Sacco and Vanzetti Timeline of Events

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Sacco and Vanzetti

Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were anarchists who were convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts, United States...

Timeline of Events

1920

4.15.1920

Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.

1921

5.24.1921

The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.

10.29.1921

Second trial of Sacco and Vanzetti in USA.

1927

8.23.1927

Sacco and Vanzetti are executed.