On This Day - 2025-08-29 : 1989: Cuban immigrant Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the first Hispanic woman elected to Congress, later becoming the first woman to chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

On This Day - 2025-08-29 : 1989: Cuban immigrant Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the first Hispanic woman elected to Congress, later becoming the first woman to chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

1989: Cuban immigrant Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the first Hispanic woman elected to Congress, later becoming the first woman to chair the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

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February 9, 2023

On February 9, 2023

1895 Abolitionist Sara Grimke publishes letter on Boston slavery riot.

Older 1986 Uniformed and OVerseas Ctiizens AbsenteeVoting Act passed.

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