Today In History
In 1838: One of the first colleges for women, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Mass., graduated its first students.
In 1927: Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery. They were vindicated in 1977 by Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis.
In 1939: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression treaty.