The U.S. Democratic Party has made history by nominating Hillary Clinton to run for US president as the first woman to head a major party's presidential ticket, according to dpa. The delegates from the state of South Dakota gave Clinton the 2,383 tally needed to clinch the nomination and ignited a boisterous celebration among thousands of delegates gathered at the party convention in Philadelphia. The roll call vote sets up a dual between Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, who accepted his party's nomination last week. It also formally ends the challenge mounted by US Senator Bernie Sanders, Clinton's rival in the Democratic primaries. Democrats from Philadelphia, the eastern US city where the Declaration of Independence was drafted and passed in 1776, noted that the city again plays a key role in the political history of the United States.
