Portal:Conservatism/Selected anniversary/January

12th

• 1729 – Edmund Burke is born, considered to be the philosophical founder of modern conservatism.

22nd

• Traditional day of the National Sanctity of Human Life Day in the United States.
• 1974 – the first March for Life, in Washington, D. C., attracts 20,000 people.

30th

• 2009 – Michael Steele (pictured) is elected the first African-American chairman of the Republican National Committee.