Birthdays
John Hall Allstadt
Turns 39 on this date
Absalom Arter
Turns 13 on this date
Arthur W. Bannister
Turns 13 on this date
Wilson Barrett
Turns 24 on this date
Julia D. Coulter Bates
Turns 51 on this date
Thomas Bayne
Turns 34 on this date
John Yates Beall
Turns 23 on this date
Philip Alexander Bell
Turns 50 on this date
Events
| Personal | "Miss Leslie," America's most popular cooking writer, dies in New Jersey | 01/01/1858 |
| Foreign | Decimal currency is adopted in the Province of Canada | 01/01/1858 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The 35th Congress is in a ten-day holiday recess until January 5, 1858 |
12/24/1857 to 01/04/1858 |