Today in Italian History (Part 6)
Sub-Topics: Bologna - Catania - Florence - Genoa - Milan - Naples - Palermo - Rome - Turin - Venice
Historical Events
Events 501 - 525 of 525
1998-02-12 - 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die & 50 hurt
1999-05-28 - In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display.
2000-06-13 - Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
2001-05-13 - Silvio Berlusconi's House of Freedoms coalition wins the Italian general elections.
2001-07-20 - Italy: The 27th Annual G8 summit opens in Genoa. An Italian protester in Genoa, Carlo Giuliani, is shot by police.
2001-10-08 - A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118.
2003-03-13 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
2003-07-02 - Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy, insults German MP Martin Schulz by calling him a "kapo" during a session of the European Parliament.
2003-11-12 - Iraq war: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
2005-03-04 - The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers in Iraq, causing the death of an Italian Secret Service Agent and injuring two passengers.
2005-04-25 - The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
Painter, Scientist & Visionary Leonardo da Vinci
2005-11-17 - Italy's choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes official in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.
2006-11-27 - Francesco Cossiga, Italian politician and former President of the Italian Republic, resigned from his position as lifetime senator.
2007-02-21 - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi resigns from office. His resignation is rejected by the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano.
2009-04-06 - A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing at least 253.
2010-02-23 - Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in Northern Italy, causing an environmental disaster.
2010-04-12 - A train derailed near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
2011-11-12 - Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis.
2012-01-13 - Cruise ship, Costa Concordia, runs aground at Isola de Giglio, Italy, with at least 15 deaths
2012-05-20 - 6.0 magnitude earthquake kills 6 and injures dozens in northern Italy
2012-05-29 - A 5.9 magnitude earthquake kills 24 people near Bologna, northern Italy
2012-07-01 - Spain's football team crush Italy 4-0 to win the 2012 UEFA Euro Cup
2012-07-25 - Italy's credit rating is downgraded to CCC+ by Egan-Jones
2012-10-22 - 6 Italian scientists are convicted of manslaughter for their failure to predict the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake
2012-12-02 - Pier Luigi Bersani is elected Italian Prime Minister
Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 501 - 600 of 1,300
1888-03-04 - Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (d. 1942
1888-04-28 - Henry DG Crerar, Canadian general (WW I/Italy/Netherland)
1888-06-11 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1927)
1888-07-04 - Henry Armetta, Italian/US actor (Bell for Adano, Big Store)
1888-09-15 - Antonio Ascari, Italian racing driver (d. 1925)
1889-01-02 - Tito Schipa, Italy, tenor/composer (La Rondine)
1889-03-04 - Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1967)
1889-08-30 - Edward Ciannelli, Ischia Italy, actor (You Can't Escape Forever)
1890-05-20 - Beniamino Gigli, Italy, tenor (Enzo-La Gioconde)
1890-10-16 - Maria Goretti, Italian saint (d. 1902)
1891-01-23 - Antonio Gramsci, Italian philosopher/marxist theorist
1891-01-26 - Frank Costello, Italian-born gangster (d. 1973)
1891-02-02 - Antonio Segni, premier/president (Italy)
1891-02-09 - Pietro Nenni, Italy, socialist/minister of foreign affairs (1946-47)
1891-04-19 - Ricardo Bacchelli, Italian writer/poet (La Ronda)
1891-04-22 - Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (d. 1965)
1891-06-21 - Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (Nuove Struttura)
1891-08-25 - Alberto Savinio, [Andrea de Chirico], Italian writer/composer
1892-01-05 - Francesca Bertini, Florence Italy, actress (Odette, Assunta Spina)
1892-02-04 - Ugo Betti, Italian playwright
1892-03-09 - Frank Puglia, Sicily Italy, actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book)
1892-03-30 - Fortunato Depero, Italian artist (d. 1960)
1892-04-10 - Victor de Sabata, Trieste Italy, conductor/composer (Il Macigno)
1892-04-14 - Giorgio Cesana, Italy, coxswain, (Olympic-gold-1906)
