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January 26th

1 event recorded on The Ledger.

  1. 1892
    The Rise

    Bessie Coleman born

    Bessie Coleman is born in Atlanta, Texas, the tenth of thirteen children in a sharecropping family. She becomes the first Black person of any gender to hold an international pilot's license.

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