Today is Saturday, Aug. 23, the 235th day of 2025. There are 130 days left in the year.

On Aug 23, 1927, amid worldwide protests, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery. (On the 50th anniversary of their executions, then-Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis issued a proclamation that Sacco and Vanzetti had been unfairly tried and convicted.)

In 1305, Scottish rebel leader Sir William Wallace was executed by the English for treason.

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