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 |