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Women’s Equality Day
August 26, 2017
Sat August 26, Women’s Equality Day in the United States. Instituted by Rep. Bella Abzug and first established in 1971, the date commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment, the Woman Suffrage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which gave U.S. women full voting rights in 1920.