23 August

Workers looking for scabs board a streetcar in McKees Rock, Pennsylvania during a strike at the Pressed Steel Car Plant. A deputy sheriff shoots at them and dies in the return fire. The ensuing battle leaves 11 people dead – 1909

Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, anarchists accused of murder and tried unfairly, are executed. The case became an international cause and sparked demonstrations and strikes throughout the world – 1927

During the Great Depression, the Seattle Library Board announces it will fire married women if their husbands have jobs and can support them. Nine are fired; 14 others keep their positions by submitting affidavits and swearing to the fact that their husbands earned less than $100 a month – 1932

Seven merchant seamen crewing the SS Baton Rouge Victory lost their lives when the ship was sunk by Viet Cong action en route to Saigon – 1966

Farm Workers Organizing Committee (to later become United Farm Workers of America) granted a charter by the AFL-CIO – 1966