Today I learned on Nostr: TIL about the 1898 assassination of a European Royal, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, ...

TIL about the 1898 assassination of a European Royal, Empress Elisabeth of Austria, when her assassin seemed to stumble he stabbed Elisabeth with a sharpened needle file that was 4 inches (10 cm) long, that he had inserted into a wooden handle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Elisabeth_of_Austria#Assassination
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