On this day, an Irish noblewoman, Violet Gibson, the daughter of Baron Ashbourne the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, attempted to assassinate Benito Mussolini as he was leaving Rome’s Campodoglio after delivering his inaugural speech at the 7th International Congress of Surgery. Her first shot grazed Mussolini’s nose as he turned slightly to salute some students in the crowd. She tried to shoot again but her pistol misfired and she was quickly disarmed and carried away. An ardent antifascist political activist with a history of ill health and mental imbalance, Violet was deported to Britain and spent the rest of her life in a psychiatric hospital despite repeated pleas for her release.
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