Daily Report

Birthdays

Moncure Daniel Conway, circa 1867, detail
Moncure Daniel Conway
1832—1907
Turns 28 on this date
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Roger Brooke Taney, detail
Roger Brooke Taney
1777—1864
Turns 83 on this date
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David Wyatt Aiken, detail
David Wyatt Aiken
1828—1887
Turns 32 on this date
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John Covode, detail
John Covode
1808—1871
Turns 52 on this date
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Martin Jenkins Crawford, detail
Martin Jenkins Crawford
1820—1883
Turns 40 on this date
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Thomas Morris Gunn, detail
Thomas Morris Gunn
1840—1917
Turns 20 on this date
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Events

Lawmaking/Litigating The 36th U.S. Congress is in session in Washington, D.C. 12/06/1859—06/24/1860
Foreign Miramón forces besieging Vera Cruz subject the port to a sustained bombardment 03/15/1860—03/20/1860
Battles/Soldiers Sam Houston sends Texas Rangers after Comanche Indians 03/17/1860
Business/Industry Pony Express plans to deliver mail from New York to San Francisco in nine days 03/17/1860
Campaigns/Elections Lincoln claims he cannot raise $10,000 for campaign even to save himself from "fate of John Brown" 03/17/1860
Education/Culture California enacts law to protect young dancing girls 03/17/1860
Foreign Hostilities break out in New Zealand between British authorities and the native Maori 03/17/1860
Foreign Italian provinces of Romagna, Emilia, and Tuscany vote for annexation by Piedmont-Sardinia 03/17/1860
Legal/Political Lincoln visits dying political ally 03/17/1860
US/the World First Japanese warship arrives in San Francisco Bay 03/17/1860

Documents
Diary Entry by Edward Bates, March 17, 1860 03/17/1860
Diary Entry by Francis Hall, March 17, 1860 03/17/1860
Diary Entry by Henry David Thoreau, March 17, 1860 03/17/1860
Letter Abraham Lincoln to E. Stafford, March 17, 1860 03/17/1860
Letter James A. Briggs to Salmon Portland Chase, March 17, 1860 03/17/1860
Letter T. E. Norris to Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter, March 17, 1860 03/17/1860
Newspaper (Montpelier) Vermont Patriot,“For President In 1860, Stephen A. Douglas,” March 17, 1860 03/17/1860
Newspaper Lowell (MA) Citizen & News, “Kellogg on Douglas,” March 17, 1860 03/17/1860
Newspaper New York Times, "Democratic National Convention," March 17, 1860 03/17/1860
Newspaper New York Times, "Spanish Subjects and American Citizens," March 17, 1860 03/17/1860
Newspaper New York Times, "The Massachusetts Strike," March 17, 1860 03/17/1860
Newspaper New York Times, “The Last of the Harper’s Ferry Slaughter,” March 17, 1860 03/17/1860
Periodical Wilkes' Spirit of the Times, "Spirit of the Week," March 17, 1860 03/17/1860