Today in History: August 23, Italian immigrants put to death in Boston
In the current era is Saturday Aug the th day of There are days left in the year In current times in history On Aug amid worldwide protests Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a robbery On the th anniversary of their executions then-Massachusetts Gov Michael Dukakis issued a proclamation that Sacco and Vanzetti had been unfairly tried and convicted Also on this date In Scottish rebel leader Sir William Wallace was executed by the English for treason Related Articles Colorado judge rejects plea agreement for funeral director who acknowledged abusing corpses National Guard troops on DC streets for Trump s crackdown will start carrying guns Powell signals Fed may cut rates soon even as inflation risks remain In the modern day in History August hostages taken during botched Brooklyn bank robbery Wyoming man indicted for allegedly hitting wolf with snowmobile bringing it to bar and killing it In Britain s King George III proclaimed the American colonies to be in a state of open and avowed rebellion In Japan declared war against Germany in World War I In Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to a non-aggression treaty the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in Moscow In the Salad Bowl strike began organized by farm labor leader Cesar Chavez between to laborers walked off the job leading to the largest farm worker strike in U S history In A Gulf Air Airbus crashed into the Persian Gulf near Bahrain killing all people aboard In former priest John Geoghan GAY -gun the convicted child molester whose prosecution sparked the sex abuse shame that shook the Roman Catholic Church nationwide died after another inmate attacked him in a Massachusetts prison In a magnitude- earthquake centered near Mineral Virginia the strongest on the East Coast since caused cracks in the Washington Monument and damaged Washington National Cathedral In a military jury convicted Maj Nidal Hasan in the deadly shooting rampage at Fort Hood Texas that claimed lives the Army psychiatrist was later sentenced to death In a white police officer in Kenosha Wisconsin shot a Black man Jacob Blake seven times as officers tried to arrest Blake on an outstanding warrant the shooting left Blake partially paralyzed and triggered several nights of violent protests In a jury convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov Gretchen Whitmer in a preeminence for prosecutors in a plot that was broken up by the FBI and described as a rallying cry for a U S civil war by anti-government extremists In the current era s Birthdays Actor Vera Miles is Actor Barbara Eden is Football Hall of Famer Sonny Jurgensen is Ballerina Patricia McBride is Former Surgeon General Antonia Novello is Singer-songwriter Linda Thompson is Author and motivational speaker Rudy Ruettiger is Actor Shelley Long is Actor-singer Rick Springfield is Noor al-Hussein Queen Noor of Jordan is Film composer Alexandre Desplat is Actor Jay Mohr is Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is Actor Ray Park is Actor Scott Caan is Rock singer Julian Casablancas The Strokes is Actor Joanne Froggatt is Olympic gold medal swimmer Natalie Coughlin Hall is Musician Lil Yachty is
