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January 24 – March for Life 2020 - The annual March for Life protest through Washington, D.C., in dissent of the decision made in the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade . Donald Trump spoke at the event, becoming the first president to ever attend the march.
4 [1860 June] Caleb Cushing resigned as permanent chair. 5 [1860 June] Douglas and Johnson were chosen as the candidates of the Front Street Theater convention after most of the Southern delegations walked out. The convention bolters soon formed their own convention, located at the Maryland Institute, also in Baltimore, on June 28, 1860.
Awesome Con is an annual pop culture convention in Washington, D.C. The event takes place in the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Awesome Con debuted in 2013 and became one of the largest fan conventions on the East Coast of the United States. [3] The 2013 event drew about 7,000 attendees. The 2024 event hosted 60,000 attendees.
Washington, D.C. The 1987 convention endorsed Jesse Jackson for president. [6] Jackson requested DSA not endorse him. [7] November 10–12, 1989 Baltimore, Maryland: This convention was the first convention to be held after the death of Michael Harrington, founder of DSOC and DSA. [6] [8] November 8–11, 1991 Chicago, Illinois [9] November 11 ...
On June 1, 2020, amid the George Floyd protests in Washington, D.C., law enforcement officers used tear gas and other riot control tactics to forcefully clear peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square, creating a path for President Donald Trump and senior administration officials to walk from the White House to St. John's Episcopal Church.
On May 12, 2020, the Democratic National Committee authorized the convention planners to research alternative methods for participants to cast votes, considering the possibility that the Democratic National Committee may decide to hold the entire convention virtually. [62] On June 24, 2020, it was announced that the convention was to be downsized.
A pre-primary caucus, in order to designate the different presidential candidates' municipal district-level delegate slates, would have been held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on May 9, 2020, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic it was replaced with an online election between April 25 and May 21. The state party committee then ...
Protesters confront Federal Protective Service officers in Washington, D.C., on June 2, 2020. On June 1, 2020, amid the George Floyd protests in Washington, D.C., security forces deployed tear gas and other riot control tactics to forcefully clear Lafayette Square and surrounding streets of protesters to create a path for President Trump and ...