Birthdays

Grace Bedell Billings
Turns 12 on this date

Owen Brown
Turns 36 on this date

James Addison Cravens
Turns 42 on this date

Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Turns 51 on this date

William Barker Cushing
Turns 18 on this date

Stephen Johnson Field
Turns 44 on this date

John Adams Gilmer
Turns 55 on this date

William Polk Hardeman
Turns 44 on this date

Alexander Robert Lawton
Turns 42 on this date
Events
US/the World | In Italy, plebiscite results in former Neapolitan provinces go overwhelmingly for joining a united Italy |
11/03/1860 to 11/04/1860 |
Campaigns/Elections | Stephen Douglas ends his presidential campaign with speeches in Georgia and Alabama |
10/29/1860 to 11/05/1860 |
Documents
Newspaper | New York Herald, “The New York Herald and the Disunion Question,” November 4, 1860 | 11/04/1860 |