Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty
on this day in 1939.
It was on this day in 1927, despite worldwide demonstrations in
support of their innocence, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed for murder.
On April 15, 1920, a paymaster for a shoe company in South
Braintree, Massachusetts, was shot and killed along with his
guard.
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Former priest John Geoghan, a notorious pedophile
whose case sparked the clergy molestation scandal
for 18 months, died on this day in 2003 after being
attacked at the state prison in Shirley.
It was on this day in 1926.
1921
Rudolph Valentino
(Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi)
(May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926)