Last year we showed you a stunning photo of Marisa Berenson personifying a celestial being. Well there were other images from that iconic session, so we decided to bring her back in an alternate—and equally amazing—photo. Along with quasars, pinwheel galaxies, and planetary nebulae, Berenson is one of the most beautiful and mysterious phenomena in the cosmos. See the other shot here.
1933—Franklin Roosevelt Survives Assassination Attempt
In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to shoot President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but is restrained by a crowd and, in the course of firing five wild shots, hits five people, including Chicago, Illinois Mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds three weeks later. Zangara is quickly tried and sentenced to eighty years in jail for attempted murder, but is later convicted of murder when Cermak dies. Zangara is sentenced to death and executed in Florida’s electric chair.