August 18. Women gain right to vote in United States in 1920.

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August 19, 1920.  Women gain right to vote in United States when 19th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified.

Real photo postcard showing a suffragette parade in Ayr, Iowa in 1915.

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August 18. Roberto Clemente is born in 1934.

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August 17. Confederate held Fort Sumter, South Carolina attacked by Northern forces in 1863.