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March 28, 2008 03:05:00 pm

Puerto Rican Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila pleaded not guilty Friday to 19 counts of conspiracy, false statements, wire fraud, federal program fraud and tax crimes related to campaign financing, and other...

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Malaysia will institute reforms to ensure an independent judiciary in an effort to restore trust in the nation's courts, newly appointed Malaysian Law Minister Zaid Ibrahim told the New Straits Times Sunday. Zaid said...

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March 21, 2008 03:01:00 pm

Protests resumed in the Armenian capital city of Yerevan after the government Friday lifted a 20-day state of emergency imposed earlier this month in the wake of the country's contested presidential election. Armenian President Robert Kocharian [official...

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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has upheld a lower court decision rejecting the Bush administration's attempt to exempt the US Navy from environmental laws so that the...

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The US Department of Defense has said that two charges have been referred against Saudi Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al-Darbi for his alleged connections to al Qaeda. Al-Darbi is the brother-in-law of...

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Protests broke out in two Indonesian cities Saturday over the reprinting of a cartoon depiction of the Muslim prophet Muhammad by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Poste . Protesters in the world's most populous Muslim country burned Danish...

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Serbia's chief prosecutor Slobodan Radovanovic said Saturday that Serbia is actively searching for the rioters that set fire to the US Embassy in Belgrade last week over US support of independence for Kosovo . Serbian...

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US Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ) has been indicted on charges that include extortion, money laundering, and wire fraud in connection with a complex land scheme, according to an indictment released Friday at a...

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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched an internal probe into whether top department officials improperly approved the CIA's use of waterboarding , according to documents released Friday. The DOJ Office of...

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US suffragists formed Equal Rights Party, named Presidential candidate

On September 20, 1884, a group of American suffragists formed the Equal Rights Party in San Francisco, dedicated to "equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens, without distinction of color, sex, or nationality" and in support of the proposition that "the laws of the several states be so amended that women will be recognized as voters, and their property-rights made equal with that of the male population, to the end that they may become self-supporting - rather than a dependent class."
Read the full text of the first platform of the Equal Rights Party.

The party immediately nominated Mrs. Belva Lockwood for US President and Marietta Snow for Vice-President. Grover Cleveland won that election, but Lockwood was included in a number of presidential primaries, and is recorded to have won some 4149 votes from the male voters of the time.

Catholic Church tries Galileo for heresy

On September 20, 1633, the Roman Catholic Church tried Galileo Galilei on charges of heresy. Galileo was brought before the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith for his assertion that the Earth orbits the Sun. He was sentenced to spend the rest of his life under house arrest.
Read documents from the trial of Galileo.

Suffragists formed Equal Rights Party, named Presidential candidate

On September 20, 1884, a group of suffragists formed the Equal Rights Party in San Francisco, dedicated to "equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens, without distinction of color, sex, or nationality" and in support of the proposition that "the laws of the several states be so amended that women will be recognized as voters, and their property-rights made equal with that of the male population, to the end that they may become self-supporting - rather than a dependent class."
Read the full text of the first platform of the Equal Rights Party.

The party immediately nominated Mrs. Belva Lockwood for US President and Marietta Snow for Vice-President. Grover Cleveland won that election, but Lockwood was included in a number of presidential primaries, and is recorded to have won some 4149 votes from the male voters of the time.

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