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August 23 | |
| 1869 | Birth date of Edgar Lee Masters, poet. (died 3/5/50) |
| 1890 | Birth date of Aubrey Willis Williams, social worker and civil rights advocate. (died 3/3/65) |
| 1927 | Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed at Dedham Prison, Massachusetts, despite national and worldwide protests. |
| 1935 | Banking Act of 1935 signed into law. |
| 1939 | Hitler and Stalin sign mutual nonaggression pact. |
| 1942 | German troops lay siege to Stalingrad. |