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January 5

From Jone Johnson Lewis,
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This Day in Women's History

    1759: Martha Dandridge Custis marries George Washington

    1835: Olympia Brown born (minister)

    1869: Sissieretta Jones born (opera singer)

    1895: Jeannette Ridlon Piccard born (balloonist)

    1918: Jeane Dixon born (astrologer)

    1925: Nellie Tayloe Ross sworn in as governor of Wyoming: first woman governer in the United States. (Later, she became the first woman to head the US Mint.)

    1970: All My Children premiered on ABC television

Quote for Today

    A successful woman preacher was once asked "what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry?" "Not one," she answered, "except the lack of a minister's wife."

    — Anna Garlin Spencer

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