1st Woman Nominated For POTUS

Victoria Woodhull - on this date in 1872.

Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927) was an American leader of the woman's suffrage movement.

Woodhull was nominated for President of the United States by the newly formed Equal Rights Party on May 10, 1872, at Apollo Hall, New York City. A year earlier, she had announced her intention to run. Also in 1871, she spoke publicly against the government being composed only of men; she proposed developing a new constitution and a new government a year thence.[25] Her nomination was ratified at the convention on June 6, 1872. They nominated the former slave and abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass for Vice President. He did not attend the convention and never acknowledged the nomination. He served as a presidential elector in the United States Electoral College for the State of New York. This made her the first woman candidate.

No, I'm really not slagging Hillary.  Sec'y Clinton will likely be the very first woman to accept the nomination of a "major political party" in the history of the USofA.  And that's a big fuckin' deal.

If you want a real kick in the head, go look at this one at Wikipedia.

Yes, that is indeed "that Gracie Allen" who ran in 1940 on the Surprise Party ticket.  And she got 42,000 votes - as a gag, that some folks obviously weren't convinced was a gag at all.  Which should serve as something of a reminder that all of this weird shit we're angsting over in 2016 is really not terribly new.

We've found our way through it before, and we will again.  

God willin' and the crick don't rise.