Italian businessman (born 1924)

Libero Grassi

Libero Grassi was an Italian clothing manufacturer from Palermo, Sicily, who was killed by the Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands. The businessman wrote an open letter to the local newspaper informing the extortionists that he was no longer willing to pay pizzo, a Sicilian term for protection money. Other business-owners and shopkeepers in Palermo refused to join his public campaign. Grassi was gunned down in the street near his home eight months after writing the letter.

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708 Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).
870 The city of Melite surrenders to an Aghlabid army following a siege, putting an end to Byzantine Malta.
1009 Mainz Cathedral suffers extensive damage from a fire, which destroys the building on the day of its inauguration.
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The world in 1991

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april 10 Italian ferry MS Moby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy, killing 140.
april 10 A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola, the first to be documented by satellites.
april 14 The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President following its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
april 2 Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.

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