The Fortieth Congress was in recess this day from its first session.  The House's 175 Republicans returned to complete the session on November 21, 1867. (By John Osborne)

In an attempt to exercise his presidential prerogative in the face of rising congressional power, President Andrew Johnson called the United States Senate into a special session that sat from April 1, 1867 to April 20, 1867. (By John Osborne)

The Fortieth Congress was in recess on this day from its first session. A special session opened on July 3, 1867 and continued until July 20, 1867 before the House recessed for the summer. (By John Osborne)

With Schuyler Colfax of Indiana in the chair in the House and Benjamin Wade presiding in the Senate, the first "special" session of the Fortieth Congress was sitting on this day. Significantly this Congress was partially serving for the first time in an "extra" early session in accordance with legislation of January 22, 1867 that sought to keep a unpopular president from dictating when a Congress may sit. Not until the Twentieth Amendment was ratified in January, 1933, would the schedule be set constitutionally. (By John Osborne)

The great Paris International Exposition opened in the French capital and ran from April 1 to November 3, 1867.  It contained items from forty-two countries from around the world with more than fifty thousand individual exhibitors. Housed in a massive purpose built iron-framed structure that ran five hundred yards across Paris' military parade ground, the Champs de Mars, and with four times the display space of the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, the exposition attracted almost ten million people before it closed on November 3, 1867.  (By John Osborne) 

The great Paris International Exposition opened in the French capital and ran from April 1 to November 3, 1867.  It contained items from forty-two countries from around the world with more than fifty thousand individual exhibitors. Housed in a massive purpose built iron-framed structure that ran five hundred yards across Paris' military parade ground, the Champs de Mars, and with four times the display space of the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, the exposition attracted almost ten million people before it closed on November 3, 1867.  (By John Osborne) 

The great Paris International Exposition opened in the French capital on this day.  It contained items from forty-two countries from around the world with more than fifty thousand individual exhibitors. Housed in a massive purpose built iron-framed structure that ran five hundred yards across Paris' military parade ground, the Champs de Mars, and with four times the display space of the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, the exposition attracted almost ten million people before it closed on November 3, 1867.  (By John Osborne) 

In County Dublin, Ireland, south of the city, armed Fenians gathered in large numbers and moved in formation through the night.  At the Irish Constabulary barracks in Tallaght, Inspector Burke and fourteen constables deployed to block an important road junction.  Shortly after midnight, the police exchanged gunfire with two groups of insurgents numbered in the hundreds who then fled leaving quantities of arms and ammunition behind, ending any further attempts at insurrection.  (By John Osborne)