Monday, August 23rd
The 235th day of 2010.
There are 130 days left in the year.
On Aug. 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 Aug. 23, 1912, Gene Kelly, the American dancer and choreographer, was born.
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On this date in:
1754 - France's King Louis XVI was born at Versailles.
1775 - Britain's King George III proclaimed the American colonies in a state of open rebellion.
1926 - Silent film star Rudolph Valentino died at age 31.
1939 - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty.
1960 - Broadway librettist Oscar Hammerstein II died at age 65.
1979 - Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defected while the Bolshoi Ballet was on tour in New York.
1989 - Yusuf Hawkins, an African-American teenager, was shot dead by white youths in Brooklyn.
2000 - The first season finale of the reality show "Survivor" aired on CBS, with contestant Richard Hatch winning the $1 million prize.
2003 - Former Roman Catholic priest John Geoghan, a convicted child molester, was killed by a fellow inmate in a Massachusetts prison.
2005 - Israeli forces evicted militant holdouts from two Jewish settlements, completing a historic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank.
2008 - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama introduced his choice of running mate, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware.