Birthdays

Lemuel Jackson Bowden
Turns 43 on this date

Charles Henry Davis
Turns 51 on this date

Henry Wager Halleck
Turns 43 on this date

Robert Roberts Hitt
Turns 24 on this date

Thomas Edwin Massey
Turns 36 on this date

William Alexander Richardson
Turns 47 on this date

James Phillip Sims
Turns 21 on this date

John Palmer Usher
Turns 42 on this date

James David Watters
Turns 24 on this date
Events
Crime/Disasters | A tornado strikes the city and port of New Orleans | 01/16/1858 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The 35th Congress is in session in Washington, DC. from early January to mid-June, 1858 |
01/06/1858 to 06/13/1858 |