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