Birthdays

Solomon Nunes Carvalho
Turns 45 on this date

Ulysses Simpson Grant
Turns 38 on this date

Edmund Storer Janes
Turns 53 on this date

Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Turns 69 on this date
Events
Campaigns/Elections | Democrats hold their National Convention in Charleston, South Carolina |
04/23/1860 to 05/01/1860 |
Slavery/Abolition | Multi-racial crowd in Troy, New York rescue arrested fugitive slave | 04/27/1860 |
US/the World | Spain signs the punitive treaty imposed upon Morocco following the recent war | 04/27/1860 |
Science/Technology | Speke and Grant set out from England to explore the source of the Nile | 04/27/1860 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | The 36th U.S. Congress is in session in Washington, D.C. |
12/06/1859 to 06/24/1860 |
Documents
Newspaper | Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “The Infamy Complete,” April 27, 1860 | 04/27/1860 |
Newspaper | Newark (OH) Advocate, “‘Old Judge McLean’,” April 27, 1860 | 04/27/1860 |