Birthdays

George Quayle Cannon
Turns 39 on this date

James Ronald Chalmers
Turns 35 on this date

Alfred Eugene Jackson
Turns 59 on this date

Cave Johnson
Turns 73 on this date

John Adam Kasson
Turns 44 on this date

John Reese Kenly
Turns 48 on this date

William Cyrus Rheem
Turns 32 on this date

Bayard Taylor
Turns 41 on this date

Joseph Blake Wilson
Turns 34 on this date
Events
Crime/Disasters | British ship bound for Australia with 250 souls aboard sinks in the Bay of Biscay and all but 19 are lost | 01/11/1866 |
Personal | Harriet Lane, former President Buchanan's "First Lady," marries Baltimore banker Henry Elliot Johnson | 01/11/1866 |
Campaigns/Elections | In Iowa, Governor William Stone begins his second term and endorses African-American suffrage | 01/11/1866 |
Education/Culture | On Long Island, a well attended "fox-chase" on an enclosed trotting course kills six foxes | 01/11/1866 |
Legal/Political | The first session of the 39th Congress is sitting in Washington DC from early January to late July, 1866 |
01/07/1866 to 07/27/1866 |