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By W. Gardner Selby | Thursday, April 28, 2005, 03:33 PM

Everybody in Texas knows Aug. 27 is the late Lyndon B. Johnson’s birthday, right?

(Chorus of huzzahs required here.)

Now the day before LBJ’s birthday could be Women’s Independence Day; a proposal cleared the Senate on Thursday and headed for Gov. Rick Perry’s review that would designate Aug. 26 as Women’s Independence Day, commemorating the ratification of the 19th amendment to the U..S. Constitution in 1920, giving women the right to vote.

House Bill 67 by Rep. Ruth Jones McClendon, D-San Antonio, doesn’t make the day a state holiday. It does state the day shall be observed with “appropriate programs in the public schools and other places to inspire a greater appreciation of the importance of women’s suffrage.�?

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