Birthdays
William Edgeworth Bird
Turns 35 on this date

James Gillpatrick Blunt
Turns 34 on this date

David Evans Bruner
Turns 41 on this date

Wiliam Irvine Holmes
Turns 50 on this date

David Hunter
Turns 58 on this date

John Lyon
Turns 39 on this date

Benjamin Patton
Turns 50 on this date

Charles Lewis Reason
Turns 42 on this date

Charles Robinson
Turns 42 on this date
Events
Business/Industry | In California, the San Francisco and San Jose Railroad Company is incorporated | 07/21/1860 |
Personal | Joseph Gales, Jr., publisher of the National Intelligencer for fifty years, dies in Washington, DC | 07/21/1860 |
US/the World | On Sicily, Garibaldi defeats Neapolitan forces at Melazzo and takes the town |
07/20/1860 to 07/21/1860 |
Crime/Disasters | Tornado demolishes the railway station in Braceville, Ohio, killing one | 07/21/1860 |
Documents
Letter | Abraham Lincoln to Abraham Jonas, July 21, 1860 | 07/21/1860 |
Newspaper | Atchison (KS) Freedom's Champion, “An Insult to Labor,” July 21, 1860 | 07/21/1860 |
Newspaper | Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “Still 'Suppressed,'” July 21, 1860 | 07/21/1860 |
Newspaper | New York Times, “The Herald in Harness,” July 21, 1860 | 07/21/1860 |