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A bullet fired by Violet Gibson grazed Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's nose in April 1926. On 7 April 1926 an Irish woman stepped out from a crowd in Rome and fired a shot at one of the...
On 30 April, a post mortem was carried out on Mussolini at the Institute of Legal Medicine in Milan. One version of the subsequent report indicated that he had been shot with nine bullets, while another version specified seven bullets. Four bullets near the heart were given as the cause of death. The calibres of the bullets were not identified ...
Apr 28, 2015 · In death, Mussolini seemed a little man. He wore a Fascist Militia uniform — grey breeches with a narrow black stripe, a green-grey tunic and muddy black riding boots. A bullet had pierced his...
Apr 28, 2015 · News of Mussolini’s public, humiliating death reached Hitler by radio the following day, April 29, 1945, in his Führerbunker below Berlin, where he had been confined for two weeks as Soviet...
Death. The corpses of Nicola Bombacci, Mussolini, Petacci, Alessandro Pavolini and Achille Starace in Piazzale Loreto, 29 April 1945. On 27 April 1945, Mussolini and Petacci were captured by partisans while traveling with a Luftwaffe convoy retreating to Germany.
Apr 2, 2022 · Inside Benito Mussolini’s Death And His Panicked Final Hours. By William DeLong | Edited By John Kuroski. Published April 2, 2022. Updated March 27, 2023. On April 28, 1945, disgraced fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was brutally executed by Italian partisans in the village of Giulino di Mezzegra.
Apr 28, 2015 · One woman, deciding Mussolini wasn’t dead enough for her, emptied a pistol into the dictator’s body and shouted, “Five shots for my five assassinated sons!”. The crowd then strung the ...