Cesar Chavez, who has launched a nationwide lettuce boycott to realize recognition of his ALF-CIO United Farm Employees Organizing Committee, relaxes in a room hooked up to his headquarters in Salinas, Calif., Sept. 19, 1970. Chavez’s “salad bowl” strike was a bitter union battle that pit grower in opposition to grower and Mexican-American in opposition to Mexican-American. (AP file picture)
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Immediately is Saturday, Aug. 23, the 235th day of 2025. There are 130 days left within the yr.
Immediately in historical past:
On Aug 23, 1970, the Salad Bowl strike started, organized by farm labor chief Cesar Chavez; between 5,000 to 10,000 laborers walked off the job, resulting in the most important farm employee strike in U.S. historical past.
Additionally on this date:
In 1305, Scottish insurgent chief Sir William Wallace was executed by the English for treason.
In 1775, Britain’s King George III proclaimed the American colonies to be in a state of “open and avowed rise up.”
In 1914, Japan declared struggle in opposition to Germany in World Battle I.
In 1927, amid worldwide protests, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti had been executed in Boston for the murders of two males throughout a 1920 theft. (On the fiftieth anniversary of their executions, then-Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis issued a proclamation that Sacco and Vanzetti had been unfairly tried and convicted.)
In 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, in Moscow.
In 2000, A Gulf Air Airbus crashed into the Persian Gulf close to Bahrain, killing all 143 individuals aboard.
In 2003, former priest John Geoghan (GAY’-gun), the convicted little one molester whose prosecution sparked the intercourse abuse scandal that shook the Roman Catholic Church nationwide, died after one other inmate attacked him in a Massachusetts jail.
In 2011, a magnitude-5.8 earthquake centered close to Mineral, Virginia, the strongest on the East Coast since 1944, precipitated cracks within the Washington Monument and broken Washington Nationwide Cathedral.
In 2013, a army jury convicted Maj. Nidal Hasan within the lethal 2009 capturing rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, that claimed 13 lives; the Military psychiatrist was later sentenced to dying.
In 2020, a white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, shot a Black man, Jacob Blake, seven occasions as officers tried to arrest Blake on an impressive warrant; the capturing left Blake partially paralyzed and triggered a number of nights of violent protests.
In 2022, a jury convicted two males of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, a victory for prosecutors in a plot that was damaged up by the FBI and described as a rallying cry for a U.S. civil struggle by anti-government extremists.
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