Jeannette Rankin, age 87, leads 5000 women in a march on Capitol Hill protesting the Vietnam War, 1968
| January 16
| Susan Sontag born 1933
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| January 17
| Martha Cotera born 1938
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| January 18
| Alice Putnam born 1841
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| January 19
| Janis Joplin born 1943
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| January 20
| Patricia McCormick becomes the first officially recognized female bullfighter, 1952
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| January 21
| Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake born 1840
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| January 22
| Elaine Noble born 1944
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| January 23
| Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman in the US to gain an MD degree, 1849
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| January 24
| Dr. Mary Edwards Walker received the Congressional Medal of Honor for her Civil War Service, 1866
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| January 25
| Clarina Nichols born 1810
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| January 26
| Wu Yi Fang born 1893
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| January 27
| Mahalia Jackson dies, 1972
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| January 28
| Colette born 1873
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| January 29
| Violette Neatley Anderson born 1926
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| January 30
| Sharon Pratt Kelly born 1944
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| January 31
| Carol Channing born 1923
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