Vyacheslav M. Molotov, Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, and Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister of fascist Germany, sign the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, agreeing to divide Poland between them, and yield the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) to the U.S.S.R.

       [restored 7/23/2022]

Subsequent Events:

9/1/1939                   9/17/1939

References:

“Today in History,” Orange County (California) Register, 23 August 2009, News:20.

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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