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Sacco, Nicola
1891 - Born on the 22nd of April.
1908 - Immigrated to US.
1913 - At the time, Italian anarchists ranked at the top of the government's list of dangerous enemies, and had been identified as suspects in several violent bombings and assassination attempts.
1918 - Cronaca Sovversiva was suppressed in July, and Galleani and eight of his closest associates were deported on the 24th of June 1919.
1920 - Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of the killings of a shoe factory paymaster and Alessandro Berardelli, a security guard, and of robbery of US$15,766.51 from the factory's payroll in South Braintree, Massachusetts during the afternoon on the 15th of April.
- With Bartolommeo Vanzetti, arrested for allegedly murdering shoe factory paymaster and guard
1921 - Convicted of murder, amid widespread suspicion that anti-immigrant and anti-anarchist sentiment might have skewed the trial
1927 - On the 8th of April, their appeals exhausted, Sacco and Vanzetti were finally sentenced to death in the electric chair.
- Died on the 23rd of August.
1908 - Immigrated to US.
1913 - At the time, Italian anarchists ranked at the top of the government's list of dangerous enemies, and had been identified as suspects in several violent bombings and assassination attempts.
1918 - Cronaca Sovversiva was suppressed in July, and Galleani and eight of his closest associates were deported on the 24th of June 1919.
1920 - Sacco and Vanzetti were accused of the killings of a shoe factory paymaster and Alessandro Berardelli, a security guard, and of robbery of US$15,766.51 from the factory's payroll in South Braintree, Massachusetts during the afternoon on the 15th of April.
- With Bartolommeo Vanzetti, arrested for allegedly murdering shoe factory paymaster and guard
1921 - Convicted of murder, amid widespread suspicion that anti-immigrant and anti-anarchist sentiment might have skewed the trial
1927 - On the 8th of April, their appeals exhausted, Sacco and Vanzetti were finally sentenced to death in the electric chair.
- Died on the 23rd of August.
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