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 |