In 1933, at a League of Nations conference in Geneva, the Japanese representative abandoned his prepared text and walked out, shouting at the Western delegates, "Read your history! . . .
For the first time in party history, delegates were given the opportunity to cast a nonbinding vote of confidence for candidates for the post of secretary-general.
He defeated all the establishment choices — Senators Hubert Humphrey, of Minnesota, Edmund Muskie, of Maine, "Scoop" Jackson, of Washington — with the most diverse set of convention delegates in American history.
Despite winning what Sanders called "the most progressive party platform in history," delegates know that the platform can be — and often is — ignored.
The language was described by Rachel Hoff of Washington DC, the first openly gay delegate in the history of the platform committee, as "the least divisive thing that committee addressed over two days".
Mr Bercow asked the delegates to reflect on history, during which political extremists had always sought to capitalise on discontent.
It was the first time in the union's history that delegates had passed a motion of no confidence in an education secretary.
ATL is the most moderate of the classroom unions and it is the first time in its history that delegates have passed a motion of no confidence in an education secretary.
While Mr. Bush has sought for much of this year to distinguish himself from his party's conservative wing and history, most delegates interviewed today considered him conservative, if not necessarily as conservative as they considered themselves.
Placing Clinton in a lineage of great American women from Rosa Parks and Amelia Earhart to Harriet Tubman and Eleanor Roosevelt, she told the delegates: "You people have made history and you're gonna make history again in November because Hillary Clinton will be our first woman president … she'll be the first but she won't be the last".
