Birthdays

John Wesley Allen
Turns 22 on this date

Stephen Baker
Turns 41 on this date

Daniel Davidson Bidwell
Turns 41 on this date

John Horace Forney
Turns 31 on this date

Samuel Stehman Halderman
Turns 48 on this date

Conway Wing Hillman
Turns 4 on this date

John Rodgers
Turns 48 on this date

William Price Sanders
Turns 27 on this date
Events
Science/Technology | British fire the world's first breech-loading rifled cannon in anger for the first time in China | 08/12/1860 |
Crime/Disasters | Hurricane kills forty-seven people in Louisiana |
08/11/1860 to 08/12/1860 |
Documents
Newspaper | New York Herald, “A Crowd of Douglasites in the Mud,” August 12, 1860 | 08/12/1860 |