This Day in History: 1992-05-23

(May 23, 1992)
The Corleonesi clan kills Italy’s most notable anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone, his wife, and three bodyguards with a half-ton bomb near Capaci, Sicily. Paolo Borsellino, a friend and colleague, is assassinated less than two months later, making 1992 a watershed moment in the history of Italian Mafia cases.