January 5

• 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.)
  
  1932: Raisa Gorbachev born
  
  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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