Photos That Captured the Most Chilling Moments in History

Chile, 1973

Armed guards watch for attackers as Chilean president Salvador Allende leaves a building during the military coup in which he was overthrown. Allende was the first Marxist to be elected president in a liberal democracy in Latin America.

April 7, 1926

The mugshot of the Honourable Violet Gibson, an Irish woman who shot Benito Mussolini in an assassination attempt. Gibson shot the Fascist Italian leader as he walked among the crowd in the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome. Gibson was almost lynched on the spot by an angry mob. She told interrogators that she shot Mussolini "to glorify God."

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