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2012 Event - At the National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, the U.S. Democratic Party vote three separate times in order to approve putting the terms, 'God', 'Jerusalem', and 'Israel' back into the platform

2012 Event - At the National Convention in Tampa, Florida, the U.S. Republican Party nominates Mitt Romney as its candidate in the 2012 presidential election

2012 Event - U.S. Presidential candidate Ron Paul announces he will end his campaign, but that he will still try to obtain delegates before the Republican National Convention in August

2010 Event - Yvo de Boer, top climate change official at the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, resigns

2004 Event - Former President Gerald Ford suffers a stroke during the Republican National Convention

1992 Event - Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Rep National Convention

1990 Event - 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held in Michigan

1988 Event - Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed

1988 Event - Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket

1988 Event - Democratic convention picks Michael Dukakis as their President candidate

1986 Event - U.S. Senate ratifies UN's anti-genocide convention 37 years later

1984 Event - Republican convention in Dallas renominates President Reagan and Vice President Bush

1984 Event - Republican convention in Houston nominates Ronald Reagan for president

1984 Event - Southern Baptist convention decide on no women clergy members

1981 Event - Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco opens at 11:30 AM

1980 Event - Democratic Convention in New York City nominates Jimmy Carter

1976 Event - Reverend Sun Myung Moon holds "God Bless America" convention

1976 Event - President Gerald R. Ford won Republican President nomination at Kansas City convention

1973 Event - UN's revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted

1972 Event - Republican convention (Miami Beach, Florida) renominates Vice President Agnew but not unanimous - 1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley

1972 Event - Republican convention opens in Miami Beach, Florida

1972 Event - Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida, McGovern

1972 Event - Yvonne Braitwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair in Dem convention

1972 Event - 1st black U.S. political convention opens in Gary, Indiana

1970 Event - EAA Convention moves from Rockford Illinois to Oshkosh, Wi

1969 Event - 1st Elvis convention, 2500 fans attend in Cincinnati

1969 Event - Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention

1968 Event - Democratic Convention opens in Chicago

1968 Event - Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Nixon for president

1967 Event - Shortwave group ANARC's 1st convention (Chicago)

1966 Event - 24th World San Francisco Convention honors Gene Roddenberry

1965 Event - Revised International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect

1964 Event - Lyndon B. Johnson nominated at Democratic convention

1964 Event - Republicans convention selects Barry Goldwater as President candidate

1960 Event - Republican National convention selects Richard Nixon as candidate

1960 Event - Vice President Nixon nominated for President at Republican convention in Chicago

1960 Event - U.S. Republican convention nominates Nixon as presidential candidate

1960 Event - U.S. Democratic convention nominates John F. Kennedy as presidential candidate

1956 Event - President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon renominated by Republican convention in San Francisco

1954 Event - European Convention on Human Rights goes into effect

1953 Birthday - Linda Lingle, born in St. Louis, Missouri, politician, Republican, 6th Governor of Hawaii, chairman, 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City

1948 Event - U.N. General Assembly unanimously approves Convention on Genocide

1948 Event - Progressive party convention nominates Henry Wallace for President

1948 Event - Republican National Convention in Philadelphia nominates New York Governor Thomas Dewey

1947 Event - Revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted

1947 Event - Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect

1946 Birthday - Jerry Donahue, rocker, Fairport Convention

1944 Event - Convention on International Civil Aviation drawn up in Chicago

1944 Event - President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated for an unprecedented 4th term at Dem convention

