Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts had been built in 1853 and was packed with 700 looms tended by up to 600 people, mostly young women. Just before 5 p.m., all five floors collapsed one by one killing scores outright and trapping perhaps 500 others.  Around 9:30 that evening, as rescuers dug out survivors in the dark, the ruins caught fire, burning alive scores more trapped victims.  In all, as many as 145 workers died.  (By John Osborne) 

Powerful eastern Mediterranean gales between Gibraltar and the Moroccan coast created havoc amongst the Spanish naval vessels then engaged in supporting the Spanish invasion of Morocco.  Two naval steamships were sunk and many other smaller craft were driven ashore.  (By John Osborne)   

The side-wheel steamship Northerner had sailed from San Francisco two days before bound for Portland in Oregon Territory.  It struck a rock off Cape Medicino, began to take on water, was beached near the northern side of Cape Fortunas, and smashed up in a gale that had developed. Seventeen passengers and twenty-one crew members were drowned.  (By John Osborne)

Agreement was reached between the Argentine Confederation and the breakaway province of Buenos Aires, under a revision of the 1853 Constitution, to reunite and end years of conflict.  This accord did not last however and civil war again broke out in the following few years.  (By John Osborne) 

Emperor Napoleon III ordered free trade reforms in France with the immediate removal of custom's duties on wool and cottons.  He also instructed a more gradual reduction in other items, including sugar.  This paves the way for a free trade treaty with Britain signed a few weeks later. (By John Osborne) 

The Spanish invasion of Morocco had as one of its first objectives the town of Tetuan.  The Moroccans made an attempt to halt this advance at Castellijo and were defeated but not without inflicting heavy casualties on the Spanish cavalry.  (By John Osborne)