1892-05-08 - Ezio Pinza, Rome Italy, bass singer (South Pacific, RCA Victor Show)
1892-09-15 - Silpa Bhirasri, Italian sculptor (d. 1962)
1892-10-12 - Gilda dalla Rizza, Italian soprano (d. 1975)
1892-11-16 - Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racing driver (d. 1953)
1893-02-19 - Pietro Pancrazi, Italian critic (Scrittori d'Oggi)
1893-03-18 - Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (d. 1978)
1893-03-26 - Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Party of Italy)
1893-11-14 - Carlo E Gadda, Italian engineer/writer (Madonna dei filosofi)
1894-08-01 - Ottavio Bottecchia, Italian cyclist (d. 1927)
1894-09-21 - Tullio Carminati, Zara Dalmatia Italy, actor (Roman Holiday)
1895-04-03 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Firenze (Florence) Italy, composer
1895-04-15 - Corrado Alvaro, Italian writer (Gente in Aspromonte)
1895-05-06 - Rudolph Valentino, Castellaneta Italy, sheik/actor (Eagle)
1895-06-04 - Dino Conte Grandi, Italy, delegate to league of nations (1925-32)
1895-07-04 - Massimo Campigli, Italian painter/illustrator
1896-05-11 - Philippo de Pisis, Italian painter
1896-06-06 - Italo Balbo, Italian pilot/gov-gen of Libya (La marcia su Rome)
1896-09-06 - Mario Praz, Italian literary critic and scholar (La carne, la morte, e il diavolo)
1896-09-17 - Denise Grey, [Edouardine Verthuy], Turin Italy, actress (Julietta)
1896-09-25 - Sandro Pertini, president Italy
1896-10-12 - Eugenio Montale, Italy, poet/translator (Xenia-Nobel 1975)
1896-11-27 - Giovanni B Angioletti, Italian author (Il giorno del giudizio)
1897-04-18 - Ardito Desio, Italian topographer (d. 2001)
1897-04-26 - Olga Chekova, Russia, actress (Italian Strawhat, Cry of the Children)
1897-12-30 - Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (d. 1976)
1898-01-13 - Carlo Tagliabue, Italian baritone (d. 1978)
1898-02-15 - Toto, (Antonio de Curtis), Naples Italy, actor (Motorizzate, Noi Duri)
1898-05-13 - Justin Tuveri, Italian veteran of the First World War (d. 2007)
1898-05-19 - Julius Evola, Italian philosopher (d. 1974)
1898-06-09 - Curzio Malaparte, [Kurt E Suckert], Italian author (Kaputt)
1898-06-09 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d. 1952)
1898-09-19 - Giuseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71)
Gangster Al Capone (1899-01-17)
1899-01-17 - Al Capone, Italy, gangster (Chicago bootlegging)
1899-07-26 - Carel C van Essen, Dutch archaeologist (Italian & Roman art)
1899-11-03 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (d. 1986)
1900-03-07 - Giuseppe Capogrossi, Italian painter
1900-03-09 - Aimone duke of Spoleta/Aosta, Italian king of Croatia (1941-43)
1900-05-01 - Ignazio Silone, Italy, novelist/politician (Bread & Wine)
1900-05-24 - Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter (d. 1984)
1900-08-31 - Gino Lucetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1943)
1900-10-16 - Primo Conti, Italian painter (d. 1988)
1900-11-04 - Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter (opera stars)
1901-01-05 - Mario Scelba, premier Italy (1954-55)
1901-02-27 - Marino Marini, Italian sculptor/painter
1901-04-06 - Pier Giorgio Frassati, Italian Catholic (d. 1925)
1901-04-11 - Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer/manufacturer (typewriter)
1901-05-03 - Gino Cervi, Bologna Italy, actor (Les Miserables, Naked Maja)
1901-05-15 - Luis Monti, Argentine-Italian footballer (d. 1983)
1901-07-07 - Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor/director (Fietsendieven)
Author/Poet Salvatore Quasimodo (1901-08-20)
1901-08-20 - Salvatore Quasimodo, Naples Italy, poet/critic/translator (Nobel 1959), (d. 1968)
1901-08-26 - Tullio Campagnolo, Italy, bicycle manufacturer (Fiat)
1901-09-29 - Lanza del Vasto, Italian philosopher and activist (d. 1981)
1902-04-18 - Giuseppe Pella, Prime Minister of Italy (d. 1981)
1902-07-07 - Vittorio De Sica, Sora Italy, director/actor (2 Women)
1902-07-20 - Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter (Bicycle Thiefs)
1902-08-11 - Alfredo Binda, Italian cyclist (d. 1986)
1902-09-20 - Cesare Zavattini, Italian screenwriter (Ladri di Biciclette)
1902-10-13 - Franco Giorgetti, Italy, cyclist (Olympic-gold-1920)
1902-10-14 - Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (d. 1963)
1902-11-29 - Carlo Levi, Italy, painter/novelist (Of Fear & Freedom)
1902-12-22 - Joe Adonis, Italy, American crime-syndicate boss in NY & NJ
