1928 in Italy
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Events during the year 1928 in Italy.
Incumbents
Events
- April 12 – A bomb, directed against Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini, kills 18 people at the Milan Trade Fair.[1]
- May 24 – The airship Italia reaches the North Pole, with expedition leader Umberto Nobile on board. The ship crashes on its return journey.[2]
- June 24 – Umberto Nobile and survivors of the crash of the airship Italia are rescued by the crew of a Swedish aeroplane.
- August 2 – Italy and Ethiopia sign the Italo-Ethiopian Treaty.
Births
- January 2 – Alberto Zedda, conductor and musicologist (died 2017)
- January 9 – Domenico Modugno, singer, songwriter, actor and politician (died 1994)
- July 26 – Francesco Cossiga, 8th President of Italy (died 2010)
- December 22
- Piero Angela, Italian writer, journalist and television presenter
- Luisa Massimo, Italian pediatrician (died 2016)
Deaths
- February 28 – Armando Diaz, 66, general, Marshal of Italy
- March 31 – Medardo Rosso, 70, sculptor
- May 25 (lost in the crash of the airship Italia)[2]
- Aldo Pontremoli, 32, physicist
- Renato Alessandrini, 37, explorer
- July 17 – Giovanni Giolitti, 85, 13th Prime Minister of Italy[3]
References
- ^ Jonathan Dunnage (2012). Mussolini's Policemen: Behaviour, Ideology and Institutional Culture in Representation and Practice. Oxford University Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-7190-8139-2.
- ^ a b Basil Collier (1974). The airship: a history. Putnam. p. 261.
- ^ Giovanni Giolitti, DIZIONARIO BIOGRAFICO