DUSHANBE, July 27, 2016, Asia-Plus -- Hillary Clinton became the first female presidential nominee of any major party on July 26.

Reuters reports that in nominating Clinton, delegates made the point that the selection of a woman was a milestone in America''s 240-year-old history.  Women got the right to vote in 1920 after ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Her husband, former President Bill Clinton, portrayed Hillary Clinton in a speech to the convention as a dynamic force for change as he made a case for her White House bid.  He urged Democrats and the American public to vote for his wife Hillary in November, saying that making her the first woman U.S. president will turn the United States into a stronger and better country.

Clinton’s July 26 speech before the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia and a nationwide television audience of millions was the star attraction during the second night of the four-day convention.

The speech was preceded by a long-anticipated roll-call vote of the more than 4,700 state delegates who formally anointed Hillary Clinton as the party''s presidential candidate.

“Hillary will make us stronger together. You know it because she’s spent a lifetime doing it,” Bill Clinton said in a nearly 50-minute speech to a rapt audience.

“If you love this country, you''re working hard, you’re paying taxes and obeying the law, and you''d like to become a citizen, you should choose immigration reform over someone who wants to send you back,” Clinton said.  “If you’re a Muslim, if you’re a Muslim and you love America and freedom and you hate terror, stay here and help us make America better, and make a future together, we want you.”

Earlier in the night, delegates heard from another former secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, who made reference to the growing suspicions in the U.S. intelligence community that Russian government hackers were behind the embarrassing Democratic National Committee e-mail leak.

“The truth is that a Trump victory in November would be a gift to [Russian President] Vladimir Putin, and given what we’ve learned about the Russians'' recent actions, Putin is eager to see Trump win,” said Albright, who served under Bill Clinton.

“And that should worry every American. Take it from someone who fled the Iron Curtain: I know what happens when you give the Russians a green light.”

In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused U.S. politicians of being paranoid about Russia allegedly backing Trump.

Republicans, meanwhile, were enjoying the traditional post-convention bump in polling numbers for Trump.

A Reuters opinion poll released July 26 showed Trump two percentage points ahead of Clinton, the first time he has been ahead since early May.

If elected, Hillary Clinton would be not only the first female president of the United States but the first spouse of a president to return to the White House as president.