Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/August 23
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- 1305 - After a show trial, William Wallace, leader of the Scottish resistance against England, was executed in Smithfield Market, London.
- 1866 - Prussia defeated Austria in the Austro-Prussian War, and dissolved the German Confederation.
- 1939 - The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, a non-aggression treaty between the Soviet Union and the German Third Reich, was signed in Moscow.
- 1944 - King Michael dismissed the pro-Nazi government of General Ion Antonescu, putting Romania on the side of the Allies for the remainder of World War II.
- 1948 - The World Council of Churches was established.
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