Only 88 Years Since Women Could Vote
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Women’s Equality Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Wahine: Woman PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Meri: Woman HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “This woman made a circuit of the islands.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.” (Simone de Beauvior) WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — MAPA WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Michelle Obama’s DNC Speech NETCAST OF THE WEEK — TruthDig.com Podcast GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Women’s Equality Day
Today: Hillary Clinton night at the Democratic National Convention on the anniversary of the day women’s suffrage was won. Hillary Clinton will give a much anticipated speech in Denver celebrating Women’s National Equality Day. More >x
August 26, 1920: 19th Ammendment passes. Allowing women to vote was first seriously proposed in the United States in July, 1848, at the Seneca Falls Woman’s Rights Convention organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. One woman who attended that convention was Charlotte Woodward. She was nineteen at the time. In 1920, when women finally won the vote throughout the nation, Charlotte Woodward was the only participant in the 1848 Convention who was still alive to cast her vote. she was 81 years old.
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EVENTS ON THIS DAY — August 26th
-55: (BC) Roman forces, led by Julius Caesar, invade Britain
1775: The Continental Congress passes an act providing pensions for war veterans
1789: The French Assembly passes the Declaration of the Rights of Man
1883: The Indonesian volcano Krakatoa erupts destroying the island and killing 36,000 people
1920: 19th Amendment to the US Constitution establishes womens’ right to vote
1937: Pumping & dredging are finished to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay
1957: The Soviet Union announced that it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.
1967: Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” is released
1974: Charles Lindbergh dies at his home in Hawaii at the age of 72
1998: The U.S. Justice Department announces the government is investigating Microsoft
2003: Investigators concluded that NASA’s overconfident management and inattention to safety doomed the space shuttle Columbia as much as damage to the craft did.
1775: The Continental Congress passes an act providing pensions for war veterans
1789: The French Assembly passes the Declaration of the Rights of Man
1883: The Indonesian volcano Krakatoa erupts destroying the island and killing 36,000 people
1920: 19th Amendment to the US Constitution establishes womens’ right to vote
1937: Pumping & dredging are finished to build Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay
1957: The Soviet Union announced that it had successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile.
1967: Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” is released
1974: Charles Lindbergh dies at his home in Hawaii at the age of 72
1998: The U.S. Justice Department announces the government is investigating Microsoft
2003: Investigators concluded that NASA’s overconfident management and inattention to safety doomed the space shuttle Columbia as much as damage to the craft did.
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BORN ON THIS DAY — August 26th
1676: Sir Robert Walpole, British PM
1838: John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln
1904: Christopher Isherwood, novelist/playwright
1921: Ben Bradlee, former Washington Post executive editor
1935: Geraldine Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY) 1st female major-party VP candidate
1948: Jet Black, rocker
1948: Valerie Simpson, singer
1960: Branford Marsalis, actor
1980: Macauley Culkin, actor
1676: Sir Robert Walpole, British PM
1838: John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln
1904: Christopher Isherwood, novelist/playwright
1921: Ben Bradlee, former Washington Post executive editor
1935: Geraldine Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY) 1st female major-party VP candidate
1948: Jet Black, rocker
1948: Valerie Simpson, singer
1960: Branford Marsalis, actor
1980: Macauley Culkin, actor
