January

Date Event
January 1 Betsy Ross born 1752
January 2 M. Carey Thomas born 1857
January 3 Lucretia Coffin Mott born 1793
January 4 Selena Butler born 1872
January 5 Olympia Brown born 1835
January 6 Joan of Arc born 1412
January 7 Marian Anderson debuts at the Metropolitan Opera, 1955
January 8 Ella Grasso sworn in as first female US governor, 1975
January 9 Carrie Chapman Catt born 1859
January 10 Katharine Burr Blodgett born 1898
January 11 Amelia Earhart leaves Honolulu on first solo flight across the Pacific, 1935
January 12 Lorraine Hansberry died 1965
January 13 Carlotte Ray born 1850
January 14 Massachusetts Colony holds a day of fasting to take "the blame and the shame" for the Salem witch trials and executions, 1697
January 15 Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday

Jeannette Rankin, age 87, leads 5000 women in a march on Capitol Hill protesting the Vietnam War, 1968
January 16 Susan Sontag born 1933
January 17 Martha Cotera born 1938
January 18 Alice Putnam born 1841
January 19 Janis Joplin born 1943
January 20 Patricia McCormick becomes the first officially recognized female bullfighter, 1952
January 21 Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake born 1840
January 22 Elaine Noble born 1944
January 23 Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman in the US to gain an MD degree, 1849
January 24 Dr. Mary Edwards Walker received the Congressional Medal of Honor for her Civil War Service, 1866
January 25 Clarina Nichols born 1810
January 26 Wu Yi Fang born 1893
January 27 Mahalia Jackson dies, 1972
January 28 Colette born 1873
January 29 Violette Neatley Anderson born 1926
January 30 Sharon Pratt Kelly born 1944
January 31 Carol Channing born 1923
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Last updated: 24 June, 2004.