Today in History: August 23, farmworkers’ 'Salad Bowl strike'

Today is Sunday, Aug. 23, the 235th day of 2026. There are 130 days left in the year.Today in history:On Aug. 23, 1970, the Salad Bowl strike began, organized by farm labor leader Cesar Chavez; between 5,000 to 10,000 laborers walked off the job, leading to the largest farmworker strike in U.S. history.Also on this date:In 1305, Scottish rebel leader Sir William Wallace was executed by the English for treason.In 1775, Britain’s King George III proclaimed the American colonies to be in a state of “open and avowed rebellion.”In 1914, Japan declared war against Germany in World War I.In 1927, amid worldwide protests, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery. (On the 50th anniversary of their execution