Democrat John Thompson Hoffman was elected Mayor of New York in a tight election marred for the Republicans by a split ticket.  He served for two years  and resigned when he was elected Governor of New York, one of only two New York City mayors to reach that office.  (By John Osborne) 

On a vote of 138-16, the newly elected and assembled North Carolina legislature chose as United States Senator William Alexander Graham. He was a former Whig senator, North Carolina governor, Secretary of the Navy under Millard Fillmore, and, crucially, Confederate senator from the state. At that time, as was widely stressed in the Northern press, Graham had not yet applied for or received a federal pardon.  Knowing he would not be seated, he never presented his credentials to Congress. (By John Osborne) 

Baltimore and surrounding areas enjoyed some markedly unseasonably warm weather throughout the day.  One newspaper reported that a thermometer, left in direct line with the sun, reached a level of 106 degrees.  (By John Osborne)  

Seaman William Conway, a veteran of the United States Navy with long decades of service had died recently at the Marine Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.  He was famous for his refusal at the Warrenton Naval Yard at Pensacola, Florida to haul down the national flag at the demand of a Confederate militia officer on January 12, 1861. He was given a naval funeral with full honors, with a ship's band playing and an escort of a full company of marines.  (By John Osborne) 

Fire destroyed a cotton warehouse on New York's State Street and a young New York fireman named Thomas Irwin was killed fighting it.  The blaze began in the morning and went on till mid-afternoon when a collapse killed Irwin and injured other firemen and police. More than a thousand bales were burned and losses were estimated at up to $700,000. This was not the first fire of its kind in recent weeks and calls were made to declare cotton a dangerous material.  (By John Osborne) 

A massive fire broke out in a furniture manufacturers on Wells and Randolph Streets in Chicago at around eight o'clock in the evening.  Soon much of the block was afire and it took some long, hard fire fighting to get the blaze under control.  The entire building was burned at a loss of around $110,000.  Few injuries were reported although Chief U. P. Harris of the Fire Department had a lucky escape when he fell thirty feet in the burning building but emerged with only minor damage.  (By John Osborne)