Sacco and Vanzetti Funeral is held.

After a wake attended by more than 100,0000 people, some 50,000 people begin the march from the Langone Funeral Home at 383 Hanover Street to the Forest Hills Cemetery. More than 200,000 people line the funeral route, standing silently in the rain. The Boston Globe calls it “One of the most tremendous funerals of modern times . . . Never in this history of Boston has there been a demonstration quite like it.” The bodies of the two men are subsequently cremated. Some of their ashes are buried in their home towns in Italy, and the rest are stored in a locked vault in the Boston Public Library.