1903-02-26 - Giulio Natta, Italian chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
1904-01-20 - Renato Caccioppoli, Italian mathematician/grandson of Bakunin
1904-02-03 - Luigi Dallapiccola, Pisino Istria, Italian composer
1904-03-28 - Fosco Giachetti, Livorno Italy, actor (Wastrel, We the Living)
1904-04-29 - Enrico Mattei, Italian oil magnate
1904-07-05 - Harold Acton, English/Italian historian/art collector
1904-07-16 - Goffredo Petrassi, Zagarolo Italy, composer (Beatitudines)
1904-08-08 - Achille Varzi, Italian race car driver (d. 1948)
1904-08-28 - Secondo Campini, Italian jet engine pioneer (d. 1980)
1904-09-15 - Umberto II, van Piemonte, king of Italy (1946)
1904-11-25 - Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and alpinist (d. 2000)
1905-01-18 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster (d. 2002)
1905-03-09 - Peter C Quennell, English biographer/critic (Byron in Italy)
1905-03-29 - Annunzio Mantovani, Venice Italy, orchestra leader (Mantovani)
1905-07-05 - Isa Miranda, [Ines Sampietro], Italian model/actress (La ronde)
Famous Weddings
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Famous Divorces
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Famous Deaths
Deaths 501 - 600 of 933
1827-03-05 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (made 1st battery), dies at 82
1827-10-10 - Ugo Foscolo, Italian poet, dies at 49
1829-02-10 - Leo XII, [Annibale Sermattei], Italian Pope (1823-29), dies at 68
1831-05-26 - Ciro Menotti, Italian patriot (b. 1798)
1832-03-10 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer, dies at 79
1833-07-27 - Bartolommea Capitanio, Italian monastery founder/saint, dies at 26
1834-01-17 - Giovanni Aldini, Italian physicist (b. 1762)
1835-06-08 - Gian Domenico Romagnosi, Italian physicist (b. 1761)
1835-09-23 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (Norma), dies at 33
1837-05-05 - Niccolo Antonio Zingarelli, Italian composer/bandmaster, dies at 85
1837-06-14 - Giacomo Leopardi, Italian writer (b. 1798)
Physicist and Inventor Alessandro Volta (1827-03-05)
1839-02-01 - Giuseppe Valadier, Italian architect/archaeologist, dies at 76
1839-04-20 - Giuseppe Rossini, father of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies
1842-03-15 - Maria Luigi C Z S Cherubini, Italian composer (Dies Irae), dies at 81
1845-06-15 - Francesco Capaccini, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 60
1845-09-07 - Isabella Colbran, wife of Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, dies
1846-08-25 - Giuseppe Acerbi, Italian nature investigator/diplomat, dies at 73
1848-04-08 - Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti, Italian composer, dies at 50
1848-08-06 - Nicola Vaccai, Italian composer, dies at 58
1848-11-15 - P Rossi, Italian, murdered
1849-03-15 - Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
1850-01-22 - Vincenzo Pallotti, Italian saint, dies at 54
1850-07-19 - Giovanni Ossoli, Italian marquis/revolutionary, drowned
1851-01-24 - Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini, Italian composer, dies at 76
1853-10-30 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (Potifar, Giacobbe), dies at 66
1854-08-11 - Macedonio Melloni, Italian physicist (b. 1798)
1855-01-06 - Giacomo Beltrami, Italian explorer (b. 1779)
1856-02-08 - Agostino Bassi, Italian entomologist (b. 1773)
Savant Amedeo Avogadro (1856-07-09)
1856-07-09 - Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist, dies at 79
1856-12-20 - Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (b. 1820)
1857-07-02 - Carlo Pisacane, Italian patriot (b. 1818)
1861-06-06 - Giuseppe Concone, Italian singing teacher, dies at 59
1861-06-06 - Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1810)
1863-04-10 - Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist, dies at 77
1865-04-01 - Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (b. 1797)
1865-09-30 - Samuel David Luzzatto, Italian-Jewish scholar (b. 1800)
1866-07-20 - Faa di Bruno, Italian captain (Er d'italia, Lissa), commits suicide
1868-06-25 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (b. 1811)
1871-07-05 - Cristina di Trivulzio di Belgioioso, Italian princess, dies
1872-03-10 - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian revolutionary (Giovane Italy), dies at 66
1873-03-29 - Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist (b. 1797)
1875-01-03 - Baldassare Galuppi, Italian composer (opera's buff), dies at 68
1875-10-24 - Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer
