Ohio authorizes high school night classes

Event

London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard)

Event

New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)

Event

Charles Camp Doolittle, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteer)

Birth

Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college

Event

HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands

Event

Texas approves a constitution

Event

Andrew S Hallidie, inventor (cable car)

Birth

Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer/navigation expert, dies at 64

Death

Ren‚ F Armand Sully-Prudhomme, France, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)

Birth

F‚lix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, dies at 49

Death

Anton R Falck, Dutch minister of Education/Colonies, dies at 65

Death

James E Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger

Birth

Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published

Event

E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince

Birth

Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain

Event

Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union

Event

Battle at Pound Gap Kentucky: Confederates separate battles

Event

Battle of Averasboro NC (1,500 casualities)

Event

Benjamin Hanby, composer, dies at 33

Death

Maxim Gorki, USSR, playwright (The Lower Depths) [3/28 NS]

Birth

Hiram R Revels makes 1st official speech by a black in the Senate

Event

1st fertilizer law enacted

Event

1st FA Cup Final: Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton

Event

Hippoliet Daeye, Flemish painter (Sereniteit)

Birth