Democrats make history by officially nominating Hillary Clinton

The Democrats made history last night in Philadelphia, officially nominating Hillary Clinton to be the party's presidential candidate in the 2016 election. The former secretary of state, first lady, and senator is the first woman to top a major political party's ticket in a US general election.

A roll call vote of delegates from each state during the second night of the Democratic National Convention confirmed that Clinton had clinched the nomination.

Tuesday's nomination followed a hard-fought primary campaign against Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, and a contingent of Sanders supporters has continued to disrupt the DNC and protest against Clinton's nomination, including after last night's roll-call vote. Sanders supporters marched out of the venue following the nomination process. Protesters also gathered at a subway station outside of the convention hall.

The formal nominating process was followed by a night of speeches that highlighted Clinton's career as a politician, a politician's wife, and a civil servant. Much of the focus was on her lesser-known efforts, with one of the larger portions of the night devoted to speakers who highlighted her actions when she served as New York's senator during the aftermath of 9/11.

Clinton herself made a virtual appearance on stage to close out the day's events, as a live video showed her in New York standing next to a young girl.

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"What an incredible honor that you have given me, and I can't believe we just put the biggest crack in that glass ceiling yet," she said.

"And if there are any little girls out there who stayed up late to watch, let me just say I may become the first woman President. But one of you is next."

The most in-depth recounting of Clinton's resume came from her husband, former president Bill Clinton, who gave a blow-by-blow account of his wife's path to the nomination, starting from the day they met in 1971 at Yale Law School.

The ex-president called the former first lady "the best darn change-maker I've ever met in my entire life."

"If you were sitting where I am sitting and you have heard what I have heard at every dinner conversation, every lunch conversation, every long walk, you would say this woman has never been satisfied with the status quo in anything," he said. "She always wants to move the ball forward, that is just who she is."

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