| 28.08.2008 | 00:00 UTC
Democrats nominate Obama for president
Barack Obama has been officially nominated as the Democratic Party presidential candidate. Democrats made history by nominating Barack Obama as the first black presidential nominee of a major US party. Earlier Hillary Clinton called for Obama to be voted by acclamation. She dramatically halted a roll-call vote at the Democratic National Convention and proposed the Illinois senator be nominated in a gesture of party unity. Senator Obama will give his acceptance speech on Thursday, coinciding with the 45th anniversary of Martin Luther King's famous "I have a dream" speech.
