Birthdays
James Isham Gilbert
Turns 43 on this date
Henry Grider
Turns 70 on this date
Edward Joy Morris
Turns 51 on this date
Robert Brown Potter
Turns 37 on this date
Thomas R. Stewart
Turns 46 on this date
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett
Turns 4 on this date
Jacob Zeilin
Turns 60 on this date
Events
| 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 |
| Lawmaking/Litigating | Uncomfortable with President Johnson's policies, U.S. Attorney General James Speed resigns. | 07/16/1866 |