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August 23

What happened on this day

Wave Hill walk-off60 years agoTwo hundred Gurindji stockmen walk off a Northern Territory cattle station in 1966 over pay and land; the strike lasts seven years and wins their country back.
Slave Trade & AbolitionUNESCO Int'l Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition.
Chandrayaan-3 lands3 years agoIndia's lander touches down near the lunar south pole in 2023, the first mission to reach that region intact.
Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact87 years agoNazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty in 1939, its secret protocol carving up Eastern Europe a week before the war.
Sacco and Vanzetti executed99 years agoTwo Italian anarchists go to the electric chair in Massachusetts in 1927 after a trial whose fairness is still argued over.

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