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padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090823.html?th&emc=th"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/05AD62B9-B388-4E1A-92A2-A85A611DE340" alt="On This Day in History" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090823.html?th&emc=th"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="middle" align="center"><FONT color="#993333"><B>Sunday, August 23rd</B></FONT><BR /><FONT size="-2"> The 235th</FONT><FONT size="-2"> day of 2009. <BR /> There are 130 days left in the year.<BR /><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/archive.html"><NOBR>Go to a previous date.</NOBR></A></FONT><BR /></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090823.html?th&emc=th"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD valign="top" align="left">On Aug. 23, <B>1927</B>, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery. <FONT size="2"> (<A href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/../onthisday/big/0823.html#article">Go to article.</A>) </FONT><P> <BIRTH> On <BIRTH_MONTH>Aug.</BIRTH_MONTH> <BIRTH_DAY>23</BIRTH_DAY>, <BIRTH_YEAR><B>1912</B></BIRTH_YEAR>, <FIRST_NAME>Gene</FIRST_NAME> <LAST_NAME>Kelly</LAST_NAME>, <DESCRIPTION> the American dancer and choreographer</DESCRIPTION>, was born. </BIRTH> <DEATH> Following <SEX>his</SEX> death on <DEATH_MONTH>Feb.</DEATH_MONTH> <DEATH_DAY>2</DEATH_DAY>, <DEATH_YEAR>1996</DEATH_YEAR>, <SEX>his</SEX> obituary appeared in The Times. </DEATH> <FONT size="2"> <NYT_HISTORIC_BIRTHDAY> <NOBR>(<A href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0823.html">Go to obit.</A></NOBR> | <NOBR><A href="#birthdays">Other Birthdays</A>)</NOBR> </NYT_HISTORIC_BIRTHDAY> </FONT></P></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090823.html?th&emc=th"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD>On August 23, <B> 1884</B><FONT face="Times New Roman" size="3">, </FONT> <FONT face="Times New Roman"> <I><FONT size="3">Harper's Weekly</FONT> </I> <FONT size="3"> featured a cartoon about </FONT>the presidential election of 1884.</FONT> <FONT size="2"><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0823.html">(See the cartoon and read an explanation.)</A></FONT></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/20090823.html?th&emc=th"><B>2003</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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