It was the last Sunday before the 1926 election, and local newspaper advertisements showed that.
It was also Halloween.
Harry Houdini (Erich Weiss) died from peritonitis caused by appendicitis and injuries. One of his acts was to encourage people to punch him in the stomach, but when he was ready for it. He'd recently been punched off guard in Montreal by somebody who was engaging uninvited in the challenge.
Houdini had been born in Budapest, where his father was a rabbi, and immigrated to the US as a child.
A fourth attempt to assassinate Benito Mussolini was attempted, and failed. The would be assassin was 15 year old anarchist Anteo Zamboni. Zamboni was lynched on the spot.
All opposition newspapers in Italy were closed as a result and the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism, the Fascist Italian secret police, was formed.
Whether Zamboni actually tried to kill Mussolini has been debated, and some suspect that it was a staged event.
Mussolini survived six assassination attempts, assuming that this one was a genuine attempt. There were forty-two such attempts on Hitler. There were four on Stalin's life. I note all that as those who assume that Donald Trump must be ordained in his role by God because he's survived two attempts should take these events into consideration.
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