A group of thirteen masked men rode into Liberty, Missouri in the afternnon and made a well-co-ordinated attack on the Clay County Savings Association Bank, getting away with $57,000 of which $18,000 was in cash.  The gang shot down college student George Wymore as he gave the alarm.  Considered to be the first American daylight bank robbery in peacetime, the rumoured participation of Frank and Jesse James is unconfirmed and doubtful.  (By John Osborne)

In the ongoing conflict between Spain and the Peru-Chile alliance in the Chincha Islands War, two Spanish warships, Villa de Madrid and Blanca, sought to engage Chilean-Peruvian naval units and avenge earlier Spanish naval defeats.  Attacking four enemy vessels in the narrow straits off the Chilean port of Abtao, the Spanish ships inflicted damage and casualties from a distance but could not follow up in water unsuitable for their larger vessels. (By John Osborne)    

The brand new Aeronautical Society of Great Britain held its first meeting at the home of the Duke of Argyle in London and declared its aim "to encourage, to observe, to record, and to aid" all aspects of enquiry into powered flight.  By the end of its first year it had sixty-five members. Renamed the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1918, the group is the oldest aerospace society in the world.  (By John Osborne)  

In Nashville, Tennessee, a group of educators from the American Missionary Society, aided by the local Freedmens' Bureau head, General Clinton B. Fisk, who personally donated $30,000, opened the doors of the Fisk Free Colored School for its first classes.  Educating former slaves of all ages, the institution was chartered the next year as Fisk University and was destined to become one of the nation's leading historically black universities.  (By John Osborne) 

Former Confederate General Bradley Tyler Johnson had returned some time earlier to his home state of Maryland but was finally arrested on a charge of treason sworn out the previous summer by a Maryland grand jury.  As a C.S.A. general he was ineligible for automatic parole and his judge required a $20,000 bond.  President Johnson later dismissed all the charges against Johnson, largely on the recommendation of General U.S. Grant.  (By John Osborne) 

Just after noon, a severe tremor was felt in the San Francisco Bay area, extending down to the Monterey Peninsula.  Damage was light and no serious injuries reported. (By John Osborne) 

Another killer tornado struck the MidWest, this time in Montgomery County in western Indiana. Four people were killed instantly in a house near Parkersburg in the county and dwellings and farm buildings were destroyed all along the storm's path.  Local newspaper reports opined that this was the worst tornado to ever strike the area.  (By John Osborne)

A large woollen factory caught fire and burned in Danville, Virginia during the night.  The spread of the blaze also consumed several stores on the town's main street. Press reports noted around $150,000 in losses but no serious injuries.  (By John Osborne)