Today in Labor History October 19, 1910: Luigi Lucheni hanged himself in his prison cell. He was an Italian anarchist and the assassin of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. His head was preserved in formaldehyde displayed in Vienna's Narrenturm until 2000. The assassination began an international conference of 21 nations, where anarchism was defined as terrorism and nations resolved to surveil suspected anarchists and permit capital punishment for assassination of sovereigns.

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