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Events on Tuesday 23 August 1927 1
1927Execution of Sacco and VanzettiItalian-born anarchists executed in MassachusettsNicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in the electric chair at Charlestown State Prison. They had been convicted of a 1920 robbery and murder. Their trial was widely condemned as unfair, and the executions set off protests around the world.