Birthdays
Benjamin Markley Boyer
Turns 37 on this date
Alonzo Barton Cornell
Turns 28 on this date
Charles Wesley Neff
Turns 22 on this date
Robert Henry Pattison
Turns 36 on this date
Edward Warren
Turns 32 on this date
Morton Smith Wilkinson
Turns 41 on this date
Albert Shelby Willis
Turns 17 on this date
Events
| US/the World | First American Hotel opened in Japan at Hakodadi on the northern island of Yezo | 01/22/1860 |
| Crime/Disasters | Portuguese warship sinks in a storm on the Indian Ocean | 01/22/1860 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The 36th U.S. Congress is in session in Washington, D.C. |
12/06/1859 to 06/24/1860 |
Documents
| Newspaper | New Orleans (LA) Picayune, “Rendition of a Counterfeiter,” January 22, 1860 | 01/22/1860 |
| Newspaper | New York Herald, “The Brooklyn Police and Street Assaults,” January 22, 1860 | 01/22/1860 |