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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