication speech.  Over the years the marble figure deteriorated and was replaced with a bronze likeness.  (By John Osborne)

The eight national exhibition of the United States Agricultural Society opened in Cincinnati, Ohio on a sixty-acre site at the city's trotting race grounds.   The fair was scheduled for nine days for the first time, more than double the usual four day show.  The show show saw five thousand entries of all type and a full set of horse races.  Receipts were reported for the nine days at around $18,000, not as much as Chicago the year before but more than Richmond, Virginia, two years previously.  (By John Osborne)

In the early morning hours fire completely destroyed the Second Congregational Church in Medford, Massachusetts.  Two adjoining building were also lost.  Damage was estimated to total around $12,000 but no injuries were reported.  (By John Osborne) 

State-wide elections in the state of Maine registered large gains for the Republican Party.  In a heavy voter turn-out, they took all state offices with increased majorities.  Israel Washburn, Jr. was easily elected as the state's 29th governor beating Democrat Ephraim K. Smart.  (By John Osborne)

Telegraph communications continued to spread across the continent with the opening of the telegraph office in Omaha City, in the Nebraska Territory.  The line on to Fort Kearney was also underway and was scheduled for completion in November, 1860.  (By John Osborne)

Senator Douglas traveled by rail from Baltimore to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on his campaign tour.  His train stopped at York, Pennsylvania where he spoke to 3000 people, and he arrived in the state capital in the early afternoon.  He met with Democratic leaders and gave a speech in the evening to a crowd of thousands.  He spent the night in Buehler's Hotel and then went on to Reading, Pennsylvania the next morning. (By John Osborne)

At the Morrisania Ground in the Bronx, the local Union Club played Brooklyn's visiting Excelsior Club in one of the lowest scoring baseball games on record. The two teams played for just under two and a half hours in nine innings with the final score standing at seven to four in favor of Excelsior.  Only a single run was scored in the first four completed innings, something quite unheard of in the high-scoring days of mid-nineteenth century baseball.  (By John Osborne)

Stephen Douglas arrived in Baltimore in the late afternoon on his latest campaign stop.  Later that evening he spoke for more than two hours to a large crowd of supporters from the balcony of the Gilmore House Hotel where he was staying.  His most direct attack was on John C. Breckinridge, who had spoken in Kentucky the day before, saying that without Breckinridge's interference he would have beaten Lincoln in every state but Vermont and Massachusetts.  (By John Osborne)