Native Egyptians were not the only ones subject to the king’s severe justice. The first pylon of the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu depicts the pharaoh seizing foreign enemies by the hair in preparation for their collective smiting.
On this day, 1 February 1931, Italian anarchist Severino di Giovanni was executed in Buenos Aires. Having been forced to flee fascist Italy, he mounted a one-man terrorist campaign against symbols of fascism and capitalism in Argentina. To support framed and executed Italian-American anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti he bombed the US embassy, a George Washington statue, the Ford motor company, as well as other US firms and banks implicated in the affair, and also attacked local fascists and the Italian embassy. Following a right-wing coup Giovanni was arrested, tried by military tribunal and shot.
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