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July 17 – New York City women's letter to Seneca County sheriff gave notice of plans for a march from Seneca Falls to the encampment by way of Waterloo on July 30 August 1 – central demonstration involving approximately 1500-3000 people September 5 – camp closes for the year
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. [1] Its organizers advertised it as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the town of Seneca Falls , New York , it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848.
February 18: Founding convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). [17] 1891. February 26-March 1: Twenty-Third annual NAWSA convention is held in Albaugh's Opera House in Washington, D.C. [18] 1893. January 16–19: Twenty-Fifth annual NAWSA convention is held in Washington, D.C. [19] 1895
Seneca Falls and Waterloo, New York, were important sites in the history of the fight for women's suffrage in the United States, as the site of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention on July 19 and 20. The convention drew over 300 attendees, [2] many of whom signed the Declaration of Sentiments which was produced as a part of the convention. [3]
The 2020 Women's March was a double protest that was held on January 18 and October 17, 2020, in Washington, D.C., and across the United States. [1] [2] Many people in countries around the world also participated in the women's global march. [3] The demonstration follows similar protests in 2017, 2018, and 2019. [4]
The Seneca Falls Convention is now recognized as an historic event, the first convention to be called for the purpose of discussing women's rights. The convention's Declaration of Sentiments became "the single most important factor in spreading news of the women's rights movement around the country in 1848 and into the future," according to ...
Since its initial usage in May 1999, the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States has used the tornado emergency bulletin — a high-end classification of tornado warning — sent through either the issuance of a warning or via a "severe weather statement" that provides updated information on an ongoing warning—that is issued when a violent tornado (confirmed by radar or ground ...
At 2:40 p.m. CDT on March 28, a Particularly Dangerous Situation Tornado Watch was issued by the Storm Prediction Center across central and eastern Iowa, central and northern Illinois, and northeastern Missouri. [57] Only weak tornadoes touched down in the moderate risk area, though a few strong tornadoes occurred elsewhere.