AUGUST 26 – 1946 Navy heads to Antarctica in Operation: HiJump; 1920 19th Amendment adopted; 1939 1st baseball game broadcast on TV; 1965 Happy Anniversary Henry Hill/Kate Friedman
1920 – 19TH amendment is adopted. This gave women the right to vote finally!
Since the 1830s, the women’s suffrage movement was gaining momentum. But it was a long hard struggle and went through abolitionist and temperance movements that were intertwined with the effort to abolish slavery. Women would organize, petition, march and picket for their right to vote. In July 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott organized 200 women in Seneca Falls, NY, to chat about women’s rights to education and employment opportunities. They declared “it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.” Women’s suffrage movements had been going on for decades, with organizations, marches, silent vigils, civil disobedience, picketing, parades, protesting and petitioning. It all fell upon deaf ears, arrests, mockery and cases of physical abuse.
The 15th amendment, which gave men of color the right to vote, was passed after the civil war. It did not include women. In fact, the 14th amendment specifically stated women did not have a right to vote. It would be Stanton and Susan B. Anthony who founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, and Lucy Stone who established the American Woman Suffrage Association. These two groups would merge to form the national American Woman Suffrage Association.
By 1917 the winds of change began blowing, New York adopted women suffrage in 1917, and after dragging his feet finally President Woodrow Wilson supported an amendment in 1918. By now, women were helping in many areas of the workforce, especially for the war effort during WWI. Momentum continued for women’s lib to gain traction in the western part of the United States, and in January 1918, the women’s suffrage amendment passed the House of Representatives, approved by the Senate in June 1919, and on the 26th of August, finally adopted. However it was somewhat of a shallow victory at first, and women’s liberation didn’t break a lot of boundaries until the 1950s.
1946– US Navy heads to Antarctica in Operation HIghjump.
There’s not much of an exciting story here and I’m not going to sensationalize it by adding space aliens to the story. The missions were simple: explore Antarctica for the purposes of setting up bases and developing techniques for working operations on ice. That’s it, no illuminati, no cabal, no deep state and no fake news, unless you’re reading it on b ibliotecapleyades.net. If you want to read about how what Americans found in Antarctica would be a prequel to the Roswell incident later in the summer of 1947, or if you want to read how the Red Skull and other space planetary aliens landed on earth to help Germany during WWII with zero proof or real hard details even bibliotecapleyades.net will have a story for you about that.
1873 – Happy birthday Lee De Forest from Council Bluffs Iowa, the self-proclaimed father of radio. His statement was “I discovered an invisible empire of the air, intangible yet solid as granite.” He invented the Audion vacuum tube which was used to amplify a weak electrical device, and had over 180 patents. He spent much of his time and money in legal battles, was indicted for, then later acquitted, of fraud, and has been called one of the fathers of the electronic age in America.
1939 – TV station W2XBS in New York broadcasts baseball for the first time. It was a doubleheader between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Cincy Red in Ebbets Field. Dodger radio voice Red Barber called the game, which was broadcast from the Empire State Building and could be seen in homes up to 50 miles away.
1965 – Happy anniversary goodfella mobster Henry Hill and Karen Friedman.