Birthdays

Philip St. George Cooke
Turns 56 on this date

John Knox Finley
Turns 59 on this date

Gustavus Vasa Fox
Turns 44 on this date

Thomas Maley Harris
Turns 48 on this date

Benjamin Jefferson Hill
Turns 40 on this date

Winfield Scott
Turns 79 on this date
Events
Crime/Disasters | In a spectacular and destructive fire, P.T. Barnum's American Museum burns to the ground in New York City | 06/13/1865 |
Crime/Disasters | In Washington's Old Penitentiary, the taking of evidence in the Lincoln conspiracy trial continues |
05/13/1865 to 06/13/1865 |
Lawmaking/Litigating | President Johnson appoints long-time judge William L. Sharkey as provisional governor of Mississippi | 06/13/1865 |
Education/Culture | The Irish future Nobel Prize for Literature winner William Butler Yeats is born in Dublin | 06/13/1865 |