June 11, 1888: Bartolomeo Vanzetti born-Villafalletto, Italy
April 22, 1891: Nicola Sacco born-Torremaggiore, Italy
April 1908: Sacco emigrates to America.
June 1908: Vanzetti emigrates to America.
May 1917: Vanzetti and Sacco meet in Boston at a meeting of anarchists.
April 15, 1920: "In South Braintree, Massachusetts, two men armed with handguns shoot and kill civilians
and employees of the Slater & Morrill Shoe Company. The thieves rob the employees of the $15,776.51 payroll they were
carrying."
Sept. 11, 1920: Sacco and Vanzetti indicted for murder.
Sept. 16, 1920 : "Boda, a friend of Sacco and Vanzetti, detonates a bomb at the corner of
Wall and Broad streets in Manhattan causing thirty deaths, over 200 injuries, and $2 million in property damage.The bomb was
revenge for the prosecution of Sacco and Vanzetti."
May 31, 1921: Trial begins - Dedham, Massachusetts
July 14, 1921: The case goes to the jury. The verdict: Sacco and Vanzetti found guilty of murder
in the first degree.
Oct. 1, 1924: Judge Thayer denies all motions for new trial.
Nov. 1925: Celestino Medeiros, a convict, confesses to Sacco that he had been involved in the South
Braintree hold up.
May 12, 1926: The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts upholds Sacco and Vanzetti's convictions;
denies motion for new trial.
May 26, 1926: A motion is filed for a new trial based upon Medeiros' confession.
Oct. 23, 1926: Judge Thayer denies the Medeiros motion.
Aug. 23, 1927: Sacco and Vanzetti killed by electrocution.
Aug. 23, 1977: Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis proclaims "Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Day" on 50th anniversary of their deaths.
