Birthdays

James McNair Baker
Turns 37 on this date

George Griffin George
Turns 36 on this date

Arminius Summerfield Hank
Turns 27 on this date

James Ross Irvine
Turns 45 on this date

John Marshall Jones
Turns 38 on this date

John Linn McKim
Turns 45 on this date

Omsby MacKnight Mitchel
Turns 53 on this date

Nicholas Bartlett Pearce
Turns 30 on this date

James Alexander Ventress Pue
Turns 17 on this date
Events
Cultural | Admission charged to a Baseball Park for the first time | 07/20/1858 |
Campaigns/Elections | Lincoln-Douglas campaign lasts from mid-June 1858 until January 1859 |
06/16/1858 to 01/05/1859 |
Foreign | Napoleon III of France and Count Cavour of Piedmont meet in secret in southern France to plot war with Austria | 07/20/1858 |
Documents
Letter | Abraham Smith to Abraham Lincoln, July 20, 1858 | 07/20/1858 |
Newspaper | Milwaukie (WI) Sentinel, "Douglas in the South," July 20, 1858 | 07/20/1858 |
Book | Recollection by Gustave Koerner, Lincoln-Douglas Debates |
07/10/1858 to 11/02/1858 |