January 23
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Significant events that happened (or will happen) on January 23.
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- 1961 – Susie Smith dies of a heart attack in Albemarle County and is later buried in a family cemetery in Eastham. Raised in Stony Point, Smith had worked as a chamber maid for the Valentine family in Charlottesville and had her portrait photograph included within the Holsinger Studio Collection. This image would later be featured in the “Visions of Progress: Portraits of Dignity, Style and Racial Uplift” exhibit that was organized by Professor John Edwin Mason of the UVA Corcoran Department of History and was on display at the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library from 2022 to 2023.