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Today in History: January Posts

January 1, 2022August 9, 2023

Harper's January

January 1 January 2
  • 1892: Ellis Island
  • 1893: Haiti
  • 1933: Nicaragua
January 3 January 4
  • 1793: Lucretia Mott
  • 1948: Burma/Myanmar
January 5 January 6
  • 1949: Harry S. Truman
  • 1945: George H.W. Bush
  • 1993: Dizzy Gillespie
January 7 January 8
  • 1891: Zora Neale Hurston
  • 1955: Marian Anderson
  • 1815 Battle of New Orleans
January 9 January 10
  • 1788: Connecticut
  • 1866: Fisk University
  • 1861: Florida
January 11 January 12
  • 1755: Alexander Hamilton
  • 1885: Alice Paul
  • 1777: Missions of Old California
January 13 January 14
  • 1833: Nullification Crisis
  • 1884: Sophie Tucker
  • 1784: Treaty of Paris
January 15 January 16
  • 1929: Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • 1896: Basketball
January 17 January 18
  • 1706: Benjamin Franklin
  • 1879: Cable Cars
  • 1919: Paris Peace Conference
January 19 January 20
  • 1809: Edgar Allan Poe
  • 1937: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
January 21 January 22
  • 1824: Stonewall Jackson
  • 1912: Florida Keys
January 23 January 24
  • 1737: John Hancock
  • 1849: Elizabeth Blackwell
  • 1964: 24th Amendment Ends Poll Tax
  • 1848: Gold Discovered in California
January 25 January 26
  • 1890: Nellie Bly Circles the Globe
  • 1837: Michigan
January 27 January 28
  • 1851: John James Audubon
  • 1908: Julia Ward Howe
January 29 January 30
  • 1861: Kansas
  • 1815: Thomas Jefferson’s Library
January 31  
  • 1848: John C. Frémont
 

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