Birthdays

Benjamin Franklin Cheatham
Turns 39 on this date

James Wilson Grimes
Turns 43 on this date

Gazaway Bugg Lamar
Turns 61 on this date

Daniel Edgar Sickles
Turns 40 on this date

George Jerrison Stannard
Turns 39 on this date

Mason Weare Tappan
Turns 42 on this date
Events
Lawmaking/Litigating | John Brown and his fellow prisoners are held at Charlestown, Virginia pending trial |
10/20/1859 to 10/24/1859 |
Cultural | John Dewey, American philosoper and reformer, born in Vermont | 10/20/1859 |
Foreign | With Vietnamese resistance continuing, the French commander in Indo-China asks to be relieved | 10/20/1859 |
Documents
Newspaper | Carlisle (PA) American Volunteer, “Negro Insurrection!," October 20, 1859 | 10/20/1859 |
Letter | Charles H. Ray to Abraham Lincoln, October 20, 1859 | 10/20/1859 |
Newspaper | Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “So Perish All The Enemies of Our Country!,” October 20, 1859 | 10/20/1859 |