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January 11

1885
Alice Paul, chief strategist for the militant wing of the suffrage movement and author of the Equal Rights Amendment, was born in Moorestown, NJ

1912
Two-month long IWW Bread and Roses Strike begins, Lawrence, MA

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January 10

1773
Thomas Paine published his influential pamphlet, “Common Sense.”

1908
A prominent young lawyer, Mohandas Gandhi, is jailed for the first time, for refusing to register as an Asian in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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January 9

1789
Treaty with the Wyandot, Delaware, Ottowa, Potawatomi, & Sauk is the first in the new U.S. to recognize Native Americans as independent “nations.”
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January 8

1865
In the battle of Dove Creek, near San Angleo, 370 Texas militiamen attacked what was assumed to be an encampment of 1400 Comanches but were peaceful Kickapoo, in one of the last battles in Texas between Anglos & Native Americans.

1867
Congress overrides the president’s veto of a bill granting all adult male citizens of the District of Columbia the right to vote, the first election law passed in America granting African-American men the right to vote.
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January 7

1911
First airplane bombing experiments with explosives, San Francisco.

1953
President Harry S. Truman announced in his State of the Union address that the United States had developed a hydrogen bomb.

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January 6

1831
First world anti-slavery convention held.

1832
William Lloyd Garrison along with 15 others, founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society at the African Meeting House in Boston.
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January 5

1527
Felix Manz, first Anabaptist martyr, sentenced to death, Zurich.

1869
First Black Labor Convention
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January 4

1948
Burma, now known as Myanmar, becomes an independent sovereign nation, ending more than six decades of British rule.
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January 3

1521
Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church.

1793
Political and social reformer Lucretia Coffin Mott was born in Nantucket, MA.
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January 2

1800
Free Black community of Philadelphia petitions Congress to abolish slavery.

1903
President Roosevelt shuts down the post office in Indianola, Mississippi, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she is African-American.
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