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- 1On This Day: Assassin of Empress Elisabeth Died in Prison●Today in Labor History October 19, 1910: Luigi Lucheni hanged himself in his prison cell. He was an Italian anarchist an
On October 19, 1910, Luigi Lucheni, the Italian anarchist who assassinated Empress Elisabeth of Austria in 1898, hanged himself in his prison cell. His preserved head was displayed in formaldehyde at Vienna's Narrenturm museum until 2000. The killing is remembered as a pivotal moment tied to anarchist militancy and labor history.