Birthdays
Henry "Box" Brown
Turns 42 on this date
Horace Gray
Turns 29 on this date
John Henry Hubbard
Turns 53 on this date
William Henry Longsdorff
Turns 23 on this date
William Boyer Lupton
Turns 24 on this date
Lambdin Purdy Milligan
Turns 45 on this date
Charles Henry Mytinger
Turns 24 on this date
Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose
Turns 30 on this date
John Wesley Powell
Turns 23 on this date
Events
| Battles/Soldiers | American adventurer Henry A. Crabb leads an expeditionary force across the Mexican border into Sonora | 03/24/1857 |
Documents
| Newspaper | New York Times, “News from Kansas,” March 24, 1857 | 03/24/1857 |