At noon in the city center of Portland, Maine, twenty-eight year old Edward Payson Weston set out for Chicago on foot.  He had engaged in a wager for $10,000 with gambler T.F. Wilcox that he could walk from Portland to Chicago in thirty consecutive days, excluding Sundays.  The event was extensively covered in the regional and national press and when Weston reached Chicago city limits just after nine in the morning of November 28, 1867, one day earlier than the deadline, he was welcomed by 50,000 people and was already a household name.  The feat was crucial in the rise of the remarkable popularity in the following decades of what was called "pedestrianism." (By John Osborne)

The Hancock-Custer Campaign against the Native Americans of the northern plains obstructing the construction of the transcontinental railroad and emigration west had been an ineffective failure. Changing tactics, the United States Congress authorized the formation of an Indian Peace Commission to negotiate treaties with the Sioux, Cheyenne, Kiowa, and their allied tribes.  On this day, at Medicine Lodge River in Kansas, a traditional Native American meeting site, the last of three treaties, this with the recalcitrant Southern Cheyenne and the Arapaho nations, who extracted what they thought were additional concessions in their movement to more southerly reservations.  The agreements were immediately controversial - one observer at the time remarked that the tribal leaders were never read the final terms and did not know what they were signing.  The Medicine Lodge treaties were later contested for decades in United States federal courts.  (By John Osborne) 

The Hancock-Custer Campaign against the Native Americans of the northern plains obstructing the construction of the transcontinental railroad and emigration west had been an ineffective failure. Changing tactics, the United States Congress authorized the formation of an Indian Peace Commission to negotiate treaties with the Sioux, Cheyenne, Kiowa, and their allied tribes.  On this day, at Medicine Lodge River in Kansas, a traditional Native American meeting site, two treaties were signed that achieved the goal of moving the reservations allowed to various tribes. The first agreement was between representatives of the Kiowa and Comanche nations and the second with the Kiowa-Plains Apache.  The agreements were immediately controversial and were contested for decades in United States federal courts.  (By John Osborne) 

On the saint's day of San Narcisco, a massive hurricane had struck the island of Puerto Rico causing widespread death and destruction.  The storm continued unabated towards the nearby Virgin Islands where, in the port of St. Thomas and the surrounding coast a reported seventy-five merchant ships were destroyed or damaged.  The town itself was almost completely destroyed and a total of around six hundred fatalities, including those of seamen was estimated.  Other areas of the islands suffered as well and flooding was widespread across the island of Tortola. (By John Osborne). 

On the saint's day of San Narcisco, a massive hurricane struck the island of Puerto Rico.  Coming ashore with 120 mile per hour winds near Caguas and was accompanied by a fifteen foot storm surge that devastated the harbor of San Juan and caused massive flooding over wide areas.  An estimated one thousand to twelve hundred people lost their lives and the storm remains one of the most deadly in Puerto Rican history. The hurricane blew across the island and soon hit the Virgin Islands which suffered further devastation and death over the following hours.  (By John Osborne). 

A small but powerful hurricane developed in the Gulf of Mexico and swept up the Mexican and Texas coast, causing heavy damage and loss of life.  Galveston was particularly hit with property damage and flooding, as was the New Orleans and the New Orleans Delta areas of Louisiana.  The storm continued across the Gulf to make impact on the west coast of Florida as a tropical storm. (By John Osborne)

State Fairs had begun in Indiana in 1852, with the first in Indianapolis. In the second "Annual Exhibition of the State Board of Agriculture" since a hiatus during the Civil War and the fifteenth in all, Terra Haute hosted the week long event in dry weather on its ten acre site. (By John Osborne)

In a ceremony with almost city officials present, the cornerstone for the new Baltimore City Hall was laid in the Maryland city.  The new structure, with its frontage on Fayette Street and constructed of locally quarried white marble, would take eight years to complete and was officially opened on October 25, 1875.  (By John Osborne)