JANUARY 4
1965:President Lyndon B. Johnson presents his plan for the “Great Society” in his State of the Union address, leading to the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, Head Start, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968 as part of his “War on Poverty.”
1885: Physician William W. Grant performs the first recorded appendectomy in the United States, successfully removing Mary Gartside’s appendix in Davenport, Iowa, allowing the 22-year-old patient to make a full recovery.
2007: Rep. Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman to hold the office of speaker of the House as the 110th Congress convenes.
1885: Physician William W. Grant performs the first recorded appendectomy in the United States, successfully removing Mary Gartside’s appendix in Davenport, Iowa, allowing the 22-year-old patient to make a full recovery.
2007: Rep. Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman to hold the office of speaker of the House as the 110th Congress convenes.
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