The commonwealth of massachusetts executes Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, by electrocution, for two murders which they did not commit.

       NOTE: The real crime was their anarchist political philosophy.

       [restored 6/27/2022]

Subsequent Events:

4/28/1945                   6/1/1977

References:

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

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

Source