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.
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One hundred years ago today, on 21 April 1926, the most famous accident of birth in recent world history took place in London.

Elizabeth Alexandra Mary's existence, as long as it was gilded, spanned a lot of things and lives... Still and all -- outlasted by Liz Truss. :|
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One hundred years ago today, on 1 June 1926, Norma Jeane Mortenson was born in Los Angeles.

Happy birthday, Miss Monroe!
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