Dubliner Violet Albina Gibson Attempted Assassination on Mussolini 1926

#OnThisDay 1926 The Honourable Violet Albina Gibson from Dublin shot Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini twice in the face. Both bullets passed through his nose & her third shot misfired. Deported to the UK, she lived out her days in a psychiatric hospital.

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