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On This Day in History - May 21, 1901

May 21, 1901 #OTD King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (Pictured) narrowly missed death in an elevator accident and would reign for another 45 years before his forced abdication in May 1946. Into his tenth month as King of Italy after succeeding his assassinated father, Victor Emmanuel had returned to his palace from a walk in Rome and entered the elevator cab to be taken to his apartments on the second story, but "an inexperienced servant set the indicator for the third story." There being no safety gates or doors on the cab, passengers simply stepped out when the elevator reached their destination. "Arriving at the second story, the King was on the point of stepping out as the elevator continued to ascend," a worldwide report noted the next day, "but he jumped back in the nick of time, and thus escaped being crushed."