Theodore Parker, the famous Unitarian preacher, transcendentalist, abolitionist leader, and member of John Brown's "Secret Six," died at Florence in Italy.  He was suffering from tuberculosis and had traveled to Florence just a month before.  He was fifty-nine years old and was buried in the English Cemetery in Florence.  (By John Osborne)  

The Baltimore owned bark William had sailed from west Africa in March 1860 bound for Cuba with a cargo of 744 slaves.  On May 9, 1860 the U.S.S. Wyandotte intercepted the slaver off the southern coast of Cuba.  The prize was towed into Key West, Florida and the 513 surviving Africans turned over to the U.S. Marshal.  The William was later confiscated and sold.  (By John Osborne)

The Republican Party opened its second national convention in Chicago, Illinois with high expectations.  The party had won elections across the North and the national Democrats had splintered at their recent convention in Charleston.  On the third day and third ballot of the Republcian gathering, attorney Abraham Lincoln of Illinois received the party's nomination as presidential candidate, beating out the frontrunner, Senator William Seward of New York and several others.  Senator Hannibal Hamlin of Maine won the vice-presidential spot on the second ballot.  (By John Osborne)  

The German soccer club now known as TSV Munchen 1860 was founded as a gymnastics and athletic club in the working class southern section of the city.  The club sponsored many types of sports but in 1899 created an association football team that eventually came to dominate the organization. (By John Osborne)

Samuel Griswold Goodrich, son of a Connecticut minister, was a prolific writer of books for children and young adults.   Writing often under the pen-name "Peter Parley,"  he authored more than a hundred books and sold millions of copies, becoming very wealthy in the process.  He also served as a U.S. Consul in Paris between 1851 and 1853.  He died at his Ninth Street home in New York City after a short illness at the age of sixty-six.  (By John Osborne)