Birthdays

George Gordon Meade
Turns 44 on this date

Jonathan Kenyon Peck
Turns 35 on this date

Noah Pinkney
Turns 13 on this date

Theodore Medad Pomeroy
Turns 35 on this date

Charles Shiels Wainwright
Turns 33 on this date

Alfred Newton Weir
Turns 19 on this date
Events
Foreign | Napoleon III urges Pope Pius IX to give up the revolting Papal States | 12/31/1859 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The 36th U.S. Congress is in session in Washington, D.C. |
12/06/1859 to 06/24/1860 |
Documents
Periodical | Boston (MA) Liberator, "John Brown is Dead!," December 31, 1859 | 12/31/1859 |