The mail stagecoach is robbed four miles from Copperopolis, California.

Alexander W. Randall, Postmaster General (1866-1869), dies in Elmira, New York.

George B. Cortelyou, Postmaster General (1905-1907), is born in New York City.

The Continental Congress assumes control of postal operations in North America.

The Second Continental Congress unanimously selects Benjamin Franklin as Postmaster General at a salary of $1,000/year.

Thirty-five people aboard the steamer “Big Hatchie" die after the boat's boilers explode. Steamers carried mail on American waterways through much of the 19th century.

Mail clerk C.J. Miller is killed when the Boston, Providence & New York Railway Post Office Train #101 wrecks at Dodgeville, Massachusetts. Four other clerks are injured in the wreck.

The mail stagecoach is robbed one mile from Berry Creek, California.

Illustrator Maxfield Parrish is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was commemorated on a stamp in 2001.

Alexander W. Randall is appointed Postmaster General under Andrew Johnson.