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Spanish officials said Saturday the remaining members of Basque separatist group ETA allegedly involved in the December 2006 Madrid airport bombing were arrested Friday in France. The suspects, Mikel San Sebastian and...

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US President George W. Bush Friday chided the US House of Representatives for failing to pass the FISA Amendments Act before leaving for a 12-day recess, saying that the US would be in...

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US Army sniper Sgt. Evan Vela was convicted Sunday of unpremeditated murder for the killing of an unarmed Iraqi civilian near Iskandariyah and sentenced to 10 years in prison. The military jury also found Vela guilty...

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Former Chinese newspaper editor Yu Huafeng has been released early from prison after serving four years on corruption charges , Reporters without Borders said Saturday. Yu and his colleague Li Minying were both convicted...

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Retired Argentinean military officers Paccagnini Ruben and Emilio Del Real were arrested by Argentina's Federal Police Saturday in connection with the August 1972 massacre of 16 leftist guerillas on a military base in the southern...

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Kenyan Minister of Internal Security George Saitoti Friday lifted a ban on public assembly in the strife-torn country, saying that "security has generally improved." The ban was imposed after violent protests broke out following December's contested presidential...

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Former Khmer Rouge official Nuon Chea will request release on bail when he appears in front of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Court of Cambodia (ECCC) Monday for a pre-trial hearing relating...

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Pakistani Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan was detained Saturday at the Lahore airport after attempting to board a plane for the Sindh province , where he planned to visit the grave of former Pakistani...

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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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