Birthdays

Joseph Andrew Beebe
Turns 28 on this date

James Dunwoody Bulloch
Turns 37 on this date

Robert Laurenson Dashiell
Turns 35 on this date

John Hunn
Turns 42 on this date

James Adelbert Mulligan
Turns 30 on this date

Rhoda Palmer
Turns 44 on this date
Events
Science/Technology | A large new comet, visible to the naked eye, is observed all over the northern hemisphere |
06/18/1860 to 06/25/1860 |
Personal | Enoch Bartlett, grower of the Bartlett Pear, dies at his home Roxbury, Massachusetts | 06/25/1860 |
US/the World | First Japanese diplomatic mission to the United States lavishly entertained in New York City |
06/16/1860 to 06/28/1860 |
Campaigns/Elections | Senator Benjamin Fitzpatrick of Alabama declines the Democratic nomination for vice president | 06/25/1860 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The 36th Congress ends its first session in Washington, DC and adjourns until December | 06/25/1860 |
Documents
Newspaper | Cleveland (OH) Herald, “The Douglas’ Saturday Night,” June 25, 1860 | 06/25/1860 |