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Friday, May 20, 1859
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Antoinette Louisa Brown

Turns 34 on this date
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John Brown

Turns 66 on this date
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John Harris

Turns 69 on this date
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Henry Bry Holmes

Turns 21 on this date
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William Brown Norris

Turns 56 on this date
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Thomas Dartmouth Rice

Turns 51 on this date

Events

Cultural Horace Greeley arrives in Lawrence, Kansas on his tour of the West 05/20/1859
Foreign In Italy, Austrian forces cross the Po River but are checked by French railway-borne reinforcements 05/20/1859

Documents

Newspaper Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, “Returning Gold Hunters,” May 20, 1859 05/20/1859