After 95 years women were granted the right to vote in United States of America, a former Secretary of State, Senator and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, makes history by accepting the Democratic Party's nomination for president, becoming the first woman to lead a major U.S. political party.
The Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia formally nominated Clinton two days earlier, with South Dakota casting 15 votes to put Clinton over the threshold of 2,382 required delegates.
Reacting to the nomination in her acceptance speech on the night of July 28, Clinton acknowledged the historic nature of her nomination.
She said, "Tonight, we've reached a milestone in our nation's march toward a more perfect union: the first time that a major party has nominated a woman for president,"
"Standing here as my mother's daughter, and my daughter's mother, I'm so happy this day has come. Happy for grandmothers and little girls and everyone in between. Happy for boys and men, too because when any barrier falls in America, for anyone, it clears the way for everyone. When there are no ceilings, the sky's the limit," she stated.
The Former First Lady who ran in the general against immediate past president of United States of America, Donald J. Trump, won the popular vote but lost the election in the electoral college. Trump served one term between 2017 and 2021 and made history himself, becoming the first U.S. president to be impeached twice, 2019 and 2021.
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