Birthdays
Blanche Kelso Bruce
Turns 16 on this date
Robert Christie Buchanan
Turns 46 on this date
Lewis Garrard Clarke
Turns 42 on this date
David Radnor Coover
Turns 25 on this date
James Fleming Fagan
Turns 29 on this date
Hiram Bronson Granbury
Turns 26 on this date
William Dean Howells
Turns 20 on this date
John Moore Leonard
Turns 24 on this date
Albin Francisco Schoepf
Turns 35 on this date
Events
| Lawmaking/Litigating | The second regular session of the 34th Congress is sitting in Washington, DC between early December and early March |
12/02/1856 to 03/02/1857 |