Il Duce, Socialist Workers Party, Herbert Marcuse

On this day: July 29

King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by Italian-born anarchist Gaetano Bresci (1900)

Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (1921)

b: Benito Mussolini (1883), Melvin Belli (1907); d: Herbert Marcuse (1979), Robert Moses (1981)

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