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Around the World by Airplane

At 1:28 p.m. on September 28, 1924, two planes landing in Seattle made history. The Chicago and New Orleans had flown 26,345 miles in 66 days to become the first airplanes to circumnavigate the globe.

OMG! This was today? I think this is one of the coolest little-known milestones in aviation history. Every time I’m in the Pioneers of Flight gallery at the National Air and Space Museum, I make a beeline for the Chicago. 

Have I mentioned I like the history of aviation?

And world records?

And the 1920s?

Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution: Women’s Right to Vote

Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920.

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Apparently, I can’t put the Schoolhouse Rock video I’m thinking of directly into this post, so I’ll link to it instead. 

“Since nineteen-twenty… sisters unite!”

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