15 years ago today, former Vermont governor and physician Howard Dean launched his maverick campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination that would become the model for grassroots internet campaigning and raise $50 million mostly in small donations under fifty dollars. (2003)
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MORE Good News From this Day:
- Jews were given permission to settle in Kiev by Empress Catherine II (1794)
- Frederick Douglass became the first African-American nominated for US president (1888)
- Women ministers were accepted by the Dutch Reformed Church (1958)
- The FDA approved birth control pills for contraceptive use in the general public (1960)
- Pope John Paul II met with banned union leader Lech Walesa, the founder and leader of Solidarity, Poland’s independent trade union movement (1983)
- Hearst Castle became the first California state park to operate with 100% natural-gas-powered buses— clean-fuel transportation that began moving one million visitors up the mountain every year, while reducing harmful air emissions by up to 75 percent over the…