1944 Event - Democratic convention opens in Chicago

1943 Birthday - Trevor Lucas, rocker, Fairport Convention

1941 Birthday - Dave Swarbrick, rocker, Fairport Convention

1940 Event - Democratic Convention nominates Franklin D. Roosevelt for a 3rd term

1936 Event - New Straits Convention allows Turkish rearmament of Dardanelles

1932 Event - New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated for president at Dem Convention in Chicago

1932 Event - President Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis renominated by Rep Convention

1930 Event - 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo

1930 Event - 1st football game in Atlantic City Convention Center

1929 Event - 1st trade show at Atlantic City Convention Center, electric light

1929 Event - Atlantic City Convention Center opens

1928 Event - Alfred E. Smith (NY-Gov) nominated for president at Dem Convention

1928 Event - Republican National Convention, met in KC, nominated Herbert Hoover

1926 Event - International slavery convention signed by 20 states

1924 Event - 1st political convention broadcast on radio - Republicans at Cleveland

1919 Event - American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis)

1915 Event - National Baptist Convention chartered

1900 Event - Social Democrat Party of America (Debs' party) holds 1st convention

1898 Event - France signs Niger Convention

1898 Event - Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chic

1896 Event - William Jennings Bryan "cross of gold" speech at Dem convention

1892 Event - Republican convention in Minneapolis begins

1891 Death - Napoleon JKP Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention, dies at 68

1889 Event - Washington state constitutional convention holds 1st meeting

1889 Event - Admissions convention meets in Ellensburg, WA, asks for statehood

1888 Event - Republican Convention, in Chicago, nominates Benjamin Harrison

1887 Event - 1st newspaper convention in Rochester, New York

1884 Event - Congressman John R Lynch presides over Republican National Convention

1884 Event - John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention

1884 Event - John Lynch (R-MS) chosen 1st black major-party national convention chair

1883 Event - National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky

1881 Event - Boers signs Convention of Pretoria: Transvaal semi-autonomous

1880 Death - Lucretia Mott, U.S. quaker (1st Woman's Rights Convention), dies

1877 Event - Socialist Labor Party of North America holds 1st national convention

1876 Event - Sara Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a U.S. presidential convention

1872 Event - Woman's Suffrage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall

1872 Event - Republican National Convention meets, Philadelphia

1872 Event - 1st National black convention meets in New Orleans

1872 Event - 1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio)

1869 Event - Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention

1869 Event - National convention of black leaders meets in Washington D.C.

1868 Event - Texas constitutional convention meets in Austin

1868 Event - Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant

1868 Event - Conservatives and military, seize Convention Hall in Florida

1868 Event - Florida constitutional convention meets in Tallahassee

1868 Event - North Carolina constitutional convention meets in Raleigh

1868 Event - South Carolina constitutional convention, meets with a black majority

1868 Event - Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock

1868 Event - Mississippi constitutional convention meets in Jackson

1866 Event - 1st national convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org)

1866 Event - Frederick Douglass is 1st U.S. black delegate to a national convention

1864 Event - National black convention meets (Syracuse New York)

1864 Event - Geneva Convention signed by 12 nations

1861 Event - Confederate convention in Montgomery, adopts constitution

1861 Event - Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time in Montgomery, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina elect Jefferson Davis President of Confederacy

1860 Event - Dem convention in Charleston South Carolina divided over slavery

1858 Event - John Brown holds antislavery convention

1856 Event - Republican Party opens its 1st national convention in Philadelphia

1855 Event - Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention

1854 Event - National emigration convention meets in Cleveland

1854 Event - 1st Republican state convention in Ripon, Wisconsin

1854 Event - Great Britain and Orange Free state sign Convention of Bloemfontein

1853 Event - Women's Right's Convention met (New York City)

1853 Event - National Black convention meets, Rochester New York

1851 Event - Sojourner Truth attends Women's Rights Convention

1851 Event - Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)

1850 Event - 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass

1849 Event - California State Constitutional Convention convenes in Monterey

1849 Event - California Constitutional Convention held in Monterey

1848 Event - National Black Convention meets (Cleveland)

1848 Event - 1st Woman's Rights Convention, Senecca Falls, New York

1848 Event - 1st U.S. women's rights convention (Seneca Falls New York)

1848 Event - Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott open 1st women's rights convention

1844 Event - Whig convention nominates Henry Clay as presidential candidate

1843 Event - 1st blacks participation in national political convention (Liberty Party)

1843 Event - National black convention meets (Buffalo New York)

1836 Event - Whig party holds its 1st national convention, Harrisburg, Pa

1836 Event - Whig Party holds its 1st national convention (Albany New York)

1835 Event - 6th national black convention in Philadelphia

1834 Event - 5th national black convention meet, New York City

1833 Event - 4th national black convention meets in Philadelphia

1832 Event - 3rd national black convention meets, Philadelphia

1832 Event - 1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore)

1831 Event - 2nd national black convention, Philadelphia

1831 Event - Mainzer Rijnvaart Convention ends

1822 Birthday - Napoleon J K P Bonaparte, French prince/member National Convention

1799 Event - Convention of Alkmaar: English/Russian invasion army departs

1796 Death - Pieter Paulus, lawyer/Dutch CEO (National Convention), dies at 41

1796 Death - Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, French National Convention chairman, dies at 46

1794 Event - French National Convention proclaims abolishment of slavery

1787 Event - U.S. constitution adopted by Philadelphia convention

1787 Event - Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia begans debate

1787 Event - Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia, George Washington presiding

1786 Event - Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce

1754 Birthday - Pieter Paulus, Dutch lawyer/CEO, National Convention

1749 Birthday - Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, France, chairman, National Convention

1739 Event - England and Spain signs 2nd Convention of Pardo

1728 Event - Spain and England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo

1660 Event - London Convention Parliament begins













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