Birthdays

Edward Young Buchanan
Turns 49 on this date

Edward Winslow Hinks
Turns 30 on this date

George Doherty Johnston
Turns 28 on this date

Francis William Kellogg
Turns 50 on this date

John Alexander McClernand
Turns 48 on this date
Events
Crime/Disasters | In London, a runaway train leaves the station at Kings Cross and crosses the road outside | 05/30/1860 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The 36th U.S. Congress is in session in Washington, D.C. |
12/06/1859 to 06/24/1860 |
Crime/Disasters | Tornadoes in the northwestern Pennsylvania highlands devastate kill seven and injure thirty | 05/30/1860 |
Documents
Letter | Abraham Lincoln to Leonard Swett, May 30, 1860 | 05/30/1860 |
Newspaper | Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Lincoln’s Hold on the Working-Men,” May 30, 1860 | 05/30/1860 |
Newspaper | Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Stop Quarreling,” May 30, 1860 | 05/30/1860 |
Newspaper | Cleveland (OH) Herald, “What Lincoln Did Not Do,” May 30, 1860 | 05/30/1860 |
Letter | Schuyler Colfax to Abraham Lincoln, May 30, 1860 | 05/30/1860 |