A massive boiler explosion at a saw-mill at 258 West 28th Street in New York City destroyed the structure and also brought down neighboring buildings.  Several people were killed including a family nearby whose home collapsed.  (By John Osborne)

Along the Hudson River, on a course passing along the riverfront of the town of Newburgh, New York, a high-stakes single sculls race between famous rowers Walter Brown and James Hamill started just after six o'clock in the evening of a fine day.  The two and a half mile race ended in controversy, however, as a collision took place at the state-boat at the finish with both rowers claiming to have been ahead when fouled.  The judges ruled that Hamill was the innocent party and declared him the race winner.  (By John Osborne)   

Crowds gathered on the banks of the Connecticut River near Springfield, Massachusetts to see a quadruple skulls contest between an American team made up of the Ward Brothers and a Canadian crew from St. John, New Brunswick.  At the four p.m. start, the home crew took an early lead and maintained it throughout the race, finishing the course in thirty-nine minutes and twenty-eight seconds, almost two minutes ahead of their rivals.  (By John Osborne)

Just after dawn, the Enniscorthy to Dublin express reached the short trestle over Brandy Hole Ravine near Bray Head on the Irish coast. The trestle collapsed and the engine and three carriages plunged into the ravine.  Fortunately, the wreckage fell on the inland side and the train was not that full.  Two passengers, however, a man and a woman, were killed and a reported twenty-three others injured.  (By John Osborne)

After almost three months, the body of former Mexican Emperor Maximilian I was released to Austrian officials to be returned for royal burial in the Hapsburg crypt of the Capuchin Chapel in Vienna where his brother Franz Joseph ruled as Emperor. The ill-fated Maximilian had been tried before a public military tribunal at the Itirbede Theater in Querétaro in mid-June, found guilty of bearing arms against the Republic, and given the mandatory sentence of death.  The sentence was carried out by firing squad on June 19, 1867. Since then his embalmed body had been held at the Hospital of St. Andres in Querétaro.  (By John Osborne)

Mexican Emperor Maximilian I, along with his staff, had surrendered at a convent in the city to Liberal General Mariano Escobedo when Querétaro had fallen to insurgent forces the month before.  On the orders of the central Liberal command, the Emperor and his two main remaining military commanders, General Miguel Miramón and General Tomás Méjìa, had been tried before a public military tribunal at the Itirbede Theater in Querétaro on June 12-14, 1867.  They were each found guilty of bearing arms against the Republic and given the mandatory sentence of death.  Just after dawn on this day, the sentence was carried out by firing squad on the edge of the city before a large crowd of onlookers.  (By John Osborne)