Birthdays

John Miller Dickey
Turns 53 on this date

William Anderson Handley
Turns 25 on this date

Franklin Benjamin Sanborn
Turns 28 on this date
Events
Legal/Political | Abolitionist lecture delivered successfully in Philadelphia as police and rioters battle outside the hall | 12/15/1859 |
Foreign | Lazar Ludwik Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto, born in Poland | 12/15/1859 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The 36th U.S. Congress is in session in Washington, D.C. |
12/06/1859 to 06/24/1860 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The Legislature of the unorganized territory of Nevada meets for the first and last time in Genoa | 12/15/1859 |
Documents
Newspaper | Charleston (SC) Courier, “The Hyannis Case,” December 15, 1859 | 12/15/1859 |