Today in History . . .

Deb in IA

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On August 23, 1927, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery.

On August 23, 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty.Didn't last very long, did it?

On August 23, 1989, in a case that inflamed racial tensions in New York City, Yusuf Hawkins, a black teen-ager, was shot dead after he and his friends were confronted by white youths in a Brooklyn neighborhood.

On August 23, 2000, an estimated 51 million viewers tuned in for the finale of CBS' reality series ''Survivor'' in which contestant Richard Hatch won the $1 million prize.
 
I was one of the millions watching Survivor...LOL

Thanks!
 
Thansk Deb..interesting as usual....I can't believe that many people tuned into Survivor...and I wasn't one of them
 

Thanks, DEB:D . Fortunately, we don't have capital punishment anymore in Mass............
 
Thanks, Deb. Have a great weekend.
 
Very interesting. Thanks for doing this, Deb :)
 












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