Birthdays
William Waters Boyce
Turns 41 on this date
Noah Brooks
Turns 29 on this date
Daniel Clark
Turns 50 on this date
John Moncure Daniel
Turns 34 on this date
John Edwards
Turns 44 on this date
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
Turns 71 on this date
John Hancock
Turns 35 on this date
Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood
Turns 29 on this date
Eugenia Levy Phillips
Turns 40 on this date
Events
| Crime/Disasters | Fire destroys a large section of New Orleans' thriving Fourth District |
10/23/1859 to 10/24/1859 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | John Brown and his fellow prisoners are held at Charlestown, Virginia pending trial |
10/20/1859 to 10/24/1859 |
| Science/Technology | Louis Agassiz donates his collections to the new Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, Massachusetts | 10/24/1859 |