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 |