On this day in history

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Re: On this day in history

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One hundred years ago today, on 7 April 1926, the Irish aristocrat Violet Gibson tried to change the history of our world when she took a shot at Benito Mussolini, the bullet grazing his nose.

Her reward? Thirty years of insane asylums.