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Today in History: August 23

On August 23, 1970, the Salad Bowl strike, led by the influential farm labor leader Cesar Chavez, began with between 5,000 to 10,000 workers walking off their jobs. This historic event became the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history.

In 1305, Sir William Wallace, the Scottish rebel leader, was executed by the English for his acts of treason.

In 1775, King George III of Britain officially declared that the American colonies were in a state of “open and avowed rebellion.”

On this day in 1914, Japan entered World War I by declaring war on Germany.

In 1927, despite global protests, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders committed during a 1920 robbery. Fifty years later, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis issued a proclamation stating that Sacco and Vanzetti had been unfairly tried and convicted.

In 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression treaty, in Moscow.

In 2000, a tragic event occurred when a Gulf Air Airbus crashed into the Persian Gulf near Bahrain, resulting in the loss of all 143 lives on board.

In 2003, former priest John Geoghan, a convicted child molester whose case was central to the sex abuse scandal that rocked the Roman Catholic Church across the United States, was killed by another inmate in a Massachusetts prison.

On August 23, 2011, the strongest earthquake on the East Coast since 1944, a magnitude-5.8, struck near Mineral, Virginia, causing significant damage, including cracks in the Washington Monument and harm to the Washington National Cathedral.

In 2013, a military jury found Maj. Nidal Hasan guilty of the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, which left 13 people dead. He was later sentenced to death.

In 2020, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a white police officer shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, seven times while attempting to arrest him on an outstanding warrant. The shooting left Blake partially paralyzed and ignited several nights of violent protests.

Finally, in 2022, a jury convicted two men of plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. This was seen as a significant win for prosecutors, as the conspiracy, which was disrupted by the FBI, had been viewed by anti-government extremists as a call to incite a U.S. civil war.


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Today in History: December 3

Excerpts:Today in History: December 3:
In 1947, the Tennessee Williams play “A Streetcar Named Desire” opened on Broadway.
In 2015, Defense Secretary Ash Carter ordered the armed services to open all military jobs to women.

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Today in History: December 2

Today in History: December 2:
In 1804, Napoleon crowned himself emperor of France in a coronation ceremony at Notre Dame de Paris cathedral.
In 2018, Israeli police recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on bribery charges, adding to a growing collection of legal troubles for the longtime leader.

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Today in History: December 1

Today in History: December 1:
In 1955, Rosa Parks, a Black seamstress, was arrested after refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus.
In 1824, the presidential election was turned over to the House of Representatives after none of the candidates (John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford, and Henry Clay) won over 50% of the electoral vote.

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Today in History: November 30

Excerpts:Today in History: November 30:
In 1999, an estimated 40,000 demonstrators clashed with police as they protested against the World Trade Organization in Seattle.
In 1936, London’s Crystal Palace exhibition hall was destroyed by a massive fire.
In 1993, President Bill Clinton signed the Brady Bill, which required a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases

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