Birthdays
William Edgeworth Bird
Turns 34 on this date
James Gillpatrick Blunt
Turns 33 on this date
David Evans Bruner
Turns 40 on this date
Wiliam Irvine Holmes
Turns 49 on this date
David Hunter
Turns 57 on this date
John Lyon
Turns 38 on this date
Benjamin Patton
Turns 49 on this date
Charles Lewis Reason
Turns 41 on this date
Charles Robinson
Turns 41 on this date
Events
| Lawmaking/Litigating | Nevada delegates meet to frame a constitution for their unorganized territory |
07/18/1859 to 07/27/1859 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The convention charged with creating a Kansas State Constitution is meeting in Wyandotte, Kansas |
07/06/1859 to 07/28/1859 |
| Cultural | William Wordsworth's private library of three thousand volumes sold at auction in England |
07/21/1859 to 07/22/1859 |
Documents
| Newspaper | New York Herald, “The Game of Base Ball,” July 21, 1859 | 07/21/1859 |