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| US election: Clinton makes history as Democratic presidential nominee | |
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| Democrat Hillary Clinton has become the first woman in US history to be nominated for president by any major party. | Democrat Hillary Clinton has become the first woman in US history to be nominated for president by any major party. |
| She reached the milestone in a roll call vote from all 50 states at the Democratic National Convention. | She reached the milestone in a roll call vote from all 50 states at the Democratic National Convention. |
| Mrs Clinton's nomination comes after Senator Bernie Sanders' supporters disrupted the first day of the convention with boos and jeers. | Mrs Clinton's nomination comes after Senator Bernie Sanders' supporters disrupted the first day of the convention with boos and jeers. |
| Party officials have worked to ease tensions amid protest on the floor. | Party officials have worked to ease tensions amid protest on the floor. |
| Mrs Clinton passed the 2,382 delegates needed to claim the nomination after South Dakota announced its delegate vote count. | |
| In a symbolic gesture of party unity, former Democratic rival Senator Bernie Sanders took the microphone to move to suspend the procedural rules and declare Mrs Clinton as the nominee. | |
| Chair of the Democratic National Committee, Congresswoman Marcia Fudge, approved the move after a unanimous voice vote and members of the crowd erupted into cheers as they held up new Clinton signs. | |
| Dissention on the convention floor plagued the first day when Sanders supporters booed throughout the event. | |
| Senator Sanders scrambled to quell the protest by sending a text message and an email to delegates urging them to remain calm. | |
| Mr Sanders later took centre stage as the final speaker on the first night and directly told his supporters that ""Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States." | |
| Former President Bill Clinton is due to speak about his wife later on Tuesday, making the case for why she is qualified to take his old job. | |
| The second night will focus on race and justice, topics that dominated last week's Republican National Convention in Cleveland. | |
| Among those speaking is Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, whose death inspired the Black Lives Matter movement. |