JANUARY 2
1977:Jacqueline Means becomes the first woman in the United States to be formally ordained as an Episcopalian priest, following a 1976 decision by the General Convention of the Episcopal Church.
1863: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slavery illegal in all states still in rebellion against the Union and sabotaging the Confederacy’s attempts to gain wartime support from Great Britain and France.
1892: Fifteen-year-old Irish immigrant Annie Moore is the first person to pass through the Ellis Island immigration station, which will process more than 12 million new arrivals to the United States over the next 62 years.
1863: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slavery illegal in all states still in rebellion against the Union and sabotaging the Confederacy’s attempts to gain wartime support from Great Britain and France.
1892: Fifteen-year-old Irish immigrant Annie Moore is the first person to pass through the Ellis Island immigration station, which will process more than 12 million new arrivals to the United States over the next 62 years.
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