1876-02-03 - Gino Capponi, Italian marquis/literary/premier of Toscane, dies at 83
1878-01-09 - Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61) and Italy (1861-78), dies at 57
1878-07-17 - Aleardo [Gaetano] Aleardi, Italian/Aust poet (Tre Fiumi), dies at 65
1879-01-29 - Antonia MB Antonucci, Italian cardinal/diplomat, dies at 80
1882-06-02 - Guiseppi Garibaldi, Italian rebel leader, dies at 74
1884-03-14 - Quintino Sella, Italian statesman (b. 1827)
1886-01-16 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer (La Gioconda), dies at 51
1886-01-18 - Baldassare Verazzi, Italian painter (b. 1819)
1887-07-29 - Agostino Depretis, Italian statesman (d. 1813)
1888-01-31 - John Bosco, Italian priest, youth worker, educator, founder of the Salesian Society (b. 1815)
1888-03-10 - Ciro Pinsuti, Italian pianist/composer, dies at 57
1888-05-17 - Giacomo Zanella, Italian poet (b. 1820)
1889-06-27 - Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano, dies
1889-07-16 - Michele Amari, Italian historian/minister of Education, dies at 83
1889-10-18 - Antonio Meucci, Italian inventor (b. 1808)
1890-10-26 - Collodi, [Carlo Lorenzini], Italian writer (Pinocchio), dies
1891-07-21 - Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor, dies at 51
1892-08-11 - Enrico Betti, Italian mathematician (b. 1813)
1894-12-13 - Sarah Parker Remond, US/Italian abolitionist, dies at 68
1896-03-01 - Albertone, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1896-03-01 - Arimondi, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1896-03-01 - Vittorio Dabormida, Italian general (Eritrea), dies in battle
1897-02-07 - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (Ferrari), dies at 49
1897-12-18 - Carlo A Alfieri, Italian Member of parliament, dies at 70
1898-06-05 - Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian Shoemaker
1899-09-28 - Giovanni Segantini, Italian painter (Become his fare), dies
1900-01-30 - Vittorio Bersezio, [Carlo Nugelli], Italian playwright, dies at 71
1900-07-29 - Umberto I, Italian King (1878-1900) assassinated by Gaetano Bresci
Composer Giuseppe Verdi (1901-01-27)
1901-01-27 - Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer, dies at 77
1901-08-11 - Francesco Crispi, Italian minister of War/premier, dies at about 82
1903-04-11 - Gemma Galgani, Italian saint, dies at 25
1903-06-10 - Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (grafostatica), dies
1907-02-16 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize Laureate (b. 1835)
1908-03-12 - Edmondo de Amicis, Italian writer (L'idioma Gentile), dies at 61
1909-10-18 - Alfredo Oriani, Italian writer (La rivolta ideal), dies
1909-10-19 - Cesare Lombroso, Italian psychiatrist/criminologist, dies
1910-02-06 - Alfonso Maria Fusco. Beatified Italian Roman Catholic priest and founder (b.1839)
1910-05-10 - Stanislao Cannizzaro, Italian chemist, dies at 85
1910-07-04 - Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars), dies at 75
1911-03-07 - Antonio Fogazzarro, Italian writer/poet (Il Santo, Leila), dies at 68
1911-04-25 - Emilio Salgari, Italian novelist (b. 1862)
1913-12-07 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman and last surviving cardinal of Pius IX (b. 1828)
1914-03-19 - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
1914-08-22 - Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi Italian religious figure
1914-11-06 - Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist (Dante), dies at 79
1916-01-08 - Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)
1917-02-10 - John William Waterhouse, Italian-born artist (b. 1849)
1917-05-20 - Philipp von Ferrary, Italian philatelist (b. 1850)
Italian Pacifist Ernesto Teodoro Moneta (1918-02-10)
1918-02-10 - Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate, dies at 84
1918-10-28 - Ulisse Dini, Italian mathematician (b. 1845)
1919-08-09 - Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (Pagliacci), dies at 62
1919-09-27 - Adelina [Adela JM] Patti, Italian soprano (Lucio), dies at 76
1920-01-25 - Amadeo Modigliani, Italian sculptor/painter, dies at 35
1921-08-02 - Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, dies at 48
1922-01-27 - Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I Mala Voglia), dies at 81
1922-04-21 - Alessandro Moreschi, Italian castrato (b. 1858)
1922-07-01 - Giovanni Verga, Italian writer (I mala voglia), dies at 81
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