Category: 1920s
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Italian-Born Anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are Executed for Murder in Boston, Massachusetts. August 23, 1927.
Image: Bartolomeo Vanzetti (left), handcuffed to Nicola Sacco (right). Dedham, Massachusetts Superior Court, 1923.This photo was taken in 1923 when Sacco was on the 23rd day of a hunger strike. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, despite worldwide protests in support of their innocence, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed for…
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History Daily: August 18
ROANOKE COLONY ABANDONED Image: 19th-century illustration depicting the discovery of the abandoned colony, 1590. (Wikimedia Commons.) On August 18, 1590, John White, the governor of the Roanoke Island colony in present-day North Carolina, returns from a trip to England to find the settlement abandoned. White found no evidence of the whereabouts of the 100 colonists…
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History Daily: August 12
KING PHILIP’S WAR ENDS Image: Indians Attacking a Garrison House, from an Old Wood Engraving This is likely a depiction of the attack on the Haynes Garrison, Sudbury, April 21, 1676. (Wikimedia Commons.) On August 12, 1676, in colonial New England, King Philip’s War ended when Philip, chief of the Wampanoag tribe, was assassinated by a…
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