1968: Chisholm is elected to the United States House of Representatives, becoming the first African American woman elected to Congress.
1972: Chisholm becomes the first African American woman to run for president of the United States.
1980: Chisholm retires from Congress.
1983: Chisholm is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.
2005: Chisholm dies at the age of 80.
As of September 1, 1939, not all holidays were suddenly canceled, and Christmas did not disappear from the calendar. When December 24 approached, Poles looked for the first star and put hay under the tablecloth. But everything else has changed. The Polish people are not happy about the holidays
Communists, when they got down to business, always had to turn everything upside down. It is hard to find a better example than Tygodnik Powszechny. Stalin closed it so effectively from beyond the grave that the magazine ... continued to appear. Jaruzelski closed the same newspaper and even stopped
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