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However, a suffrage amendment did not pass the House of Representatives until May 21, 1919, which was quickly followed by the Senate, on June 4, 1919. It was then submitted to the states for ratification, achieving the requisite 36 ratifications to secure adoption, and thereby went into effect, on August 18, 1920.
1919 – Women's rights: The U.S. Congress approves the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification. 1919 – Leon Trotsky bans the Planned Fourth Regional Congress of Peasants, Workers and Insurgents. [2]
The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. That amendment is also the only one that explicitly repeals an earlier one, the Eighteenth Amendment (ratified in 1919), establishing the prohibition of alcohol. [4] Congress has also enacted statutes governing the constitutional amendment process.
Died April 28, 1919 James O'Connor (D) June 5, 1919 Alaska Territory: Charles A. Sulzer (D) Died April 28, 1919 George B. Grigsby (D) June 30, 1920 Alabama 7th: John L. Burnett (D) Died May 13, 1919 Lilius Bratton Rainey (D) September 30, 1919 Minnesota 4th: Carl Van Dyke (D) Died May 20, 1919 Oscar Keller (R) July 1, 1919 South Carolina 6th
The following events occurred in June 1919: German battleship SMS Bayern sinks in Scapa Flow after it was scuttled along with other ships of the interned Imperial German Navy on June 21, 1919. Painting by William Orpen , The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors , depicting the signing of the Treaty of Versailles to formally end World War I ...
On June 17, 2021, President Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law, which recognized Juneteenth as a federal holiday, making it the 11th federal holiday.
Damage done by the bomb at Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer's house Mitchell Palmer house in Washington DC 2132 R Street NW after bomb attack June 2, 1919 June 3, 1919, Newspapers of the 1919 United States anarchist bombings. On the evening of June 2, 1919, [3] the Galleanists managed to detonate nine large bombs nearly simultaneously in ...
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