Birthdays
Phineas Taylor Barnum
Turns 56 on this date
David Glasgow Farragut
Turns 65 on this date
John Henry Lease
Turns 34 on this date
Lemuel Gregory Olmsted
Turns 58 on this date
Jesse Bowman Young
Turns 22 on this date
Events
| Crime/Disasters | A massive fire destroys much of Portland, Maine, leaving 10,000 homeless but killing only two. |
07/04/1866 to 07/05/1866 |
| 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 |