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History See other History Articles Title: Anniversaries in August U.S. Women Get the Vote, Aug. 18, 1920 An Aug. 18, 1920, vote in the Tennessee legislature made female suffrage the law of the land, although the close vote to approve the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was marked by the prospect that assembly members would change their mind or that the decision could be invalidated by a provision of the Tennessee state constitution. “Tennessee became the thirty-sixth state to ratify the Susan B. Anthony Suffrage Amendment,” announced the Associated Press story published the following day in the Steubenville Herald of Steubenville, Ohio. “The constitutional change thus will become effective in time for the 17,000,000 women of the country for the presidential election in November, unless the lower house of the assembly rescinds its action of today in adopting the ratification resolution, 49 to 47.” Read more about the road to passage of the 19th Amendment Activist Susan B. Anthony’s reviewed women’s past gains and prospects for full voting rights in an article published 18 months after her death, in the Sept. 28, 1907, Stevens Point Daily Journal of Stevens Point, Wis. Woman Suffrage a Live Issue A Jan. 10, 1918, article in The Daily Free Press of Carbondale, Ill., noted President Woodrow Wilson’s support for female suffrage. President Backs Votes for Women *** Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin dies, Aug. 16, 2003 Unlike many of his victims, Ugandan strongman Idi Amin lived to be an old man, dying Aug. 16, 2003, in exile in Saudi Arabia. The onetime ‘president for life’ took power in a 1971 coup and ruled the east African country for most of the 1970s. “For many Ugandans, the death of former dictator Idi Amin severed the last link to an era best forgotten: eight years of brutal rule defined by the deaths of up to 300,000 people and the memory of thousands of hastily disposed bodies collecting in Lake Victoria,” reported the Associated Press in an article published Aug. 17, 2003, in The Post-Standard of Syracuse, N.Y. “But 25 years after he went into exile, some found it galling that Amin was never punished for bringing so much misery to what was once a prosperous country.” Read more about Amin’s notorious reign According to a June 13, 1974, review in The Lethbridge Herald of Lethbridge, Alberta, the jury was still out on the Ugandan leader when a French documentary was released in 1974. “General Idi Amin – film star or monster?” Two years before Amin’s ouster, an article in the Nov. 14, 1977, Times-News of Twin Falls, Idaho, noted the heightened security precautions taken by the once-brazen ruler. Amin has more to fear ... than will of Allah *** Read full article! India and Pakistan Separate, Aug. 14-15, 1947 On Aug. 14, 1947, as colonial power England withdrew, India was partitioned into the independent countries of India and Pakistan in a move intended to limit discord between Moslem and Hindu citizens of the subcontinent. “In a ceremony lasting less than 15 minutes, Great Britain wielded its 200-year rule of India today, and the new nation of Pakistan was born,” read an Aug. 14, 1947, article in The Amarillo Globe of Amarillo, Texas. “Viscount Mountbatten, until today the viceroy of all India, cut the reins on the subcontinent of 350,000,000 persons and let it divide into the Moslem Dominion of Pakistan and the Hindu Dominion of India.” Read more about the partition of India An Aug. 15, 1947, editorial in the Winnipeg Free Press of Winnipeg, Manitoba, considers the historic opportunities and challenges for the new states. As Independence Begins A Sept. 14, 1947, article in the Portland Press Herald of Portland, Maine, reviews sectarian tension in the first month of independence. Religious Hatred Outweighs Patriotism in India
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