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Defend America on Sunday, July 19, 2009 9:45:37 AM
July 19,
1848
Seneca Falls Convention begins
At
the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, N.Y., a woman's rights
convention--the first ever held in the United States--convenes with
almost 200 women in attendance. The convention was organized by
Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who met at
the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. As women, Mott and
Stanton were barred from the convention floor, and the common
indignation that this aroused in both of them was the impetus for their
founding of the women's rights movement in the United States.
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1974 - The House Judiciary Committee recommended that U.S.
President Richard Nixon should stand trial in the Senate
for any of the five impeachment charges against him.
1984 - Geraldine Ferraro was nominated by the Democratic Party to
become the first woman from a major political party to run
for the office of U.S. Vice-President.