Birthdays

James Edward Harrison
Turns 50 on this date
Events
Personal | Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Philadelphia before dawn and moves across New Jersey | 04/24/1865 |
US/the World | In the French coast resort of Nice, the heir to the Russian Empire dies of meningitis, aged twenty-one | 04/24/1865 |
Battles/Soldiers | On the Mississippi, a Confederate warship makes a bold breakout and almost reaches the open sea |
04/23/1865 to 04/24/1865 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | President Johnson sets May 25th as a day of "special humiliation and prayer" for Abraham Lincoln | 04/24/1865 |
Personal | President Lincoln's remains arrive in New York City to lay in state at City Hall | 04/24/1865 |