Daily Calendar for August 26th, 2018
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Formerly known as Woman Suffrage Day, this day marks the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920), granting women the right to vote. Ratification came in Tennessee, where suffragist (Anitia) Lili Pollitzer, age 25, persuaded Tennessee state legislator Harry T. Burn, age 24, to cast the deciding vote. "I know that a mother's advice is always safest for a boy to follow," he said, "and my mother wanted me to vote for ratification." The country's 26 million voting-age women were enfranchised by this change in the Constitution. Longtime suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt summed up her experiences in the battle this way: "Never in the history of politics has there been such a nefarious lobby as labored to block the ratification." Upon ratification, Catt founded the League of Women Voters, an organization now dedicated to providing impartial, in-depth information about candidates, platforms, and ballot issues.
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1902: A starch process that led to puffed grain cereals was patented
Born 1909: Frank F. Gasparro (designed the Lincoln Memorial reverse on the penny)
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1970: Guitarist Jimi Hendrix made his last public appearance in the UK
1977: Bill 101 took effect, making French the official language of Quebec
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Died 2004: Laura Branigan (Grammy-nominated pop singer best known for her hit Gloria)
Died 2009: Dominick Dunne (American writer and investigative journalist)
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