Birthdays
William Beatty Archer
Turns 73 on this date
Samuel Chapman Armstrong
Turns 27 on this date
Nathaniel Prentice Banks
Turns 50 on this date
Alfred Cumming Jr.
Turns 37 on this date
Benjamin Fitzpatrick
Turns 64 on this date
William Coffee Gill
Turns 47 on this date
Joseph Warren Keifer
Turns 30 on this date
Events
| Crime/Disasters | In another disaster, the steamboat "Missouri" explodes on the Ohio River and more than a hundred die | 01/30/1866 |
| Crime/Disasters | Months of sometimes violent volcanic activity are striking the Greek Island of Santorini |
01/19/1866 to 02/20/1866 |
| 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 |