On this day: American women won the right to vote in 1920

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on August 26: 1920 – American women won the right to vote when the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. 1972 – The English adventurer Sir Francis Chichester, who in 1966-67 became the first person to sail solo around the world rounding the two […]

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