Birthdays

James Sproat Brown
Turns 41 on this date

William Henry Butler
Turns 45 on this date

William Bowen Campbell
Turns 58 on this date

William Oliver Cornman
Turns 24 on this date

Frederick Douglass
Turns 47 on this date

John Rice Eden
Turns 39 on this date

George Franklin Edmunds
Turns 37 on this date

Warren Holden
Turns 48 on this date
Events
Crime/Disasters | In Philadelphia, a massive killer fire in a petroleum storage spreads quickly and devastates the neighborhood | 02/01/1865 |
Legal/Political | Second session of the 38th Congress sitting in Washington DC from early January to early March, 1865 |
01/07/1865 to 03/02/1865 |