Birthdays

Alexander Brackenridge
Turns 68 on this date

John Randolph Chambliss
Turns 27 on this date

Charles Denison
Turns 42 on this date

Jacob Gilbert Frick
Turns 35 on this date
Isaac Lyman Taylor
Turns 23 on this date
Events
Business/Industry | American-built clipper ship sails from London to Sydney in sixty-seven days | 01/23/1860 |
Business/Industry | Committee to help survivors of the Pemberton Mills Disaster say sufficient funds have been collected | 01/23/1860 |
Foreign | Great Britain and France sign a landmark free trade agreement | 01/23/1860 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The 36th U.S. Congress is in session in Washington, D.C. |
12/06/1859 to 06/24/1860 |
Documents
Newspaper | Boston (MA) Herald, “A Conflict of the Races in Canada,” January 23, 1860 | 01/23/1860 |
Newspaper | New York Times,“The Colored People and John Brown’s Widow,” January 23, 1860 | 01/23/1860 |