The city of Lowell, Massachusetts dedicated a monument almost 30 feet high to the memory of seventeen year old Luther Ladd and twenty-one year old Addison Whitney who were killed in the riot that attacked the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment as it passed through Baltimore, Maryland on April 19, 1861. Merrimac Square, the site of the new structure, was renamed Monument Square in their honor.  (By John Osborne)  

The Royal Navy warship H.M.S. Clio was in the Hawaiian Islands to transport Queen Emma to a state visit to Great Britain.  While in Honolulu, several British midshipman, including future famed admiral, Charles Beresford, stole the American Eagle from the U.S. Legation and secreted it aboard.  On discovery, Captain Tourneur of the Clio apologized to the American Consul, James McBride, and ordered the midshipmen to return and restore the icon to its proper place. They did so before an assembled crowd.  (By John Osborne)

The U.S.S. Wadawaska was built and launched at the Brooklyn Naval Yard in New York and underwent sea trials in early 1867.  She was renamed the U.S.S. Tennessee in 1869 and served as flagship of the Asiatic Squadron and later for the North Atlantic Squadron.  For much of her career the 3281 ton vessel was the largest United States warship in commission.  She was sold in 1886. (By John Osborne)

Launched in 1858 as the largest vessel ever built, the giant iron steamer Great Eastern had proved unprofitable as a liner even when carrying 4000 passengers. She had been sold and refitted as a telegraphic cable layer in 1864. Embarking on a successful career in that role, the 32,000 ton vessel sailed from Sheerness in England to begin the process of relaying more than two thousand miles of the Atlantic Cable. (By John Osborne)  

What Confederate agents could not achieve the previous November was accomplished by accident when a spectacular overnight fire destroyed P. T. Barnum's American Museum on the corner of Park Row and Ann Street in New York City.  The fire began in the basement around noon.  Fire companies fought the blaze all day but the museum and almost all of its contents, including the animals in its exotic zoo, were destroyed.  (By John Osborne)