Mary Attacks Venus
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
March 10, 1914 – At 11 AM on this day a Canadian suffragette named Mary Richardson vandalized a 17th century masterpiece in a London museum.
The attack was one of many dramatic protests between 1913-1914 as women fought for the right to vote. It was Richardson’s most notorious adventure in a two-year spree of high-profile [...]